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Review of domestic terrorism after Kirk’s murder shows Biden politicized issue, intel, fudged data

Auseful picture of the domestic terrorism threat in America in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk has not yet come into focus, as the actual threat-scape has been muddled by the politicization of intelligence and by an overbroad use of the phrase “domestic terrorism.”

A review of the Biden administration’s application of the phrase shows that the phrase was used as a justification for targeting January 6 rioters, parents concerned about what their children were being taught in schools, and a wildly uneven treatment of those groups when compared to the widespread violence and destruction caused by Antifa and other progressive groups. 

The issue came to light as authorities announced last week that they had arrested 22-year-old Tyler Robinson in connection to the killing of Kirk, a popular conservative influencer and ally of President Donald Trump. Robinson allegedly gunned down Kirk last Wednesday at Utah Valley University. Kirk’s murder comes after two attempted assassinations of Trump and years of the Biden administration pointing to the January 6 riots and claiming “rightwing” extremism or “domestic terrorism” as the main domestic threat facing the U.S. 

Nonetheless, it took the FBI years to acknowledge that the mass shooting at a Republican congressional group practicing baseball —  by self-professed “Bernie Bro” James T. Hodgkinson — was an act of domestic terror.

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Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin

“Hey guys, I have bad news for you all … it was me at UVU yesterday.” Thus Tyler Robinson messaged his friends on Discord, seemingly apologizing for murdering Charlie Kirk. “I’m sorry for all of this.”

I obtained this and other Discord chats I’ve decided to publish (the legacy news media, as usual, refuses), along with new information I’ve learned about Robinson from the people who knew him best.

Trump and company portray the alleged Utah shooter as left-wing and liberals portray him as right-wing. The federal conclusion will inevitably be that he was a so-called Nihilist Violent Extremist (NVE); meanwhile, the crackdown has already begun, as I reported yesterday. The country is practically ready to go to war.

“It’s been so terrible and seeing it from an inside perspective is so frustrating,” a friend of Robinson’s since middle school told me. The childhood friend, who asked not to be named for fear of threats, provided me with the above non-public photo of Robinson on a camping trip (a favorite activity of his) to corroborate their relationship.

“I think the main thing that’s caused so much confusion is that he was always generally apolitical for the most part,” the friend told me. “That’s the big thing, he just never really talked politics which is why it’s so frustrating.”

The picture that emerges bears little resemblance to the media version. Robinson, I am told, though quiet, was a well-liked person with a supportive family. The friend group who he interacted with on Discord, far from some kind of militia camp or Antifa bunker it’s been portrayed as, represented a range of different political views but mostly talked video games.

Yesterday, FBI Director Kash Patel said in an interview that Robinson “subscribed to left-wing ideology,” citing his family’s remarks to investigators. But those close to Robinson say there was a lot his family didn’t know about him.

“Their ideas are based on someone they didn’t fully understand,” the childhood friend told me. Though the family was generally supportive of Robinson (a claim corroborated by his mother’s Facebook account, brimming with praise for Tyler) they didn’t seem to know about his relationship with a transgender person named Lance, the friend said.

When I asked if his family would have been accepting, the friend replied: “I don’t think even Tyler knew the answer to that question, which is why he kept it so low key between themselves.”

Tyler’s bisexuality, the friend said, was coupled with openness on LGBT issues. But his wasn’t some cookie cutter lefty position on every or even most issues, his friends say.

“Obviously he’s okay with gay and trans people having a right to exist, but also believes in the Second Amendment,” the friend said, referring to the right to bear arms.

The friend described Robinson as fairly typical of a young man his age from Utah: someone who loved the outdoors, was a gamer, and into guns.

“To all of us he just seemed like a simple guy who liked playing games like Sea of Thieves, Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers 2, loved to fish and loved to camp,” the friend said. “It really did seem like that’s all he was about.”

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Vance Lays Out Data Showing Political Violence More Acceptable Among Far Left

Vice President JD Vance laid out polling data on Monday showing that political violence is considerably more acceptable among self-described “very liberal” Americans than it is among “very conservative” Americans.

