Accused Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter expressed fears the US was “turning against Israel” years before he allegedly carried out a sickening political assassination, a former work acquaintance claimed.
Boelter, 57, appeared to become increasingly frustrated by society in the years leading up to the twisted attack and had warned that the US was losing its “Judaic/Christian foundations,” Charlie Kalech, CEO of a web design firm commissioned by Boelter, told ABC News.
Vance Boelter has been charged in connection with the shootings of high-ranking Minnesota Democrats and their spouses. via REUTERSKalech’s firm, J-Town, was chosen by Boelter because they are Jerusalem-based and he wanted to show support for Israel, he said, adding that he worked with Boelter for more than a decade doing web design for various projects.
While working on a concept for a book Boelter had written called “Revoformation,” Kalech said the accused assassin said American leadership “is slowly turning against Israel.”
The assassin wore a rubber mask before the horrific shootings. FBI“I am very concerned that the leadership in the US is slowly turning against Israel because we are losing our Judaic/Christian foundations that was [sic] once very strong,” he wrote in a PowerPoint presentation he sent to Kalech in September 2017 about “Revoformation.”
Kalech took the name of the book to be a mashup between “revolution” and “reformation.”
“I believe that if the Christians are united and the people who are leading this Revoformation are a blessing to Israel that it will be good for both Israel and the US,” the presentation continued.
“Revoformation” was also the name of a ministry that Boelter tried to start, ABC News reported.
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Neither the book or the ministry ever appeared to get off the ground.”It seemed to me like maybe he volunteered more than what was good for him,” Kalech said.
“In other words, he gave too much away instead of worrying about earning money, because he didn’t always have money. It was never clear to me if the ministry really existed. Are there congregants? Is there a constituency? I don’t know. Or was it like something in his head that he was trying to make? That was never clear to me.”
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Despite his naivety, Boelter didn’t obviously demonstrate any signs of radicalism that could have inspired him to allegedly murder a congresswoman and her husband in cold blood, and target many others, Kalech said.
Boelter expressed concern that the US was “turning against Israel” in the years leading up to the assassination. AP“I think he sincerely believed in the projects that we worked on, that he was acting for the greater good. I certainly never got the impression he saw himself as a savior. He just thought of himself as a smart guy who figured out the solution to problems, and it’s not so difficult — so let’s just do it,” Kalech said.
Kalech last had contact with Boelter in May 2022, he said.
Among Boelter’s other schemes was a project to end hunger in America, according to a PowerPoint presentation he sent to Kalech.”We should be embarrassed as a nation that we let this happen and have not correctly [sic] this injustice 100 years ago,” one slide read.
Boelter remains in federal custody on charges of murdering Minnesota Democrat Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and of trying to assassinate state Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette on Friday night.









