MAGA Influencers Spew Horrific Attack at ICE Victim Alex Pretti as Dem Leader Surrenders

27 Jan 2026 · 23 min · 8 chapters

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Podcast Summary: IHIP News - Episode: MAGA Influencers Spew Horrific Attack at ICE Victim Alex Pretti as Dem Leader Surrenders

Episode Overview In this episode of IHIP News, hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan discuss the backlash faced by ICE victim Alex Pretti and the broader implications of MAGA rhetoric on societal issues. They critique the moral hypocrisy of MAGA supporters, particularly women, and convey a sense of urgency regarding the political landscape, especially within the Democratic Party.

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Key Topics Discussed

The Attack on Alex Pretti

  • Background: Alex Pretti, a veteran, was attacked by multiple individuals and shot nine times.
  • Public Response: Notable figures like Megyn Kelly downplay the incident, suggesting that Pretti's actions warranted the attack because he interfered with law enforcement.

Misogyny and Moral Hypocrisy

  • Weaponization of Gender: Discussion about how some white MAGA women use their gender to mask misogyny and violence within the movement.
  • Victim Blaming: Kelly's comments are examined as a reflection of a broader culture of victim blaming prevalent in evangelical circles.

Comparative Analysis

  • Historical Context: Welch and Sullivan draw parallels between the treatment of Palestinians by the IDF and the characterization of victims by ICE, arguing that both groups are dehumanized for political ends.
  • Anti-Semitism and Political Rhetoric: They discuss how anti-Semitism is being weaponized within political discourse, especially in relation to recent statements made around Holocaust remembrance.

Critique of Political Leadership

  • Democratic Party's Response: The hosts express frustration at the ineffectiveness of Democratic leaders, particularly Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, in addressing violence and human rights violations adequately.
  • Calls for Action: They argue for the abolition of ICE, criticizing the party for proposing only reforms instead of taking a stand against what they characterize as state-sponsored violence.

Broader Implications of MAGA Rhetoric

  • Normalization of Violence: The hosts assert that the MAGA narrative encourages a culture of fear and violence against marginalized individuals.
  • Hypocrisy in Political Discourse: They point out the contradictions in how violence is perceived and addressed depending on the political alignment of the individuals involved.

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Key Takeaways

  • MAGA's Influence: The hosts argue that the MAGA movement's influence has led to a disturbing normalization of violence and a lack of empathy for victims.
  • Call for Human Rights: They emphasize the need for a universal approach to human rights, wherein all lives are valued equally, regardless of political alignment.
  • Political Accountability: There is a strong call for the Democratic Party to take a firmer stance against ICE and to advocate for the abolition of the agency in light of its violent actions.

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Final Thoughts The hosts conclude with a sense of urgency, urging listeners to engage with political issues thoughtfully and hold leaders accountable. They emphasize the importance of recognizing the minority views that contribute to the current political climate and encourage activism against state-sanctioned violence.

Listeners are prompted to share, like, and engage with the podcast for continued discussions on pressing political matters.

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Empathy Deficit in the MAGA Movement

0:45 to 2:52

Discussion on the lack of empathy displayed by MAGA influencers regarding Alex Pretti's attack.

“Do you know why I wasn't shot by Border Patrol this weekend?”

Victim Blaming and Religious Indoctrination

2:52 to 3:59

Exploration of victim blaming and the role of religious upbringing in shaping attitudes towards violence.

“You are better than, you have moral superiority.”

Political Violence and Historical Parallels

3:59 to 5:48

Connecting political violence today with historical events and figures like Netanyahu.

“They kill Palestinians and then say they were terrorists.”

Holocaust Remembrance and Its Misuse

5:48 to 8:12

Analysis of how Holocaust memory is used in contemporary political discourse.

“And so this was shocking when I saw this.”

Universal Human Rights and the Palestinian Struggle

8:12 to 11:01

Discussion on the importance of universal human rights and the narrative surrounding Palestinian suffering.

“Only Anne Frank and Jewish people can learn the lesson of this, but other marginalized groups that are singled out can't.”

ICE Raids and Public Safety

11:01 to 14:02

Critique of ICE raids and their implications for public safety and humanity.

“students that they couldn't protest a war and a genocide.”

Critique of ICE Raids and Political Leadership

14:02 to 16:39

Listeners will learn about the inhumane nature of ICE raids and the failures of Democratic leadership in responding to them.

“They do nothing to serve the interests of public safety.”

Failures in Accountability and Democratic Strategy

18:56 to 23:07

Discussion on the lack of accountability for ICE, the labeling of victims as terrorists, and ineffective Democratic strategies.

