Where was Antjuan Seawright in the days following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024?  Dark side of the Moon? Solitary confinement? The question arises because on today's CNN This Morning, the CNN Democrat strategist lamented "there's some sick, deranged people out there who are celebrating online when members of Congress are attacked" like Omar and AOC.  Then he falsely implied the opposite when Trump was shot: "When the president was under attack, Americans came together to condemn it, and so the president has to tone down the rhetoric because we've seen January 6th is a direct result." Let's invite Antjuan to take a walk down memory lane. At the time, the only thing many people were condemning was Thomas Crooks' faulty aim. Here are just a few of countless examples [courtesy Grok]: Jacqueline Marsaw, a staffer for Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), posted on Facebook: "Don’t miss next time." Tony Bendele, a volunteer firefighter in Pennsylvania, posted on Facebook: "Too bad it didn't hit him square," accompanied by a popcorn emoji. Rick Notari, a resident of Laflin, Pennsylvania, commented on X: "It's a shame the guy missed." As for CNN itself, our Joseph Vazquez caught the network making it seem as if Trump had merely slipped, running this headline: “Secret Service Rushes Trump Off Stage After He Falls at Rally.” Clumsy guy! Seawright blamed America for electing Trump: "America is not like this because Donald Trump is the president. Donald Trump is the president because America is like this." Panelist and Republican pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson took a pox-on-both-their-houses approach: "It was reprehensible that the internet fever swamps had cooked up conspiracy theories when Donald Trump was shot in Butler. I think it's terrible that fever swamps, and the president, are cooking up conspiracy theories around [the attack on Ilhan.]" Anderson's mention of the president was an allusion to Trump having said that Omar "probably had herself sprayed, knowing her." Commenting on Trump's statement that Alex Pretti "certainly shouldn't have been carrying a gun," CNN senior writer Zachary Wolf said: I think there are a lot of people who would like to see fewer people carry guns in the country. A lot of them are not Republican voters. When he says that kind of thing, when you go after somebody who is legally carrying a gun, something that's allowed in this country under the Second Amendment, very controversially for a lot of people, you basically rip the rip the rug out from underneath your base. It's "very controversial" for many people that the Second Amendment allows people to carry a gun? Lotsa room on the dark side of the Moon! Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 1/28/26 6:00 am ET AUDIE CORNISH: Good morning, everybody. I'm Audie Cornish, and right now on CNN This Morning, the name of the game is intimidation. A Congresswoman attacked, but she keeps on going, refusing to stop her speech about immigration tactics.  ILHAN OMAR: I've survived war, and I'm definitely going to survive intimidation.  CORNISH: Good morning. We begin with the latest out of Minneapolis. Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar attacked during a town hall last night [video clip of attack airs.]  CNN was there when a man charged the podium, and then sprayed Omar with some unknown substance before he was tackled to the ground.  There were some Republicans who were quick to condemn the attack. Mike Lawler called it unacceptable. Mark Alford said while he disagrees with Omar, quote, these disagreements should never result in assault. And Nancy Mace says she was deeply disturbed.  One Republican who did not seem worried about it, President Trump. Speaking to ABC News, he suggested, without evidence, that the attack was somehow staged, saying, "I think she's a fraud. I really don't think about that. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her. " . . .  Antjuan Seawright, Democratic strategist. Antoine, can I actually start with you? I don't know if you heard in your group chats or people in Democratic circles started talking about this last night.  ANTJUAN SEAWRIGHT: Well, I did. America is not like this because Donald Trump is the president. Donald Trump is the president because America is like this.  And believe it or not, there's some sick, deranged people out there who are celebrating online when members of Congress are attacked, when they're threatened, particularly visible figures like Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others. And I think that we as Americans have to step back. But I also think leaders starting at the presidency level should always condemn these type things because it cannot be good for them and not good for me.  When the president was under attack, Americans came together to condemn it, and so the president has to tone down the rhetoric because we've seen January 6th is a direct result. When his language goes out, people respond to it.  CORNISH: Yes, although I think the argument was the attack on him in Butler was the result of rhetoric against him, how people had talked about him  . . .  I feel like usually on a panel, there's someone who says, people love Trump for his punchy language, and our people, I think, is the public starting maybe a bit to sour as they see attack after attack and these sort of incidents on lawmakers?  KRISTEN SOLTIS ANDERSON: I mean, I think in some ways, it's a numbness rather than a cheering for it or a souring on it. It's just like, is this, this is just like the toxic soup in which we live now.  I think it's horrible. I'm glad that some Republicans came out and condemned it. I wish all of them would. Just like I thought it was reprehensible that the internet fever swamps had cooked up, that there was some conspiracy theory when Donald Trump was shot in Butler. I think it's terrible that fever swamps, and the president, are cooking up conspiracy theories around this.  . . .  REPORTER: Do you agree with the assessment from some of your own officials that Alex Pretti is a domestic terrorist or an assassin?  PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, I haven't heard that, but certainly he shouldn't have been carrying a gun. But all of, hey, look, bottom line, everybody in this room, we view that as a very unfortunate incident, okay? Everyone, unless you're a stupid person.  ZACHARY WOLF: I mean, I think there are a lot of people who would like to see fewer people carry guns in the country. A lot of them are not Republican voters. So when he says that kind of thing, when you go after somebody who is legally carrying a gun, something that's allowed in this country under the Second Amendment, very controversially for a lot of people.  CORNISH: Yeah, gun rights groups have already been talking about this the last couple of days.  WOLF: You basically rip the rip the rug out from underneath your base. So, you know, that seems to be a gaffe on his part.  But let's look at the larger issue here. You know, guns are a problem in the country. And, you know, maybe this will people have people talk about it. Probably not. But it's certainly something they should talk about. 

