After a man killed a Minnesota state legislator and her husband then shot and injured another state legislator, WorldNetDaily immediately went into conspiracy mode. An anonymously written June 14 article hyped that the shooter “is a political appointee of the state’s governor and last year’s Democratic vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz.” A June 15 article by Joe Kovacs hyped:
Media critics are urging the firing of CNN’s Brian Stelter after the network’s controversial media reporter tried to politicize Saturday’s shooting of two Minnesota Democrats by an appointee of Gov. Tim Walz.
Stelter was reacting to a post on X by CNN correspondent Edward-Isaac Dovere, who stated:
“In the last week, Marines were deployed in an American city,the president has called for a gov to be arrested &the speaker of the House has called for that gov to be tarred & feathered, a senator has been pinned & handcuffed, and 2 state legislators have been shot in their homes.”
Stelter posted his own opinion on the matter, indicating:
“And it all points in the same direction:”
As if WND is not trying to politicize the shooting by trying to link the shooter to Walz. Indeed, a June 16 article by Kovacs did just that by quoting a right-winger who sought to blame Walz for the shootings:
In the wake of the Minnesota shootings that left a former lawmaker and her husband dead as well as two others injured, former Minnesota Vikings and University of Minnesota football player Jack Brewer is hammering Gov. Tim Walz and other Democrats for allowing the state to become “the capital of chaos in America.”
“We need to start calling this what it is. These people have lost their minds,” Brewer told Fox News Digital.
“I am heartbroken to see one of the most amazing states in America completely turned around under Gov. Tim Walz. Minnesota is confused.”
[…]Brewer is now urging a “return to masculinity.”
“On this Father’s Day, I wish Minnesota would focus on restoring fatherhood – protecting women, protecting families. Tim Walz is the example of a weak, emasculated leader. That is not what God made fathers to be. It’s pathetic,” Brewer said.
One might say that the shooter was exhibiting a certain band of masculinity, but Brewer and Kovacs don’t mention that.
Kovacs cranked out another article later that day featuring more conspiratorial rantings:
“This does not smell good.”
That’s the opinion of Alex Jones of Infowars who is raising the possibility that suspected Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter is merely a patsy being framed to cover up a larger false flag Deep State operation.
Boelter was captured Sunday evening in rural Sibley County, Minnesota, after allegedly killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and seriously injuring state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, early Saturday.
“No Kings” flyers were discovered in his vehicle.
Before Boelter’s arrest, Jones said in a broadcast, “This has got the signs of a setup all over it.”
“I saw the video of his obese roommate reading his text message to the news yesterday, and it came off as very theater kid,” Jones said.
“How do you walk into someplace and you see a bowl of fruit form 20 feet away you go, ‘That’s fake.’ It looks real, but you just in your mind know. … You know when you see something fake. And I’m not saying it’s fake. I’m saying it’s my opinion.”
“He had 70 targets, so were they planning to hit more people, whoever this group is, and then blame Trump?”
Kovacs didn’t mention that Jones has discredited himself by repeatedly lying about the Sandy hook massacre, which resulted in a massive legal judgment against him that he’s refusing to pay. Instead, Kovacs perpetuates the conspiracy by claiming that “Others are raising the possibility someone shorter and thinner than Vance Boelter may have been the perpetrator, who wore a latex mask to conceal his identity.”
This was followed by a June 21 article republished from the discredited Gateway Pundit:
Vance Boelter, the 57-year-old suspect in a deadly political assassination spree, has penned a chilling letter to the FBI, claiming he was secretly trained by the U.S. military “off the books” and alleging that far-left Governor Tim Walz personally ordered him to assassinate Senator Amy Klobuchar to clear the way for Walz’s own Senate ambitions.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Vance Boelter has pointed the finger at far-left Governor Tim Walz in a chilling handwritten “confession letter” addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel.
In fact, authorities have called Boelter’s letter “delusional.”
It soon became clear, however, that Boelter is a right-winger who voted in Minnesota’s Republican primary last year. As such, WND pretty much stopped covering the story — it’s no fun to spew conspiracy theories when the subject is one of your own. The fact that WND dropped this story after Boelter’s right-wing leanings became clear is proof positive that it was indeed trying to politicize the story — you know, the same thing it tried to accuse Stelter of doing.