Minnesota’s flagship paper got here beneath hearth over the weekend after a columnist defended Democrat Gov. Tim Walz reasoning for pardoning an unlawful immigrant simply earlier than the convicted baby rapist was set to be deported.
“The Minnesota Star Tribune is cheering on Tim Walz defending an unlawful alien monster who raped a ten 12 months previous woman. Nobody ought to learn this wicked rag. They’re sick,” mentioned Home Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., on X.
Minnesota’s Board of Pardons consists of Walz, state Legal professional Basic Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson.
They voted on June 10 to grant clemency to Tou Lue Vang, a Laotian nationwide who between 2002 and 2004 repeatedly raped a toddler. Lue was set to be deported from the USA earlier than the clemency was issued.
In a piece of the column known as “Cheers to Gov. Tim Walz,” author Rochelle Olson praised the governor and failed vice presidential candidate for his resolution to defend the pardon.
“The governor refused to again down from his vote to pardon a Hmong man convicted of felony sexual assault in 2006. It’s important that Tou Lue Vang wanted solely two of three votes from the state Board of Pardons, however he obtained unanimous assist,” the column states.
Olson didn’t point out that Vang’s rape sufferer was a minor, or that Vang raped the kid a number of occasions over the interval of two years. She did reference a letter from the sufferer addressed to the pardon board supporting Vang’s clemency.
A spokesperson for the paper informed Fox Information Digital, “The Minnesota Star Tribune often publishes a variety of opinions throughout the political spectrum.”
“On this case, our opinion columnist agreed with a unanimous pardon by the Minnesota state board of pardons, together with Governor Tim Walz, Legal professional Basic Keith Ellison and state Supreme Court docket Chief Justice Natalie Hudson,” they added.
Olson launched right into a tirade about Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioters in her column, likening their actions to that of the international baby rapist.
“Vang’s actions 20 years in the past had been terrible, however so had been the violent protests on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and people of us obtained presidential pardons,” the creator wrote.
Writer Dennis Neale slammed that comparability in a submit on X, writing: “The Star Tribune likens repeatedly raping a 10-year-old woman to protesting within the Capitol on Jan 6. You fluppin’ idiots.”
“Minnesota’s largest paper really found out a technique to shove January sixth into this as a technique to excuse an unlawful immigrant who sexually assaulted a toddler,” mentioned one other X persona. “One of the crucial insane issues I’ve ever seen.”
“The Minnesota Star Tribune simply gave a ‘Cheers’ to Tim Walz for standing by his pardon of a convicted baby rapist. Completely disgusting,” mentioned on-line commentator Dustin Grage.
“The degeneracy of the fashionable left can be inconceivable to magnify as a result of it’s inconceivable to magnify infinity,” mentioned Claremont Institute senior fellow Jeremy Carl.
Nick Freitas, one other on-line persona, wrote, “Each time I believe I despise the mainstream media sufficient, they triple their efforts.”
Walz’s makes an attempt to guard Vang — and his protection of the pardon — proved moot when on July 10, Secretary of State Marco Rubio introduced that the unlawful alien had been deported to his native Laos.
“Simply weeks in the past, a international baby rapist was freed to as soon as once more endanger America’s kids after receiving a pardon from Minnesota Governor Tim Walz,” Rubio informed Fox Information Digital on the time. “Tue Lue Vang admitted to committing heinous crimes towards a 10-year-old woman in Minnesota. He tried to pay his sufferer for her silence and dismissed his acts of kid abuse as a ‘minor factor.’”
“Simply days earlier than he was scheduled to be deported, the Minnesota Governor pardoned him, setting him free to hazard American households as soon as once more,” he continued.
“That’s why I terminated his authorized standing in the USA. Vang has now been faraway from our nation and can by no means pose a menace to any American ever once more.”
Days after Vang’s deportation, Walz doubled down on his resolution to grant clemency.
“Did that make us any safer?” Walz questioned. “Did that make the youngsters which might be left behind any extra steady? Did it enhance the concept that we will’t all be judged by our worst day?”
