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Killer’s Text Messages Revealed, Liberals Call Them ‘Touching’

Liberals celebrate killer's texted confession as being loving
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Tyler Robinson, 22, charged with the aggravated murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, admitted in text messages and Discord chats to carrying out a politically motivated killing, according to court filings released Tuesday. Prosecutors in Utah announced they will seek the death penalty, citing Robinson’s statements that leftist ideology drove him to target the 31-year-old co-founder of Turning Point USA.

Kirk was shot in the neck and killed on Sept. 10, 2025, while delivering a speech at Utah Valley University. That same day, Robinson texted his alleged romantic partner to “drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard.” Beneath it, the roommate found a note: “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”

When the roommate pressed him — “you weren’t the one who did it right?????” — Robinson responded, “I am, I’m sorry.” He added, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.” Robinson told his roommate he had planned the attack for “a bit over a week,” and worried about retrieving his grandfather’s rifle, which he had abandoned in a bush after changing clothes. “I worry about prints … only thing I left was the rifle wrapped in a towel,” he wrote. Robinson later urged, “delete this exchange,” and warned his partner to avoid media and police.

On Discord, Robinson sent messages to friends acknowledging the crime: “It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this,” and later, “im surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments.” A Discord spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the messages but said there was no evidence of planning on the platform. FBI Director Kash Patel told Congress investigators would examine the chat, which involved more than 20 participants who had exchanged banter about the shooting.

Governor Spencer Cox called Robinson “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology,” noting he had become “more political” in recent months and brought up Kirk’s visit during a family dinner. Although Robinson was a registered unaffiliated voter, his texts made clear his motive: he targeted Kirk for his conservative views, including support for gun rights, opposition to abortion, and criticism of transgender and gay rights.

After confessing to his father, Robinson surrendered to a sheriff’s deputy who lived nearby. He is being held without bail in Utah County Jail on additional charges of felony discharge of a firearm and obstruction of justice. His arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

Kirk’s killing has seen a ridiculous response by many in the liberal mainstream media. Unable to admit that their extreme rhetoric about conservatives contributed to the assassination, liberals–both reporting and discussing Kirk’s death–have twisted themselves into pretzels, going so far as to try and make the murderer a sympathetic figure.  

ABC News reporter Matt Gutman, for example, is now facing calls for removal after calling the correspondence between Charlie Kirk’s suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, and his transgender romantic partner “very touching,” reported Fox News.

While reporting from a press conference Tuesday where authorities announced murder charges against Robinson, Gutman commented on the emotion shown by the suspected assassin toward his transgender roommate in text messages related to the killing.

Gutman remarked on that part of the exchange.

“But, also, it was very touching in a way that many of us didn’t expect,” Gutman said. “A very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who is transitioning, calling him ‘my love.’ And ‘I want to protect you, my love.'”

The reporter continued: “I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a press conference in which we’ve read text messages that are A, so fulsome, so robust, so apparently allegedly self-incriminating and yet, on the other hand, so touching, right?”

He added that there is a “heartbreaking duality” about the crime, referring both to Kirk’s assassination and the apparent romantic connection between Robinson and his roommate.

Guttman has since apologized.

At CNN, liberals on a panel with Scott Jennings, Montel Williams argued that the suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination was “a love-torn child” likely in the throes of “his first real relationship and someone was disparaging the person he loved” and thus not “motivated politically.”

He further tried to blame conservatives for Kirk’s killing, claiming that the alleged suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing may have been put on edge because his father may have disapproved of his relationship with a trans person.

Although some Democrats have been appalled by the way liberals have attempted to justify the murder of Charlie Kirk, including Dick Durbin, who claimed liberal rhetoric has gone too far, others said they won’t stop using language that is inciting violence, including Nancy Pelosi.

[Read More: Biden Weaponized DOJ Against Charlie Kirk]

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