A labor and delivery nurse who was recently fired for a vulgar video in which she wished pregnant White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt serious harm while giving birth has now lost her license. “Effective today, Lexie Lawler is no longer allowed to practice nursing in Florida,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on social media Wednesday, praising the state’s surgeon general, Joseph A. Ladapo (MD, PhD), for revoking the license of a healthcare professional who publicly wished harm on a pregnant woman: “Making statements that wish pain and suffering on anyone, when those statements are directly related to one's practice, is an ethical red line we should not cross. I'm proud of @FLSurgeonGen for taking this decisive action.” "The comments made in a social media video by a nurse at one of our facilities do not reflect our values or the standards we expect of healthcare professionals," a Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital spokesperson told Fox News on Thursday. "Following a prompt review, the individual is no longer employed by our health system." “Being fired isn’t good enough. Any healthcare worker who fails to uphold his or her obligation to provide adequate, safe healthcare should not be licensed in Florida,” AG Uthmeier posted on Monday, reacting to a subsequent death-wish video posted by Lawler. “Meet Lexie Lawler, a labor and delivery nurse at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital (@BaptistHealthSF),” Libs of TikTok wrote Thursday on social media, posting a video clip of Lawler’s vulgar comments: “She says she hopes Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt suffers a severe 4th-degree tear during childbirth and has medical complications. "‘I hope you f**king rip from bow to stern and never s**t normally again, you c**t.’” “This woman DELIVERS BABIES. Terrifying.” Related: VCU Health Investigating Employee for Videos on Poisoning ICE Agents  Meet Lexie Lawler, a labor and delivery nurse at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital (@BaptistHealthSF). She says she hopes Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt suffers a severe 4th-degree tear during childbirth and has medical complications. "I hope you f*cking rip from bow… pic.twitter.com/rBFzcpFsxM — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 22, 2026  

The fake Republicans of ABC’s The View did a lot of work to stand out during Wednesday’s episode. Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin lashed out at the agents by suggesting they had underdeveloped brains and that some played video games in their off time. Meanwhile, co-host Ana Navarro was far harsher with debunked accusations of CBP boss Greg Bovino wearing a “Nazi” uniform and framing ICE as “troops” who had “occupied” Minneapolis, Minnesota. At one time, Farah Griffin would be the voice who would stand up for ICE by admitting that leftist extremists were trying to kill them and their families. She had since come out against the agency. On Wednesday’s episode, she suggested their ranks were filled with undertrained 18-year-olds with underdeveloped brains. She morbidly admitted that she was okay with them being sent to fight in a war, but she didn’t want them doing law enforcement: This is likely a result of ICE and CBP having shorter training standards. They basically want to surge these people into the streets. So, they have actually reportedly gone from five months of training down to six weeks or less. Sara has highlighted this before. That is unheard of in a major law enforcement capacity. The recruiting at age 18. Which, yes, you can serve in the military but we talk about the frontal lobe is not fully formed at that age.   Alyssa Farah Griffin claims if a law enforcement officer plays video games in their down time, it will lead to "catastrophe and spells there's going to be a mess in the streets." She also says it's okay to send 18 year-olds to go fight a war, but she doesn't want them as cops… pic.twitter.com/um6UcmGdx8 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 28, 2026   She would go on to decry how the agents getting substantial signing bonuses and how some of them would spend their down time playing video games. According to her, it all equaled deadly news: They’re giving these massive bonuses of –signing bonus of $5,000 -- or 50,000. And leaning into recruiting people who are playing video games. Like, that is everything about this spells catastrophe. It spells there's going to be a mess in the streets. For Navarro’s part, she was invoking rhetoric associated with war, such as calling Minneapolis “occupied and militarized” by "troops." She also pushed the debunked claim that Bovino was walking around the city dressed as a Nazi SS officer: So, you double down, you send even more agents to Minneapolis, a city which has now been occupied and militarized for over two months. You tell them they are allowed to do anything they want, you send them out there with a leader, Greg Bovino, who's parading through the streets dressed in Nazi haute couture, and then you wonder why these horrible cases continue happening.   Using the rhetoric of war, Ana Navarro claims Minneapolis "occupied" by hostile "troops" "parading through the streets in Nazi haute couture," and claims the killings were intentional. pic.twitter.com/8MzjBTCSe5 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 28, 2026   While usually quick to attack conservatives, Snopes had actually busted the outlandish claims about Bovino’s attire. They pointed out that all factions fighting in Europe had issued over coats, and that Bovino’s more closely matched what they U.S. troops were wearing, including the olive drab green and gold accents. Which also resembled normal Border Patrol uniforms. As for remarks from their non-conservative co-hosts, Sunny Hostin was perplexed by America’s sudden interest in what was happening in Minneapolis. “Alex Pretti's death is such a horrible tragedy, but for some reason his death has shifted America's response to what is happening to Minnesota,” she said. Seeing as she’s the most chronically racially aggrieved on the panel, her determination was that racism was behind it. According to her, Americans started caring because both Pretti and Renee Good were white (Click “expand”): And it reminds me - and I think, Whoopi, you and I have talked about this - it reminds me of Mississippi Burning during the civil rights movement; when the FBI refused to open up an office in Mississippi to investigate all of the murders of civil rights workers. Right? The people that were trying - freedom riders, people that were trying to register people to vote. Except when the two young white men from New York went down to Mississippi to help and they were murdered. And because of their murder, all of a sudden America got very, very engaged and interested in what was happening with racial violence and police violence. And I think this sort of harkens back to that time. People are seeing people that look like them being murdered in the street. And they are finding that if it happens to your neighbor, it can happen to you.   