ABC News correspondent Matt Gutman is under fire — and rightfully so — for having one of the more innately disturbing public responses to the news of Charlie Kirk’s murder.

The reporter called the text messages the alleged assassin sent to his transgender partner about killing Charlie Kirk “very touching.”

“It was very touching in a way that many of us didn’t expect,” Gutman said. “A very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who is transitioning, calling him ‘my love.’ And, ‘I want to protect you, my love.’”

“So, it was this duality of someone who the attorney said not only jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd, but was doing it in front of children, which is one of the aggravating circumstances of this case. And on the other hand, he was, you know, speaking so lovingly about his partner,” he added.

Gutman had been suspended before for falsely reporting on the Kobe Bryant death.

“He instinctively framed it like this,” executive producer of the “Steve Deace Show” says, shocked.

“That’s the thing. I mean, he’s riffing, guys,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace says.

“And understand, he is not your lefty neighbor who is getting information from his sources downstream lying to him. He is at the press conference. He is receiving the evidence, or at least the alleged evidence,” Deace explains. “So, it’s been handed to him.”

“This is innate. This is visceral. Out of the heart, the mouth speaks. And this is what he took away from this,” he says.

“Now, let’s be fair. It’s a tale as old as time. Boy meets boy. And they just exchange a litany of long-form text messages where they literally say things. ‘I will kill Charlie Kirk now’ — period. ‘I will go grab rifle now’ — period. ‘This is where I will be and when’ — period. ‘Will you help me?’ — period. ‘No, I will pull trigger myself,’” Deace mocks robotically. “Because people just routinely communicate like that.”

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The motion to censure Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and strip her of her committee assignments was thwarted by just four Republicans who voted with Democrats.

Republican Nancy Mace of South Carolina filed the censure motion after pointing to comments made by Omar and also those made in a video that she shared on social media comparing Charlie Kirk to Dr. Frankenstein.

‘A free society depends on tolerating ALL speech — even hateful speech — confident that the best way to sort good from evil is to put the two side by side and trust the people to know the difference.’

On Wednesday, the motion failed by just one vote, 214 to 213.

“Ilhan Omar has shown us exactly who she is: she defends political violence and refuses to condemn the loss of innocent lives when it doesn’t suit her agenda, even the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk,” Mace wrote on social media Monday.

“Its [sic] dangerous, disgraceful, and beneath the United States Congress,” she added. “She must be stripped of every committee assignment. No excuses.”

Omar denied that she had advocated for political violence against Republicans and said she had sympathy and compassion for his wife and children.

The four Republicans who voted against the measure were Reps. Cory Mills of Florida, Mike Flood of Nebraska, Jeff Hurd of Colorado, and Tom McClintock of California.

Democrats accused Mace of abusing the legislative process in order to fundraise off of the memory of Charlie Kirk.

“This is political theater. This is BS meant to bolster [Mace’s] gubernatorial bid,” said Democratic House Minority Whip Katherine Clark on Wednesday. “And frankly, she’s trying to monetize this.”

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McClintock released a statement on social media trying to explain his rationale for voting against the censure.

“Ilhan Omar’s comments regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk are vile and contemptible. They deserve the harshest criticism of every man and woman of good will. But this disgusting and hateful speech is still speech and is protected by our First Amendment,” he wrote.

“Censure is formal punishment by the House and we have already gone too far down this road. Omar’s comments were not made in the House and even if they were, they broke no House rules,” he explained.

“A free society depends on tolerating ALL speech — even hateful speech — confident that the best way to sort good from evil is to put the two side by side and trust the people to know the difference. Congress exists for this purpose. For this reason, I voted to table the censure resolution,” he continued.

Omar had also accused Republicans of hypocrisy on the issue of free speech.

“To those claiming they’re for free speech while punishing and silencing those for exercising that right: You’re not pro-free speech,” she posted.

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The ABC television network said the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show was to be taken off the air “indefinitely” after the host made controversial comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Kimmel had suggested that Tyler Robinson, the man arrested for allegedly shooting and killing Kirk, had actually been a supporter of President Donald Trump and the “Make America Great Again” movement.

‘We have made the difficult decision to pre-empt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue.’

“The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said during the opening monologue of the show on Monday.

“In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving,” he added.

However, most of the evidence that has been released from the case has supported the suspicion that Robinson was motivated to allegedly kill Kirk over the activist’s opposition to the LGBTQ agenda. Robinson had been in a romantic relationship with a trans-identifying male.

On Wednesday, Nexstar Media Group announced that the show would be pre-empted indefinitely from the ABC stations they own.

“Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets,” reads a statement from the company.

Soon afterward, ABC said they had pulled the show from all stations indefinitely.

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Nexstar broadcasting division president Andrew Alford called the comments “offensive and insensitive” in a statement explaining the company’s decision.

“Continuing to give Mr. Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to pre-empt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue,” he added.

Kimmel had also claimed in August that the president was behind the end of “The Late Show” that was hosted by Stephen Colbert, a frequent Trump critic.

