ABC’s Gutman: Alleged Kirk Assassin’s Texts With Trans Lover Were ‘Intimate,’ ‘Touching’

Newsbusters ^ | 16 Sep 2025 | Curtis Houck

[Rummyfan]

On Tuesday’s ABC News Special Report about Utah County officials formally announcing charges against the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s murder, chief national correspondent Matt Gutman expressed affinity for the suspect and admiration for his love story with a trans person, gushing the text messages released by authorities were “lovingly” stated, “very intimate,” and “very touching.”

Gutman was reporting from the site of the press conference when he told World News Tonight anchor David Muir something “that stood out” was “those text messages” between the suspect and his roommate/lover.

“I don’t know if we have seen an alleged murder with such specific text messages about the alleged murder weapon, where it was hidden, how it was placed, what was on it, but also it was very touching in a way that I think many of us didn’t expect,” Gutman declared.

But, wait, there was more: “A very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who is transitioning, calling him ‘my love’ and ‘I want to protect you, my love.’”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: charliekirk; curtishouck; gaybc; homosexualagenda; lgbt; lgbtq; mattgutman; mattrumpman; reprobates

[Jane Long]

Agree.

[Songcraft]

Imagine how these two lovebirds would make Matt Gutman's knees get wobbly, and set his heart a-flutter!


     

[Republican Wildcat]

in a way that I think many of us didn’t expect,”

This...I can't hardly figure out how to respond to this...in what universe would "expectations" have to set for these communications????

What in the world?!

[Republican Wildcat]

in a way that I think many of us didn’t expect,”

This...I can't hardly figure out how to respond to this...in what universe would "expectations" have been set for these communications????

What in the world?!

[Republican Wildcat]

“in a way many of us didn’t expect”

[Tired of Taxes]

I can picture the interrogation of the boyfriend happening like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V54bxqor8CM

[marktwain]

But I question how intelligent Robinson really is. He is from Utah, he’s bound to know they have a death penalty, he’s bound to know he’d get caught, he’s bound to know the consequences of his action.

I don’t get it, he knew he’d never get away with it.

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I believe he is intelligent and ignorant. He is only 22, he has not had much interaction with the criminal justice system. He seems unsophisticated about the ubiquity of digital cameras in society.

He makes what amounts to confessions in the digital information space!

He did not know. He was ignorant. He was, essentially brainwashed into thinking he was fighting “hatred” by murdering Charlie Kirk. It is easy to rationalize evil if you have false assumptions about the nature of reality.