The Trump administration may be learning the hard way that its de facto policy of shooting your mouth off first and asking investigatory questions later is providing diminishing returns. Miller also referred to Pretti as an “assassin” in two posts, one of which was reposted by Vice President J.D. The reason it wasn't worse is because law enforcement officials did what they do,” he said in a press conference hours after the shooting. Law enforcement had acted neither quickly nor properly to deal with an active shooter, remaining outside of a classroom for minutes while the shooter continued to kill victims. Two days after the shooting, at another press conference, an angry Abbott blamed a law enforcement briefing for the bad information.