The videos plainly refuted the falsehoods instantly contrived by Trump administration officials. Pretti, as it happened, had been legally carrying a gun in his waistband, which there is no evidence he tried to wield. Despite the facts apparent from multiple videos, Donald Trump declared that “ICE patriots” had to “protect themselves”, and that the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, and Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, were “inciting insurrection”, attempting to assert a predicate for his invocation of the Insurrection Act.