BONUS POD： Gunman Left Online Manifesto w Anti-Trump & Anti-Israel Rhetoric
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Two children were shot and killed at a Catholic elementary school in Minneapolis on Wednesday morning. The mayor of Minneapolis, Betsy Hodson, said the shooting was a hate crime, but the FBI Director said it is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
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And he deprived those parents of justice by taking his own life.
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You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Nice to have you with us on the 47 Morning Update.
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And we've got one major story that we're talking about.
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It is the horrific shooting in Minneapolis at a Catholic school that has claimed the lives of two children.
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I want you to hear from what the FBI director is saying about this now.
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Making it very clear that he believes this was a hate crime.
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Yet the mayor in Minneapolis playing politics refuses to say the same thing.
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We're also going to introduce you to that mayor.
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Not about the transgender student and the radical left ideology that is clearly broken.
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No, he's now talking about gun control and saying that you shouldn't have the right to go out and buy guns.
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And even Amy Klobuchar getting in on the action.
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Saying, we don't even know what guns were used yet.
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Or if certain laws can stop this from happening.
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There is one thing we are getting from the Trump administration when it comes to the shooting in Minneapolis.
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The FBI director, Cash Patel, saying the shooting is now being investigated as a hate crime targeting Catholics.
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This is something we did not get from the prior administration.
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The FBI director used a post on X to make it clear that the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting will be investigated as a hate crime specifically targeting Catholics.
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It was reported that the alleged shooter changed his name from Robert to Robin at 17 years of age.
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Fox News correspondent Brooke Taylor reported that his mother signed off on the suspected shooter's name change from Robert to Robin.
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Yet again, another transgendered individual shooting up a school.
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Police indicated the alleged shooter used a pistol, a rifle, and a shotgun to carry out his attack on the church Wednesday morning.
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From inside the church, he shot through windows, striking children as they sat in the pews during mass.
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As you know, at this point when I am recording this, two children have been killed.
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Patel putting it on X, saying updates on the shooting in Minneapolis.
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The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics.
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There are two fatalities, an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old, in addition to 14 children and three adults that were injured.
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The shooter has been identified as Robin Westman, a male born as Robert Westman.
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The FBI will continue to provide updates on our ongoing investigation with the public as we are able.
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Now, even CNN is having to admit that this was a radical.
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Here is more of what they said about the shooter.
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Breaking news, admiration for mass shooters, hatred of multiple groups, no sympathy for any victim.
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It's just some of what the shooter in today's Catholic school massacre, which he murdered two children, reveals in videos, posted online.
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Videos that police are scouring through right now for clues and answers about the shooter,
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who has been identified as a 23-year-old named Robin Westman.
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Brian Todd has the latest on what we know about the shooter.
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The coward that shot these victims took his own life in the rear of the church.
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That coward has been identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman.
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Westman seems to have left a series of online videos which describe an obsession with school shootings
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and even named other mass shooters, such as the 2012 Sandy Hook gunman, the Columbine gunman,
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and the man who attacked the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018.
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The video also shows written statements and several guns painted with slurs.
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In another clip, the speaker simply reads aloud from a clothes dryer manual.
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Dryer safety. Your safety and the safety of others are very important.
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Police say they also found a litany of writings.
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We're also aware of a manifesto that the shooter had timed to be released on YouTube.
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This manifesto appeared to show him at the scene and included some disturbing writings.
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That content has since been taken down with the assistance of the FBI,
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and it now remains under active review by our investigators.
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Apparently part of the plan that the shooter seemed to illustrate in those same videos on YouTube,
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An actual slab of wood was found at the scene blocking a door from the outside.
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According to social media posts, the shooter's mother worked at the school from 2016 to 2021,
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and the shooter graduated from the school in 2017.
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The shooter, now known as 23-year-old Robin Westman,
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identified as a female and changed their name legally to Robin from Robert in 2020.
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The agency is investigating this as an act of domestic terrorism and as a hate crime targeting Catholics.
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Police Chief Brian O'Hara says officials there have not yet established enough of a motive to charge it or to investigate it yet as a hate crime.
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You have clearly leadership in Kash Patel and the Trump administration calling this what it is.
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And then you have local liberal police who are saying,
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no, we don't have enough to actually look at this as a hate crime yet.
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The question I would ask is, when will you have enough?
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As the Minneapolis police chief, describing the attack on the mass as, quote, evil,
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noting that the worship service was marking the first week of school for children that are attending the Catholic school.
