Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“‘Nobody in the White House, including President Trump, wants to see people getting hurt or killed in America’s streets.’ So claimed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday, apparently as part of a strategy to separate the president from the second killing in Minnesota perpetrated by federal immigration agents. The plan also included demoting Greg Bovino, who held the title of Commander At Large at the U.S. Border Patrol, and removing him from his role as head of Minnesota’s mass deportation initiative, ‘Operation Metro Surge.’ Leavitt is wrong. Trump has a well-documented record of expressing his desire for protesters and immigrants to get hurt, and to get hurt by law enforcement officials. Bovino’s fall, after a fact-challenged defense of his trigger-happy agents, may provide some short-term schadenfreude. But let’s not allow Trump to get away with scapegoating Bovino.” (01/28/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/bovino-the-fall-guy-for-the-violence-trump-wanted/