If it wasn’t obvious before, alleged murderer Vance Boelter is an absolutely cracked nut. The question is, what did Democrats like Tim Walz know about the shooter before the public knew anything?

The assassination of Melissa and Mark Hortman, and the attempted murder of Mike, Yvette, and Hope Hoffman, has almost disappeared from the media. Granted, there is a lot happening in the world right now, but the murders of elected legislators, especially Democrats, should have been front page news for a long time. While the manhunt was on for the suspect, the story had to be covered. But once Boelter was identified, and his motivations and associations began to get closer scrutiny, the media began to lose interest. Why? You would think that a crazy man with a hit list that targeted Democrats and abortion clinics would continue to be a hot topic for a long time. However, once Boelter was actually captured, the story came to a sudden end nationally.

And now we have a better idea why the story has disappeared nationally. It was never about abortion – at least, not completely. Vance Boelter is more than a few screws loose. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune (local media, of course, being much closer and more invested in the story), Boelter believed that Governor Tim Walz wanted him to assassinate people – including Senator Amy Klobuchar. A letter addressed to the FBI, in which Boelter apparently confessed to murdering the Hortmans and shooting the Hoffmans, laid out his crazy in detail.

In a rambling, conspiratorial letter addressed to the FBI, alleged assassin Vance Boelter claimed Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Walz could run for the U.S. Senate, according to two people familiar with the contents of the letter.

The letter is the clearest evidence yet of Boelter’s mindset after the targeted violence against Minnesota politicians last week. It is incoherent, one and a half pages long, confusing and hard to read, according to two people familiar with the letter’s contents. It includes Boelter alleging he had been trained by the U.S. military off the books, and that Walz, who is not running for Senate, had asked him to kill Klobuchar and others.

No one actually believes that Walz ordered a hit on Klobuchar, or why that would involve killing Minnesota state legislators. Still, prosecutors were quick to say that there is no evidence of Walz’s involvement, confirming that the letter exists, and contains this insanity.

Asked to comment about the letter, Hennepin County Attorney spokesperson Daniel Borgertpoepping said the office cannot comment on an open investigation but “due to the seriousness of the allegations it contains, we will state only that we have seen no evidence that the allegations regarding Governor Walz are based in fact.”

Walz’s spokesman, Teddy Tschann, said in a statement Friday afternoon that “this tragedy continues to be deeply disturbing for all Minnesotans.”

“Governor Walz is grateful to law enforcement who apprehended the shooter, and he’s grateful to the prosecutors who will ensure justice is swiftly served,” Tschann said.

Klobuchar said in a statement Friday that, “Boelter is a very dangerous man and I am deeply grateful that law enforcement got him behind bars before he killed other people.”

The question becomes, when did Walz and Klobuchar know about this letter? It was apparently found in the car at Boelter’s home, not the “police” car at the crime scene (which contained the hit list and the “No Kings” signs). Did Walz actually know about Boelter’s claims when he called the Hortman murders a “political assassination”?

I don't think Walz holds any responsibility for this. The dude was just legit crazy.

But I do think it's pretty crappy that Walz went out and suggested this was the fault of Republicans when he knew what this letter said from day one. https://t.co/xtu42uSftV

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 20, 2025

Maybe he didn’t, but that letter was discovered on Saturday, and there’s no way that both Walz and Klobuchar weren’t immediately told (in Klobuchar’s case, for her own safety, as Boelter wasn’t in custody) about what that letter said. Once they knew that, the narrative was blown to hell. If Boelter is a nutcase, claiming that he was acting on orders from Walz, it makes it very hard to blame his views on abortion as being the root cause – especially once some tenuous political connections between Walz and Boelter were established.

When Klobuchar was on Meet the Press last week, she tried mumbling something about this guy hating abortion but was fairly quiet about motive. She knew. They all knew. That's why they've shut up about it. https://t.co/FlUvSjbvjo

— Boo (@IzaBooboo) June 20, 2025

And once the Democrats closest to the case began to clam up, and once Boelter was thankfully in custody, the story vanished nationally.

And that's why this was out of the news by Tuesday. https://t.co/yZKeH38szA

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 20, 2025

Much like the assassination attempts on President Trump last year, once the story was no longer of immediate impact, or was politically not useful to the Democrats and the media, the story vanished from the national platform. We still have very little understanding of what motivated Thomas Crooks to shoot Donald Trump, and Ryan Routh was forgotten about once his Ukraine ties were known. And when a shooter’s identity is politically inconvenient, the stories are flushed down the memory hole as quickly as possible, consigned to be “local” news stories for the rest of their cycle.

The Hortman family is grieving, the Hoffmans working toward recovery, Boelter is facing federal charges that will keep him from ever being a free man (and quite possibly make him a dead one), and it seems Tim Walz and Amy Klobuchar, along with other Minnesota Democrats, would like to send this story to the “local” news section permanently. Well, Minnesota is discovering that there may be some serious problems in the state’s political rhetoric.

A long-time lobbyist from Minnesota faces felony charges after allegedly threatening to shoot lawmakers at the Minnesota Capitol, detailing how much ammo he had, and the intent to “blow somebody’s face off.”

Jonathan Bohn, 41, of Woodbury, faces one count of threats of violence after charges state that on June 18, 2025, the Carver County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by a Waconia resident who reported allegedly receiving threatening text messages.

According to a press release sent by the Minnesota House Information Services, the threat wasn’t aimed at a particular lawmaker.

The House Sergeant at Arms’ Office has since said it is not aware of any other threats to staff at the moment.

Bohn has issued a written apology, but holy cow, this is not a normal response to, as he says, “grieving the horrific acts of violence committed against my friends and colleagues.” It is time to throw the book at this guy, and others using language like this, in order to make people actually think about what they are saying. And those elected officials who have fanned the flames of said rhetoric should not be allowed to slink away quietly without accounting for their own actions, or be allowed to cover up how their words may have affected others – especially the unhinged ones.

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