Transcript of Breaking: Political Disaster Emerges for Trump as Republicans, Democrats, and Independent Break

We have major developments this afternoon right now following the horrific murder of Alex Pretty. The White House narrative is actively shifting. White House is subtly throwing Christie Noem under the bus, Greg Bovino under the bus. Meanwhile, centrist Democrats who voted for ICE funding are coming out saying they regret voting for it. Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, has come out saying that ICE needs to recalibrate its mission, all while Governor Tim Wall spoke with Donald Trump about the ICE present on on the ground, telling the President, You need to pull your forces back. And while right now the White House is having a crisis of PR, so to speak, because the American people, the left, the right, the center, they're all turning on Trump and what really seems to be a perfect storm as polling numbers tumble for the administration over immigration following the murder of Alex Pretty and Renee Nicole Good. Make sure to like, comment, share, and subscribe. The more you like, the more people see this. So please do that and then subscribe to my sub stack by clicking the link below to support my work. Let's just jump right into it.

This afternoon, Caroline Levet held a press conference where she admitted that for the first time, Donald Trump did not call Alex Pretty, a a domestic terrorist. Take a listen.

To follow on Gabe's question, Secretary Noem said Alex Pretty committed an act of domestic terrorism. Steven Miller labeled Pretty a domestic terrorist. Does the President agree with them?

Look, as I've said, I have not heard the President characterize Mr. Pretty in that way. However, I have heard the President say he wants to let the facts in the investigation lead itself.

Was he alarmed to hear his top official's referring to him in that way, rushing to that judge?

That is significant because as you know, Steven Miller, Christie Noem, rushed out and said, You know what? He is a domestic terrorist, Alex Pretty. Everyone, especially this White House, they're walking it back. Now, I want you to take a listen to Caroline Levit actively throwing Greg Bovino, the CBP border chief, under the bus. Take a listen to this one.

To Minnesota, is Gregory Bovino also going to remain in Minnesota overseeing these ICE operations?

Mr Bovino is a wonderful man, and he's a great professional. He is going to very much continue to lead Customs and Border Patrol throughout and across the country. Mr. Holman will be the main point of contact on the ground in Minneapolis.

With that, Greg Bovino has been sidelined. It's now Tom Holman's show in Minneapolis. That is a very significant development. Greg Bovino has obviously led charge. Now it's going to be home it. Well, take a listen to what Caroline Levet had to say about the President's reaction to the murder of Alex Pretty. The President believed that the killing note was a mistake.

Has he expressed that at all? Again, the President That's why we have to review it. This investigation needs to continue, and he's letting the facts on the investigation lead itself. Does he want the body camera footage to be released?

Now, she didn't commit to releasing the body camera footage. She said that the investigation The investigation must continue. This is a far cry from the President's reaction to the murder of Renee Nicole Good, a far cry to the way they've been talking about this before. Here's why, because polling right now for this administration is tanking in real-time. Take a listen to this.

I'm not really surprised that President Trump is sending Tom Homan in because ICE, DHS, Christie Noem have been a political disaster. Because just take a look here. Ice's net approval rating during Trump's terms. You go back to term number one, look, it was pretty even at zero points. You go to June 2025, right? That was when all that stuff was going on in Los Angeles. They dropped down. Look at this. Minus 17 points way in the basement. But then after Minneapolis, it's even lower. Minus 27 points on the net approval rating of ICE. Of course, this all being done under Christie Noem. No, what's going on in Minneapolis is not popular at all. What's been going on during this second term under ICE, under the Trump administration, under Christie Noem has very much not been popular, and it's only been getting more and more unpopular.

What about DHS more broadly?

Yeah, okay. We're going to start down low. We'll start with ICE, and then we'll raise it to DHS. Again, it's just the same exact story. Dhs is doing an excellent or good job. The Department of Homeland Security. During Trump's first term, look where it was in late 2017, right about at this point, 59%, that's pretty gosh darn good. But look at where it is now in Trump term number 2. By late last year, it was down to 42%. This is the same story that seeing no matter which poll question we look at, the popularity of ICE, of DHS, has completely fallen under the second Trump term, the second Trump administration, where what we were seeing during Trump's term number one was, Hey, ICE, DHS, pretty popular, certainly not unpopular, but all the actions in Minneapolis, in Los Angeles, in these major American cities have been very much rejected by the American people. It has been a political disaster for the second Trump administration.

Well, and now, I mean, as Berman was just reading what the President was just sending out, he's now sending in Tom Holman, his border are into Minnesota, which leads to questions of what about the leadership of the Secretary of Homeland Security who has inserted herself very publicly to be front and center in all of these operations.

Yeah. As I said at the top, I just think there's a real reason for it. And as you because Christine Holmes, simply put, Kate, has not been popular, and everything she's done for the most part has not been popular. I mean, just look at her net approval rate. In July of 2025, it was minus 11 points. It's actually gotten more unpopular now.

A political disaster for the President for the White House. That is where we're at right now. You know how you know it's bad? When Governor Greg Abbott says, Immigration officials should, quote, get back to what they wanted to do to begin with. In general, we need to have respect for law enforcement. They, being the The White House, need to, quote, recalibrate on what needs to be done to make sure that the respect is going to be reinstilled. Re-encalibrate. He wants ICE's mission to be recalibrated. That's how you know things are bad. You want to know how things are bad because Tom Swazi, a moderate Democrat, a centrist Democrat who would never admit that he was wrong on this vote, came out and said that he was wrong to vote for ICE funding, calling the death of Alex Pretty a murder. That's how you know it's bad for the White House. That's how you know it's bad for moderates. Governor Wall said he had a productive call with Donald Trump today. He made the case for impartial investigations. He reminded Trump that the Minnesota Department of Corrections already honors federal detainers by notifying ICE when a person committed to its custody as in a as a citizen, he asked for, and Trump said he would look into reducing the number of agents in the state.

Now, if you're watching this, I do want to say one thing from a journalistic perspective. I've been reporting on this for now nonstop for 48 hours, even as TikTok has censored me, platforms don't want me to see this, so make sure to like, comment, share, and subscribe. There's no gray area here. We are living in a moment right now where journalists, where the media just needs to call it like it is. What happened to Alex Pretty over the weekend was murder. In fact, some may even say it was an execution because he was unarmed and he was killed by ICE officers in the streets of the United States of America. Alex Pretty was a good man, an ICU nurse, and he was murdered by ICE officers. No media personality, no journalist should say anything but. No journalist should say, Well, maybe he was a domestic terrorist. No, maybe. No, no. You don't just repeat lies just because an administration official says it. You have to call it out for what it is, a lie. There were a lot of lies coming out of this White House, and the only reason they're changing their mind right now and changing what they're saying is because we're calling it out, because we're speaking up, and we can't stop now.

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