Trump says Alex Pretti wasn’t acting as an assassin

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President Donald Trump distanced himself on Tuesday from comments Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, made regarding the fatal shooting of Minnesota nurse Alex Pretti.

Departing the White House for a campaign rally in Iowa, Trump was asked whether he thought Pretti was acting as an “assassin” when intervening in an immigration enforcement operation that led to the 37-year-old’s fatal shooting by Border Patrol agents.

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