Just minutes after the public learned "Robin" Westman was the gunman who opened fire outside Annunciation Catholic Church, it didn’t take long for Internet sleuths to find a Minnesota court document showing a name change from “Robert” to “Robin” in 2020.
With the gunman’s name now known, it didn’t take long to find his personal YouTube channel. Westman’s videos there revealed a twisted and evil person who showed his drawing of the church and his fascination with mass murderers. His journal writings, which he flipped through, included a sticker of an AK-47 rifle with a trans flag.
Westman’s videos also showed an AR-15 covered with scrawled messages about killing Jews and hatred for Israel. Other messages said “Kill Donald Trump” and “Where is your God?”
Despite all of that eye-opening evidence, which YouTube quickly took down, Democrats stuck to a narrative that blamed the AR-15. The male killer’s identity as a woman either went ignored or was defended as irrelevant, cruel, and off topic.
Outside the Catholic school, while the bodies of the dead children were still lying in the chapel, Mayor Jacob Frey insisted that pointing out the dead killer identified as transgender is hateful. “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community,” he lectured, “has lost their sense of common humanity."
Frey’s comment was ridiculed by Amuse, a right-leaning X account. “We need to take this moment to consider the feelings of the trans community. They are the real victims here. Not the dead kids or those recovering in the hospital.”
Mayor Frey repeated that line almost verbatim, hours later, during a CNN interview. "Anybody that is gonna use this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any community, has lost touch with a common humanity,” he said.
That bizarre defense follows a similar pattern. After trans killer Audrey Hale murdered schoolchildren at a Nashville school, the bodies of the Covenant School victims were still warm when Far Left activists and the media rushed to defend Hale as a victim of a Christian school and even a victim of her strict Christian parents.
A story by The Daily Mail said Hale had been “rejected” by her parents. A similar NBC News story spun the mass shooting to suggest the “trans community” was fearing a backlash.
In a post after Westman's YouTube videos were made public, RedState writer Bonchie praised others for finding Westman’s postings before Big Tech could hide them.
“The press would have never revealed any of this about him,” Bonchie wrote.
Back in 2023, after the Covenant massacre, Twitter was suspending accounts of anyone who criticized a planned "Trans Day of Vengeance" after Hale's shooting rampage.
ABC sneakily avoids 'Kill Donald Trump'
Curtis Houck, a media analyst at Media Research Center, reported Wednesday afternoon that ABC News was the first broadcast network to report on the YouTube videos. However, Houck pointed out reporter Aaron Katersky vaguely described the disturbing writings. Wishing death to Jews was described by Katersky as “criticism of Israel,” and the phrase “Kill Donald Trump” was described only as Donald Trump’s name was written on the firearm.
“That’s not sloppy reporting. It’s deliberate narrative control,” X user Jefferey Mead complained.
Rather than defend Westman’s identity as a transgender women, like Mayor Frey, both CNN and USA Today went with another tactic. Both failed to mention it at all. That deceitful omission got noticed by Tom Bevan, the RealClearPolitics co-founder.
He pointed out the USA Today article, while ignoring the trans issue, attempted to shift the Catholic church shooting to blame “white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.”
Bevan and others also called out the New York Times (pictured at left) for taking that same tactic.
“When news organizations routinely omit relevant facts about an incident to protect sacred ideological cows,” he wrote, “that is not journalism. People don't trust the media for good reason.”
“You do not hate these people enough,” Mark Hemingway, a RealClearPolitics writer, replied in an X post.
