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Trump’s Selective Memory: “Not Familiar” With Assassinated Democratic Lawmaker While Raging About “Left-wing Violence”
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Did #Religion Motivate Assassination of #Minnesota #Lawmaker?
The #media has overlooked #VanceBoelter’s connection to the New #Apostolic Reformation in his alleged targeting of #publicofficials
https://barnraisingmedia.com/did-religion-motivate-assassination-of-minnesota-lawmaker/
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Suspected Assassin Preached on #SpiritualWarfare
Man charged with murdering Minnesota legislator said God would raise up apostles and prophets to correct the church.
Paul O'Donnell, June 16, 2025
"#VanceBoelter, the man arrested in connection with the killing of a Minnesota state legislator and her husband and the shooting of a state senator and his wife on June 14, is an #evangelical missionary who has preached in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in recent years.
"The FBI identified Boelter, 57, as a suspect in the killing of Rep. #MelissaHortman, a Democrat, and Mark Hortman at their home in Champlin, a suburb of Minneapolis. The suspect, who impersonated an officer to gain entry to the Hortmans’ home, was still at the crime scene when police officers arrived, but he escaped after an exchange of fire.
"Earlier, the suspect had shot and wounded Democratic state Sen. #JohnHoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, at their home.
"Boelter identified himself on LinkedIn and other websites as the CEO and president of two security services companies, #PraetorianGuard Security Services and #RedLionGroup, the latter based in DRC, in Central Africa. On his LinkedIn page, which shows that he worked as a general manager at 7-11 in Minneapolis until 2021, he lists himself as open to work.
"But in a video dated February 2023, Boelter is seen preaching at La Borne Matadi, a church in Matadi, on the western coast of the DRC. In one sermon he tells the audience that 'people don’t know what sex they are' because the devil 'has gotten so far into their mind and their soul.'
"In another sermon at the church, one of three he gave from 2021 to 2023, according to Wired, Boelter said, 'They don’t know abortion is wrong, many churches,' he told the audience. 'They don’t have the gifts flowing. God gives the body gifts. To keep balance. Because when the body starts moving in the wrong direction, when they’re one, and accepting the gifts, God will raise an apostle or prophet to correct their course.'
" 'God is going to raise up apostles and prophets in America,' he added, 'to correct his church.'
"On the now-defunct website for #Revoformation, a nonprofit apparently founded by Boelter, a biography said that he was ordained in 1993 and had attended #ChristForTheNationsInstitute in Dallas, a #charismatic 'Spirit-filled Bible School,' according to its website, that helps develop ministry skills."
#MAGA #ChristoFascists
#MAGADeathCult #assassination #USPol #RightWing #MakeAmericaHateAgain #ChristianNationalism -
Suspected Assassin Preached on #SpiritualWarfare
Man charged with murdering Minnesota legislator said God would raise up apostles and prophets to correct the church.
Paul O'Donnell, June 16, 2025
"#VanceBoelter, the man arrested in connection with the killing of a Minnesota state legislator and her husband and the shooting of a state senator and his wife on June 14, is an #evangelical missionary who has preached in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in recent years.
"The FBI identified Boelter, 57, as a suspect in the killing of Rep. #MelissaHortman, a Democrat, and Mark Hortman at their home in Champlin, a suburb of Minneapolis. The suspect, who impersonated an officer to gain entry to the Hortmans’ home, was still at the crime scene when police officers arrived, but he escaped after an exchange of fire.
"Earlier, the suspect had shot and wounded Democratic state Sen. #JohnHoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, at their home.
"Boelter identified himself on LinkedIn and other websites as the CEO and president of two security services companies, #PraetorianGuard Security Services and #RedLionGroup, the latter based in DRC, in Central Africa. On his LinkedIn page, which shows that he worked as a general manager at 7-11 in Minneapolis until 2021, he lists himself as open to work.