Sunny Hostin now says people only care about the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti because of their racism: "I will say this, I think Alex Pretti's death is such a horrible tragedy, but for some reason his death has shifted America's response to what is happening to… pic.twitter.com/zGmt7q4MR3 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 28, 2026   It’s unclear how Hostin’s deduction squared with the fact that many white people were spurred to action by the death of George Floyd, who was also in Minneapolis. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View January 28, 2026 11:04:42 a.m. Eastern (…) ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: This is likely a result of ICE and CBP having shorter training standards. They basically want to surge these people into the streets. So, they have actually reportedly gone from five months of training down to six weeks or less. Sara has highlighted this before. That is unheard of in a major law enforcement capacity. The recruiting at age 18. Which, yes, you can serve in the military but we talk about the frontal lobe is not fully formed at that age. SUNNY HOSTIN: Not till 30. FARAH GRIFFIN: They’re giving these massive bonuses of –signing bonus of $5,000 -- or 50,000. HOSTIN: Yeah. FARAH GRIFFIN: And leaning into recruiting people who are playing video games. Like, that is everything about this spells catastrophe. It spells there's going to be a mess in the streets. (…) 11:06:50 a.m. Eastern ANA NAVARRO: And you know, for me, it's also what they did and said after the death, the killing of Renee good where they said that these ICE agents, these federal agents have absolute immunity. So, you double down, you send even more agents to Minneapolis, a city which has now been occupied and militarized for over two months. You tell them they are aloud to do anything they want, you send them out there with a leader, Greg Bovino, who's parading through the streets dressed in Nazi haute couture, and then you wonder why these horrible cases continue happening. Donald Trump is saying he wants to de-escalate. Okay, well, then do it. Don't just say it. Do it. Take your troops out of Minneapolis. They've suffered enough. (…) 11:08:44 a.m. Eastern SUNNY HOSTIN: But I will say this, I think Pretti’s – Alex Pretti's death is such a horrible tragedy, but for some reason his death has shifted America's response to what is happening to Minnesota. And it reminds me - and I think, Whoopi, you and I have talked about this - it reminds me of Mississippi Burning during the civil rights movement; when the FBI refused to open up an office in Mississippi to investigate all of the murders of civil rights workers. Right? The people that were trying - freedom riders, people that were trying to register people to vote. Except when the two young white men from New York went down to Mississippi to help and they were murdered. And because of their murder, all of a sudden America got very, very engaged and interested in what was happening with racial violence and police violence. And I think this sort of harkens back to that time. People are seeing people that look like them being murdered in the street. And they are finding that if it happens to your neighbor, it can happen to you. [Applause] And I think that while tragic, his death will be the change in Minnesota, I really believe that. WHOOPI GOLDBERG: You know what, I -- HOSTIN: It was Scherner - Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. GOLDBERG: Yeah. And young Mr. Chaney. HOSTIN: And Mr. Chaney. Yeah. (…)

In an all-too-predictable development, ABC’s Good Morning America reacted Wednesday to a lunatic charging at Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) the night prior by dying him to President Trump considering Omar has been a “frequent target” of the President as well as the source of “conservative anger.” Of course, ABC and fellow broadcast networks CBS and NBC have nothing to say about Omar’s rhetoric. Nothing to see here! Her bomb-throwing is seen as entirely acceptable! Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos was spinning in the tease: “A man attacks Minnesota Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis...The frequent target of President Trump sprayed with an unknown liquid.” Least shocking thing ever: ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ went on Wednesday and tied President Trump and “conservative anger” toward Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to a psycho charging her at a town hall and spraying her with a liquid pic.twitter.com/VTW2zvA890 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 28, 2026 Later, congressional correspondent Jay O’Brien had the story on the “alarming scene” as “a man rush[ed] Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis just as she was condemning ICE and the Homeland Security Secretary.” “Overnight, a chaotic scene at a Minnesota town hall. A man charging Congresswoman Ilhan Omar moments after she took the podium and called for ICE to be abolished and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to be removed from office,” he added. Following video of the ordeal and O’Brien saying she was sprayed by “an unknown strong smelling liquid” (which we learned was apple cider vinegar), he said the man was “arrested and charged with assault” and even though “the exact motive...remains unclear,” Trump was an unmistakable part: Omar has been a frequent target for conservative anger. President Trump has called her garbage and mocked her Somali heritage. Asked by our Rachel Scott if he saw the attack, Trump said he had not seen the video, going on to accuse Omar without evidence of orchestrating the incident, saying “she probably had herself sprayed knowing her.” Omar, the only Somali American in Congress, fled the country’s civil war as a child. He concluded after an Omar soundbite that the incident “comes as new data from the Capitol Police shows that the threats they track against members of Congress jumped by more than 50 percent just last year.” Just for good measure, Stephanopoulos kept pouring on the anti-Trump invective: “And facing declining poll numbers and rare criticism from Republicans, President Trump is promising to de-escalate the situation in Minneapolis while continuing to pin blame on Alex Pretti.” Virulent Trump-hating correspondent Rachel Scott said she called Trump and spoke with him on Tuesday night, observing Trump had “a notable change in tone” about immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis at a time “fierce scrutiny after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse” and