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US media outlets ignore shooter’s pro-Trump imagery in favor of “snapped neighbor” narratives

Jason Weisberger
Sep 29, 2025
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The UK-based Telegraph has a long piece that describes former Marine Thomas Jacob Sanford, the man shot and killed by police after attacking a church, as a known Trump supporter. The US media doesn’t seem to want to tell that part of the story.

The gunman who rammed his truck into a Mormon church and opened fire on worshippers was an Iraq war veteran who…

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