The man arrested as the main suspect in the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was romantically involved with a transgender roommate and had “leftist ideology,” according to Utah’s governor. In a statement on Sunday, September 14th, he confirmed several key details.
Asked about suspect Tyler Robinson’s reported relationship with a trans partner, Governor Spencer Cox told CNN’s State of the Union talk show:
Yes I can confirm that … The roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to a female.
Cox, who said 22-year-old Robinson is expected to be formally charged on Tuesday, September 16th, went on to stress it was not yet clear whether the partner’s transitioning was part of the alleged shooter’s mindset to kill Kirk, a close ally of the U.S. president, Donald Trump.
Governor Cox—who has earned plaudits for urging Americans to lower the combustible political tone—made the rounds of U.S. networks and told NBC talk show Meet the Press that investigators believed Robinson had embraced leftist beliefs. “There clearly was a leftist ideology with this—with this assassin,” he said.
Several U.S. media outlets on Saturday reported Robinson’s relationship with a transgender individual.
Laura Loomer, a conservative influencer who has Trump’s ear, called Saturday “to designate the Trans movement as a terrorist movement,” while X-owner Elon Musk elevated multiple posts calling for gender treatment bans and denouncing leftist ideology.