Republican senators joining Democrats in demanding Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem resign. Over on CBS Mornings, featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers called the fallout from it “new uproar in Minneapolis” while chief correspondent Matt Gutman relayed Omar — “a frequent target of President Trump” — was attacked in a “frightening moment” “Just as Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to step down....police say 55-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak charged at her during that town hall Tuesday night using a syringe to spray an unknown substance before being tackled to the ground. Despite safety concerns, Omar insistent, continued the event,” Gutman said. Thankfully, NBC’s Today didn’t seek to connect President Trump to this hooligan. In an opening tease, co-host Craig Melvin called it “a frightening moment” and co-host Savannah Guthrie added Omar was “assault[ed]...in the middle of a speech...as tensions in Minneapolis remain high.” Guthrie later said “[t]he assault, of course, adding more anxiety and tension to this already tense city.” National correspondent Morgan Chesky first stated the news Tuesday was “some federal agents will be departing Minneapolis” before arguing “residents” remaining “absolutely fearful” of the future, “fueled by what happened inside a Minneapolis town hall last night in a chaotic attack caught on camera.” Here was how Chesky framed what happened (click “expand”): CHESKY: Overnight in Minneapolis, a man arrested after confronting democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a town hall, spraying an unknown liquid from a syringe. OMAR: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment. [APPLAUSE] [SHOUTING] CHESKY: President Trump, who has often publicly attacked Omar, telling ABC News overnight that he hadn’t seen video of the incident, adding, she probably had herself sprayed, knowing her. Omar posting, “I am okay. I don’t let bullies win.” And tensions are running high throughout Minneapolis over the Trump administration’s immigration policies, with new details emerging about the death of 37-year-old U.S. citizen, Alex Pretti. NBC rehashed this in the second hour with Chesky telling viewers: [E]ven with the news that some federal agents will be departing Minneapolis, residents here tell me that they are still anxious and fearful, uncertain of what exactly will come next. And those feelings absolutely fueled by what happened in a Minneapolis town hall meeting late last night, when a man rushed the podium where Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was standing, spraying her from a syringe with an unknown liquid before security guards tackled him. That man now facing assault charges. Omar not injured, sharing later that she stands up to bullies. To see the relevant transcripts from January 28, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here for NBC).

On his show The Lead on Monday, CNN host Jake Tapper turned angrily on former Trump official Chad Mizelle when he suggested blaming Alex Pretti’s shooting in part on Tim Walz saying ICE is “Trump’s Gestapo” and Jacob Frey telling ICE to “get the F out” of Minneapolis. Tapper was so furious he accused Mizelle of hating free speech: Jake Tapper really unloaded on former Trump official Chad Mizelle over Pretti: "So you have an issue with the 1st amendment. You don't think that people should be exercising their 1st amendment rights to speak about policies that they don't like. You have a more more of a… pic.twitter.com/FIDcFmZTXT — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) January 27, 2026 TAPPER: So you have an issue with the First Amendment. You don't think that people should be exercising their First Amendment rights to speak about policies that they don't like. You have a more of a problem with that than you have with people killing American citizens. Did I get that right? MIZELLE: Jake, do you actually think you have a First Amendment right to blow a whistle in the ear of law enforcement, to disobey a lawful command from law enforcement, to interfere with a law enforcement investigation, to carry a gun without a proper ID or license as is required under Minnesota law, and then to violently resist arrest? You think you have a First Amendment right to do all that, Jake? TAPPER: So you think that he should have been killed? It was all his fault? MIZELLE: I didn't say that at all, Jake. Mizelle attempted to point out that Pretti’s activity was breaking the law by intervening with law enforcement and then resisting arrest. He suggested these were crimes like speeding, leading to more Jake snark:  “No, we're asking if like I'm breaking the speed limit -- if I'm breaking the speed limit, does an officer have a right to shoot and kill me? I think that's really what the question is.” Tapper implied Mizelle seemed unaware of what the video of Pretti's shooting showed, and Mizelle pointed out Pretti was wrestled to the ground by five or six officers as he resisted arrest. Tapper rudely reinterpreted his guest again: Tapper is triggered when Chad Mizelle suggests Pretti was committing crimes, including physically resisting arrest, as 6 officers wrestled with him. "That's like saying he deserved to be shot, otherwise why would the officers have shot him? You really don't think there's any… pic.twitter.com/NDR9zwqocU — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) January 28, 2026 TAPPER: Five or six officers jumping on somebody who obviously was immediately on the ground. And one hand was on the ground and one hand was holding his camera is not evidence that six people needed to be doing that. That's like saying he deserved to be shot. Otherwise, why would the officers have shot him? You really don't think that they did anything -- that there's any question about whether or not this man deserved to be shot? You really think that this is -- this was fine, this was a fine act? Because I don't even think there are people in the Trump administration who are arguing that. MIZELLE: Jake, that -- to be clear, I'm not saying that this is a fine act. I think that to take President Trump's terms, this is incredibly unfortunate. Tapper wasn't done objecting to Mizelle blaming Minnesota Democrats for escalating the rhetoric, and then, as natural as snowstorms in January, Tapper turned it all back to January 6:  TAPPER: Yes. If you're so offended by the notion that Tim Walz, the governor, was saying things, exercising his free speech rights, saying things that maybe I don't agree with, but he has the right to say them, and that incited these people, but you -- but you don't think that Trump on January 6, 2021 was saying anything that incited that crowd. Explain that to me, because it just doesn't make any sense. Why is Tim Walz inciting these activities, but President Trump was not? MIZELLE: Jake, I don't even