Port: Donations from Democrats to Hoeven ax attacker look worse now that he's pleading guilty The donations made to Thomas Alexander Starks may seem like a small matter, but in the larger context of what's going on in our society right now, they aren't. 9:57 am, Apr. 6, 2021 × Video given to the Fargo Police Department shows an ax-wielding man smashing the windows of Sen. John Hoeven's Fargo office. The damage was discovered Monday morning, Dec. 21. Photo courtesy of Fargo Police Department 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