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15 hours ago | 
theblaze.com | Joseph M. Hanneman
The wife of the man charged with a June 14 shooting rampage that killed a top Democratic Minnesota lawmaker says she was “shocked, heartbroken, and completely blindsided” by the violence that led to the biggest manhunt in state history. “This violence does not at all align with our beliefs as a family,” said Jennifer Boelter, 51, of Green Isle, Minn. “It is a betrayal of everything we hold true as tenets of our Christian faith.
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1 day ago | 
theblaze.com | Joseph M. Hanneman
The way suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle sees it, he has lived through 1,004 betrayals — and counting. O’Boyle was rewarded for his whistleblower disclosures to Congress with a loss of pay and benefits, attempted character assassination, and what he said is a malicious FBI effort to destroy him and his family.
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4 days ago | 
theblaze.com | Joseph M. Hanneman
The assassination of a top Minnesota Democratic lawmaker has taken a bizarre turn, with accused murderer Vance Luther Boelter telling the FBI that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) told him to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) so that Walz could run for U.S. Senate, a Minnesota newspaper reported.
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1 week ago | 
theblaze.com | Joseph M. Hanneman
In a letter to the FBI, suspected political assassin Vance Luther Boelter blamed Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for the June 14 shooting rampage that killed a key Democratic House member and her husband and seriously wounded a Democratic state senator and his wife. Liz Collin of Alpha News broke the story Friday, citing “multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.”Gov. Tim Walz said Democrats should ‘bully the s**t out of’ President Trump.
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1 week ago | 
theblaze.com | Joseph M. Hanneman
Organizations that helped Vance Luther Boelter become a Christian preacher and hosted him as he gave his faith testimony quickly disavowed him after he was charged in federal court June 16 with the assassination of a top Democratic Minnesota representative and her husband and the serious wounding of a Democratic state senator and his wife. Boelter, 57, of Green Isle, Minn., studied practical theology and pastoral leadership at the Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas.
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1 week ago | 
theblaze.com | Joseph M. Hanneman
A cell phone associated with the Minnesota residence of accused political assassin Vance Luther Boelter went on extensive travel over the past three years — including trips to Dubai, Turkey, and India — the Oversight Project reported Tuesday. Based on a geofence analysis of Boelter’s home in Green Isle, Minn., the Oversight Project said it found a “unique device” that it tracked going back three years.
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1 week ago | 
theblaze.com | Joseph M. Hanneman
The U.S. Department of Justice charged Vance Luther Boelter with murder and stalking in the assassination of a top Minnesota lawmaker Monday and revealed he allegedly went to four state legislators’ homes Saturday intending to kill them. Boelter, 57, of Green Isle, Minn., was captured at 9:15 p.m. Central on Sunday, June 15, after the largest police manhunt in Minnesota history. He was about a mile from his home and 60 miles from where the murders took place.
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1 week ago | 
theblaze.com | Joseph M. Hanneman
The wife of the man suspected of assassinating the former speaker of the Minnesota House and her husband was detained by police about 85 miles north of the Twin Cities riding in a vehicle containing cash, passports, a weapon, and ammunition. Jennifer Boelter, 51, of Green Isle, Minn., was detained after police stopped the vehicle near Onamia, Minn. Police had been tracking the vehicle, television station KSTP reported.
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2 weeks ago | 
theblaze.com | Joseph M. Hanneman
President Donald J. Trump has authority under the U.S. Constitution and federal law to call the National Guard into service for defined purposes that include putting down rebellion, defending against invasion, and ensuring execution of the laws of the United States.
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2 weeks ago | 
theblaze.com | Joseph M. Hanneman
One hundred and forty-one days after he was pardoned on Jan. 6 criminal charges by President Donald J. Trump, Elias Nick Costianes Jr. has finally been ordered to be released from prison on bond by Senior U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar. Costianes was originally denied post-pardon freedom because Judge Bredar — a 2010 appointee of President Barack Obama — ruled that some of the charges stemming from a Jan. 6-related FBI search of Costianes’ Maryland home were not covered by Trump’s Jan.
