Judge who ordered newspaper man to court for exposing trans shooter's manifesto didn't want to hear his defense



Michael Patrick Leahy, the CEO of Star News Digital Media and the editor of the Tennessee Star, drew the ire of a low-level Democratic judge for publishing documents the FBI wanted suppressed or possibly even destroyed: the suicide note and deranged writings of the radical transvestite who murdered three children and three adults last year in a Nashville Christian school.

After Stacy Cameron, a reporter for a local Fox News affiliate, effectively snitched on the Tennessee Star for doing what mainstream media outlets refused to do, Judge l'Ashea Myles of the Tennessee 20th Judicial District Chancery Court ordered Leahy to court for a show cause hearing.

The stated aim of the hearing was "to determine why the alleged publication of certain purported documents by Petitioners Star Digital Media and Michael Leahy, as the Editor-in-Chief, does not violate the Orders of this Court subjecting them to contempt proceedings and sanctions."

The suggestion was that by allegedly publishing writings under the judge's in-camera review, Leahy and the Tennessee Star's parent company may have interfered with their lawsuit seeking the full release of the trans killer's writing by the Metro Nashville Police Department.

According to Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker, who was in the courtroom Monday, it quickly became clear that Myles "wished she had not called the hearing."

"It seemed like she was trying to get out of it," said Baker. "She initiated something that was over her head, over her pay grade — something that was out of bounds with the law."

While the hearing was supposed to be centered on Leahy, neither he nor his counsel Daniel Horwitz were able to get out more than a few words. Instead, Myles appeared keen on leaning on the other parties present to express their grievances and concerns, effectively filibustering her own proceeding by proxy.

"The judge allowed everybody else to speak except for the one guy the hearing was called for," said Baker. "Michael Leahy's attorney — every time he got up, which was twice, she interrupted him and cut him off mid-stream. She told him that she was not going to hear any arguments today in regards to the case."

"She actually said these words: 'Your arguments are not yet ripe,'" continued Baker.

The Star indicated that Myles reimagined the purpose of the hearing to get a feeling for the "landscape" of the situation.

While Baker will detail some of the more absurd and shocking aspects of the hearing in a forthcoming piece for Blaze News, he has nevertheless made clear it was a gong show.

"What in the hell did I just witness?" Baker said Monday on "The Michael Patrick Leahy Show." "As soon as the court adjourned ... I went, 'What the you-know-what?'"

"She wanted to understand everybody's position. She reiterated over and over again that she wasn't the investigator: 'I'm just the judge. I'm not the prosecutor. I'm just the judge and I'm just here to get understanding.’ And she did wrap it up at the end and said, 'Okay, now I understand.' When court was adjourned ... I said, 'Does she understand what an airhead she is?'" said Baker.

Baker suggested to Blaze News that Myles likely realized in the days leading up to the show cause hearing "she had made a mistake" and didn't want the matter to end up going to an appeals court.

"She set the wheels in motion, then realized, 'I blew it here. I should not have done this,'" continued Baker. "She was covering her ass."

On his show Monday, Leahy reflected on the outcome of the show cause hearing, saying, "She didn't allow me to show cause nor did she allow my lawyer to show cause why I shouldn't be held in contempt. She changed the purpose of the meeting."

While none of the attorneys who spoke at the hearing Monday reportedly argued that Leahy broke the law, the newspaper man indicated she may still assign a special prosecutor to go after him for publishing the shooter's journal.

"So let me give you the bottom line on all this. I thought there'd be two outcomes or possibilities. Either [Myles] was going to set up a special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute us, or she was going to take it under advisement and then issue an order later," said Leahy. "So that's what she did. She said, 'I'm going to take all of this under advisement and I'll issue an order.' She didn't say when. If that order is to set up a special prosecutor, I will still be in legal jeopardy. That's my take on it."

