THIS IS ALL ON HIM
The gruesome shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their families is directly rooted in the unimaginable actions of the America-attacking convicted felon in the White House ...
As I was typing a piece this morning endeavoring to stitch together Flag Day, our army’s birthday, and the peaceful marches against tyranny that are going off all over the United States of America, I got a chilling news bulletin that two Minnesota lawmakers and their families had been shot overnight in their homes by a madman impersonating a police officer.
This is what we know from reporting right now as my fingers hit the keyboard:
State Representative Melissa Hortman and husband, Mark, have died in the attack at their home in the Minneapolis suburbs. State Senator John A. Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also shot multiple times at their house in a nearby suburb, but remain alive.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has called this a “political assassination.”
This is a developing, gruesome, and very American story, and I want to be careful to honor the victims, while channeling my sadness and rage at the state of things in my country in as precise a manner as possible.
So let me start here:
What happened in Minnesota can surprise ABSOLUTELY NOBODY who has been paying even the slightest amount of attention to the sickly state of America in 2025.
It is perhaps the most predictable thing I have seen coming in the roiling wake of a week in which we have seen a United States Senator — a son of Los Angeles — tackled and handcuffed for simply asking a puppy-shooting, ineffectual wax figure to explain herself, and to stop lying about the reason for her agency’s invasion of the city he grew up in. There were no apologies for this disgusting incident.
We have watched helplessly while human beings, one after another, have been swept off our streets by masked monsters, who may or may not be impersonating government law enforcement officers.
We have watched as this grotesque president whipped young, impressionable soldiers into a frenzy and made sure to empty their pockets and fill his by selling them his warped MAGA memorabilia on one of our army bases.
We have gone so far past the unimaginable, it is impossible to know where to begin to connect with the normal.
But let me be crystal clear on this: ALL OF IT lies at the fat, little feet of the convicted felon, who attacked this country on January 6, 2021, did nothing to stop it for hours and instead rooted for its success, and has continued to intentionally throw gasoline on the raging fires he has so eagerly stoked starting in the vicinity of 2010 when he started questioning President Obama’s citizenship.
THAT was the catalyst for everything that has followed, and has lead us to lawmakers and their families now being slaughtered in their homes.
IT IS ALL ON HIM.
Perhaps I am not helping right now, but like so many of you I have grown weary and disgusted waiting for people with heft and alleged status to say what we all know to be true.
The gaslighting has gone on long enough.
My God, today this mess of a man will stand in our nation’s Capitol in that odd way he does … ample ass out, jutted, orange chin forward … and will do his best Mussolini impression by keeping the tanks running on time on their way down our streets.
Are you reading this????????
TANKS.
All this to honor himself on his 79th birthday. If there is any good news here, and you have to squint hard to see it, he has climbed another notch on the actuarial life table.
I have said enough for now, my friends. Like you I am aching inside. My fury wringing out tears …
Once I give this a quick proofread, I will ready myself for our march here in Madison, Wisconsin, and join tens of thousands of other hearty souls who love their country enough to assemble peacefully on her behalf.
We are still the lucky ones. Nobody has turned their guns on us — yet.
(D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here.)
Their blood is on Trump’s hands and the violent threats against protesters coming from MAGA along with now a mass shooting threat of protesters as well as IED threats, if there is anything that happens that blood covers Trump’s face and his horrible suit he wears. The blood will be able to hide in his tie, but, it’s still there.
It is unbelievable the violence and chaos being seen in America. I blame judges and the supreme court, they continue to fail in doing their job. The TACO and his regime have been given the green light to do as they want without any consequences. I have believed and now know that when the TACO made saying any doing hate filled acts justifiable, the nuts have seen this as a clear indication that they can do whatever they want!