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‘Trump saw it wasn’t playing well’: White House insiders on the chaotic response to Alex Pretti shooting
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2026
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So this is kinda important. What are their constraints? What did trump see? Was Fox actually reporting on the video? did trump's base get alerted to it and the videos, and how did that happen? Why couldn't the administration spin this one when they just spun and blatantly lied about others?
Tbf even the indirect details would piss them off.
Good gets killed; “shes a gay liberal domestic terrorist”
Guy who takes care of veterans and has a gun gets killed for having a gun, then theyre upset
Honestly if Good had been killed simply for having a gun they probably would have been up in arms there too.
Fox has reach, but gun-toting clubs are more rabid than any other social organization. The minute they put the word out those folks went nuts
He had at least two "tech titans" or whatever reach out to him directly. So there's that.