"Does he know what Fort Sumter was, or do you think somebody wrote it out for him?"
"Governor Tim Walz recently likened the conflict on the ground to Fort Sumter, sort of implying that this is the beginning of the Civil War. Do you agree with that characterization? Do you feel like there's a civil war?" a reporter asked Trump.
"Does he know what Fort Sumter was, or do you think somebody wrote it out for him? This is, I was elected on law and order. I was elected on a strong border. We had a border that allowed 25 million people to come in. Many were murderers," the president added.
During an interview, Walz compared the ICE operations and the tensions rising with residents of Minnesota to a "Fort Sumter" moment, which is the location where the Civil War began in the United States in April of 1861.
"I mean, is this a Fort Sumter?" He said, adding, "It’s a physical assault. It’s an armed force that’s assaulting, that’s killing my constituents, my citizens." Walz, in the same interview, also brought up the abolitionist John Brown. The historically prominent figure stormed a federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia in 1859. "Guns pointed, American at American is certainly not where we want to go," Walz said during the interview.
The comments from Walz and Trump also come after the shooting of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, both in disputed circumstances. In the case of Renee Good, she was running her car into an ICE agent when he fired at her, killing the anti-ICE agitator. Pretti, who has a history of getting violent with immigration enforcement, was resisting arrest when an agent appeared to take a gun from his waistband before someone yelled "gun" and then Border Patrol agents shot Pretti to death in response.
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