ICE thugs shot Alex Pretti, 37, an ICU nurse filming them in front of a donut shop in Minneapolis, killing him instantly, on Saturday, more than 24 hours ago now, and our local Republican congressmen, Ben Cline and John McGuire, have yet to utter a word publicly, either way, addressing what happened.
I know, I know.
Shocking!
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Cline’s most recent public statement about anything dates to 10:33 a.m. ET Saturday, a half-hour after the shooting, in which Cline thanked Donald Trump for his “swift approval of our request” for an emergency declaration ahead of last night’s winter storm.
Which, it wasn’t an “our” request thing there, in which Cline would be part of any first person plural group that could claim to have been a part of.
It would have been the governor, Abigail Spanberger, who would have made the request for the emergency declaration, under federal law.
Cline, not being Abigail Spanberger, had nothing to do with that.
Just taking credit for a woman’s work there.
And anyway, this is just standard stuff – even if there is nothing standard with the Trump regime in charge.
McGuire, for his part, posted to his socials at 11 a.m. ET Sunday, 25 hours after the shooting in Minneapolis, about participating in a House GOP Media Row event to talk about “President Trump”s amazing wins, like leading U.S. crude oil production to reach an all-time high in 2025, setting a record output of 13.6 million barrels per day.”
Notable there: that 13.6 million barrels per day is up a scant 2.8 percent from the 13.2 million barrels per day that were produced in 2024, the final full year of the Biden administration.
But, hey, it’s up – a little, but, it’s up.
Anyway.
So, we know they’re not out of pocket, off the grid, completely and totally away from their phones.
McGuire, on his personal Twitter page, did, sorta, kinda, address Minneapolis and ICE, though not the shooting itself.
McGuire reposted an item from discredited MAGA influence peddler James O’Keefe in which O’Keefe, who makes a living surreptitiously filming and editing clips of people on the other side of the political spectrum from him to make them appear to be saying things they didn’t say, complained about being confronted by political “agitators” from the other side, who he then threatened, in his post, to “expose.”
McGuire’s comment, which had a 7:15 a.m. Sunday timestamp, on the O’Keefe post: “Paid operation?”
So, McGuire knows what’s going on.
Cline might not; he comes across to me as being a Mike Johnson type, who likes to claim that he hasn’t seen whatever the latest national political controversy is in the news, and Cline is so good at it that it can be hard to tell if it might be the case that he actually is clueless.
Either way, they’re not weighing in on the latest shooting by the ICE thugs.
Silence is complicity.
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