Ohio U.S. Senator JD Vance (R-OH) reacted to the leaked documents part of the Covenant School shooter’s manifesto released by Steven Crowder on Monday morning.
“The anti-whiteness movement, mainstreamed by American universities and corporations, has blood on its hands,” Vance wrote on social media in response to Crowder’s post of three photos showing pages of the killer’s manifesto.
The anti-whiteness movement, mainstreamed by American universities and corporations, has blood on its hands. https://t.co/Eo3BmPXDSv
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) November 6, 2023
Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender, shot and killed three adults and three students at The Covenant School in Nashville on March 27. Shortly after the shooting unfolded, police confirmed the existence of a manifesto, however, its contents have been kept under wraps until now.
On the day of the shooting, Vance took to social media to react to the news, saying at the time, “We’re still learning about the horrific shooting in Nashville. But if early reports are accurate that a trans shooter targeted a Christian school, there needs to be a lot of soul searching on the extreme left. Giving in to these ideas isn’t compassion, it’s dangerous.”
“In the meantime, say a prayer for every kid who lost their life and every parent mourning a child. Christ have mercy,” Vance added.
Since Crowder’s Monday morning release of the manifesto, sources in the Tennessee General Assembly who were allowed to view the manifesto by the Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) confirmed to The Tennessee Star that the documents released by Crowder are part of the documents obtained by MNPD during their investigation, and were authentically written by Hale.
In a statement to The Star, a spokesperson for MNPD said she did not know whether the documents were authentic and insinuated the leak is being investigated.
“I think that we’ve got people that are trying to get to the bottom of it,” the MNPD spokesman told The Star. “Certainly, no one – I didn’t release it, no one from this office sent those photos over there. So we’re just trying to substantiate what’s going on and how it may have happened.”
In May, Star News Digital Media Inc., the parent company of The Star, filed two lawsuits against MNPD and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking the release of the manifesto. Both suits remain active.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Ohio Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
