MINNEAPOLIS, MN- Ever since the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, the question on everyone’s mind was: “What was his motive?” While mainstream media initially jumped to the conclusion that since the victims were Democrats, it had to be a right-wing extremist, the facts later would not bear those conclusions out.
Why did Vance Boelter shoot and kill Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their Brooklyn Park home in the early morning hours of June 14, 2025?
Why did he shoot state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yevette during the same crime spree?
According to an exclusive interview with The New York Post last week, Boelter insisted the shootings had nothing to do with President Trump or abortion.
It was initially believed that Hortman was targeted because of a controversial vote where she was the only Democrat who voted to repeal eligibility for illegal aliens' access to Minnesota’s subsidized healthcare program.
“You are fishing and I can’t talk about my case…I’ll say it didn’t involve either the Trump stuff or pro live,” Boelter wrote last week from his cell inside Sherburne County Jail in Elk River, located about 30 miles northwest of Minneapolis.
“I am pro-life personally [sic] but it wasn’t those,” he said using the jail’s internal messaging system. “I will just say there is a lot of information that will come out in the future that people will look at and judge for themselves that goes back 24 months before the 14th. If the gov ever let’s [sic] it get out.”
The Post said the contact with Boelter included messages and two separate, 20-minute video visits, which were his first public comments outside of brief court hearings since his arrest for the murders and armed assaults.
Boelter spoke to a handwritten letter left in an abandoned SUV at the crime scene, which was addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel, complaining that critical elements of the letter were kept from the public, The Post noted.
“Can I ask what you heard as an outside person about the note that the alleged person–I’ll say alleged person–left in that car, did you hear anything about that?” Boelter asked.
According to the letter, which has yet to be publicly released, Boelter said that he had been secretly trained by the US military and was asked by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to perform the killings, ostensibly so Walz could run for Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) senate seat.
“Certain details of that letter were leaked out that probably painted one kind of a picture, but a lot more important details that were in that letter were not leaked out,” Boelter said during a second televisit Friday, although he refused to elaborate further.
He would only say that the details involved “things that were going on in Minnesota.”
“I also made sure when I was arrested that they secured that letter–I made the request that they secure that letter before it gets destroyed–because I was concerned somebody would destroy it,” said Boelter.
The letter was found alongside a hit list of 70 other politicians, including Walz and abortion providers in Minnesota, as well as flyers for “No Kings” anti-Trump rallies scheduled the same day as the murders.
Boelter told The Post that he supported Trump, but declined to elaborate on his relationship with and feelings toward Walz, who appointed Boelter to Minnesota’s Workforce Development Council in 2019.
Boelter was asked about his feelings toward the victims and their families, whereby Boelter bizarrely started speaking of his Christian faith and reciting one Bible verse in particular where God tells his followers to love thy neighbors.
“I forgot which verse it was…but I’ve always followed that,” said Boelter.
“You can maybe ask…if somebody believes that, and they love God and that they love their neighbor…allegedly, how could they be involved in a situation where some people are no longer here that were here before?” he asked in a bizarre diatribe.
“I’ll let you chew on that one.”
Boelter also spoke of his family’s turmoil.
“I talked to my wife for 2 minutes shortly after my arrest, and then the call was cut off. Nothing since then. My wife and family had nothing to do with any of this. They were all shocked like others,” he wrote, referring to his wife.
In a statement issued on June 26 through their lawyer, Boelter’s wife said she was “blindsided” by the attacks.
“On behalf of my children and myself, I want to express our deepest sympathies to the Hortman and Hoffman families,” Jenny Boelter said.
“This violence does not at all align with our beliefs as a family.” She did not return requests for comment from The Post.
According to Boelter, he stated that he has only had contact with his wife, The Post, his lawyer, and correctional officers inside the county jail.
“My immune system is failing because I am being held in a booking cell that’s not made to live in,” he claimed.
“[I] wasn’t issued cloths [sic] for almost 3 weeks. Lights never shut off. Sleep on a plastic pad on concrete floor. I’m not allowed to be around or talk to anyone except the guards,” Boelter wrote.
The Post reached out to the Shelburne County Jail for comment; however, no response was received. Likewise, the outlet reached out to the FBI, but no response was received either.
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