Flagrant host Andrew Schulz: The administration spin on the killing of Alex Pretti is “abhorrent,” “fucking disgusting,” and “should be called out”
Schulz: “Moving forward, we don’t just like stay silent when something has this. Like if we do have a platform, there’s people that we’re talking to, you know, and we see something that is just so blatant.”
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From the January 28, 2026, edition of Flagrant, uploaded to YouTube
ANDREW SCHULZ (FLAGRANT HOST): Alright, let’s do it. Let’s talk about what happened in Minneapolis. ICE murdered an American citizen in cold blood and then the Trump administration called him a domestic terrorist.
ALEXXMEDIA (CO-HOST): Yeah.
SCHULZ: That’s it.
AKAASH SINGH (CO-HOST): Yeah.
SCHULZ: Like plain and simple. I see the administration trying to spin it and it’s fucking disgusting. It’s like they didn’t even have a moment where they’re like, hey, we’re reviewing the footage. We’re going to try to see what’s really happening. All of them, Trump and all the cronies, put out collective statements that immediately blamed an American citizen that was exercising his first and second amendment rights, right?
He has the right to protest. He has the right to carry a firearm. He’s a legal gun owner, right? There’s no question about this whatsoever. And the administration immediately comes out and they try to gaslight the public, which you cannot do when we have 15 different videos of what happened.
ALEXXMEDIA: Yes.
SCHULZ: And -
ALEXXMEDIA: That is what they do though.
SCHULZ: But that is what they do.
ALEXXMEDIA: Yeah.
SCHULZ: And I think that governments have probably been doing this for centuries. Millenia. And now you have a public that is armed with phones and we can see what actually fucking happened and you're not going to just lie to us. Plain and simple like that.
And - yeah its just - I mean to me it's like, you can have - first of all, I know we’ve had Trump on the podcast. I know there’s probably people like you guys are the last ones that I want to hear talk about this.
I don’t think any of us are having this conversation to like curry any, like goodwill or, you know, get people to like us or something like that. This is something that is undeniably abhorrent and should be called out. Simple as that. It's disgusting.
GAGNON: I get the frustration. People are like, oh, but you guys were with him. Dadada - it's like yeah I get it.
SCHULZ: 100%. I get it. Again, if you never want to watch another thing again because we had Trump on, that is totally fine. Respect it. I completely get it. You are 100% allowed to be frustrated.
SINGH: We made that decision knowing it was open to criticism. Alright. There it is.
SCHULZ: No knock on any criticism. That being said, like moving forward, we don’t just like stay silent when something has this. Like if we do have a platform, there’s people that we’re talking to, you know, and we see something that is just so blatant. There’s no, like, partisan bullshit with this. If you see it with your own eyes, you know exactly what happened. And there’s something disgusting that’s happening, not only in Minneapolis.
I’m sure it’s happening in other parts of the United States where it’s ICE is under the guise of security. Right? Under the guise of safety because that’s what they’re doing. Right? Is every time something horrific happens, they keep going, but look at the pedophiles we got. Look at the murderers we got. Look at all the violent criminals we got. I looked at the numbers. It’s five percent of the people they’ve deported are violent criminals.
ALEXXMEDIA: Yes.
SINGH: There's probably more pedophiles in the oval office.