Vance hosted The Charlie Kirk Show on Real America’s Voice from the White House on Monday and, in his closing, laid out some “difficult truths” America must confront if it wishes to reach a place of unity, citing worrying data from a YouGov poll.

The survey showed that 24 percent of self-identified “very liberal” respondents believe it is acceptable for someone “to be happy about the death of a public figure they oppose.” In comparison, three percent of “very conservative” respondents felt the same as did ten percent of “liberal” respondents and four percent of “conservative” respondents.

The worrying trend continued when respondents were asked if political violence can be justified to achieve political goals. Of liberal respondents aged 18-44, 26 percent believe there are cases where political violence is a justifiable means to a political end. Seven percent of conservatives in the age range said the same, as did 12 percent of moderates.

“In a country of 330 million people, you can of course find one person of a given political persuasion justifying this or that, or almost anything, but the data is clear, people on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence,” Vance said of the data points.

“This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, one side has a much bigger and malignant problem, and that is the truth we must be told. That problem has terrible consequences,” he added.

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After Charlie Kirk: Decency and the response to murder

The murder of Charlie Kirk has provided some lamentable insight into our current national politics, particularly on the left.

The left’s response to the murder is remarkable in several respects.

The first is the vitriol, the unhinged glee that some, obviously not all, on the left demonstrated in the response to the tragedy.

At the beginning of The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky makes a helpful observation about human nature. The character Father Zossima, the Orthodox elder, remarks:

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

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The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone […] he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness.

Many on the left have been lying to themselves, or willingly indulging in lies that are told to them.

These lies concern the moral superiority of abstract ideologies, the base motives and bad character of those who disagree with them, and the wildly inflated sense of the popularity of their views.

They credulously embraced caricatures of what people like Mr. Kirk actually believed and held them so tightly as to be impervious to contrary evidence. They “reveled in their resentment.”

As a result, many on the left felt not only justified, but reassured, that they were not only morally justified, but were in the overwhelming majority, and that no untoward consequences could possibly result from rejoicing in an atrocity. They expected, at worst, approval of the substance and discomfort at the tone.

The worldwide response has instead left them confused and disoriented. Their callousness was not lauded for its edgy “truth.” Instead, many revelers who could be restrained neither by common decency nor common sense, found themselves fired from their jobs, mocked on social media, and the objects of censure and condemnation.

Lies that people tell themselves are the most difficult to dispel. Doing so not only corrects an inaccurate perception but wounds the pride, and can shatter the structure on which people build their self-esteem and sense of worth. It is difficult to admit that one’s sense of superiority was based on an untruth.

As a result, the secondary response in some precincts of the left has been to cast about for further fabrications from their shaken worldview.

They declaim their fear of an inchoate backlash from hateful hooligans. They charge that they are the victims of unjust cancel culture. The demand preemptive restraint, voluntary and otherwise, against their adversaries. Self-reflection seems not to have occurred to them.

The claim that those on the left who lose their jobs or face any kind of uncomfortable consequences for their behavior in the wake of Mr. Kirk’s death betrays a lack of understanding of a free society.

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Tyler Robinson had rabid ‘obsession’ with Charlie Kirk, chillingly wrote he had perfect plan to ‘take out’ the conservative icon: FBI

Tyler Robinson had a rabid “obsession’’ with Charlie Kirk and vowed to “take out” the conservative influencer because he “hated” his views — boasting he had the perfect murder plan, the FBI revealed Monday.

“I think it’s pretty clear based on the statements of family members, friends and some of the messaging we have on these digital footprints left behind​ that [Robinson] clearly had some obsession with Charlie Kirk​,” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino​ told Fox’s “America’s Newsroom” on Monday​.

​”Charlie Kirk is obviously a conservative commentator​,” Bongino said. “I think it’s fairly obvious to everyone out there, and there’s no need to parse words with it, that clearly this was an ideologically motivated attack.”

FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox earlier in the day that Robinson, 22, had even told someone about his heinous plot before he fatally shot Kirk, 31, with a single bullet to the neck in an appearance at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

“He had a text message exchange with another individual in which he claimed that he had an opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk — and he was going to do it because of his hatred for what Charlie stood for,” Patel told “Fox & Friends.”

