Tragedy In Minneapolis | Episode 113

24:43For our trans community. Regardless of who you are or where you come from, Minneapolis is a place where you should be proud to call home. You heard two things there. the same idiot mayor rooting on the idea that we will be a sanctuary for criminality and for mental illness. We won't stop it. We won't help our citizens. We won't clean up our community. I promise, he says, in words that are designed to sound like they're wonderful, that I will make my community worse. That's the message. Now, it's no wonder, of course, that people are rejecting Democrats by by such huge margins, by Democrat party registration is collapsing in the United States.

25:33More and more people are calling themselves Republican. It's no wonder. But I don't want it to be this way. I don't want it to be this way. I hate seeing what's happening to America's cities and states that are run by Democrats. My fellow citizen lives in those states. I do not want this collapse.

25:46Dan Bongino:I want these people to leave. go do something more useful like be a seat filler at an award show or something but don't try and lead a community because you're leading it into the ground it's not just the mayor here's the minnesota governor tim walls tampon tim walls as crazy as ever saying very recently very recently this was in the uh the dnc summer meeting that we have to be a safe haven for mental illness. Cut five. Look, Minnesota ranks the highest per capita for being a safe haven for transgender individuals in Minnesota. And can I just say we can talk about economic growth and feeding children and growing the economy and creating jobs simultaneously with talking about everybody's human rights matters and we shouldn't be legalizing them.

26:40You can do both. Can't speak English, waves with two hands, roots on mental illness, and somehow he's the governor of a state. Somehow. Thank God he's not the vice president of the United States. Thank God the sanity of the American people prevailed in 2024 to prevent that awful thing from happening. Just imagine how much worse it would be now if Kamala Harris and Tim Walz were in the White House. Our prayers were answered when President Trump returned and not those guys. And the attorney general of the state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, former congressman, Democrat, awful person, also saying that he wants to fight it out in court with the Trump administration to protect the abuse of children in the state

27:27Dan Bongino:of Minnesota. If you're in Minnesota right now, I got to say, I feel so sorry for you that you have to deal with this garbage. And I hope a better future is ahead for you. Listen to this. Cut six. Here's the attorney general. Dude 44 times and we'll sue him 44 more and 44 more after that. And we and we have sued him for gender affirming care. Yes, we are not going to scapegoat our transgender community. And we have sued him to stand up for medical research, National Institute.

28:01I need people to understand what he's saying. we are going to fight for the continued abuse of children we are going to fight for the continued descent into madness and I don't want anybody to stop me that's the position he's taking and I see so I see some people in the chat saying oh please don't show these guys anymore sorry we can't look away we can't look away at this we need to confront this evil head-on no more excuses for this nonsense no more just letting it slip past no more letting it just

28:29Dan Bongino:hang out there to influence people. This needs to be put down. Because if it's not put down, guess who gets put down? Our children get put down in a church praying in Minneapolis on a Wednesday morning. This has to stop. The lieutenant governor of the state also shares this demonic view. Cut seven. Because let's be clear. this is life affirming and life saving health care when our children tell us who they are it is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them

29:19evil that's what it means to be a good parent no it isn't no it isn't

29:25Dan Bongino:No, it does. It does not mean that you accept every bad decision your child makes. By and large, the people who are telling you this are not even parents themselves, to be clear. So they have no idea what it means to be a parent. And they're taking out their frustrations about lacking children on the rest of us. That's part of this. but this whole thing that oh raising a child means letting them do whatever they want and then obediently sitting back and funding their delusions no it doesn't mean that at all anyone who either had good parenting or who is exhibiting good parenting knows the way you handle things is you nip it in the bud when things are headed in the wrong direction You need to be the guardrails for your child's upbringing.