"But in a video dated February 2023, Boelter is seen preaching at La Borne Matadi, a church in Matadi, on the western coast of the DRC. In one sermon he tells the audience that 'people don’t know what sex they are' because the devil 'has gotten so far into their mind and their soul.'
"In another sermon at the church, one of three he gave from 2021 to 2023, according to Wired, Boelter said, 'They don’t know abortion is wrong, many churches,' he told the audience. 'They don’t have the gifts flowing. God gives the body gifts. To keep balance. Because when the body starts moving in the wrong direction, when they’re one, and accepting the gifts, God will raise an apostle or prophet to correct their course.'
" 'God is going to raise up apostles and prophets in America,' he added, 'to correct his church.'
"On the now-defunct website for #Revoformation, a nonprofit apparently founded by Boelter, a biography said that he was ordained in 1993 and had attended #ChristForTheNationsInstitute in Dallas, a #charismatic 'Spirit-filled Bible School,' according to its website, that helps develop ministry skills."
#MAGA #ChristoFascists
#MAGADeathCult #assassination #USPol #RightWing #MakeAmericaHateAgain #ChristianNationalism -
It couldn't be about astonishing privilege, could it? Being permitted leeway to commit violence, to use and abuse others, and enjoy impunity — while one is treated as more complex and deeper than the common lot….
Could it?
Burke:
"Brown and Black men, in contrast, are relentlessly typified when they are associated with political violence. Their individual lives rarely matter, it is rare for them to be profiled."
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"They aren’t taken ever as representing movements or institutions or social categories, and their causality is never attributed to other people except family members who might have hurt them or ignored them or offered them their first gun."
We all know, of course, that straight white men are the most persecuted people on the planet. So maybe their experience of marginalization makes them uncommonly complex, people of great depth?
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"There are frequently heroic efforts by their profilers to make them out to be 'lone nuts', serial killers whose ideology is seen as just being a schtick like sending cryptograms and letters to the police, whose only motives are personal, in their madness and sadness and failure, in the circumstances of their lives."
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Burke says,
"I’m not against individuating Vance Boelter, against understanding the distinctive human life he has led. But it is impossible to miss that people like Boelter, like Dylann Roof, like Timothy McVeigh, like Brenton Tarrant, like Anders Breivik, so often seem to warrant being written about in this way."
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When white men in the US commit mass murder in service of right-wing ideology, it's never because of the category or group to which they belong:
It's never because they're Black.
It's not ever because they're Muslim.
Never due to their being gay or trans.
Straight white men are complex. They have depth. They're individuals. We just don't know why they do what they do when they kill people due to their right-wing ideological commitments.
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"a far-right white man who engages in political violence that could fairly be called “terrorist” always warrants individuation after they have committed their crimes. They are never abstracted, never made to stand in for a category of persons whose ideologies and identities are seen as a general danger. The explanation of their violence is always located in the particular and peculiar, in the specifics of their biographies."
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Like every other (straight) white man committing right-wing mass murder in the U.S., his motives, his formation, his commitments are murky: we just can't quite understand why white men do this kind of thing persistently, the New York Times wants us to imagine.
Burke writes,
"I offer this summary of a detailed New York Times profile of Vance Boelter to demonstrate one major point:"
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Timothy Burke takes an incisive, illuminating look at how mainstream media ALWAYS treat stories of white men in the US — typically heterosexual ones — committing mass murder in the name of right-wing ideology.
His lens for the analysis is New York Times' report on Vance Boelter written by Dan Barry, Ernesto Londoño, and Ruth Graham.
Boelter, à la New York Times, is, it turns out, complex, mysterious, an individual.
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#VanceBoelter and the deadly cost of #religious #extremism
Vance Boelter, a #Minnesota man with extensive ties to #conservative #Christianity, was apprehended and charged in the #murders of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband.
But as much as this has been called a “#politically motivated” shooting, it’s worth looking into the role #religion may have played. -
Gizmodo: Alleged Minnesota Shooter Used Data Brokers to Find Lawmakers’ Addresses. “Vance Boelter, the man accused of assassinating a Democratic Minnesota state representative and shooting a state senator on Sunday, acquired the addresses of his victims and other alleged targets by using information collected by online data brokers, according to court documents obtained by Politico.”
