Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

Trump will just do the same, delay, delay any court case and then kick it upstairs to SC to check on his immunity, could take a couple of years, Jean Carroll still waiting.

The leading GOP candidate for Governor of Minnesota just dropped out in protest of ICE and national Republicans.

Republican Chris Madel made a stunning exit from the Minnesota governor’s race on Jan. 26, saying he cannot support the national GOP’s “stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”

If Michael Martin goes to Washington for St.Patricks Day it will cost FF one % point in the polls.

I think that's exactly it, the escalation.

In my opinion ICE are being encouraged to these extremes so eventually there will be an armed response by some citizens and Trump can officially call in to force the Insurrection Act.

She'll do as told or enjoy a nice silent disco.

Probably just talking a bit of guff to please the domestic audience.

I think there was a suggestion somewhere else on the internet [NOT HERE ON BOARDS.IE] or on another medium altogether that when Alex's pistol was seized from him by the Fed agent, the agent may have accidentally discharged a round from it as he was not familiar with the pistol. It was made within 24 hours of the shooting and may have no substance at all, just something mentioned as a suggestion.

Would you like to see more leaders kidnapped around the world? Have you a list in mind?

Maybe, just maybe, dangerous and trigger happy people shouldn't be allowed on the streets.

The two things are not mutually exclusive. ICE is the main problem here, yes. But if a friend told me he was going out to protest against them and was bringing a gun I know I would tell him: this isn't worth risking your life over, keep a safe distance, and if you really want to go for god's sake don't bring any kind of weapon. It's just basic consideration of personal safety

I would not normally take such an aggressive approach, but having watched how this situation has developed with the full approval of Trump & Co., I am more and more inclined to think that that's exactly what's needed now.

After this shooting, during the protest that followed, I watched a line of these "highly trained" agents marching forwards through a cloud of tear-gas that they themselves had created and thought to myself: They are sooooo feckin stupid. One guy with a machine gun could cut the whole lot of them down, and they'd have no idea what was happening. I reckon if any paramilitary group decided to take them on, the majority would be running home to their mammies before Trump or Noem could get a tweet out.

When all is said and done, these are masked thugs wearing civilian clothes, roaming the streets with guns and live ammunition, and no identification. They are fair game for anyone who's ever signed up to the NRA's slogan "it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun".

I'd be more inclined to use grenades or drones myself, but that's going off on a tangent.

I saw the video. Perhaps it was doctored but it absolutely looked like it went off in his hands pointing at the ground just before they started shooting.

I havent see the Torygraph article.

Also I'm still not clear on if he was even protesting in this case. He could as easily have come across the incident.

I am noticing that the posters who downplayed the first incident have gone entirely silent this time round.

Apparently its official that Tom Homan is going to Minnesota. Given that its Trump issuing the statement, I expect there's a chance that he'll call Homan there and find some TACO excuse to pull him back to DC and blame Walz for the breakdown in talks.

I've watched multiple angles of the video and I've not seen one where Pretti's gun appears to have been discharged.
Indeed the only example of trigger discipline I saw amongst any of the officers who had weapons drawn in the videos I watched?
Was the guy who removed Pretti's gun and carried it off the scene.

Do you have a link to any video you watched where it appears the gun was discharged?
I'd like to see what I might have missed.