HuffPost - House Dem Rips Trump Over Reaction To Alex Pretti Death: 'What Is Wrong With That Man?'
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) had one question Tuesday for President Donald Trump, who has openly admitted to feeling “even worse” that Renee Good was killed by federal immigration agents because her parents were “big Trump fans.”
“What is wrong with that man?” Garcia asked during an appearance on MS NOW.
Garcia had joined “The Weeknight” to discuss Trump’s fraught deployment of federal immigration agents to Minnesota when the show played a clip of Trump remarking on the fatal shootings of both Good and Alex Pretti this month.
“Bottom line, it was terrible,” the president said Tuesday on Fox News of Pretti’s recent death. “Both of them were terrible; the other was terrible, too. And I’m not sure about his parents, but I know her parents were big Trump fans. Makes me feel bad anyway, but I mean, I guess you could say ‘even worse.’”
Trump reiterated, “They were tremendous Trump people, Trump fans.”
Good’s car was partially blocking a Minneapolis road earlier this month when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, identified as Jonathan Ross, fired multiple shots into the car, killing her. Pretti was fatally shot Saturday while filming an altercation involving Border Patrol.
Initially, Trump falsely accused Good of running Ross over in an attempt to justify her death. He had a change of heart last week after learning that her parents were Trump fans, however, and said he hoped her father “still feels that way.”
Garcia had some choice words about Trump’s comments.
“What is wrong with that man? I mean, seriously, making this about him, always saying, now, more and more bizarre things — this is not a well person who should be the president of the United States,” he said. “And it is sick the way he reacts to tragedies, and he’s gotta be called out every single time.”
Garcia added, “I just cannot believe that this is the person running our country right now.”
Garcia eventually turned his attention to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who baselessly claimed after both shootings that Good and Pretti had been committing acts of “domestic terrorism” when they were killed.
“One of three things is going to happen,” said Garcia. “Kristi Noem is either, A, going to resign; two, she’s going to get fired by the president in some way because of the pressure; or three, we’re going to impeach her. And so she’s better off just resigning today because we are going to launch an impeachment inquiry.”
Garcia said the House oversight committee, of which he is a ranking member, will have “a significant role” in the investigation — alongside the judiciary and homeland security committees — and argued that many Republicans concerned about the midterms will be moved to cooperate.
“There are, as you know, Republicans that, their districts were won by Kamala Harris. They are in districts that are essentially Democrat or Democrat-leaning districts,” he said.
“And certainly, in this election, they’re going to need independents and Democrats to try to scrape their way to reelection,” Garcia added. “So I think there is a real possibility that a united Democratic caucus around impeachment could work to pick up some Republican votes.”