WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Sunday that investigators are not ready to discuss the motive behind the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. But he said the suspect had left-leaning political beliefs, disliked the conservative influencer and is being uncooperative in custody.
Cox said Tyler Robinson, 22, is “not cooperating” and that friends paint a picture of someone radicalized in the dark corners of the internet. “Clearly there was a lot of gaming going on,” Cox said on NBC. “Friends have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet, the Reddit culture, and these other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep.”
A Republican who has called on all partisans to tone down their rhetoric following the attack, the governor added: “I really don’t have a dog in this fight. If this was a radicalized MAGA person, I’d be saying that as well.”
The governor said the suspect’s partner was transgender, which some politicians have pointed to as a sign Robinson was targeting Kirk for his anti-trans views. But authorities have not said whether it is relevant as they investigate Robinson’s motive.
Every claim they make that the shooter was left-leaning has been found to be an outright lie.
Influenced towards the left in college? He spent one semester during the 2021 lockdowns taking online courses.
Old friend who said the shooter leaned left? Retracted the same day after realizing he actually didn’t know if he was thinking of the same person.
And now this crap of the roommate being trans? The roommate had a tiktok chat where he asked an AI to generate an anime character from his photo and it generated a female character. The roommate then clarified he was wearing a “sloth” hoodie because he was hoping the AI would generate a sloth themed character.
This “evidence” just goes to show how desperate the right is to make people believe the left is declaring war on them. As usual, the right wants to play the victim in something they’ve done to themselves. And lets not forget the shooter was an active groyper – that simply cannot coexist with someone who is left-leaning.