"The death of Pretti, a seemingly saintly ICU nurse that the administration tried and completely failed to dig up opposition research to demonize, has clearly shaken Trump, spooked by the prospects of crushingly negative polling in the build-up to the 2026 midterm elections. Immigration, which had long been his strongest overall issue in polling, is where he's now losing ground most rapidly."
"He needs desperately to stop every headline related to immigration from being the worst fucking thing you've ever read in your life. And that means he needs the most loudly evil and lie-embracing of his underlings out of the public eye. Which is to say: Bye bye, Mr. Nazi Coat, Gregory Bovino. Beyond his fascist-coded menswear preferences, the Border Patrol "Commander at Large" has repeatedly proven that he's a messaging liability for the administration."
President Donald Trump shifted away from defenders linked to the Border Patrol after the killing of Alex Pretti, a widely sympathetic ICU nurse. Efforts to undermine Pretti through opposition research failed. The Pretti death produced sharp polling consequences, with immigration slipping as a Trump strength and prompting urgent damage control. The administration viewed loud, lie-driven surrogates as liabilities needing removal from public view. Gregory Bovino, noted for provocative menswear and extreme rhetoric, was singled out as a messaging problem and reported to be leaving Minnesota amid the fallout.
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