Happy Tuesday, Patriots! |
President Donald Trump is reshaping the federal response in Minnesota following days of unrest tied to immigration enforcement. |
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino is leaving the state, along with some agents, as the White House deploys border czar Tom Homan to take direct control on the ground. Trump says Homan will report straight to him and ensure operations remain firm, fair, and effective. |
The move follows the fatal shooting of nurse Alex Pretti and escalating clashes with anti-ICE agitators. While critics celebrate Bovino's exit, the administration insists this is a strategic shift — not a retreat. |
Trump made the message clear: enforcement will continue, law enforcement will be protected, and a massive Minnesota fraud investigation is just getting started. |
Kick off your week with today's top Trump news! |
—Nick |
In today's email:
🔔 Trump Demands Minnesota Chaos to End Today
🇮🇷 Trump Says Iran Willing to Negotiate
💰 Trump Not Budging on Democrats' DHS Funding Demands
⚖️ Trump Warns New York Magazine
🛡️ Trump's NATO Warning Pushes Europe to Defend Itself |
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✅TRACKING TRUMP✅ |
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters following President Trump's phone call with Governor Tim Walz that Trump wants the resistance and chaos in Minnesota to end immediately. Before Leavitt laid out the administration's demands and four-point plan to restore law and order during the White House press briefing, she said that Democrat leaders in the state with sanctuary city policies have actively defied federal immigration law and the will of the people. |
Leavitt said that Customs and Border Protection would not be needed to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota if Walz and Mayor Frey adopt common sense cooperative measures that have already been implemented in nearly every single other state across the country. ICE and local law enforcement can peacefully work together, as they are effectively doing in so many other states and jurisdictions. Trump is also calling for Congress to pass legislation to put an end to sanctuary cities that have enabled this crisis to escalate.
Check out all the latest developments and more below! |
| | | | 🇮🇷 Trump Says Iran Willing to Negotiate
Trump said Iran appears to be looking to negotiate with the United States amid a growing military buildup in the Middle East. The president suggested in an interview with Axios that Tehran had reached out on numerous occasions and wants to make a deal. Any potential agreement would require Tehran to remove all enriched uranium, cap its long-range missile stockpile, change its support for regional proxy forces, and cease independent uranium enrichment. The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier entered CENTCOM waters in the Indian Ocean amid increasing threats from Iran. Trump described the situation with Iran as in flux and pointed to the arrival of what he called a big armada next to Iran, bigger than Venezuela. | 💰 Trump Not Budging on Democrats' DHS Funding Demands
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is threatening that Democrats will vote against the massive federal spending bill set to get a vote this week unless funding for the Department of Homeland Security is stripped out and renegotiated. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reaffirmed that the administration supports the bipartisan appropriations package and wants to see it passed without changes. Leavitt pointed out that the DHS funding portion would also allocate dollars to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, not just the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement spending that Democrats object to. Even if Senate Democrats did prevail, it is virtually guaranteed that Congress would miss the Friday shutdown deadline at this point. Any changes to the spending package would require it to return to the House to be considered again, despite it passing the lower chamber last week. | ⚖️ Trump Warns New York Magazine
President Trump told a New York Magazine writer that he would sue the magazine if it wrote a bad story about his health during an Oval Office interview with doctors from Walter Reed about his fitness. Trump told the writer to sit down and warned that if they were going to write a bad story about his health, he would sue New York Magazine. White House communications director Steven Cheung said Trump is in perfect physical and cognitive health as evidenced by his nonstop work on behalf of the American people. Leavitt recently used similar language to threaten CBS News after the president sat for an interview that the network considered editing. Trump previously sued CBS News over a 60 Minutes interview the network conducted with former Vice President Kamala Harris, with the suit settling ahead of parent company Paramount's merger with Skydance Media. | 🛡️ Trump's NATO Warning Pushes Europe to Defend Itself
Trump has openly challenged the assumption that United States protection of NATO allies should be taken for granted, repeatedly warning NATO allies that American backing cannot be assumed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a blunt warning to Europe about its self-defense in Davos, arguing that the continent still is not ready to stand on its own without United States backing. Barry Posen, a professor of political science at MIT, said Trump was right to argue that Europeans have been slow to fix up their forces as the situation changed with Russia pulling itself back together and becoming more demanding and threatening. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte insisted that Europe is incapable of defending itself without United States military support and would have to more than double current military spending targets to be able to do so. European officials have warned that boosting military spending to meet NATO commitments would strain already tight budgets where pensions and social benefits account for a large share of public spending. |
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🔔 Trump Demands Minnesota Chaos to End Today 🔔 |
A federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration in a ruling that blocks restrictions on tactics being used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while dealing with anti-ICE agitators in Minnesota. The ruling by the three-judge panel 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals put a stay on a lower court ruling that prevented officers from arresting, detaining, pepper-spraying or retaliating against protesters in Minneapolis without probable cause as anti-ICE agitators continue to confront authorities carrying out enforcement operations. US District Judge Kate Menendez had sided with protesters and issued a preliminary injunction after finding the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on claims that federal agents violated their First and Fourth Amendment rights during protests and observation of ICE activity. |
