A makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti at the site of his execution by Border Patrol agents, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 25, 2026 (Tim Evans/Reuters)


EA-CEO Retort VideoCast: Trump, Renee Nicole Good, and America’s Permanent Emergency


I joined Times Radio’s Trump Report to analyze the execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by the Trump Administration’s “shock troops” of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and of Border Patrol.

Host Jo Crawford and I set the killing in the context of an authoritarian regime. Just as ICE and Border Patrol are operating beyond legal authority and accountability. so the Administration recognizes no limits on its executive power.

Given the Trump camp’s quest to break the US system in the gravest peacetime crisis since 1865, what can be done?