understand the distinction or the analogy you're trying to draw. What I'll say here is you ask -- TAPPER: Well, the analogy is basically that it seems to be the people in the Trump administration, and I guess that includes you, even though you're a former member, think that there's one set of rules for Trump supporters and another set of rules for people who are not Trump supporters, like people who assault law enforcement -- MIZELLE: This is the beauty -- TAPPER: -- people who assault law enforcement on January 6th, that's fine. They should be given pardons. But people who assault law enforcement, and I don't think Alex Pretti, that describes him, that's not allowed. It's surprising that Tapper would insist on no double standards, even though the Pelosi-Picked Panel standard was a riot at the Capitol should be analyzed endlessly for four years, but the George Floyd riots should not be allowed to be brought up by the Republicans as some sort of diversion, which demonstrated the media has one set of rules for Trump supporters, and another for Black Lives Matter fans. More people died in those BLM riots. PS: Later in that hour, Tapper gently asked St. Paul's new Democrat mayor Kaohly Her about whether Walz should be blamed, and then insisted to her (Her) that he's just the "messenger," he doesn't believe in blaming the Democrats.  Later in the same hour on Monday that Jake Tapper savaged ex-Trump aide Chad Mizelle over blaming Walz and Frey for hot rhetoric, he gently raised it with St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her. Oh so gentle! TAPPER: Madam Mayor, for people who don't know, you were just elected to this… pic.twitter.com/z6KmrRDTqq — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) January 28, 2026

A biologically-male transgender member of the domestic terrorist group Antifa – who was not prosecuted when he posted an implicit death threat against South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace last May – is now in a women’s prison in Oregon and facing charges of attempted murder. "This blood is on the hands of every prosecutor who looked at this threat and looked away. I pray for the safety of the women he’s housed with,” Rep. Mace said in a statement Wednesday, reacting to the news and recounting the death threat made against her by “a transgender named ‘Rem Heathen’ whose real name is Michael Richard Fadich, the Antifa violent extremist”: “In May 2025, Fadich posted a graphic on Instagram depicting a gun pointed directly at Rep. Mace’s face. The message was unmistakable: he wanted her dead. “The Office of Rep. Mace reported this threat. Prosecutors did nothing. Now, eight months later, he is charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting someone in Portland just last month. A man is in the hospital because the system failed to stop a violent extremist when it had the chance.” "To every prosecutor who declined to act: you had the chance to stop this man, and you didn't. And someone took a bullet for it,” Rep. Mace says in the statement, calling for the Justice Department and FBI to “to immediately investigate why federal prosecutors failed to act” when she reported this and other threats against her. Mace’s office says that the congresswoman receives an average of more than 1,300 threats annually. In December, Fadich and another biological male transgender Antifa member were allegedly involved in the attempted murder of an Oregon man found with gunshot wounds in a parking lot of an apartment complex. Both men are being held in a women’s prison, because Oregon law allows self-identification of sex.

On Wednesday Morning’s Morning Joe, MS NOW host Chris Hayes was a guest on the program live from Minneapolis, where he fawned over the “civic infrastructure” of anti-ICE unrest, even comparing the situation to the Civil Rights Movement and Bus Boycotts.  Coming off a ride along with members of leftist activist group ICE Watch, a group that calls for "resisting against ICE,” Hayes praised the unity among protestors: “What I have been so struck by, a few things. One, the unity that people feel. I mean, people genuinely feel under siege. (...) And that sense of siege has created this incredibly steely sense of unity, along with a lot of grief and rage after two people were shot and killed by agents of their own government.” Hayes then talked about the structure of the resistance group, comparing it to the groups seen in the Civil Rights Movement:  If you go and read Taylor Branch's Pulitzer Prize winning chronicle of the Civil Rights Era, particularly the first one, Parting the Waters, there's chapters about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. And everyone sort of learns the Rosa Parks part of it, and then there's the boycott, and then there's a victory. That boycott went for over a year, if I'm not mistaken. And all that year it was all logistics, like, how are people going to get rides? Who's giving rides to who? Like real sort of granular stuff about how to make this work. And that's what you're seeing here is this remarkable, voluntary, ad hoc, but highly organized civic infrastructure grow up, born purely out of like a desperate desire to protect their neighbors.”     In response to host Willie Geist’s question that scoffed at the idea of paid agitators being involved in Minneapolis protests, Hayes continued with his praise of ICE resistance groups, with comparisons to parent sports groups who prepare oranges for halftimes of kids soccer games: He's like, “they have hand warmers and snacks.” It's like, right, like every single— every single, you know, travel soccer game has that. And in some senses, you know, if you're a parent, you are on what, five to ten WhatsApp groups for different activities: travel basketball, your classes.” What's happened here is that all of those WhatsApp groups that were - that got created for that have become Signal groups about how they can make sure that ICE doesn't kidnap a teacher at their school, or a kid at their school. So all of the civic infrastructure that existed, again, a lot of this has been like parents and PTAs for that. Like, who's bringing snacks to this weekend's travel soccer game is now: how do we make sure that this family can get groceries because they're afraid to leave the house because they might get snatched on the street. Hayes tried to find whatever ridiculous comparison stuck, going from Civil Rights protestors to soccer moms planning snacks for their kids games in his attempt to validate the actions of organized, anti-ICE groups. Hayes' validation should be taken with a huge grain of salt, especially after his previous defamatory statements about ICE and a Georgia doctor he and other MS NOW personalities dubbed as “the uterus collector,” which led to an undisclosed monetary settlement. The transcript is below. Click to expand: MS NOW’s Morning Joe January 28, 2026 7:43:07 AM Eastern   MIKA BRZEZINSKI: That's the host of MS NOW’s All In with Chris Hayes. Chris Hayes, doing a ride along with two members of ICE Watch in Minneapolis, describing to him how federal officers typically treat them when they arrive on the scene. And Chris joins us now live from Minneapolis. His New York Times bestseller titled The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource is now available in paperback. We'll get to that in a moment and how it really actually connects here. But Chris, first, what are you seeing and hearing on the ground? More from your interviews with people there?   