“But Wray replied that containment was no longer possible
because over 70 Tennessee police officers and state
Governor Bill Lee, a Republican, already knew the truth.
He proposed an alternate solution:
“We’ll release that Hale was a trans and later say she did
what she did because, when she was a student at Covenant,
she was persecuted for being born a female in a man’s body.
We can say kids teased her and beat her up.
We have options here to salvage the situation.
We’ll keep the manifesto to ourselves as long as possible.
We’ll even rewrite it if we have to.”
If the quote in your post is accurate, they already have
“We’ll release that Hale was a trans and later say she did what she did because, when she was a student at Covenant, she was persecuted for being born a female in a man’s body"
she was persecuted for being born a female in a man’s body.
And that’s his excuse for cold-blooded mass murder?
Gonna have to do better than that.