90-page Covenant School shooter diary LEAKED, and no wonder Dems tried to hide it. It’s FULL of leftist talking points



Earlier this week, the Tennessee Star published the 90-page diary of Audrey Hale, the school shooter who murdered six people last year at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

The leak came as a shock considering a court order had ruled to keep the documents sealed. However, one brave individual — the editor in chief of the Tennessee Star, Michael Patrick Leahy — decided to defy orders in the name of true journalism.

Now that the public has access to what are clearly the thoughts of a severely deranged individual, “why the left was trying to hide it from us becomes crystal clear,” says Liz Wheeler.

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“The FBI was in on [hiding the dairy], the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was in on this, the local police department was in on this. We were told (gaslit actually) ... that we can't see the diary, we can't see the journal, we can't see the manifesto because there was an active law enforcement investigation going on” and people having access to it might “hinder that investigation,” says Liz, adding that “[Hale’s] parents claimed copyright over these writings” as well.

“We were also told that these writings would pose an imminent danger to the public, and that's why you and I couldn't see it,” she continues, but “none of that is true based on what’s actually inside this diary.”

Liz, who read the entirety of Hale’s writings, says that her biggest takeaways are as follows:

1. “Audrey Hale was a woman — a biological woman ... but she identified as gender fluid or nonbinary or a man sometimes.”

Her diary reveals that “she had fallen prey to the left's gender ideology; she had been brainwashed into thinking that she was born in the wrong body and that she was transgender,” Liz explains.

2. “[Hale] also, according to this diary, bought into the leftist lie that tells people that if children with gender confusion or children who have fallen prey to gender ideology are not indulged in that ideology that they will kill themselves,” Liz says, adding that “this is an emotionally manipulative tactic that the left uses to try to force parents, who know that it's wrong, to chemically castrate their little boys or remove the healthy breasts of their teenage daughters.”

3. “[Hale] also believed the genocidal lie that the left tells the public at large that minority groups,” which could be “black people,” “women,” or “people who identify as LGBTQIA,” “are going to have their human rights taken away from them by conservatives, by Christians, by Republicans,” says Liz, noting that this lie is “intended to frighten people potentially into committing acts of violence.”

“Imagine being a teenager who is already dealing with, in [Hale’s] case, autism, dealing with gender ideology and confusion and being told that your human rights are going to be violated, that you might even be killed by these people, who you are told hate you. Imagine the fear and the panic that this instills in someone who is already mentally ill and already corrupted with evil ideology,” she says.

4. “Audrey Hale, according to this diary, also bought into critical race theory. She writes often about white privilege and the concept of white privilege, and in one case, she writes about self-embarrassment,” says Liz.

“She also writes often about this obsession with race; she viewed everything through the lens of race. She talks about being in love with a quote unquote brown girl,” says Liz.

“She hated herself and other white people, and she felt that her only recourse was revolutionary violence ... the massacre of children — Christian children.”

At one point in the diary, Hale wrote: “'Land of the free’ means whatever f***er is taking away human rights is not of a human at all. ... I wish death upon myself cause of the pure hatred of my female gender. With no rights, anyone's country is a shitty dictatorship.”

“Almost every phrase in that paragraph is something that the left says on a regular basis politically and culturally,” says Liz. “Obviously, the left tried to stifle this [diary].”

“Every single external ideology that motivated this young woman to commit a heinous crime — to murder innocent children and their teachers — was indoctrinated into her by Democrats and the left,” she condemns.

To hear more of Liz’s analysis, as well as her meeting with the Tennessee Star’s Michael Patrick Leahy, who joined the show to shed even more light on the situation, watch the episode above.

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DEBATE: 90 pages from journal belonging to the Covenant School shooter LEAKED – but should we read it?



Yesterday, the Tennessee Star published 90 pages from the journal belonging to the Covenant School shooter. The document contains entries from January 2023 to the day of the shooting, March 27, 2023.

Davis Hunt, founder and editor of the Pamphleteer, joins Jill Savage and the “Blaze News Tonight” panel to discuss the leak.

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“What were the new details that we learned today that we previously didn't know?” Jill asks.

“I don't know that there was anything revelatory,” says Hunt. “We kind of already knew that she had some animus towards Steven Crowder's leak” and certainly toward “white Christians.”

“I looked over it. I didn't read the whole thing. I don't really care to spend my waking hours digging through the thoughts of a deranged person, so I tried to stay away from it, but the clips that I did see kind of confirmed what we already knew,” he continues.

Blaze Media’s editor in chief Matthew Peterson, however, isn’t so sure avoiding the document is the best call.

“I guess what you're saying is it pretty much, when you look at it, confirms everything that you thought was true — this is a person who bore animosity towards Christianity, white people, as well as heterosexuals who were opposed to the trans movement. Is that correct?” he asks.

“Yeah, I think that’s generally correct. ... It was an act of violence carried out against a specific group of people; it wasn't random. It's not like she went to a mall or some other public gathering place. She went to a private Christian school that she was familiar with,” Hunt explains, adding that this opinion has been “somewhat controversial.”

