Must have slipped Audie's mind. Couldn't possibly have been an intentional omission! Or was it?
On Thursday's CNN This Morning while discussing the Minneapolis school shooting that left two children dead and almost two dozen injured, host Audie Cornish said: "Police now turning their focus to a potential motive. Investigators say the suspect left behind what they call a manifesto. There were also videos published to a YouTube account, believed to have belonged to the shooter, displaying weapons with antisemitic, anti-black, and anti-religious messages painted on the side."
What Audie somehow managed to overlook was another message painted on the side of one of the shooter's guns: "Kill Donald Trump".
The Minneapolis police chief and a Cornish guest also failed to mention the shooter's threat to President Trump. The police chief said, "What we've seen so far is just a variety of hate."
Imagine that the shooter had written the same message on one of his guns, but had named a former Democrat president rather than Trump as his target. Think Cornish would have mentioned it?
The expert guest was Shawn Turner, a CNN national security analyst. Cornish described Turner simply as a "former communications director at U.S. National Intelligence."
Turner then offered this wild declaration about motive: "I think this is going to be a tough investigation, because as we've seen from the manifesto, the writings, this individual had animus toward lots of different groups, lots of different situations in his life, and it's not really clear exactly what drove him to snap at the moment that he did."
Pro Tip: When CNN introduces someone as a former government official without mentioning in whose presidential administration he served, you can be virtually certain it was in a Democrat administration. In the case of Turner, he was appointed by Obama not only to his US National Intelligence post, but also as Obama's Deputy White House Press Secretary for National Security.
In contrast, when a guest served in a Republican administration, the CNN introduction will almost invariably mention that fact. Consider it a warning to the viewers: "Take what this guy says with a grain of salt: he's one of THEM!"
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
08/28/25
6:45 a.m. EasternMINNEAPOLIS MAYOR JACOB FREY (D): What we know is that far too often people are robbed of that childhood because of this senseless gun violence. Don't let anybody tell you that it's not about guns, because it is.
PEGGY FLANAGAN [Ojibwe name: Gizhiiwewidamookwe] We need to love our babies and our children more than our guns.
AUDIE CORNISH: The mayor of Minneapolis and the lieutenant governor, demanding action after the deadly Catholic school shooting in the city. Police now turning their focus to a potential motive. Investigators say the suspect left behind what they call a manifesto. There were also videos published to a YouTube account, believed to have belonged to the shooter, displaying weapons with antisemitic, anti-black, and anti-religious messages painted on the side. The FBI says they are investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terror and a hate crime.
MINNEAPOLIS POLICE CHIEF BRIAN O'HARA: You know, what we've seen so far is just a variety of hate. Just really deranged comments.
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SHAWN TURNER: I think this is going to be a tough investigation, because as we've seen from the manifesto, the writings, this individual had animus toward lots of different groups, lots of different situations in his life, and it's not really clear exactly what drove him to snap at the moment that he did.