CHRIS HAYES: What I have been so struck by, a few things. One, the unity that people feel. I mean, people genuinely feel under siege. Just talking to folks, like, it's hard, I think, to grasp just how ubiquitous the presence of these agents have been, how everyone is just one person, either directly impacted or one person away from it, that there were agents at their kids’ schools, that their favorite supermarket had agents there, like, people have been encountering it. And that sense of siege has created this incredibly steely sense of unity, along with a lot of grief and rage after two people were shot and killed by agents of their own government.   The other thing that I think is really interesting, and you got a little bit in that ride along yesterday, is the level of civic infrastructure that has been built on the fly by people here. I mean, we're talking tens of thousands, probably 100,000 people have gone through these upstander trainings. There are people doing all kinds of different things, from doctors giving medical care to people getting groceries, to folks locking arms around schools.   You know, if you go and read Taylor Branch's Pulitzer Prize winning chronicle of the Civil Rights Era, particularly the first one, Parting the Waters, there's chapters about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. And everyone sort of learns the Rosa Parks part of it, and then there's the boycott, and then there's a victory. That boycott went for over a year, if I'm not mistaken. And all that year it was all logistics, like, how are people going to get rides? Who's giving rides to who? Like real sort of granular stuff about how to make this work. And that's what you're seeing here is this remarkable, voluntary, ad hoc, but highly organized civic infrastructure grow up, born purely out of like a desperate desire to protect their neighbors.   WILLIE GEIST: Chris, good morning, it's so great to see you. I just - I think all of us in the country has been struck by the resilience of the people in Minneapolis, which, as you say, they've been through a lot in these last, let's call it, six years or so since the murder of George Floyd as well. But I think you make a really interesting point about the infrastructure. We hear again yesterday from President Trump saying, “they're paid agitators, they're organized.”   Well, there's a difference between being organized and being an outside agitator or mercenary of some kind. These are people of these neighborhoods who don't like what they're seeing in their communities and are out there doing something about it, even, it turns out, at the risk of their own lives. So where are they finding that resilience to keep coming out?   HAYES: I think one of - part of it is just people feel attacked and there's a unity and resilience that comes from that. But on the organizing thing, it's so funny, this idea of, like, paid agitators, you know, there's some right-wing influencer who was like, you know, he had a picture of a, you know, table at some training. He's like, “they have hand warmers and snacks.” It's like, right, like every single— every single, you know, travel soccer game has that. And in some senses, you know, if you're a parent, you are on what, five to ten WhatsApp groups for different activities: travel basketball, your classes.   What's happened here is that all of those WhatsApp groups that were - that got created for that have become Signal groups about how they can make sure that ICE doesn't kidnap a teacher at their school, or a kid at their school. So all of the civic infrastructure that existed, again, a lot of this has been like parents and PTAs for that. Like, who's bringing snacks to this weekend's travel soccer game is now: how do we make sure that this family can get groceries because they're afraid to leave the house because they might get snatched on the street. And that threat, I just got to emphasize this, it's real. I mean, there was at the peak here and we don't know the numbers right now, something like 15 percent of all ICE agents in the country were in this – in the Twin Cities. There's only a few hundred thousand people here. I mean, this was happening everywhere people were going.

MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.  Top Stories: Angry Tapper UNLOADS on Ex-Trump Aide: You Think Pretti 'Deserved to Be Shot'! CNN Host Suggests Guns Should Be Brought to Bear Against ICE Agents Egging On Violence: The View Justifies Bringing Guns to Use Against ICE CBS Blames Nick Shirley for Minneapolis Unrest Leading to Good, Pretti Dying   Angry Tapper UNLOADS on Ex-Trump Aide: You Think Pretti 'Deserved to Be Shot'!   Jake Tapper aggressively misrepresents Chad Mizelle's position Tapper angrily accused Mizelle of believing Alex Pretti "deserved to be shot" simply because Mizelle pointed out Pretti's criminal actions (interfering with law enforcement, disobeying commands, resisting arrest, etc.), turning a factual discussion into an inflammatory strawman to deflect blame from inflammatory Democratic rhetoric that may have escalated tensions. Clear double standard in Tapper's treatment of guests In the same episode of The Lead, Tapper unloaded on former Trump aide Mizelle with heated interruptions and accusations of First Amendment hostility, but later treated St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her (a Democrat) gently when discussing the same issue of whether Gov. Tim Walz's rhetoric contributed to the incident, revealing a bias where conservatives are attacked while liberals are handled softly. Hypocritical application of incitement standards Tapper repeatedly compared Walz's and Mayor Jacob Frey's anti-ICE statements (calling ICE "Trump’s Gestapo" and telling them to "get the F out") to Trump's January 6 rhetoric, insisting Democratic speech is protected while accusing Mizelle of applying different rules for Trump supporters—yet ignored broader media patterns of downplaying BLM-related violence and riots while endlessly scrutinizing January 6.   