August 27th, 2025

On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show, the gunman responsible for the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis has been identified as transgender Robin Westman. Westman opened fire through the stained-glass windows during a celebratory mass, killing two children and injuring 17 others, including 14 kids. A manifesto reveals his psychotic obsession with mass shooters and includes anti-Semitic statements about “filthy Zionist Jews.” It’s sickening that people will inject their politics into this event. Evil and sick individuals will commit harmful acts regardless of circumstances. Former prosecutors and left-wing mayors blame society or weapons, but that blame leads nowhere. What’s happening is the attack on faith. Faith is pushed out of the classroom and the public square. For a mayor to say don’t talk about prayer, he’s missing the point. Faith has turned a lot of people around; there can never be enough prayer. Also, Lt Gov Winsome Earle-Sears calls in to discuss her race for Virginia Governor. She highlighting her statewide election experience and the Republican administration’s successes—like low taxes, returning $9 billion to taxpayers, and reducing regulations—she pledged to eliminate the car tax, end sanctuary cities, deport illegal criminals, support police, and promote liberty over forced unionization. Her opponent Abigail Spanberger is a proud progressive who supports open borders, sanctuary policies, defunding police, and radical measures. Later, Sen Chuck Schumer and Democrats are blocking President Trump’s nominees, confirming only 135 out of over 1,000 senior-level appointments through dilatory tactics. Republicans are eyeing rule changes or recess appointments, because this defies voters’ mandate.

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Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. By now, everybody, I’m sure, has heard about this horrific event. In Minneapolis at this Catholic school. It’s just horrible. The best coverage, quite frankly, has been at the. New York Post. Minneapolis school shooter ID’d as trans woman Robin Westman as apparent manifesto included Kill Trump, the deranged gunman who slaughtered two children and injured 17 others. And that would be 14 children and three adults. That’s it. See the disturbing videos posted by the shooter. And showed a handwritten manifesto and killed Donald Trump and for the children scrawled on gun magazines. Robin Westman, formerly Robert Westman, opened fire through the stained glass windows of a church at the Annunciation Catholic School where he attended. During a celebratory back to school mass filled with children around 8:30 a.m. this morning. And just hours before the Cowardly Massacre, Westman, 23, posted a series of twisted videos on YouTube, which included a manifesto. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara confirmed at a press conference. In a 20 minute video, he flips through the disturbing handwritten manifesto. Much of it is written in homespun code that uses Cyrillic characters and English phonetic words. In the deranged writings, he gleefully fantasizes about, quote, being the scary, horrible monster standing over those perilous kids, unquote. Reverently confesses admiration for the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. Westman applied to change his birth name from Robert to Robyn and Dakota County, Minnesota, when he was 17 years old, according to court documents. That name change was granted in January 2020. The petition added. The Westman quote identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification, unquote. But five years later, he seemed to backed away from that identity. I don’t want to dress girly all the time, but I guess sometimes I really like it. I know I’m not a woman, but I definitely don’t feel like a man, he wrote. I really like my outfit. I look pretty smart. Modest. I think I want to wear something like this for my shooting. You also goes into great detail about his decision at Target Annunciation, where he graduated from grade school in 2017, according to a yearbook obtained by CNN. His mother, Mary Grace Westman, also worked as a secretary at the school until retiring in 2021. According to a Facebook post by the church. And feeling good about annunciation. It seems like a good combo of easy attack form and devastating tragedy. And I want to do more research. I have concerns about finding a large enough group. I want to avoid any parents but pre and post school drop off another page. Read this. Unbelievable. This from the manifesto. Maybe I could attack an event on the on site church. I think attacking a large group of kids coming in from recess is my best plan. Then from there I can go inside and keep going for as long as I can down there at the end of the video. Westman flicks through a number of blank pages before reaching what appears to be a drawing showing the inside of a church saying, Haha, nice. As he stops turning pages. He then takes out a knife and stabs it into the center of the sketch, his hand momentarily quivering before he withdraws the blade and quietly mumbles, Kill myself. Obviously, he’s very mentally ill. Very mentally ill. In a video titled So Long and Thanks for All the Fish. Westman slowly turns the pages of the Red Notebook, which is laid out on top of what appears to be schematic gun diagrams. One of them reading Ruger Mark for a type of small caliber pistol. As he flips the pages, an occasional plume of smoke is seen from the bottom of the screen, punctuated by coughs, destroying, cursing and maniacal giggles. Each page is filled with inscrutable handwritten notes, which includes violent ramblings, such as? I’ve had thoughts about mass murder for a long time, very conflicted with writing this journal. The text, translated by the Post, reads in part, Need to get my thoughts out without getting on a watch list. Ha ha. The Journal contains a number of other subtle clues about his identity, hinting at an angry mélange of far left Polish politics and anti-Semitism. One page includes a trans pride flag sticker with Defend Equality printed across the bottom with a black AK 47 sticker laid on top. Then