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"He would have been exposed to versions of courses currently offered, such as one that explains how 'the World is in an era of serious warfare' and how 'the body of Christ must remember that Jesus has already won this war.' He may have heard the founder’s slogan that 'every Christian should pray at least one violent prayer a day.'”
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"During his time at the school, Boelter would have been … taught to see the world as a great spiritual battleground between God and Satan, and to consider himself a kind of spiritual warrior. He would have been told that actual demonic forces can take hold of culture, political leaders, and entire territories, and thwart God’s kingdom."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"To some degree, the roots of Boelter’s beliefs can be traced to a Bible college he attended in Dallas called Christ for the Nations Institute. A school official confirmed to me that Boelter graduated in 1990 with a diploma in practical theology."
~ Stephanie McCrummen
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
/20https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/vance-boelter-minnesota-shooting/683209/
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"Our work ahead doesn’t just comprise seizing back the reins of government and reestablishing the rule of law and accountability. As Judge William Young, Sen. Tina Smith and Ed Shelleby bravely demonstrated, we must also make the moral case to the public and win back the soul of America from those who have us all accept monsters in our midst.
Wrong is wrong."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"We have already reached the stage where they will mock rather than condemn a political assassination, all in pursuit of online clout and bragging rights among an increasingly desensitized and amoral base of voters. We were well on this road when Paul Pelosi was attacked by a hammer-wielding maniac, and all the right came back with was laughter and more false conspiracies."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"There’s been intense focus these past months on how the White House has exceeded its constitutional authority, and how Republicans have permitted a dangerous erosion of the rule of law.
There’s been less attention, however, on a more overarching question: Do we still want to live in a moral society, governed by good people?
~ Jay Kuo
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"The Reformer obtained a screenshot of Boelter’s voter profile in the GOP Data Center — a national database with voter registration information used to target voters — from a source with access to it, which confirms other reporting about Boelter’s support for President Donald Trump."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"Vance Boelter, the man accused of killing DFL House leader Melissa Hortman and her husband and shooting and injuring DFL Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, voted in the March 2024 Minnesota Republican presidential primary, belying online disinformation that has sought to paint Boelter as a leftist with ties to Gov. Tim Walz."
~ Michelle Griffith
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"In direct violation of the teachings and life of Jesus, the Hateful Faithful are cheering a vicious politician and regime.
People see the rotten presidency and dysfunctional democracy. They know that Hateful Faithful religionists are blessing it. They know how badly the divine imperatives of love and justice are being violated by agents of U.S. imperialism."
~ Wendell Griffen
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
/14https://wendellgriffen.substack.com/p/hateful-faith-a-rotten-presidency
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"And we're seeing that in real time with them now associating with Donald Trump the most godless, like I would call him, if he was a biblical figure, I would say the pharaoh, the modern pharaoh, that they have attached their hopes and dreams to this man."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"Then it becomes very easy to rationalize the use of violence to repel this evil demonic force in order to save your country. And also you have been chosen by God to purge and purify this land, this chosen land of America from this demonic force, right?"
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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"Caravan, invaders, rapists, criminals, Haitians eating dogs and pets. Once you dehumanize them and call them, you know, and then you promote conspiracy theories like QAnon. Where you say they're led by a cabal of international sex traffickers. I'm not making this up, folks. That groom children and prey on them and sexualize them."
