Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1370 | Tyler Robinson Hearing: What You Missed & What’s Next 

Episode Date: July 13, 2026

Allie commemorates the life of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), highlighting his personability and courage during the Brett Kavanaugh hearing. Did Tyler Robinson really kill Charlie Kirk? Allie ...breaks down the evidence at his preliminary hearing while debunking various conspiracy theories working off of circumstantial or even false evidence. Finally, Allie answers a viewer question on a woman’s disagreement with her husband on secondary theological issues and how a Christian wife should respond. Do you have a question for Allie? Leave a voicemail at 844-755-5252. Share the Arrows 2026 is on October 10 in Dallas, Texas! Tickets are on sale now at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sharethearrows.com⁠⁠⁠ Share the Arrows is sponsored by: A'del Natural Cosmetics: AdelNaturalCosmetics.com Range Leather: RangeLeather.com/ALLIE We Heart Nutrition: WeHeartNutrition.com Buy Allie's book "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.toxicempathy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ – Time Codes 0:00 Introduction 6:55 Remembering Sen. Graham 17:38 Tyler Robinson’s Preliminary Hearing 48:47 Assassination Conspiracy Theories 58:54 Allie Gives Advice – Today's Sponsors: Holy Pals | Go to HolyPals.com and shop while it’s still in stock. Use code ALLIE26 for 10% off. Legacybox | Visit Legacybox.com/ALLIE to take advantage of Legacybox’s Spring Cleaning sale and preserve your family’s story. Range Leather — highest-quality leather, age-old techniques, and all backed up with a “forever guarantee." Go to ⁠⁠rangeleather.com/allie⁠⁠ to receive 15% off. Hillsdale College | Go right now to ⁠⁠hillsdale.edu/relatable⁠⁠ to enroll. There’s no cost, and it’s easy to get started. Seven Weeks Coffee | Experience the best coffee while supporting the pro-life movement with Seven Weeks Coffee; use code ALLIE at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.sevenweekscoffee.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get up to 25% off your first order, plus your free gift! Episodes You May Like: Ep 1279 | Charlie Kirk Trial Details, Bondi & Brown Attacks & Living to 100 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1279-charlie-kirk-trial-details-bondi-brown-attacks/id1359249098?i=1000741431170 Ep 1269 | How 'Furry' P*rn Leads to Political Violence https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1269-how-furry-p-rn-leads-to-political-violence/id1359249098?i=1000737470561 Charlie Kirk: My Friend https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/charlie-kirk-my-friend/id1359249098?i=1000726366944 --- ► Buy Allie's book, "You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love": https://alliebethstuckey.com/book ► Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes: https://apple.co/2UVssnP Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2FwkXxj ► Connect with Allie on Social Media: https://twitter.com/conservmillen https://www.instagram.com/alliebstuckey/ https://facebook.com/allieBlazeTV/ ► Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

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Starting point is 00:00:00 What really happened to Charlie Kirk on September 10th, 2025? The preliminary hearing that occurred last week gives us some insight, at least into what the prosecution thinks. Some people are not buying it. We will go through the evidence presented as well as the counterclaims on today's episode. Also, Senator Lindsay Graham from South Carolina has suddenly died. And we've got a short tribute to the courage that he showed, particularly in 2018, during the Kavanaugh hearing. We've got a short tribute to the courage that he showed, particularly in 2018, during the Kavanaugh hearing. We've got. but all of that as well as voicemails on today's episode of Relatable. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. We are back. After being gone for a week, you got to listen to some interviews that we had pre-recorded,
Starting point is 00:00:55 but we took a little break as a relatable team and my family as well. We've been kind of bopping around the country as a family. We have gotten to spend time with extended family and friends. and it's been really wonderful. We tried to escape the heat as long as we could. We had a wonderful and restful 4th of July, and I hope you guys did too. I've got some good news after we've been off for a little while, and I just wanted to double check this because after I've been gone for a while,
Starting point is 00:01:25 you typically have to check back in and see if it's still true. And it is that God's eternal plan of redemption is going off without a hitch. God is not surprised by anything. He's not taken aback. He's not thrown off. He's not wondering what the heck is going to happen. He's not looking down and saying, how are these details going to work together?
