What Happened Today - 27 Jan 2026

What Happened Today – 27 January 2026
Bovino out...Homan In
Denmark Update
Leavitt’s press briefing yesterday…and all her lies
Kash and his latest “look at me” moment 
The lies – one example
White House is rattled
Mark Kelly Update
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Bovino out...Homan In
Bovino being “out” in Minnesota is basically a demotion and a face‑saving shove off the stage, not some heroic reassignment to go fix things elsewhere.  He’s being pulled out of Minneapolis after becoming the public face of this disaster—especially with his wild claim that Alex Pretti wanted to “massacre” agents, which nobody has actually backed up—and Trump clearly didn’t like how the whole thing was making him look.
 
They’re trying hard to spin it as “mutual” and insisting he still has his bigger national role, but the reality is: he’s getting yanked from the high‑profile Minnesota operation and sent back to his regular sector while someone more loyal/controllable steps in.  DHS also cut off his social media access after he went online arguing with lawmakers about the shooting, which tells you they see him as a liability, not a leader they want front and center.
On the “mass numbers” of agents: some of Bovino’s people are leaving with him, but this is not a full stand‑down or a mass walkout by agents.  Reporting says some Border Patrol agents tied to his surge are heading back to their home sectors, while others will stay in Minneapolis and keep working the federal crackdown, just under a different boss.  So no, this is not them suddenly growing a conscience and leaving en masse; it’s a controlled reshuffle to calm things down politically while keeping the machinery of enforcement running.
 
Homan coming in for Minnesota means Trump is swapping out a blunt-force Border Patrol commander for his longtime deportation guy and giving him direct line to the White House.  Homan is being put in charge of ICE operations on the ground in Minnesota, with the White House openly saying he’s there to “continue arresting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens” and to dig into alleged fraud tied to Somali community charities.  Behind the PR, it looks like a tactical pivot: Noem’s approach was body‑count deportations with Border Patrol in charge, Homan is more about “targeted” deportations and messaging it as going after criminals and fraud to blunt the outrage over federal agents killing people.
Bottom line in plain English: Bovino didn’t get promoted; he got pulled off the hot seat and sent back to his lane after making the situation worse and embarrassing the White House.  Homan showing up in Minnesota means Trump is doubling down on enforcement but trying to rebrand it as more “surgical” and politically palatable, not actually backing off the crackdown.
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Denmark Update
So on the tariffs, Trump basically walked himself back off that cliff for now, but he’s still obsessing over Greenland and acting like he’s “won” without actually getting what he wanted.  He threatened to slap 10% tariffs on Denmark and seven other European allies starting February 1 (jumping to 25% in June) unless they agreed to his “complete and total purchase of Greenland,” but after meeting NATO’s secretary general in Davos, he said he’s not going to push those specific tariffs “for now” because they’ve got a new framework to talk Arctic security instead.
 
Right now, those exact Denmark‑targeted tariffs are effectively on ice: he publicly backed off that precise threat after the Davos talks, saying the U.S. will reach its Greenland goals through a NATO/Arctic security deal, not by immediately smacking allies with new duties.  That said, he also keeps bragging that he “100%” could still use tariffs and hinting he’ll punish European countries if they don’t cooperate, so the threat is more in his back pocket than totally gone; markets and EU lawmakers are acting like the risk is dormant but not dead.
 
On the “wanting Denmark/Greenland” piece: he’s still fixated on Greenland as a U.S. possession, but reality has pushed him into pretending the NATO/Arctic framework gives him “everything we needed” even though Denmark and Greenland are crystal clear that sovereignty is not on the table.  Greenland’s leaders have drawn a bright red line that the land is not for sale and any deal must respect their autonomy, and Denmark is publicly saying you can talk bases, Arctic security, and minerals, but nobody is handing over the territory.
 
So the current status is basically: Trump is still talking like he’ll end up effectively controlling key chunks of Greenland through expanded U.S. bases, missile defenses, and resource deals under a NATO‑style framework, but there is no agreement that gives the U.S. actual sovereignty, and Denmark/Greenland keep slapping that down whenever he hints otherwise.  He’s rebranded from “I’m going to buy Greenland and tariff Denmark into submission” to “I’ve already won because this new Arctic deal gives me what I need,” even though the core demand—owning Greenland—remains blocked and highly unpopular in Europe and Greenland itself.
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Leavitt’s press briefing yesterday…and all her lies
Leavitt walked into yesterday’s press briefing and did what she always does: lied through her teeth for Trump, smeared Democrats, and totally ignored the fact that her boss turned the presidency into a $1.4 billion personal cash machine in 2025 alone.  She tried to repackage Biden‑era fraud prosecutions as if Democrats were “off getting rich” while Trump the “crime fighter” showed up to clean house, which is the exact opposite of what actually happened in the Minnesota child‑care mess she was clearly alluding to.
 
