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The regime's mind-bending lies are a tactic
Thinking about them in terms of truth or falsity is a category error.
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On Saturday morning, federal agents in Minneapolis attacked a registered VA nurse named Alex Pretti as he attempted to help a woman who they had pushed to the ground.
DHS agents tackled Pretti, held him down, then shot him to death. As in the killing of Renee Good earlier this month, video makes clear this was an extrajudicial killing — violence committed by vengeful agents of the state against a bystander perceived as an enemy.
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There’s no real controversy over what happened. Nonetheless, in a fascist ritual which has become grotesquely familiar, Trump’s authoritarian apparatchiks rushed to lie and smear.
Trump homeland security adviser Stephen Miller logged on to social media to utter the monstrous falsehood that Pretti had been a “domestic terrorist” attempting to “assassinate federal law enforcement.” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem also lied, claiming Pretti was “perpetuat[ing] violence against a government because of ideological reasons” and “that is the definition of domestic terrorism.”
Trump, for his part, called Pretti a “gunman” — failing to mention that he had a license to carry, hadn’t pointed his gun at anyone, and had been relieved of his weapon before he was shot.
The regime’s firehose of lies kept spewing Sunday. Border Patrol special commander/Himmler wannabe Greg Bovino went as far as to smear Pretti and Good, the Minneapolis mother of three who was killed by ICE on January 7, as “suspects” who had committed array of crimes.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz responded to the onslaught of propaganda by pointing out its absurdity.
"Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something,” he said. “It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."