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Ryan Seacrest
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Tim Miller
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Tim Miller
Hey everybody. Tim Miller from the Bulwark here. Another update on the investigation into the assassination of State Rep. Melissa Hortman, top Democrat in the Minnesota House, and the attempted assassination of another Democratic lawmaker in Minnesota that the public officials have named the suspect vance bolter. He's 57 years old and you have a video now of him coming to the homes, coming to the doors, doorbell video of him with his kind of fake police truck in the background. As mentioned in the earlier video, he dressed as a cop and impersonated a cop taking out these assassinations. Also assassination attempt in the second case. Also you know we continue to learn more about what is in the car. The list of other groups that individuals he wanted to target all Democrats, including Governor Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, including some left wing activist groups. And so, you know, look, it's not hard to really fully under, to, you know, to get a sense for the motive I guess at this point. And yet I'm reluctant, I was reluctant to come back on, to do this, to talk about what is happening in the dialogue in the far right fever swamps, talking about these assassination attempts. But it has bubbled up to such prominent accounts that I feel like it must be addressed and that is that we are seeing from MAGA Republicans, from influential right wing accounts and the advancement of a notion that this assassin, the suspect was a Democrat of some kind and was unhappy with his fellow Democrats because I guess in Minnesota they just passed a bill or they failed to pass a bill rather that would have given health care to undocumented immigrants. And some Democrats, including the deceased, had voted with Republicans on that bill. And so I guess that is the theory of the case. It is horrific and preposterous and, and speaks to a very dark heart that we are seeing this from the right, that they, that immediately the reaction to this tragedy is, is to advance a lie and a conspiracy to try to win some political battle and some imaginary never ending Twitter war that they're in with the left. And I just want to go through a couple of the examples of this to show you just how prominent this is and how deep it goes. We have Elon Musk himself, the owner of Twitter and the former shadow president. He posted the far left is murderously violent. This is in response to a tweet that lists a couple of different shootings recently, including Luigi Mangione, and lumps in with that this killing of the Minnesota state Rep. The post he's replying to says the left has become a full blown domestic terror organization. So that's what Elon Musk is putting out there. You have Charlie Kirk, one of many people who are blaming this on Tim Walls, I guess because Tim Walls had appointed this man to some nonpartisan board in Minnesota. Charlie Kirk says total shocker that smearing a duly elected president who won an overwhelming electoral mandate as a fascist leads to violent political radicalization. I don't even know how you get your head there, but the Charlie Kirk thing is downright mild compared to what we're seeing in other corners of the Internet. Mike Cernov, again, you might think this is a random person. He has 1.4 million followers, was an early Trump endorser, had a book the Guerrilla mindset about, you know, kind of being an alpha male, quote unquote. That was very influential in the maga rights. This is somebody with a real following and influence. He posted this. Did Tim Walls activate an assassin against a political rival who voted against him? Who voted against his. I think is what he meant to say. Their plan to give illegal immigrants free health care. No. It would be my answer to Max Cernovich on that. Tim Walsh did not activate an assassin against a political rival like this. Like these brain worms are so. Are burrowed so deep that it's like how do you even. How do you live in a society where this stuff is being promulgated? It goes on James woods, the actor James woods, who has 4.8 million followers, resign. Tim Walls, your violent rhetoric is costing too many lives. The New York Post says in a news story. Here's a screenshot here. And they're continuing to update it as news breaks. But they begin with former appointee of Tim Walsh sought in politically motivated assassination of Minnesota lawmaker and husband days after she voted with gop. So again, this is like what they're implying. There is very clear that this must be some Democratic appointee that's mad about this immigration vote. The person had a. We already know. We had a list of people we wanted to kill and it was all Democrats. When something is this obvious and yet a counter narrative develops that is that widespread that goes so high as to include the richest man in the world, the owner of an influencer social media platform, tons of prominent accounts, an influential tabloid like. And these people have lost their mind. Dinesh d' Souza appears on Fox frequently, is also influential. His son in law just got elected to Congress. He's posted like a thousand times this image of no Kings. He tweeted at me among other people. And it's inside of the suspect's car. All these no Kings flyers referencing the no Kings protests that were happening today that were very well attended. Turns out. Appreciate everybody that went out. It was great to see people in New Orleans, but. So Dinesh d' Souza thinks that