Motive Of Trans Shooter Who Killed Christians Is Not A ‘Mystery’

When a highly disturbed, outwardly demonic, Christian-hating man who considers himself a woman allegedly shoots up a Catholic Mass where children are praying — and writes a manifesto telling us why — The New York Times claims that the “motive is a mystery.”

It is no secret that the corporate media despises Christians, adores the grooming of children into believing they are transgender, and will do anything to maintain that worldview. Tragically, the dregs at places like The New York Times and CNN are covering up the clear motive behind the massacre at Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday.

The New York Times’ article “Minneapolis Suspect Knew Her Target, but Motive Is a Mystery” does two things in the headline alone: It advances the idea that this boy was really a girl (as he claimed) while completely shielding him from his hate toward Christians.

The motive is not a “mystery”; it is just politically inconvenient for The New York Times. So the paper’s answer is to protect the alleged shooter, “Robin” (born Robert) Westman, because, to the outlet, it is a low price to pay for protecting its pro-trans, anti-Christian ideology.

“On social media, some conservative activists have seized on the shooter’s gender identity to broadly portray transgender people as violent or mentally ill,” The New York Times wrote. “The police did not provide any motive for the attack, but [Mr.] Westman’s extensive social media history was a contradictory catalog of anger and grievance.”

Westman’s gun was scribbled with a variety of offensive phrases and symbols, including Satanic inscriptions and those that indicate he wanted to “kill Donald Trump.”

As The Federalist reported, the propagandists at ABC News apparently decided — despite the fact that the alleged shooter wanted to “kill Donald Trump” — that Westman was actually a Trump supporter, implying that Trump’s name was written on the gun in a positive light.

Westman’s manifesto and journal have even more acutely disturbing phrases and depictions of him being Satanic or demonic.

The notes were written in English using the Cyrillic alphabet, which is most associated with Russian but is used across Eurasia. But his notes that appear to portray himself as a demon, his ramblings on his YouTube channel saying, “I can’t deal with this anymore … I can’t do this anymore … I have to go, I have to go …” and more notes saying “Sick f-ck, sick f-ck, murderer hahahahaha villain” are largely absent from corporate media’s attempts at describing “what we know” about the alleged killer.

If referenced at all, the notes and YouTube videos are often described as existing but presented as containing little relevant content. When they do include specifics, media reports, like those of ABC News and The New York Times, typically mention a “transgender” flag sticker, a sticker that says “defend equality,” and a drawing of the inside of the church where the tragedy occurred.

The Times and ABC News articles do not mention the picture of Jesus Christ on a paper shooting target. The inscription on his gun taking words from the Last Supper — “Take this, all of you, and eat” — is not mentioned either — again, Satanic, and anti-Christian. Another inscription on his gun said, “Where Is Your God?” while another read, “Do you believe in God?,” which could easily be a reference to the religious taunt given by Columbine shooter Eric Harris in 1999 since the gun was also covered in names or references to other mass killers.

In videos posted on YouTube hours prior to the shooting, Westman also said he was “tired of being trans” and that he “wish[ed]” he’d “never brain-washed” himself, adding, “I can’t cut my hair now as it would be an embarrassing defeat, and it might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported. It just always gets in my way. I will probably chop it on the day of the attack.”

“I regret being trans.. I wish I was a girl I just know I cannot achieve that body with the technology we have today. I also can’t afford that,” he said.

While the narrative might seem more obvious to honest observers — one where a male who is at the very least extraordinarily disturbed and struggling with his own reality, and turning hate and resentment for religion into violence — the corporate media and their Democrat politician friends cannot bring themselves to confront that truth.

It would undermine their insistence that people who believe they are “transgender” are not mentally ill, and that “affirming” their claimed “gender identity” is the best thing for them.

They are mentally ill, and everyone knows it. And they are becoming increasingly violent.

An online movement of purportedly “transgender” people operating under the slogan “death before detransition” cheered Westman’s alleged slaughter, particularly the fact that those who were killed or injured were Christians.

Yet, despite all this evidence pointing to motive, Minneapolis Police Chief Sean O’Hara told NBC that there still is not a clear motive, stating, “We’ve seen a whole lot of hate against a whole variety of people and what we have seen so far, but nothing specific to point to as the motive for targeting this church and this particular incident.”

John Miller of CNN claimed that there is no “specific motive” because evidence indicates he “hates everybody.”

Miller also said, “I almost find the conclusion that it’s a hate crime against Catholics premature, in that we are trying to attach rational motives to a completely irrational act.”

Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey decided to defend trans-identifying individuals as opposed to mourn for the victims, stating, “I have heard about a whole lot of hate that’s being directed at our trans community. Anybody that is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community — or any other community out there — has lost their sense of common humanity.”

Frey and numerous others on the left were laughing in the faces of the victims and those who were showing support for them through prayer, as well. As CNN’s Dana Bash put it, “Forget about thoughts and prayers. These kids were literally praying when they were murdered through a church window.”

Those deriding prayer, like MSNBC host Jen Psaki, who said, “Enough with the thoughts and prayers,” do not understand prayer. They mock it, snidely asserting that prayer wasn’t able to protect the children who were shot.

“Prayer doesn’t stop you from getting shot, or stabbed, or a hurricane destroying your house or a flood sweeping your children away. Prayer is how you transform into the image and likeness of Christ, and through sanctification are able to live forever with Him in paradise, together with all the saints and angels,” My colleague John Daniel Davidson wrote. “That’s what prayer is for, and anyone who rejects that also rejects God, and has no standing to speak on when it is or is not appropriate to pray.”

Breccan F. Thies is a correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.