Starting point is 00:01:43 Romans 828 promises us that he is working all things together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose. That's the seemingly mundane things in our everyday life. That's the sad parts of our current circumstance. It's also the crazy chaotic things going on in the world. It's the things that you see on social media or on the news. And you're like, how in the world is anything redemptive or good going to come out of this, God's already working that out because God is not constrained by linear time and space the way
Starting point is 00:02:13 that we are. He is suspended in the eternal now. He is sovereign over all of it. And he already tells us how it's going to end. He wins. He wins. Psalm 37 is such a comfort to me. It starts out by saying don't be envious of wrongdoers. Don't worry about. This is Ali's paraphrasing those who do wrong. Those who seem like they're profiting off of doing evil. Don't worry about it. them because their end is coming one day. It's not going to go well for them ultimately. It might seem like it's going well for them now. That's what it is to live in a fallen world. It seems like those who are unfair and unjust are on the side of victory, but in the end, they will lose and God will destroy them. And we can trust in that. And we can trust that I think that we see some of that goodness in this
Starting point is 00:03:03 life that God gives us that gift of grace that very often we do see justice overcome injustice, but we know that ultimately one day in eternity, Jesus will end sin, in sorrow, in sickness, in all oppression and injustice, and deceit and slander, and Satan's power forever and ever. And that is where our hope and our joy comes from. And that is why we don't act like people who don't have hope. That is why we don't allow our mood to be dictated by the things we see on social media. or our joy to be stolen from us by circumstances, even though we have emotions, we are not ruled by them. We are ruled by the hope that we have in Christ, that his eternal plan of redemption is going
Starting point is 00:03:43 off without a hitch. And the only thing we are ever responsible to do in any given moment is to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. Do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God that might be sending an email, that might be resolving sibling conflict, that might be changing a diaper with joy. that might be washing the dishes well. Maybe it is some big public act of faith that God has been calling you to and you follow that conviction of the Holy Spirit. Or maybe it's something that is completely unsung and unseen, but is done in faithfulness to the God who made you. The beautiful thing about being a believer is that everything that we do, no matter how seemingly
Starting point is 00:04:23 small echoes in eternity and advances God's kingdom. That is the purpose of all of this. So I'm so thankful for that because as we talk about some of the things that we'll talk about today, the pretrial hearing for Charlie Kirk, and some of the just chaos and deceit and the sadness and the evil that's surrounding that, it's really easy to just get distraught and to ask ourselves, like, does the truth really matter? Is goodness really going to prevail? And we just have to trust that we are on the side of a God who's taking care of all of it. and somehow in everything, he brings himself glory and takes care of his people. And if you want to know what is really ever going on, it's that.
Starting point is 00:05:08 It's that God is in charge and he's working all things together for the good of those who love him. All right. So we'll get into a little bit of that today, actually into a lot of that today. We might continue to talk about that throughout the week. We definitely will on Friday, but we might continue some things on Wednesday, but we'll get into as much as we can of this pretrial hearing, some of the theories out there. and what the truth is based on the evidence that we have before we get into it.
Starting point is 00:05:31 Just want to remind you, women, if you want to be encouraged by the truth of God's word, if you want to be encouraged by God's sovereignty, if you want to know how to apply biblical truths to your life as a wife, as a mom, as a single woman, as a student, as an employee, in any stage of womanhood that you are in, then you've got to come to share the arrows. This is a no-fluff gospel-centered women's conference. It's happening October 10th, Dallas, Texas, y'all. We have all the no-fluff gospel-centered Bible teachers that will be speaking at this conference. We've got Rosaria Butterfield.
Starting point is 00:06:05 She is making her re-entrance onto the Share the Arrow's stage. We've got Elisa Childers and Natasha Crane. We've got Audrey Brogey and her daughter, Grace Anna Castleberry. We've got a related bro for the first time, Kosti Hen. And we've got Shane and Shane leading worship, y'all. I personally can't wait. like just as someone who is going to be standing in the audience and worshiping and gleaning this teaching along with you as well as speaking, like I just cannot wait to be with you all.
Starting point is 00:06:34 So go to share the arrows.com. Share the arrows this year is brought to by our friends at Adele Natural Cosmetics. Go to share the arrows.com. Get your tickets today. Bring your friends, bring your small group. Bring all the women in your life. You will not regret it. Anyone who has gone can tell you this is a very special day. that's share the arrows.com. All right, before we get into the pretrial hearing of Charlie Kirk, everything presented there, I do just want to mention that we lost a political giant over the weekend in the U.S. and his name was Lindsay Graham.