Attorney General Pam Bondi said liberal judges tried to handcuff federal law enforcement officers, restrict their actions, and put their safety at risk when responding to violent agitators before the DOJ secured a full stay from the 8th Circuit. The lawsuit alleged that federal authorities violated the civil rights of six protesters through incidents in which ICE agents allegedly used pepper spray, pointed weapons, made arrests and conducted traffic stops against individuals who were peacefully observing or protesting immigration enforcement. The appeals court found that videos showed observers and protesters engaging in a wide range of conduct, some of it peaceful but much of it not, along with federal agents responding in various ways to the confrontations. |
President Trump said he had a very good telephone conversation with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and announced that border czar Tom Homan will meet with him to continue discussions on ending the unrest. Frey offered his own account of the call, outlining his position that Operation Metro Surge needs to end while expressing how much Minneapolis has benefited from immigrant communities. |
The president agreed that the present situation cannot continue, with some federal agents beginning to leave the area while Frey continues pushing for the rest involved in the operation to go. The mayor made clear that Minneapolis will continue to cooperate with state and federal law enforcement on real criminal investigations but will not participate in what he called unconstitutional arrests of neighbors or enforcement of federal immigration law. Frey said violent criminals should be held accountable for the crimes they commit, not based on where they are from, confirming he plans to meet with Homan to discuss next steps. |
The White House laid out Trump's demands for restoring law and order in Minnesota, beginning with a requirement that state and local officials turn over illegal aliens who are incarcerated or have active warrants or known criminal histories. Trump is calling on local law enforcement to assist federal authorities by transferring custody of arrested illegal aliens and helping locate suspects wanted for crimes. |
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized Walz and Frey for what she described as encouraging anti-ICE agitators, arguing this contributed to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti who were killed by law enforcement this month. Leavitt said Trump spoke with Governor Walz about the crisis and emphasized the administration's desire to let cops be cops as authorities respond to the ongoing unrest. The president's call with Walz came hours before his conversation with Frey, signaling increased federal engagement with state and local leaders as the administration works to resolve the standoff. |
Trump deployed border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota as federal officials work to stabilize the situation and restore order after days of violent confrontations. Anti-ICE agitators were arrested outside a Minnesota hotel as police declared an unlawful assembly that was no longer peaceful, with protesters throwing items at officers and refusing to disperse. The administration has made clear it will not tolerate continued resistance to federal immigration enforcement operations, warning that authorities will use all available legal tools to protect agents and enforce the law. |
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino is expected to leave Minnesota as Homan takes over direct oversight of the operation, representing a shift in strategy as the administration attempts to de-escalate tensions while maintaining enforcement pressure. The president's direct engagement with both Frey and Walz signals the administration's commitment to resolving the crisis through a combination of federal pressure and cooperation with more willing local partners. |
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🍟 Quick Bite News 🍟 |
🏈 The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that ICE agents will conduct enforcement operations at Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara on February 8. DHS adviser Corey Lewandowski said enforcement is a directive from the president and will not be paused for the Super Bowl. Trump said he would be boycotting the Super Bowl while slamming the halftime show choice of Bad Bunny and Green Day. |
🦠 The World Health Organization said the United States withdrawal from the agency makes both the United States and the world less safe. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the reasons cited for the United States decision to withdraw from WHO are untrue. The United States formally completed its withdrawal from WHO ending nearly 78 years of membership following the required one-year notice period under international rules. |
⚖️ Department of War press secretary Kingsley Wilson said being a United States senator does not protect Senator Mark Kelly from the Uniform Code of Military Justice and from acts that are frankly disgusting and traitorous. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a formal letter of censure against Kelly for his participation in a video telling service members they have the right to refuse to execute illegal orders. Kelly has 30 days to submit a response and the retirement grade determination process directed by Secretary Hegseth will be completed within 45 days. |
🔫 Morgan Morrow, a librarian at the Jackson County Public Library in West Virginia, was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat after allegedly recruiting people on social media to assassinate Trump. The video featured a caption saying surely a sniper with a terminal illness cannot be a big ask out of 343 million. Jackson County Sheriff RH Mellinger said making threatening statements about any public official is illegal according to West Virginia state code. |
🇷🇺 Russia's ambassador to Caracas said Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro was betrayed, allowing United States forces to capture him and his wife Cilia Flores. Russian Ambassador Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov said Russia knows the names of these betrayers who have fled Venezuela and worked for American intelligence. The ambassador asserted that Maduro could have been betrayed by Venezuelan law enforcement and the political elite, but did not disclose any names. |
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