another entry writes They carry out a racially motivated attack would be most likely against filthy Zionist Jews before calling Jewish people entitled and penny sniffing before adding free Palestine. I hate fascism. Read yet another page following it up shortly after with you. Also love when kids get shot. I love to see kids get torn apart. Later bemoaned the media, saying he’s tired of the news headlines. They only talk about brown people dying and I don’t care about them. I like to hear when Israelis get killed, but they don’t like to report on that stuff he wrote. The demented manifesto sheds light on what appears to be a truly disturbed mind with Western musing about a grand final act, quote unquote, stating a desire to take out, quote, a target of political or societal significance. Before he died, targets like Musk, Trump, or some significant exact quote unquote. He also indicated that he knew the Annunciation shooting would culminate in his own death and complain about apparent health issues. He said, I think I might have some prostate problems. I have to piss so frequently I’m sick of it. Even if I can heal, I still want to die and kill many people. The Journal read. The unhinged shooter went on to express sincere admiration for mass shooters, including Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza. Have a deep fascination with one man in particular is a quote, Adam Lanza. He wrote in his journal on May 23 in reference to the 20 year old perpetrator of the worst elementary school shooting in American history, which left 21st grade students and six adults dead. We remember that. He said Sandy Hook was my favorite, I think exposure of school shootings. Another video posted to YouTube in the hours before the sickening slaughter showed off a cache of weapons, including a semiautomatic rifle and a shotgun. Gun magazines were scrawled with, quote, for the children, unquote, and, quote, killed Donald Trump, unquote. Westman, who died at the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun, all of which he bought legally. The shooter was not previously known to law enforcement, Minneapolis Police chief Brian O’Hara told reporters at a press conference. Mentally ill. He wanted to kill everybody. Christians, Jews. Everybody. More New York Post trans Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman mused about slaughtering filthy Zionist Jews in six Journal before a deadly Catholic school massacre. Transgender Minnesota. Minneapolis, rather, shooter Robin Westman spoke of murdering filthy Zionist Jews and spewed other anti-Semitic bile and a twisted manifesto before he opened fire at a Catholic school, killing two children. He also wrote slogans such as Free Palestine and a journal which he wrote in Cyrillic Alphabet. After a YouTube clip showing the diary pages were posted online on his since deleted channel. If I will carry out a racially motivated attack as a malware would be most likely against filthy Zionist Jews. While he slaughtered. Or tried to slaughter a whole host of little Catholic kids. And he did murder two of them. 14 are injured. And three adults total of 20. He also wrote 6 million Wasn’t Enough, a reference to the number of Jewish Holocaust victims. On a side of ammunition magazines he filmed before the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church. Another message scrawled on one of his many magazines read Destroy hires HIV AIDS the Jewish Refugee Aid Group. One of his guns read Israel Must Fall. Release the Files. A possible reference to Jeffrey Epstein. The deranged gunman mused about assassinating President Trump and Jews, but ultimately decided that killing children of innocent civilians, quote unquote, would bring him the most joy. Quote for good would be a target of political or societal significance. As we read earlier. He said, I can’t really put my finger on a specific purpose. It definitely won’t be for racism or white supremacy. I guess they’re saying he’s not a racist or a white supremacist. Well, I don’t really like being around people of color. I didn’t give enough of a crap about them to take my life for them, quote unquote. In other parts of the journal Westman, whose records say changed his name from Robert to Robyn in 2020 at the age of 17, said he’d been suicidal for several years but wanted to take others out with him. I don’t want to do it to spread a message. I do it to please myself. I do it because I’m sick. I don’t think I could just take myself out. I would need to do something with my final act, he wrote. One of his ammo magazines was emblazoned with the message. Where is your God? Police, since deleted YouTube video under his name, showed a diagram of a church which then had a knife thrust into it. The same video featured a cardboard silhouette target at the foot of Western’s bed with an image of Christ stuck to the head. So there’s that. I’ll give my comments later. Get the facts out. More from the post mom of Minneapolis. Mass shooter Robin Westman worked at Catholic school where he opened fire. The mother of the lone gunman who killed two students and injured 17 others at the Annunciation Church was an employee at the school. While the motives of transgender Robert Westman remain unclear. Police identified the suspect’s mother, who spent five years working as a secretary at the school until she retired in 2021. She has provided such wonderful hospitality, friendship and compassion. All who gathered for the last five years at Annunciation. You will be missed. Congratulations on your retirement, the church wrote. So. And then finally. Over at right scoop. Court documents confirm Minneapolis Catholic Church shooter identified. And you know who that is? It’s Robin Westman. Ryan Sabra Dera has already begun digging. And found this in a video posted by Westman and they’ve been posting. All the information and what they can find on the Internet. The video was removed by YouTube rights group and others said they have another copy and they downloaded it. And I have in front of me the fully transcribed piece. But the key parts I just read you already. He knew he was sick and he knew he was suicidal. All right. I’ll provide some comments when I return. I’ll be right back.

