Jen Psaki Embroiled In Major Scandal After Minnesota Shooting Comments

MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki devoted a portion of her Wednesday night broadcast to sobbing for the lives lost in the Minnesota shooting while also taking a shot at churchgoers for offering prayers.

Psaki’s primetime program centered on the attack at Assumption church in Minneapolis, where at least two people are dead and 17 were injured, including over a dozen children, after a deranged shooter struggling with gender dysphoria fired through a window after morning Mass had begun.

The former Biden official attacked Republicans and the religious, writing on X, “prayers are not freaking enough” as her anger mounted. Catholics and Orthodox Christians traditionally offer prayers for the dead so their souls may be received into Heaven.

“Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers,” Psaki wrote just hours after the 8:30 a.m. shooting.

“I have felt a lot of emotional anger and exhaustion as I’m sure many of you have, because we’ve been here so many times,” Psaki said on her show.

“And yet again like clockwork, half of the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.”

She singled out a post on X by Vice President J.D. Vance, who asked his followers to join him in praying for the victims, with the youngest killed just 8 years old.

“This is what always happens,” she said, pointing to reports that the shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, was a transgender person battling mental illness. She accused Vance, President Donald Trump, and others of “shifting the narrative” away from gun control.

After her initial post, Psaki followed up with another that accused Trump of being more focused on charging National Guard soldiers with “put[ting] mulch down” around Washington, D.C.

“When kids are getting shot in their pews at a catholic school mass and your crime plan is to have national guard put mulch down around DC maybe rethink your strategy,” she wrote.

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Her comment appears to reference Trump’s federal takeover in Washington, D.C.. which included the deployment of hundreds of National Guard soldiers to keep the peace amid a surge in high-profile violent crimes.

Westman was found dead at the scene, where officers recovered three guns used in the shooting. A time-released video by Westman, taken down a short time later, showed him displaying guns with anti-Trump and anti-religious messages.

Other social media users objected to Psaki’s targeting of religious Americans for expressing their grief, Fox News reported.

“I don’t expect a spiritually blind person to understand prayer, but it is real. Today I attended the funeral of a baby, and often when parents are in the depths of grief, Jesus is their greatest comforter. You should investigate why that is, rather than belittling it,” Karen Hamilton, a candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates, responded.

“Thoughts and prayers with @SteveScalise and officers shot. And thank you to members, hill staffers for your public service,” reads a 2017 Psaki post highlighted by Washington Examiner contributor Kimberly Ross.