Trump reportedly says Alex Pretti had a 'dangerous and unpredictable gun'
In a telephone interview with the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, President Donald Trump reportedly asserted that Alex Pretti, the man killed Saturday in Minneapolis by a federal agent, was carrying a "dangerous and unpredictable gun" but promised that the administration was reviewing everything about the shooting.
The president also reportedly declined to say whether he thought the officer who killed Pretti this weekend acted appropriately, according to the Journal.
“We’re looking, we’re reviewing everything and will come out with a determination,” Trump said.
Trump reportedly then went on to criticize Pretti for carrying a weapon at a protest.
“I don’t like any shooting. I don’t like it,” he said. “But I don’t like it when somebody goes into a protest and he’s got a very powerful, fully loaded gun with two magazines loaded up with bullets also. That doesn’t play good either.”
The president reportedly asserted that Pretti had a “very dangerous gun, a dangerous and unpredictable gun,” and added, “It’s a gun that goes off when people don’t know it.”
On the question of how much longer federal authorities would continue to operate in Minnesota, Trump reportedly said, “At some point we will leave.”
“We’ve done, they’ve done a phenomenal job,” he said, without offering a time frame for when that would occur. Asked if agents would be leaving Minnesota, Trump reportedly said, “We’ll leave a different group of people there for the financial fraud.”
-ABC News' Nicholas Kerr







