Trump and other Republicans mock Democrats after Minnesota legislator kills | American Politics

Utah Senator Mike Lee sounds like many other Republican politicians Democratic lawmaker fatal shooting This weekend in Minnesota.

“These hate attacks have no status in Utah, Minnesota or anywhere in the United States. Please join me in condemning this meaningless violence and pray for the victims and their families.” Write on Twitter/X.

That was his official account. On his personal X account, he posted a series of memes about the attack Minnesota State Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Mark Dead, state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were seriously injured.

“That’s what happens when Marxists don’t leave.” Postedand there is also a photo of the suspected gunman Arrested on Sunday. He follows Post photos and wrote “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” a typo for the state’s Democratic Governor Tim Walz, who was called Kamala Harris’s campaign companion last year.

This is the split screen that Republicans play among Republicans after the shooting on Saturday morning, the latest in the wave of political violence in the United States Two attempts to assassinate Donald Trump runs for president A flamethrower attack At a rally of Israeli hostages in Colorado A series of threats A judge against the US president.

While many in the Republican Party condemned the Minnesota attack, others used it as an opportunity to mock Democratic opponents or suggest that they incited violence in some way. Experts warn that it might be the latter statement that appeals to a larger audience.

“I think there is no doubt that this information represents the representative of the modern Republican Party, which is more important than any stock idea and prayer tweets raised by employees,” said Jon Lewis, a researcher at the George Washington University Extremism Program.

Democrats are clear about condemning the shooting, as is the top of Congress Republicans. “This terrible political violence has no place in our society and every leader must explicitly condemn it,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he was “shocked by what happened in Minnesota” and “political violence has no place in our country.”

Republican Party in Minnesota Condemn the shootingand the entire congressional delegation of the state.

But the message is even more mixed when it comes to Trump and his most zealous allies on social media. Trump initially condemned the attack, explain Saturday: “The United States of America will not tolerate this horrible violence. God bless the great people of Minnesota, this is a truly great place!”

But the next day, he raised a different tone, telling ABC News that the shooting was “a terrible thing” but called Waltz “a terrible governor” and “a very incompetent man.” “I might call him, I can call someone else,” he added. On Monday afternoon, Waltz’s office said Trump did not call.

Meanwhile, on X, the famous right-wing figure quickly promoted conspiracy theories about what happened. Elon Musk, Previous Trump partner The person who runs Tesla shared a tweet on a pro-Trump account, part of which was: “The left has become a comprehensive domestic terrorist organization.”

“The left is the murderous one” Musk In his reply,shared by Lee, and added: “Fact check: true”.

Laura Loomer, right-wing extremist Said he played a role Suspects allegedly linked to the “No King” protests when Trump is encouraged to fire national security officials That’s nationwide Waltz met him on Saturday.

The symbol of the atmosphere brought by Trump, the spread of strange falsehoods and conspiracy theories on social media is American politics Over the past decade, Lewis believes that the country is now at a time when such fabrications are more prominent than politicians’ meticulously written statements.

“The real problem now is that nothing important is that I think the mainstream power in this country has been achieved. It has no consequences for peddling falsehoods or conspiracies,” he said.

Robert Pape, director of the University of Chicago Security and Threat Program, said the United States has entered an era of “violent populism” if Democrats Republicans want to stop it, and they need to make a common statement against what’s going on in Minnesota.

“You have to negotiate these rules here on these roads, so to speak, because if both sides continue to accept only the unconditional surrender of the other side, then, like in Ukraine, you will not end this very soon and things will escalate.”