Starting point is 00:07:10 I was shocked by this when I woke up. I think it was Sunday morning and I looked at Instagram and I saw the Fox News post that said, that said that he had passed away. And I was just stunned just because it was so sudden. And he seemed like someone who was going to be a pillar of American political life forever. So a little bit about him. Senator for South Carolina, he died at the age of 71 on Sunday. It might have actually been Saturday evening that he actually passed.
Starting point is 00:07:43 But he represented South Carolina since 2003. So he represented the state, both as a congressman and as a senator, during that time. He died reportedly of an aortic tear due to cardiovascular disease, according to preliminary findings by the District of Columbia Medical Examiner. There's already all kinds of theories surrounding his death. He had just been to Ukraine. He was examining some weaponry there, but this does seem, as the reporting says, to be something that is somewhat common. I'm actually kind of familiar with this disease. There was a member of our family who thankfully was able to go to the doctor and realize that this was a defect that he had in his heart
Starting point is 00:08:27 and he was able to have surgery and he's okay. But this is very common for people with heart problems to have this particular issue. And it is very, it is very deadly. And maybe the long flight from Ukraine exacerbated these issues or stress or all the things that he had going on. And so pray for his family, especially his sister. He lost his son. He lost his. parents really within, I think about 15 months of each other when he was a young man and then he entered into the Air Force so he could support his sister, get a salary from the Air Force, take care of her. She was only 13 when their parents died and he took her into custody and took care of her.
Starting point is 00:09:11 And I'm sure she's hurting a lot right now. So pray for them. He served in the U.S. Air Force and the Air Force Reserve retiring as a colonel after a 33 year career. So we thank him for his service. There's a lot of ugliness online about Senator Graham. And look, I didn't really have a strong opinion about him. I'm sure there were a lot of things he advocated for that I really agreed with and really appreciated as a fellow Republican. I'm sure there were things that I disagreed with or I wish that he was stronger on. But man, on the right and the left, this guy had a lot of very intense enemies who have no moral compass whatsoever. I read. I
Starting point is 00:09:51 read an email this morning from the Wall Street Journal, Matthew Hennessy wrote this. He said, the best thing you can do when someone dies is say a prayer. If that isn't your thing, find something nice to say. If neither of those options work for you, there's a third option. Shut up. Politics creates winners and losers. Losing creates bitterness. And those who weren't raised right or are a little stupid. That bitterness will express itself in ugly ways. Social media practically demands it. You know, it's really not that difficult when someone dies to take a breather and not say anything. I saw people saying good riddance. I saw people spreading all different kinds of really nasty rumors about him. No decency, no compassion whatsoever.
Starting point is 00:10:36 There are all kinds of people in life who really adamantly disagree with us, even advocated for things that we really didn't like or think are evil. You can just take a beat. Like I remember when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. I mean, she advocated for horrific. demonic things like abortion through her Supreme Court arguments and decisions. And yet there was nothing in me that felt compelled to say something angrily about her after she died. There are just measures of decorum that we should take when someone passes whether we liked them or not. There are two things that I keep seeing about Senator Graham in the wake of his death. One is that he was really funny. I've heard that from Democrats on Democrats on the left and then also conservatives
Starting point is 00:11:24 on the right that he was genuinely hilarious. And the second thing that I thought was really cool and very rare in politics and in media in any form of public life. But I kept on seeing a similar story from people saying that, hey, I criticize Senator Graham. I really didn't like him. I said all this stuff. But when I met him, even though he knew the things I thought about him, he was kind to me. For example, Ben Dominic, he said this. I called Lindsey Graham a dangerously insane neocon. And the next time we saw each other, he hugged me and said,
Starting point is 00:11:57 everyone's got an opinion. I heard a very similar story from a lot of people on X yesterday. He was a big driver of Donald Trump's agenda. Since his death, Trump has said that he was like family to him and a really skilled politician. Hearing Trump on these various news shows talk about Lindsey Graham has been surprising to me. you just don't see Trump express a lot of emotion. Even after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, obviously, very horrifically died. Trump and Charlie Kirk were close.
Starting point is 00:12:26 Trump was very kind about it and everything, but there wasn't a lot of emotion, at least, that I saw publicly. And that's just kind of how he is or how he presents himself. When he talks about Lindsey Graham, he has talked about Lindsay Graham being basically like a part of his family, like I said, like being really close to him. And that is just surprised me hearing such emotion and feeling behind Trump's words. He also said that if he was ever having problems with the Democrat, then he would always call Lindsey Graham.
