Good was fatally shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross on January 7, and Pretti was fatally shot by federal immigration agents on January 24. Both were killed in Minnesota, Minneapolis.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump reflected on the killings, starting with Pretti’s fatal shooting.
Despite footage of the incident showing Pretti not holding a gun, but a phone, alongside eye witness accounts corroborating this, Trump said: « I think the whole thing is terrible.
« I don’t like the fact that he was carrying a gun, that was fully loaded, and he had two magazines with him.
« It’s pretty unusual. But nobody knows when they saw the gun, how they saw the gun. Bottom line is that it was terrible. »
Moving on to address the fatal shooting of Good, Trump decided to compare not just Pretti and Good, but their parents too.
He voiced: « Both of them were terrible. The other was terrible too. I’m not sure about his parents, but I know her parents were big Trump fans.
« Makes me feel bad anyway, but I guess you could say even worse – they were tremendous Trump people, Trump fans. And their daughter was, I don’t know if you can say radicalized, maybe radicalized, maybe not, I don’t know.
« But I hate to see it, I hate to see it. »
And it’s not taken long for social media users to rain in, including 40th Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, who said: « Something is deeply wrong with this man. »
Although, another slightly disagreed.
