On Tuesday, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray announced the charges being pressed against suspect Tyler Robinson. During Katy Turs Reports coverage, MSNBC contributors Ken Dilanian and Chris O’Leary were reluctant to connect Robinson’s left-leaning ideology to his motive for allegedly murdering Charlie Kirk.
In the week following the tragedy, the left has admitted to there being a heated political climate and the existence of political violence coming from both sides. And now the can no longer deny that Robinson’s alleged actions may have been politically-charged. But they continue to doubt if his politics were a definitive motive for the killing.
Dilanian acknowledged the disconnect between Robinson’s personal beliefs and lifestyle compared to those of his family’s, but frames it as an incomplete story:
But—and we also learned, of course, that, we got to read between the lines a little bit here, but he's in this same-sex relationship, and he explains to us, or explains that his father is MAGA. His family is conservative and traditional. But there's a lot more, I think, that the authorities know about that dynamic that they haven't put in here.
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