Starting point is 00:12:53 And Lindsey Graham could figure it out. He was really the kind of person that would reach across the aisle and try to hash things out. And that is what makes an effective politician. One moment, I think, for me, that illustrates Graham's tenacity was when he just completely eviscerated the Democrats during the Cavanaugh hearing. He pointed out that they didn't want to find the truth, that they were just trying to ruin a man's life. That was really the first political moment for me in which I got actively involved. Like, I was in D.C. during those hearings.
Starting point is 00:13:27 I give a speech at a rally because I thought it was so immoral and wrong what they were doing to then judge Kavanaugh. And I was so thankful that Senator Graham, he had the strength and he had the courage. he had the tenacity to call them out for exactly what he was doing. So no matter what you think about Senator Graham's foreign policy, what you think about any of the other policies that he advocated for, this took courage and I appreciate it. Sot one. When you see Sotomayor and Kagan, tell him that Lindsay said,
Starting point is 00:14:00 oh, because I voted for them. I would never do to them what you've done to this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics. and if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you've done to this guy. Are you a gang rapist? No. I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through.
Starting point is 00:14:30 Boy, y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham. That line right there, y'all want power. Boy, I hope you never get it. I mean, that is as good of a line as, any screenwriter could ever write. I mean, that was, that was so good and so powerful. And he goes on to say to his fellow Republicans, if you vote no on him, then you are legitimizing one of the most
Starting point is 00:15:00 corrupt, corrupt grabs for power that he has ever seen. And, you know, he had been in DC for a long time and he even went through, which you can watch this on X. You can probably watch it on YouTube as well, the entire scheme that occurred that was woven by people like Diane Feinstein leading up to the Kavanaugh hearings, it was just so good. So, so thankful for his courage and for him advocating for the things that he really believed in very effectively and very relentlessly for 20 plus years of his political career. All right, let's get into the Charlie Kirk preliminary hearing. Let me pause, tell you about our first sponsor. It's seven weeks coffee.
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Starting point is 00:17:05 the rest of my sponsors might be a little bit closer together. I see you guys commenting about that sometimes. Just as a reminder, my wonderful, beautiful sponsor, that I appreciate so much are the reason that you guys get to listen to this and watch this for free. And so we are so thankful for them. And plus, I really am passionate about connecting you to businesses, organizations, universities that align with our values. I am so particular about the sponsors that I have on this show. And I really want to add value to them and add value to you. All right. Let's talk about this Charlie Kirk preliminary hearing. every time I say something like that, I still am coming to terms with the fact that we are talking
Starting point is 00:17:48 about this. I so often I'll see a headline or I'll see like Charlie Kirk assassination or Charlie Kirk's widow. I'll see words like that. And I'm like, year ago me, like 20, 25 me, seeing something like that would not be able to wrap my head around what we are talking about right now. Sometimes it still just hits me that someone that hundreds of us in the movement were, friends with and who can say that we appreciated and that we benefited from their wisdom and from their leadership, that we lost someone on video being shot in the neck by someone who hates him. And now he has left behind this beautiful wife, beautiful children who are trying to pick up the pieces and lead this movement, deal with the online slams.
Starting point is 00:18:41 and insane conspiracy theories go through this pretrial hearing, try to present the prosecution, try to present the evidence as much as possible. Like the fact that all of this is happening is just insane. And if we feel anything that, like if we feel burdened, if we feel sad, we can amplify that times a million when it comes to the people closest to him, those who worked with him every day. Those who were his friends and then most of all, Erica and her kids. So, and his parents, of course. His parents also attended this preliminary hearing. So right off the top, every time you think about this, every time you're just hit with that feeling of shock that this actually happened, pray for Erica, pray for those kids, pray for his parents, pray for his sister,
Starting point is 00:19:28 pray for those who were closest to Charlie up until the day that he died and pray that God would give him the peace that passes all understanding and that justice would be done. The justice would be done because it matters to the God who created justice. So speaking of justice, let's go through this preliminary hearing. Let's talk about the evidence that was actually presented in some of the theories that are still floating around out there. So the preliminary hearing began in Provo, Utah last Monday to determine whether there is probable cause to try Tyler Robinson in the murder of Charlie Kirk. This is the dude that has been in jail accused of murdering Charlie Kirk. he faces seven criminal charges, the heaviest being aggravated murder.