“The problem is they crowdsourced this and somebody told Alyssa Slotkin and other Democrats, whatever you do, don't say abolish ICE because these spineless Democrats don't believe in anything.”
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0:04White MAGA women are truly some of the worst people that this movement has produced because they weaponize their gender to make all of the misogyny and the psychopathy feel like it has some sort of maternal blessing to it. And here's Megyn Kelly. And this is her opinion about seeing a person beat up like a gang. Alex Preddy was beat up by eight people and then shot nine times. And this is what she has to say about it. I know I'm supposed to feel sorry for Alex Preddy, but I don't. I don't. Do you know why I wasn't shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because I kept my ass inside and out of their operations.

0:56It's very simple. If I felt strongly enough about something the government was doing that I would go out and protest, I would do it peacefully on the sidewalk without interfering via a whistle, via shouting, via my body, via any other way. I would make my objections known by standing there without interfering because interfering is where you go south and laying hands on a police officer trying to or border patrol officer or ice officer trying to conduct a law enforcement operation is a felony and now you are going to get arrested and if you do anything anything that resembles resisting you're in serious trouble doesn't okay this coming from a woman that supports a movement that had a violent insurrection on January 6th, where cops were beat up and killed.

1:48This coming from a woman that whitewashes, as a lot of white evangelicals do, the age of consent and somehow making the age of these girls that Jeffrey Epstein raped at 14 or 15, some sort of loophole that they weren't technically children. She has millions and millions of views, but I can tell you from personal experience, this type of, I don't care because it didn't affect me and my family is ubiquitous in white evangelical circles. This craven lack of empathy and lack of humanity is something in which these types of groups take immense pride. They take pride in having this type of position, the moral duplicity of we support the police, we support Jesus, we support America, rah, rah.

2:45And then when it's somebody who opposes them politically, they're fine with them getting executed. Well, and here's the thing. I grew up in that. That's how I was raised. You are better than, you have moral superiority. But I've also thought a lot about how I was indoctrinated religiously. It goes with victim shaming. Victim shaming and how I was raised go hand in hand. If there's a sexual assault, you blame what was being worn by the female so that you excuse the conduct of the man. Somehow she brought this on herself. So when I first saw this clip, that's where my head went to. She's victim blaming.

3:27He's exercising a constitutional right and she's victim blaming because the way I was raised, it's okay to do that because you would never be in that situation. And she says that if I were doing that, I would do it differently. I would do it better because I am better. So it just the victim shaming and blaming that we're seeing through all of this on the MAGA right makes me think of how I was raised with evangelical Christianity. And it also makes me think about the way the IDF has treated Palestinians for years and that ISIS taking a play out of their playbook. They kill Palestinians and then say they were terrorists.

4:13nobody really questions it. Western media certainly doesn't question it. And that's what's happening here with ICE. They are killing innocent people. And all of us, I mean, at least the people I've surrounded myself with. Alex Preddy, that's what you want your sons to be. He saw a woman get double shoved to the ground. And he went to assist her. And all of these men who struggle with their own masculinity and self confidence, inner child issues, emotionally stunted, probably deeply religiously abused and live in a lot of shame. That kind of man they cannot relate to. And so they want to beat it down.

5:01And it's utterly unsurprising once you open up your eyes to this, how there seems to be this network of propaganda and bad men aligning when you think of Benjamin Netanyahu and what he says about innocent Palestinians and what ICE is saying about innocent Americans. And the weaponization of anti-Semitism in this country has been escalating at such a rate. And you have these far right Zionist groups that are weaponizing anti-Semitism as a means to erode civil liberties. So they found themselves in bed with a political movement that really incubates unapologetically anti-Semitism. And so this was shocking when I saw this.

5:55Today is the Holocaust Remembrance Day. And the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Museum tweeted the following. Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to hear experience for political purposes is never acceptable. despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as anti-Semitism surges. And Shahi Ben-Efraim says, and I'm sorry, I know I butchered that name, how dare anyone use the memory of the Holocaust to warn against the rise of a fascist regime on the wings of boundless hatred against the other.

6:41Talk about inappropriate. So this is just, I guess now like never again does it mean anything so this is in response to Tim Walls talking about how many people are Anne Franks right now in the United States and I had historian Jason Stanley on the podcast yesterday and he brought a sense of humanity that has haunted me ever since he said it and his father had to hide from the Nazis in Germany in the 30s and it haunted him his entire life. And he said, think about all the people that are hiding in the United States right now. So he used his father's experience to humanize other people. And that's the lesson.

