In the aftermath of the Minnesota deadly shootings, several eminent right -wing voices were falsely responsible for democrats for violence, despite the apparent support of the presumed shooter to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
President’s son Donald Trump Jr. said Press nation Monday, the suspect in the shots, who killed a state legislator and her husband and injured another and his wife, “seems to be a left” and “is a democrat”. A few days earlier, Utah senator Mike Lee attracted Swift Backlash when he pointed out on the “Marxists” in an article on X after the news broke. Lee has since removed this post, and a few others on the shooting, after criticism.
Comments contradict the statements made by those who know personally Vance Boelter, the suspect in the case. A friend identified Boelter as a “strong supporter” of Trump, Minnesota Star grandstand reported. A man who has known Boelter for years, said Paul Schroeder The Associated Press That he was “on the right politically”, although he said that he had never seemed “fanatic”. Although voters do not register under a specific party in Minnesota, the AP reported that Boelter was previously registered as a republican in Oklahoma before moving to the state.
The authorities have recovered lists that seemed to include the names of dozens of other potential targets, including democratic legislators who have been slaughtered and a number of others. The acting American lawyer for Minnesota Joseph Thompson, however, said that he had seen “nothing involving a kind of political screed or manifesto that would clearly identify what motivated him”, referring to Boelter. “No Kings” leaflets were also found in the vehicle, referring to the anti-Trump demonstrations that took place across the United States on Saturday.
Boelter, 57, faces federal hunting charges And the murder of the representative of the state of Minnesota, Melissa Hortman and her husband, And track down and shoot the senator from the state of Minnesota, John Hoffman and his wife. In what the federal authorities have described as a “calculated plan”, the Ministry of Justice (DOJ) said that the suspect had gone to the four state legislators in the early hours of Saturday morning disguised in application of the law. He was first taken to Hoffmans, who was shot down several times after trying to close the Boelter door, which wore a silicone face mask, according to the Doj. The shooter later went to the Hortmans’ home, where they were killed.
State accusations have also been taken from Boelter.
Reactions to shootings highlight important partisan tensions across the United States, even if the legislators of the whole political spectrum are faced with threats of growing violence. The president told journalists on Tuesday that he had not called the Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz to discuss the attack, making a common presidential practice. “Why should I call her?” Trump said in reference to the candidate Vice-Presidential Democrat of 2024. “It’s a mess. So I could be nice and call, but why waste time?”
What Trump allies have said
Several Trump allies have spread false claims on the suspected policy of the shooter.
The day of the day broke out about the shooting, Senator Lee described Marxism as “fatal disease” while going up an image of the alleged shooter. In one of his messages now deleted, he wrote the next day: “This is what happens when the Marxists do not succeed.”
Some conservatives underlined the suspect’s appointment to an advisory council in 2019 by Governor Walz in their allegations concerning his political affiliation.
“Everyone talks about Minnesota, but they don’t talk about the guy who seems to be a leftist. He is a Minnesota politician, a guy who was appointed by the Democratic Governor, vice-president for the Democratic Party, Tim Walz. The guy who committed these atrocities this weekend is a democrat,” said Trump Jr. Press nation.
Hoffman was also part of the Board of Directors that Boelter sat, although any relationship they have had with each other is not clear.
Trump Jr. also criticized the involvement of Democrats in the Matter Black Lives demonstrations. “If the Republicans did this, they would be thrown into prison. When a democrat would do it, it is to preserve democracy,” he said Press nation.
The former head of the Government Ministry (DOGE), Elon Musk, echoes a similar feeling. “The extreme left is violent murderous,” he wrote the X on Saturday.
The far -right activist, Laura Loomer, who is known to disseminate conspiracy theories, called for the arrest and interrogation of Walz and the organizer behind the demonstration of No Kings Day. “The media want you to make yourself think that the shooter in Minnesota is a supporter of Trump. He was appointed by Walz. He was friends with Walz. And he had no leaflets in his car,” she shared on X on Saturday.
A source from the Governor’s office told Minnesota Star grandstand What Walz and Boelter did not know each other and said that the advisory council to which the suspect was appointed was non -supporter. Boelter has already sat on the advisory council on the development of the workplace under appointment by the former Democratic Governor of Minnesota Mark Dayton /
The representative of the Wisconsin, Derrick Van Orden, said that the shooter was a liberal who “decided to murder and to try to kill politicians who were not enough left for them”. He also called Walz a “clown” and “stupid” in additional messages.
What we know about the alleged shooter Political opinions
Addressing journalists on Saturday, Boelter’s roommate David Carlson revealed that the alleged shooter had voted for Trump but had not discussed “politics lately”.
Boelter voted in the presidential primary, but not as a democrat, according to the Star grandstand.
An examination of his social media profiles by CNN identified Boelter as an evangelical Christian. A video of a speech that Boelter delivered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2023 showed him criticizing those who question their sexual orientation or their gender identity. “There are people especially in America, they do not know what sex they are, they do not know their sexual orientation, they are confused. The enemy has become so far in their minds and souls,” he said.
The list of other suspected targets recovered in Boelter’s car included the Minnesota Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar senator, both Democrats. Ilhan Omar representatives, Kelly Morrison and Angie Craig were also on the list, said a law manager in New York in New York Times.
How the others responded
Some officials have denounced the declarations of the Republicans seeking to link the alleged shooter to the Democrats, in particular Senator Lee.
Former President of the National Republican Committee Michael Steele told Lee to “develop” in response to another position published by the senator who said “Nightmare on Waltz Street”.
Senator Smith confronted Lee in person and qualified his painful statements. Senator Klobuchar told MSNBC that she had planned to speak to Lee in person. “And what I’m going to tell him is: it’s not funny,” said Klobuchar.
The rise of political violence in the United States
Shots are the last among an increasing number of threats and acts of violence against elected officials in recent years. Last year, President Trump survived two apparent assassination attempts, first during a Pennsylvania rally and later when he was in a golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The home of the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, was burned in April by a man who, according to the authorities, had told them that he would have beaten the governor “with a hammer” if he had seen him. In October 2022, a man attacked the husband of representative Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their home in San Francisco. David Depape, the condemned attacker, said that he was planning to break the ball joints of the former president of the Pelosi Chamber if she did not answer her questions.
