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Suspect's high school classmate says Robinson was the only 'leftist' in a family of 'very hard' Republicans
Guardian ^ | 2 hours ago September 12, 2025 | Anna Betts

Posted on 09/12/2025 3:35:02 PM PDT by conservative98

In a phone interview on Friday, someone who said they were friends with Robinson in high school, who wanted to remain anonymous, said that the suspect was “pretty left on everything” and was “the only member of his family that was really leftist”.

“The rest of his family was very hard Republican,” the friend said.

Around sophomore year, the friend said, Robinson became more extreme in his political views and would “always just be ranting and arguing about them”.

The friend said that they played video games together a lot in high school and noted that the bullet engraving with the arrows was a reference to Helldivers 2 – which we mentioned earlier. He said that the arrows specifically were in reference to “calling in a big bomb that exists” in the game “called the 500 kilogram”.

When the friend saw the news on Friday, he said that he was shocked. “I knew he [Robinson] had strong political views, but I never thought it would even go near that far.”

The friend said that he has not spoken to Robinson in years and began to drift apart toward the end of high school. Another high school classmate separately told the Guardian that the friend and Robinson were close in school and would play video games.

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To: Bayard

From what his gamer friend was saying, he began radicalizing in the sophomore year of high school.


21 posted on 09/12/2025 5:16:36 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: dragnet2

The DSA shirt is a good place to start, too.


22 posted on 09/12/2025 5:19:15 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: conservative98

Now the Left will say that being in a family of Republicans will turn a person into a crazy murderer.


23 posted on 09/12/2025 5:46:55 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: conservative98

It must have been hard for a decent family to have a brain dead killer in the family. Prayers for the family...


24 posted on 09/12/2025 6:25:58 PM PDT by GOPJ (Charlie Kirk never let photos of his kids faces show. We know why. <P> <I> <B><big><center> )
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To: conservative98

I just read something totally crazy, that Tyler Robinson is far, FAR right. So far right that he’s Left. The Left is trying too hard to paint Robinson as alt-right. No, he’s one of theirs.

https://crispng.com/was-tyler-robinson-a-groyper-charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect-linked-to-alt-right-movement/

My bottom line is that the LEFT is cheering Charlie’s assassination, and RIGHT is in mourning.


25 posted on 09/12/2025 7:04:56 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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