Ben Shapiro and others at Daily Wire lashed out after a freelance journalist for NBC News put out a tweet on the Nashville elementary school shooting this week, pointing out that the city is the home to Shapiro’s Daily Wire, a “hub of anti-trans activity.”
Reporter Benjamin Ryan tagged Shapiro and Daily Wire hosts Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles in the tweet, which he quickly deleted after immediate pushback. Daily Wire recently moved its offices to Nashville and Ryan’s tweet is in reference to multiple hosts for the outlet being highly critical of gender-affirming care for minors and some have questioned transgenderism as a whole like Walsh, recently behind the controversial, but popular What Is a Woman? documentary from Daily Wire.
On Monday, a shooter was gunned down by police after an active shooter call at the Covenant School in Nashville. A total of seven people, including three children and the shooter, were killed. Police later revealed the name of the shooter and identified the assailant as transgender.
Ryan’s tweet seemingly linking the shooting to
“A self-identified trans person with a manifesto shoots up a Christian school, and the media have decided to run with Tennessee legislators owning guns, ‘anti-trans legislation,’ and The Daily Wire. The dishonest pretzling is astonishing,” Shapiro tweeted.
The Daily Wire founder also retweeted Walsh’s response.
“The media is now openly sending violent psychopaths after us,” Walsh claimed.
“Left wing FILTH,” Candace Owens wrote.
Tennessee officials said the Nashville shooter was a former student at the school that was targeted and had drawn a detailed map and surveilled the area ahead of time. Police also announced they have “a manifesto” from the shooter that they are currently investigating.