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MAGA Makes Dramatic Shift After Identity of Killer Surfaces
When the facts didn’t match their narrative, Trump and his allies scrambled to rewrite the story.
I’ve been covering politics long enough to know one thing with certainty: whenever a tragedy strikes, the first instinct of MAGA world is to weaponize it. Before we even knew the name of Charlie Kirk’s killer, Trump and his enablers were already spreading lies, smears, and conspiracy theories. They wanted you to believe this was a “leftist, liberal, transgender plot.” They wanted you to picture some cartoonish villain, a purple-haired “antifa” caricature that they could rail against to further demonize marginalized communities and shut down Democratic organizations.
But the facts caught up to them.
The killer has been identified as Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old white Mormon from Utah, raised in a Trump-supporting family. He attended Utah State University for a single semester before entering a technical college apprenticeship program. Robinson’s political beliefs at this moment seem all over the place, and people who know him have told the press different things.
His grandmother said their whole family is Republican, very pro-Trump, and emphasized that she doesn’t even know of any Democrats in the family. Some are speculating that Robinson is a Groyper—a group of alt-right, white nationalist, extremely online agitators who have targeted figures like Kirk and Ben Shapiro from the right. An anonymous person who described themselves as a former friend of Robinson in high school said that Robinson had once been critical of Donald Trump, adding that they haven’t had contact with him in several years. Then there are the photos: this young man once dressed up in a Donald Trump piggyback costume for Halloween, mimicked the “squatting slav” pose (a popular internet meme), and posed with guns alongside his siblings and parents. Regardless of what his true beliefs are, and if he even has a coherent ideology, one thing seems certain as of now: he clearly lived steeped in online meme culture. He is not the MAGA fantasy “enemy” they wanted you to believe in.
And so, like clockwork, the right-wing narrative shifted.
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Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who just yesterday was on TV ranting about a supposed “Democrat leftist tranny plot,” suddenly struck a different tone. Now she tells us that we need to pray for the killer. She says Kirk would have wanted us to extend forgiveness. Really? That’s a remarkable change of heart, considering that before the facts came out, Mace was smearing entire communities with grotesque slurs.
Fox News also scrambled. When it became undeniable that Robinson wasn’t the boogeyman they wished for, they reached for the next scapegoat: college. Yes, the same Fox News whose hosts rant nightly about “Marxist professors” tried to pin Robinson’s violence on one semester at Utah State. Never mind that he spent the last few years in an electrical apprenticeship program at Dixie Technical College, not exactly a hub of left-wing radicalization. They needed a villain, and higher education was the easiest straw man.
Meanwhile, Trump himself barely acknowledged the assassination. When asked about how he was coping with Kirk’s death, a man who spent years shilling for him, Trump immediately pivoted to bragging about building a new ballroom at the White House. The heartlessness was shocking, even for Trump. MAGA influencers can dedicate their lives to serving Trump, but when they’re gone, they get half a sentence before he plugs his latest grift.
Let’s take a step back here. This isn’t just about hypocrisy. It’s about a pattern we’ve seen over and over again.
Look at the data: between 2013 and 2022, the overwhelming majority of extremist-linked killings in the United States came from right-wing actors. Left-wing violence exists, but it’s a tiny fraction by comparison. The Trump administration gutted the FBI’s counterterrorism division and replaced experienced professionals with unqualified loyalists, deliberately steering resources away from tracking right-wing extremism. And what have we seen since? More violence, more radicalization, and more tragedies.
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And here’s the hard truth: the shooters don’t fit the MAGA narrative because the shooters usually look like Tyler Robinson. Young, white, male, chronically online. Raised in families that glorify guns. Lacking healthy outlets, relationships, or hope for the future. Immersed in toxic internet subcultures where irony blurs with incitement and meme-based hate is a way of life.
That’s the reality. And it terrifies MAGA leaders because it destroys their phony narratives that are intended to inflame and divide.
Instead of confronting what is radicalizing these young men, they double down. They scapegoat transgender Americans. They attack universities. They gin up fear about immigrants. Anything to avoid acknowledging that their constant stream of hate and division is fueling this cycle.
And it is a cycle. Violence begets violence. Leaders set the tone. When Barack Obama responded to the Charleston church massacre, he led with unity and grief, not blame. When Donald Trump responds to tragedy, he lies, scapegoats, and brags about his vanity projects. That contrast tells you everything you need to know about why our country feels like it’s unraveling.
