We've already addressed the lies and exaggerations told about Kirk to somehow justify his murder. Now the left is trying to come up with a counter-narrative about his assassin. Kirk wasn't murdered by an unhinged leftist; he was killed by a MAGA adherent. It's a lie on stilts.
Let's start with what we know:
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused assassin, had a deep hatred for Kirk, apparently for his muscular Christian beliefs and his espousal of traditional family values.
We also know that Robinson plotted for a week. Premeditated, cold-blooded.
He inscribed bullets with obscure gamer verbiage and extreme-left shibboleths, like ''Hey, fascist
...anybody you disagree with, damn them..., catch!'' Sound like a right-winger to you?
His parents, while themselves conservative. told the police that their son had adopted far-left beliefs in the past few years. Would they lie about that?
A relative said the following: ''He hates conservatives and Christians,'' the relative said. ''He hated us. He was not raised that way, but he, over the years, has become really detached (and) been radicalized.''
There are, in fact, no indications whatsoever that Robinson was, as popular leftist substack writer Heather Cox Richardson (hat tip: Dylan on X) falsely described him: ''a young white man from a Republican, gun-enthusiast family, who appears to have embraced the far right, disliking Kirk for being insufficiently radical.''
Any evidence of this? Of course not. There is zero evidence. But that didn't stop her from getting an immediate 7,000 likes for her post.
Nor did it stop TV host Jimmy Kimmel from repeating the obvious lie to his gullible leftist viewers: ''We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.''
Oh yes, ''the MAGA gang.'' They were behind it all