Axios: Investigators Suspect Anger Over Charlie Kirk's Stance on Trans Issues Could Be the Motive

Hotair ^ | 09/14/2025 | John Sexton

[SeekAndFind]

The blame game over suspect Tyler Robinson's motives for shooting Charlie Kirk continued to play out this weekend with some on the left continuing to claim that Robinson was a Groyper or someone critical of Charlie Kirk but on the far right.

There have been a lot of twists and turns in this story already. There was a report in the Guardian Friday that Tyler's high school classmate said he was pretty far left on everything but by Saturday those comments had been deleted from the story. However, CNN published its own story Saturday which included some similar comments from a co-worker:

An electrician who worked with Robinson on a job just a few weeks ago – and asked not to be named, like others who spoke about Robinson, due to the sensitivity of the situation – described his colleague as a shy presence who “wasn’t talkative unless he was spoken to.”

Robinson “didn’t really talk political… unless someone brought it up,” the electrician said, adding that “he wasn’t too fond of Trump or Charlie (Kirk).”

But yesterday, Fox News reported that Robinson was in a relationship with his trans roommate. 

Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin lived with his transgender partner, senior-level FBI officials told Fox News Digital. 

Bureau officials confirmed that Tyler Robinson, 22, was in a "romantic relationship" with the unnamed person, who is a male transitioning to a female, and that they shared an apartment in Saint George, Utah. Those FBI officials told Fox News Digital that Robinson's partner is fully cooperating with the FBI's investigation.

That report by Fox News got some direct support in the form of an interview with a neighbor of Tyler Robinson. Josh Kemp said he'd seen Robinson and his roommate Lance Twiggs kissing and holding hands in the parking lot just a couple weeks ago.

Today, Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah appeared on CNN's morning show and verified that Tyler Robinson was in a relationship with his roommate and that roommate is trans. However, as you'll see, he would not say definitively if this was the motive for the shooting. 

Utah Governor Spencer Cox on the investigation into Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson:

-His family and friends confirmed he was deeply indoctrinated in leftist ideology

-He was in a relationship with a transgender man.

pic.twitter.com/bOeElorKOf— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 14, 2025

But also this morning Axios has a report out attributed to six unnamed investigators. They now believe trans issues may be the key to the motive.

Authorities are investigating whether Tyler Robinson, suspected of killing Charlie Kirk, believed Kirk's views on gender identity were "hateful" to people like Robinson's transgender roommate, six sources familiar with the case tell Axios.

Investigators believe Robinson's anger at Kirk's views could be a key to establishing a motive for the slaying of the controversial activist whose death sent shockwaves through American politics.

Each of the six sources familiar with the investigation told Axios that investigators believe Robinson had a romantic relationship with his roommate...

The roommate was "aghast" at the slaying when speaking to investigators and shared electronic messages sent by Robinson, one of the sources said.

So the story about the relationship with roommate Lance Twiggs seems to be confirmed at this point, but the claim that Twiggs knew nothing in advance about the shooting is a little hard to believe. Robinson contacted Lance after the shooting and told him where he'd left the rifle. In essence, he confessed to murder. Would he have done that out of the blue, i.e. if Lance knew nothing about this plot would he first learn about it in a text confession about the location of the gun?

I guess anything is possible but it seems strange to me. This sounds more like someone checking if after the deed was done. In any case, Twiggs did immediately hand over his text messages with Robinson to authorities and is said to be cooperating. But Axios reports that investigators are still asking questions about whether anyone else knew about the plot in advance.

Federal and state law enforcement officials also are examining leftist groups in Utah to see whether they had knowledge of the alleged shooter's plans beforehand, or if they lent material support to him afterward.

One of those groups eliminated its social media profile after the shooting, Axios has learned.

The group that wiped its social media account was Armed Queers Salt Lake City. It's not clear if that means anything beyond not wanting blowback at this moment but I'm glad authorities are looking at it.

Bottom line, it seems increasingly clear that Tyler Robinson had moved left and that his views about Charlie Kirk (i.e. calling him a fascist) came from that perspective. We'll see if anything new turns up as the week goes on.

[Olog-hai]

So-called “groypers” are not on the right. At all.

[RandFan]

Thanks for posting this a lot of people questioning the narrative then in a few of these important articles.

The Utah gov. does not speak for the FBI. I hope the investigation continues and is fruitful

He almost certainly had co-conspirators

[Bob434]

Weird how the left r3sort to murder when they hear stuff they dont like, but the right are constantly barraged by stuff they dont like to,hear co ing from unhinged liberals, yet the right does not resort to murder like the left does. Why is that, axios? Thatmis what you should be investigating IF you want to be seen as a legit source of n3ws!

[EnderWiggin1970]

There have been a lot of twists and turns in this story already.

No, there really have not. Just distractions and lies thrown out by leftists cheering a murderer that they insanely try to claim was not one of them even though they alone are the ones cheering his actions.

