Nearly three years after transgender shooter Audrey Hale murdered three nine-year-old children and three adults at Nashville’s Covenant School, newly released FBI documents appear to expose what authorities and the media fought tooth and nail to suppress—anti-religious, anti-white, and anti-trans views provided her motivation.
While the media and officials consistently buried details of Hale’s manifesto (or collection of notebooks) for years, the truth is now undeniable: This was a calculated act of anti-Christian hatred, armed courtesy of your tax dollars. More on that last part in a bit.
On a page that lists the Covenant School as an “alternate target” and “2nd choice” location for carrying out the attack, Hale runs down a list of “advantages” and “disadvantages” of targeting young children at the private Christian elementary school.
Some of the entries are still redacted. Hale grotesquely cites her knowledge of the school’s layout and the larger student body, presumably meaning more targets; she concludes with the following “advantage.”
“Christian school (hate religion).”
Audrey Hale, the transgender Covenant School shooter who killed three adults and three children under the age of 10, very clearly wrote “hate religion” as a reason for carrying out the attack.
The authorities and media told you for how long they couldn’t identify a motive? pic.twitter.com/F0gRkiaD5V
— Rusty (@Rusty_Weiss) December 30, 2025
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RedState’s previous reporting noted that the Nashville shooting had been planned for years and that the transgender killer, armed not just with guns but clearly gripping mental health issues, had raged against Christians and religion in her manifesto.
“There is no question that she committed this atrocity because she believed religion and society more broadly were not affirming of her ‘gender identity,'” Bonchie wrote in September of last year. “She was the killer everyone had been warning about for years as so-called gender ideology gained steam, and everyone with power has tried to hide that fact.”
Now, you can see the words written on the page yourself. Hate religion.
Even beyond that, scribbled at the top of the page, one can clearly see Hale write another “advantage” to targeting the Covenant School: It is, she writes, “predominantly white” and “white pple (sic) I hate.”
White Christians who didn’t submit to and accept her transgender mental health breakdown. Now you know why these pages remained under wraps for so long. Reverse any of those factors and tell me if these notebook entries would have been suppressed beyond day one.
The newly released writings can be viewed here. Part of the manifesto had previosuly been leaked to talk show host Steven Crowder.
As for the guns used in her killing spree, Hale also referenced using a Pell Grant—a federal grant for students that typically does not need to be repaid—to purchase the weapons.
BREAKING: New Covenant killer documents released by the FBI confirm @TheTNStar reporting the killer bought guns with Pell Grant money. https://t.co/CCeqmqcz3S
— Michael Patrick Leahy (@michaelpleahy) December 29, 2025
Hale’s handwritten ledgers, placed right next to lists of firearms on a page labeled “Account Savings Record,” track federal Pell Grant funds through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the purchase of weapons.
“FASFA [sic] grant checks started at $2,050.86,” Hale writes before tallying up checks from “Nossi,” which appears to be a reference to the Nossi College of Art & Design in Nashville.
“$2,656.87 (x3 checks from Nossi),” one entry reads, according to the Tennessee Star.
“+$530.00 (x1 check Nossi) ($3,186.87),” another states.
A taxpayer-funded massacre.
Hale’s notebooks were detailed and showed the killings were meticulously planned. They show a deranged individual patiently formulating a long-term plan to kill as many people as possible. And they show a motivation that has long been suspected and rather obvious.
Despite her anti-religious views, the transgender shooter invoked God in some journal entries, including a plea for forgiveness on the day of the attack.
“Forgive me, God, this act will be inglorious,” she wrote on that terrible day.
It’s unlikely she appeared before God after Nashville Police were finally able to put a stop to her slaughter of innocent Christian children.
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