Newsmax host Greg Kelly ridiculously raised his phone to argue that the device might look “a little bit” like a gun while defending immigration agents for fatally shooting Alex Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis.

On Monday’s episode of “Greg Kelly Reports,” Kelly showed an image of Pretti holding a cellphone shortly before he was shot to death Saturday and suggested federal agents may have mistaken it for a gun.

“I think, in a strange way, that phone could be mistaken for a weapon,” he argued. “Now, [Pretti] He has a gun, a rather strange gun, in his holster. I want to show you something else.”

Asking his producer to remove Pretti’s image from the screen, Kelly brandished his own cell phone, held it sideways and pointed it in the air as if it were a gun.

Pretti was never seen holding his phone that way in the footage that circulated of his murder.

During an episode on January 26,
During a Jan. 26 episode of “Greg Kelly Reports,” Newsmax host Greg Kelly held his phone like it was a gun — and not the way Alex Pretti was filmed holding his.

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“Does that look like a gun?” -Kelly asked. “I think it does a little bit. It’s a phone. It’s black, like most phones. That’s crazy.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Kelly condemned Pretti for “showing up like he did” at a protest, which he called “a very, very, very stupid thing to do.”

In one particularly shocking moment, the Newsmax host played a clip of ABC’s Jonathan Karl describing Pretti as an “avid outdoorsman,” “competitive cyclist,” and former Boy Scout, and seized on those descriptions to compare the slain 37-year-old nurse to a serial killer.

Dennis Lynn Rader, better known by the pseudonym BTK, also “liked to hunt, he was a family man, everyone liked him, his mother liked him, all that stuff,” Kelly began, as an image of Pretti and Rader side by side appeared on the screen. “Dennis Rader and Alex.”

“I’m sorry, but I can’t just pretend that because you’re dead, you’re a superior person,” he continued, then added, “People project positive qualities onto someone they don’t know.”

Kelly wasn’t the only right-wing pundit to blame Pretti for his own death this week. On Monday, podcast host Megyn Kelly told her listeners, “I know I’m supposed to feel sorry for Alex Pretti, but I don’t. I don’t. Do you know why the Border Patrol didn’t shoot me this weekend? Because I kept my ass in and out of their operations.”