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As the nation reels from another devastating mass shootingthis time at a Mormon church in suburban MichiganRepublican leaders have remained notably silent following revelations that the gunman was a devoted Trump supporter who once proudly wore the label Ultra MAGA.
Thomas Jacob Sanford, a 40-year-old Marine veteran from Grand Blanc Township, plowed his pickup truck into a local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday before opening fire on worshippers. Ten people were shot. Four are dead. The church was later engulfed in flames after Sanford used an accelerant to set it ablaze. Two of the victims died from gunshot wounds, and two more bodies were recovered from the debris.
Sanford in a camouflage Trump 2020 shirt that read Make Liberals Cry Again, and a Trump-Pence sign still visible on his front lawn just months ago, the political implications became harder to ignore.
So far, Republican leaders have said nothing.
https://dailyboulder.com/gop-silent-as-mormon-church-gunman-identified-as-ultra-maga-trump-supporter/

Liberal In Texas
(15,666 posts)AllaN01Bear
(27,519 posts)
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,493 posts)Champp
(2,225 posts)all maga
an absolute atrocity
OldBaldy1701E
(9,195 posts)They will never admit to that.
But, it is on them. They know it deep down. They also know that there will be a reckoning over this.
Because if there isn't, then we have learned nothing.
Champp
(2,225 posts)right wing violence is topping the Evil Chart by far
MyOwnPeace
(17,386 posts)Weve learned nothing
.
Evidence: IQ-47 got re-elected, didnt he?
BattleRow
(1,833 posts)gopiscrap
(24,482 posts)can't say I object to it though
Paladin
(31,701 posts)1. The fact that the gunman was "Ultra MAGA," or
2. The GOP's silence about it?
Apologies for hitting you with such a tough one...
Delmette2.0
(4,431 posts)1. Double down on blaming the liberals.
Or
2. Calling it fake news.
Be Leave On
(337 posts)His picture shown on the linked Daily Boulder article makes him look like a very stable genius.
tanyev
(47,946 posts)🤔
sop
(16,279 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(9,195 posts)Kingofalldems
(39,915 posts)Trump gatekeepers say he was just mad at his Mormon ex-girlfriend.
durablend
(8,533 posts)usonian
(21,090 posts)
gopiscrap
(24,482 posts)usonian
(21,090 posts)
Clouds Passing
(5,972 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(1,196 posts)Not once did I hear broadcast media speak of the killer's political leanings in the aftermath of the killings, either.
Cosmocat
(15,294 posts)"Another attack on christianity"
They HAVE to be the victim, but clearly it was backloaded - not saying by whom.
xocetaceans
(4,281 posts)But as photos and social media posts surfaced showing Sanford in a camouflage Trump 2020 shirt that read Make Liberals Cry Again, and a Trump-Pence sign still visible on his front lawn just months ago, the political implications became harder to ignore.
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https://dailyboulder.com/gop-silent-as-mormon-church-gunman-identified-as-ultra-maga-trump-supporter/
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IronLionZion
(50,026 posts)
That's the only evidence that matters in this administration. Liberals love to write stuff on bullets.

Ray Bruns
(5,639 posts)wolfie001
(6,245 posts)"Proud to be a virgin" or something pathetic like that. It'd be laughable but that christian household produced a cold and calculating killer. Very representative of the hateful crowd that are part of the tRUMP regime. I suggest removing all "friends and family" from any future gatherings if they support these monsters.
lees1975
(6,786 posts)Oh, let me help with that.
A Mormon shot Charlie Kirk.
Settled.
Martin Eden
(14,914 posts)Though still speculative pending further information.
multigraincracker
(36,374 posts)the latest definition of Fake New.
mn9driver
(4,785 posts)This whole story disappeared from the headlines as soon as it became clear that the shooter was MAGA.
Martin Eden
(14,914 posts)When someone on the right is targeted, the entire "Left" and the Democratic Party are to blame -- even before any facts about the shooter are known.
Rebl2
(17,049 posts)not. They wont ever say anything, unless its to say hes mentally ill.
surfered
(9,543 posts)Ohioboy
(3,799 posts)orangecrush
(26,902 posts)NoPasaran
(17,315 posts)Honestly it would be good for society to accept that no political tendency has a monopoly on deranged lunatics with access to firearms.
Cha
(314,741 posts)like the Demented, Orange Slathered, Despot.
ToxMarz
(2,571 posts)by the lack of reporting anything about it even happening, while they were still reporting daily about the Kirk shooter (which Trump would approve of). They knew they couldn't say what they knew about the mormon church attacker without raising the ire of Trump and his base, so they pretended like it didn't happen rather than dance around the story.
Warpy
(113,978 posts)except for the ones who thunder that the punk was an agent of gawd sent to punish (whomever for whatever, they're always real hazy on that part). MAGAts are so deeply convinced they're wearing the white hats (red caps to the contrary) that one of their own couldn't possibly have done this, there must be some mistake.
Um, no mistake, guys, we on the left have been steeped in the teachings of Gandhi, Mandela, and MLK, Jr. for so long it's in our DNA. Believers tend to follow hippie socialist Jesus who found a better way to live rather than Avenging Jehovah. Short term, most of these gun goons are going to be all yours.
MAGAts are having a lot of cognitive dissonance these days with Limbaugh still dead and King Wurst too demented to fill their empty heads with snappy slogans this term, they're all getting a little desperate.
Expect more of these guys to act out and expect a lot of them to act out against their own for lapses in orthodoxy.

BumRushDaShow
(161,068 posts)Sibelius Fan
(24,748 posts)Those damn librul colleges are so powerful that even watching their football teams on TV can easily radicalize a good Xian over to the radical left. After that, a mass shooting is pretty much a foregone conclusion.
Wonder Why
(6,232 posts):sarcasm"
3Hotdogs
(14,625 posts)on behalf of Charlie Kirk's 2nd Amendment rights.