The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Kristi Noem Blames Alex Pretti In Fatal ICE Shooting

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

Charlamagne Tha God gives Donkey of the Day to Kristi Noem after she blamed Alex Pretti in the fatal ICE shooting. Listen for more!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Now to new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage. And it was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. And so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, white supremacist violence is it always have been the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is white. The breakfast club, bitchy. All right, Sharmine, please tell me why was I your donkey of the day? Yes, donkey of the day for Monday, January 26th, goes to Christy.

Christy, I feel like I gave you donkey a day just yesterday for defending Donald Trump's justification for the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent. And here we go again, because this weekend you were tasked with, yet again, peeing on weeded people's head and telling us this ring. Okay, if you haven't heard, ICE agents have killed yet another individual. in Minneapolis. This time, 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretty, who was an intensive care nurse at a VA hospital, an intensive care nurse at a VA hospital. Now, I'm letting you know now that some of this audio we are about to play will be triggering because you will hear the gunshots that killed Alex. Let's go to ABC News for the report, please. Over the weekend, thousands braving sub-zero temperatures in protest after Saturday morning

Border Patrol agent shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Preti, a U.S. citizen who worked as an ICU nurse. The city's second fatal shooting this month at the hands of federal agents. Multiple graphic videos from the scenes show Prattie appeared to try to help a woman who'd been pushed by a federal officer. He appears to be holding a cell phone before he shoved by a federal agent, pepper sprayed and pulled to the ground. Three officers appearing to grapple with Prattie. One agent appearing to repeatedly hit him. One federal officer appears to draw a handgun, while another agent appears to be seen removing a gun from Preddy's waistband. The video then shows officers firing several shots as Preddy falls to the ground.

An independent audio analysis finding 10 shots were fired in less than five seconds. In court documents, one witness, a physician who treated Preddy at the scene, says agent shot Preddy at least six or seven times. adding the victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back, an additional gunshot wound on the victim's upper left chest, and another possible gunshot wound on his neck. Another eyewitness saying it didn't look like he was trying to resist. Four or five agents had him on the ground, and they just started shooting him. Preddy had no criminal record, and local law enforcement said he had a valid permit to carry a firearm.

I have so many thoughts. Bear with me, man. First of all, RIP to Alice Pready, a white male, intensive care nurse at a VA hospital, shot and killed because he chose to protect some women who are being pepper sprayed by ice agents. You know, you should watch the video if you haven't, even though it is a lot to watch. They are demonizing this man for exercising his constitutional right to bear arms. He had a concealed carry permit and had his gun in his holster, and they are using that to justify his killing. How many people in the Trump administration? how many people who serve this regime are going to continue to wipe their ass

with the document that represents the Supreme Law of the United States? That document is the Constitution. I thought this document quite clearly outlined the structure of the federal government and guaranteed us fundamental rights, but clearly that changed and nobody told we the people.

Now, of course, as soon as Alex was murdered, Christian Nome rushed to make it his fault. Before any investigation or anything was done, they just rush to tell the American people their version of events. Let's listen. An individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a nine millimeter semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently.

Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent-fired defensive shots. Medics were on the scene immediately and attempted to deliver medical aid to the subject, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect also had two magazines with ammunition in them that held dozens of rounds. He also had no ID. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at this scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement. Did the 37-year-olds who had a license to carry, did he brandish a gun?

And at what point did law enforcement retrieve the gun and also the magazines from him? Can you offer clarity on the air? This individual showed up to impede a law enforcement operation and a assaulted our officers. I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign. This is a violent riot when you have someone showing up with weapons and are using them to assault law enforcement officers. When you perpetuate violence against a government because of ideological reasons and for reasons to resist and perpetuate violence, that is the definition of domestic terrorism. Peeing on our head and telling us that is raining.

Anyone who saw this video knows everything she said was a complete lie. Okay, he didn't approach agents with a gun. He wasn't violent towards them. He had a cell phone recording ice, abusing their power. And then when they pepper sprayed the women, he didn't attack any ice agents. He went to aid the women. And that's when he got assaulted by ice agents. And from the video I saw, they disarmed him, meaning took his gun off his holster and then proceeded to shoot him, I believe, 10 times.

Let me tell you something, Christy Noam and J.D. Vance and Donald Trump, the DOJ. They aren't trying to make you believe them. Okay, they aren't lying just because they are liars. This is an exercise in power. All right, they are attempting to dictate your perception of reality because that is a core feature of authoritarianism. Okay, authoritarian governments don't just try to control your behavior. No, no, no, no.

They try to control what feels true. Okay, if they can shape your perception of reality, controlling behavior becomes way easier. Okay, this is textbook. authoritarianism all right control the information environment limit or overwhelm information so people can't reliably tell what's real even if they are looking right at it all right attack independent journalists um we see that all right uh state controlled media we see in that with cvs flood the public with contradictory narratives uh so nobody knows what the truth is all right they redefine language

okay they normalize the absurd they create an enemy narrative That's what they are trying to do with this situation. They tell you Alex was a bad guy because he had a concealed weapon. They asked the question, who brings a gun to a protest? Christy, this is America. All 50 states have some form of concealed carry permits. You ask, why did he bring a gun to a protest? Why do people bring guns to Starbucks?

