In the hours after Vance Boelter was named as suspicious In the fatal shootout of Melissa Hortman, a Democratic representative of the state of Minnesota, and her husband Mark Hortman, far -right conspiracists and influential Republicans, said that he was a violent and left -wing Democrat.
“The far left is murder,” Elon Musk write On Saturday X on Saturday, a publication in the site has been seen more than 50 million times.
When the events of the story arose, that the alleged shooter had been registered in other states such as Republicansaid he had voted President Donald Trump And, as wiring informedHe had participated in an evangelical ministry where he preached against abortion and demonized the LGTBQ community: conspiracy theories did not stop. Instead, they only changed. The posters stated that the incident was a false flag made by the Deep State shadow, while trying to move the shooter away from any connection with the President and the wider movement of Maga.
For years after massive traits or politically motivated violence, the far right has sought to portray the authors as leftists, Members of antifa, Part of the LGBTQ communityor somehow connected to the Democratic Party, despite all tests that show that extremist violence is Usually performed by big right actors.
On Saturday, when the alleged shooter was underway, the conservatives almost immediately stated that the suspect was somehow linked to the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, and that the shootout was part of a great conspiracy to guide a Democrat who had recently voted with the Republicans in the Minnesota legislature. The alleged shooter was return to a Walz work force development board in 2019 but there are Without evidence to suggest a closer link between the couple.
This did not prevent the term “Walz appointment” tendency AX Saturday, with Influential on the right state confidently That the alleged shooter was a Democrat.
“Walz executed her?” The right -wing commentator, Mike Cernovich write AX, quoting a well -known publication of the conspiracy theory that Hortman emphasized had voted with the Republicans.
YouTuber Benny Johnson, who has almost 5 million followers at the video sharing site and more than 3 million followers in X, positioned The shooting as part of a growing tendency of left -wing violence in a long Screen a X that described the alleged shooter as “a designated left on the left Tim Walz.”
“Everyone talks about minnesota, but they don’t talk about the boy seems to be a leftist,” Donald Trump Jr. said in an interview to with Nation News. “The guy who committed these atrocities this weekend was a Democrat who worked for Tim Walz.” When he was pressured by the interviewer, he replied, “He voted for your father,” Trump Jr. said, “I will believe it when I see it.”
On Sunday, David Carlson, who has known the alleged shooter since the fourth grade and described the 57 -year -old as his best friend, dismissed the claims that the alleged shooter was Democrat, Sunday to journalists He “would be offended if people called him Democrat.”