this is some evidence that he is like a resistance liberal and not the obvious solution which is that he was looking at different potential targets for his politically motivated violence. And we also had a sitting US Senator advancing this lie. Here is Senator Mike Lee. Yeah, that's his real Twitter account. It says based Mike Lee. That's the world we're in right now where U.S. senator has like a troll account where he describes himself as based, but he's responding to libs of TikTok, which is a right wing account that is run by a woman that has been welcomed into the White House, is very influential in Trump world. She is saying that this is a Tim Walls appointee with no king's flyers in his car and he went on a shooting spree. And base Mikely replies to that with Marxism is a deadly mental illness. As if like the notion is this person is a Marxist. He wants us to believe that. It's just, it's fucking insane that a US Senator could put out something that crazy. So the fact that all this is happening when everything is very obvious shows you, I think, is why this is really important to talk about. The far right has this vast disinformation system that is trying to blame every bad thing that happens on Democrats. Even when the facts are blatantly obvious in the other direction, even when it's a Democrat that gets assassinated, they're still trying to blame it on Democrats. And it's a deep sickness and a deep rot that we're seeing in the MAGA media. So given that it's so obvious, it's almost like you don't even need this. But I want to play this video from a local news interview with a longtime friend of the suspect talking about the suspect's politics. We even asked about Mr. Bolter's political affiliations. And David Carlson, once again his roommate and best friend, known him since fourth grade, did say Bolter voted for Trump and that he was a strong supporter. So there you go. Voted for Trump, was a strong Trump supporter. Other evidence, you know, about evangelical Christian views, views on social issues like abortion. So, you know, it's sad. I want to say, if you sense I'm like a little reluctant to do this video, I do think that like one of the deep signs of sickness in our culture all around. And so I want viewers of this to just kind of think about this and sit with this for a second because obviously I'm not trying. There's no comparison between what you see in response to shooters on the left versus what you're seeing from this like, mass disinformation campaign, this heinous, gross, personal disinformation campaign from the right. But I think one of the signs of the sickness in our culture is that when these horrors happen, and they happen too often because of how easy there is access to firearms in this country, whenever this happens, there is like a instinct among people that are very political to like, root for the perpetrator to have been from the other political tribe. And, and I do see this across the board, this, there's this like, design. Like it's almost like a happiness or relief when it's the other side. And I don't like that. It makes me very uncomfortable. It doesn't do anything for Melissa Hartman, her family, for to like, use this as a political cudgel. Her life being snuffed out is not fixed by. It is not remediated in any way. It doesn't bring any comfort to her family. It's not. Doesn't matter. Like, it's not like, you know, no, there aren't going to be big elections won or lost based on who the perpetrator is of random acts of political violence. And so like deciding that like it's Val. You know, caring about who wins the news cycle or whatever I think is, is a sign. It's something that I think about in myself. Like sometimes I notice this, you know, like almost a deep sigh, breath when something terrible happens. Like, ugh, I hope it's not, you know, somebody with my political views because then they're going to get blamed for, right? Like, you just have this feeling and like that's wrong. It's like an inhuman instinct. And I think it's a sign of our broken politics that like that you see that being so widespread. So I just, I just wanted to say that and to say that like, that that is something that all of us, I think, have an obligation to fight against and to be. To have more empathy and just feelings for our fellow Americans, regardless of their political beliefs in times of trauma and crisis and horror like this. And so I did want to say that, but that said, like, you can't not talk about it when the richest man in the world and all these influential Republicans have like a coordinated campaign to try to turn an assassination of a Democrat into like some Democratic, some crime that Democrats are responsible for. And many, many people are in my mentions doing this to me. And so I just want to say, I hope you guys, I don't know that many of them are watching this YouTube, but if you are, if a friend sends it to you, if you have a friend in your life who's doing this, please reflect, please think about your choices because this is a dark place and I don't really expect much better behavior for Elon Musk in the future. But. But boy, what we have seen today from the maga, right, in response to these assassinations is truly depressing, disheartening, depraved, sickening. And so we'll leave it there. As news develops on this, we'll continue to monitor it, of course. And thanks for sticking with us. Subscribe to the feed. We'll see you soon.
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Ryan Seacrest
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Tim Miller
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