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He described the shooting as a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping,
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If you want to know what's wrong in this country, this is a perfect example of it.
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Democrats, even when evil is staring them in the face, will refuse time and time again to call it exactly that.
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If there's one thing that is happening right now, it is that Democrats are using this to push for gun control.
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Amy Klobuchar said, I have long supported assault weapons ban, even before she knows what guns were even used.
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Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki breaking down in tears on MSNBC.
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And then the Minnesota mayor saying, why is it that you can buy a gun virtually every month if you wanted to?
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Again, blaming the gun instead of the transgendered person who they decided to say that their mental health issues were normal
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and decided that, you know, we're never going to help them with their mental health.
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Former FBI profiler said the shooter's parents, well, they're ones to blame as well, saying you helped them change their name at 17.
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There's another part of the story about the trans-Minnesota Catholic school shooter that the media is not covering.
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It doesn't fit the narrative that they want this story to be about, which is gun control.
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And we don't even know what guns were even used yet, but they're calling for it anyway.
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Well, here's the other part of the story they're not talking about.
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The shooter had a YouTube manifesto, and it included vile anti-Trump messages written on guns.
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The transgender gunman who opened fire during that mass at the Minneapolis Catholic school
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had a YouTube channel that contained his manifesto as well as the anti-Trump rhetoric.
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A senior Trump administration official has now confirmed that the now-deleted YouTube page belonged to the gunman.
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A video posted by the gunman showed the manifesto in all of the gunman's weapons.
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One of the magazines contained the words, kill Donald Trump.
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We're among the words written on the gunman's magazines and the actual weapons.
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The person who appears to have carried out that shooting reported by local news had it this way.
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Posted a video showing the manifesto on the weapons and one of the magazines they put the picture up, kill Donald Trump.
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The shooter also went to the Catholic school and hated people of faith.
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And he appears to be a supporter of the Palestinian Islamic movement.
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In a post on X, as you know, Kash Patel provided an update of the shooting,
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which he stated that two children, an 8 and a 10-year-old, were killed.
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And it's by someone that is anti-Trump and anti-Israel.
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Why is the media also not covering the fact that this was a transgendered shooter?
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Yet again, the same issue we had in the Nashville school shooting there.
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And that's the other issue, which is when will the media start actually telling you the truth?
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When will the media actually start asking the tough questions?
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Yes, we know that the left loves pushing gun control when something like this happens.
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The Minnesota mayor, for example, not talking about the mental health issue,
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I mean, you know well, obviously, from being a mayor for some time in Minneapolis,
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that there are gun laws in Minnesota that other states don't have,
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but there are some things that could still be done.
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Is that something that you hope people in the legislature have a will to do at this point in time?
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Why is it so easy to get a whole heap ton of guns?
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Why is it that you can buy a gun virtually every month if you wanted to?
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We're not talking about your father's hunting rifle.
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We're talking about people that have gotten guns that seemingly, in this case legally,
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that obviously have a whole ton of mental health issues.
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You're not right in the head if you're going to a church to shoot it up.
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But the fact that you have guns, in fact, many, many guns.
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You know, this has gone down in other countries, and they say, you know what?
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We're not, we don't want this to happen anymore.
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It's a common kind of humanity that you understand how deeply I love my little girls.
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I've got an almost five-year-old, four and three-quarters, she would tell you.
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And I, many times today, have thought about the last things that I have said to her before she went into school.
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And, you know, you shove these things off as, you know, maybe even an annoyance.
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Get out the door, put on your shoes, let's go, here's your headband, come on.
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But there's also a beauty to it in that I love her so dearly,
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and I want her to be able to experience the school and her life safely.
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And the fact that we've seen these things happen again and again throughout our country,
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what it tells me is maybe we're not seeing these kids as our own.
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Don't think about these as just somebody else's kids.
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By the way, that same mayor, hours after that interview, going on the anti-gun tirade,
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he is now facing fierce backlash after attacking people of faith for offering prayers
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during a press conference on a tragic shooting at the Catholic school.
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Critics now blasting the mayor's remarks as tone-deaf and callous in wake of violence
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that specifically targeted children at worship.
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But at the news conference, the mayor declared,
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quote, don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now.
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These are kids that should be learning with their friends.
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They should be able to go to school or church in peace without the fear or risk of violence.
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So don't say it's about thoughts and prayers right now.
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That is the mayor of a liberal city that normalized a radical leftist who said,
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kill Trump, kill the Jews, and killed the children that are Catholic.
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