"Within hours of Kirk's killing, when law enforcement had not released so much as a photograph of the suspected shooter, Donald Trump addressed the nation, accusing the "radical left." His assertion fanned breathless speculation on social media that the shooter was some kind of operative, an agent of organized political violence, or maybe even a point man in an elaborate conspiracy involving antifa, Israeli intelligence, or operatives working for Kirk's rivals in the MAGA sphere."
"Not many of the people speculating the loudest online predicted that the killer was a young man from a deeply pro-Trump corner of Utah, raised by registered Republicans. But that's the picture of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson that began to emerge today, when Utah Governor Spencer Cox announced that Robinson was in custody and would be charged. "I was praying that, if this had to happen here, that it wouldn't be one of us," Cox said of his fellow Utahns."
Within hours of Charlie Kirk's assassination, a prominent political figure blamed the "radical left," which spurred breathless online speculation that the shooter was a left-wing operative or part of an elaborate conspiracy involving antifa or other actors. Misreported details attributed to federal law-enforcement officials suggested the shooter had carved messages espousing "transgender" ideology onto a bullet casing. Authorities later identified 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, raised in a deeply pro-Trump Utah community and from a Republican household, as the suspect; Utah Governor Spencer Cox announced Robinson's arrest, urged restraint, and emphasized that one person was responsible for the killing.
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