30:21Dan Bongino:You need to help them take those steps down the path to their own improvement, their own flourishing towards, yes, to eternity. That's your job as a parent to lead them in that direction. That's what the Catholic parents at Annunciation Catholic Church know, which is their job is to lead their children to God. not to let them wander off to the devil. And that's what the lieutenant governor of the state of Minnesota is advancing. So these Democrats need to be out of power. And there's, you know, I think it's incumbent upon the rest of us, you know, in the do something attitude that people have after a shooting like this.

31:06I'm here to tell you that we need a national uprising against this already beyond where we are.

31:11Dan Bongino:So many Americans agree on this issue, by the way. It's so clear. I mean, we've made such strides in reminding people that reality exists, that boys can't be girls. They can't compete in girls sports. They shouldn't be in girls locker rooms and and vice versa. We've made we've made a lot of progress on this issue. But it is not over. It is far from over. There's a body count right now in Minneapolis. And I've got I've got a lot more to deal with here with you because it's not just the elected officials who are doing this. It's our media who are doing this, who are rooting this destruction on or lying to you outright about what just took place yesterday in Minneapolis lying.

31:56Dan Bongino:And this audience, of course, knows better. To be clear, this is a media literate audience. You are aware of the nature of these lies. But the challenge we have is that there is a percentage of Americans, almost all of them who vote for Democrats, who are totally brainwashed by a legacy media who will relentlessly lie to them in the pursuit of power for their party rather than tell them the truth so that we can grow as a country. More ahead on this Finch Show. I want to thank the great people, the great people at fastgrowingtrees.com for being a great sponsor of this program you know fall is planting season and a lot of plants and trees actually do better when they're planted this time of year but you've got to know where to start and this is why i love fastgrowingtrees.com it doesn't matter if you live in the sunny south or if the air is getting chilly where you are their plant experts can help you find the perfect fit for your space they've got all the plants that your yard needs like fruit trees and privacy trees flowering trees shrubs and so much more You can order online and get your plants delivered directly to your door in just a few days without ever leaving home.

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34:57There's first of all, let me let me let me share with you some good news out of the media. It's not good news. The news is bad, but some honest coverage from the press. I think that's a good place to start. And this comes to us from Deanna Nerozi. She is a reporter for The New York Post. She's writing alongside a guy called Patrick Riley today. and the two, well, Deanna, just to be clear, is a woman I know well because she at one point was my White House correspondent at The Daily Caller, super talented woman, and now she's at the New York Post doing good work there, and here's the headline on the piece.

35:35Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman, formerly Robert until he got his official name change from Minnesota, confessed that he was tired of being trans now credit to the New York Post for saying he not everyone's

35:48Dan Bongino:saying he he is correct he was tired of being trans quote I wish I never brainwashed myself transgender mass shooter Robin Westman confessed that he was tired of being trans and wished he had never brainwashed himself in his manifesto posted online before he slaughtered two children and wounded dozens more at that Minneapolis church. In a twisted handwritten journal that he shared on YouTube, Westman groaned about his long hair and his decision to transition. Quote, I only keep the long hair because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I'm tired of being trans, he wrote. I wish I was never brainwashed myself.

36:34That's according to a translation by the New York Post. there have been studies done on this issue people who consider themselves to be transgender a massive study out of the UK found this most people who say this grow out of it most people who say this are going through a phase and they grow out of that phase much like so many of us did some other kind of phase when we were teenagers it's a phase and here you have of this now deceased young man indicating that he was, quote, brainwashed, that he was taken down a road that he regretted,

37:16Dan Bongino:that he was made to think that he was transgender. And you are not going to see coverage of this in the left wing media. CNN is not going to spend any time on this. MSNBC, The New York Times, others, they're not going to spend time on this. In fact, they're going out of their way even this morning to lie to you about this. Look at this New York Times headline this morning. This is a real New York Times headline. As we speak this morning is the New York Times headline. Minneapolis suspect knew her target, but motive is a mystery. I'm sorry, what? Her target? this is a man you're lying to us in the headline of the story and motive is a mystery it seems pretty clear to me that he was dead set on attacking a catholic school and a catholic church the writings all over his guns and all over his manifesto make clear his hatred for jesus christ his hatred for the kids who are in that church the diagram that he drew of the church ahead of the attack.

