Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to “massacre” agents

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting

30 Comments

  1. OneRelative7697 on

    Ooohhh….anonymous “scoops” sourced from inside the WH.

    The knives are coming out!

  2. Anxious-Connection98 on

    Stephen Miller is actually more dangerous than Trump or even Vance. He does not have to submit himself to any voting process and yet his influence on governement policies is at an all time high. He feel untouchable and that’s make him dangerous.

    Come the midterms, if the dems win, they NEED to go after him.

  3. literallytwisted on

    Uh yeah Stephen Miller is behind quite a few things this administration does as Herr Miller is Trumps evil “Jiminy Cricket”.

  4. Significant_Cup_238 on

    Even if he did, he wasn’t a threat when they murdered him. We arrest people accused of crimes, or planning crimes. We try them in a court of law, with full due process. When someone is disarmed and then shot in the back, that’s straight murder, no matter what the persons intents were before he was shot in the back.

  5. brain_overclocked on

    >Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for issuing misleading and incendiary information that claimed immigration agents killed an armed Minnesota protestor Saturday because he wanted to “massacre” them.

    >* But that language was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and top Trump adviser, four sources tell Axios.

    >**Why it matters:** The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump’s close and longest-serving political adviser whose dominion in the White House far exceeds his title.

    >* His influence extends to de facto oversight of Noem, though she’s a Cabinet secretary who technically outranks him.
    * “Everything I’ve done, I’ve done at the direction of the president and Stephen,” Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios.

    >**Zoom in:** Immediately after the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis about 10:05 a.m. ET on Saturday, administration officials in Washington knew they had a potential disaster on their hands but had little information.

    >* The officers directly involved in the shooting “all shut up and got lawyers real quick so there wasn’t a lot of information,” one of the sources briefed on the statement said.
    * Under Miller’s direction, DHS officials began assembling a statement based on information from other officers on scene who noted that Pretti had a firearm.
    * “Stephen heard ‘gun’ and knew what the narrative would be: Pretti came to ‘massacre’ cops,” a source briefed on the process of assembling the press statement said.

    >…

    >**Miller then posted on X** that Pretti was “an assassin,” which a source said was based on a preliminary report from Customs and Border Patrol.

    >* Vice President Vance then reposted it on his page.
    * Noem subsequently used that language at a news conference, as did the Border Patrol commander then overseeing operations in the Twin Cities, Greg Bovino.
    * Noem also inaccurately suggested Pretti was “brandishing” his weapon when videos showed he never reached for his weapon and had been disarmed before he was shot.

  6. PrideofPicktown on

    I am behind the rumor that Stephen Miller likes to dress up in lingerie and play “can I fit your penis in my mouth” with Lady Lindsey.

  7. That vile little Nazi has many crimes to answer for.

    Would be awesome if press would ask Trump why he allows Miller to make all the important decision, leaving only interior decorating choices to POTUS.

  8. WTF with such passive language in the headline. “Misleading claim” my ass, it was a LIE.

  9. Armerica has been normalizing lying for decades. Lying about the colonial wars, especially about Iraq, lying about Ukraine, lying about omnipresent racism in the USA, so much lying that the society is now unable to tell right from wrong, and up from down. No wonder the next step are heartless crooks that lie about murders committed in broad daylight on camera. The hardcore fascists from MAGA will stand behind Trump even if he ate children alive.

  10. The Felon is by no means innocent, but Miller is the originating source of all of his policy. Removing Temu-brand Himmler from office (and into the Hague) would solve so many problems.

  11. ImperiousStout on

    Every single reporter/journalist/tv personality/interviewer/citizen within speaking range of Miller going forward needs to ask him continually and repeatedly how can any one ever believe anything he says ever again?

    Trump as well needs to be hammered ceaselessly in how can he in any good conscience keep a lying and slandering sociopath like Miller on board as an advisor in any capacity. Make him twist himself into knots into defending his malicious and deliberate behavior.

    Ghouls like Miller are here to stay. He will outlast even Trump. And our current media are far too spineless to do anything but allow assholes like Stephen Miller to spew their evil talking points and then thank them for their time.

    Shit needs to stop right fucking now.

  12. OK everyone. This worked before. Let’s all start calling him President Miller and asking Trump what Miller is instructing him to do today.

  13. I firmly believe that if Miller wasn’t part of this administration then it wouldn’t be nearly as bad as what we’re seeing. It would still be a complete shit show but nothing like what it is now.

  14. > misleading

    It’s not ‘misleading.’ It’s false.

    It’s not a blurred, misreported or partial version of the truth. It’s a deliberate lie.

  15. Stephen miller is a ghoulish, unfuckable waste of food. One of the most despicable, miserable lifeforms on this planet. Fuck that thing. Fuck everything about that piece of trash.

  16. “Stephen Miller behind misleading claim…”

    HE LIED, HE LIED, HE LIED. Not “misleading”, not “appeared”, he LIED. Stop abstracting language to neuter what is happening. Stop coddling the Administration and *tell the fucking truth using the right words.*

    This is why no one under the age of 50 believes in the mainstream media.