Vance Boelter pleads guilty in Minnesota lawmaker killings
Vance Boelter, the Minnesota man posing as a police officer and carrying out the politically motivated assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, pleaded guilty today in federal court.
Alt National Park Service438Boelter now faces multiple life sentences for the murders of Hortman and her husband, Mark, as well as the shootings that seriously wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife.
Jennifer17THIS STORY SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE BIGGEST NEWS STORY YESTERDAY!! Because we don't have a free press, there was hardly any coverage.😡 www.huffpost.com/entry/vance-...
catlady49ers.bsky.social15He killed her husband and their dog, too! 😳
Joy Wixx13I think of her often. I don't think her story has gotten the attention it deserves and I'm happy that the piece of human garbage that murdered her pled guilty. He deserves to rot.
brianbergson.bsky.social9Yet the national media is ignoring the story
SassyPants 🌳 Hugger, 📚 🐛9Saving us citizens of MN a very expensive trial and a media circus. Good work by the lawyers.
StillWHer5As a Minnesotan I wanted a trial, and that MFers head on a pike.
Beng5Since it is a federal court, Trump can then pardon him.
braynsford.bsky.social3There’s a special place in hell for that man.
jsbooth.bsky.social2Great but the left really needs to tone down their rhetoric 🤦♂️
alicia-daugherty.bsky.social2Trump will pardon him 😞
cuntyrunt.bsky.social2Can't be pardoned if he gets ganged to death on his first day.
Frogzombie2When does trump pardon him?
lanelancaster.bsky.social2To avoid the death penalty
O’ConnorADV2It is too bad he wasn’t prosecuted by the state so that FOTUS couldn’t pardon him. A pardon is almost guaranteed.
ttsmom98.bsky.social2AND he was a “Christian”, a conservative, if not maga or a Christian nationalist. How come there’s no focus on THAT in the media?? Dump and crew like to blame the political violence on Dems but will ignore this particular, horrendous act. 😡
Q: A Vance Boelter trial may have presented the opportunity for cross examination as people still wonder why the Hortmans were killed. Have you learned more about what motivated the violence? ROSEN: As to what controls the criminal mind, I wonder if any of us will ever really be able to understand
Mike Bloom62It was inspired by the rhetoric of politicians like the president
Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot56Let me help. He was a radicalized MAGA sleeper cell called to action by the orange monster.
cshammer46Seriously every politician on his list was a Democrat .HMMM let me think what motivated him?
Patric Reynolds24I’m not a bettin’ man, but I’m thinking he wouldn’t be giving such canned, spineless answers if Boelter wasn’t a radicalized Trump supporter.
🐸🖕🐸 Heartless Creatures17He miss motive day in his criminal law class?
El Mero Mero12These goblins have no more desire for the truth, than they do for the good of Americans.
jtunes6.bsky.social12When an R is murdered by political violence we are all chastened to turn down the rhetoric, the motive & murderer are front page news for weeks & people lose their jobs for not being sufficiently praising of the victims. When it’s a Dem victim we can’t possibly know the motive & the story is stuffed
Cliff Truesdell10Guy who voted for a Democrat once in 1998 commits a crime: “Antifa-funded left-wing political violence!” Guy who writes a manifesto claiming Donald Trump is sent by Jesus to save America commits a crime: “It’s an unknown mystery for the ages!”
Emily8We know what controls MAGA criminal minds: Trump.
TruelyEsoteric5Political Violence. Except since it was a Democrat I guess it doesn't count.
Worst Heather the Bearded Gargoyle5Except that prosecutors present motives all the time.
antifakate.bsky.social4There are people whose specific job it is to analyze perpetrators in these cases. Or did DOGE ,can them all?
sailustothemoon.bsky.social3Me oh my… how EVER could we possibly divine the motivations of a politically motivated murderer?
Shalom 🙏3MAGA cult follower; that’s all you need to know. Hate is the reason
PhoenixDogLover2Who can even know what goes through the minds of criminals? Certainly not those of us who sit with and interview them for hours and hours.
Vance Boelter, the man charged in the attacks against Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, changed his plea to guilty in his federal case on Thursday. When Boelter admitted that he shot Melissa Hortman several times and then put a gun to her head and killed her, sobs broke out in the courtroom.
Khashoggi's Ghost75Boelter pleaded guilty to all six counts: two stalking, two murder counts and two federal firearm-shooting offenses. "The terms of our offer to Mr. Boelter were: if you plead guilty and take consecutive life sentences, we will take the death penalty off the table." abcnews.com/US/suspect-m...
RIP America 🇨🇦6Assuming it being a state charge at least the ignorant orange toddler can't pardon him.......
Season5I live in Minnesota. I will never forget that day. Today, the shooter plead guilty on federal charges and faces 2 life sentences + 40 years. I just hope that the State case has the same result so that he can't be pardoned.
The man who killed a top Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and her husband pleads guilty to federal charges. Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty. https://cnn.it/4gfx8S5
Holli Winters6He's going to get a pardon from Trump. Likely not right away, but Trump will do it to piss off Dems. 🤬
shopgirl2694.bsky.social3Hopefully Minnesota has plans to charge him with state charges. We have no department of justice left and the jokers that are still there cannot be trusted.
Traveling lady2I hope MN state charge him too.
