Quote:Details about a letter written by Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter have been released, and they paint a much clearer picture of his state of mind and why he did what he did. They also give a pretty good indication of why this story disappeared from the news so quickly.

As RedState reported. Boelter killed State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband and also shot and wounded State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife. The shootings took place on Saturday (June 14), launching an expansive manhunt to catch the murderer. He was finally apprehended late Sunday evening.

At the time, there was a lot of conflicting information about what may have motivated Boelter, with Republicans being broadly blamed by the press and Democrats because of who the targets were. Networks like MSNBC and CNN went so far as to directly point the finger at President Donald Trump. Yet, a letter that was found the day of the shootings in Boelter's car points in a completely different direction.

According to the Star Tribune, Minnesota's largest newspaper, Boelter believed he was operating under orders from Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, best known for his role as Kamala Harris' running mate during the 2024 election.

Early on, it was revealed that Boelter was appointed to a government workforce board by Walz. What their actual relationship was remains unclear, but it appears the killer thought they had a relationship. For whatever reason, Boelter had convinced himself that he needed to kill others so that Walz could run for the U.S. Senate. As noted, though, the Minnesota governor had already ruled out a run when Sen. Tina Smith announced her retirement.

In other words, Boelter is just an insane person. Nothing in his letter makes logical sense, and there is no indication he did what he did in support of Trump or anyone else on the political right. Instead, he seems to have been infatuated with Walz and created a justification to kill in service to him.

To be clear, I don't think Walz holds any responsibility here. Yes, he's been using some rather colorful and inciting language lately to attack his political opponents, but in this case, the targets were other Democrats. I don't think Walz's deranged rants against ICE and Trump were a motivating factor.

With that said, 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. To put it lightly, that was a pretty terrible thing to do.

Again, I don't blame Walz here. Crazy people do crazy things, and Boelter was irrational and confused at best. But the governor should have been honest about that instead of letting Democrats and the press go wild, pretending this was Trump's fault. That he insinuated that in his presser and then sat by while false narratives prolifered is another black mark against him and his character.

Quote:According to the Minnesota Star Tribune and “two people familiar with the letter’s contents,” a rambling, conspiratorial letter addressed to the FBI, alleged assassin Vance Boelter claimed he needed to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Gov. Tim Walz could run for the U.S. Senate.

The letter is the clearest evidence yet of Boelter’s mindset after the targeted violence against Minnesota politicians last week. It is incoherent, one and a half pages long, confusing and hard to read, according to two people familiar with the letter’s contents. It includes Boelter alleging he had been trained by the U.S. military off the books, and that Walz, who is not running for Senate, had asked him to kill Klobuchar and others.

(06-23-2025 12:51 PM)450bench Wrote:  If we were liberals we’d blame this on Waltz and make sure every media outlet in America made it a headline issue every single day.

But we are not liberals, so we say “this dude was just a nutcase.”

(06-23-2025 01:57 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  The sound of crickets is deafening.

(06-23-2025 03:35 PM)banker Wrote:  Walz is his Jodi Foster. Seems plausible given what we know about Timmy.

(06-23-2025 02:50 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  The story did go away pretty fast. No calls for gun control etc. like normal. Oh, and the "news" he was a registered Republican in Oklahoma in 2004 is bogus. Oklahoma purges voter rolls every Summer. There is no record of him being a Republican in Oklahoma over 20 years ago. Completely fabricated. There is only one way a guy gets appointed twice by two separate Democrat Governors and his wife becomes an aid for one of those Governors when he was a congressman, and it isn't by supporting Republicans.

(06-23-2025 12:51 PM)450bench Wrote:  If we were liberals we’d blame this on Waltz and make sure every media outlet in America made it a headline issue every single day.

But we are not liberals, so we say “this dude was just a nutcase.”

(06-23-2025 02:01 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(06-23-2025 01:57 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  The sound of crickets is deafening.

You probably should seek medical care for that.

(06-23-2025 02:50 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  The story did go away pretty fast. No calls for gun control etc. like normal. Oh, and the "news" he was a registered Republican in Oklahoma in 2004 is bogus. Oklahoma purges voter rolls every Summer. There is no record of him being a Republican in Oklahoma over 20 years ago. Completely fabricated. There is only one way a guy gets appointed twice by two separate Democrat Governors and his wife becomes an aid for one of those Governors when he was a congressman, and it isn't by supporting Republicans.

(06-23-2025 10:04 PM)fsquid Wrote:  

(06-23-2025 02:50 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  The story did go away pretty fast. No calls for gun control etc. like normal. Oh, and the "news" he was a registered Republican in Oklahoma in 2004 is bogus. Oklahoma purges voter rolls every Summer. There is no record of him being a Republican in Oklahoma over 20 years ago. Completely fabricated. There is only one way a guy gets appointed twice by two separate Democrat Governors and his wife becomes an aid for one of those Governors when he was a congressman, and it isn't by supporting Republicans.

well there was this Iran thing...........

(06-24-2025 08:57 AM)No Bull Wrote:  I will put it out there. This assassin was motivated by Walz hate speech. If Walz wasn’t consistently dog whistling violence along with other prog filth, this look might have kept his weapons holstered. Why are we ***** footing around with Prog filth that calls for violence. Walz is accountable for his violent rhetoric.

(06-24-2025 08:53 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(06-23-2025 02:01 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(06-23-2025 01:57 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  The sound of crickets is deafening.

You probably should seek medical care for that.

THAT'S your response? THAT'S what you chose to address? Where's your response to the news that this dude is just a nutcase with no real political agenda other than the delusional opinion that he needed to help Walz and that it's being met with silence? You are not a serious person and as such are not to be taken seriously. Weak sauce even for you.

(06-24-2025 09:08 AM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(06-24-2025 08:53 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(06-23-2025 02:01 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(06-23-2025 01:57 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  The sound of crickets is deafening.

You probably should seek medical care for that.

THAT'S your response? THAT'S what you chose to address? Where's your response to the news that this dude is just a nutcase with no real political agenda other than the delusional opinion that he needed to help Walz and that it's being met with silence? You are not a serious person and as such are not to be taken seriously. Weak sauce even for you.

Sorry, skippy. But it's more than evident from my comments here and in other threads of incidents like this that I don't jump in the fray when we don't know anything yet. This just happened. We don't know much of anything yet, other than this guy is a nut, as I said earlier in the other thread.

My reply above that you quoted is just a harmless joke. But glad to see you're so easily triggered.