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‘MSNBC eyes’: Trump-hating MN man slaughters family after election

November 11, 2024 | | Print Article

A Minnesota man’s tragic and fatal post-election decision for his family inspired a new term for how the “media is driving people insane.”

While laughs were had at the expense of unhinged leftists melting down over Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to former President Donald Trump, one man’s choice after Tuesday proved deadly serious. After taking the lives of his two sons, their respective mothers, and himself, 46-year-old Anthony Nephew was said to have a “pattern of mental health issues” while one commentator contended “He’s got MSNBC eyes.”

Thursday afternoon, the Duluth Police Department responded to a welfare check when they discovered Nephew’s ex, 47-year-old Erin Abramson, and their 15-year-old son, Jacob Nephew, dead “deceased from apparent gunshot wounds.”

Soon thereafter, they discovered his wife, 45-year-old Kathryn Nephew, and their seven-year-old son, Oliver, had suffered the same fate while Nephew was located “deceased from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

Reacting to the news, the End Wokeness account shared images of the deceased with the caption, “Anthony Nephew (45) killed himself, his wife, and 2 sons over Trump winning. The media is driving people insane,” prompting writer Scott Adams to contend, “He’s got MSNBC eyes. It has a name now.”

While police have not declared a motive, during a Friday press conference Duluth Police Chief Mike Ceynowa spoke of the suspect’s “pattern of mental health issues.”

The New York Post cataloged a number of posts from Nephew on Facebook including his assertion in July that, “My mental health and the world can no longer peacefully coexist, and a lot of the reason is religion.”

“I am terrified of religious zealots inflicting their misguided beliefs on me and my family. I have intrusive thoughts of being burned at the stake as a witch, or crucified on a burning cross,” he stated. “Having people actually believe that I or my child are Satan or, the anti-Christ or whatever their favorite color of boogie man they are afraid are this week [sic].”

Amid his opposition to Trump, and his disfavor for the “binary choice between fascism and not fascism,” Nephew also referenced the dystopic “The Handmaid’s Tale” when he posted “Gilead here we come.”

Shortly after President Joe Biden was inaugurated, Nephew penned an op-ed for the Duluth News Tribune where he raised concerns about mental health, specifically citing the risk of suicide.

“It’s time to start building better frameworks for mental health in this country. More mental health specialists are needed because most Americans deny they have mental health struggles. Because they have to, because they’re told to, or because they don’t realize their mind is broken, they keep pushing forward, incurring one psychic injury after another, trauma after trauma, collecting interest, until finally the synapses overload, and they suffer a breakdown,” the op-ed read. “For most of us, that’s the best end result. For millions of Americans, a breakdown leads to suicide — or homicide before suicide.”

Others were quick to fault corporate media and rhetoric from the left for the tragedy as Trump was demonized as a “fascist” and “literally Hitler” at every turn, including from Harris herself, ahead of any confirmed motive from authorities.

Kevin Haggerty
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