Here’s the rundown of her main lies and why they’re lies, in plain English:
•                              She pushed the line that Democrats under Biden were just getting rich off child‑care and food‑program fraud “all over the country,” implying nothing was done until Trump came along. That’s garbage. The big Minnesota scheme she and the rest of the MAGA crowd love to wave around—the Feeding Our Future scandal and related early‑childhood fraud—was investigated, charged, and prosecuted under Biden’s DOJ, with Garland’s team calling it the largest pandemic relief fraud case to date and dozens of people indicted before Trump ever got back in.  Trump’s crew is now acting like they “discovered” it when in reality they’re riding the headlines from work the prior administration already did and pretending it proves Democrats are uniquely corrupt.
•                              She framed “people getting rich” under Biden as some kind of exclusive Democratic cash‑grab while leaving out the tiny detail that Trump has personally hauled in at least $1.4 billion since returning to office, off licensing deals, foreign‑tied ventures, legal settlements, and even a foreign‑funded jet he’s using like his own personal Air Force One.  Multiple investigations and editorials lay out how those earnings are shot through with conflicts of interest—policy moves that just happen to sync up with where the money’s coming from—so her moral grandstanding about “Biden corruption” while ignoring Trump’s profit presidency is pure bad‑faith propaganda.
•                              She leaned into this idea that Trump’s DOJ and ICE are finally cracking down on fraud that Democrats supposedly let run wild. In reality, the core Minnesota fraud cases she’s hinting at were opened years ago, with the bulk of arrests and convictions happening before Trump’s second term, and even some of the high‑profile trial and juror‑bribery stuff she and other surrogates love to cite occurred and were charged under Biden.  So when she waves this around as proof that “Democrats got rich and looked away,” she’s straight‑up rewriting the timeline.
•                              When she tries to make it sound like “Democrats under Biden enriched themselves while everyday Americans suffered,” the record doesn’t support that blanket smear the way she sells it. The high‑dollar scam she’s pointing at involved a mix of nonprofit operators and middlemen, many of whom were already being pursued by federal prosecutors before Trump walked back in, and there’s no evidence that “Democrats as a party” were pocketing that cash—it’s a talking point, not a fact.
 
Meanwhile, the part she’ll never say in that room: Trump’s personal haul—at least $1.4 billion in a single year—is being driven by exactly the kind of self‑dealing and influence‑peddling that MAGA pretends to hate when it can be pinned on anyone else.  You’ve got foreign governments and companies with business in front of the U.S. shoveling money into Trump‑linked ventures, big media and tech firms paying huge settlements and then seeing regulatory doors open, and a president using the office as a profit engine while his press secretary screams about “Biden corruption” and “Democrats getting rich.”
 
Leavitt stood up there, lied about who actually busted the fraud she’s fear‑mongering about, tried to smear Democrats as the only ones getting rich, and conveniently skipped over the fact that her boss made billionaire‑level money off the presidency in one year while pretending he’s the victim and the sheriff at the same time.
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Kash and his latest “look at me” moment 
Kash is doing what Kash always does: running his mouth way ahead of the facts to make peaceful protesters sound like some shadowy terrorist operation, and right now there is zero public evidence backing up his “groups are funding this” storyline.  He went on right‑wing media and said the FBI has “identified groups and individuals responsible for financing these protests” and claimed the Minnesota protests and neighborhood watch efforts “are not happening organically,” but when you actually look at the reporting, even friendly outlets admit he offered no documentation, no names, no charges, nothing concrete—just vibes and scare talk.
 
What we do know is this: people in Minnesota are using Signal chats and community networks to watch ICE and FBI movements, warn neighbors, and coordinate protests after federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti.  Patel says the FBI is “investigating” those chats to see if anyone endangered agents and claims there’s “substantial progress” on tracking supposed funders, but again, that’s just him talking; there are no public indictments for some grand protest‑funding conspiracy, only a handful of arrests tied to specific alleged crimes like stealing gear from an FBI vehicle or a chaotic church protest that DOJ is trying to jam into their new, bloated “domestic terrorism” definition.
 