CNN Host Suggests Guns Should Be Brought to Bear Against ICE Agents   Kasie Hunt invoked extremist rhetoric by suggesting that the Second Amendment’s purpose is to take up arms against U.S. law enforcement, specifically citing Minneapolis unrest as a justification for viewing the federal government as “tyrannical.” Hunt quoted a tweet about the Second Amendment being for defense if the government became tyrannical and implied that current events warranted that framing, effectively normalizing the idea of pointing guns at government agents. In dramatizing an image of a federal agent shooting a protester and framing it as unprecedented government brutality “in America,” Hunt used emotionally charged language and prolonged pauses that blurred the line between reporting and incitement, portraying federal enforcement as akin to tyranny.   By aligning the situation on the streets with rhetoric about armed resistance against one’s own government, Hunt’s comments irresponsibly flirted with justifying violence against federal agents, elevating political discourse to suggest confrontation rather than encouraging lawful investigation and accountability. This escalated a news segment into rhetoric that could embolden viewers to view federal law enforcement as an enemy rather than a constitutionally authorized institution.    Egging on Violence: The View Justifies Bringing Guns to Use Against ICE   The View is inciting violence by framing the Second Amendment as justification for armed confrontation with law enforcement: On a January 26 discussion on The View, co-hosts (especially Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin) suggested the Second Amendment was intended to allow armed resistance if the government “turns on” its people — and thus implicitly justified someone bringing a gun to confront Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis. Hosts flip flop on gun: The View hosts have previously criticized the Second Amendment or gun rights in other contexts, in this segment they acted like “Second Amendment scholars” by defending armed self-defense against federal agents. Hosts are dismissive of ICE and sympathetic of agitators: The hosts cast ICE agents as the primary source of violence and minimize law enforcement perspectives.          4. CBS Blames Nick Shirley for Minneapolis Unrest Leading to Good, Pretti Dying   CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano attributed the chaotic unrest in Minneapolis to a viral video released by independent journalist Nick Shirley, suggesting his reporting triggered the controversy. During the report, CBS downplayed or failed to acknowledge that U.S. Customs and Border Protection  and ICE had removed dangerous criminals from the Twin Cities, instead emphasizing criticism of federal actions. The CBS Mornings segment shifted focus away from rioting and confrontations with law enforcement, instead featuring sympathetic interviews and commentary that did not highlight far-left protester actions or obstruction of law enforcement.      

CNN, in an attempt to underline Minneapolis as a national emergency, held a “State of Emergency” town hall hosted by Anderson Cooper and Sara Sidner. This townhall was short on substance, long on fluff, heavy on leftwing narratives and did little to meaningfully advance the conversation surrounding immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.  It appears that the town hall was set up to be a Parkland-style event where conservatives were brought before the braying mob and flayed for spectacle. Border Czar Tom Homan, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Governor Tim Walz were all invited to attend. They all declined. And perhaps it was for the better. The most notable fact about the town hall is that the recently-published video of Alex Pretti spitting at the Border Patrol and kicking the tail light off a vehicle was not aired until 28 minutes into the town hall. This allowed Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to navigate the town hall without having to speak to this new set of facts. A notable moment from the Frey solo portion of the town hall: the first, his inability to say he supports the arrest of criminal illegal aliens, even under the gentlest prompting: Jacob Frey just cannot bring himself to say he supports the arrest of criminal illegal aliens, even under the friendliest prompting: ANDERSON COOPER: If Tom Homan advocates for a more targeted policy of actually going after people who demonstrably have committed a crime, not… pic.twitter.com/l5iDB4a4sJ — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 29, 2026 After the first commercial break, Frey is joined by Minneapolis Chief of Police O’Hara. When asked, Frey claims to have never seen the video and rushes to dismiss it. O’Hara then slams CBP/ICE procedures and tactics on the streets. Jacob Frey claims to have never seen 1/13 video, rushes to dismiss. MPD Chief O'Hara slams CBP/ICE procedures and tactics on the streets. pic.twitter.com/nalQAXo4Nf — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 29, 2026 The most remarkable moment of the evening is probably Chief O’Hara defining what crosses beyond a peaceful protest and into mob violence. By this standard, Minneapolis Police should’ve cleared the streets already. Listen closely to MPD chief O'Hara's definition of what crosses the line beyond peaceful protest. By this standard, MPLS should've been shut down long ago. ANDERSON COOPER: We've been talking to a lot of incredibly brave citizens, young people, old people- all ages, who have… pic.twitter.com/BHLBnY0MQM — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 29, 2026 It was time for the Republicans to take the stage. The questioning at this point got more adversarial. State representative Elliott Engel took the panel to task over jail detainers and how they could have been avoided: WATCH: MN State Rep @elliottengenMN SCHOOLS the CNN hosts on jail detainers and how this could have all been avoided pic.twitter.com/MJk2vATTfg — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 29, 2026 State Senator Michael Holmstrom called the media out (specifically the Star-Tribune) for suppressing the ongoing massive fraud scandal. WATCH: State Sen. @MichaelH_MN brings up the both media suppression of the massive fraud investigation, and cites it as an underlying reason for the chaos in MN pic.twitter.com/gGstYLkAv4 — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 29, 2026 The elected Republicans were followed by Attorney General Keith Ellison, and an ecumenical panel. As far as questions go, the overwhelming majority were left-leaning questions centered around cooperating with feds. The town hall was clearly set up to be an ambush for dissemination of leftwing talking points. We note that, when examining CNN’s selective airing of town halls, there is never a town hall convened that might disturb media narrative. Town halls have never been convened subsequent to the deaths of Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray, and so many others. Some national emergencies appear to be more equal than others.  Perhaps, more tellingly, they are just (D)ifferent.  

