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Keilar Confronts Gorka on Transgender Shooter Claims as Minneapolis Attack Draws Terror, Hate-Crime Probe

A combative CNN interview refocused attention on disputed claims about transgender perpetrators, prompting renewed scrutiny of DHS cuts to threat‑assessment grants.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) looks on during a Congressional Progressive Caucus press conference on Capitol Hill Dec. 5, 2024. // Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka watches as US President Donald Trump speaks after signing a proclamation honoring the fourth anniversary of the attack at Abbey Gate, a suicide bombing that took place at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on August 25, 2025.
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Overview

  • The FBI is investigating the Annunciation Catholic School shooting as domestic terrorism and a hate crime after two children were killed and the suspect, Robin Westman, died of a self-inflicted gunshot.
  • Officials said Westman fired 116 rifle rounds through stained-glass windows during a school Mass, with 14 children and 3 adults injured and the two fatalities identified as ages 8 and 10.
  • Sebastian Gorka argued there is an ideological pattern and claimed seven recent mass shootings involved transgender individuals, then attacked CNN's credibility during a heated on-air exchange.
  • Host Brianna Keilar disputed Gorka's numbers, citing CNN’s count that only three of 32 larger school shootings since 2020 involved transgender perpetrators, and accused him of distorting facts.
  • Rep. Ilhan Omar criticized the focus on gender identity and urged policy action, as attention turned to DHS’s discontinuation of $18.5 million in CP3 grants that supported local threat-assessment programs, which Gorka dismissed as irrelevant and said should be handled locally.