The Keith Edwards Show - Trump Refuses To Defend ICE In WSJ Interview

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

Keith Edwards reacts to Donald Trump’s exclusive interview with the Wall Street Journal, breaking down the surprising moment where the President refused to defend ICE and analyzing what this hesitation signals for the agency's future.Become a Member: https://www.youtube.com/@keithedwards/joinSubscribe to my Substack: http://keithedwards.substack.comBuy a Democracy Hat: https://keithsdebateclub.com/products/democracy-hatCall me and ask a question or leave a comment: ‪[phone]‬Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekeithedwardsshow/Follow me on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/keithedwards.bsky.socialFollow me on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@keithedwardsFollow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keithedwards/Follow me on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@keithedwardsFollow me on X: http://twitter.com/keithedwardsListen to the show on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1chmgsT4aUJPmFlyGXIDGN

Donald Trump is flailing. He knows he's screwed up. He knows that what happened and what has been happening in Minneapolis is not good for him politically. It's not good for our country, but Donald Trump is selfish. And Donald Trump knows that this is the beginning of the end. This is beginning the end of his presidency. This is the beginning of the end of ICE and their operations, at least in Minneapolis. We'll see if it goes any further. But there's an exclusive interview with Wall Street Journal that was very illuminating that I don't think. think a lot of people had focused on. First up, what's very interesting is in it. Donald Trump does not defend the ICE officers. That's a huge change in strategy. It says here, Donald Trump declined to say whether federal officer who fatally shot a man in Minnesota this weekend had acted appropriately and said the administration was reviewing the incident. When had they ever said we're reviewing the incident. When has Donald Trump ever said without a knee-jerk reaction that those people had the right to do what they were doing and that the protesters were wrong? Very interesting, right? In a five-minute telephone interview at the Walser Journal on Sunday,

Trump didn't directly answer when asked twice whether the officer who shot Alex Preddy had done the right thing. Press further, the president said, we're looking, we're reviewing everything and, well, we'll come out with a determination. Administration officials have publicly defended the officer. He went on to say, I don't like the shooting, I don't like it. 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. Well, unfortunately, we have a little thing called the Second Amendment. I think conservatives have forgotten this now, now that the people on the left are using guns to protect themselves and are arming themselves against their own

military, the whole thing about tread on me, don't tread on me, was about a tyrannical government that treads on our rights. Where's the right? Where's conservatives? We're libertarians defending this shit. Does a second amendment matter or not? The first amendment, does it matter or not? Both of those constitutional rights of Alex Prattie were literally destroyed in less than 15 seconds. Let's keep going. At some point, we will leave. We've done they've done a phenomenal job, Trump said, but it didn't give a time frame and ask if agents would leave soon. He praised what the administration had done already in Minnesota and said, quote, we'll leave a different group of people there for the financial fraud that doesn't exist.

Some of the president's aides have come to see the increasingly volatile situation in Minneapolis is a political liability, even as the White House has publicly doubled down on its operations in the city, according to administration officials, White House chief of staff, Zsie Wiles has taken repeated calls from Minnesota officials, the administration says. And some administration officials worry that the public polling and sentiment has turned against the administration's immigration actions in cities. Yeah. Yeah.

In fact, I've got some examples here. These are just random examples, but like, this is a golfing influencer page on Instagram. Okay, not political, not political. Says here, reminder, this is a golf account, but golf is political because you can't golf if you're murdered by masked agents of the state. The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about their cat on the butt like Bongo's has put his foot down. Yes, cat Bongo says, if you still support Trump ICE even slightly, you're not welcome

in this subreddit. The nice thing about owning a subreddit is I can use it as my personal soapbox. So after the blatant murder by ICE today, I wanted to say something. It goes on to say that he disagrees with what's happening there. And if you don't, if you disagree with him with disagree with it, you can unsub. But again, people who are typically not political are getting political over this issue. Let's keep going. Now, this is a quilting page.

Quilting, the quilts hit the quilters on Instagram are rising up. I want nothing more than for this to be a quilt-only account, but people are being murdered and kidnapped in the streets. I'm so heartbroken and angry. I can barely function. Hate has never had a place on my account. No human is illegal. Due process and constitutional rights apply to every person. If you support what's happening to innocent people in Minnesota and across the country, please don't follow me and remove me as a follower.

