Donald Trump reacts to Minnesota shootings: 'This horrific violence will not be tolerated'
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he has been briefed about the attack on two Democratic legislators and their partners in Minnesota.
Trump said that the shooting appears to be a targeted attack against state lawmakers and added that this horrific violence will not be tolerated, according to Reuters.
Two Democratic state legislators – state representative Melissa Hortman and State Senator John A. Hoffman – were attacked in their homes in what the state's governor has described as a 'politically motivated' shooting.
While Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark died in the attack, Senator John A. Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, are alive and undergoing treatment.
According to ABC News, the lawmakers were targeted at their homes, about 8 miles away from each other in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, north of Minneapolis.
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The attacker is believed to have been impersonating a police officer, authorities have said, adding that a manhunt is underway to nab him.
'We must all, in Minnesota and across the country, stand against all forms of political violence," Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said at a news conference. 'Those responsible for this will be held accountable.'
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Time of India
24 minutes ago
- Time of India
Political violence is threaded through recent US history. The motives and justifications vary
The assassination of one Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband, and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes, is just the latest addition to a long and unsettling roll call of political violence in the United States. The list, in the past two months alone: the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. The firebombing of a Colorado march calling for the release of Israeli hostages, and the firebombing of the official residence of Pennsylvania's governor - on a Jewish holiday while he and his family were inside. And here's just a sampling of some other disturbing attacks before that - the assassination of a health care executive on the streets of New York City late last year, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in small-town Pennsylvania during his presidential campaign last year, the 2022 attack on the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by a believer in right-wing conspiracy theories, and the 2017 shooting by a liberal gunman at a GOP practice for the congressional softball game. Play Video Pause Skip Backward Skip Forward Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 0:00 Loaded : 0% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 1x Playback Rate Chapters Chapters Descriptions descriptions off , selected Captions captions settings , opens captions settings dialog captions off , selected Audio Track Picture-in-Picture Fullscreen This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. Text Color White Black Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Text Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Opaque Semi-Transparent Transparent Caption Area Background Color Black White Red Green Blue Yellow Magenta Cyan Opacity Transparent Semi-Transparent Opaque Font Size 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% 175% 200% 300% 400% Text Edge Style None Raised Depressed Uniform Drop shadow Font Family Proportional Sans-Serif Monospace Sans-Serif Proportional Serif Monospace Serif Casual Script Small Caps Reset restore all settings to the default values Done Close Modal Dialog End of dialog window. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Live Comfortably: 60 m² Prefab Bungalow for Seniors in El Alto Pre Fabricated Homes | Search Ads Search Now Undo "We've entered into this especially scary time in the country where it feels the sort of norms and rhetoric and rules that would tamp down on violence have been lifted," said Matt Dallek, a political scientist at Georgetown University who studies extremism. "A lot of people are receiving signals from the culture." Politics behind both individual shootings and massacres Politics have also driven large-scale massacres. Gunmen who killed 11 worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, 23 shoppers at a heavily Latino Walmart in El Paso in 2019 and 10 Black people at a Buffalo grocery store in 2022 each cited the conspiracy theory that a secret cabal of Jews were trying to replace white people with people of color. That has become a staple on parts of the right that support Trump's push to limit immigration. Live Events The Anti-Defamation League found that from 2022 through 2024, all of the 61 political killings in the United States were committed by right-wing extremists. That changed on the first day of 2025, when a Texas man flying the flag of the Islamic State group killed 14 people by driving his truck through a crowded New Orleans street before being fatally shot by police. "You're seeing acts of violence from all different ideologies," said Jacob Ware, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who researches terrorism. "It feels more random and chaotic and more frequent." The United States has a long and grim history of political violence, from presidential assassinations dating back to the killing of President Abraham Lincoln to lynchings and violence aimed at Black people in the South to the 1954 shooting inside Congress by four Puerto Rican nationalists. Experts say the past few years, however, have likely reached a level not seen since the tumultuous days of the 1960s and 1970s, when icons like Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated. Ware noted that the most recent surge comes after the new Trump administration has shuttered units that focus on investigating white supremacist extremism and pushed federal law enforcement to spend less time on anti-terrorism and more on detaining people who are in the country illegally. "We're at the point, after these six weeks, where we have to ask about how effectively the Trump administration is combating terrorism," Ware said. Of course, one of Trump's first acts in office was to pardon those involved in the largest act of domestic political violence this century - the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol, intended to prevent Congress from certifying Trump's 2020 election loss. Those pardons broadcast a signal to