Breaking! Trump Confirms Charlie Kirk Assassin Turned In by Father – FBI Takes Custody – Kash Patel to Hold 11:30 AM ET Press Conference!
Ethan White, Gazetteller, September 12, 2025
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Charlie Kirk, 31, founder of Turning Point USA and a prominent ally of President Donald Trump, was fatally shot in the neck during a campus event on Wednesday. The suspect has been identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson from Utah.
According to President Trump, Robinson was turned in by his father, a pastor, who contacted authorities through a minister connected to law enforcement (More info on gazetteller.com). The suspect is now in custody. Trump confirmed the arrest on Fox & Friends, stating, “I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him. Everyone did a great job. I hope he gets the death penalty. Charlie Kirk was the finest person and he didn’t deserve this.”
President Trump Announces Charlie Kirk’s Killer is Now in Custody
Surveillance footage shows Robinson positioned on a rooftop approximately 200 yards from the stage where Kirk was speaking. He fired a single shot using an imported Mauser .30-06 bolt-action rifle, striking Kirk during his “Prove Me Wrong” debate event, which was attended by thousands of students.
After the shot, Robinson discarded the rifle, wrapped in a towel, in a nearby wooded area and fled into a surrounding neighborhood. Authorities later recovered the weapon, along with a palm print and footwear impressions, which aided in tracking the suspect.
Robinson is described as a slim, college-aged male with dark hair, wearing a black long-sleeved T-shirt, baseball cap, sunglasses, and Converse sneakers—clothing highlighted as distinctive during the initial search. He appeared familiar with the campus layout, suggesting prior reconnaissance. Posts on his mother’s now-deleted Facebook account showed him as a model student.
The arrest was coordinated with local Utah authorities, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Secretary Pete Hegseth from the Defense Department. A press conference by Kash Patel was scheduled to provide details on the investigation and arrest. Robinson’s father held him until police arrived.
President Trump praised the swift action and coordination of law enforcement in ensuring the suspect was brought into custody safely.
This tragic event has sparked nationwide outrage, highlighting the threats faced by public figures advocating for conservative causes. Tyler Robinson’s arrest brings the immediate investigation to a close, though questions about motive and planning continue to emerge.
The case remains under investigation, with authorities reviewing all evidence, including surveillance footage, witness accounts, and digital records. President Trump has reiterated support for justice and emphasized that Charlie Kirk’s contributions and legacy will not be forgotten.
This is a developing story, and updates from authorities are expected as the investigation continues.
After Charlie Kirk’s Murder, the Democrats Revel in Two Minutes of Hate and Attack the Second Amendment
Andrea Widberg, American Thinker, September 12, 2025, at c
We knew that the left’s response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination would be ugly, but it was uglier than anyone could have predicted and infinitely more stupid, too. It was uglier because hordes of people celebrated the death of a young father because they disagreed with his ideas, and it was stupid because of how they approached the gun control arguments that always arise when someone, anyone, gets shot.
First, the ugliness: A leftist acquaintance who was horrified by Charlie’s death nevertheless objected to the essay I wrote immediately after Charlie’s death. He believed I too laboriously cherry-picked social media posts about ugly Democrat responses to make a point. He contended that, if someone were to assassinate a popular leftist speaker, nasty conservatives would also appear on social media.
I explained that you’d always find a fringe in any group that would have vile responses when someone political is murdered. However, I said, the sheer volume of vile responses is a purely leftist phenomenon.
What we witnessed in real time was Orwell’s famed two minutes of hate, voluntarily exercised against a murder victim and lasting a lot longer than two minutes.
At the top, there was the group response from elected Democrats:
Ilhan Omar was her usual vile self:
And there was the media:
Regarding Dowd’s comments, that so-called “hate speech” was normal American thinking not long ago: America is worthy of patriotism; the Constitution is good; a baby in utero is a human life; judging people based on their race not their character is bad; borders are important, so illegal aliens should be repatriated; and men and women are biologically distinct, and nothing will change that.
However, the real bile spewed from the base, which responded with celebratory fury and endless threats:
It got so bad that Bluesky had to act:
Across social media, countless numbers of people, especially those in positions of trust (educators, government employees, etc.), celebrated Charlie’s death in terms ranging from self-righteous to insane, along with threatening other conservatives. There are so many it bogs down loading this essay to embed them. Instead, check out Libs of TikTok and Scott Pressler, both of whom have been collecting examples—and both of whom have been put on the left’s “you’re next” list.
The attacks from the military were especially disturbing, but the new Pentagon (not Mark Milley’s Pentagon) is responding:
One of the consistent themes the Democrats raised in their two minutes of hate is that Charlie had it coming because he supported the Second Amendment, with Elizabeth Warren illustrating the top-down nature of these attacks:
In other words, according to the left, because Charlie acknowledged that criminals would take advantage of our Second Amendment rights, he was begging to die and, indeed, deserved to do so.
However, that’s not what Charlie was saying. Instead, he was acknowledging that there’s a hierarchy of risks in the world. The reason we have a Second Amendment is because we know that, in any society, disarmed people are at the greatest risk, whether from external enemy attacks (i.e., war); civil society breaking down entirely, leaving armed mobs in control (e.g., Haiti); and, most of all, a government turning on its own people.
Regarding that last point, Mao killed 50-100 million Chinese people, the Soviets killed an estimated 7-9 million people before WWII, and Pol Pot killed up to one-third of Cambodians. Those numbers do not include the 6 million Jews and roughly 11 million other civilians (homosexuals, communists, Roma, Poles, Russians, etc.) whom the Nazis deliberately killed. In all instances, the first thing the killers did, if the people were not already disarmed, was disarm them.
Our most precious civil right is the right to life, and people die en masse when they lose the ability to defend that right. Charlie understood, as do all intelligent, rational people, that the Second Amendment is the bulwark against mass slaughter, even though it leaves the door open for evil individuals to act. But that’s not the same as condoning crime.
If you hate murder, as Charlie did, you don’t disarm good people; instead, you punish bad ones and institutionalize crazy ones. What you don’t do is what leftists have done in America for decades: Abandon the rule of law and encourage the evil and the crazy to think they’ve got the right to kill.
The problem isn’t the guns; it’s the people, both the ones who kill and, even worse, the ones who make the killing possible.