The Daily Signal - Catholic School Shooting in Minneapolis & the Atrocious Response | Aug. 28, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. A transgender shooter kills two children and injures 17 children and adults at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. The coverage from legacy media and many Democrat officials is wildly inappropriate, disrespectful, and dishonest. I'm Tony Kinnett, host of the Daily Signals Tony Kinnett cast, syndicated nationally at 7 p.m. Eastern. It is Thursday, August 28, 2025. This is the Daily Signals top news in 10. A horrible terror attack in Minneapolis yesterday as the shooter, a transgender individual named Robert, who changed his name legally to Robin Westman, a 23-year-old, barricaded the doors at Annunciation Catholic School inside Annunciation Catholic Church, and then firing through a window with a semi-automatic rifle.

Starting point is 00:01:24 On the semi-automatic rifle that was written in white paint marker, quote, killed. Trump and quote, for the children destroy Israel, six million wasn't enough, and quite a few racial slurs. Two children were shot dead, 14 children were shot, but are going to, at least according to the last official report that we have, make a full recovery, and three adults also shot or expected to make a full recovery. Of the 19 victims total, two children were killed. The shooter left behind a manifesto video as well as written, revealing quite a few disturbing phrases, imagery, where he pictures himself as looking in the mirror and seeing a demon instead, crying out mentally unwell writings, as well as political epithets, and a number of things indicating

Starting point is 00:02:17 that this is an individual who had serious mental illness for a very long time. On top of that, in 2019, his mother filed court documents for him at age 17, which confirmed a name change because his mother had wrote that Westman wanted to be or believed he was a girl. And then from that point on, went by Robin. Now, despite the manifestos, despite the crude and disturbing phrases written in white paint pen on the rifle and the magazines, as well as a host of other evidence like a recent trend of transgender shootings in primarily Christian settings and at Christian targets. The chief of police for Minneapolis, police chief Brian O'Hara, stated after press asked questions that there was no answer yet as to a potential motive. This was echoed on legacy media

Starting point is 00:03:15 throughout the day. For example, on CNN, a panel discussing that you would really have to search to cobble together. Some kind of. kind of evidence out there that the panelists didn't particularly find notable to suggest this was a Christian targeted attack. FBI director Cash Patel, however, at 3.22 p.m. yesterday said, quote, updates on the shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The FBI is investigating the shooting is an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics. There were two fatalities, an eight-year-old and a 10-year-old. In addition, 14 children and three adults were injured. He then identifies the shooter as a transgender individual and says the FBI will continue to provide updates

Starting point is 00:03:58 on our ongoing investigation with the public as we are able. His original post encouraged the public to keep the victims, civilians, and law enforcement in their prayers. That was echoed by the President of the United States and the vice president as well. President Trump also ordered the flags at the White House and other federal buildings to be flown at half staff and honor of the victims in the Minneapolis shooting. As with the Tony Kinnett-Kat-Kast, as with the Tony Kinnett yesterday, I am going to refrain as well as my team from posting specific details and video footage of the shooter and what he wanted to get out there. I don't feel as though that's my place and while we'll try to provide all of the information as we are able to, there are some things

Starting point is 00:04:42 that I am not willing to publicize, including the crazy rants from the sketches of a very mentally unwell individual who was encouraged in what is a mentally ill way of being due to a popular fad on the left for a moral high ground. This particular moral high ground, at least as it's so called, made itself very present yesterday in both the coverage from legacy media outlets, for example, from ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, even Trey Gowdy over on Fox News, as well as from many Democrats officials. Some Democrat officials, for example, Ilhan Omar, was one of the individuals who actually gave quite a decent statement despite some previous complaints about her response in prior tragedies. She wrote yesterday, I am beyond heartbroken over the tragic news of the shooting at Annunciation

Starting point is 00:05:38 Catholic School in Minneapolis. Praying for all the families impacted by this horrific tragedy, I will continue to closely monitor the situation and provide updates. Other Democrats, however, took this as an opportunity to suggest that this was all about the gun violence, even going as far, not just as Chuck Schumer and Tchaim Jeffries, the Senate Minority Leader and the House Minority Leader did, to blame the gun violence. But California Governor Gavin Newsom suggested that it is Republicans' faults for doing, quote, nothing while our kids are being gunned down.