So here’s where I stand: I condemn all political violence. Full stop. Violence is not the answer, ever. And condemning violence also means refusing to tolerate the lies that excuse or enable it. It means demanding accountability from leaders who spew division and then pretend they’re shocked when their followers act on it.
Tyler Robinson who found validation in extremist rhetoric and meme culture. That’s tragic in its own right. But the way MAGA has reacted to his assassination, first by exploiting it, then by rewriting the story, shows us the deeper sickness in our politics.
We don’t fix this by scapegoating. We fix this by addressing mental health, by enacting common-sense gun reform, and by building a culture where young people have real hope, connection, and dignity. And we fix this by rejecting leaders like Donald Trump who profit from chaos and division.
The facts matter. The truth matters. And if we don’t start confronting the reality of where this violence is coming from, we’re going to see more Tyler Robinsons. More funerals. More leaders twisting tragedy for political gain.
Enough is enough.
COMMENTS:
The right wingers...fake Christians are already sending "thoughts and prayers" to Robinson..
If it was a leftist.......coast to coast bomb threats and swats everywhere. .
Not sure if you get it.........
Tbh, I think the speculation of Robinson being a Groyper is out the window. All the signs point to yes. But you’re def on point with GOP being absolutely grotesque! To basically flip 180 degrees to save face makes them look even more inadequate!
Tyler WAS a groyper....a Nick Fuentes devotee that thinks Kirk was a traitor to the cause
Fuentes has been on an anti-Trump tear lately. And anti-Vance, Thiel, broligarchy bender as well. He sees all these people as.....elitists. NAGA has a new faction to deal with, and it isn't from the "left".
He does have some validity there....I just didn't think elitism would've bothered him..
Fuentes had no shame dissing the poor, the uneducated "trailer trash". He was open about his smug, superior contempt. He's done a 180. He feels let down by Trump as for selling out. Though Trump only acts in his interests. Fuentes does see Vance as reckless, no soul. Purely a tool of Thiel and yhe 1% broligarchy. Having said that, Fuentes is still a zenoph9bic, religious fanatic..
We should demand an apology from maga politicians like Nancy Mace. I don't care about whatever tone change, I want accountability and at the very least a formal acknowledgement of their falsehoods.
I wish the press would be more forceful when faced with her despicable rantings. The reporter tried feebly, but she just shouts over their questions with her self-righteous, outrageous accusations. What a piece of work.
Standard MAGA practise.
Don't like it when I say "The sun comes up in the morning"?
Shout and scream so no one can hear me - just your own drivel. "Debate" does not exist.
Fox is propaganda. It was set up that way. My understanding is that was the deal I guess Roger Ailes made with the Republican president at the time allowing Rupert Murdoch, a noncitizen, to become a citizen and buy Fox News back when I guess not just anyone could own access to the airwaves. I’m going off of memory but I thought that was the deal. And in lawsuits against Fox News hosts by people who were misinformed by their propaganda they used the defense that they were just entertainers producing opinion pieces and any reasonable person would understand that. Knowing some Fox News viewers I think assuming they are reasonable people who have the critical thinking skills to discern fact from opinion might be a stretch.
I went back to school at night at the age of 60. Went to the local community college for an AS in accounting and then a SUNY college and almost finished a BS in accounting but then decided not to finish. I was so amazed at how smart these kids are, much smarter than I was at their age. And the quality of the teaching was first rate, although I did use an online rating system to determine which teachers were the best. Despite being a blue liberal state I didn’t feel that anyone was trying to radicalize me. In addition to the core accounting classes we had to take other classes to understand the world (Trump could have benefited from this requirement) and because I like film I took a course called International Queer Film which was great. I would recommend Nancy Mace take the course along with watching all the seasons of the show “Pose” so she could learn something about the queer culture, including transgender people, so she could breathe easier since she is so worried about, as she refers to them, “trannies”. I really don’t know much about Nancy Mace but every time I see her in the news I think of that movie Shallow Hal and the nurse in the burn unit who looks ugly to him because she’s such an ugly person on the inside despite her external good looks. I find the way she refers to transgender females as trannies as repugnant. One of my daughter’s friends is a transgender female (they went to the senior prom together) and she is very intelligent, talented, sound-minded and a beautiful person. She is not at all threatening nor do I see her climbing a bell tower with a rifle anytime soon. She is a beautiful young woman but I suspect Nancy Mace would be too shallow to recognize that.
