Authorities are investigating whether Tyler Robinson, suspected of killing Charlie Kirk, believed Kirk’s views on gender identity were “hateful” to people like Robinson’s transgender roommate, six sources familiar with the case tell Axios.
The latest: Utah Gov. Spencer Cox ® confirmed Sunday on ABC News’ “This Week” that Robinson lived with a romantic partner who was undergoing a gender transition.
Robinson’s roommate is cooperating with authorities, Cox said, but Robinson is not and has not confessed to Kirk’s killing.
- The roommate was “aghast” at the slaying when speaking to investigators and shared electronic messages sent by Robinson, one of the sources said.
- “That’s what happened? Oh my God, no,” the roommate said, according to the source. “Here are all the messages.”
Edit: archive: https://archive.ph/tA3jp
the excellent Knowledge Fight podcast, which does media criticism of Alex Jones (and other right-wing ding-dongs) has the concept that big news events like this have a period of “wet cement”
when the cement is still wet, you can write whatever you want in it, and it’ll harden with your message written in it.
if you wait until the cement dries, you can’t do that.
the entire right-wing has been desperate to carve “transgender” into the wet cement of Charlie Kirk’s shooting. the exact details don’t matter. the important part is getting there before the cement dries.