#VanceBoelter #ChristianNationalism #violence #evangelicals
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Surprise: Minnesota Killer Used Data Brokers To Target And Murder Politicians
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EA-Irish Times Podcast: #MinnesotaShootings, #Trump 's Politics of Violence, and the Necessity of Protest
#MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman #VanceBoelter #NoKings
https://eaworldview.com/2025/06/minnesota-shootings-trump-politics-violence-necessity-protest/
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From Ken Klipperstein
How #Minnesota Police Fueled Insane #ConspiracyTheory About Assassin
#ElonMusk, US #SenatorMike Lee try to link #VanceBoelter to Gov #TimWalz
“The alleged shooter is a #Trump supporter, #conservative #Christian, #AntiAbortion activist, & Walz hater, according to all accounts. Boelter would ‘be offended if people thought he was a Democrat,’ a childhood friend & roommate of his has said.”
#MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman #shootings #PoliticalViolence
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-minnesota-police-triggered-insane -
The suspect in the #shootings, #VanceBoelter, was arrested on Sunday night after a 2-day manhunt. LEOs said Boelter had a manifesto & a list of targets, which included several other #Democratic lawmakers & #PlannedParenthood centers.
Gov #TimWalz has called the shootings “an act of targeted #PoliticalViolence,” though the exact motive for the attack is not yet clear.
[it is]As of Tues, Walz had reportedly still not heard from #Trump.
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EA-Irish Times Podcast: #MinnesotaShootings, #Trump 's Politics of Violence, and the Necessity of Protest
#MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman #VanceBoelter #NoKings
https://eaworldview.com/2025/06/minnesota-shootings-trump-politics-violence-necessity-protest/
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Minnesota shooting suspect attended Dallas religious school, school confirms
Vance Boelter, the suspected killer of a Minnesota lawmaker, attended Christ For The Nations Institute an inter-denominational Bible college with Pentecostal, charismatic and evangelical roots.
#Dallas #VanceBoelter #ChristForTheNationsInstitute #Minnesota #AdrianJAshford #USPol #Texas
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CW: U.S. Politics, Minnesota, political assassinations
The time line on the murders of Melissa and Mark Hortman, the attacks on John and Yvette Hoffman, the police response, and the manhunt for Vance L Boelter, contains this gem:
#USPolitics #Minnesota #PoliticalAssassinations #MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman #VanceBoelter
https://www.startribune.com/vance-boelter-captured-sibley-county-mn/601373799
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"The people in charge are hurting the whole country on purpose because half the country or more is inhabited by people they think of as their enemies. That’s really extraordinary not just in the light of American history but global history. The closest comparisons are to societies that have descended into genocide."
~ Timothy Burke
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
/21https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/on-the-matter-of-no-kings
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#VanceBoelter charged w #assassinating a #Minnesota state lawmaker #MelissaHortman and shooting another will face federal murder charges, which could allow for the death penalty, federal officials announced Monday. He is charged w first-degree murder, which would require a grand jury indictment and carry a mandatory sentence of life without the possibility of parole, Mary Moriarty, the Hennepin County Attorney, said at a news conference in downtown #Minneapolis.
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"Even as the manhunt continued for the pro-Trump terrorist, even as Minnesota grieves, Trump posted another Truth Social post adopting the language of Nazis and pitting his ICE goons against 'Radical Democrat [sic] Politicians,' stoking yet more violence against them.
Stephen Miller and Donald Trump have made a choice: To hunt law-abiding migrants rather than the Trump supporters gunning down Democrats in their homes."
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
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"It will be some time before we learn whether Vance Boelter, the Trump supporter charged with assassinating Melissa Hortman, could have been stopped if Trump hadn’t dismantled efforts to fight terrorists like Boelter.
But we do know that Trump has done real damage to those efforts."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
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"I had to laugh darkly Saturday evening as I saw many conservatives on social media, prominent and not, try to locate an aha! moment in the fact that Vance Boelter, the Minnesota suspect, was appointed to a state advisory board by two Democratic governors. Please. He was targeting abortion providers. His neighbor said he was a Trump voter."
~ Michael Tomasky
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
/18https://newrepublic.com/article/196851/america-political-violence-terrifying-turning-point
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"For a decade now, Trump has feds his supporters with ever more lavish displays of violence – ugly threats and smears, mass deportations, harsh reprisals against foes, an attack on the Capitol. The episodic violence serve as totems of their tribalism. Over time, it takes ever greater shows of violence to feed the hunger for it. The next performative violence must out-do what came before."
