How Trump’s Fascist Rhetoric Produces Political Assassins

Vance Boelter, Hennepin County Jail.

Early Saturday morning, June 14th, 2025–the morning of Trump’s birthday gift to himself in the form of a military parade–Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were murdered in their Brooklyn Park home by a gunman impersonating a police officer. Seven miles away in Champlin, Senator John Hoffman and his wife were shot multiple times and barely survived what Governor Tim Walz called “a politically motivated assassination.”