One more transgender extremist (biologically male) focused a spiritual faculty and killed two kids in a Catholic church throughout mass, on Wednesday. Regardless of the monstrous actions and the anti-Catholic messages written on the shooter’s tools (like “The place is your God now?”), CNN’s Jake Tapper took to his present, The Lead, and wished to verify folks have been utilizing the college shooter’s most popular pronouns and to verify he wasn’t ‘useless named.’
Whereas talking with CNN correspondent Brian Todd for an replace on what we knew concerning the shooter, Tapper broke his private rule about not saying a mass shooter’s identify (to not give them the notoriety they craved). Tapper wished to set the report straight that the shooter wished to be recognized as a feminine and adjusted his identify:
TAPPER: The Minneapolis Star Tribune says, in accordance with court docket data – As a result of there’s been some confusion about what the shooter’s identify was.
TODD: Sure.
TAPPER: Robin Westman’s mom utilized to alter her kid’s identify in 2019. It was at one level “Robert Paul Westman.”
TODD: Right.
TAPPER: However since she identifies as a feminine and desires her identify to replicate that identification was underage, it is now Robin Westman.
It’s price noting that in his replace, Todd fully prevented any use of gendered pronouns, corresponding to:
The FBI has recognized the shooter as Robin Westman. 23 years outdated … The shooter was armed with a rifle, shotgun and a pistol, which the police chief mentioned all have been obtained just lately and legally. They have been bought by the shooter … Within the movies, that are titled with Westman’s full identify, the particular person recording them pages by way of this handwritten pocket book … The particular person recording reveals themselves stabbing a knife into that drawing of the structure of that church, whereas saying the phrases, quote, “ha, good.”
If that wasn’t sufficient pandering to a useless mass shooter, far-left liberal contributor Juliette Kayyem rhetorically tripped throughout herself whereas making an attempt to get the shooter’s most popular pronouns right:
It seems, primarily based on our reporting, that he had ties– or that the assailant had ties to the college, each as a result of, she or they went there or, as a result of the mom went there. That now simply – that now tells me that is why they knew, you already know, they knew what the college appeared like.
Considered one of their valuable transgendered extremists murdered two little youngsters, they usually have been extra involved about not offending the corpse of the killer.
That’s the present state of American media.
The transcript is under. Click on “increase” to learn:
CNN’s The Lead
August 27, 2025
5:08:21 p.m. Japanese(…)
JAKE TAPPER: Let’s herald CNN’s Brian Todd, who’s monitoring a part of – this a part of the story. Brian, what else are we studying concerning the shooter?
BRIAN TODD: Jake, we have obtained vital new info on the shooter. Here is what we are able to inform you, proper now. The FBI has recognized the shooter as Robin Westman. 23 years outdated. The company is asking this, quote, “a home” – “an act of home terrorism.” However the police say they don’t have a motive but to determine it as a hate crime. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara says Westman has no prior legal historical past. The shooter was armed with a rifle, shotgun and a pistol, which the police chief mentioned all have been obtained just lately and legally. They have been bought by the shooter.
In response to a yearbook obtained by CNN, Westman graduated from – [cough] excuse me – from Annunciation Catholic’s grade faculty in 2017. In response to a social media submit, Westman’s mom beforehand labored at Annunciation from 2016 by way of 2021.
Police are investigating, as Whitney identified a second in the past, on-line movies apparently posted by the shooter, which describe an obsession with faculty shootings. The movies present a rambling, written assertion with weapons painted with slurs, with the names of mass killers, together with the shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary College in 2012 and in addition some political messages in that in that rambling written assertion.
Within the movies, that are titled with Westman’s full identify, the particular person recording them pages by way of this handwritten pocket book, the pocket book describes emotions of self-hatred and needs to die. And the phrases “I am so sorry” are written in massive letters on one web page. The pocket book additionally features a diagram of the within of a church, which seems to match the structure of Annunciation Catholic Church. The particular person recording reveals themselves stabbing a knife into that drawing of the structure of that church, whereas saying the phrases, quote, “ha, good.”
Jake, you already know, once more, piecing collectively this info, all of it extremely disturbing. And once more, as I feel folks have been stating since this occurred, you already know, you see clearly some actual clues right here as to what motive could possibly be, however they don’t seem to be saying formally what it’s but.
TAPPER: The Minneapolis Star Tribune – Simply as one other piece of the puzzle as to who the shooter was. The Minneapolis Star Tribune says, in accordance with court docket data – As a result of there’s been some confusion about what the shooter’s identify was.
TODD: Sure.
TAPPER: Robin Westman’s mom utilized to alter her kid’s identify in 2019. It was at one level “Robert Paul Westman.”
TODD: Right.
TAPPER: However since she identifies as a feminine and desires her identify to replicate that identification was underage, it is now Robin Westman. Brian Todd, thanks a lot.
5:13:38 p.m. Japanese
JULIETTE KAYYEM: It seems, primarily based on our reporting, that he had ties [catches herself] – or that the assailant had ties to the college, each as a result of, she or they went there or, as a result of the mom went there. That now simply – that now tells me that is why they knew, you already know, they knew what the college appeared like.
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