A Rush to Judgment in Charlie Kirk's Murder
How impossible timelines and missing evidence didn't stop a death penalty case—or the president's misguided assault on his political opponents.
On September 10, 2025, at 12:23 PM, Tyler Robinson allegedly fired a fatal shot from a rooftop at Utah Valley University, killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk from 200 yards away. Within minutes, Robinson was allegedly texting his transgender boyfriend about police activities in remarkable detail. Federal investigators found zero connections to left-wing organizations. Yet the entire prosecution—seeking the death penalty—rests on text messages that describe events before they happened, provided by a single cooperating witness.
The Timeline That Cannot Work
The official charging documents tell a simple story: Robinson shot Kirk at 12:23 PM in Orem, Utah, then fled while exchanging text messages with his boyfriend Lance Twiggs. But here's what prosecutors conspicuously omit from their filing—any timestamps whatsoever for these crucial text messages.
This isn't a minor oversight. In a capital murder case where timing determines everything, prosecutors have created a temporal black hole around their most important evidence. The messages themselves, however, reveal why timestamps might prove inconvenient.
Robinson's texts demonstrate knowledge of specific police activities with impossible precision. He wrote: "No, they grabbed some crazy old dude, then interrogated someone in similar clothing." Court documents confirm this refers to George Zinn, a 71-year-old man who falsely confessed to the shooting. But when did Zinn's arrest occur? Official alerts show a person "in custody" around 12:50 PM—yet Robinson supposedly described this while fleeing the scene moments after 12:23 PM.
Even more troubling, Robinson texted: "The feds released a photo of the rifle, and it is very unique." But FBI communications show no rifle photos were released in the immediate aftermath. When photos did emerge hours later through various channels, how did Robinson reference them in messages allegedly sent while escaping?
The Geographic Impossibility
The physical timeline presents another contradiction prosecutors haven't addressed. Robinson lived in St. George, Utah—266 miles from the shooting location in Orem. This drive requires a minimum of 3 hours and 42 minutes under ideal conditions.
Yet Robinson's messages claim contradictory locations. He writes he's "stuck in Orem for a little while longer" and trying to "grab my rifle still." Later he describes specific police positions: "There is a squad car parked right by it. I think they already swept that spot."
These observations require either physical presence or real-time surveillance. If Robinson was observing police in Orem as his messages suggest, he wasn't fleeing. If he was racing home to St. George, he couldn't have seen squad car positions or sweep patterns. If the messages weren't sent until he arrived home hours later, how did he possess tactical knowledge of ongoing operations 266 miles away?
Paid subscribers can access a deeper dive that reveals federal investigators found zero leftist connections to the shooter, and how a single cooperating witness provided every piece of ideological evidence, and why the Trump administration's sweeping crackdown on "extremism" rests entirely on text messages that describe events before they happened.
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