7:26That's why there is a United States Holocaust museum. That's why on the grounds of Dockow and Auschwitz, we built museums there and not what they're talking about doing in Gaza, which are real estate developments. So this moral collapse and brokenness where you have the worst of the worst aligning from Megyn Kelly to Benjamin Netanyahu, all of these groups of people that somehow think they know best. And the way that they're going to get that is to dehumanize and kill people and weaponize the Holocaust. That's what the Holocaust Museum just did. Only Anne Frank and Jewish people can learn the lesson of this, but other marginalized groups that are singled out can't.

8:20I want to also remind, it wasn't just Jewish people that Hitler targeted. He targeted all sorts of people, the bulk of them, of course, being Jewish, but what a disgrace for the United States Holocaust Museum when anti-Semitism is on the rise. And from what I can see, it's incubating with this group of DEI Nazis within the MAGA regime. And they're always pointing to liberals as being the cause or the problem to this because on the left, when you prioritize universal human rights. Like I'm unable to cherry pick that this person's life is more valuable to me than this Palestinian child's life, because it's not.

9:15To me, human rights are universal. You know, I think that everything that they have done in terms of weaponizing anti-Semitism, the way people are afraid to speak out in support of Palestinians or call it a genocide. It's been a propaganda campaign calling that anti-Semitism because it it hushes people. People don't want to venture into those spaces because they'll be declared anti-Semitic. And so I, like you, was really surprised about this because when I heard Tim Wall speak, that made me relate more. That made me think in terms of the humanity in all of this. People don't want to take their kids to school because they're scared, those kind of things.

10:04But I just think it goes to the propaganda that people are so scared to be called anti-Semitic that they refuse to even speak out. And I just look at the Israeli government like Donald Trump's government. the not all israelis support the in the united states and at home support benjamin netanyahu's government benjamin netanyahu's behavior in government to me is what puts anti-semitism on the rise because of how it neglects the human rights of everybody else and maggot you can live in america and support america and not support maggot so this whole thing kind of took me by surprise, the Holocaust Museum, the way they did this?

10:48Sadly, I wish that it would have taken me by surprise, but the weaponization of anti-Semitism was one of the first items on this regime's list. It was one of the first things they did with the shakedown of universities and telling American students that they couldn't protest a war and a genocide. And they saw on the left that people cared about Palestinians and people care that a genocide is happening with our taxpayer dollars. And it's one of the very first things they wanted to shame and squash, just like they've completely rewritten the whole BLM movement. Moving along, I just want to remind you that Islamophobia is also on the rise.

11:39And a lot of these statements that are made about Arabs, Mehdi Hassan does such a great job on Twitter, because you'll see somebody write something about the Muslims are terrorists, X, Y, Z. And he always retweets whoever tweets something horrifically Islamophobic and puts, replace Muslim with Jewish and reread it. Because there is an acceptability of Islamophobia that's just cooked in. And there's a reason that the ADL and a lot of far-right Zionist groups act like Zoran Mamdani is the worst thing that's ever happened. And it's because he is the proof that their propaganda is lies. Their propaganda is that all Muslims want jihad and blow shit up, etc.

12:33That's the propaganda that feeds into Islamophobia. You lump them all together to dehumanize the entire lot of them. Zoran fell prey to so many Islamophobic attacks. Even Democrats in the House and Senate did not come to his defense against attacks. And he took them all on, connected universal human rights and won. And I just want to play this clip because to me, in this moment of so many people not having moral clarity and having to word salad answers about ICE and murders and all of this shit, just listen to how simple this is. Just to first take a moment about Minneapolis. It is horrific what we have seen there.

13:22And I think that there are too many Americans who are being asked to not believe their own eyes, not believe their own ears, not believe their own realities. And people want to hear the truth. They want to see the truth. And that's why I described that as a murder, because there's no other way to watch that video and come to a different conclusion. And we know that the fear that so many are living with in Minneapolis, it's a fear that New Yorkers are also living with, the fear of being terrorized. And I will do everything in my power to ensure that we do not see that take place in New York City.

13:59And I've also said clearly to the president that these ICE raids, they are cruel. They are inhumane. They do nothing to serve the interests of public safety. I mean, it's just very crystal clear. He calls it a murder. He immediately talks about how cruel and inhumane and unnecessary these ICE raids are, where if we go to Chuck Schumer right now, let's take a gander at what Chuckles is up to. Put this up. Sahil Kapoor says, new Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens, heading into shutdown week. Schumer told Dems the caucus unified and message is restrain reform and restrict ice and david siorta says this is classic dems feed credulous liberal and media a cute alliterative slogan to hide the fact the party still won't support doing the actual right thing in this case shutting down the agency some shitty corrupt DC consultant got paid money to come up with this crap.