Starting point is 00:20:13 We will have an attorney, possibly on Wednesday, but definitely another one on Friday, who will be breaking down some of this legal use for us. So if you've got questions in the next couple days after this comes out specifically for an attorney, please send them to me, and we will try to get those questions to them and get them answered on this show this week. After the week-long hearing, state prosecutors presented evidence that Robinson fired a single shot, killing Kirk at a turning point USA event on the Utah Valley University campus on September 10th, 2025. The hearing adjourned on Friday, which also marked exactly 10 months since Charlie's assassination. Again, I can't imagine just the emotional toll that that took on Erica specifically
Starting point is 00:20:53 that specific day. In the next few weeks, defense and prosecution will file legal briefs explaining their arguments. The court will return on September 1. So right around that year anniversary, I don't want to call it an anniversary, but the year to the day that Charlie was assassinated. Attorneys then will present their final arguments, and Judge Tony Graff will determine whether the case should go to trial. The pause is intended to give both sides time to prepare legal briefs. If probable cause is found in these pre-trial proceedings, then Robinson will enter a plea and a trial date will be set. So September 1st is not even the trial date. The trial date is sometime in the future.
Starting point is 00:21:42 It could be in 2027. We don't actually know when the actual trial is going to start. Prosecutors have stated they intend to seek the death penalty, which if he is proven guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt, then the death penalty is completely proportionate. It is completely just. They should seek the death penalty.
Starting point is 00:22:03 Now, the defense is going to do everything. they can to make sure that the death penalty is not on the table. That might be the only thing that they can really do after the evidence is presented is tried to get that punishment, conviction, or get the punishment, the sentencing down as much as possible. But it is just. It is actually the only just outcome for the assassin of Charlie Kirk or anyone else. And that's not my standard of justice.
Starting point is 00:22:33 That's God's standard of justice. tells us that in Genesis 9, not Old Testament law, pre-civilizational principle that we see in Genesis 9. So let's go through some of the most notable moments during the hearing. At the start of the hearing Monday, Robinson was reportedly laughing with his returning attorney. A news nation senior correspondent Brian Inton reported this. Seeing from inside the Tyler Robinson courtroom, Erica Kirk was crying before the hearing started. Donald Trump Jr. is in the front with his wife. Tyler Robinson was laughing with his attorney before the hearing started. Erica laughed during the description of the shooting.
Starting point is 00:23:10 He reportedly showed no reaction while hearing the audio of a surveillance video showing Charlie being shot. However, Judge Graff visibly flinched in the video. The video itself wasn't being played to the whole courtroom or the public out of respect for the Kirk family because it was so graphic. The court only heard the audio, but Graff actually. watched it on his monitor, and you can see him flinch, which just goes to show how awful it was. He knew what he was about to watch right there in court.
Starting point is 00:23:45 He was anticipating it. And still, because of how violent and jarring it was the judge, who is really tasked with being as impartial as possible, he could not even contain just his instinctive reaction there. On Friday, the court played a surveillance video that prosecutors said showed Robinson on the rooftop where he allegedly fired the bullet that hit Charlie. Jack Posobic was there. He saw that video from the courtroom. Here's what he said. Saw two. You see him shooting Charlie. You see him executing Charlie. It's the most damning thing I've seen all week for Tyler Robinson. With the zoom in, it just changes everything. It's like watching a completely different video.
Starting point is 00:24:31 The video that we see played on that monitor is so much more clear than the video that's on the live stream. When you see him walking around, it's not just a blurry guy or a pixelated guy. It's Tyler Robinson. It's just very obviously when he's there in the red shirt and the shorts and he comes back in all black, it's still, it's the same guy. It's just obviously him. There's no question about it. It's so crystal clear. And every single one of these videos needs to be released publicly in its raw form so that everyone can see.
