Don't be fooled by Trump's Minnesota shakeup: legal expert

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By Matthew Chapman
Published January 26, 2026 7:32 PM ET

After weeks of mounting tensions, protests, and a brutal Department of Homeland Security crackdown on Minneapolis that has left multiple people dead, President Donald Trump's controversial Border Patrol enforcer Greg Bovino is reportedly being ousted from his job.

But don't expect personnel changes to send a meaningful message to Border Patrol or Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents that they should stop using their current heavy-handed tactics, former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann warned MS NOW's Ari Melber on Monday.

"Your views on this tonight?" asked Melber, himself an attorney by training.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-minnesota-2675035718/?utm_source=front-sidebar-watch

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"When you have a president who very much is a unitary executive and everyone knows he is controlling all of this, you really can't just, you know, put lipstick on a pig and say it has nothing to do with me," said Weissmann. "And so changing around who is there in Minnesota is not changing the policies. It's not changing the license that was given to ICE that caused Renee Good to be killed. The reaction to that murder was a license to then have what happened to Mr. Pretti."


Professor Weissman is spot on................

[msongs]

1. bovino was doing the right thing, he just got too uppity and blocked 47's spotlight

[FHRRK]

6. I think it has more to do with funding

The Shitstain wants that money so he can skim off a couple billion.

He gave all the Repukes and unfortunately a few Dems cover to approve the budget.

No one should approve a dime over last years budget for DHS or ICE, in fact leadership should propose at least a 20 percent cut for this year while everything is reviewed. Add to it no one in the current admin makes the determination on who gets cut that goes to an independent committee with equal Dems and pukes, with a chair who is a Dem and is the deciding vote in ties.

Oh and John Fetterman is banned from even talking to anyone on the committee.

[yaesu]

2. More taco moves. nt

[struggle4progress]

3. Good riddance -- but ICE killed Renee

[Luvcatz14]

4. A lady lost part of her hand today

I’m guessing this isn’t ending anytime soon! 😡

[leftstreet]

5. Meh, I don't think Trump's in charge anymore

Miller, Wiles, Theil, Vance and God knows who else

They stick Trump in a corner and tell him to work on his ballroom plans and think about Greenland, until they need him to make statements

They know they fucked up, so out comes Trump

[Cha]

7. Not for a Second. I said on another thread...

that Bovino was being put out to pasture as a Scapegoat for the Head Nazi inside the WH.

[UTUSN]

8. K&R