would-be extremists on either side of the political debate, Dallek said: "They sent a very strong message that violence, as long as you're a Trump supporter, will be permitted and may be rewarded." Ideologies aren't always aligned - or coherent Often, those who engage in political violence don't have clearly defined ideologies that easily monto the country's partisan divides. A man who died after he detonated a car bomb outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic last month left writings urging people not to procreate and expressed what the FBI called "nihilistic ideations." But, like clockwork, each political attack seems to inspire partisans to find evidence the attacker is on the other side. Little was known about the man police identified as a suspect in the Minnesota attacks, 57-year-old Vance Boelter . Authorities say they found a list of other apparent targets that included other Democratic officials, abortion clinics and abortion rights advocates, as well as fliers for the day's anti-Trump parades. Conservatives online seized on the fliers - and the fact that Boetler had apparently once been appointed to a state workforce development board by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz - to claim the suspect must be a liberal. "The far left is murderously violent," billionaire Elon Musk posted on his social media site, X. It was reminiscent of the fallout from the attack on Paul Pelosi, the former House speaker's then-82-year-old husband, who was seriously injured by a man wielding a hammer. Right-wing figures theorized the assailant was a secret lover rather than what authorities said he was: a believer in pro-Trump conspiracy theories who broke into the Pelosi home echoing Jan. 6 rioters who broke into the Capitol by saying: "Where is Nancy?!" On Saturday, Nancy Pelosi posted a statement on X decrying the Minnesota attack. "All of us must remember that it's not only the act of violence, but also the reaction to it, that can normalize it," she wrote. Trump had mocked the Pelosis after the 2022 attack, but on Saturday he joined in the official bipartisan condemnation of the Minnesota shootings, calling them "horrific violence." The president has, however, consistently broken new ground with his bellicose rhetoric towards his political opponents, who he routinely calls "sick" and "evil," and has talked repeatedly about how violence is needed to quell protests. The Minnesota attack occurred after Trump took the extraordinary step of mobilizing the military to try to control protests against his administration's immigration operations in Los Angeles during the past week, when he pledged to "HIT" disrespectful protesters and warned of a "migrant invasion" of the city. Dallek said Trump has been "both a victim and an accelerant" of the charged, dehumanizing political rhetoric that is flooding the country. "It feels as if the extremists are in the saddle," he said, "and the extremists are the ones driving our rhetoric and politics."
News18
36 minutes ago
- News18
Who Is Vance Boelter, Suspect In Minnesota Lawmaker Assassination?
Last Updated: Two US lawmakers – Senator John Hoffman and Representative Melissa Hortman – as well as their spouses, were shot in overnight shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn. Authorities and Federal Bureau of Investigation are on a manhunt for 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, who has been identified as the main suspect for allegedly shooting and killing a state representative and shooting and wounding a state senator in a targeted act of violence. Two US lawmakers – Senator John Hoffman and Representative Melissa Hortman – as well as their spouses, were shot in overnight shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn. Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman was shot and killed at her Brooklyn Park home. Her husband Mark was shot at the home and died at the hospital. State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot and wounded roughly 5 miles away at their home in Champlin. Who Is Vance Boelter? According to Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Boelter stands at 6-foot-1, weighs roughly 220 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen Saturday morning in Minneapolis, wearing a light-colored cowboy hat, dark long-sleeve shirt, light pants and carrying a dark bag. As per the media reports, Boelter's known address is a rural home in Sibley County, near the town of Green Isle. The FBI released a photo that appeared to show Boelter standing outside of one of the lawmakers' homes, wearing a mask and dressed like a police officer. The FBI said that it would offer a $50,000 reward for information leading to Boelter's arrest and conviction. Authorities said the suspect was impersonating a police officer while carrying out the attack. Police believed that when the shooter opened fire, he was wearing a latex mask that looked realistic. Boelter had fliers with the words 'No Kings" in his car, a reference to Saturday's planned protests against the Trump Administration, as well as a 'manifesto" and a list of other politicians' names, said police, who briefly cornered the shooter at Hortman's home before the suspect fled. According to ABC News, the list included several prominent Democratic figures, such as Governor Tim Walz, Representative Ilhan Omar, Senator Tina Smith, and Attorney General Keith Ellison. CNN further reported that the list also mentioned abortion providers and pro-abortion rights advocates. Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said at a news conference that Boelter was armed and dangerous. Ties to Governor Tim Walz? According to the New York Post, Boelter was appointed to the Governor's Workforce Development Board in 2019 by Governor Tim Walz. He had previously served on the Governor's Workforce Development Council, appointed in 2016 by then-Governor Mark Dayton. His term ended in January of 2023, according to state records. It has been reported that Boelter worked as 'Director of Security Patrols" for a private security company in Minnesota. He previously worked as a general manager at a convenience store chain and at a food manufacturer, according to his LinkedIn profile. First Published: June 15, 2025, 08:16 IST
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- India.com
Donald Trump richer than Mukesh Ambani, Adani, Musk, Bezos? Trump reveals his financial assets, earns Rs 5000000000 from crypto alone, his income from India is…
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