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Newspaper man who exposed trans shooter's manifesto is ordered to court — and press freedom types are silent



A radical transvestite marched into a Christian elementary school in Nashville on March 27, 2023, and murdered three 9-year-old children — Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney, and Hallie Scruggs — and three adults — teacher Cynthia Peak, custodian Mike Hill, and head of school Katherine Koonce.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department refrained from announcing a possible motive for the attack, prompting months of speculation about its anti-Christian nature as well as the likelihood that LGBT activists' alarmist rhetoric and destabilizing sex-change drugs were factors. The FBI appeared especially keen to hide the transvestite shooter's motives from the public.

After a year of uncertainty and Democrats exploiting the massacre to push gun bans, the truth has become abundantly clear, thanks to Michael Patrick Leahy, the CEO of Star News Digital Media and the editor of the Tennessee Star, who published the shooter's suicide note and other writings, which his paper obtained from an unnamed source some have suggested is close to the MNPD's investigation.

It appears Leahy may ultimately pay a price for doing his job and protecting his source.

After Stacy Cameron, a reporter for a local Fox News affiliate, effectively snitched on the Tennessee Star for detailing the shooter's leaked writings, l'Ashea Myles — the Democratic judge for Part III of the Tennessee 20th Judicial District Chancery Court — ordered Leahy last week to court for a show cause hearing.

'This very lower, lower, lower court judge is being pressured by somebody far above her pay grade.'

The purported point of the hearing, set to take place Monday, is "to determine why the alleged publication of certain purported documents by Petitioners Star Digital Media and Michael Leahy, as the Editor-in-Chief, does not violate the Orders of this Court subjecting them to contempt proceedings and sanctions."

Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker, who himself was arrested earlier this year for working in a journalistic capacity, will be on the scene for the hearing and has spoken with Leahy concerning the hazards of reporting on what the liberal media appears otherwise keen to ignore.

"My feeling is that this very lower, lower, lower court judge is being pressured by somebody far above her pay grade to bring action here against a local journalist who legally acquired documents and information about one of the most substantial shootings in the country last year," Baker told Blaze News. "This was obviously a situation where the FBI did not want these documents out, did not want the manifesto out."

Baker suggested that the apparent aim is to stop the release of documents that the powers that be "see as inappropriate because, once again, we have a favored class of citizens — a subclass — of transgender people," and such damning information might also implicate the use of profitable antidepressants and puberty blockers.

'The documents are public record, and they should be released.'

Blaze News reached out to the ACLU as well as its Nashville chapter about the prospect that a newspaper man might be punished for doing his job. Neither responded by deadline. PEN America and Freedom House similarly did not respond to questions about their ostensibly selective support for embattled reporters.

Background

When it became clear that officials weren't going to cough up a motive or the shooter's writings, the Tennessee Firearms Association and the Nashville Police Association unsuccessfully sued, demanding that officials release the killer's manifesto and other writings.

When the FBI denied its public records request, Leahy's Tennessee Star also filed a lawsuit.

"The documents are public record, and they should be released. Metro government failed to release them; we asked them nicely. They didn't. They shared those documents with the FBI, and we asked them nicely in accordance with the law. When government entities don't comply with the law, we have recourse through the courts," said Leahy.

Extra to pressure from the free press and local organizations, law enforcement officials were met with a request from 77 Tennessee House Republicans for the transvestite shooter's "writings as well as relevant medical records and toxicology reports."

The MNPD dragged its feet and asked a court to first permit family members of the victims and other interested parties to raise objections to the release of the documents.

Sure enough, the Covenant Presbyterian Church and the associated school filed a motion to block the release of the manifesto, citing privacy concerns. Parents with children at the school also filed a motion in May 2023 against the release of the manifesto, expressing concern that its content might inspire future shootings — a line of argumentation nearly identical to that advanced by the FBI that same month.

Blaze News previously reported that officials with the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group wrote to Nashville Police Chief John Drake on May 11, 2023, about the value in suppressing so-called "legacy tokens," claiming that "public access to legacy tokens will contribute to future attacks."

