Cernovich, a conservative personality whose followers on X include Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House adviser Stephen Miller, speculated in a 1:30 p.m. ET X post, that Walz might have “ordered a hit.”

The assassination of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes are just the latest addition to a long and unsettling roll call of political violence in the United States.

The United States has a long and grim history of political violence, from presidential assassinations to lynchings and violence aimed at Black people in

Jack Brewer, a former Vikings and Gophers player, speaks out on the Minnesota shootings allegedly involving a suspect who was a Walz appointee, claiming the state has become dangerous.

Gov. Tim Walz said that Minnesota Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also each shot multiple times.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and law enforcement officials provide updates on a “targeted” shooting that killed state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and injured state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.