Another One: Suspect in Hammer Attack at JD Vance's Home Is Man Who Changed Name to Julia, Comes From Wealthy Democrat Family

The Bulgarian-born conceptual artist Christo passed away more than five years ago. That’s unfortunate, because if there were ever a moment when the American Left could use his talents again, it would be now.

For those unfamiliar with Christo’s work, his signature was simple: he wrapped things up. Entire landmarks, in fact. From the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to the Reichstag in Berlin to Central Park’s gates in New York City, Christo specialized in concealing the obvious beneath layers of fabric while critics were told to admire the spectacle.

Christo and his longtime collaborator Jeanne-Claude may not have been subtle, but they were effective. And if he were alive today, he might be commissioned for his most ambitious project yet: carefully wrapping and obscuring every high-profile case of political violence involving perpetrators who identify as transgender—or are closely connected to someone who does.

The latest example comes from Ohio, where a hammer-wielding attacker allegedly targeted the home of Vice President J.D. Vance. According to reporting by the New York Post, the suspect is a biological male who reportedly identifies as a woman named Julia and whose wealthy parents are Democratic donors.

William DeFoor, 26, was arrested Monday after smashing several windows at Vance’s Cincinnati residence in what authorities say was an attempted break-in. Although the vice president and his family were not home at the time, the incident raised serious security concerns.

Then came the line no one in the media seemed eager to dwell on: “It’s unclear whether DeFoor identifies as transgender or nonbinary, but he recently appeared to be posting under the name Julia DeFoor. Cops listed the suspect’s name as William, and his gender as male.”

DeFoor’s background quickly added to the story. His parents, residents of Cincinnati’s Hyde Park neighborhood, include a Harvard-educated father who serves as a professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine following a long career as a pediatric urologist.

Predictably, activists and media outlets alike rushed to downplay or obscure the suspect’s self-identification—another act of cultural concealment worthy of Christo himself.

This is hardly an isolated case. The number of politically motivated violent crimes committed by individuals who identify as transgender—or are closely associated with transgender activism—has grown so large that fully cataloging them would require an academic dissertation.

Consider the alleged assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, who was reportedly in a sexual relationship with a transgender-identifying roommate and allegedly inscribed transgender-supportive messages on his ammunition. That detail has largely vanished from public discussion.

Or take the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis. The shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, identified as a transgender male. Rather than addressing that reality, the public was scolded for noticing it at all. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey went so far as to suggest that the true victims of the attack—which left two children dead—were members of the transgender community.

That incident followed a strikingly similar shooting at a Christian school in Nashville two years earlier, also carried out by a transgender-identifying attacker. The shooter’s full manifesto has still never been officially released.

Since 2020, roughly 40 percent of accused or convicted mass school shooters—or individuals who advanced credible plans for such attacks—have identified as transgender. Instead of receiving mental health intervention, many were met with affirmation, hormones, powerful drugs, and cultural praise.

But this pattern remains off-limits for discussion. Media institutions continue to play the role of Christo, carefully draping a white sheet over facts that clash with progressive narratives.

Christo may be gone, but his legacy of concealment, sadly, lives on.