The man accused in the politically motivated assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband insisted to The Post this week the murders had nothing to do with President Trump or abortion \u2014 but stopped short of saying what allegedly drove him to kill.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are fishing and I can\u2019t talk about my case\u2026I\u2019ll say it didn\u2019t involve either the Trump stuff or pro life,\u201d Vance Boelter wrote this week from a cell inside Sherburne County Jail in Elk River, about 30 miles northwest of Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am pro-life personaly [sic] but it wasn\u2019t those,\u201d he said, using the jail\u2019s internal messaging system. \u201cI will just say there is a lot of information that will come out in future that people will look at and judge for themselves that goes back 24 months before the 14th. If the gov ever let\u2019s [sic] it get out.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll say it didn\u2019t involve either the Trump stuff or pro-life,\u201d accused Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter told the Post from Sherburne County Jail this week. Sherburne County Jail<\/p>\n
The Post\u2019s communication with Boelter, 57, included messages and two separate, 20-minute video visits Friday \u2014 and were his first public comments, outside of brief court hearings, since his arrest for the murders<\/a> of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in their Brooklyn Park home \u00a0around 3:30 a.m. on June 14.\u00a0 <\/p>\n He\u2019s also accused of shooting state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at their Champlin home during the sick spree.<\/p>\n Boelter harped on a handwritten, one-and-a-half page letter left in an abandoned SUV at the crime scene that was addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel, saying critical elements were kept from the public.<\/p>\n \u201cCan I ask what you heard as an outside person about the note that the alleged person \u2014 I\u2019ll say alleged person \u2014 left in that car, did you hear anything about that?\u201d demanded Boelter, who was wearing a yellow, jail-issued jumpsuit, and spoke with a thick Minnesotan accent.<\/p>\n In the letter, which has not been released publicly, Boelter reportedly claimed he had been secretly trained by the US Military and was asked by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to perform the killings, so that the 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate could run for Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar\u2019s seat.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cCertain 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,\u201d Boelter said during the second televisit Friday, refusing to elaborate, only saying \u00a0the details pertained to \u201cthings that were going on in Minnesota.\u201d<\/p>\n Boelter allegedly wore a creepy latex mask and a police officer\u2019s uniform during the June 14 shootings of state Democratic lawmakers. FBI<\/p>\n \u201cI also made sure when I was arrested that they secured that letter \u2014 I made the request that they secure that letter before it gets destroyed \u2014 because I was concerned somebody would destroy it,\u201d said Boelter, who has grown a salt and pepper goatee since his arrest.<\/p>\n Law enforcement found the letter alongside a hit list of 70 other politicians, including Walz and abortion providers in the North Star State, and flyers for the \u201cNo Kings\u201d anti-Trump rallies<\/a> scheduled the same day as the killings.<\/p>\n He told The Post after a long pause that he supported Trump, but refused to clarify his relationship to and feelings toward Democrat Walz, who appointed Boelter to Minnesota\u2019s Workforce Development Council in 2019.<\/p>\n Boelter is accused of killing Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman (right) and her husband, Mark, and wounding state Sen. John Hoffman (left) and his wife, Yvette. MelissaHortman\/Facebook<\/p>\n In response to a question about his feelings toward the victims and their families, Boelter invoked his Christian faith \u2014 bizarrely recalling a Bible verse in which God tells his followers to love thy neighbors.\u00a0<\/p>\n