15:10Restrain, reform, restrict. And I said this in an earlier episode, and I'm going to say it again. All you need to know about how ineffective Hakeem Jeffries and Chuckles are is how they are so not the target of the right-wing media ecosystem. Nancy Pelosi, they were committed to hating her because she was effective because she put up a resistance. Whether you agree with her or not, she whipped votes. This is the most impotent leadership in the most dangerous time of my lifetime. I know that there have been other dangerous times in the civil rights movement, and I'm not trying to minimize that.

15:48I just wasn't born yet. And this leadership and the crowdsourcing of materials instead of of morals instead of listening to number one, your gut. And then number two, your base is just, it's so devastating to watch the ineptitude, the incompetence and the spineless nature of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuckle Schumer. Here's the thing. I love an alliteration too, But if you cannot with your own eyes, look and see a man was shot. I mean, point blank range, nine shots in the back and come away with restrain, recite like you shouldn't have to. That shouldn't be a thing. It should be an immediate. He was murdered.

16:41They're murdering people willy nilly with zero contemplation of the consequences. And I when I saw Chuck Schumer's tweet like the day it happened, I just thought you fucking suck. Why can't you look at that like so many Americans did and say this man was murdered by ICE? He wasn't doing anything wrong. He wasn't, you know, interfering. He was helping a fellow citizen. Renee Good. She was turning her car around like I don't understand why you don't understand that. And maybe maybe we're the problem. Maybe seeing somebody with a gun to their head. Maybe we're, you know, those of us that are watching it are the people that are like, oh, well, that's murder.

17:25Maybe you get to D.C. and you have to, you know, both sides. Bullshit. You don't need an alliteration to describe murder by a federal agent on video, for God's sakes. That's what I don't understand. I just I don't get it. All right, listener, you know, I just don't really enjoy cooking at all, but I like to eat well. I like to eat fresh and nobody tells you about weeknight dinner. It's the one thing that never goes away. Every single day around five, I'm like, there it is again. What am I going to do for dinner? And that's why I'm so happy that I've discovered HelloFresh. HelloFresh doesn't make you a better cook.

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18:55The problem is what they're trying to do is still give ICE funding. That's the problem. The problem is they crowdsourced this and somebody told Alyssa Slotkin and other Democrats, whatever you do, don't say abolish ICE because these spineless Democrats don't believe in anything. They call and go, Hey Deloitte, what's the polling on this? Oh, that's our position. Okay. Instead of sitting down and looking straight into the camera, just like Zoran just did, taking on corporations, taking on billionaires, having a spine, having integrity, having courage to stand up against injustice. And time and time again, this democratic leadership fails and they want to do this shell game with us.

19:46Okay, well, this is going to make us look like tough guys. And it's all of this performative political political shit and they're constantly chasing the moderate voter. And this is how moderates see you, Chuckles. This is how moderates see the ruling class of the Democratic Party. Put this up. Conservatives, I should kill people. Democrats, I should wear body cameras when killing people. That's how people see it. It's that simple. It is that simple. When And I heard Cory Booker talk about giving them body cams and more training. And then I did a Google search and found out that the shooter, the murderer of Renee Good was a veteran ICE guy and was the firearms instructor for ICE.

20:38I thought, well, that's not going to fucking work, Cory. Maybe your staff or your consulting group should have given you that information before you made your TikTok. talk. And then the same thing with the person that murdered Alex Preddy. And furthermore, it's not just that he's murdered, which is horrible. This administration is calling these people terrorists, and then they are protecting the murderers. There's no suspension. There's no investigation. These people tuck and roll out of town immediately and are protected by the federal government committing crimes because this is what they want.

21:15They want us to be scared, just like when we started Megyn Kelly. You don't want to get shot, don't go outside. This isn't land of the free, home of the brave. This is land of the unfree and home of the cowards. That's what MAGA is. These people are hypocrites to their core, morally depraved. They weaponize religion to act like they have the moral high ground. And they're the worst among us. The worst Americans are killing the best that this country has made. And the Megyn Kellys and the Holocaust museums, all of these people are providing comfort and a permission structure for people to get worse.

22:01But as heavy as all of that is, I want to remind everyone that this is the minority. This is the minority, and this is what they have to do to control the news cycle, because it's so wildly unpopular. But I can't change MAGA, and I can't change the administration, but certainly we should be able to apply pressure to the opposition party. and they should be absolutely hated and despised by MAGA. And they're not because they're impotent. They're hated by their own party because their approval rating is 18 % because we're doing reform, restrict, refrain, which is not helpful because what you're saying is we're still going to excuse what happened.

22:55It should be completely shut down. ICE is a Gestapo murdering citizens, covering up for murders, and it needs to be shut down. All right. Like, subscribe, comment. We will be back later with more news.

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