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At this point, there’s no denying it: The left fetishizes murder and violence.

Last summer, radical leftists applauded Thomas Matthew Crooks after he shot President Donald Trump in the ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Their only complaint was that the deranged 20-year-old failed to deliver a fatal blow.

Then in December, they proved their sadism again by celebrating the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, heralding the alleged shooter, Luigi Mangione, as a hero. Since then, “Free Luigi” billboards have been hung, funds have been raised to pay for his defense attorney, and rallies continue to be held in his honor.

Then in August this year, lefties wailed when Lyle and Erik Menendez, two brothers who brutally murdered their parents in 1989, were denied parole at their first hearings, even though the parole board cited prison rule violations and doubts about the brothers’ accountability.

And now these same people are celebrating Tyler Robinson’s murder of Charlie Kirk, whose only crime was the free (and always civil) exchange of ideas in the public square.

Vice President JD Vance called the left out for its sick obsession with violence on September 15, while he was guest-hosting “The Charlie Kirk Show.”

“The data is clear: People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both-sides problem. If both sides have a problem, one side has a much bigger and malignant problem. And that is the truth we must be told,” he boldly proclaimed.

“Where’s the lie?” asks Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV host of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

She points to the left’s “media activist complex” that continues “turning violent offenders into victims,” its “TikTok stand culture for killers,” and its incessant “protecting [of] criminal aliens from deportations” as examples of their fetishization of violence and hatred for justice.

“You start to wonder, why do the loudest voices defend the indefensible? Why are there so many people cheering on Charlie Kirk being murdered? Why have they become so obsessed with all of these heinous acts?” she asks.

“There is a huge culture problem on the left when it comes to all of these killers. I mean, they are being fetishized by the left. If your so-called ‘justice’ makes the killer in the story the hero and the law the villain, that’s not justice. That is social decay, and no one should pretend otherwise anymore.”

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Minnesota assassination suspect Vance Luther Boelter is a Republican who voted for Donald J. Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024, he told Blaze News.

“I am a Trump supporter and voted for him in all 3 elections,” Boelter wrote to Blaze News from the Sherburne County Jail in Elk River, Minn., where he is being held awaiting federal trial. “I am a Republican.”

Boelter, 58, of Green Isle, Minn., is charged in state and federal courts with 14 counts for the brutal slayings of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park), her husband, Mark Hortman, and the family dog, Gilbert. He is also charged with the attempted murder of state Sen. John Hoffman (DFL-Champlin), his wife, Yvette Hoffman, and their adult daughter, Hope Hoffman.

‘I didn’t want the press to use that to try and make attacks on Trump.’

Ever since authorities announced they were seeking to arrest Boelter hours after the shootings in suburban Minneapolis, battles have erupted online claiming Boelter is either a leftist or a Trump-supporting conservative. Conflicting evidence had not fully settled the issue either way by the time Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

After Kirk was shot to death just as he spoke to a college audience about transgender mass shooters, the finger-pointing about Boelter heated up again. The brutal murders of the Hortmans and the shooting of the Hoffmans were held up as a conservative example to counter the suspicion that Kirk was killed by a leftist.

Some conservative influencers and celebrities on X continue to describe Boelter as a Democrat. Melissa Tate wrote that Hortman “was assassinated by a DEMOCRAT who appointed to Governor’s Board by Tim Walz.” Others have said it’s a lie to describe Boelter as right-wing or a Trump supporter.

Boelter said he worried his political affiliation would be used against President Trump by the president’s enemies.

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The public filed past the caskets of murdered Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, her husband, Mark Hortman, and an urn with the remains of their slain dog at the Minnesota Capitol, June 27, 2025. Photo by Joshua Lott/Washington Post/Getty Images

“I tried to keep that to myself because I didn’t want the press to use that to try and make attacks on Trump because of me trying to make citizen arrests that went horribly wrong,” Boelter told Blaze News.

In earlier interviews with Alpha News and the New York Post, Boelter said the June 14 shootings had nothing to do with President Trump or with Boelter’s pro-life worldview.

Boelter claims he did not plan to shoot lawmakers in the overnight hours on June 14. He said his plan was to make citizen’s arrests based on a two-year undercover investigation of the sudden deaths of 400 Minnesotans who took COVID-19 shots.

‘For conservatives it doesn’t even occur to us to shoot someone simply for disagreeing.’

Prosecutors have not offered a theory on Boelter’s motives, but said his stories about citizen’s arrests and his earlier letter claiming Gov. Tim Walz ordered him to commit murders are nothing more than excuses for his brutal crimes.

Federal authorities allege Boelter had a plan to kill at least four Democrat state representatives on June 14: Hortman, Hoffman, Rep. Kristin Bahner (DFL-Maple Grove), and Sen. Ann Rest (DFL-New Hope). When Boelter allegedly visited the Bahner residence, she was not at home. Boelter was allegedly parked a block from Sen. Rest’s home but was apparently scared off when a New Hope police officer pulled up next to his vehicle.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary F. Moriarty said Boelter fired at least nine times into the door of the Hoffman home after he was shoved from the entrance by the senator and his wife. Senator Hoffman was hit nine times and Yvette Hoffman suffered eight bullet wounds, Moriarty said.

