1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist.
No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men.
The silence is deafening.
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Deafening Silence After Mormon Church Shooter Not A "Transgender Leftist" But A Trump Supporter
The event is a case study in how shootings are covered in America.
2. On Sunday, news broke out of Michigan that a lone gunman crashed his vehicle into a Mormon church, opened fire, and set the building ablaze. Almost immediately, speculation swirled on Twitter, with far-right voices rushing to blame a Muslim or a “transgender leftist."
3. But early images told a different story: the truck flew two large American flags and bore an Iraq War veteran plate. The shooter was no Muslim, no trans person. He was a Trump-supporting combat veteran—a cisgender white man who fit the profile of so many American mass shooters.
Iraq war veteran who opened fi...
Thomas Jacob Sanford who opened fire on hundreds of Mormon worshippers pictured in Donald Trump shirt
Four people were killed and at least eight others were wounded in the shooting
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