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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 23 points 3 weeks ago

Lies.

In reality, Boelter was a Trump supporter who voted for Donald Trump in November, his best friend David Carlson told reporters Saturday. Boelter was a longtime conservative who was a registered Republican when he and his wife lived in Oklahoma in the early 2000s. He was against abortion rights but “never mentioned any particular anger with the lawmakers who were shot,” Carlson told CNN.

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

Saturday night, far-right influencer Laura Loomer told her followers that the media was trying to “gaslight” Americans into believing that the “shooter in Minnesota is a Trump supporter.”

stating facts is not gaslighting. The irony of stealing words from the left to justify your own ghoulish politics.

Podcast host Alec Lace questioned if Hortman was “fearful” that “her base would become unhinged,” after she sided with Republicans as the lone Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) party member to repeal state health care for undocumented immigrants. The tune had still not changed by Sunday, when Fox News contributor Paul Mauro described Boelter’s political background as “murky” while advancing the conspiracy that Hortman had been assassinated for her vote.

Literally fabricating lies out of thin air, just pure bullshit with no basis in reality. People have died because of the dangerous, violent rhetoric on the Right, and this bullshit-peddling is evidence that they have no intention of toning down that rhetoric. They are glad Melissa Hortman was killed. They are hoping their base will act up and kill more political rivals. Anyone siding with Republicans at this point is a monster, full stop.

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

What a relief... Think about it.

[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Trying to defend a killer like this says a lot about these people. Jeeze man