Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis is being criminally investigated by the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) for obstructing DHS and ICE agents in their mission to find, detain, and deport illegal aliens and fraudsters in his sanctuary city, and he had a total temper tantrum freakout about it on CNN.
Such came when Mayor Frey appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” program with host Jake Tapper on Sunday, January 18, and claimed that he is being investigated by the Trump Administration and DOJ not because he did anything illegal, but because he holds a different opinion than members of the administration do.
Kicking off that entertaining rant about what is going on, Mayor Frey ludicrously insisted that support for illegal aliens is part of what makes America great, saying, “I never thought in a million years that we would be invaded by our own federal government. Of course, there’s different perspectives when a different party gets sworn into the White House. Of course, there are different ideologies throughout America. That’s part of what makes our country great.”
Adding to that, the angry mayor then insisted, again falsely, that the only reason he is being investigated is that he has a different opinion than President Trump, ignoring how Minnesota has refused to go along with federal law and help the immigration enforcement effort. He said, “But you don’t get investigated for having a different opinion. You don’t have militarized troops deployed to a city for having a different perspective, or because a city happened to vote for the opposite party.”
Still not done with his rant, the mayor insisted that it is downright un-American for President Trump to be so focused on enforcing federal immigration law, saying, “That may be what happens in other countries, but it doesn’t happen here. Here. This is America, and we’ve got to be standing up for these American values.”
Chiming in, Jake Tapper asked about the allegations and the obstruction that Frey and Walz are being charged with, saying, “So you just alluded to the fact that the Justice Department said it’s investigating you and Democratic Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota over alleged obstruction of federal law enforcement. Have you received any sort of official notice or subpoena? Are you even aware of what the specific allegations against you might be?”
Responding, Frey again clutched his pearls about facing consequences, saying, “No, we have not received anything. I’m not aware of specific allegations, but, if it were true, the targeting would be the product of performing one of the most basic responsibilities and obligations that I have as mayor, which is to speak on behalf of our great city, speak on behalf of our constituents, and that the federal government would be going after me because of that speech should be deeply concerning, not just for people in Minneapolis, but for anybody throughout the country.”
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Continuing with the tiresome rant, he insisted that obstructing federal immigration enforcement efforts is his First Amendment right, saying, “And of course, we’ve seen this before, whether it’s me, Governor Walz, Senator Slotkin or Senator Kelly. This is happening on the regular, and it’s happening because people speak, speak up. The First Amendment speech is not something that we negotiate away in this country.”
He concluded, “First Amendment speech is something that we stand up for, whether you agree with it or not, whether you find it abhorrent or not. It’s one of the most basic and foundational rights that we have. And thankfully, in Minneapolis, we stand up and value First Amendment, speech that’s just kind of baked into who we are.”
Watch him here: