THE MURDER OF ALEX PRETTI IS TRUMP'S WARNING: SUPPORT ME OR ELSE - 1.26.26

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Jan 26, 2026

A fiery commentary accusing federal agencies of using violence and intimidation to coerce political support. Discussion of a Minneapolis killing and how officials framed it as a warning. Examination of a public letter demanding voter data and cooperation in exchange for withdrawing enforcement. Calls to defund and shut down abusive federal tactics. Critique of media defenders of violent enforcement.

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Federal Enforcement As Political Intimidation

Keith Olbermann argues federal immigration enforcement has become a political paramilitary tool used to intimidate local leaders and citizens.
He frames the Minneapolis killing of Alex Pretti as evidence of state-sponsored terrorism under the Trump administration.

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Alex Pretti's Fatal Confrontation

Olbermann recounts the video of Alex Pretti confronting ICE agents and being disarmed and fatally shot while defenseless.
He highlights Pretti's role as a VA nurse who filmed ICE actions and tried to help a woman before being killed.

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Violence As Policy, Not Accident

Olbermann concludes ICE and related officials are intentionally violent and politicized rather than merely mistrained.
He claims those actors function as terrorists enforcing a Trump agenda targeting both immigrants and dissenting Americans.

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 53: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Alex Pretti may not have been murdered by Trump's Paramilitary Death Squad AS a warning to American governors and mayors and citizens, but the Trump Dictatorship is exploiting the state-sponsored terrorism against a VA Nurse to issue that warning anyway: You "better support President Trump," said Attorney General Bondi. The implied threat that followed was easy to decipher: if you don't, ICE won't leave your city alone and it won't leave you ALIVE.

Bondi's comment came as she explained her (extortion) letter to Governor Walz, offering to remove ICE and Border Patrol from Minnesota providing Walz gives the DOJ records and data and especially his voter rolls. Because it's easier to fix elections if you have the voter rolls. But behind it was the bigger picture: “We sent Governor Walz a very strong letter today. We got it out saying that he BETTER SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP. He better support the men and women in law enforcement because if he doesn’t, we are, and that’s what we’re doing right now.”

The United States of America is at this moment without a functioning government. In place of a government, it has a Trump terrorist organization, enforced by a paramilitary death squad, Proud ICE Boys, masked gunmen, street gangs in Nazi leather trenchcoats. We are without a government and we are without a functioning Constitution and we are without a functioning president. We are destabilized – from within – by state sponsored terrorism. Our OWN state. With our OWN terrorist – the worst terrorist this nation has ever faced: Donald John Trump.

What to do about it? It starts with the Democrats in the Senate not just attacking ICE funding but shutting all funding down, indefinitely. This Trump junta must be broken.

B-Block (35:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: We could devote the segment just to those idiots who defended ICE after the Renee Good murder and are now done, professionally. But we'll limit it to three medalists and some runners-up: two New York Post writers, Tony Dokoupil, Senator Fetterman, Clay Travis, Scott Jennings, Stephen A. Smith

C-Block (47:00) COMIC RELIEF: THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: New year, new round-numbered anniversaries. 30 years ago I was wined and dined by a Chicago radio station that was willing to double my salary and build their franchise around me if I quit SportsCenter. And they convinced me to do it. And then half an hour before I was going to say 'let's make it happen' they... took the station off the air.

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