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Trans Lover: Alleged Kirk Assassin Said He 'Wishes He Hadn't Done It' 13%
By Libby Bandelin42%
7/9/2026, 10:48:31 PM
Keywords: Charlie Kirk, Evidence, Lance Twiggs, Law, Preliminary Hearing, Ryan Mcbride, Tony Graf, Trial, Tyler Robinson, Utah, Utah Valley University
BS Summary: This article contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 18.1% saturation with 142 hits. Analysis detected 1,039 faulty-reasoning hits from 784 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 29.6% and a BS Rank of 13% (19,105 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 87.30% of the article peer group.
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On the fourth day of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing, Judge Tony Graf just authorized the release of redacted footage from an interview with Lance Twiggs, Robinson’s roommate and romantic partner, overruling objections from the defense.
In the 23 minutes of video, prosecutor Ryan McBride questions Twiggs about the nature of his relationship with Robinson, asks him to identify Robinson on camera at Utah Valley University, and prompts him to give an account of Robinson’s behavior leading up to and after Charlie Kirk’s death.
Full redacted TWIGGS interview allowed to be viewed by news media.
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Twiggs and Robinson met in person and became roommates in 2023 and started dating “two or three months after [Robinson] moved in.”
Twiggs said that Robinson “left early” on Sept. 10, purportedly because he had “a long drive to work that day.”
Twiggs didn’t hear from him again until Robinson texted him at 11 p.m: “Drop what you are doing, look under my keyboard.”
Twiggs reportedly found a note underneath Robinson’s computer keyboard that stated : “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”
Twiggs then texted Robinson, and they had a lengthy exchange.
He didn’t see Robinson until he came back to their shared apartment the next day, on Sept.
11.
Text messages between TWIGGS and ROBINSON.
Some messages were not filmed by news media, but were read aloud (punctuation unclear).
These are about ROBINSON going back to find the gun he left in the woods:
TWIGGS: "Are you okay still?"
ROBINSON: "Yes.
Checking spot again now.… pic.twitter.com/Y85cRqZjUx
“[He] didn’t go into detail.
… I just asked him in person if what he said was true the night before,” Twiggs said.
“He said it was.
Started crying a little bit and said he wishes he hadn’t done it.”
Twiggs said Robinson “kept going around [the apartment] and just doing stuff, I think, to keep himself busy or distracted.”
“Eventually,” he said he would “talk to his parents or turn himself over.”
Twiggs said he left Robinson pacing and went to his parents’ house.
“I didn’t really want to be at our apartment while any of that was happening, regardless of what went down,” Twiggs said.
McBride showed Twiggs FBI snapshots of video surveillance footage from Utah Valley University that depict a man in sunglasses, a baseball cap, a black shirt, and jeans going up a stairwell to the roof.
Twiggs indicated the images resemble Tyler Robinson, saying the images “definitely do look like him.”
Twiggs said Robinson asked him about a Dremel to start engraving bullets about a month before Sept. 10, the day he allegedly murdered Charlie Kirk.
“He had said he was planning to go hunting with his family, and he asked me … if we had a like a Dremel … to create messages on bullets,” Twiggs said.
Gun and etched bullets with messages found hidden in the woods outside the UVU campus.
"hey fascist, catch"
"if you read this, you are gay lmao" @FDRLST pic.twitter.com/D1nxhyiYeM
Other parts of the released interview only played the audio, specifically when McBride showed Twiggs messages from Robinson’s Dungeons & Dragons Discord server.
Both Twiggs and Robinson were avid gamers, and Twiggs said Robinson played Dungeons & Dragons every week.
Twiggs said Robinson talked about politics “more than me,” adding, “I didn’t really … keep up with politics very much.”
Until Sept.
10 Twiggs said he “personally had never heard him [Robinson] talk about Charlie Kirk before specifically.”
Libby Bandelin is a reporting and editing intern at The Federalist with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
A recent graduate from Dordt University, she earned her B.A. in communications with an emphasis in journalism and a minor in criminal justice.
In college, she served as chief editor for her student newspaper, and her writing won third place in the 2026 Cordell Prize.
She's also attended journalism intensives with WORLD newsgroup and Alliance Defending Freedom.
Visit on Twitter @LibbyBandelin
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