MAGA World in Panic After Revelation About Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin’s Family

In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s tragic assassination, the political narrative that Republicans rushed to push has collapsed almost overnight.

Initially, MAGA influencers and even Donald Trump himself blamed Democrats and the “radical left.” Donald Trump Jr. went so far as to promote false claims that the shooter was transgender. But new reports reveal a very different reality.

According to an interview with The Daily Mail, Debbie Robinson, the grandmother of suspect Tyler Robinson, confirmed that his family is deeply Republican.

“My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump. Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat,” she explained, adding that Tyler himself was quiet and never discussed politics with her.

Further reporting from The Daily Beast shows that both of Robinson’s parents are registered Republicans with hunting licenses—very much a picture of a traditional conservative household.

So who was Tyler Robinson?

The 22-year-old from Utah was not a left-wing activist, immigrant, or Democrat. Evidence now suggests he may have aligned with the far-right extremist Nick Fuentes and his “groyper” movement, which is notorious for promoting white nationalism. Members of this group openly despised Charlie Kirk, believing he was not “America First” enough and had betrayed their ideology.

The bullets recovered at the scene appear to support this theory. Some had engravings referencing memes and slogans tied to the groyper subculture and even the video game Helldivers 2, which extremists have co-opted in bizarre ways.

This revelation leaves Republicans in a bind. Just yesterday, many were pointing fingers and warning of civil war. Now that the facts indicate the shooter came from within their own political base, the rush to quietly move on has begun.

But America cannot afford to ignore what this says about extremism and gun violence. The suspect was not transgender, not a Democrat, and not an immigrant. He was a young, white, homegrown extremist with access to firearms.

That raises the larger question: if so many of these tragedies stem from radicalization within right-wing spaces, isn’t it time to acknowledge that America’s gun violence problem is also a political problem?