Closing summary
This ends our live coverage of another day in the life of the second Trump administration, but we will be back at it on Friday. Here are the latest developments:
Daniel Rosen, the Trump-appointed US attorney in Minnesota, said in a court filing that charges should be dropped against an immigrant who was shot by a federal immigration officer last month because “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the account of the incident from federal officers.
Sensitive intelligence that a whistleblower has accused Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, of mishandling concerned a report from the National Security Agency on an intercepted phone call last year between two members of foreign intelligence who were discussing Jared Kushner and Iran, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times report.
Asked if he has “fired or disciplined that staffer who posted the video from your account that included the Obamas,” Donald Trump said that he had not. The president then went on to excuse the racist clip, which depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as cartoon apes.
A federal judge denied a request on Thursday from the Trump administration to pause her order keeping temporary legal protections for Haitian immigrants in place, and said that she would not be intimidated by death threats she read aloud in court.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, claimed US Customs and Border Protection in the San Diego ares have saved 1.7 billion lives by seizing drugs.
Trump-appointed prosecutor in Minnesota says federal officials gave false information about immigrant shot by ICE agent
Daniel Rosen, the Trump-appointed US attorney in Minnesota, said in a court filing on Thursday that charges should be dropped against an immigrant who was shot by a federal immigration officer last month, and another man accused of attacking the agent, because “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the account of the incident from federal officers in a charging document and in courtroom testimony.
“Accordingly, dismissal with prejudice will serve the interests of justice,” Rosen wrote.
The shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg in north Minneapolis on 14 January, days after the killing of Renee Good, drew protesters into the streets.
Sosa-Celis and Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna were then charged in a federal criminal complaint with forcibly assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers.
The day after the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security claimed Sosa-Celis had fled the scene of a “targeted traffic stop” in Minneapolis in his vehicle, crashed into a parked car and kept fleeing on foot. When an ICE agent caught up to him, two men allegedly attacked the agent with a broom handle and snow shovel, and Sosa-Celis allegedly broke free and also started striking the officer. DHS said an officer then fired a “defensive shot to defend his life.”
Those allegations were repeated to an FBI agent and documented in an affidavit Minnesota’s top federal prosecutor now calls false.
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