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Accused assassin claims shootings of Minnesota lawmakers unrelated to views on Trump, abortion

“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 said to the Post in one of the video calls. “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.”

He did not expand on which details were left out, only saying it had to do with “things that were going on in Minnesota.”

Two sources familiar with the contents of the letter told the Minnesota Star Tribune last month that Boelter wrote that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar so Walz could run for the U.S. Senate. Boelter also alleged he had been trained by the U.S. military off the books. There were mentions of other Minnesota politicians, but the letter was described as rambling, incoherent, confusing and hard to read.

Hennepin County Attorney spokesperson Daniel Borgertpoepping has said investigators “have seen no evidence that the allegations regarding Governor Walz are based in fact.”

Boelter told the Post he did support Trump, but he refused to speak about his feelings toward Walz.

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