The FBI also warned that a failure to hide the truth from the public "will also facilitate false narratives and inaccurate information" — and possibly even inflammatory "conspiracy theories" by unsanctioned experts.

The success of this apparent federal-supported coverup was endangered when conservative commentator Steven Crowder released three pages of the manifesto, which were later authenticated. Nashville's Democratic mayor vowed to investigate the leak, and seven MNPD officers were placed on administrative duty.

The investigation proved fruitless.

The matter of the release of the remainder of the documents remained under consideration in Myles' Davidson County court.

Ordering a newspaper man to court

Deborah Fisher of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government noted that Myles issued an order in February stating that documents pertaining to the case about the documents, "no matter how obtained ... SHALL NOT be filed with the Court but SHALL BE submitted for in camera review following the procedures delineated in this case. … Any efforts to usurp the Orders of the Court by any Party, Counsel and/or Amici regarding the matters currently under in camera review shall be sanctioned to the fullest extent of the law, including contempt of court."

This and a follow-up order appear to be the orders Leahy is imagined to have run afoul of.

After the Fox News affiliate asked Myles about the Tennessee Star's reports earlier this month — which revealed, among other things, that the FBI floated the idea of destroying the shooter's writings and the shooter received decades of treatments at Vanderbilt Psychiatric, where she allegedly expressed violent fantasies — the judge ordered Leahy in his individual capacity to show up for a show cause hearing.

Daniel Horwitz, counsel for Leahy, stated in a June 12 court filing that the court's show cause order violates Tennessee's shield law protecting journalists' sources and information, whether obtained confidentially or not. Horwitz also suggested that the newly minted Democratic judge's order also contravenes Tennessee's contempt law, "deprives Mr. Leahy of minimum due process guarantees," and suffers from "other serious constitutional infirmities."

The court filing further indicated that Myles' order did not specify the "Orders of this Court" that were supposedly violated.

'This is what the free press is for.'

"In contempt proceedings, 'the order underlying the charge must be clear, specific, and unambiguous,'" wrote Horwitz. "The conduct detailed in the Court's Show Cause Order does not plausibly violate any of [the court's] previous mandates."

Myles refused to rescind her order, noting that if she concludes "a leak did in fact occur by any party to this case and that such action was in violation of the Orders of this Court, or that there has been any abuse of, or unlawful interference with, the process or proceedings of the Court, or any violation as set forth in Tennessee Code Annotated § 29-9-102, this Court may then enter an order and notice appointing an attorney as amicus curiae to the court for investigative purposes, and to initiate and prosecute a contempt citation."

Baker indicated that if held in contempt, Leahy noted he could get 10 days for each supposed violation. With at least 30 offending stories published this month, it is apparently possible that the newspaper man could land hundreds of days in the slammer.

When speaking to the newspaper man this week about the prospect of legal strife over the faithful execution of journalistic duties, Baker said, "Welcome to the club."

Leahy suggested to Baker that 10 days would be a walk in the park. Hundreds of days for fulfilling his obligation as a newsman would, however, be a different story.

Former acting U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark spoke out in defense of Leahy Thursday, noting, "What's being threatened against Mike Leahy seems to be a strange amalgam of 1) violating the First Amendment ban on prior restraints on speech; 2) a threatened mystery violation of law just like the Alvin Bragg case against Trump ('step right up, ladies and gentlemen, pick a plus-up crime, any plus-up crime'); and 3) weaponization of contempt law, like what's going on down in Fulton County with Judge Glanville in the Young Thug trial."

"What's going on in America? It's like a slice of the state judiciary across multiple States has lost its collective mind," added Clark.

"The American people deserve to know the details of how Hale was radicalized by the trans agenda. And the victims' family especially deserve to learn that information. This is what the free press is for," continued Clark. "It's not designed to coddle the trans movement or keep secrets that could get people killed through ignorance."

State Rep. Jeremy Faison (R) noted the Tennessee Legislature "will not stand for an activist judge who weaponizes their courtroom. [Leahy] is the press and does not have to prove to any courtroom that he is innocent."

