“This partner was extremely cooperative, had no idea that this was done and is currently working with the investigators,” added Cox. 22-year-old Tyler R. was suspected of shoting the ultra-right activist Kirk, a close ally by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
The reports on the relationship in US media caused outrage among ultra-right activists on Saturday. The conspiracy influencer Laura Loomer, also a close familiar Trump, asked whether “there was a trans-terrorist cell”, which Tyler R. “manipulated.” She further wrote: “It is time to call the trans movement as a terrorist movement.”
The 31-year-old Kirk had repeatedly spoken out against rights for members of the LGBTQ community and, above all, attacked trans people. So he once said: “The one of which I think it is so against our senses, so against the natural law and, I can say, a pulsating middle finger to God is the transgender thing that happens in America.”
Kirk was considered Trump’s mouthpiece for the youth. In interviews, as a podcaster and at discussion events, he radically spread right-handed theses, for example, for gun ownership, against non-white and abortion. When he was shot, he answered questions about transgender and arms from the audience at an event on a university site in the US state of Utah.
On Saturday, Governor Cox had told the “Wall Street Journal” to the alleged assassin that it was clear to the investigators that he was “indoctrinated with left -wing ideology”. Cox did not repeat this on Sunday, but said that such information had been communicated to the investigators about R. by “people around him, by his family members and friends”. Accordingly, R. is said to have said that he was “not a fan” by Kirk.