Okay? Do you really need your gun with you inside of Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins, and the South where I'm from, South Carolina all day? They have constitutional carry. when individuals can carry concealed weapons without a state issue permit. But now all of a sudden it's wrong to carry any and everywhere, even though we live in a country that lets you carry damn near any and everywhere? Well, that's what happens when you are under an authoritarian government. Okay? They are a hell bit on distorting our reality. All right. Christy,

let me tell you something. You are going to be a sacrificial lamb in all of this because authoritarian regimes aren't loyal to anyone. Even Donald Trump is refusing to back your claim that the shooting of Alex Preddy was justified. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump repeatedly declined to say whether the Border Patrol agent who killed Preddy in Minneapolis on Saturday had done the right thing. Instead, he said his administration was reviewing everything and will come out with a determination.

Christy, they didn't give you that memo. Okay, they gave you orders to deny, deny, deny, and say he didn't comply. I'm going to tell y'all something, America. I don't know how dark or how bad things are going to get, but I keep hearing people referencing 1940s Germany. And I think it's always good to look to history to see what could happen. But I want y'all to remember something when you are bringing up that history. The Nazis ultimately lost.

Okay, if you need any hope, all right, or any bit of optimism, always remember the Nazis ultimately lost. We tend to forget that, all right? Hitler died by suicide. Nazi government collapsed. Germany formally surrendered. Nazi ideology was outlawed through denotification. Okay, one day we will see the demagification of this country. It will come.

And you know what else happened? Leaders of the Nazi regime were prosecuted and tried as war criminals. 22 major Nazi leaders and organizations were tried for crimes against peace. Okay, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Christy, this is where people like you are headed. Okay, I don't care how it looks now, but it's inevitable. You will be thrown under the bus by the same authoritarian regime you are caping for. Okay, you will be forced to resign or impeached, and in the future,

you will be held accountable for all the lies you are spewing to the American people. It's inevitable. Please let Chelsea Handler give Christy Knoom the biggest he-ha. He-ha! He-ha! That is way too much, Dan Man. And I just want to tell Americans too, man, keep your guard up. Okay, protect your grip on reality, individually and collectively.

Okay, authoritarianism only works when people doubt their own perception are give it up to the powers that be. Even if you disagree on values, we got to defend shared facts. Okay, the fact is what happened to Alex Pretti was dead wrong. Okay, we can argue about policy, but not whether the event happened. We saw it. We felt it. It was wrong. Period.

Full stop. And we always wondered how would America react if law enforcement started recklessly killing white people in the street the way they have historically done the people of color? Well, we're about to find out. That's right. All right. Well, thank you for that donkey of the day.

Crazy. Now, let's open up the phone lines. Let's clear the phone lines. 800-585105.151. I've seen this trending over the weekend. Tracy Morgan was leaving the next game and an old I don't even say friend

but somebody that Tracy knew came up to him and asked him for money what what? What what? You thinking somebody like grew up with?

Yeah. Okay. From his old hood. Well, you know, I was thinking about something else. I feel like we should open the phone lines to the people. Yeah, I feel like we should call the audible, man.

All right, let's audible. I feel like we should open up the phone lines to the people, man. Because, you know, we live in this world where it's like algorithm, the algorithm changes. just by the second. So one day we battle in a blizzard, right?

One second we battle about to battle a blizzard. Then the next second, we're watching somebody just get killed in the street by law enforcement. And then we're watching the government just gaslight us about it and lied us about it. And then we watch AFC and NFC Championship games and talk about the Super Bowl. We just move, move, move, move.

Instead of checking in with people and seeing how they feel. Okay, we can do that. Let's open up the phone lines to the people. 800-585-105-1. Yes. Let's talk. Yes, man. If you're just joining us,

Charlemagne gave Donkey today to, what's the lady's name? Christy Gnome and Ice, you know what I mean? For once again peeing on our head and telling us it's raining. And, you know, like I said, you know, Americans, we got to keep our guard up. We got to protect our grip on reality

individually and collectively. This gives us the opportunity right now to open up the phone lines and collectively just talk to the people to make sure we're dealing with reality. Okay, well, let's open up the phone lines. 800-585-105.1. Let's discuss.

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Each January, men promise to get stronger, work harder, and fix what's broken? But what if the real work isn't physical at all? I sat down with psychologist, Dr. Steve Poulter, to unpack shame, anxiety, and the emotional pain men were never taught how to name. Part of the way through the Valley of Despair is realizing this was a distance. happened and you have to make a choice whether you're going to stay in it or move forward. Our two-part conversation is available now. Listen to the mailroom on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows. This season on Dear Chelsea with me, Chelsea Handler, we've got some incredible guests like Kumail Nanjiani.

Let's start with your cat. How is she? She is not with us. She... Great, great, great way to start. Maybe you will cry. Ross Matthews. You know what kids always say to me?

Are you a boy or girl? Oh, my God. All the time. I love it. So I try to butcher it up for kids so they're not confused. Yeah, but you're butching it up is basically like Doris Day. Right? No, I turn it to be Arthur.

Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This show contains information subject to, but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up, man? This your boy, Nail Green, from the Broken Play podcast. Look, it's the end of the season, the playoffs of him. Guess what?

It ain't the end of your season. You can always tune in with Broken Play Podcasts with Nav Green on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Not a team who ain't going to the playoffs. They're cheap. It's time to rebuild. Listen to Broken Play with Nav Green from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the Iheart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or whatever you get your podcast. Whether it is getting swatted or just hateful messages online, there is a lot of harm and even just reading the comments.

That's cybersecurity expert Camille Stewart Gloucester. The Therapy for Black Girls podcast. Every season is a chance to grow, and the Therapy for Black Girls podcast is here to walk with you. I'm Dr. Joy Harden-Brandford, and each week we dive into real conversations that help you move with more clarity and confidence. This episode, we're breaking down what really happens to your information online and how to protect yourself with intention. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This is an I-Heart podcast Guaranteed Human