Matt Walsh on Alex Pretti: “You deserved it. You quite literally had it coming.”
Walsh: “He was a domestic terrorist dressed in the same color scheme as Border Patrol agents who did exactly what he set out to do”
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From the January 27, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): The first conclusion is that Alex Pretti was part of an organized campaign to legally obstruct law enforcement operations on behalf of open borders communists who want to destroy the country. He was a domestic terrorist dressed in the same color scheme as Border Patrol agents who did exactly what he set out to do. He blocked federal agents from carrying out the will of the voters and for performing the job they are obligated to do and have the authority to do.
The second conclusion we can draw is that the officers were legally justified in shooting Alex Pretti, period. That's because they clearly believe that he was either shooting at them or was about to shoot at them. And that belief was objectively reasonable whether or not Pretti was indeed armed at the moment that he was shot or not. If it's true that his gun was accidentally discharged after an armed -- after an agent disarmed him, making the other officers believe that they were under fire, then those officers were entitled to use lethal force against him. Under the law, the relevant question is not whether Pretti was actually a lethal threat to the officers. The relevant question is whether the officers believed he was a lethal threat to them, and whether that belief was objectively reasonable given the information the officers had at that moment. They had a split second to respond to a gunshot that they believe came from Pretti whose holster was empty, and they weren't aware that he had fully -- he had been fully disarmed at that point.
Now you might say, well, it's the agent's job to communicate the fact that he had been disarmed, but the problem is that we're talking about a chaotic situation that unfolded in a matter of seconds that Alex Pretti instigated with people screaming and blowing whistles and everything else in a mayhem that's been deliberately orchestrated by leftist to cause maximum confusion for law enforcement. They're out in the street trying to confuse everything and obstruct and sabotage and make everything more difficult and chaotic. They're doing this on purpose. That's the point.
And so if in the chaos, one of these people gets killed, guess whose fault it is? You go out onto the street with the express purpose of interfering with law enforcement and making things confusing and chaotic — if in the confusion and chaos, you get killed, that's your fault. It's your fault. It's not only your fault, but you deserve it. OK? You deserved it. You quite literally had it coming. You created all of the conditions for this thing to happen. Whose fault could it possibly be but yours? And for anyone who says, well, it's too far to say he deserved it. What? You go out into the street. You're interfering with law enforcement. You're making things chaotic and crazy. You end up getting shot, like, that's just a direct result of your own actions. We all deserve the direct result of our own actions.