Kash Patel Just Exposed The Sick Reason Biden’s FBI Buried This School Shooter’s Manifesto

The Nashville Covenant School massacre left six innocent people dead in 2023.

But Biden's FBI locked away the killer's writings for two years.

And Kash Patel just exposed the sick reason Biden's FBI buried this school shooter's manifesto.

Federal Student Aid Funded A Christian School Massacre

Audrey Hale walked into the Covenant School on March 27, 2023, armed with weapons purchased using federal Pell Grant money.

The 28-year-old transgender shooter murdered three 9-year-old children and three staff members at the Christian elementary school she had attended years earlier.

Police shot and killed Hale at the scene.

She left behind more than 1,000 pages of writings explaining exactly why she targeted this particular Christian school.

FBI Director Kash Patel finally released documents showing Hale kept meticulous financial records tracking her federal student aid.

"FASFA [sic] grant checks started at $2,050.86," Hale wrote in a section labeled "Account Savings Record," documenting payments from Nossi College of Art and Design.¹

Those federal grant payments appeared right next to detailed notes about firearms she planned to purchase for the attack.

Hale's parents told Metro Nashville Police Department investigators in 2023 that their daughter used Pell Grant money to buy the guns.

Because Hale was over 25 and still enrolled as a student, her parents' income no longer factored into financial aid calculations.

She qualified for grants despite being unemployed — and used taxpayer dollars to fund mass murder at a Christian school.

Biden's FBI kept this information buried for nearly two years.

Biden's FBI Fought Tooth And Nail To Hide The Truth

Tennessee Star editor Michael Patrick Leahy sued Biden's FBI in May 2023 under the Freedom of Information Act to force release of Hale's writings.

The Biden Justice Department claimed releasing even a single page "could endanger ongoing investigations."²

That excuse was garbage since police killed Hale at the scene and concluded she acted alone.

Federal attorneys really wanted to protect the transgender agenda from bad publicity.

The FBI sent a May 2023 memo to Nashville police "strongly" advising against releasing what they called "legacy tokens" — documents left by killers explaining their crimes.³

Biden's FBI argued such releases would "fail to inform the public while inflaming conspiracy theorists."⁴

Translation: they wanted to control the narrative and hide anything that made the transgender movement look bad.

"They didn't want the public to know what motivated this shooter," explained Dan Lennington, the attorney who represented the Tennessee Star. "The trans-centric Biden administration wanted to protect the trans agenda."⁵

Director Christopher Wray's FBI fought the lawsuit for nearly two years.

Then President Trump put Kash Patel in charge of the FBI.

Patel Delivered What Wray Refused To Release

Patel had criticized Wray's handling of the manifesto back in December 2023.

He said "the manifesto from the Nashville school shooter" was "under direct control of the Director of the FBI," whose agents "airmailed into that operation and said this is not getting out."⁶

Within months of Patel taking over, settlement negotiations began.

The FBI released 120 pages in April 2025, then another 230 pages in December 2025.

Patel also provided the complete writings to journalist Megyn Kelly and Congress for review.

The FBI settled the Tennessee Star's lawsuit and agreed to pay $86,000 in legal fees.⁷

The documents exposed exactly what Biden's FBI desperately wanted hidden.

The Manifesto Destroyed The Left's Narrative

Hale wrote she targeted the Covenant School because it was a "Christian school (hate religion)."⁸

She referred to Jesus Christ with a homosexual slur and wrote: "Pray to your God that your children will live, 'cause I will try to kill all your kids."⁹

Hale had been planning the attack since at least May 2022, when she first selected March 27, 2023, as her target date.¹⁰

She considered attacking Opry Mills Mall and other locations but ultimately chose the Christian school.

The writings exposed Hale's racial hatred too.

She wrote that she "loves" black people but hated white Americans.

Hale considered targeting a middle school with more black students but decided against it because she didn't want to cause "black people in dispair + suffering."¹¹

The manifesto painted a clear picture: a mentally ill transgender activist consumed by leftist ideology, violent hatred of Christians, and anti-white racism.

Biden's FBI couldn't let Americans see that a Christian school massacre was motivated by hatred of Christianity and white people from someone the Left celebrated as a victim.

It destroyed their entire narrative about transgender people being oppressed and under threat.

Metro Nashville Police Department's April 2025 final report conveniently downplayed Hale's transgender identity and anti-Christian hatred.

Instead, the report claimed Hale just wanted "notoriety and media attention."¹²

That's not what her own words said.

President Trump's FBI Director did what Christopher Wray refused to do for two years.

Kash Patel let the American people see the truth about why a transgender activist murdered six people at a Christian school.

And now everyone knows exactly why Biden's FBI fought so hard to keep it buried.

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¹ Fox News, "FBI releases Covenant School shooter Audrey Elizabeth Hale writings," December 28, 2025.

² The Tennessee Star, "FBI Defeated: Attempt to Keep Covenant School Shooter's Manifesto Secret Derailed by Judge," March 16, 2024.

³ Tennessee Star, "Tennessee Star Settles Lawsuit with FBI Following Release of Covenant School Killer Manifesto Pages," June 18, 2025.

⁴ Ibid.

⁵ Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty, "FBI Releases 120 Pages of Nashville School Shooter's Manifesto After Lawsuit Settlement," June 19, 2025.

⁶ Tennessee Star, "Tennessee Star Urges New FBI Director Kash Patel to Order Release of Entire Covenant Killer Manifesto," February 21, 2025.

⁷ Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty, "FBI Releases 120 Pages of Nashville School Shooter's Manifesto After Lawsuit Settlement," June 19, 2025.

⁸ Tennessee Star, "New Covenant Manifesto Writings Show Trans-Identified Killer Listed 'Hate Religion' as Reason to Attack Christian School," December 29, 2025.

⁹ Christian Post, "FBI releases over 100 pages of documents from trans-identified Nashville Christian school shooter," June 3, 2025.

¹⁰ Tennessee Star, "New Covenant Manifesto Writings Show Trans-Identified Killer Listed 'Hate Religion' as Reason to Attack Christian School," December 29, 2025.

¹¹ Daily Wire, "The Covenant School Killer Hated 'Religion' And 'White People,' FBI Files Reveal," December 22, 2025.

¹² WTVF, "FBI releases The Covenant School shooter's journal entries," May 29, 2025.