Republican state Sen. Ken Yager said he would sponsor Faison's resolution to remove "judges engaging in abuse like this."

Concerning the liberal media and supposed press freedom groups' relative silence on Leahy's court appearance Monday, Baker indicated that either the First Amendment "is fundamental to the freedom of all people or it's only based on ideological preference."

"Very interesting to me that over and over and over again I hear conservatives, libertarians say, 'I will die for your right to say what you want to say even if I disagree with it. But we never get a reciprocal response from the other side," added Baker.

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FBI must hand over Nashville Christian school shooter's manifesto to judge for review



A judge recently ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to hand over the manifesto of the Covenant School shooter amid an ongoing lawsuit filed by local news outlet the Tennessee Star.

United States District Judge Aleta Trauger ordered the FBI to turn over the writings of the trans-identifying 28-year-old female who shot and killed three children and three adults at the Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 27, 2023. The suspect was shot dead at the scene by police.

Authorities have repeatedly refused to release the shooter's manifesto to the public, prompting state-level lawsuits that are currently tied up in court.

Metropolitan Nashville Police seized the writings, which included a hand-drawn map of the school, from the shooter's vehicle. According to the FBI, releasing the documents to the public "could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings."

Following the tragedy, the Tennessee Star filed a public records request for the writings, which the FBI denied. The news outlet responded by filing a federal lawsuit against the agency for the release of the documents.

The complaint argued that the manifesto has been kept hidden for "long enough" and that the "public has an urgent right to know why this tragedy happened, how future events may be prevented, and what policies should be in place to address this and other similar tragedies."

"The documents are public record, and they should be released. Metro government failed to release them; we asked them nicely. They didn't. They shared those documents with the FBI, and we asked them nicely in accordance with the law. When government entities don't comply with the law, we have recourse through the courts," Michael Leheay with the Tennessee Star stated, WZTV reported.

"At first, I thought we'd be more likely to obtain the documents in state proceedings, but there are a number of parties who do not want those documents revealed and have taken legal actions to impede its release, and I think that's contrary to the public interest," Leheay explained.

The FBI attempted to have the case dismissed, but Judge Trauger ruled that the bureau failed to support its argument "with sufficient clarity or detail." The judge ordered the agency to turn over the shooter's writings for her review before she would decide whether the documents should be released to the public.

"The FBI is ORDERED to produce ex parte all documents that are potentially responsive to the defendants' Freedom of Information Act request for in camera review, with the exception that, based on the plaintiffs' concessions in this litigation, the FBI need not produce any documents that could not reasonably be construed to bear on Audrey Hale's motives," Trauger wrote her decision.

In November, "Louder with Crowder" released three pages purportedly from the shooter's manifesto, Blaze News previously reported. The pages outlined the shooter's schedule for the day of the attack, which she referred to as "death day," the leaked manifesto showed.

"I hope I have a high death count," the shooter wrote. "Let massacre begin. … Time2die."

One of the released pages included the shooter's hate-fueled ramblings.

"Kill those kids!!!" it read. "Those crackers going to private fancy schools with those fancy kwakis [sic] + sports backpacks. W/ thier daddies [sic] mustangs + convertables [sic].”

"F**k you little s**ts. I wish to shoot you weakass dicks w/ your mop yellow hair," she continued. "Wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little faggots w/ your white privlages [sic] f**k you faggots."

The police department placed seven officers on administrative assignment while it investigated who leaked the photographs of the manifesto to "Louder with Crowder." The MNPD ultimately closed the probe after failing to identify the source of the leak.

"The investigation, led by the police department's Office of Professional Accountability, determined that the three cell phone photographs were taken in the immediacy of the moment just after the shooter's journals were discovered in her vehicle. Two detectives assigned to the Specialized Investigations Division took the photos (one detective took two photos, the other took one) as part of intelligence gathering to learn more about the shooter and determine whether anyone else was involved with her," the department stated.

