Who Is Tyler Robinson's Roommate? Alleged Trans Partner Helping Police

[ificandream]

Source: Newsweek

By Khaleda Rahman
National Correspondent

Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, lived with a romantic partner who is transgender and cooperating with authorities, Utah Governor Spencer Cox has said. "The roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female," Cox said during an appearance on CNN on Sunday. "This partner has been very cooperative, had no idea that this was happening."

(snip) President Donald Trump sparked criticism after he blamed the "radical left" for Kirk's death before any details about the suspect or a motive were known. Liberals have since touted Robinson's conservative roots amid speculation about his political beliefs.

(snip) The identity of Robinson's roommate has not been disclosed by authorities. Robinson's roommate has not been charged with a crime, and authorities have not released their name.

"This person did not have any knowledge" of the attack and "was shocked when they found out about it," Cox said on NBC's Meet the Press.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/tyler-robinson-roommate-transgender-2129832

[Deep State Witch]

1. They're Really Pushing The Trans Angle Hard

Frankly, if TR was doing it for his romantic partner, the partner would probably have known about it.

[TommyT139]

2. Not necessarily

First off, "romantic partner" is undefined so far. For instance, was the attraction one-sided, while the housemate saw Tyler as a friend?

The housemate's cooperation with the police indicates that she would have shared any info ahead of time rather than see even the loathsome piece of crap CK be killed, and Tyler's life ended.

[Oneironaut]

5. That dangerous assumption is not founded in reality.

There is no evidence the roommate knew about it, and, suggesting such without any evidence is irresponsible nonsense.

[RockRaven]

3. Note that even in their telling of the story, their supposed bogeyman is the good citizen

doing everything correct, being helpful and cooperative with the investigation and having good moral sense, and person raised in the Republican-voting, Trump-loving, law enforcement-working, gun-humping household is the deranged criminal.

And this is their smear campaign!

[Oneironaut]

4. Well, they want her to die. In their view, she never should have existed to begin with.

That is what she is doing wrong. The fact that she exists is a crime against them in itself.

[yardwork]

31. Sadly, that's true of Trump and his followers.

[maxsolomon]

6. Doesn't mean that he isn't a Groyper

who was motivated by that cesspool ideology.

[Ritabert]

7. That's the story they're trying to push even though it's false.

[maxsolomon]

8. How do you know it's false?

The "he did it for his Trans lover" story?

I don't know how anyone would know anything currently.

[Ritabert]

17. They're desperate to drag a trans storyline into this

He was a fan of Nick Fuentes and just as likely to have gotten motivation from the split in the far right who considered Kirk to be insufficiently pro-Trump.

[maxsolomon]

21. OK, you're skeptical.

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I am too. It all seems very implausibly intersectional: extremist-right internet troll culture mashed up with Trans liberation.

What a time to be alive.

[Ritabert]

22. Not to mention the two guys making hand signals behind Kirk just before the shooting.

What was that about?

[maxsolomon]

23. I'm not paying enough attention to know about that

nt

[Ritabert]

24. Very suspicious and they looked like ex-military.

[markodochartaigh]

27. There are ballistic calculator apps

for cellphones, and the guy in the white is holding his cellphone up but doesn't appear to be watching to see that it is capturing a good video. I wonder if they were questioned.

[Ritabert]

33. Interesting and I'm sure they weren't.questioned.

[moniss]

9. I think this governor is a piece of

crap because even if this is true what does gender identity of the roommate have to do with anything? Sounds to me like an opportunity for them to hang red meat out there for the MAGA crowd to fixate on. Because the authorities don't want the roommate out in public speaking about Robinson the roommate also isn't in a position to deny or affirm what this a**hole of a governor is saying.

Gee Governor I can remember back when bad things would happen and the cops and the papers would report that the household was a "mixed marriage" or identify the national origin of a couple. For example if the husband robs a store they would identify him as being from an "Italian" household or family. As though that had f*ck all to do with the crime.

[ificandream]

10. Agreed.

And they're also trying to swing the blame to the left using that trans angle.

[Ritabert]

18. He's desperate to get media attention off a gun lovin' Mormon family

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

28. Simple

Having a trans romantic partner will make it a hell of a lot easier to claim the shooter was left leaning rather then right. It directly counters the groyper claim. Most people will not believe someone who follows Fuentes would be romantically involved with or living with a trans person.

[moniss]

34. Oh believe me I know why they're doing it but it is something that

needs to be called out for what it is.

[BaronChocula]

11. Such a lookyloo society

concerned with all the wrong questions. Everyone wants the most intriguing details NOW, whether they're true or not.

Remember having to wait for the nightly news or the next day's newspaper? Ahhhh.

[ificandream]

13. You can blame that almost entirely on social media.

Social media lives on assumptions and out-of-context statements. The nightly news or the next day's paper makes time to investigate a little. Social media wants an instant answer.

[BaronChocula]

16. That and the 24hr news cycle

on cable tv and the Internet both of which predated SM.

[Sneederbunk]

12. Cox is a front man for MAGA.

[Prairie Gates]

14. Sorry, but I'm going to need more than Cox's say so to go with this

If it's the case, it's the case, but the whole thing seems like the sort of thing that's going to be retracted later.

[North Coast Lawyer]

15. facts please

An article without any verifiable facts. Just Governor Cox's say so.

[Torchlight]

19. Lots of scraps of red meat for the right wing base, but no mouthfuls they can tear into

The best line they have so far is "oh yeah? Well prove this negative, then!" and that one won't take even take them around the block.

[Clouds Passing]

20. I smell bullshit on this story

[somsai]

25. I looked on the betting web sites

and they didn't have a place to bet on his political leanings. People assured enough in their predictions should be able to easily win money.

[choie]

26. Why are we taking what Cox says as writ?

[Diraven]

29. Exactly

I seriously doubt they roommate is the shooter's lover, or that they are even trans. The only evidence we have of these claims is Cox and Patel pushing this story in incessantly.

[Tree Lady]

30. And we have only the roommates word

that they were romantic. The magas are wanting it to be so so much wouldn't put it past them to pay the guy to say that they were lovers.

[Diraven]

36. We don't even really have that

We have Cox and Patel claiming that's what the roommate said. And we're just supposed to trust that they're being truthful and not pushing an agenda.

[GreenWave]

32. Are Trump and others trying to gin up the hate for a Jack Ruby type ending?

Trump may not want the rift among his RW butt kissers getting wider

[thought crime]

35. or Epstein type ending?