BONUS POD: Gunman Left Online Manifesto w Anti-Trump & Anti-Israel Rhetoric
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Summary of Events
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The shooter, identified as Robin Westman (born Robert Westman, 23 years old), carried out an attack at a Catholic church and school during mass.
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Weapons used: pistol, rifle, and shotgun.
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Casualties reported: 2 children (ages 8 and 10) killed, 17 others injured (14 children and 3 adults).
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The shooter allegedly took their own life inside the church.
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The FBI labeled the case as a hate crime and domestic terrorism targeting Catholics, though local police had not fully confirmed the motive.
Shooter Background
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Legally changed name from Robert to Robin at age 17.
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Described as transgender by commentators in the text.
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Left behind videos, writings, and a manifesto with disturbing content:
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Admiration for previous mass shooters.
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Anti-Catholic, anti-Trump, and anti-Israel messages written on firearms and magazines (e.g., “Kill Donald Trump,” “Israel must fall”).
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Obsession with school shootings and extremist rhetoric.
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Mother previously worked at the same school; shooter graduated from it in 2017.
Political & Media Reactions
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Trump administration officials and FBI leadership framed the shooting as an act of religiously motivated hate.
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Commentary in the document accuses Democrats and liberal media of downplaying the hate-crime angle and focusing instead on gun control.
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References to Amy Klobuchar, Jen Psaki, and the Minneapolis mayor, criticizing their calls for tighter gun laws and for allegedly ignoring the ideological/mental health aspects.
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The mayor’s emotional remarks about gun violence and children’s safety are quoted, but framed as anti-gun rhetoric.
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The commentary repeatedly emphasizes a pattern of transgender shooters and accuses mainstream media of suppressing that detail.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | These parents, they want answers. Everyone wants to know why. There is no answer to the why. |
| 0:10.0 | Nothing explains shooting at children. We could bring in the world's foremost forensic psychiatrists. |
| 0:18.0 | Okay, he was troubled. So if we are waiting on a why, then we're going to be |
| 0:22.3 | unsatisfied. And where we direct our energies and our emotions is to the trial, and he deprived |
| 0:28.7 | those parents of justice by taking his own life. They'll never get the answers that they won't, |
| 0:35.3 | ever. You're listening to the 47 morning update with Ben Ferguson. |
| 0:39.9 | Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 morning update, and we've got one |
| 0:44.8 | major story that we're talking about. It is the horrific shooting in Minneapolis at a Catholic |
| 0:50.8 | school that has claimed the lives of two children, an eight and a 10-year-old. |
| 0:56.1 | I want you to hear from what the FBI director is saying about this now, |
| 1:01.1 | making it very clear that he believes this was a hate crime. |
| 1:05.1 | Yet the mayor in Minneapolis playing politics refuses to say the same thing. |
| 1:10.2 | We're also going to introduce you to that mayor. |
| 1:12.7 | And what is he talking about right now? Not about the transgender student and the radical |
| 1:17.3 | left ideology that is clearly broken. No, he's now talking about gun control and saying that |
| 1:24.1 | you shouldn't have the right to go out and buy guns. This is what Democrats are doing, using the tragedy to push a political agenda. |
| 1:32.9 | And even Amy Klobuchar getting in on the action, saying, |
| 1:36.4 | we don't even know what guns were used yet, |
| 1:39.4 | or if certain laws can stop this from happening, |
| 1:42.4 | but she still wants the laws to be passed anyway. |
| 1:46.4 | But first, I want to talk to you about my friends over at Patriot Mobile. You've got a lot of |
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