38:33Dan Bongino:This was a bigoted, hateful, anti-Christian, anti-Catholic, anti-God attack. We know that. All of the available evidence points us in that direction. For instance, look at, let me show you this. Here's some of the messages that the shooter left behind, our friend Greg Price capturing some of these. Let me filter through some of this. there's a target of Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns on a shooting target placed on the head of a shooting target look at this on my screen here that's the image that the shooter captured it was meant to target Christ himself there's another image written on the side of the magazine where is your God an attack on faith here's another kill donald trump the message says rip and tear it also says on the magazine which i understand i i'm not a not really a doom player but i understand that that apparently came from the doom video game kill donald trump rip and tear and then it also says here i'm the woker as in like a play on the Joker.

39:54I'm the woker, baby. Why so querious?

40:00Dan Bongino:So the message is clear. The guy wrote the messages all over his magazines and in his manifesto and the New York Times is still scratching its head trying to figure out what's the motive here? What happened? Why did she do this? They say. And the lies by omission continue. Yesterday on ABC, There's a reporter by the name of Aaron Katursky who was relaying some of the information from what I just showed you, but doing it in such a completely disgusting and deceptive way that it resulted in this presentation on national television. Pay attention to where Aaron Katursky talks about President Trump's name being written on the guns.

40:44Dan Bongino:Here it is. Cut nine. Aaron Katursky of ABC. 23-year-old Robin Westman was able to leave what police called a video manifesto that they're now going through to try and establish motive. We've also been going through it and can tell you there are crude diagrams of the church. There are also photos of the weapons, and they include all sorts of writings, the names of past mass shooters, criticism of Israel, the name of President Trump written on the guns. There are also racial slurs, nihilistic statements, all painting the picture of a disturbed individual who carried out this mass shooting. You see what he did with the list?

41:27Dan Bongino:You see what he did as he presented that? He said there were the names of past shooters. There was the name of President Trump all on these guns. He was implying to the audience that the shooter was a fan of President Trump. Oh, his name was on there like it was some sort of NASCAR sponsorship on the side of the gun. No, the message that this insane person left behind, fellas, pull up my screen again, is kill Donald Trump. That's the message that was written. And it wasn't just that one. Here's another one. Kill Trump now, it says on the message. Those are the messages. The ABC reporter said something that was accurate, kind of.

42:15Dan Bongino:Donald Trump's name appeared, but it was such a dishonest presentation of the facts that it's a lie by omission. It left in the impression of the viewer that this guy was somehow a fan of Donald Trump when he desired the death of the president of the United States. That's our media. That's the way they and to be clear, that particular tactic, that subtle little deception that is implanted into a presentation of what they call the news is the way that the media so frequently mislead the public. They tell you some sort of partial truth in the service of prejudicing your judgment in the opposite direction to make you think that it's Democrats who are right, Republicans who are wrong.

43:05Dan Bongino:That's what's being accomplished here. And it's disgraceful that Aaron Kuturski would do that. And that was a choice. Kuturski knew what he was doing. He should have said that it was an anti-Trump message, a message that desired the death of the president of the United States. He didn't say that. He merely said that President Trump's name appeared on the gun. How completely dishonest. He wasn't alone in the deceptions yesterday. CNN's Jake Tapper pretended during a segment on his network that the shooter was female. Cut 10. Watch this. Minneapolis Star Tribune, just as another piece of the puzzle as to who the shooter was, Minneapolis Star Tribune says, according to court records, because there's been some confusion about what the shooter's name was.

43:45Yes. Robin Westman's mother applied to change her child's name in 2019. It was at one point Robert Paul Westman. Correct. But since she identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification, was underage, it's now Robin Westman.

