Overview

• On CNN’s State of the Union, Brianna Keilar cited Secret Service research showing 96% of mass-attack perpetrators from 2016–2020 were non-trans men, and CNN’s count that only three of 32 large school shootings since 2020 involved transgender shooters.
• White House counterterrorism official Sebastian Gorka disputed CNN’s data, asserted there have been seven recent shootings involving transgender people, and argued the focus should be on ideologically driven attacks on Christian or Catholic schools.
• Keilar and other reporters noted inaccuracies in a social-media list boosting the “seven” claim, saying at least one cited shooter had no evidence of being trans and another used male pronouns and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.
• Rep. Ilhan Omar criticized Gorka for fixating on the suspect’s gender identity and urged concrete solutions, as debate intensified over DHS’s discontinuation of $18.5 million in CP3 grants that Minnesota officials said supported local threat assessments.
• The FBI is investigating the Minneapolis attack as potential domestic terrorism and a hate crime; officials say suspected gunman Robin Westman killed two children, injured many others, and died of a self-inflicted gunshot after legally obtaining multiple firearms.