Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha said Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey are guilty of “gaslighting” their constituents.
Concha appeared Saturday on Fox News’s Big Weekend Show shortly after the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti. A Border Patrol agent shot Pretti multiple times after it was discovered he was carrying a gun. Walz blamed “violent, untrained officers” for the shooting, which followed the shooting death of Renee Good on Jan. 7.
“Frey and Walz are gaslighting with a nuclear blowtorch,” Concha said.
“Back in 2016, when Barack Obama was deporting 3 million people out of this country, you had leaders of Minneapolis and Minnesota and across the country cooperating with ICE to make sure that happened smoothly,” Concha said. “That’s acting like a leader, not what Frey is saying at this point, this human broomstick of a mayor we have in Minneapolis.”
This was a reference to Frey’s comments recommending that, for President Donald Trump to “act like a leader,” he should remove all federal officers from the city and state.
Walz went on to compare Minnesotans to Anne Frank, suggesting they are “hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside.”
“Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank,” Walz said during a Sunday press conference. “Somebody’s going to write that children’s story about Minnesota.”
STEPH CURRY SAYS IT’S ‘BEAUTIFUL TO SEE THAT TURNOUT’ FROM MINNEAPOLIS PROTESTS
Notably, President Donald Trump has not advocated for or against the Border Patrol agents involved in Pretti’s death.
“I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it,” Trump said when asked about the shooting on Sunday. “But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest, and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn’t play good either.”