44:05she now identifies as a female. That's a couple of things when you hear people say that. One, it's malice if you're trying to advance the destruction of these people. At the very least, it's cowardice. It's just complete cowardice in the face of a corporation who's going to hurt you if you tell the truth. So Jake Tapper chose cowardice yesterday and presented a male as a female,

44:30Dan Bongino:despite the fact that the villain of our story is the guy. You owe him nothing. You owe him no courtesies whatsoever, including these delusional courtesies of calling men by different pronouns from he and him. It's so crazy. But Tapper chose the cowardly route yesterday. And then there were people who were on television who had no idea whatsoever how guns work. There was a CNN reporter yesterday, cut 13, who once again spoke very confidently about the weaponry without any idea whatsoever about how guns actually operate. It seemed like a rifle, he said, a semi-automatic rifle, and it went on for several minutes.

45:15Right. And that's not uncommon as well. These things can shoot dozens of bullets in just one trigger pull. And so what happens in this case is sometimes they have enough time to reload. It's one of the most horrific things for students to be sitting.

45:33Dan Bongino:The stupidity, the stupidity. And they say that with such confidence. Oh, these things can shoot dozens of bullets with one trigger pull. You know literally nothing. And yet you sit there and you say these things and you pretend like you have some sort of expertise on the subject. You know literally nothing about this. what he's describing is not not of course not at all what occurred what he's describing would be a fully automatic weapon if a trigger was pulled and the rounds keep firing through it while the trigger is depressed that's not what happens the rifle in question was a semi-automatic rifle in other words one trigger pull per shot they just make it up they just completely make it up and then their ignorant audience nods along and says oh my goodness i can't even believe that's real That's because it's not real.

46:26Dan Bongino:They just make it up. He wasn't alone in making it up yesterday. Senator Amy Klobuchar, also of Minnesota, went on television and then also lied. Here she is, cut 12, saying, oh, we've been trying to get these automatic weapons off the streets. It, of course, makes me think about guns and all the work we've done to ban these automatic rifles and to do something when it comes to the background checks and everything. And we keep getting thwarted. We were able to pass a limited measure on a bipartisan basis, but not enough to stop something like this. And it just makes you think about that as well without knowing the details about how he got that gun, if the gun was legal, what kind of gun it was.

47:12But it was clearly one of these automatic rifles to be able to shoot that many kids so fast.

47:20Dan Bongino:You know, she said, I don't know the details, but it was clearly one of those automatic rifles. Yeah, you don't know the details. You don't know anything, actually. It was not an automatic rifle, you moron. And then for her to say, like, hey, we've been trying to fix this. We've been trying to get control of this. Stop this. Expand background checks on and on. Let me ask you a really basic question, Amy Klobuchar. Do you think people who think they're born in the wrong body are suffering from a mental illness? Yes or no? She'll say no. No, no, no, no, it's not a mental illness. Would you want to keep people with mental illness from getting guns?

47:55Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. What about being transgender? Is that a mental illness? No, no, no, that's normal. It's not normal. It's mental illness. And the left's position is we need to arm transgender people. Arm them. That's actually the position of the left.

48:12Dan Bongino:What I mean by that is whenever we talk about the United States military, have you noticed how frequently the left's position is that we need transgender people carrying actual weapons of war in the military and into combat? You've got to have transgender people at war carrying guns. That is the position of the left. That's the position they take. Not that, hold on a second. This is somebody who's deeply imbalanced. Somebody who has a mental instability, we should be caring for them, not arming them. That's crazy. Don't do that. No, the left's position, let's arm the mentally ill. That's the position they've taken.

48:49And then when you see something like this play out, they lie. And so we got to ban these weapons. They're automatic weapons, she says. But you know in the end. So let's just pretend for a moment that I presented a piece of legislation to Amy Klobuchar. And I said, okay, let's ban. You just said automatic weapons. Let's ban automatic weapons. Now, that's true. There are some people who own fully automatic weapons in the United States. They're few and far between. Difficult to get. Difficult to get. But if we were to ban fully automatic weapons, what impact would that have on the arsenal that Americans own across the country?