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ADL omits transvestite's massacre of Nashville Christians from its report on extremist-related murders



The Anti-Defamation League made abundantly clear this week that it won't let reality get in the way of its preferred political narrative. The New York-based leftist group's annual report on murder and extremism claims that all of the "extremist-related murders" in the U.S. last year "were tied to right-wing extremism."

This claim caught the eye of one critic who could think of an example of extremism that proved the assessment wanting: the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.

When pressed on why it overlooked a radical transvestite's March 2023 massacre of Christians — whose "white privilege" was factored into their targeting — as an instance of extremism, the ADL cited a lack of evidence.

The ADL report

The ADL routinely downplays the threat of leftist and Islamist violence whilst hyping the supposed dangers of right-wing extremism. The group showed no signs of a course correction in its new "Murder and Extremism in the United States" report.

The leftist group claimed, for example, that "no police officers or corrections officers were killed by extremists this past year," apparently overlooking Mohamad Barakat's July 14, 2023, ambush of North Dakota police officers. Days after looking up an article online about the American assassination of an ISIS terrorist, Barakat, a self-described Muslim from Syria who recently became a U.S. citizen, opened fire on three officers, killing Fargo Police Officer Jake Wallin.

Extremist violence against police was apparently not the ADL's only blind spot.

The report claims, "All the extremist-related murders in 2023 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds, with 15 of the 17 killings involving perpetrators or accomplices with white supremacist connections."

The ADL defines "right-wing extremism" thusly: "right-wing political, social and religious movements that exist outside of and are more radical than mainstream conservatism."

"This is the second year in a row that right-wing extremists have been connected to all identified extremist-related killings," said the report.

The ADL did not bother to count the Covenant School shooting.

Turning a blind eye to likely leftist extremism

A 28-year-old transvestite stormed a Presbyterian elementary school on March 27, 2023, armed with a rifle, a pistol, and a handgun.

The male-identifying woman murdered three children and three staff members at the Covenant School before police could put her down with four well-placed shots. Her victims were Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9; Hallie Scruggs, 9; William Kinney, 9; Katherine Koonce, 60; Cynthia Peak, 61; and Mike Hill, 61.

The shooter left behind what Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake characterized as a "manifesto."

The Daily Signal's Tyler O'Neil noted that leaked elements of the shooter's manifesto, which police confirmed were legitimate, made clear that the killer transvestite was operating on the basis of the same kinds of anti-white hatred the radical left regularly traffics in.

"Kill those kids!!! Those crackers Going to private fancy schools with those fancy khakis and sports backpacks with their daddies mustangs and convertibles. F— you little sh—s," wrote the female shooter. "I wish to shoot your weak ass d—s with your mop yellow hair, wanna kill all you little crackers!!! Bunch of little f***ots with your white privileges. F— you f***ots."

O'Neil suggested the shooter's remarks aligned with the "left's ideological talking points on 'white privilege' and reveal[ed] a disdain for others based on the skin color."

"This hatred of white people echoes the Marxist claim that America is institutionally racist, so justice demands stripping whites of their 'privilege' and elevating racial minorities rather than securing a level playing field for all races," wrote O'Neil.

The Daily Signal asked the ADL about its decision to omit the transvestite's massacre from its list of extremist incidents and was told the Covenant School shooting does not show "clear evidence of extremism."

"The case of Hale does not appear in the report, as we did not find clear evidence of extremism," an ADL spokesman told the Signal.

"Hale left some writings, not released by police, that they described as lacking any specific political or social issues," added the spokesman. "Three pages of a document were later leaked that contained hateful epithets directed at white and LGBTQ+ people, which did not provide evidence of any particular extremist ideology, but rather primarily resentment and grievance at students from the shooter's former school perceived to be better off than the shooter was."

The ADL spokesman suggested that its assessment might change if "additional information comes to light."

"If additional evidence is subsequently revealed for a specific murder that confirms an extremist tie, such a murder would be added to the statistics at that time," continued the spokesman. "Our statistics are regularly updated to include new findings."

