Fox’s Trey Gowdy points out double standard of defending Kyle Rittenhouse and criticizing Alex Pretti
Gowdy: “I'm sure there are people on the conservative side who are saying, ‘Wait a minute, you mean you can't take a firearm to a protest? Because you were just celebrating a guy for doing it a couple of years ago.'”
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From the January 26, 2026, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom
BILL HEMMER (ANCHOR): On the messaging, Trey, why have they dropped the ball, the administration?
TREY GOWDY (CONTRIBUTOR): Oh, the administration? Well they both have dropped the ball. I mean, Tim Walz has dropped the ball, too. I mean, he just could not be more wrong about his assessment of why this happened. The administration, you know Bill, I think there is a temptation in our culture to be first even at the expense of being right. You only have to watch this video a couple of times to know it is a very fact intensive inquiry.
It could come down, it could come down, Bill, to which of those ten shots was actually the fatal shot. And I think what frustrates people — you remember Kyle Rittenhouse and how he was made a hero on the right. I'm sure there are people on the conservative side who are saying, ‘Wait a minute, you mean you can't take a firearm to a protest? Because you were just celebrating a guy for doing it a couple of years ago.' Alex Pretti's firearm was lawfully being carried. It's lawful to carry a gun in Minnesota. He never brandished it. He didn't point it at the cops.