“Is there one part that stood out for you as you did go through [the released document]?” asks Jill.

“There was a lot of very weird, kind of racial ideology bundled up in there that was maybe unexpected,” says Hunt.

“I'll be honest with the [Blaze] audience,” says Peterson. “We've had a policy for a long time not to highlight or quote from these sorts of manifestos.”

“The environment has changed though,” he acknowledges. “In this manifesto, maybe the most chilling part I've heard so far is not even all the crazy hatred of her own community” but rather “the lack of normal human emotion ... and that makes me think: What should the policy be for media today?”

Hunt explains that according to the Violence Project’s research, the one thing school shooters have in common besides “self-evident mental issues” is that “they all studied the actions of previous school shooters.”

“They all draw a lot of influence from each other,” he says, pointing to Columbine as the “core incident that ignited” the tragic movement.

Ultimately, Hunt thinks that “minimal coverage” is probably the best route.

“You're naturally curious about what would drive someone to do this and in a way, it's kind of perversely compelling to try to understand why these things happen and what would drive someone to do that,” he explains, but he nonetheless thinks it’s best to keep the psychoanalysis to a minimum because Hale’s motives were “self-evident” based on who she targeted.

“Let me go to the other side of the coin here,” Peterson counters. “I think the problem is that [Hale’s journal] was held up for what — a year and a half? The government was threatening to put this journalist in jail for revealing it” likely because it would lead to “one side of the ledger being blamed.”

He explains that more often than not, these shooters are “politicized” in that “they're drenched in some weird ideology” — in Hale’s case, trans, anti-white ideology.

“The problem is in this case that the government wanted to hide one side and promote a narrative about the other,” leading a lot of people to say, “Just let it out.”

To hear Hunt’s response, watch the episode above.

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Manifesto Reveals Trans-Identifying Nashville Shooter’s Disdain For Christianity, Obsession With Racial Politics

The 2023 Nashville school shooter responsible for the deaths of half a dozen Christians expressed disdain for Christianity and her parents’ biblical beliefs, according to a copy of her long-hidden manifesto released on Tuesday. Obtained and published by The Tennessee Star, the 90-page journal documents the mental breakdown of Audrey Hale leading up to her […]

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New memo shows how FBI pressured Nashville Police about trans killer's manifesto after Christian school mass killing



The FBI appears to have counseled the Metro Nashville Police Department against releasing the manifesto belonging to the Covenant School killer.

Officials with the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group wrote to Nashville Police Chief John Drake on May 11, 2023 — approximately six weeks after the school massacre — about the "protection of legacy tokens," referring to the writings and other documents that killers leave behind.

'For all the reasons listed above, release of legacy tokens such as this would endanger school security across the country.'

The FBI "strongly discourages the public dissemination of any legacy tokens," the memo said.

The memo does not specifically mention the Covenant School tragedy or the transgender perpetrator. But the timing of the memo — and its message — is not a coincidence.

The FBI provided three reasons to persuade the Nashville Police from releasing "legacy tokens."

First, the FBI claimed they "will contribute to future attacks." Second, the FBI said legacy tokens do not "provide the answers or comfort sought by the public and surviving victims." Third, the FBI claimed legacy tokens "facilitate false narratives and inaccurate information" — and even "conspiracy theories."

The memo goes on to say:

Public release of legacy tokens from all mass shootings, but school shootings in particular, will likely spark incredibly intense interest and study by potential offenders who are considering a school-based attack. For all the reasons listed above, release of legacy tokens such as this would endanger school security across the country.

Experts agree that as a society we must do everything we can to prevent all mass shootings, including school shootings, from happening in the future. A clear step we can take is limiting the availability of legacy tokens for ideation, study, and inspiration by those considering an attack.

The Tennessee Star first reported the memo.

On Tuesday, the Metro Nashville Police Department confirmed the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit has been assisting in the Covenant School investigation.

"As has been publicly acknowledged, the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit has assisted in this Homicide investigation," MNPD public affairs director Don Aaron confirmed to the Tennessee Star. "Any material related to that assistance that is part of the open case file is protected. As I referenced earlier today, our Homicide team is working to bring this matter to a conclusion."

The killer's manifesto has been the subject of contentious legal drama.

A Tennessee judge recently heard arguments about releasing the manifesto. The media and some officials believe there is a public interest in the manifesto, while some parents of the victims have fought to block its release.

There has been no decision on when — or if — the memo will be made public.

Last November, several pages of the manifesto were leaked, showing the transgender perpetrator hoped to have a "high death count" by killing "all" of the "little crackers" at the school.

Despite investigating, Nashville police never identified the source of the leak.

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Memo Shows FBI Discouraging Release Of Trans Killer’s Manifesto

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Florida man who set himself on fire outside Trump trial dies, manifesto had anti-government conspiracy theories, he sued Clinton Foundation



The man who set himself on fire near the courthouse in New York City where former President Donald Trump is on trial has died, authorities said. According to his manifesto, the Florida man was allegedly an anti-government conspiracy theorist.

