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Fifth Column
Charlie Kirk Assassin in custody
2025-09-12
Day 1 can be seen here.
Day 2 articles here, here, here, and here.
Today we have here, here, here, and here. ..and finally here —a separate post on the arrest.
[NYPOST] President Trump announced early Friday that a suspect in Charlie Kirk's liquidation was turned in by his father — with the suspect identified as Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old Utah student who was ''full of hate'' and wrote ''Hey fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them...
! Catch!'' on a bullet.

''I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him,'' Trump told ''Fox & Friends'' during a live interview at the cable giant's Manhattan studio, saying he heard just minutes before his 8 a.m. interview. ''Somebody who was very close to him turned him in, a minister who was involved with law enforcement. I hope he's going to be found guilty, and I hope he gets the death penalty
. What he did — Charlie Kirk was the finest person and he didn't deserve this.''

Trump did not ID the suspect, but he was later confirmed to be Robinson, an ID first confirmed by The Post.

''We got him,'' Utah Gov. Spencer Cox announced, with the arrest at 10 p.m. Thursday some 33 hours after Kirk was bumped off. Tyler was turned in by family members, who said he was ''full of hate'' — and confessed to his dad, who is reportedly a veteran law enforcement officer, that he was the killer.

Discord chats with his roommate also showed him arranging to have a rifle hidden in a towel near the sniper's nest, where it was found soon after Kirk's liquidation. He wrote on hullets found at the scene, ''If you read this, you are gay LMAO'' — and ''Hey fascist! Catch!'' aimed at the conservative debater.

Another unfired bullet had ''Bella Ciao'' repeatedly written on it, Italian for ''goodbye, beautiful'' that was adapted by those fighting the Nazis in World War II.

Tyler's mother, Amber, previously shared grinning photos of her son — including one calling him a ''genius'' when he got accepted into college.

The family live in a six-bedroom home in Washington, Utah, which is just over 250 miles from where the 22-year-old is accused of assassinating Kirk, 31, with a single shot from an elevated position about 200 yards from the tent where the father of two was speaking at the university's Losee Center.

Initial reports described the suspect as a gunman wearing jeans, a black shirt, and a black vest perched with a long rifle atop a building east of the school's library.

Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA and a dad of two, had just answered a question from an audience member about mass shootings committed by transgender people at the outdoor event on the campus in Orem when he was hit by a single round.


bitter fruit of our universities today...they don’t shape leaders, they manufacture monsters. Kids are being indoctrinated right under their parents’ noses. Including right here in New Zealand, where the Greens and Te Pāti Māori are busy brainwashing the kids of tomorrow. Parents need to wake up before it's too late.

Why...because here’s the kicker… his own Dad recognised Tyler and turned him in to police. Imagine that. Your own flesh and blood. That takes guts. Painful, but right.

A father who still knew right from wrong.
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