By Rusty Weiss. Media: Redstate
Vance Boelter, accused of murdering Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and injuring State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, denied political motives in a jailhouse interview, claiming more details about the events leading up to the heinous shootings will emerge if Governor Tim Walz allows their release.
Boelter’s cryptic statement will no doubt spark intense speculation about what information he might be alluding to. Still, one thing is sure, based on his comments – the assassin has an incredibly tenuous relationship with reality.
As RedState reported last month, Boelter went on a shooting spree on June 14th, and authorities launched an expansive manhunt to catch him. He would finally be apprehended later in the weekend.
As is often the case in tragic situations such as this, the media launched into their theories as to the shooter’s motive. Naturally, they landed on broadly blaming Republicans, with some major outlets pointing a direct finger at President Donald Trump.
Democrats joined in on the narrative, with Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) calling Boelter a “hate-filled right winger,” and former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-umber than a Stump) telling MSNBC that the President had “given the permission structure for this reality” of political violence.
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That’s right, the guy who stared down multiple assassination attempts due to unhinged rhetoric from the media and the resistance party is supposedly the guy who lit the fuse on political violence. *Eyeroll*
Boelter has now spoken to the New York Post from his jail cell, and insists neither Trump nor his pro-life views had anything to do with the assassinations. And he even hinted that Walz might try to keep details of his motives under wraps.
“You are fishing and I can’t talk about my case…I’ll say it didn’t involve either the Trump stuff or pro-life,” he told the outlet through the Sherburne County Jail messaging system.
“I am pro-life personaly [sic] but it wasn’t those,” Boelter continued. “I will just say there is a lot of information that will come out in future that people will look at and judge for themselves that goes back 24 months before the 14th. If the gov ever let’s [sic] it get out.”
Why would Walz want to keep the assassin’s motivations under wraps?
As RedState reported, the media narrative on Trump’s rhetoric being a motivating factor shriveled up pretty quickly after a letter written by Boelter had been recovered from his vehicle, where he made the wild claim that he had to kill specific individuals – including Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) – to clear a path for Walz to run for the United States Senate himself.
Boelter, it has been reported, was appointed to a government workforce board by Walz. There is minimal indication that their relationship extended beyond that fact.
“Certain details of that letter were leaked out that probably painted one kind of a picture, but a lot more important details that were in that letter were not leaked out,” Boelter claimed.
It seems relatively clear that the alleged assassin is toying with the media, seeking attention by hinting at a more nefarious plot behind the scenes. As RedState’s Bonchie wrote regarding the letter, “Boelter is just an insane person.”
That said, Bonchie added:
Walz obviously knew about what was in the letter from day one, given that it was found almost immediately in the car abandoned by Boelter. Yet, he and his Democrat colleagues still spent days insinuating the motive was related to right-wing rhetoric.
You know darn well that if the media and Democrats were able to continue smearing the right as being responsible for these assassinations and attempted murders, they’d be covering this story 24/7. Instead, you haven’t heard much about Boelter since that letter and his strange hit list were found.
Boelter went on to claim that his “immune system is failing” because he’s being held in inhumane conditions in jail. He also upped the crazy by citing a Biblical passage about loving thy neighbors when asked to remark on his victims.
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