Donald Trump with Speaker Mike Johnson and MAGA Republicans are supporting hate throwing political red meat to dangerous extremits

The horribly tragic political assassination in Minnesota on June 14, 2025, should not be surprising. 

"His crimes are the stuff of nightmares," Thompson said at a news conference as he outlined the "chilling" details.  Vance Boelter, 57, is accused of killing Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounding Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in "political assassinations

Donald Trump’s rally cry on January 6, 2020, fired up a mob turned loose on the capitol. He tried to hide the violence for history by pardoning the convicted criminals who attacked, destroyed, injured and killed.

Echo opinion letter published in the Pagosa Springs Sun a Colorado newspaper:

No Kings peaceful protest sign June 14 2025

Since inauguration day 2025, the talk and the tactics of the Trump administration, its supporters in Congress, and right-wing leaning news, podcasters and influencers have been a steady drumbeat for destroying, demeaning and dehumanizing. Think about wholesale elimination of federal agencies (much of it illegal), broadside attacks on universities, cultural institutions and law firms (also mostly illegal), and brutal treatment of immigrants and protestors, including use of force against members of Congress and local officials in New Jersey and against a U.S. Senator in California. Trump’s objectives are revenge and retribution.

Anyone who disagrees with him is an “enemy”, who, he says should be impeached, jailed, investigated or deported (even if they are U.S citizens. Trump’s moral compass is stuck on HATE.

No Kings peaceful protest sign June 14, 2025

Then, in early June, Speaker Mike Johnson, who holds himself to be a person of deep Christian faith, called for California Governor Gavin Newsome to be tarred and feathered, a gruesome form of vigilante punishment meted out in this country into the 20th century. Johnson’s moral compass is not lined up with his professed Christian faith. IOW, Johnson is a hypocrite.

On June 14, 2025, Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman was assassinated in a shooting at her home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, United States. Hortman, the leader of the state house Democratic caucus, was killed alongside her husband, Mark. 

Trump called the assassinations “terrible” and Mike Johnson condemned them. But, that is not enough. They and the Republicans need to take responsibility for their role in fomenting, i.e, instigating, the violence. It is they that tossed the match and have been fueling the fire every day for six months.

In fact, the legacy of Donald Trump, with Mike Johnson and the MAGA Republicans, is political assassination by domestic terrorists. How can anybody believe they are leading this nation in the right direction?

From Candice Jones