Donald Trump, on Thursday, speaking about the murder of MAGA provocateur Charlie Kirk, blamed the shooting on “radical-left lunatics,” and added, ominously, “we have to beat the hell out of them.”
Not surprisingly, on Friday, we’re learning that the suspect in custody in connection with the shooting is a 22-year-old MAGA.
Nothing from Trump, to this point, retracting the call to his supporters to “beat the hell” out of innocent people on the left, who had nothing to do with the murder of Charlie Kirk, which was an inside job.
You’re not surprised to learn any of this, no doubt.
Once it was reported that the shooting was perpetrated by a White guy with a high-powered rifle from a rooftop 200 yards away, I mean, seriously.
ICYMI
Anyway, here’s what we know.
The shooter’s name: Tyler Robinson.
What we know about this Tyler Robinson: good student from a good Mormon family who scored high on the ACT, then dropped out of college after a semester.
More: Tyler Robinson appears, from online postings, to have been a Groyper, a White Nationalist movement led by another far-right provocateur, Nick Fuentes, who regularly picked public fights with Kirk, urging his followers to out Kirk as a “fake conservative,” raising issue, most recently, with Kirk’s insistence that the Trump administration should release the Epstein files.
Fuentes, of course, is now distancing himself from having been engaged in a MAGA civil war with Kirk, as is another far-right nutjob, Laura Loomer, who has been busy deleting recent tweets in which she had criticized Kirk as a “charlatan” and “political opportunist” who engaged in “mental gymnastics” and “stabs Trump in the back,” and wrote that she didn’t “ever want to hear Charlie Kirk claim he is pro-Trump ever again.”
More on Tyler Robinson: the messages etched into the bullets were not, in fact, pro-trans, as the media and political ecosystem on the far right initially asserted, but rather, from a video game known for its satirical use of fascist imagery, which terminally online Groypers are known to have co-opted to be able to, in essence, hide in plain view.
Still more: the parents are registered Republicans, and the father, Matt Robinson, seen in an online photo wearing a T-shirt repping the far-right Three Percenter movement, “is a Republican for Trump,” according to the grandmother, Debbie Robinson.
And, still more: the family turned him in.
“Investigators interviewed a family member of Robinson who stated that Robinson had become more political in recent years,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said. “The family member referenced a recent incident in which Robinson came to dinner prior to Sept. 10 (the day of the shooting), and in the conversation with another family member, Robinson mentioned Charlie Kirk was coming to UVU. They talked about why they didn’t like him and the viewpoints that he had. The family member also stated Kirk was full of hate and was spreading hate.”
The way Cox relates this story, then, it wasn’t just the kid who had an issue with Charlie Kirk.
“They” – that’s a plural pronoun there – talked about why “they” – again, plural – didn’t like Kirk, and his viewpoints; and the “family member” who told this to police – who, notably, would not have been Tyler Robinson – “also stated that Kirk was full of hate and spreading hate.”
Folks on the far right should have a hard time turning a family with a Three-Percenter “Republican for Trump” dad that talked openly at the dinner table about how they didn’t like Charlie Kirk and thought he was full of hate into “radical-left lunatics.”
They’re going to keep trying, but now that you know what’s up, make sure you correct your MAGA mother-in-law when she tries, based on what Fox News and Facebook is telling her, to insist otherwise.
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