The ADL previously made reference to the Covenant School shooting when it suited the organization's preferred narrative.

In the aftermath of the massacre last year, the ADL raised the alarm — about "anti-transgender rhetoric" on 4chan and .win forums. The leftist grrup warned that "this sort of hate doesn't just stay online. It can inspire offline violence."

While the motive of the Nashville shooter remains unknown, unfounded claims that the incident was rooted in gender identity have been weaponized. This rise in anti-transgender hate must be taken seriously.
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Transgender suspect threatens to rape Christian girls, inject HIV in people wearing crosses, copycat Nashville shooting: Feds



A transgender individual threatened to rape Christian schoolgirls, inject HIV into people wearing crosses, and carry out a copycat of the Nashville Christian Covenant School shooting, according to federal authorities.

Jason Lee Willie – a biological male who identifies as Alexia N. Willie – was charged on Nov. 7 with 14 felony counts of interstate communication of a threat to injure.

Willie – a 47-year-old from Nashville, Illinois – allegedly made the macabre threats in online videos and during streaming video calls.

In a ghastly threat from Illinois to Virginia, Willie purportedly vowed to commit a school shooting.

"We're out here walking into your school, shooting your children, and I'm going to tell you right now, I'm gonna be one of them and the FBI isn't gonna stop me, but I'm gonna kill your children out here," Willie declared, according to the indictment.

"There's a lot of transgenders out here that are tired of being picked on and we're going to go into the schools and we're going to kill their f***ing children out here, and that's the end of it. We're at war," Willie reportedly said.

Willie allegedly made a subtle threat to carry out a copycat shooting like the one executed in March by a transgender individual who killed three children and three adults at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

"A person in Tennessee walked into one of your schools and shot up a bunch of your Christian daughters," Willie purportedly said. "That's not the last of them if you don't shut your f***ing mouth."

In August, Willie allegedly used the video platform MeetMe to make more heinous threats under the username Mentally Unstable.

"I catch your daughters in them bathrooms alone, I am gonna f*** them. I mean I am gonna f*** f*** them until they're dead," Willie allegedly proclaimed. "I guarantee I'll be in the bathroom raping your Christian daughters."

Willie allegedly admitted to being an "open pedophile."

The indictment accused Willie of challenging the Republican Party by calling its members "weak," "p***ies," and "f*gg*ts."

Willie reportedly said, "You can't do nothing about us. You can cry. Cry. Put me on national television, I don't care. I'm transgender, I'm in the bathroom raping your f*** daughters and I'm openly letting you guys know this. The Republican Party, what are you f*gg*ts going to do about us?"

The self-identifying transgender individual allegedly threatened to inject HIV into people wearing Christian crosses.

"I catch you b****es out here with a cross around your neck in that restroom, you better know we’re going to hit you with a f***ing syringe," Willie said, according to the indictment in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

Willie reportedly disparaged black Americans.

"They're trash, they're Christian trash. They're transphobic, they're homophobic. They're no different than the f***ing white supremacists," Willie allegedly said of black people. "That's exactly who the f*** they are. Listen, Dave Chappelle and all the blacks out here, all the black people out here talking about trannies and s**t, they ain’t no different than the white supremacists either. You all bow to the same cross."

Newsweek reported that Willie made terrifying claims of murdering a preacher in 2018. The FBI was alerted when Willie allegedly wrote on Facebook about killing a preacher who had supposedly molested Willie and hundreds of other children.

The FBI also interrogated Willie over another alleged incident on the Twitch streaming platform, where Willie allegedly threatened to bomb people who discriminate against transgender rights.

Willie pleaded not guilty to all charges and remains in custody. A trial is scheduled to begin on Jan. 16.

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'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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Elon Musk Has a Sobering Reaction to Nashville Shooter Manifesto

Elon Musk Has a Sobering Reaction to Nashville Shooter Manifesto

And the attacks on Steven Crowder begin…



On Monday, November 6, conservative political commentator and host of “Louder with Crowder” Steven Crowder released what appears to be part of the manifesto of the Nashville shooter who killed three adults and three children at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023.