The FBI and Minnesota police say they found notebooks in Boelter’s vehicle and in a room he rented in north Minneapolis that contained a hit list of more than 60 Democrat officials and business locations. The names of Hortman and Hoffman were found in the notebooks, the FBI said.

While some conservatives still get it wrong about Boelter in the Hortman killings, others say there is a larger point in the ongoing debate about how divisive politics can fuel lopsided violence.

‘To the extent that the right cancels you, it will be for objectively abhorrent, perverse, and sick things.’

Virginia commonwealth lawmaker Nick Freitas, a Green Beret veteran with 363,000 followers on X, put it this way:

“Perhaps the reason leftists and conservatives think so differently about guns, is because for conservatives it doesn’t even occur to us to shoot someone simply for disagreeing,” Freitas wrote on X on Tuesday. “The response to Charlie’s assassination revealed that it occurs to the left all the time.”

RELATED: Assassination suspect Vance Boelter tells STUNNING inside story about shooting

Flowers sit on the desk of murdered Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman at the Minnesota Capitol on June 17, 2025. Photo by Joshua Lott/Washington Post/Getty Images

The gruesome killing of Kirk has set off an explosion of vitriol and hatred from the left. Thousands of X accounts celebrated his assassination, with some calling for the murder of more conservatives. Conservative podcasters and journalists are pushing back, exposing the worst of those dancing on Kirk’s grave and rejecting any comparisons to the left-induced “cancel culture.”

“There is a fundamental difference between the cancel culture that the left engages in and the quote-unquote canceling that the right is doing in the wake of Charlie’s assassination and the left’s celebration of it,” said podcaster and filmmaker Matt Walsh, who has 3.8 million X followers.

“The difference is the left will cancel you for saying objectively true, good, and normal things,” Walsh said in a video Sept. 15. “To the extent that the right cancels you, it’ll be for saying objectively abhorrent, perverse, and sick things. And this distinction matters.”

Walsh said the left wants people fired for saying things like “men can’t have babies” and “women don’t have penises.” The attacks come for saying “the most basic and true things that it’s possible for a person to say.”

Walsh has called for the public shaming of those who celebrate Kirk’s murder or wish death on his wife and children. “We cannot have a civilized and decent society unless there are severe social consequences for people who publicly express sentiments like these,” he wrote. “These people are barbarians. Savages. And should be treated as such.”

A nurse at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta posted a shocking attack on Kirk’s family.

“F**k his kids. F**k his ancestors, especially the b***h who birthed him,” the nurse reportedly wrote on her @givethemkiki X account, which has since been deleted. After an uproar of complaints, the hospital fired the woman, stating, “This type of rhetoric is not acceptable for Children’s employees and violates our social media policy.”

“When you say ‘f**k his kids’ about a man who was just shot and killed on camera, you are not merely expressing an opinion,” Walsh wrote Sept. 14. “You are revealing that you are an animal, barely human, unfit for civilized society.”

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CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings took on the absurd liberal spin on the motivations of the Charlie Kirk assassination suspect during a hearing debate with the network’s panel.

More and more evidence is pointing to the conclusion that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson was motivated by his opposition to Kirk’s political opinions when he allegedly shot and killed him during an event at Utah Valley University.

‘Well, it doesn’t sound like a joke to me, because someone’s dead and about to be buried. So it doesn’t sound like a joke to me!’

Some of the CNN panelists still trying to spin some doubt into the debate were met with the sharp rational arguments from Jennings.

“I don’t believe he was motivated politically,” Montel Williams said of the suspect. “I think this was motivated emotionally.”

“Guys, guys, the evidence here is overwhelming. He said, ‘Charlie Kirk, I can’t stand this hate anymore; I’m going to take him out,'” Jennings explained. “The testimony from and the statements of his family, he had become more left-wing. He etched the statements that are made by the left about Republicans and conservatives and Charlie Kirk ‘fascists’ on the bullet casings.”

“He made a joke about it in his last text,” Williams replied.

“Well, it doesn’t sound like a joke to me, because someone’s dead and about to be buried. So it doesn’t sound like a joke to me,” Jennings fired back.

“So, I’m just telling you, there is an effort, there was an effort all weekend long on the left to try to make this guy sound like he was a conservative — that failed. That was passed around all over the weekend. That has now failed,” he continued.

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“The evidence has now come out. He was motivated by hate. He was motivated by left-wing radicalism. He got mixed up with some trans ideology in his life. We’ll learn more about that, I’m sure, when more evidence and testimony comes out,” he added.

“We are looking around the edges of this for something other than what’s staring us in the face — left-wing radicalism got this kid, he went up to a roof, and he murdered our friend, and that’s what happened,” Jennings said.

Video of the exchange was posted to Jennings’ social media, where it garnered millions of views.

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