But the accused killer — a “furry’’-obsessed trade-school student with a transitioning male-to-female partner — suggested the same murderous thought later on a physical note, Patel said.

The FBI chief did not identify who the other person was or say if there would be potential charges against them for not coming forward earlier.

“​The written note, we believe, did exist, and we have evidence to show what was in that note​,” Patel said.

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Ohio Republican claims Democratic Party ‘actually killed Charlie’ Kirk

A Republican congressman accused Democrats of killing Charlie Kirk while simultaneously pleading with liberals to ‘lower this rhetoric to a normal place.’

Kirk, 31, the conservative activist founder of Turning Point USA, was shot while speaking at a Utah college last week. Tyler Robinson, 22, is in custody as a suspect in the murder, and the FBI announced on Monday that his DNA has been linked to evidence in the case.

FBI Director Kash Patel said on Monday that investigators were able to retrieve text messages from the shooter, including an exchange ‘in which he claimed that he had an opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and he was going to do it because of his hatred for what Charlie stood for.’

Reports indicate that Robinson’s roommate was a male who was transitioning, and that the bullets in the gun allegedly used to kill Kirk contained, suggesting the reason behind the murder may be political in nature, though authorities have not released a motive.

A major figure on the right, Kirk’s death immediately evoked a buffet of emotions on Capitol Hill, including fear, anger, deep sadness and loss. Both Democrats and Republicans have mourned the young father of two’s passing last week.

Since the public and tragic assassination, lawmakers have also been in a frenzy to tone down the extreme language peddled by politicians on both sides of the aisle.

But some, while calling for calmer political rhetoric, have inflamed the national dialogue.

Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, went on Fox Business on Monday and said that Democrats are to blame for Kirk’s assassination.

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The ‘Progressive’ Left – The ‘Democratic’ Party – Has Shown You Exactly Who They Are

When Andrew Breitbart died, someone I knew responded to my Facebook post about it with a nasty celebration of it. When I responded that he was actually a good friend of mine and told that person not only where they could go straight to, but what they could do to themselves on the way, I quickly received a phone call from them apologizing. They “hadn’t realized” that I was actually friends with him, as if that made them being a sociopathic asshole cheering someone’s death simply because they wouldn’t conform to the politics the “tolerant” left, somehow better. We’ve seen this again, but even more so, with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

I let it slide with Andrew, the guy was young and I’d never really experienced anything like that before, so I was forgiving and wrote it off as an anomaly. Plus, I think Andrew would’ve laughed at the idea that he was still exposing “tolerant leftists” for the intolerant pieces of garbage they are, even in death.

While Andrew being in a better place was a comfort, that never overrides the sadness of losing a friend. While I can’t say I was good friends with Charlie Kirk, there was very little daylight on policies between him, me and millions upon millions of Americans who mostly want to be lef alone by the vacuous left. But the nature of “progressivism” is to not leave anyone alone – it demands obedience, not only of actions but of thought.

We refuse to obey, we refuse to conform, and they killed Charlie for it.

Yes, the shooter pulled the trigger, but every MSNBC guest to called a conservative a fascist carved their letters into the bullet casing. Every elected and media Democrat who chose to dehumanize rather than debate, looked through that scope. Every single person on the left who knew better, who saw this coming but found the inciting rhetoric politically useful and easier than making an argument for their positions steadied that killer’s hand. They all did this because they knew this was down the road they were traveling and did nothing to stop it.

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Elon Musk: ‘The Left Is the Party of Murder’

Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk called the left “the party of murder” during a remote appearance he made at a giant freedom rally in London, England, on Saturday.

The comment was featured on the Elon Clips account on X on Sunday morning.

“…You see how much violence there’s on the left with our friend Charlie Kirk getting murdered in cold blood this week and people on the left celebrating it openly, the left is the party of murder and celebrating murder,” Musk said in a conversation with British activist Tommy Robinson.

“Let that sink in for a minute,” Musk added. “That’s who we’re dealing with here. That is who we’re dealing with.”

The comments were made Saturday in an interview done remotely by a video link for the crowd at Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” rally and march, which drew more than 110,000 Brits protesting immigration and restrictions on free speech.

