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The most maddening media coverage of the Minnesota church shooting
Washington Examiner ^ | August 30, 2025 2:00 pm | Joe Concha

Posted on 08/31/2025 1:16:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

It was a tragedy that struck the hearts of Americans across the country: Young children, praying in pews, became the victims of a mass shooting in Minneapolis. Two, aged 8 and 10, are dead, with 18 others injured.  

The shooter, who took his own life, has been identified as Robin Westman, but was born Robert Paul Westman. The monster who premeditatively shot at children in a church was a biological male. But don’t tell that to CNN’s Jake Tapper and contributor Juliette Kayyem, who bent over backward not to offend the transgender late murderer (emphasis mine).

“The Minneapolis Star Tribune says, according to court records, because there’s been some confusion about what the shooter’s name was,” Tapper explained after the shooting. “Robin Westman’s mother applied to change her child’s name in 2019. It was at one point ‘Robert Paul Westman.'”

“But since she identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification [and] was underage, it’s now Robin Westman,” he respectfully continued, as applying the “proper” pronouns here apparently are more important than the crime or the victims.

“It appears, based on our reporting, that he had ties, or that the assailant had ties to the school, both because she or they went there or because the mother went there,” Kayyem later carefully noted while nearly needing a chiropractor on set from all the politically correct twisting. “That now tells me that’s why they knew … what the school looked like.”

This is CNN.

But here’s the thing about this biological male: He wrote before the shooting that he regretted being transgender.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: banglist; cyrillic; media; robertpaulwestman; robinwestman; trans; westman

1 posted on 08/31/2025 1:16:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.” - Georgia Meloni


2 posted on 08/31/2025 1:23:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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The Democratic Party’s media approves of the shooting and hates the victims.


3 posted on 08/31/2025 1:24:42 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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He wrote before the shooting that he regretted being transgender.

He wrote those words in rebellion for what his community, family, and people like the CNN hosts had done to him! He followed their insane lead and became insane himself. This shooting was a backlash at those who betrayed him......

4 posted on 08/31/2025 1:28:40 PM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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I watched their coverage and it truly upset me how they hid and twisted everything.

That woman was obnoxious. She made fun of Kash Patel investigating a possible hate crime against Catholics and her reasoning made me angry.

She actually mocked it being a hate crime against Catholics because the killer’s mother had worked there and “He probably day in those same pews as those children! “

She was actually arguing he couldn’t have hated Catholics - on the day he slaughtered them!

And of course no mention of him using Jesus for target practice, etc.

No mention of “kill Donald Trump”.

I felt the coverage was evil.


5 posted on 08/31/2025 1:34:41 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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And the next Trans person to go off their nut and play ‘Shoot ‘Em Up’ will be reported in the exact same way.

The Enemy Media is worthless.


6 posted on 08/31/2025 1:39:31 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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Dems did same when AIDS appeared. They wouldn’t dare admit promiscuity among gay men was a contributing factor. That was homophobia to speak that truth.


7 posted on 08/31/2025 3:06:01 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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The thing many ppl are ignoring is that most recent school shootings have been committed by transgender youth who constitute less than 1% of the population vs white males who make up 31%. Transgenders are the problem, and the left has blood on their hands.


8 posted on 08/31/2025 7:22:59 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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