GOP Silent as Mormon Church Gunman Identified as 'Ultra MAGA' Trump Supporter

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As the nation reels from another devastating mass shooting—this time at a Mormon church in suburban Michigan—Republican leaders have remained notably silent following revelations that the gunman was a devoted Trump supporter who once proudly wore the label “Ultra MAGA.”

Thomas Jacob Sanford, a 40-year-old Marine veteran from Grand Blanc Township, plowed his pickup truck into a local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday before opening fire on worshippers. Ten people were shot. Four are dead. The church was later engulfed in flames after Sanford used an accelerant to set it ablaze. Two of the victims died from gunshot wounds, and two more bodies were recovered from the debris.

Sanford in a camouflage Trump 2020 shirt that read “Make Liberals Cry Again,” and a Trump-Pence sign still visible on his front lawn just months ago, the political implications became harder to ignore.

So far, Republican leaders have said nothing.

https://dailyboulder.com/gop-silent-as-mormon-church-gunman-identified-as-ultra-maga-trump-supporter/

[Liberal In Texas]

1. Shocked! I tell you. Shocked!

[AllaN01Bear]

27. im not

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. Kick

[Champp]

3. Republicans own this church massacre

all maga

an absolute atrocity

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. They own the majority of the violence that is happening around the country.

They will never admit to that.

But, it is on them. They know it deep down. They also know that there will be a reckoning over this.

Because if there isn't, then we have learned nothing.

[Champp]

24. Yes. The numbers tell the story

right wing violence is topping the Evil Chart by far

[MyOwnPeace]

40. I'm thinking

‘We’ve learned nothing……….’

Evidence: IQ-47 got re-elected, didn’t he?

[OldBaldy1701E]

46. You grok well. (n/t)

[BattleRow]

44. Bully bullets

[gopiscrap]

32. It's Magacide

can't say I object to it though

[Paladin]

4. So, which is less surprising?

1. The fact that the gunman was "Ultra MAGA," or

2. The GOP's silence about it?

Apologies for hitting you with such a tough one...

[Delmette2.0]

31. Or their response?

1. Double down on blaming the liberals.

Or

2. Calling it fake news.

[Be Leave On]

41. picture

His picture shown on the linked Daily Boulder article makes him look like a very stable genius.

[tanyev]

5. And after they stampeded to get in front of TV cameras after Kirk's murder.

🤔

[sop]

17. They were praying for some transgender connection.

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. Why would they? They approve! (n/t)

[Kingofalldems]

8. Oh no way!

Trump gatekeepers say he was just mad at his Mormon ex-girlfriend.

[durablend]

12. Was she trans too?

[usonian]

9. Not seen on a billboard.

[gopiscrap]

33. I love that

[usonian]

34. Steal my graphic! Share!

[Clouds Passing]

10. They are addicted to fear, hate and violence

[OldBaldy1701E]

47. Well, over the years they have learned that it gets results.

So, they keep on doing it, because it keeps on getting results.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

11. Figured he was hardcore MAGA the way Law enforcement was acting when they immediately learned of his MAGANESS.

Not once did I hear broadcast media speak of the killer's political leanings in the aftermath of the killings, either.

[Cosmocat]

13. DTs response was telling

"Another attack on christianity"

They HAVE to be the victim, but clearly it was backloaded - not saying by whom.

[xocetaceans]

14. Is that source credible? It would be nice to see the actual evidence instead of just allusions to it.

...

But as photos and social media posts surfaced showing Sanford in a camouflage Trump 2020 shirt that read “Make Liberals Cry Again,” and a Trump-Pence sign still visible on his front lawn just months ago, the political implications became harder to ignore.

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https://dailyboulder.com/gop-silent-as-mormon-church-gunman-identified-as-ultra-maga-trump-supporter/

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[IronLionZion]

15. Oh so they didn't find bullets with leftist writings this time?

That's the only evidence that matters in this administration. Liberals love to write stuff on bullets.

[Ray Bruns]

30. The FBI didn't have time to plant them. It takes a while to engrave a shelll casing

[wolfie001]

16. His younger brother, in a recent family photo, was sporting a t-shirt that bragged:

"Proud to be a virgin" or something pathetic like that. It'd be laughable but that christian household produced a cold and calculating killer. Very representative of the hateful crowd that are part of the tRUMP regime. I suggest removing all "friends and family" from any future gatherings if they support these monsters.

[lees1975]

18. "An act of targeted violence, though a motive has not been confirmed."

Oh, let me help with that.

A Mormon shot Charlie Kirk.

Settled.

[Martin Eden]

21. That seems likely

Though still speculative pending further information.

[multigraincracker]

19. OmissionLie

the latest definition of Fake New.

[mn9driver]

20. It's not just the GOP

This whole story disappeared from the headlines as soon as it became clear that the shooter was MAGA.

[Martin Eden]

22. When a MAGA Trump supporter does it, he's a lone wolf disturbed individual

When someone on the right is targeted, the entire "Left" and the Democratic Party are to blame -- even before any facts about the shooter are known.

[Rebl2]

23. Of course

not. They won’t ever say anything, unless it’s to say he’s mentally ill.

[surfered]

25. DOJ removes study on right wing violence

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/17/doj-removes-study-on-far-right-attacks/86206037007/

[Ohioboy]

26. What, nothing about rhetoric being to blame?

[orangecrush]

28. KICK

[NoPasaran]

29. Honestly it would be good for society

Honestly it would be good for society to accept that no political tendency has a monopoly on deranged lunatics with access to firearms.

[Cha]

35. Brain Dead Hate Stuffed Psycho. Just

like the Demented, Orange Slathered, Despot.

[ToxMarz]

36. It was clear to me that the media knew this a while ago

by the lack of reporting anything about it even happening, while they were still reporting daily about the Kirk shooter (which Trump would approve of). They knew they couldn't say what they knew about the mormon church attacker without raising the ire of Trump and his base, so they pretended like it didn't happen rather than dance around the story.

[Warpy]

37. They're all deeply in denial

except for the ones who thunder that the punk was an agent of gawd sent to punish (whomever for whatever, they're always real hazy on that part). MAGAts are so deeply convinced they're wearing the white hats (red caps to the contrary) that one of their own couldn't possibly have done this, there must be some mistake.

Um, no mistake, guys, we on the left have been steeped in the teachings of Gandhi, Mandela, and MLK, Jr. for so long it's in our DNA. Believers tend to follow hippie socialist Jesus who found a better way to live rather than Avenging Jehovah. Short term, most of these gun goons are going to be all yours.

MAGAts are having a lot of cognitive dissonance these days with Limbaugh still dead and King Wurst too demented to fill their empty heads with snappy slogans this term, they're all getting a little desperate.

Expect more of these guys to act out and expect a lot of them to act out against their own for lapses in orthodoxy.

[Initech]

38. ...

[BumRushDaShow]

39. It was "disappeared" out of the news like the antivax quack who shot up CDC buildings in Atlanta

[Sibelius Fan]

42. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy watched college football on TV.

Those damn librul colleges are so powerful that even watching their football teams on TV can easily radicalize a good Xian over to the radical left. After that, a mass shooting is pretty much a foregone conclusion.

[Wonder Why]

43. "There was a shooting? Must have been a patriot shooting at libtard Mormons. Flags at half staff for him."

:sarcasm"

[3Hotdogs]

45. From Republican leadership - not even two tots and one pear for the people who lost their lives

on behalf of Charlie Kirk's 2nd Amendment rights.