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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mike Bedigan

Accused Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter breaks silence after political shootings: ‘It didn’t involve... Trump stuff’

The man accused of fatally shooting a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and attempting to kill two others has broken his silence from inside jail, insisting his actions were not motivated by “Trump stuff” or abortion.

Vance Boelter, 57, said that while he was “pro-life,” that was also not the motive for the alleged murder of Democratic State House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark, on June 14.

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