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sheshe2

(96,340 posts)
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 03:41 AM 1 hr ago

John Fetterman is only Dem senator to stay silent on Alex Pretti shooting - even his wife slammed 'terror'

John Fetterman is being slammed for seemingly staying silent about the killing of a U.S. citizen by a Border Patrol agent despite his wife already releasing a statement.

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Gisele Barreto-Fetterman released a statement hours after the shooting, revealing that she had lived in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant for over a decade. "This now-daily violence is not 'law and order,'" she wrote.

"It is terror inflicted on people who contribute, love, and build their lives here. It's devastatingly cruel and un-American."

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"How bad is this? Even our state’s Republican senator has released a statement on Pretti’s killing," Boyle wrote. "Fetterman continues to be an embarrassment to PA."


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-fetterman-is-only-dem-senator-to-stay-silent-on-alex-pretti-shooting-even-his-wife-slammed-terror/ar-AA1UYOSB
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John Fetterman is only Dem senator to stay silent on Alex Pretti shooting - even his wife slammed 'terror' (Original Post) sheshe2 1 hr ago OP
"ICE agents are just doing their job, and I fully support that..." flvegan 1 hr ago #1
Yes, he did. sheshe2 1 hr ago #3
No excuse but I think he could be under severe threats from the mob boss and gang. FarPoint 29 min ago #6
Oh, It's BAD. Fetterman did relese a Cha 1 hr ago #2
Thanks for the link, Cha. sheshe2 1 hr ago #4
I'm starting to think ICE has nothing to do with illegal immigrants. Aussie105 33 min ago #5

flvegan

(65,882 posts)
1. "ICE agents are just doing their job, and I fully support that..."
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 03:53 AM
1 hr ago

Wasn't that a very recent quote of his? Maybe not. I might be misremembering.

But if it is, fuckface doesn't seem so "silent" about much of anything.

sheshe2

(96,340 posts)
3. Yes, he did.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 04:06 AM
1 hr ago
Watch: John Fetterman Turns on His Own Party Over 'Inappropriate and Outrageous' Treatment of ICE

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania turned on his own party Wednesday, saying that the radical rhetoric being used against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents by liberals is uncalled for -- and wrong.

"Absolutely unacceptable, terrible, awful," he told Fox News Capitol Hill producer Tyler Olson, when asked about the recent ambush at a Texas ICE facility.

Fetterman added, "ICE Agents are just doing their job, and I fully support that. And for me, and people in my party might want to abolish it or treat them as criminals or anything, that's just inappropriate and outrageous. ICE performs an important job for our nation."

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Fetterman added, "ICE Agents are just doing their job, and I fully support that. And for me, and people in my party might want to abolish it or treat them as criminals or anything, that's just inappropriate and outrageous. ICE performs an important job for our nation."


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-fetterman-is-only-dem-senator-to-stay-silent-on-alex-pretti-shooting-even-his-wife-slammed-terror/ar-AA1UYOSB

FarPoint

(14,589 posts)
6. No excuse but I think he could be under severe threats from the mob boss and gang.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 04:53 AM
29 min ago

I certainly can be wrong and basically totally clueless...

Cha

(317,445 posts)
2. Oh, It's BAD. Fetterman did relese a
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 03:57 AM
1 hr ago

statement saying ...

Fetterman: "ICE agents are just doing their job"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220967566

and his wife had that statement.. Unreal.

TY, she

sheshe2

(96,340 posts)
4. Thanks for the link, Cha.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 04:09 AM
1 hr ago

Just doing their job.... murdering citizens of the UNITED STATES who did nothing to them.

Aussie105

(7,685 posts)
5. I'm starting to think ICE has nothing to do with illegal immigrants.
Mon Jan 26, 2026, 04:48 AM
33 min ago

A simple summary of their behavior is that it is intended to intimidate people.
Nothing more, nothing less.

The occasional 'stepping over the line' though, like shooting someone, isn't supposed to be part of their job description.
When it happens - and it will happen again - the apologists and explainers are too keen to justify and morph the events into something we are supposed to swallow and do some victim blaming.

Where do these ICE clowns come from?
Don't they have family who know what they do?

Anyhow, Hitler found plenty of volunteers to join the Gestapo, and Russia never had a shortage of KGB agents, so the evil is out there.
This is no different.

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