{"id":431156,"date":"2026-01-26T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431156\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:37:09","slug":"minneapolis-shooting-live-updates-shooting-of-alex-pretti-intensifies-protests-trump-says-hes-sending-border-czar-tom-homan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431156\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis shooting live updates: Shooting of Alex Pretti intensifies protests; Trump says he&#8217;s sending border czar Tom Homan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">President Trump announced that he&#8217;ll be sending his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But the president is also continuing to try to draw attention away from the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti over the weekend by focusing on other issues in the state, including writing about the alleged fraud there and mentioning Rep. Ilhan Omar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I am sending Tom Homan to Minnesota tonight. He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there. Tom is tough but fair, and will report directly to me,&#8221; Trump wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"White House border czar Tom Homan listens to reporters during an interview, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Washington.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/18477355_012626-cc-ap-tom-homan-img.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>White House border czar Tom Homan listens to reporters during an interview, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trump went on to claim that the Department of Justice and Congress are investigating Omar, but as of now, House committees are investigating alleged fraud in Minnesota, not specifically Omar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">-ABC News&#8217; Hannah Demissie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump announced that he&#8217;ll be sending his border czar, Tom Homan, to Minnesota on Monday night. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[204574,4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-431156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-204574","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}