By Michael Woyton
This country woke up Saturday to the horrific news that two elected officials of the state of Minnesota were shot, one of whom died and other, more than seriously injured.
We went to sleep Sunday knowing that a suspect was in custody.
In between, millions of people took to the streets in more than 2,000 communities across the nation to peacefully protest the growing dictatorship of President Donald J. Felon.
Included in those millions taking part in the No Kings protests were thousands of Minnesotans who gathered in downtown St. Paul for a march, in spite of the fact that state officials urged them to stay home due to the ongoing shelter-in-place order, CBS News reported.
Law enforcement was still searching for Vance Luther Boelter, 57, the man accused of killing state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband and trying to kill state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.
The people of St. Paul and many others around the state were not deterred from making their voices heard on Saturday even though there were ongoing threats.
“Several attendees [in downtown St. Paul] told WCCO crews that they felt it was even more important to attend the rally, saying they didn’t want fear to win,” CBS News reported.
While Boelter is now in custody and has been charged on the state level with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree attempted murder and is expected to face federal murder charges, there is no decisive motive for his alleged actions.
He did, according to police, have a list of about 70 other potential targets including politicians, civic and business leaders and Planned Parenthood centers.
We do know now that Boelter was a born-again Christian, wanted to start a security firm and complained about Democratic politicians, the Washington Post reported.
Lifelong friend and roommate David Carlson said Boelter didn’t like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and former President Joe Biden.
He was strongly against abortion rights, questioned people’s morals on sexual orientation and was a registered Republican, CNN reported.
Much was made on Saturday of the fact that Boelter was appointed by Walz to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board, which has more than 60 members and is an unpaid position with people from all political persuasions.
That led maga Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, to post photos of Boelter on the site formerly known as Twitter and call it “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” misspelling the governor’s last name. In another post, he tweeted “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way.”
Those posts have since been deleted.
The grifter-in-chief, likely still smarting from a poorly attended $43 million birthday parade in Washington, D.C., told ABC News Sunday that he may or may not call Walz about the assassination of a state representative, according to Axios.
“Well, it’s a terrible thing. I think he’s a terrible governor,” he said on the news program. “I think he’s a grossly incompetent person. But I may, I may call him, I may call other people too.”
What a piece of excrement the president continues to show that he is.
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