Earlier this week, reports revealed that Audrey Hale, the shooter at the Covenant School, used federal student aid money to purchase the weapons she used to kill six people at the Christian school. Notably, she was a former student of the Catholic school in Nashville that was attacked last year. The tragic incident resulted in the deaths of three students and three staff members, with two others sustaining injuries.
Hale, a transgender individual, was shot and killed by law enforcement during the incident. The police department declined to publish Hale’s manifesto, likely fearing it would negatively impact the perception of the LGBTQ community. Recently, the FBI has made available documents that provide insight into Hale’s motives, revealing why the Biden administration and law enforcement chose to keep this information from the public.
“The shooter also said, ‘I hate religion.’ THIS WAS HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC!!!,” wrote Eric Daugherty, chief content officer at RightLine News and Florida’s Voice.
According to The New York Post, Hale even went so far as to write out a chilling “pros-and-cons” list before carrying out the attack.
That list reportedly spelled out what Hale viewed as the “advantages” and “disadvantages” of targeting another school she had previously attended—before ultimately deciding against it for one disturbing reason: the school’s student body was “mostly black.”
“[Predominantly black school (black people I love),” Hale wrote under the “disadvantages” list she composed about attacking the middle school. Hale attended that middle school from fifth to eighth grade, according to the Post, and it was her first choice for the planned shooting. She also listed among the disadvantages, “black community in despair and suffering (I don’t want to cause that), “black friends and black community will hate me,” and “likely to influence rasist [sic] white shooters in future.”
She chillingly listed “easy to navigate” and “not a big school” as the advantages.
For the Covenant School, Hale said the “advantages” included her knowledge of the school, and that it was a “Christian school (hate religion).” She also said it was a “white school (white people I hate!!!).” Hale admitted she’d be killing kids, and that “killing children = more horrific.” She also mentioned that if she opted for that school, it was highly probable that police or SWAT would end up killing her.
Few people are surprised by this revelation. Speculation about Hale’s motives started the moment police refused to release the manifesto, and for good reason. When authorities clamp down on information that aggressively, it’s usually because the facts don’t fit the approved narrative.
Throughout the Joe Biden administration, Democrats and their allies relentlessly claimed that “white supremacy” was the greatest domestic terror threat facing the country. At the same time, they smeared parents who spoke up at school board meetings, Christians who held traditional beliefs, veterans, and conservatives as “domestic terrorists.”
That framing wasn’t accidental—it was political. And when evidence emerges that contradicts it, the instinct isn’t transparency, but suppression.
“Remember this woman who murdered young kids at a predominantly white Catholic school? She hated herself so much. Biden’s FBI hide that she also hated whites. This was also a hate crime. Where’s the outrage?” one social media account asked.
“Everyone immediately knew once they refused to release their manifesto, there was something in there about killing white people,” wrote another.
Yes—either that, or the manifesto contained material about targeting Christians. Many people, myself included, had serious questions about Hale’s motives from the start, and most suspected some mix of anti-Christian or anti-white animus. As it turns out, the answer appears to have been both.