Hours after Alex Pretti was shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis at the weekend, Donald Trump was quick to blame the 37-year-old nurse for his own death.
Within two days, in the face of widespread outrage, including from within his own party, the US president made one of the sharpest reversals of his second term, backing off his most forceful immigration enforcement tactics and repudiating some of the most powerful members of his administration.
Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff and the architect of his sweeping immigration crackdown, had swiftly labelled Pretti a “would-be assassin” in the wake of the shooting.
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