Law enforcement authorities in Michigan are still working their way through the burned-out church that was the site of a deadly attack Sunday morning that left four people and the suspect dead and another eight victims injured.
Authorities say Thomas Jacob Sanford (above), a 40-year-old Marine veteran carried out the deadly attack. Sanford was killed in a shootout with police.
Folks quickly found photos on Facebook which seem to show Sanford wasn’t just a conservative, but a full-on MAGA Trump fan.
One pic shows him wearing a camouflage Trump 2020 campaign shirt; a Google Street view of a home that public records identify as Sanford’s primary address shows a blue “Trump-Pence” yard sign attached to a backyard fence.
1. A day after the Michigan church shooting, Republicans are silent after learning the shooter was a MAGA extremist.
No investigations of Trump supporters as terrorists. No national conversations about the rights of cisgender men.
The silence is deafening.
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— Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com) September 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Over on Erin In The Morning, Erin Reed notes how much quieter voices became once those images began to make their way around the internet.
From Erin In The Morning:
Almost immediately, speculation swirled on Twitter, with far-right voices rushing to blame a Muslim or a “transgender leftist,” their favored scapegoats after mass shootings.
But early images told a different story: the truck rammed into the church flew two large American flags and bore an Iraq War veteran plate. The shooter was no Muslim, no trans person. He was a Trump-supporting combat veteran—a cisgender white man who fit the profile of so many American mass shooters.
Just like that, the story faded from the political radar. There were no calls in the aftermath to investigate Trump supporters as potential terrorists. No national conversations about the violent capacity of cisgender men. No discussions about whether white people who fly massive American flags on the backs of their trucks should have their guns taken away. No presidential proclamations casting suspicion on the identity of this mass shooter.
Cisgender combat veterans will not spend the days after this tragedy fearing that their rights will be stripped away because of the actions of one man.
Erin goes on to point out that last month, when a similar shooting occurred in Minneapolis by a trans shooter, the floodgates flew open against trans people even though data shows trans people account for .087 percent of mass shootings.
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So, to recap this terrible tragedy at the Mormon church in Michigan:
The shooter, Thomas Jacob Sanford, is a veteran and
– not trans
– not an immigrant
– just a straight white manFor the people trying to say that Christianity is under attack, there have been 700 school… pic.twitter.com/29vix1fmqz
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) September 28, 2025
The LDS church shooter, Thomas Jacob Sanford, and his entire family aren’t just Trump supporters — they’re hardcore MAGA conspiracy lunatics.
His Facebook is still up.
This thread will be screenshots of their MAGA posts and pictures from Facebook.
(kids faces are grayed out) pic.twitter.com/uxYmwaPhyz
— JΛKΣ (@USMCLiberal) September 28, 2025
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