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In the hours After Vance Boelter was appointed suspect In the mortal shooting of Melissa Hortman, a democratic representative of the state of Minnesota, and her husband Mark Hortman, conspiracists of the far right and republican influencers said that he was a violent and left -wing democrat.
“The extreme left is violent murderous,” said Elon Musk wrote On X Saturday, an article that remains on the site and has been seen more than 50 million times.
When the facts of history emerged – that the alleged shooter had been recorded in other states such as a Republicanwould have voted for President Donald Trump And, as cabled reportedhad participated in an evangelical ministry where he preached against abortion and demonized the LGTBQ community – conspiracy theories did not stop. Instead, they just changed. Posters then claimed that the incident was a false flag led by the dark deep state, while trying to distribute the shooter of any link with the wider president and the Maga movement.
For years following mass fire or politically motivated violence, the far right sought to portray the authors as leftists, Antifa members,, part of the LGBTQ communityor connected in one way or another to the Democratic Party, despite all the evidence showing that extremist violence is generally led by far -right actors.
On Saturday, when the man’s alleged shooter hunt was underway, the conservatives almost immediately said that the suspect was linked in one way or another with the governor of Minnesota Tim Walz and that the shooting was part of a large conspiracy to target a democrat who had recently voted with Republicans in the Minnesota legislature. The alleged shooter was renowned to a workforce development committee by Walz in 2019. But there is No evidence To suggest a closer link between the pair.
This did not prevent the term “named of walz” of tendency on x Saturday, with Right influencers declaring with confidence that the alleged shooter was a democrat.
“Did Walz executed it?” The right commentator Mike Cernovich wrote On X, quoting an article of a well -known conspiracy theory account which stressed that Hortman had voted with the Republicans.
Youtuber Benny Johnson, who has nearly 5 million followers on the video sharing site and more than 3 million followers on X, positioned The shooting in the context of an increasing trend of leftist violence in a long screed on X which described the alleged shooter as “a left left Tim Walz”.
“Everyone talks about Minnesota, but they don’t talk about the guy seems to be a leftist,” said Donald Trump Jr. said in an interview With News Nation. “The guy who committed these atrocities this weekend was a democrat who worked for Tim Walz.” When he was pressed by the interviewer, who replied: “He voted for your father”, Trump Jr. said: “I will believe it when I see him.”
Sunday, David Carlson, who has known the alleged shooter since the fourth year and described the 57 -year -old player as his best friend, rejected the claims that the alleged shooter was Democrat, Say journalists on Sunday He “would be offended if people called him a democrat”.