49:20Almost none. Almost everything that's owned by civilians in the United States of America is semi-automatic or single action.

49:31Dan Bongino:And so the idea that this would have any dent whatsoever, it's not true. It's ridiculous. It's just completely ridiculous. And that's not enough for her. She doesn't want to ban fully automatic guns. She wants to take all of them. In other words, she wants to deprive your ability to stop the transgender killer from murdering your children. That's what she wants to do. That is the effect of her pursuit. Let's disarm law abiding citizens so that the only people who can fire are the bad guys. Now, that is not the position they want to take for their own armed guards. Hakeem Jeffries yesterday, Chuck Schumer yesterday, all of these idiots, Tim Walls, they're all calling for disarming American citizens in the wake of this.

50:14Dan Bongino:They're exploiting the crazy person who they indulged in order to say that sane, well-adjusted American citizens should be disarmed. But they don't want to get rid of their security. Tim Walls doesn't want to get rid of the Minnesota state troopers who protect him. Hakeem Jeffries doesn't want to get rid of the Capitol Police officers who protect him Chuck Schumer doesn't want to get rid of the Capitol Police officers who protect him up in Illinois J.B. Pritzker doesn't want to get rid of the Illinois state troopers who protect him no that's not the plan the plan is to disarm you and to retain a level of protection that only elected officials are entitled to that's their plan how about no that's not going to work I I deserved to be just as well protected as you are.

51:00It's as simple as that. And I can take that matter into my own hands.

51:07Dan Bongino:So they don't know what they're talking about. They make the mentally ill worse. And then when the mentally ill do something awful, they target you for disarmament. Am I getting the math right on this? Because that seems to be the pattern. Every single time this happens. Every single time this happens. and so yeah there's a lot there are a lot of lessons from this there are a lot of lessons from this one is stop indulging the mentally ill stop making it worse two is allow american citizens to carry american citizens are responsible for their own defense they will do well they do well when called upon to protect themselves their families and their community it is their Second Amendment rights stop trampling upon it.

51:56Another is we need a we need a culture of courage, whether it's from the pulpit or inside of our homes. The reality with the young man who took those shots yesterday, killed those children, is that it wasn't just his own descent. It wasn't just people like Tim Walls and Jacob Fry who were rooting on his destruction. It was his own parents. his mother filled out the forms requesting the name change in 2019

52:26Dan Bongino:and these are this is a family that attended that catholic church and school they went to annunciation the mother worked there for nearly a decade and i don't know her and i suspect she's going through a living hell right now looking back on all of the decisions that she made what led up to all of this, the role she may have had in all of it. I'm sure that she's going through that right now. And I wouldn't want to be there where she is. But it should be a warning sign for the rest of us that the road to hell can be paved with good intentions. It very often is. That she was very likely convinced by the culture that the right thing to do for her distressed son was to allow him to descend into his delusions, that somehow this would be the morally justified thing to do.

53:16It is not. It is not. As a parent, you have a duty to intervene. You have a duty to rescue your child, to put them back on the right path, not to enable their destruction. And unfortunately, they chose the wrong path. They did. And so the lesson here for the rest of us is mind your children.

53:39Dan Bongino:Remember your role. Remember what it means to be a parent. Intervene when necessary. Help keep them on the right path, even when it's uncomfortable. Our society depends on it. And their fate in eternity depends on it. All right. We'll get back to this. There are a lot of lessons here. The media has been completely out of control. But I do want to address some other quick things with you amidst all of this. In Washington, D.C., crime has improved. The crime situation has improved so dramatically by the president of the United States intervening and taking over law enforcement that even the Democrat mayor of the city is now singing President Trump's praises.