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No Surprise! Kirk Shooter was a Liberal Motivated by Trans-Ideology

Shortly after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the media attacked President Trump for blaming the radical left. Outlets suggested the shooter might have been a disgruntled right-winger who thought Kirk wasn’t conservative enough, or even floated the absurd idea that it was an accident, a supporter firing a gun in celebration.

One prominent mainstream media article claimed, “Some have attempted to draw a link between Robinson and the far-right Groyper movement,” but provided no actual evidence for this connection. The claim that “Tyler apparently told police that he admired Nick Fuentes” appears in one source but remains disputed and unverified.

The dishonesty was staggering, echoing how the press had tried to portray the Trump shooter as a Trump supporter. Occam’s razor points to the simplest and most obvious explanation: the shooter hated conservatives, and in Kirk’s case, was a left-wing extremist with ties to trans ideology. Unsurprisingly, that turned out to be correct.

So far, the media has not apologized to Trump or to conservatives who correctly identified the shooter’s motives from the beginning.

Based on available evidence, Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, appears to have been motivated by left-wing, antifascist ideology. FBI sources confirmed that bullet casings were engraved with slogans tied to transgender and antifascist themes, including “Hey fascist! Catch!” a phrase echoing Antifa rhetoric and lyrics from Bella Ciao, the Italian antifascist anthem now co-opted by Antifa.

Robinson was living in a romantic relationship with a transgender boyfriend (male transitioning to female), and investigators believe his anger at Kirk stemmed in part from viewing Kirk’s positions on gender identity as “hateful” toward people like his partner. This relationship is seen as a key element in establishing motive.

Friends and family stated that although Robinson’s family was conservative, he had become increasingly political in recent years and expressed hatred for both Trump and Charlie Kirk. At a recent dinner, he even mentioned Kirk’s upcoming campus event. Taken together, the physical evidence on the ammunition, his personal relationships, and his stated opposition to Kirk’s conservative views, especially on transgender issue, point to a left-wing political assassination driven by antifascist and LGBTQ-related grievances.

The timing of the shooting was also strangely coincidental. Just moments before the attack, an audience member asked Kirk about transgender mass shooters: “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” They followed up with, “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” Kirk replied, “Counting or not counting gang violence?” Moments later, he was assassinated.

Another odd detail centers on Robinson’s transgender roommate and partner. After the shooting, Robinson reportedly sent messages about hiding the weapon or retrieving it from a drop point. Investigators say the partner has been “extremely cooperative,” turning over messages that described leaving a rifle in a bush wrapped in a towel and watching the area where it was left.

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Utah Governor Says Suspected Charlie Kirk Assassin Left Note, Has ‘Leftist Ideology’

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said the suspected assassin of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk left behind a note, and confirmed reports that the suspect held left-wing political views.

“Clearly a leftist ideology,” Cox told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Cox said the information obtained about the viewpoints of suspect Tyler Robinson “comes from the people around him, his family members and friends.”

Cox also confirmed that the suspect may have left behind a note but said that those “are things that are still being processed for accuracy and verification and will be included in charging documents.”

The governor said the suspect’s partner is transgender, which some officials have pointed to as a sign that Robinson was targeting Kirk for his political views. Authorities have not publicly said whether it is relevant as they investigate Robinson’s motive.

Cox told CNN that Robinson’s roommate and “romantic partner” is “a male transitioning to female.”

“I can say that he has been incredibly cooperative, this partner has been very cooperative, had no idea that this was happening,” he said, referring to the roommate.

Cox also told NBC News that Robinson, 22, became more radical after he dropped out of Utah State University.

“It seemed to happen kind of after that—after he moved back to the southern part of Utah,” he told NBC News. “Clearly, there was a lot of gaming going on, friends that have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet, Reddit culture and these other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep. You saw that on the casings … the memeification that is happening in our society today.”

Robinson, Cox told NBC, is not cooperating with authorities. However, they have obtained information from friends, acquaintances, and family members.

Last week, Cox said in a news conference that the suspect had engraved messages on bullets, including anti-fascist messages and one that appeared to make a trolling reference to the “furry” subculture. One message also appeared to be a reference to a move used in the video game “Helldivers 2.”

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