So yeah, your read is right: this looks like bullshit in the classic MAGA sense—take normal organizing (mutual aid, bail funds, community watch, local orgs renting buses, unions helping people show up), slap a dark “who’s funding this?” label on it, and use that to justify repression and surveillance.  They’re trying to flip the script from “federal agents keep killing Minnesotans” to “beware the sinister left‑wing machine bankrolling unrest,” without actually putting facts on the table for anyone to test.  Until they can show real evidence instead of Kash’s podcast bravado, his “groups funding the protests” line is just another scare tactic to criminalize people who are furious that ICE and FBI keep leaving bodies on the ground.
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The lies – one example
This past week has been a masterclass in how every side twists the same brutal reality into their own movie, and how regular people are getting played from all angles.
 
On the far‑right side, outlets like Fox are selling a story where Alex Pretti is basically the author of his own death and the real victims are the poor federal agents and “law‑abiding Americans.” They call Alex an “agitator,” lean hard on encrypted chats and “far‑left networks” to imply some shadowy operation put him “in harm’s way,” and frame the protests as manufactured chaos run by socialists and outside organizers rather than a community losing its mind because feds keep killing people.  They downplay or ignore the videos that undercut the official story, repeat DHS talking points almost word‑for‑word, and push Trump’s “paid agitators and insurrectionists” line like it’s established fact instead of a smear.  In that universe, the takeaway is simple: trust Trump, trust ICE, fear the protesters.
 
On the far‑left/activist side, places like Democracy Now and movement media make it very clear who Alex was—an ICU nurse, a vet’s caregiver, a neighbor—and they call this what it is: an execution by an unaccountable federal force dropped into a city that never asked for them.  Their focus is on general strikes, community grief, and the pattern—Renee Good, Alex Pretti, untrained federal agents, Trump threatening the Insurrection Act—and they treat federal claims like “he forced our hand” as propaganda to be picked apart, not facts to be assumed.  That lens is much closer to what people on the ground are living, but it can still flatten things into a pure “feds evil, locals righteous” narrative where the messiness of human behavior, conflicting evidence, and long‑term strategy gets pushed to the side.
 
Then you’ve got more independent and straight‑reporting outfits—local stations, some national outlets, investigative pieces—that are trying to reconstruct the timeline, not write the script for you, and even that gets weaponized.  They show the vigils, the conflicting videos, the fact that DHS blocked state investigators, the judge having to step in just to keep evidence from disappearing, and the bipartisan senators saying, “What the hell is DHS doing?”  They also show business leaders begging for de‑escalation, not because they suddenly grew a conscience, but because this crackdown is bad for stability and investment.  Those stories are messy and complicated, and because they don’t cleanly fit either tribe’s talking points, both sides cherry‑pick one sentence here or there and ignore the parts that prove them wrong.
 
This is how the lying works: the far right strips away Alex’s humanity and the state’s violence so they can sell you fear of “left mobs” and justify whatever Trump and ICE decide to do next.  The far left focuses on state violence (correctly) but sometimes compresses everything into a morality play that leaves little room to talk about strategy, risk, or internal problems without sounding like you’re helping the enemy.  And a lot of the so‑called neutral press is stuck in the middle, doing real work—court orders, lawsuits, timelines—but their detailed reporting gets swallowed up and repackaged by partisan media that only lift the pieces that serve their line.
 
So Americans aren’t just being lied to once; they’re being fed three different realities: one where Trump’s shock troops are heroic lawmen, one where the community is in a constant state of righteous uprising with no internal contradictions, and one where everything is “both sides tensions rise” while an actual occupation and body count keep growing.  And under all of that noise is the simple truth: a federal operation that never should have been in Minneapolis keeps killing people, the government is fighting in court to keep control of the evidence, and every media machine is more interested in winning the narrative war than making sure Alex Pretti and Renee Good get real justice instead of becoming just another talking point.
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White House is rattled
Here’s what’s actually happening. When federal agents killed Alex Pretti on top of Renee Good, they expected the usual MAGA script to hold—smear the victim, scream “law and order,” and ride out the outrage. Instead, they hit a wall inside their own coalition. Gun‑rights groups and hardcore Second Amendment people are furious that the administration basically said, “If you’re legally carrying and cops decide you’re a threat, you’re fair game,” and they forced the White House to walk back the “he had it coming” line.  Bystander videos, plus the fact Alex had a legal permit and never appears to draw his weapon, shredded the official story and made the “he was an assassin/domestic terrorist” talk look like a straight‑up lie.
 
