Utah Senator Mike Lee is under fire for claiming, without a shred of evidence, that the man who gunned down Minnesota Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband John in their home on Sunday was a radical leftist.

“This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way,” Lee posted on X, with the horrifying image of Boetler wearing a human face mask and heavily armed. Lee, who is 54 years old, tweets under the handle “@BasedMikeLee.”

“Nightmare on Waltz [sic] Street,” Lee posted again, referring to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

Elon Musk also felt the need to chime in, writing, “the far left is murderously violent,” on X. Not only did these posts display an appalling lack of basic human empathy, they were also wrong. The shooter, Vance Boelter, was appointed by Walz to a bipartisan advisory board in 2019—the apparent basis for the unfounded conspiracy theory that he was a radical leftist. In fact, he is a Republican, a Trump supporter, and an anti-gay evangelical preacher, as confirmed by his own roommate, David Carlson.

“Carlson—his roommate and best friend, known him since fourth grade—did say Boelter voted for Trump and that he was a strong supporter,” Minneapolis’s KARE TV reported. Boelter also had multiple other Democrats, including Ilhan Omar, on his hitlist.

“1. Reports increasingly confirm that this deranged man was conservative. 2. Using this tragedy to push your own political agenda is disgraceful, people are dead. 3. Saying this on Father’s Day, a day you should be spending quality time with your loved ones, is extremely sad,” Nina Turner added.

“Hey @elonmusk, the person who killed my daughter and 16 others was a Trump and MAGA supporter. The person who killed at Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, MAGA. Those who attacked DC on January 6th causing the death of police, MAGA. I could go on,” said Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jamie was murdered in the Parkland school shooting. “Violence must be condemned. If your only interested in politicizing it, then move on and fuck off.”

The right is so eager to claim that the left is prone to violence that they’ll just spread sensationalist lies that are so weak they can be debunked in minutes. All while they are just as apt, if not more, to political violence than the left.

Donald Trump wants credit for being at the center of several geopolitical conflicts.

In a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday, the president told his followers that he had been the singular solution for calming tensions between Pakistan and India, Serbia and Kosovo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and now, Israel and Iran—and he wants the “people to understand” that any peace was because of his “intervention.”

“Iran and Israel should make a deal, and will make a deal, just like I got India and Pakistan to make, in that case by using TRADE with the United States to bring reason, cohesion, and sanity into the talks with two excellent leaders who were able to quickly make a decision and STOP!” Trump wrote.

“Also, during my first term, Serbia and Kosovo were going at it hot and heavy, as they have for many decades, and this long time conflict was ready to break out into WAR. I stopped it (Biden has hurt the longer term prospects with some very stupid decisions, but I will fix it, again!),” he continued. “Another case is Egypt and Ethiopia, and their fight over a massive dam that is having an effect on the magnificent Nile River. There is peace, at least for now, because of my intervention, and it will stay that way!”

“Likewise, we will have PEACE, soon, between Israel and Iran! Many calls and meetings now taking place. I do a lot, and never get credit for anything, but that’s OK, the PEOPLE understand,” Trump said, before dropping an unsavory twist on his nationalistic campaign tagline: “MAKE THE MIDDLE EAST GREAT AGAIN!”

Israel and Iran traded missiles for the third straight day Sunday in an escalating conflict that has so far killed 224 people in Iran and 14 people in Israel. Some of the Iranian casualties were military targets: two regional sources told Reuters that 20 senior commanders had been killed, as well as six of the country’s top nuclear scientists.

But watching the U.S. president beg for recognition as a supposed peacemaker is a far cry from where he stood on the Israel-Iran conflict just last week.

In a phone call with ABC News’s Jonathan Karl Friday morning, Trump referred to the attacks as “excellent,” remarking that Iran “got hit hard, very hard,” and that there was “a lot more” to come.

Israel’s attack, per Trump, was months in the making.

“I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR, and that Israel has a lot of it, with much more to come—And they know how to use it,” Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday, promising that if Iran refused to come up with a nuclear deal, then there would be “nothing left.”

Despite public opposition, Trump pulled the U.S. out of the original Iran nuclear deal in 2018. That arrangement, signed by several world powers, restricted Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. Countries and organizations around the world lamented the U.S.’s withdrawal, while conservatives and Israel celebrated it.

In the aftermath of the withdrawal, political analysts pointed to three possible reasons for the massive policy reversal: that Trump was attempting to shed the legacy of his predecessor, President Barack Obama; that Trump was cozying up to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; and/or that he had been influenced by a widening cast of yes-men in the White House.

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