CNN anchor embarrasses White House counterterrorism chief over false transgender mass shooter stats
“We can’t stick with your facts because they’re not accurate,” Brianna Keilar told Sebastian Gorka.
September 2, 2025
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“We can’t stick with your facts because they’re not accurate,” Brianna Keilar told Sebastian Gorka.
Whereas media organizations are advocating for the public’s right to know, families of victims and others are urging the judge not to release Audrey Hale’s writings.
Three children and three adults were killed in the gunfire.
""We have to look evil in the face if we want to defeat it," the right-wing commentator says of the case, in which the shooter is said to have been transgender.
Philadelphia officials say the accused shooter, Kimbrady Carriker, was a cisgender man. And he was more interested in gun rights than Black Lives Matter.
As soon as it became known that the shooter may have identified as trans, the right-wing media outrage ecosystem went to work.
They are doing so even though the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men.
Without confirmation about his gender identity or sexual orientation, anti-LGBTQ+ extremists focused on pushing the false notion that transgender and nonbinary people are often mass shooters — they aren't.