Segment 2
You know, ladies and gentlemen, in only a few minutes here, But I want to continue after the break. I get sick and tired of people who pour their politics into these events. I really do. I really do. I try to use reasoning to figure things out, but sometimes it doesn’t work. Sometimes it doesn’t work. And what am I talking about? There are evil people. There are sick people. And they’re going to do evil and sick things. Evil and sick things have been done before. There were guns. They’re going to be done if every single gun in this country is removed, which it will not be. That old saying if there’s a will, there’s a way. Means something. So here we go again. Former prosecutors. Left wing mayors blame society. Blame weapons. You know why? Because you can blame society all day long and you get nowhere. You can blame weapons all day long, and you get nowhere. Then everybody has immediate solutions. We don’t get enough mental health care. Another one says, I don’t even know what that means. So what do we do? Where are we going to set this up? I have an opinion about where I think society and individuals in society, not everybody, in fact, just a relative handful, if you will, have gone astray. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Minnesota has a red flag law and it was passed on January one, 2024. So it’s been in effect over 18 months, allows for a temporary removal of firearms from an individual deemed a significant danger to themselves or others. And it can be filed a petition by a family member or household member, city or county attorney, chief, law enforcement officer and so forth and so on. So they have that law. I’ve never understood. I’ve never understood what people said. They talk about gun control. The issue is not gun control. Somebody can blow up a church. Somebody can ram a car into 25 people. We’ve seen it done. Somebody can blow up a truck with fertilizer. We’ve seen that done. So these are false arguments. There’s going to be a lot of questions asked about what the family saw or the family saw anything. If the authorities saw anything online, all these sorts of things. But what’s happening, I think, more broadly. Is the attack on faith. Faith. Faith is pushed out of the classroom. Faith is pushed out of. The public square. Faith. Faith is a good thing. It’s a good thing. Morality. Values. Belief system. Family. Faith is a good thing. Especially today when you’re surrounded by an Internet that is filled with filth. And while. I mean, if I lived on the Internet and believe the comments that were written about me, my God. You think I like being called a cake all the time? Or a Hebe? Or worse. Who are these people? Who are they? I’ve been on the verge a long time. I don’t do a lot of stories on transgenderism, do I, Mr. Producer? In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever done a story on transgenderism. Maybe I have. It’s one thing. Parental notification. Parental consent. Transgender children. I have a real problem with all that. But once somebody is an adult. It’s really none of my business. As long as people don’t seek special rates or subsidies, it’s really none of my business. How often that I talk about gay marriage even before that was viewed as constitutional. Mr. Producer. Almost never. You know, I have my own belief systems. But I’m not a preacher. I’m not a rabbi. Not a pastor. I leave that to you? And your faith and where you go to worship in your belief system. But what I do know. Is whatever your faith. Faith is important. I’m not talking about Islamist terrorism. I’m talking about faith. Faith that’s gone through reformation. Which is crucially important. I have friends who are Muslim, Jewish, obviously Christian, obviously Hindu Sikhs. Great. And everybody here, they’ve assimilated into the United States of America. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. That’s the way it’s supposed to work. I had an editor for the longest time who was gay. I didn’t care. Why would I care? I don’t care. I just don’t care. Call me what you will. I spend virtually no time on this program getting into these issues. But we do talk about God here. And I have written books that emphasize God as the sovereign. We has his children. As the nation was founded. I think it’s very, very important. Otherwise there’s a gap in your life that needs to be filled and it could be filled by very bad things. Very bad things. You know, we use the Internet to communicate here. I do. But I also know that whatever I post will be used against me, against other people, be taken out of context. Crazy headlines have told you about some of these websites and some of these individuals and so forth. There’s nothing I can do about that. Nothing. But the Internet’s open, everyone. Including very diabolical and evil people. There are people who are. Really seeking to do horrible things. So when the mayor says her TV, people say. I don’t care about prayer or forget about prayer, prayers, not enough, and so forth and so on. They’re missing the point, aren’t they? They’re missing the point, aren’t they? Faith has turned around a lot of people. A lot of people. It’s one thing for a politician. To say I have ideas on how to address this. But it’s another thing for a politician to say. Forget about prayer. Prayers. Not enough. There can never be enough prayer. You’re not only communicating with