Disgraced Former FBI Chief Compares Nashville, Minneapolis Shooters — Leaves Out One Key Point

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe laid out a long list of similarities between the shooter who targeted a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday and the shooter who targeted a small Christian school in Nashville just over two years earlier — but he left out one key point.

McCabe briefly served as acting FBI director after President Donald Trump fired his predecessor, former FBI Director James Comey, before he himself was fired — but he has been serving as a CNN correspondent in the years since, and he joined the network early Thursday morning to discuss the shooting that rocked Minneapolis just one day earlier.

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Andy McCabe notes “remarkable similarities” between Minneapolis & Nashville mass murderers — but can you guess which one he neglected? pic.twitter.com/36GNsUwESf

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The CNN anchor suggested that it could be a case of a “copycat” who saw something in a prior shooting and wanted to emulate it.

“Are you seeing a rise in copycats given what we’re learning about this obsession that existed?” she asked.

“Yeah, absolutely they are,” McCabe began. “This is something that we’ve seen in other mass shootings. We’ve seen mass shooters who actually refer in their manifestos to previous shooters, but this one is really remarkable to me in that respect.”

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“I was looking at — I haven’t seen the manifesto, so I can’t say whether there are specific references to the 2023 Covenant School shooter in Nashville,” McCabe continued. “But if you look at that situation and this one, there are remarkable similarities.”

McCabe went on to lay out all the similarities that he saw between the two, omitting the painfully obvious fact that both shooters identified as transgender. “So, both were in their 20s, both targeted religious schools that they formerly attended. Both brought three weapons to the crime. Both purchased those weapons legally. Both drove to the attack site and left a vehicle there. Both posted manifestos in which they raged, and expressed grievance towards numerous ethnic groups and religions. You know, a real broad stroke of, of kind of anger there. Both sought to kill children, young children specifically. And I think the most important [thing] here is both were students of other mass shooters.”