Donations From Democrats to Hoeven Ax Attacker Look Worse Now That He’s Pleading Guilty
MINOT, N.D. — In early January, just days before an angry mob of disgraced former President Donald Trump’s supporters would execute a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, I reported in this column that some prominent North Dakota Democrats had donated to a GoFundMe page set up for a man who had attacked Sen. John Hoeven’s Fargo office with an ax.
Among them were Democratic-NPL chairwoman Kylie Oversen, Ellie Shockley from the Democratic-NPL’s executive committee, and Ellen Chaffee, a former Lt. Governor candidate and current activist with the (erroneously named) left-wing group North Dakota Voters First.
That man, one Thomas Alexander Starks, age 30, has since signed a plea agreement and is set to admit his guilt for the violent attack.