The Nazi allegations directed towards ICE and Border Patrol have been coming in hot this week from the late night comedy shows, and CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel saw no reason to stop on Wednesday. Additionally, Kimmel would later welcome MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough to spread some fake news about the shooting of Renee Good. Colbert was up first, and he declared, “I don’t have to tell any of you, it's been a hell of a week. I'm sorry, I read that wrong. It's been hell. Right now, Minnesotans are still being terrorized by Trump's goons, and it's not entirely clear when it will end. In the wake of two murders by anti-immigration agents, Trump has removed Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, seen here embodying Coco Chanel's famous motto: ‘I love Nazis.’” Apparently Colbert did not get the CBS memo about using the word “murder” to describe something that has not been formally proven in court.   Stephen Colbert is still doing Border Patrol-Nazi comparisons, "Right now, Minnesotans are still being terrorized by Trump's goons and it's not entirely clear when it will end. In the wake of two murders by anti-immigration agents, Trump has removed Border Patrol commander Greg… pic.twitter.com/ey9siQJTYZ — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 29, 2026   Nevertheless, a few minutes later, Kimmel got in on the action by misrepresenting some news from Berlin, “Germany has issued a travel advisory warning their citizens that it is dangerous to come to the United States. Their Federal Foreign Office yesterday issued an alert saying German citizens should be aware of demonstrations and clashes with American migration and security authorities. Now, when Germany tells you your government is becoming too authoritarian—might want to listen to that. This is the international equivalent of Charlie Sheen showing up at your intervention, okay?” Fact-check: Germany simply noted the existence of what is going on in Minnesota and urged its citizens to be “vigilant and stay away from crowds where violence might occur” and to “remain calm and follow the instructions of the authorities and local security forces.” Germany did not say ICE and Border Patrol were becoming authoritarian. Additionally, our State Department has a Level 2 “exercise increased caution” travel advisory for Germany due to terrorism, so it is not as if these sorts of travel advisories among allies are new. Later in the show, Scarborough was in the midst of a lengthy diatribe when he declared, “When you have the first branch of government scared to check and balance and the third branch of government scared to check and balance, things are going to become pretty unbalanced pretty quickly. I will say, though, there are a million different places—a million different checks and balances, and it's not just in the government. Look, and I can't say enough about them, look at the people of Minnesota.”   Later, Joe Scarborough tells Kimmel some fake news about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, "And Renee Good, trying to calm this untrained, scared, ICE Officer. Going, 'Dude, I'm not mad.' You know? It's really been remarkable what we've seen coming out of Minnesota." Fact-check: Ross… pic.twitter.com/jtnwY88WJO — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) January 29, 2026   He also proclaimed, “I mean, it is amazing that you had a man who was a nurse at a VA hospital and was a Good Samaritan, dared to be a Good Samaritan, and he got shot and killed for it. But I think he would have tried to help that lady up again if he had a chance to do it again. And Renee Good, trying to calm this untrained, scared ICE officer. Then going, "Dude, I'm not mad." You know? It's really been remarkable what we've seen coming out of Minnesota.” Fact-check #2: The investigation into the Alex Pretii investigation is ongoing, but as for Scarborough’s point about the officer that shot Good: Jonathan Ross has over 10 years of experience and was, not that long ago, badly wounded by an illegal immigrant who turned his car into a weapon. So, when he had a split second to make a decision after Good refused to get out of the car and her wife cried, "Drive, baby, drive," his decision to fire appears more reasonable. For two men who claim to care deeply about truth, there is no excuse to spread such falsehoods on the air. Here are transcripts for the January 28 shows: CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 1/28/2026 11:36 PM ET STEPHEN COLBERT: I don’t have to tell any of you, it's been a hell of a week. I'm sorry, I read that wrong. It's been hell. Right now, Minnesotans are still being terrorized by Trump's goons, and it's not entirely clear when it will end. In the wake of two murders by anti-immigration agents, Trump has removed Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, seen here embodying Coco Chanel's famous motto: "I love Nazis." *** ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 1/28/2026 11:48 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: Marco has a big headache on his hands when it comes to our relationships with other countries. Germany has issued a travel advisory warning their citizens that it is dangerous to come to the United States. Their Federal Foreign Office yesterday issued an alert saying German citizens should be aware of demonstrations and clashes with American migration and security authorities. Now, when Germany tells you your government is becoming too authoritarian—might want to listen to that. This is the international equivalent of Charlie Sheen showing up at your intervention, okay? … 12:31 AM ET JOE SCARBOROUGH: When you have the first branch of government scared to check and balance and the third branch of government scared to check and balance, things are going to become pretty unbalanced pretty quickly. I will say, though, there are a million different places—a million different checks and balances, and it's not just in the government. Look, and I can't say enough about them, look at the people of Minnesota. KIMMEL: Yeah. They drew the line. SCARBROUGH: I mean, it is amazing that you had a man who was a nurse at a VA hospital and was a Good Samaritan, dared to be a Good Samaritan, and he got shot and killed for it. But I think he would have tried to help that lady up again if he had a chance to do it again. And Renee Good, trying to calm this untrained, scared ICE officer. Then going, "Dude, I'm not mad." You know? It's really been remarkable what we've seen coming out of Minnesota. KIMMEL: Yeah.