God, you’re sharing your soul, your heart, your beliefs. It helps human beings. And politicians want us to keep relying on them. Also not necessarily with this this individual who obviously had very serious mental issues. Very serious mental issues. It’s. It’s the nature of some of those who are out there saying things that are really quite horrendous. If you have a microphone. A big microphone, a big platform. And you’re a bigot. And you’re a racist. And you’re an anti-Semite. Or you’re trashing Christians. And so forth and so on. I don’t mean individuals. I mean. Groups of people. You may influence people, you may have an effect on people. And isn’t that your purpose? Isn’t that why you’re saying the things you say? When I talk about Islamist terrorism. I’m talking about an ideology and a movement that slaughters people. A horrendous thing. And you’ll notice I distinguish that from. The Zuhdi Jasser of the World and others Muslims pursuing. But there’s a whole movement out there. When you watch what’s going on in these college campuses, the Marxists and the Islamists, the fusion of the two, those supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood. Joined with communists. It’s an attack on Western society. It’s an attack on our system, but it’s an attack on the on the psyche of the American people. People watch that day in and day out or they go to college or whatever. They keep getting this negativity, this hate. But again, I don’t know if that affected this killer or not. I just know that it’s poison in a society. Absolute poison. So what’s the answer? There isn’t a simple answer. Societies are complex. Individuals are complex. As I was reading out loud. From this individual’s manifesto. You could tell not only was he sick, he said he’s sick. He knew he was sick. And he goes on about how he wants to target kids. Little kids. Where can you find them? Concentrated in one location. So you can kill as many of them as possible before he kills himself. It’s what he said. So I have a red flag law in Minnesota. So what? Didn’t do a damn thing? Timothy McVeigh. You remember that name? He blew up a federal building. He killed scores of people. He was thinking bigger than guns. Of course, guns can be used to kill people. Cars can be used to kill people. The fertilizer can be used to kill people. And they are. I think the last people you want to hear from are politicians and, quite frankly, hosts. Because they don’t have answers either. I don’t pretend to have answers. I know what won’t work. I know what won’t work. You know, my attitude is very simple about these things. Transgenderism. Keep your hands off the kids. Don’t you dare go behind the backs of parents, ever. If you’re an adult, you don’t hurt anybody else. What am I supposed to do? What are you supposed to do? I don’t think we should mainstream it. Because it’s not mainstream. It’s not mainstream. So I can do a show on it. But what am I going to do? Show on it. We don’t have any control over it. If an adult wants to alter their. Their physical self. Nothing I can do about it. Nothing you can do about it. So what am I supposed to do? Talk it up over and over and over again. I know hosts do that. I get it. Not this one. So there is no easy answer. Many of these cases are individual cases. We don’t know. What happened to this kid? Maybe nothing happened to him. Maybe he was brought up very properly. His mother seems perfectly fine. And just from what I’m reading. Yes, from what I’m reading. So I’m going to take a break. And at the break you’re going to say, Marc didn’t give me an answer. And you’re right. He did not. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Now, obviously, if you’re a parent, some things you can do to try and keep the kids off the Internet as much as possible. Yes. Try and protect him as much as possible. I said more God in your life can and will make a difference in a positive way. All these sorts of things and, you know, parenting stuff. You learn these things. Sometimes you look back and wish you did other things or did things differently. I got it. I understand it. There’s no real practice for parenting other than parenting. So there’s things you can do in your own life with your own family, your own kids or grandkids, things you can learn over time and pass it on to your kids and grandkids. Set a good example. But that doesn’t ensure 100% that something terrible won’t happen either. But I am sick and tired of people who, on the moment they have the answer pushing their political agenda. Use it to attack one person or another and typically attack Republicans or Trump or mnre or whatever. Or society generally. This kid was sick. You read what he writes. He’s sick. He says he’s sick. Brian O’Hare, a Minneapolis police chief. Cut one. Mr. Producer, go. At this point, we know we have a total of 19 victims from this tragedy. Two were young children, ages eight and ten, that were sitting in the pews at mass when they were shot and killed. They were pronounced deceased on the scene through another 14 children between the ages of six and 15 that were injured by gunfire. There were also three adults in their eighties that were parishioners here attending mass that were also shot in this incident. The families of all of the children that have been affected have been notified. All right. That’s the bottom line. Our horror. We’ll be right back.