Starting point is 00:25:01 see that. Yeah, we haven't been able to see that, that version of that video as the public. There was some back and forth, some people saying that it was super clear and super zoomed in. Other people who were apparently at the trial saying, no, it's not at all. But what it actually seems to land on what the truth seems to be is that, yes, this is much higher quality than anyone in the public has seen. And yes, it does seem, at least according to people like Jack, so big that this video clearly shows someone who looks exactly like Tyler Robinson, which of course is exactly why the prosecution presented it. Okay, let me take a quick pause before we continue on and talk to you about Hillsdale
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Starting point is 00:27:11 Start right now at Hillsdale.edu slash relatable. According to the Associated Press, the defense tried to cast doubt on the reliability of the evidence presented by the prosecution like this surveillance footage as well as other surveillance footage. Also presented, which we'll get into. to in just a second was DNA evidence that the prosecution put forth, and the defense tried to cast doubt on that as well. The defense's strategy in casting doubt on and trying to stop the presentation of the prosecution's case and evidence really lengthened the process, according to legal analysts. Josh Ritter is a legal analyst, and he argued this. Stop for. In a normal world, they would have been able to put in all of this evidence in about two days. I mean, this is not the type of
Starting point is 00:28:08 evidence that should take five days long to present. It's because of the defense and their obstructionism in this whole thing and the objections to evidence that we've already argued about weeks ago that is prolonging all of this. This honestly, in a normal courtroom that we've been in many times before, you could have handled all of this evidence, including what we've seen today in a day or two. Okay, so that is clearly the defense's mechanism right now. This is their strategy. It's not to say, hey, I don't think that this guy did it. It seems to me, obviously, we'll see fully in the trial what they try to do.
Starting point is 00:28:46 And some of their pretrial arguments will learn a little bit more about what their strategy is going to be. But they're simply trying to say, we don't want you to present this. And we're not really sure if this should be presented. Maybe this should be redacted. maybe we can cast doubt on this, which I think is very telling, especially for those who have presented all different kinds of theories of who really killed Charlie Kirk. So far, we haven't seen the defense give credence to any of the online theories that we have about Tyler Robinson,
Starting point is 00:29:16 not really being on campus and not really being the guy. We'll get into more of that in a second. First, let's look at the evidence that has been presented by the prosecution thus far. First, we've got the surveillance footage. So the prosecution should, showed surveillance footage that allegedly put Tyler Robinson, who was not a UVU student on campus four times between September 10th and September 11th, 2025. Charlie was murdered on September 10th as a reminder. According to former Utah State Bureau of Investigation Agent David Hull, Robinson first arrived on campus about 8.30 a.m. parking his gray Dodge Challenger in the UVU parking garage. The suspect was dressed in a maroon shirt, gray or
Starting point is 00:30:00 all of shorts and converse sneakers. He then interacted with Turning Point USA members before leaving campus in the vehicle about 9.25 a.m. that is on September 10th. At about 10 a.m., the suspect was seen eating a meal at the on-campus chick valet. He was wearing the same outfit with a blue backpack. He then went to a wooded area near campus reportedly and then returned to campus without the backpack. He walked off campus about 11 a.m. returning at about 12.15, wearing different clothes, but the same shoes. This is the prosecution's case from what they presented with the surveillance footage. On his return, he was walking with a noticeable limp. Prosecutors alleged he was concealing the rifle in his pant leg. Footage allegedly shows him heading toward the low sea building, climbing over,
Starting point is 00:30:47 railing onto the rooftop. Okay. And so we can see the video, if you're watching this, of this guy in the different outfit now, walking with a limp. The shot was fired. The shot was fired. at 12.23 p.m. And some of the footage that was shown in court, people like Jack Bosobik say that that did actually show that moment of the shooting. The suspect allegedly left the rifle wrapped in a towel in wooded areas near campus after the shooting and returned at about 1230 a.m. On September 11th, in an attempt to retrieve it during the manhunt,
Starting point is 00:31:26 Hull testified that Robinson was driving a gray Dodge challenge. and a campus police officer who briefly spoke with him before he left campus, took down his license plate number, which the officer used to identify the owners of the vehicle as Robinson and his mother, Amber Robinson. And then also we have the fact that Tyler Robinson did turn himself in. There's a still image from publicly released surveillance footage aired on the news in September 2025.
Starting point is 00:31:56 And that is what prompted Robinson's mother to recognize him. She and her husband then confronted their son and convinced him to turn himself in. And we just need to say shout out to Mr. and Mrs. Robinson for having the character and the courage to do that. A lot of people would put the protection of their child over justice and over what is objectively right and wrong. And that took a lot. That took a lot for them to convince their child to turn himself in after committing
Starting point is 00:32:24 allegedly such an egregious act. court also showed footage of Robinson turning himself in. This was the first public viewing of that surrender video. He surrendered at the Washington County Sheriff's Office and was subsequently booked into the Utah County Jail and Provo. Special Agent Brian Davis confirms and describes the suspect turning himself in, soft five. The reason you went down there was you had been told that an individual wanted to turn themselves in. That's correct. Did you observe that individual?
Starting point is 00:32:55 I did. Did you speak with this individual that we've been talking about? Yes, I did. Did you get his name? Yes, we obtained his name and date of birth. What was his name? