"Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of killing anti-LGBTQ+ Christian Nationalist activist Charlie Kirk at a campus speaking event in September, reportedly said little to friends about transgender issues in the year leading up to Kirk's assassination. On Wednesday, The Washington Post published a report based on interviews with 21 people who knew Robinson and hundreds of online messages from the past five years, in which there is little to corroborate the Trump administration's narrative that Robinson had been radicalized by left-wing extremists."
"As the Post reports, Robinson grew up in a conservative family in predominantly Mormon St. George, Utah. Friends told the paper that as a 17-year-old high school senior in 2020, Robinson took an interest in current events, including the presidential race, but indicated that he felt that both political parties had failed to help regular people in the U.S. High school classmate Xander Luke recalled that Robinson didn't like "hateful people" and bullies "because they looked down on people for just living their lives.""
"Friends also cast Robinson as something of a loner who, according to the Post, "made himself hard to know," and seemed to prefer to spend time with friends online even before the Covid 19 lockdowns of spring 2020. The Post 's analysis of three Discord chat archives dating back to January 2020 turned up no references to Kirk in messages sent by Robinson."
Tyler Robinson was 22 and accused of killing anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk at a campus speaking event in September. Interviews with 21 acquaintances and review of hundreds of Robinson's online messages over five years show little evidence he discussed transgender issues in the year before the killing and little to corroborate claims of left-wing radicalization. Friends described him as quiet, disillusioned with both political parties, and opposed to hateful people and bullies. He grew up in a conservative, predominantly Mormon St. George, Utah family. Discord archives dating to January 2020 contained no messages referencing Kirk, though deletions and missing media are possible.
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