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America’s far-left public school teachers just can’t seem to help themselves. Even in this day-and-age, when nearly every child comes to class equipped with a Chromebook and smartphone, the vitriol of these educators is so extreme that it trumps professional discipline and restraint. It needs an outlet and an audience to achieve its apotheosis.

In the most recent instance, that audience consisted of a class of Ohio high school social studies students who were treated to a highly inappropriate and venomous rant targeting President Trump and his military campaign against the Muslim dictatorship of Iran.

The perpetrator has been identified as Scott Lane, a social studies teacher at Steubenville High School in Steubenville, Ohio. In his blatantly partisan and egregiously inappropriate rant, an audio recording of which was apparently captured by a student and later released by the X account LibsofTikTok, Lane managed to insult and defame not only President Trump but also the military heroes putting their lives on the line to defend America and overthrow the repressive and dictatorial Iranian regime.

The audio recording begins mid-sentence with Lane referencing “The war with Iran over the weekend.” The teacher continues: “And the first thing the United States government slash military did was bomb a school, an all-girls primary school—that would be elementary level—killing more than 50 young girls and injuring hundreds more. That’s the United States military, ladies and gentlemen, at the behest of Donald Trump.”

But Lane isn’t done. No, he’s just getting started. His rant to the captive audience of high school students continues:

“By the way, this would be a good time to remind all of you that fifteen United States veterans kill themselves every single day. Why? Let me repeat the last thing I just said. The first thing the United States did when bombing Iran was, during school hours, bomb a school with elementary aged girls there, killing at least 50. ‘Peace President,’ ‘No New Wars President,’ or ‘Pedophile Liar’ is actually more like it, right? Right?”

At this juncture, Lane segues without pause into the ‘Epstein Files’ portion of his tirade:

“Cause let me ask you something,” the teacher continues. “If you’re named 38,000 times in a book, would you be the secondary or a main character of that story? The main character. That’s how many times he’s mentioned in the Epstein files ladies and gentlemen. And as a matter of fact, Epstein himself in an email in 2019 said that if Donald Trump felt cornered, he would bomb Iran. You can look that up yourself. You can look that up yourself. If he felt cornered, he would bomb Iran. ‘It’s unwise to trap a rat in a corner,’ is what he said. Epstein said that about Donald Trump. Huh? Wow! Okay!”

From there, Lane finally drops the issue of Iran and begins discussing Black History Month and the film “Selma.”

Both the content and the context of Lane’s rant are wildly inaccurate and inappropriate. For starters, no one save the most bonkers left-wing conspiracy nuts could possibly think that the American military deliberately targeted a girls’ elementary school. What’s more, it’s far from clear that the strike was caused by the United States at all.

According to The New York Times—hardly a pro-Trump outlet—video “shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base beside the school in the town of Minab on Feb. 28.” They note that only the U.S. uses Tomahawk missiles, strongly confirming that the U.S. did strike the naval base. The article adds, “The base is operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps”—that is, by the most powerful branch of the Iranian military that is accountable only to its Supreme Leader.

The Times notes that other footage “indicates the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on the naval base” and therefore suggests that U.S. may also be responsible for that incident. But the case has not been proven. If a U.S. missile did unfortunately hit the elementary school, it should be obvious that it was a tragic case of collateral damage that occurred while targeting the nearby naval base.

When asked directly about the incident, President Trump replied that he didn’t believe the American military was responsible for the strike on the girls’ school. “No. In my opinion and based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran,” he said. “They’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that the Pentagon was investigating, “but the only side that targets civilians is Iran.”

For Lane to suggest that the United States military not only bombed a girls’ elementary school—a case that has not been proven—but that it was done deliberately as the first act of war with Iran “at the behest of President Trump” is blatantly false and slanderous conspiracy theorizing. It is also deeply offensive to U.S. military personnel who have repeatedly put their lives on the line to protect our nation from the devastating possibility of a nuclear Iran.

In continuing his rant, Lane made his personal disdain for America’s soldiers even more apparent when he cited suicide figures for military veterans and suggested that the despicable acts they were forced to commit in the course of their duties led them to self-immolation. In truth, the reasons why veterans are at an increased risk of suicide are highly complex and often related to PTSD and other medical issues.

A recent article on the topic in Mission Roll Call, a veterans’ publication, cites “a growing sense of moral injury and disillusionment among some post-9/11 veterans” as a contributing factor and notes that “Recent data found that 73% of veterans polled felt the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan negatively impacted the way they view America’s legacy in the Global War on Terror.” That catastrophic withdrawal was of course orchestrated by the Biden administration.

While Lane’s entire tirade was egregiously inappropriate in the context of a classroom, his references to President Trump as a “Pedophile Liar” are especially beyond the pale. His further insinuation that the military strikes on Iran are merely a distraction from the Epstein Files—which implicate more prominent Democrats than Republicans—is equally absurd.

Scott Lane is entitled to his personal opinions—even if they consist of half-formed conspiracy theories crowdsourced from Bluesky and Reddit. But that is where his personal freedom ends. He is not entitled to inflict these unpatriotic and baseless rantings on a captive audience of minors under his charge.

The Steubenville City School District initially declined to respond to media inquiries about Lane’s conduct, only later releasing a statement noting that the teacher had tendered his resignation, and refusing any further comment due to it being a “personnel matter.” The student who recorded and shared Lane’s unhinged monologue has a great deal more moral courage than his school and former teacher.