{"id":156730,"date":"2025-09-14T18:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156730\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:51:03","slug":"alleged-charlie-kirk-killer-had-leftist-beliefs-utah-governor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156730\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Charlie Kirk killer had \u2018leftist\u2019 beliefs, Utah governor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The man arrested over conservative influencer Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination was romantically involved with a transgender roommate and had \u201cleftist ideology\u201d, Utah\u2019s governor said on Sunday, confirming details likely to inflame the contentious national debate over the killing.<\/p>\n<p>I can confirm that,\u201d Governor Spencer Cox told CNN\u2019s State of the Union talk show when asked about suspect <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3325399\/who-tyler-robinson-suspect-charlie-kirks-murder?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Robinson\u2019s<\/a> reported relationship with a trans partner.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to a female,\u201d Cox said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis partner has been incredibly cooperative, had no idea that this was happening and is working with investigators right now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cox, who said 22-year-old Robinson is expected to be formally charged on Tuesday, went on to stress it was not yet clear whether the partner\u2019s transitioning was part of the alleged shooter\u2019s mindset to kill Kirk, a close ally of US President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/donald-trump?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAgain, all of these things \u2013 we\u2019re trying to figure out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man arrested over conservative influencer Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination was romantically involved with a transgender roommate and had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1017,49204,15284,12,11,95694,3319,37746,95695,5366,16950,1254,3,8636,59064,91302,93406,21,19,22,20,25,24,3324],"class_list":{"0":"post-156730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-charlie-kirk","11":"tag-cnn","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-elon-musk","14":"tag-governor-spencer-cox","15":"tag-joe-biden","16":"tag-laura-loomer","17":"tag-leftist-ideology","18":"tag-meet-the-press","19":"tag-minneapolis","20":"tag-nbc","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-pete-buttigieg","23":"tag-transgender","24":"tag-turning-point-usa","25":"tag-tyler-robinson","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-united-states-of-america","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa","32":"tag-utah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}