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Trump can’t resist a dig at Gov. Tim Walz during conversation about Minnesota lawmaker assassinations - Trump had not called govenor more than 24 hours after suspect caught in targeted assassination o
California Sen. Alex Padilla blamed President Donald Trump’s first election campaign and its “tone" for escalating political tensions to the point of violence.
The suspect in two politically motivated shootings in Minnesota has been captured and faces multiple charges. Vance Boelter was arrested by police on Monday, near the woods by his home in Green Isle,
President Donald Trump had not called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz by Sunday afternoon in the aftermath of the assassination of House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman.
The suspect, identified by authorities as Vance Luther Boelter, 57, was arrested after state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed, and State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot multiple times and wounded in Brooklyn Park and Champlin, two neighboring suburban cities 10 to 20 miles outside Minneapolis.
Texas pastor and podcaster Joel Webbon, who is part of the Christian nationalist TheoBro movement, has also said he attended Christ for the Nations (though he has since denounced it as “straight up heretical”). Webbon is a particularly outspoken member of the TheoBros movement, as I wrote in another piece last year:
Boelter, 57, the man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and wounding another legislator and his wife in a “politically motivated” attack on Saturday morning. On Sunday morning,
Minnesota saw a 6% export decline in 2025's first quarter. Officials blame the decline on uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump's tariffs.