54:26And this is causing a lot of anger among Democrats who have a cult-like adherence to attacking Trump at all costs. It's not about the well-being of the citizens. It's about demonizing Trump and trying to figure out a way to claw their way back to power. But Mayor Muriel Bowser, to her credit, in Washington, D.C. yesterday was not playing that game. She wasn't adhering to the rules of the cult. And she said out loud that things have actually improved in the nation's capital. Take a look. Cut 11. Here's Mayor Muriel Bowser. And we greatly appreciate the surge of officers that enhance what MPD has been able to do in this city.

55:09But for carjackings, the difference between this period, this 20-day period of this federal surge and last year represents a 87 % reduction in carjackings in Washington, D.C. We know that when carjackings go down, when use of gun goes down, when homicide or robbery go down, neighborhoods feel safer and are safer.

55:41Dan Bongino:an 87 % reduction in carjackings. And not only are those the numbers on carjackings, but check out this document. There's a document that Mayor Bowser put out yesterday. She disseminated this document to the press to give them a clearer understanding of how all of this works. And in every single criminal category, you are watching as crime is going down. Look at the numbers here. Homicides down by 38 percent. Sex abuse is down by 44 percent. Robbery, 62 percent. All violent crimes are down by 45 percent in the nation's capital. These are massive improvements. Carjackings, of course, are down by 87 percent.

56:24And then if you look at the actual arrests, calls for service and firearm recoveries, that's down at the lower portion of this document. Look at these numbers.

56:38Dan Bongino:The arrests have gone up in the city by 20 percent. So crime has bottomed out and the arrests have gone up, meaning there's a relationship between law enforcement and whether or not people are committing crimes. And the calls for service are up 18 percent. This number, let me just emphasize something about that number, 18 % calls for service are up. This is the symptom of a city where law enforcement is now doing its job. Any of us who've ever lived in a community, and perhaps you have, as a military brat, we move from community to community. We experience different things. But I remember as a kid at one point, we had a bike stolen.

57:17We had a bike stolen from our property.

57:18Dan Bongino:And we called the police and we said, hey, a bike was stolen. And the answer we got back from the cops was, sorry, there's really not much we can do about it. Better luck next time. And in fact, that sort of is the message that a lot of these left wing cities have been projecting to their citizens. Sorry, not much we can do about this. Better luck next time. Or if they do take people into custody, they're right back out on the street in no time. And people become conditioned to the fact that there are no consequences. And calling the cops will result in nothing but hassle, especially in crime ridden communities where you'll get a reputation for being a snitch and no one is held to account for the criminality.

57:55Dan Bongino:So what's the upside in calling the police exactly? So as law enforcement goes up, so do phone calls to 911. People are making calls because they credibly believe that there will be consequences for the actions of criminals now. That number is up 18 percent. And they're also recovering a lot of illegal firearms in the process here in Washington, D.C. Now, Bowser, I got to say, in her party, that takes an act of courage to say that out loud, to admit that President Trump did something good. Stack that to the list of victories. And she's already being attacked today by the D.C. City Council in unison, who are all coming out attacking her.

58:33Dan Bongino:How dare you say something nice about the president of the United States? This is a nightmare to have President Trump take over law enforcement in the nation's capital. No, it's the opposite. It's a dream come true. and every city with a crime problem should only wish to have that kind of improvement. And I hope President Trump can help us navigate towards fixing it. I'm rooting him on. I'm happy about his presidency and yet another victory to stack to the pile. All right, another big show. Thank you for being here with me. I know it's a heavy show when we have to talk about the wake of a tragedy, but we've got to come out of it with some better lessons.

59:09I want this country to be great again. That's all I'm rooting for. And I know you are too. This is the best audience in media. Thank you for being with me here today on Vince. I've got the big national radio show coming up, 12 to 3 Eastern. You can find that at thevincshow.com. Check your local listings or just check it out with me here on rumble.com slash Vince. I do it live. We do it live. Great to have you with us, as always.

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