[SaveFerris]

[he'd seen Robinson and his roommate Lance Twiggs kissing and holding hands in the parking lot just a couple weeks ago.]

2nd Peter 2:5-6
21st Century King James Version

5 and spared not the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth person, a Preacher of Righteousness, bringing in the Flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6 and, turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example unto those who thereafter should live ungodly;

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%202%3A5-6&version=KJ21

We ARE in the Days of Lot, just as
prophesied by Jesus Christ Himself. (From the Apostle Paul:



All According to SATAN'S Plan

DEMOCRAT Barack Hussein Obama's Rainbow White House happened on Friday, June 26, 2015 - turning the White House into a Godless Reprobate Abomination



DO NO HARM, Christians, but REJECT this
Godless Reprobate Agenda. WALK AWAY.
(For the thread)



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[EinNYC]

I don’t care what some butthurt mentally deranged a-—e thought. They deprived a fine young man of his life, his potential future achievements, his wife and children-—and all of us of his vision and energy. I would not hesitate to push this selfish piece of human excrement out of a 30 story window, then dump his remains into a pig pen.

[Sequoyah101]

Really? Who would have ever suspected that?

Calling Captain Obvious.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Te right has people like Charlie Kirk who engage in thoughtful and intellectual debate to try to win over the other side.

The lunatic, deranged leftists, when they hear things they do not like, skip right to murder. They have done that for hundreds of years.

[Angelino97]

Authentic trannies (not the perverts or grifters) are always angry and frustrated because they never really feel like their chosen sex. Sometimes they blame it on the "transphobes." They feel that if they can eliminate all transphobia, they'll finally feel like their "authentic self."

[Celtic Conservative]

Nice try at deflection, leftie A-holes (is that redundant?🤔). You own this one 100%. And the “normies” aren’t happy about it.

CC

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Transvestites and gender deviants make up the largest category of shooters. Robert Crimo who killed all those people in Highland Park, Illinois is a tranny. Charlie Kirk's killer is a tranny. The Nashville Christian school shooter was a tranny. The Minnesota Church shooter was a tranny. Transvestites and gender deviants are sick people who should be put away from society.

[SaveFerris]

Genesis 19:23-28
New King James Version

23 The Sun had risen upon the Earth when Lot entered Zoar.

24 Then the Lord rained Brimstone and Fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.

25 So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

26 But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

28 Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2019%3A23-29&version=NKJV

Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.



Genesis 19:27-28
KJV

27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+19%3A27-28&version=KJV

[mass55th]

They think they can kill us all? There’s less of them, than there are of us.

[jonrick46]

From: Surgical Sex - Why We Stopped Doing Sex Change Operations":

We saw the results as demonstrating that just as these men enjoyed cross-dressing as women before the operation so they enjoyed cross-living after it. But they were no better in their psychological integration or any easier to live with. With these facts in hand I concluded that Hopkins was fundamentally cooperating with a mental illness. We psychiatrists, I thought, would do better to concentrate on trying to fix their minds and not their genitalia.

Thanks to this research, Dr. Meyer was able to make some sense of the mental disorders that were driving this request for unusual and radical treatment. Most of the cases fell into one of two quite different groups. One group consisted of conflicted and guilt-ridden homosexual men who saw a sex-change as a way to resolve their conflicts over homosexuality by allowing them to behave sexually as females with men. The other group, mostly older men, consisted of heterosexual (and some bisexual) males who found intense sexual arousal in cross-dressing as females. As they had grown older, they had become eager to add more verisimilitude to their costumes and either sought or had suggested to them a surgical transformation that would include breast implants, penile amputation, and pelvic reconstruction to resemble a woman.

Further study of similar subjects in the psychiatric services of the Clark Institute in Toronto identified these men by the auto-arousal they experienced in imitating sexually seductive females. Many of them imagined that their displays might be sexually arousing to onlookers, especially to females. This idea, a form of "sex in the head" (D. H. Lawrence), was what provoked their first adventure in dressing up in women's undergarments and had eventually led them toward the surgical option. Because most of them found women to be the objects of their interest they identified themselves to the psychiatrists as lesbians. The name eventually coined in Toronto to describe this form of sexual misdirection was "autogynephilia." Once again I concluded that to provide a surgical alteration to the body of these unfortunate people was to collaborate with a mental disorder rather than to treat it.

[spincaster]

It’s going to take a lot of ammo to kill all that think the Trans
way of life is God’s way.
Our family’s and how our children are nurtured and taught starts at home. If you teach your kids that boy’s can be girls and girls can be boys, this is what we get. God forgive us and bless Charlie Kirk and his family.

[ronnie raygun]

no sh##

[yldstrk]

Exactly. What a blinkin news flash.

[Sirius Lee]

[trebb]

Yo - Axios...
If that’s a valid motive - then their own stances would also be valid motives - stop making excuses for killing someone over words...else, everyone becomes a valid target for someone else.