White House Forced Into Damage Control Mode by Angry Ousted Border Chief
Gregory Bovino’s public war on his old bosses is forcing the Trump administration to defend a deportation drive he says isn’t brutal enough.
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Donald Trump’s disgraced former Border Patrol commander has put the White House on the defensive with a series of public kicks in the teeth over what he says is his old bosses chickening out on immigration.
Gregory Bovino, 56, was the public face of President Trump’s first-year crackdown. But then came the disaster in Minneapolis—in part caused by the presence of Bovino and his “Green Machine,” senior Department of Homeland Security officials have told PunchUp—which led TACO Trump and his advisers to wobble.
He was yanked out in late January, after his self-styled “Green Machine” agents shot dead VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti, 37, 17 days after unarmed mom Renee Nicole Good, also 37, was killed in similar circumstances by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Bovino retired at the end of March, with PunchUp reporting that former Customs and Border Protection colleagues now treat him as “nuclear.”
Trump’s team may have hoped Bovino would go quietly. But he’s instead going scorched earth on his successors for not being tough enough on immigration.
