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Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy headed to Nashville on Wednesday and demanded that Gov. Bill Lee release the writings of Covenant School shooter Audrey Hale.

Ramaswamy slammed politicians and law enforcement for their “stonewalled silence” on the deadly shooting by the 28-year-old transgender artists who opened fire in the private elementary school on the morning of March 27.

“We have to learn from tragedy to prevent it in the future,” Ramaswamy told a crowd as he stood in front of Davidson County Courthouse in Nashville Wednesday afternoon.

He railed against Lee, the Metro Nashville Police Department and the FBI as he repeated “Tell us the truth,” before adding: “The whole truth, nothing but the truth.”

“I do believe they’re hiding this manifesto,” he added.

Ramaswamy further slammed the FBI for “hiding and sitting on this manifesto” despite having released similar writings in other instances of mass shootings.

He called it “perfectly reasonable” for officials to release a redacted version of the writings.

“But what we do need to know is this killer’s motives, this killer’s psychological state of mind, the truth of the matter is that we have a mental health epidemic in this country that is driving a wave of violence around this country,” he said.