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
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"While political violence has been a recurring feature of American political life, what marks the Trump era and makes it so different is that the president of the United States has immersed himself with almost gleeful fascination in violent threats, themes, urges, and impulses. Trump mythologizes violence."
~ David Kurtz
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
/16https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/a-searing-weekend-of-political-violence
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"Trump has made clear over and over that he approves of violence done in his name, and that he believes that his enemies — whether protestors, Democratic leaders, or his own vice president — deserve to be physically harmed. That creates a permission structure in which MAGA supporters may feel that they can aid the cause, or advance Trump’s agenda, through threats and violence."
#VanceBoelter #Trump #Republicans #violence #bullying #thuggery
/15https://www.publicnotice.co/p/hortman-hoffman-maga-political-violence
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Police arrested #VanceBoelter whom they believe #assassinated #MelissaHortman #Democratic #Minnesota state #representative and her husband Mark Hortman in their home. MN state senator John Hoffman & his wife were also shot by this man at their home in Champlin, and remain in hospital. #maga #trump #evangelical #christian #gunviolence #abortion.
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The suspect is accused of shooting and killing state Rep. #MelissaHortman and her husband, and shooting and injuring state Sen. #JohnHoffman and his wife. #VanceBoelter is scheduled to appear in court on Monday at 1:30 p.m., jail records show. /3 #US
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Suspect in #Minnesota lawmaker #shootings #captured after manhunt, police say #VanceBoelter, the man accused of #shooting 2 #Democratic lawmakers & their spouses, was captured late Sunday in Sibley County after a sprawling manhunt involving more than 100 officers. State Rep #MelissaHortman & her husband, Mark, were shot & killed in their home, while #JohnHoffman & his wife, Yvette, survived.
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-8ce70a94c9eb90688baaa1a71faef6cc
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Wife of #VanceBoelter who killed #MelissaHortman #Democratic #Minnesota state #representative and her husband Mark Hortman - also shot dog, and children were in the house, was wearing a mask and impersonating police officer, early Sat morning - was stopped along with relatives, in #MN with #Gun, #Cash, and #Passports - Assassin still on the run. #Boelter targeted #legislators who are #abortion rights supporters
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Carlson, who has known #VanceBoelter since fourth grade, said Boelter worked for an eye donation center & stayed at the house because it was close to his job. Carlson said he feels betrayed by Boelter & heartbroken for the victims, adding: "His family has got to suffer through this."
#MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman #Minnesota #criminal #law #PoliticalViolence #extremism
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Update
David Carlson, 59, told Reuters that he has been sharing a house in #Minneapolis w/ #VanceBoelter for a little more than a year & last saw him Friday night. Then about 6AM on Saturday, he received a text from Boelter.
"He said that he might be dead soon," said Carlson, who called police.
#MelissaHortman #JohnHoffman #Minnesota #criminal #law #PoliticalViolence #extremism
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/minnesota-shooting-suspect-told-friend-text-message-i-might-be-dead-soon-2025-06-15/ -
#VanceBoelter is the anti-#abortion #Talibangelical #incel who assassinated #Minnesota House Speaker #MelissaHortman and her husband, and who failed in an #assassination attempt of state Senator #JohnHoffman and his wife. He appeared to use vehicles and security gear from his employer #PraetorianGuardSecurityServices. He is still at-large.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14812913/Who-Vance-Boelter-Tim-Walz-appointee-armed-security-training-Africa-named-suspect-Minnesota-Democrat-shootings.html#IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething #Resist #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
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@ginaintheburg This is where the story that they were involved in a Religion came from. Not true. It is Cindy Boelter. And from their people are attaching links likes and etc. that do not belong to Jenny Boelter or Vance. Where is your source of besides a post a random post on X? #VanceBoelter #minnesotaShooting