You can see the panic in how fast they’re scrambling: Trump suddenly softens his tone, Leavitt stops repeating the “domestic terrorist” smear, Bovino gets yanked, Homan gets dropped in, and they start talking about “letting the investigation play out” instead of “gunman neutralized.”  Politico and NBC are already quoting insiders saying, “It’s starting to turn against us,” and that Trump is “concerned” the Minnesota operation is politically unsustainable, which is basically staff‑speak for: this is hurting him with people he thought he had locked down.
 
On top of that, Republicans who normally swallow everything are breaking ranks—calling for a real investigation, warning that ICE and DHS credibility is on the line, and hinting that these operations need to be paused or pulled back.  Governors like Phil Scott and even friendly figures like Greg Abbott are talking about “recalibrating” and “failure of coordination” instead of just chanting Build The Wall.  That’s what the “freaking out” rumor really is: the inner circle is watching support fray at the edges—in the gun crowd, in parts of the GOP, in the polls—and they’re trying to put the fire out without actually changing their core agenda.
 
What should we be worried about? Whenever Trump feels cornered, his instinct isn’t to become a better person; it’s to escalate, distract, or find a new enemy. His approval is sliding—he’s now roughly 12–14 points underwater overall, with immigration at a second‑term low—and he’s already had to back off other stunts, like the Greenland tariff threat, after backlash.  That mix—slipping numbers, friendly fire from his own side, and visible public anger—makes him more likely to double down on something else: harsher rhetoric, new crackdowns in a different city, some “emergency” security move, or a fresh foreign or domestic scapegoat to rally the base and change the subject.
 
Is this “the fall of Trump”? Not yet. His approval is bad but not collapse‑level, Republicans are grumbling but not in full revolt, and the White House is already trying to rebrand Minnesota as “we’re just targeting the worst criminals” instead of admitting the whole operation is rotten.  What is real is that the armor is cracking: they’ve been forced to walk back lies about Alex, reshuffle their people, and deal with open criticism from corners that usually worship him.
 
So in your words: yes, they’re spooked—because the bodies in Minnesota, the videos, and the hypocrisy on guns and “law and order” are finally bleeding into Trump’s own base and his numbers.  But a wounded Trump doesn’t quietly fade; he lashes out. The opening is there—for courts, states, and the streets to push back harder while he’s off‑balance—but nobody should assume this is over until he’s actually out of power and the machinery he built has been dismantled, not just rebranded.
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Mark Kelly Update
Trump’s people are still absolutely coming for Mark Kelly, they’ve just shifted from screaming on TV to grinding him down through paperwork and courts.  Hegseth has formally censured him and kicked off a process to knock down his retired Navy rank and cut his pension, all because Kelly went on video telling troops they are obligated to refuse illegal orders from Trump.  They dropped the fantasy court‑martial talk, but this rank‑and‑pension hit is deliberate: it’s a warning shot to every retired officer that if you speak against this White House, they can and will reach back into your record.
 
Kelly is fighting back hard. He’s sued the Pentagon and Hegseth in federal court, calling this what it is—political punishment and a First Amendment violation dressed up as “discipline”—and a long list of retired generals and admirals have jumped in on his side because they know if Trump and Hegseth win here, no one in the retired ranks will feel safe saying “don’t follow unlawful orders” ever again.  His lawyers just filed for a preliminary injunction to freeze the demotion and censure while the case plays out.
 
Timeline‑wise, the Pentagon’s own 45‑day clock started around January 5, which puts their internal deadline in the February 19–20 window for a decision on whether to officially downgrade his rank and cut his pay.  So right now, two trains are running at once: Hegseth’s machine trying to finish the punishment by late February, and Kelly’s court case trying to slam the brakes before that date.  What happens around February 19–20 is critical—if a judge hasn’t stepped in by then and the Pentagon goes through with it, they’ll try to normalize this as just “administrative,” when it’s really about making an example out of someone who told the military it doesn’t have to be Trump’s weapon.
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Keep using your voices, protest peacefully – the ship IS turning.  
 
Speak Truth!  Keep speaking TRUTH!  
Don’t Give up the Ship!
 
Go Cause Good Trouble, with Your Elbows Up!
 
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