Republished with permission from AbleChild.
The handling of the Tyler Robinson capital murder case shows Utah cannot credibly claim to be a neutral arbiter in the assassination of Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) Charlie Kirk and here is why.
Utah’s prosecutors of the Kirk case are under scrutiny for accusations of conflicts of interest. The defense team for Tyler Robinson has filed a motion to have the County prosecutor’s office removed from the case. Apparently, a key prosecutor’s family member was present at the Utah Valley University campus where Kirk was shot. However, there are bigger conflicts in this case, not illustrated in the media coverage.
Governor Cox’s statements about the manhunt and surrender, the blackout on the ballistics and autopsy reports, Robinson’s mother employed by a state behavioral-health provider, and the mental-health provider who breached the crime scene all expose what appear to be systemic conflicts. Ethically it is impossible to think Utah would be a neutral place for any type of justice for Charlie Kirk. Recall Kirk tweeted: “Utah Governor Spencer Cox should be expelled from the Republican party.’”
The omissions in the case go to the heart of motive and network. Robinson’s reported romantic partner, Lance Twiggs, has never been charged in the case, despite having been aware of the shooting long before police made an arrest. In fact, it’s anyone’s guess where Twiggs is today, and whether prosecutors can explain why Twiggs did not contact law enforcement when first notified by Robinson that the assassination had occurred. One wonders why withholding that information from law enforcement didn’t make Twiggs an accessory after the fact? Twiggs clearly aided Robinson by withholding Robinson’s text messages. Twiggs did not contact law enforcement after Robinson allegedly confessed to the assassination of Kirk, a felony. But crickets about Twiggs’s role. Why?
There also is no transparent accounting of the shooter’s mother’s employment for a State behavioral-health provider or whether Robinson’s diagnoses, medications, and risk assessments were mishandled in ways that implicate state-funded mental health care. Additionally, prosecutors have said nothing about the mental-health provider who breached the crime scene and moved freely through key evidence areas, despite ties to the same state behavioral-health and DEI ecosystem.
These are not minor gaps. Behavioral health providers are embedded in state oversight and federal funding streams, including Medicaid and lucrative grant money. These gaps in oversight can be viewed in the corruption unfolding in Minnesota. Any missed red flags or buried documentation would put Utah’s health care systems on the hook, providing state actors every incentive to narrow the inquiry.
At the same time, national funders like Arnold Ventures pour money into Utah’s indigent-defense and criminal-justice “reform” network while also backing DEI, gender drugs, and transgender activism, the very agenda Kirk opposed and clashed over with Governor Cox who met with Arnold Ventures in Washington, D.C. six days prior to the assassination.
When philanthropy, public defense, and the Governor’s office are in the same funding loop just days before a high-profile political killing, one must wonder whether neither side of the case can claim clean hands.
Transgenderism is not a side issue; it is central. Kirk was a leading critic of transgender ideology and of governors, including Cox, who signed laws enabling psychiatric “experimentation” on children, while Utah’s behavioral-health and psychiatric systems are funded and shaped by the same national networks.
In that light, Utah’s refusal to charge Twiggs and its silence on the breach of the crime scene by a state provider look less like oversight and more like protection of an ideological and financial ecosystem that now intersects with a political assassination.
Meanwhile, an online war inside the Republican Party has become a gift to Utah’s power structure. Influencers like Jack Posobiec defend the official line provided by state prosecutors, even though Kirk was clear that Governor Cox should be thrown out of the GOP for backing transgender informed consent laws. Then there’s nationally recognized podcaster Candace Owens, who, unlike so many of Kirk’s supposed insiders, has raised serious questions about Kirk’s assassination and the betrayal inside Kirk’s own team and now questions of conflict of interest have further muddied the prosecutorial waters.
Online speculation about who betrayed Kirk, whether true or not, does nothing to fix what many believe to be structural corruption and conflicts now baked into Utah’s handling of this case. Prosecutors in Utah control charging decisions, grand-jury processes, and the official narrative from the Governor’s office to the legislature, to the courts and, of course, the prosecutors. Five months after the assassination of Kirk, it appears that the State has not delivered honest transparency on Twiggs, ballistics-autopsy results, the behavioral-health nexus, or prosecutor conflicts, and the public is all too aware of the shortcomings.
This is why the Trump Administration’s Antifa-related executive order exists: when ideological violence and extremist networks collide with local political and institutional interests, federal authorities must step in. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has the jurisdiction and experience needed to investigate interstate communications, funding, and coordination; to follow online radicalization and handlers; and to dig into state-funded behavioral-health providers and philanthropy-driven “reform” networks without fear of local retaliation. It is time we move the case out of Utah.
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