By Ben Meiselas
Charlie Kirk’s killer has been identified. His name is Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from Utah. He allegedly confessed to his father, who after speaking with local pastors, turned his son in to law enforcement. Robinson is now in custody. This is not speculation. This is not rumor. These are the facts.
And yet, before these facts ever saw the light of day, Donald Trump and his MAGA megaphones were already out there spewing disinformation, blaming Democrats, blaming “the radical left,” even blaming trans Americans, for a crime they knew nothing about. They tried to turn a tragedy into another political weapon, because that’s all they ever do.
Let’s walk through what we actually know. Tyler Robinson comes from a Republican family. His father owns a business installing kitchen countertops and cabinets. His mother is a licensed social worker. His family is white, Mormon, and self-described as “gun-toting.” There are endless photos of Tyler and his family with guns. His mother posted about him proudly. He even dressed as Donald Trump for Halloween. The family wasn’t shy about their culture of guns, their politics, or their worldview.
This is who the killer is. This is what we now know. And yet Trump and his cronies immediately blamed the left.
Why? Because that’s their playbook. They never let facts get in the way of a narrative. They see every tragedy as an opportunity to divide the country, to scapegoat their enemies, to keep their base foaming at the mouth with rage.
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And what makes this even more infuriating is that the FBI and law enforcement under Kash Patel utterly botched this investigation. They had the resources, the surveillance, the technology, and the connections to solve this quickly. But they didn’t. They chased shadows. They pandered to political narratives. They leaked false information to blame transgender people. In the end, it wasn’t law enforcement who cracked the case. It was a father who turned in his own son.
Let’s stop here for a moment. Think about that. A retired sheriff, a conservative, a man steeped in that world, had more integrity and clarity than Trump, Patel, or the FBI. He knew his son had done something horrific. He didn’t hide it. He didn’t protect him. He did the right thing.
Now, I need to make a broader point that cannot be ignored. To me, it really doesn’t matter if someone identifies as leftist, right-wing, libertarian, or anything else. What we are seeing in this country is a generation of radicalized, chronically-online young white men who are detached from reality, steeped in meme culture, gun culture, and grievance culture. They are the ones committing these atrocities. They are the ones who, time and again, show up with guns and carry out political violence. And they almost always come from the very communities that point the finger at everyone else.
We’ve seen it over and over. Charleston. Buffalo. El Paso. Now Utah. Even the Butler shooter fits the same profile. Different names. Different victims. Same pattern. And every time, instead of confronting this reality, Trump and the MAGA movement point the finger outward. It’s the left. It’s immigrants. It’s the LGBTQ+ community. It’s anyone but the angry young white men radicalized by the propaganda they are steeped in online.
And yet, within hours of the murder, Trump was on Fox News, rambling about Chicago, Soros, Gavin Newsom—anything but the truth. He was ready to move on, to shove more lies down people’s throats, to distract and deflect.
Governor Cox of Utah, meanwhile, actually stood at a podium and bragged that there was no rioting, no looting, no burning cars after Kirk’s assassination. Think about how absurd that is. A man was murdered in cold blood, and the governor’s takeaway was: “See, nobody set a car on fire.” That’s the level of unseriousness we’re dealing with. That’s how far the bar has been lowered in MAGA America.
So let me be very clear. This isn’t about celebrating or diminishing Charlie Kirk’s death. I condemned the violence the moment it happened, and I stand by that. Violence is never the answer, no matter who the victim is. But we cannot allow the truth to be buried under a pile of lies. We cannot let Trump and MAGA weaponize every tragedy to stoke more division, more hate, more fear.
What matters here is not just who Tyler Robinson was, but what his story represents. He is yet another example of a broken system that radicalizes vulnerable young men online, feeds them a steady diet of grievance and hate, and then arms them to the teeth. He is the product of a culture that tells young white men they are under attack, that they must rise up, that their enemies are everywhere. And he is proof that if we don’t confront this reality, the violence will keep metastasizing.
We face a choice. History will judge whether this was an inflection point. Whether we finally confronted the radicalization of young white men in America, or whether we kept pretending the threat was something else. Whether we told the truth, or let Trump and his enablers drown us in lies.
My choice is clear. I will keep telling the truth. I will keep exposing the lies. I will keep fighting for democracy. Because if we give up, if we let this wave of disinformation sweep over us, then the future of this country is lost.
The truth matters more than ever. And I promise you this: on the MeidasTouch Network, we will not back down. Not now. Not ever.
