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IrishBubbaLiberal

(2,043 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 03:45 PM 5 hrs ago

Republicans Are the Party of Hate. Minnesota assassin was Trump supporter who echoed GOP views

This Trump MAGA criminal

The reported views of the shooter align with the positions of the Republican Party and Trump in particular.

This MAGA nutjob Targeted and killed elected Democrats.
This MAGA strongly supports Trump.
This assassin hates gays….
MAGA gave speech expressed his opposition to LGBTQ+ rights

MAGA nutjob hates women.
Hates Planned Parenthood
Hates women controlling their own bodies.

Republicans Are the Party of HATE.

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DAILYKOS

Minnesota assassin was Trump supporter who echoed GOP views

by Oliver Willis
Monday, June 16, 2025 at 10:30:08a CDT

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/16/2328344/-Alleged-Minnesota-assassin-was-Trump-supporter-who-echoed-GOP-views?

On Saturday, former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in what Gov. Tim Walz described as a “politically motivated assassination.” State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also shot at their home, 9 miles away from the Hortman residence. All of the lawmakers who were targeted were Democrats.

Subsequent reporting on the suspected shooter of both incidents has indicated that he was a supporter of President Donald Trump and held similar conservative political views to Trump and the Republican Party.

Vance Boelter, the suspected shooter, was arrested on Sunday. He is accused of impersonating a police officer while allegedly committing the crimes in question.

The Associated Press spoke to his friends and former colleagues, and according to them Boelter was a supporter of Trump who attended Trump campaign rallies. Boelter also allegedly opposed abortion. According to law enforcement sources who spoke to AP and CNN, there was a list of health care officials and abortion rights advocates—including leaders of Planned Parenthood, a frequent target of Republican rhetoric—found in an SUV that belonged to Boelter that was parked near the home where the Hortman shooting took place.

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Republicans Are the Party of Hate. Minnesota assassin was Trump supporter who echoed GOP views (Original Post) IrishBubbaLiberal 5 hrs ago OP
The shooter is EVERY ONE OF THEM. usonian 5 hrs ago #1
What I find most galling is how quickly Republicans began saying this suspect was anything but a MAGA killer. sop 5 hrs ago #2

usonian

(18,364 posts)
1. The shooter is EVERY ONE OF THEM.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 04:21 PM
5 hrs ago

The shooter is everyone who thought of violence on someone who disagreed with their cult- fomented lies and fantasies.
Propaganda mills and cowardly demagogues have a share in every political act of hate and violence.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=407015

TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT
What do we hallucinate?

sop

(14,699 posts)
2. What I find most galling is how quickly Republicans began saying this suspect was anything but a MAGA killer.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 04:25 PM
5 hrs ago

They attacked Tim Walz, demanded his arrest. They claimed it had to do with votes on immigration. Rightwing GOP influencers threw everything at the wall hoping it would stick. They are desparate to shift attention and responsibility away from Trump and his hate-filled rhetoric.

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