Around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, 37-year-old Max Azzarello was reportedly espousing conspiracy theories and tossing colorful pamphlets around Manhattan's Collect Pond Park, according to NYPD Chief of Department James Maddrey.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said, "The pamphlets seem to be propaganda-based almost like a conspiracy theory type of pamphlets. Some information in regards to Ponzi schemes, and the fact that some of our local educational institutes are a front for the mob. So a little bit of a conspiracy theory going on here."

Azzarello – from St. Augustine, Florida – was across the street from the courthouse where Trump's criminal trial was being held. He had not breached any security checkpoints to access the park.

Azzarello was allegedly holding a sign with a link to a Substack site that featured his manifesto.

He then doused himself in fire accelerant and lit himself ablaze with a lighter in front of horrified witnesses.

Police officers and bystanders rushed to help the man who had just set himself on fire. The self-immolation lasted several minutes until officers could extinguish the flames.

The horrific incident lasted several minutes before the flames were extinguished by police officers and court staff.

Azzarello was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition. However, he later died from his injuries around 10:30 p.m. on Friday, police said.

Azzarello had reportedly driven from Florida and arrived in New York a few days ago.

A letter was found at the burn site that reads: "I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial."

The Substack website reads: "My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan."

"This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery: We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup," he wrote.

Azzarello claimed in his manifesto that the U.S. government is wrapped up in "Ponzi schemes" as a method to control the American people.

"These claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not," Azzarello's Substack post reads. "They are proof of conspiracy. If you investigate this mountain of research, you will prove them too. If you learn a great deal about Ponzi schemes, you will discover that our life is a lie."

Azzarello was reportedly arrested three times in Florida last year.

One of his arrests stemmed from an August incident where he purportedly threw a wine glass at a framed autograph featuring Bill Clinton at a hotel, according to police records.

"The wine glass broke, spreading wine on the frame, the wall, and the autograph,” the report claimed. "…The wine stained the autograph and the surrounding wall when it ran down behind the frame."

Two days later, Azzarello was arrested again for allegedly stripping down to his boxers and yelling at customers at the same hotel in Florida. An officer said he ventured into a fountain and cursed at hotel patrons "in an intimidating manner."

He was hit with misdemeanor charges of criminal mischief and disturbing the peace, the New York Post reported.

The police report said that he was unemployed and suicidal.

In April 2023, Azzarello filed a lawsuit in New York against the Clinton Foundation. The lawsuit also named billionaire Mark Cuban and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Newsweek reported, "Azzarello, who was representing himself, alleged in the suit that the defendants 'knowingly conspired, participated in, and benefited financially from a decades-long fraudulent scheme.'"

Azzarello claimed that "money was solicited internationally laundered in support of the scheme via the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation [as it was formerly known], which was created for this purpose by President Bill Clinton and Doug Band in 2001."

In February, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. The man said he was engaging in an "extreme" act of protest against Israel invading Gaza after the Hamas terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023.

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FBI, DOJ Refuse To Call Covenant School Shooting An Anti-White Hate Crime Even After Racist Manifesto Is Leaked

The DOJ and FBI refuse to investigate the Nashville shooting as a hate crime against white Christians despite evidence.

'Interesting': Steven Crowder points out the problem after Nashville PD puts seven officers on desk duty over manifesto leak



The Metro Nashville Police Department has placed seven officers on administrative duty after several pages of the Covenant School killer's manifesto were leaked.

In a statement, the police department claimed that moving the officers to desk duty is not punishment for the leak.

"Seven individuals are on administrative assignment (absolutely non-punitive) to protect the integrity of the active, progressing investigation," a police department spokesman said. "All seven have full police power. We are not identifying any of the seven by name. Not fair to them."

The department, however, did not explain the connection between the seven officers and the leak.

The department's manual states that officers may be placed on administrative assignment when their supervisor has approved them "to be absent from their normal assigned tour of duty and no other type status is appropriate." Administrative assignment, the manual explains, is typically reserved for officers who have been involved "in a use of force that is under investigation." It does not state other reasons for administrative duty.

On Monday, Steven Crowder published three pages of that screed, which he obtained through a source in the police department. The pages included the killer's "death day" schedule and the killer's hate-fueled ramblings.

The leak set off a firestorm of controversy, and Mayor Freddie O'Connell (D) demanded an investigation into how the pages were leaked. MNPD Chief John Drake later confirmed the pages are authentic.

"I am greatly disturbed by today’s unauthorized release of three pages of writings from the Covenant shooter. This police department is extremely serious about the investigation to identify the person responsible," Drake said in a statement. "This action showed a total disregard for Covenant families, as well as the court system, which has control of the shooter’s journals at the present time due to litigation filed earlier this year."

While it's true there is an ongoing legal battle over the manifesto, Crowder made a keen observation about the reaction of Nashville authorities over the leak.

"The powers that be are more concerned about finding the leaker than they are about the contents of [the killer]'s anti-white manifesto. Interesting," he said.

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