Starting point is 00:06:13 This is sick, end quote. Representative Justin Jones of California posted a picture, of Representative Andy Ogles family holding firearms, again, making the case, quote, we need more than prayers, Andy, end quote. And this needing more than prayers line came up quite a few times from not just Democrat elected officials, but also those in the legacy media. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry began the trend which rocked a lot of social media yesterday by suggesting that prayers didn't appear to do a whole lot for the children who were gunned down while in morning mass,

Starting point is 00:06:57 and then suggested that any kind of possible attacks or questions about the mental health of transgender individuals was inappropriate, saying that he stood in solidarity, not with Catholics in Minneapolis, not with Christians as a whole in Minneapolis, or with the families who were now grieving for the loss of their children, but stood with the trans community. This trend continued over in the legacy media. Former White House press secretary for Joe Biden, Jen Saki, posted, quote, Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings.

Starting point is 00:07:33 Prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back enough with the thoughts and prayers. This attack on individuals praying would be a theme throughout the day. CNN's Dana Bash and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar took the opportunity to express what can only be described as a very, very poor taste in coverage and commentary. He's expressing something that I know you feel and most people feel, which is a combination of sadness, but raw rage. That forget about thoughts and prayers. These kids were literally praying when they were murdered through a church window. It's unbelievable.

Starting point is 00:08:21 And just, you know, the Jacob, the mayor and his wife Sarah just had a second baby. So I know he knows this just gutterly about how this feels. And then there was just downright, incompetent or malicious journalism on the part of, for example, ABC, news, whose reporter suggested that there were several things the police had recovered, but carefully chose not to say that the text on the gun was kill Trump, but that instead Donald Trump's name was just on the gun itself, suggesting as though it perhaps might be a praiseworthy thing. There are also photos of the weapons, and they include all sorts of writings, the names of past

Starting point is 00:09:06 mass shooters, criticism of Israel, the name of of President Trump written on the guns. CNN's John Miller also left out key information about the shooter. You would see this later on in several different outlets coverage all the way from the Associated Press to USA Today, suggesting perhaps that not all details are relevant because those might carry certain political implications. Trey Gowdy over on Fox News, when initially covering

Starting point is 00:09:39 the shooting today made the case that at some point Americans would have to choose between freedom and the safety of children and then suggested, quote, it's always a young white male, end quote. And the only way to stop it is to identify the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out of their hands. And so we're going to have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. I mean, how many school shootings does it take before we're going to have a conversation about keeping firearms out? It's always a young white male, almost always. MSNBC had a rather mixed bag of coverage and analysis for the day, whereas some panelists made the case that this wouldn't have happened if guns were taken away, contrasted appropriately

Starting point is 00:10:25 by Mark Short, former staffer of Vice President Mike Pence, suggesting quite accurately that this was clearly a targeting of Catholics in Minneapolis. Before you go, head down to the description and make sure. you're subscribed to the Tony Kennedcast. And join us tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern for an update on a lot of the day's news. There's a lot more to the story that hasn't finished breaking quite yet. We are waiting to make sure that we don't get ahead of our skis and say something that is perhaps at this point more rumor than fact.

Starting point is 00:10:57 We hope to have more information to share with you then. So making sure you're subscribed is a good way to make sure those updates get in front of you this evening, along with any other news that breaks. from today. I'm Tony Kinnett, and this has been the Daily Signals. Top News in 10. Take care. From that first coffee of the day to dropping off your dry cleaning on the way, from stepping onto the subway, to opening your doors to your first customer of the day. We're here to power you along the way. Maneris, powering Canadian commerce. Visit us at maneras.com slash commerce.

The Daily Signal - Catholic School Shooting in Minneapolis & the Atrocious Response | Aug. 28, 2025

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