I think knowledge is power as the saying goes and college, for me, was a place where I felt free to question EVERYTHING. None of my teachers at the University of Florida 25 years ago TOLD me what to think. To be honest, there was an anti-abortion group that came and for a moment they were able to twist some of my beliefs in feminism (i.e. equal rights) and they used my emotionalism over personal issues (biodad abandoned me before I was born) to make a case that it wasn’t fair to put the burden of birth control on women essentially and as long as men could get away with having women get abortions they wouldn’t “have to do the right thing” (whatever that meant). So much wrong with what they did and fallacies in their arguments I won’t even get into but essentially THEY told me what to think and they used EMOTIONS and BELIEFS (religion) not facts. Or they twisted facts into misinformation.
Then 9/11 happened and I was taking this Art & Activism elective by chance. We were shown the concepts of media literacy and how to question sources and research the history behind events in thorough ways. I made the mistake of coming home and discussing what I found in my research about the part the US played leading up to the terrorist attack and not negating the horror of it and the actions of “the evildoers” .. but trying to see all that was involved so maybe it might be prevented from happening again type thing. My grandfather (who was my dad essentially) kind of disowned me for that. Again no one told me to believe anything but as a kid of the 90s I already saw corporate greed and Reagan’s lies of trickle down prosperity preaching. It felt empowering to get TOOLS to find real truth and that is what education is (and why those who want to actually control us fear it so much).
Now at 45, I am going back to get another degree and my biology professor at the community college here in Ocala, FL has spent half her lectures layering in her BELIEFS on everything from Big Pharma to this week adding a link for us to “a report showing how estrogen in the water is turning men more female.” Her videos on youtube lead me to her own personal playlists which are a half dozen videos on how to “convert non-believers” and “witnessing your christian faith to total strangers.”
So again, who is the one indoctrinating and pushing emotionalism? Not us and not our professors.
Yeah, when I was taking classes at SUNY Plattsburgh I emphasized that I thought teaching critical reading and thinking skills was the most important thing secondary education could offer, and since I had a lot of work experience and experience hiring people, I mentioned that along with the ability to read behind the numbers to understand the drivers was the natural aptitude for the work, what are you good at and what comes easily and that you enjoy. I would never want to do sales nor would it come easily to me. On the other hand, after I left teaching and went into banking I realized I was good at analysis and research, although I didn’t have the requisite education to advance and after awhile went to school to get an MBA in finance. It took me a while to figure things out especially as dropped out of school and left home when I was young and hitchhiked around the country working odd jobs. Life is a journey as is education and intellectual curiosity. In terms of religion, although raised Catholic I think I was a n agnostic and then atheist early on. My fifth grade teacher at Saint Frances de Chantal in the Bronx, Sister Mary Bertrand, intimated that I would, in olden times, have been excommunicated for a disparaging essay I wrote about the clergy as part of an exercise on descriptive writing. In a sense, it was nice that someone finally got me.
But a certain MAGA leader is NEVER wrong, he's just fucking stupid.
Trump’s secret army the proud boys, who Trump released from prison must have contracted a dumb kid to assassinate Kirk to eliminate Kirk from running against Vance in 2028.
Trump learned well from his long ties with Russian mafia, masters in how to maintain power.
Joe, none of these ideas are from the Dumpster! The people who wrote Project 25 are running this country, the Dumpster is just publicizing it! He has never been smart enough, which is why so many of his businesses went under, filed bankruptcy 6 times, has been supported with money from Russia, Saudi Arabia and tons of people he has screwed! Any money he has made since in office has been illegal and needs to be ripped away from him and given to all of the people he has fired, the victims of the Epstein files he was involved with and all of the people that have died because of his discrimination against Blacks and Latinos!
Since MTN views seem to out number fox news views, please keep reporting the truth so more and more people will hear it. It seems to me that fox isn't getting many new viewers...folks aren't flocking to that network for truth or information but MTN continues to grow and grow and the truth is getting out there more and more. And we all have the entire MTN staff to thank for this. Their tireless efforts (well maybe not tireless, I imagine they are all exhausted) keeps America and the world informed. It is a shame the GOP doesn't watch MTN and listen for facts. If they did a few might see that the economic policies they are supporting are not good for America and maybe a few would change their ways.
Coleen, all of them believed his lies while running for the election! There is also belief that Kamala won and the votes were dismantled by Musk!
I truly believe that. There is 1 county in NY that Harris got 0 votes, but yet it was a Democrat county in the past. Supposedly they filed some lawsuit, but have never heard a thing about it now. Don't know if it's true or not.
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