Amazing. A quilting account. Let's just do one more. This is a painting page. Reminder, although this is a duck painting page, of course, it's going to get political because ducks stomp on ice, and so do we. Brilliant, right? Now, I, so it's a clear sign that the public is not in support of what's happening. That's good.

Now, as I said before, the reason why is because we've remained peaceful. We have to keep remaining peaceful. That's the most important thing we can do in this moment is not turn violent. show that they're the ones who are out of control and there were the ones who just are peacefully resisting what they're doing in this country. That is the best way we can garner support. We can grow more support for more people who would otherwise not talk about politics. This bitch right here very clearly knows.

Look it. You can tell on her face. The second, the second, someone who's not named Trump is in power, she is going to be on trial. 100%. All these people are fucked. They are fucked. One thing we, I hope we learned with Donald Trump is we put these people on trial immediately. I mean, no, no, no, no waiting around.

No special, no, no, no, no, special counsel immediately. All these people are going on trial. I'm looking at due process, unlike the people that they are currently terrorizing. You mentioned the protocol. There is an angle of the video that we've been playing on morning where it shows an officer removing a weapon either from Alex Prattie's waistband or a holster. And he walks away with the weapon before officers start shooting. It appears that Alex Prattie was disarmed. If he was disarmed, is it the protocol to use deadly force?

And that's all part of this investigation. Every video will be analyzed. Everything will be looked at. And that's part of the answers that I can't speak to every single thing that those officers thought. But this happened in seconds. They clearly feared for their lives and took action to defend themselves and the people around them. If you watch that and you listen to those videos, you can hear someone yelling gun, gun, gun. And those agents and officers reacted to that.

So as this investigation. Well, those agents and officers can't handle someone being armed. it was behind his back. If they're not used to that, someone expressing their second amendment rights in the Constitution, then they don't have any business being on the streets. They're not having any business.

Now, this little piece of shit, I'm sorry to all, I'm sorry to all the lesbian grandmas out there, but I heard the funniest thing about him. They said, he looks like a Nazi lesbian grandma. Take that for what you will. All right, Dan Bond,

I want to call him Dan Bonvino, It's it's Bovino Bevino Greg, no it's Greg, Greg Bevino, sorry, I have all these characters are in my head.

Okay, here's what he had to say. You can see a screenshot of an agent in a green jacket approach Pruddy and then he appeared to take a gun away. When the agent took the gun away, which seems as though it was Prattie's gun,

that happened before Pretti was shot. Why was an unarmed man shot multiple times by law enforcement, by your Border Patrol agents? Dana, you don't know he was unarmed. I don't know he was unarmed. That's freeze frame adjudication of a crime scene via a photo. That's why we have investigators. That's why we have an investigator.

I'm not an investigator. I'm going to show you right now that that man was disarmed. The Washington Post slow down and, uh, and slowed down the footage and stabilized it in such a way that you could very easily see. What happened? Gun removed. There it is. That's the gun, and they take it out.

One more time. Gun here. Gun removed. Removed. Gun removed. Still alive. Okay? All right.

Don't need an investigation. I just did it. I just get it. The investigation that is going to answer those questions. How many shots for? fired. Who fired shots? Where was the guns? Where were the guns located? All those questions are going to be answered in the investigation. We're not going to adjudicate that here on TV in one freeze frame there. Okay. It's not a freeze frame. We're showing a video of one of your agents

taking the gun away and that happened before Preddy was shot. We don't know that agent was taking any gun away that could have been the agents because we don't know that. The facts are going to come to light. So you're disputing the video. That's what happened. That's why we investigate. Well, with respect, you say that's why we investigate, but you're also drawing other conclusions that sort of fly in the face of waiting for

an investigation. Honestly, I have bashed Dana Bash on this channel, but she did a fucking good job on the interview. So hats off to her. And you know he lost the narrative to when Fox News is pissed off. Charged to arrest those. But how was he threatening Border Patrol? You've collected the evidence, you said, right?

You have the handgun in your possession? That's right. And how was he using that handgun in terms of threatening Border Patrol? What was the threat? He had his camera, right? He was filming it. That's something that I let the DHS and the prosecutors because they are the ones investigating that case.

I don't want to stylize that evidence. But I trust the men and women on the ground who are trained professionals to only use it when it's absolutely necessary. And I trust Secretary Nome's leadership and DHS and HSI to do the right thing. Did it answer. Didn't answer. He asserts that they felt threatened. But as Fox News points out, how, how, how, how, how, how? The tide is turning.

The tide is turning. Good.