The images had been kept from the public pending completion of the investigation, but Crowder, through unknown means, obtained the images and shared them with the public, who he felt “had a right to know a long time ago” – specifically a right to know that the shooter targeted a specific group: “cr*ackers” and people she associated with white supremacy.

The mainstream media has jumped at the opportunity to twist Crowder’s decision to share the truth into an avaricious desire for “clicks and clout,” says Dave Rubin.

“The media obviously doesn't like Crowder [because] Crowder is competition to CNN,” he explains, so “if he is to expose anything that is true, well, then they have to go after Crowder.”

However, it looks like Crowder was well aware this attack was coming.

In a tweet, he said, “Expect hit pieces from the left wing media saying we released the #NashvilleManifesto for clicks and clout.”

And he was dead right.

Dave shows an email Crowder received from a reporter at the New York Times asking him for comment before she published a story about his publication of the manifesto that would include Covenant parent Brent Leatherwood’s accusation that Crowder’s decision was all about “chasing clicks.”

“We also know that if this wasn't a trans person, if this had been a white supremacist, let's say, or just a white guy, just a Christian white guy – there's no way this manifesto would have been hidden,” Dave adds.


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Elon Musk's reaction to Nashville shooter’s manifesto is spot-on



This past Monday, Steven Crowder, host of "Louder with Crowder," shared leaked images from the Nashville shooter’s alleged manifesto that has been kept under lock and key for months pending completion of the investigation.

With lines like “Wanna kill all you little cr*ckers” and “I hope I have a high death count,” the manifesto is disturbing, to say the least.

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted Crowder’s original post along with his reaction to seeing the manifesto.

Dave Rubin is impressed with Musk’s admission, especially the second part, where he points to the tragic outcomes of our broken system.

“Anyone who commits any of these murders is mentally ill by definition,” he says, “but that doesn't suit … the Democratic Party's policy of wanting to step on your Second Amendment rights. … They don't want you to think about mental health; they don't want you to think about the mind-bending prescription drugs that people are on or, on this case, the fact that the shooter was trans and there's probably hormones involved.”


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Biden invites 'Tennessee Three' to White House — but won't invite families of Covenant School massacre victims

Biden invites 'Tennessee Three' to White House — but won't invite families of Covenant School massacre victims



President Joe Biden has invited the so-called Tennessee Three to the White House, but he is not inviting the families of the victims of the Covenant School massacre.

At the White House press briefing on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced that Biden has invited Tennessee Democratic state Reps. Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson to the White House. They will visit next Monday.

She explained:

Earlier this month, the president spoke to them by phone after they were subjugated to expulsion votes in the Tennessee state House for peacefully protesting in support of stronger gun safety laws following the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville. During that call, the president thanked them for their leadership in seeking to ban assault weapons and standing up for the democratic values.

When it was his turn to ask a question, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy wanted to know: What about the families of the victims of the massacre?

"On Monday, you're going to have three of the lawmakers who protested—" he began before Jean-Pierre interrupted.

"Peacefully protested," she interjected.

"Who peacefully protested after the Nashville Covenant School shooting," Doocy continued. "Have any of the victims or their families been invited to the White House?"

"I don’t have anything to read out to you about any invite," the press secretary responded.

"Why?" Doocy pressed.

Jean-Pierre, however, could not provide an answer. Instead, she vaguely explained how Biden is "focused on getting things done" and plans to use his "bully pulpit" to continue pushing his agenda, which includes banning so-called assault weapons. Hosting the lawmakers at the White House, Jean-Pierre said, is about fostering a conversation to that end.

Despite being expelled from the Tennessee state House, both Pearson and Jones have since been reinstated by their districts.

Jones made headlines on Monday when he carried a baby-sized casket through the halls of the Tennessee Capitol to make a statement about gun violence and the need for more gun control.

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