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white house press secretary Caroline Levitt A federal immigration officer shot and killed minneapolis Protester Alex Pretty “is the result of deliberate and hostile resistance by Minnesota Democratic leaders.”
Levitt’s comments showed that the administration is still trying to blame its political opponents for the violence, even as President Donald Trump said on Monday he had a productive phone conversation with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz aimed at de-escalating tensions.
The White House claims that resistance to Trump’s agenda led to the killings of Pretty and Renee Goode during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minnesota.
Levitt also worked to distance Trump from comments by several administration officials that have criminalized him. minneapolis Protester Alex Pretty was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents on Saturday. Levitt said she “did not hear the president describe Pretty as a domestic terrorist,” a label used a day earlier by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.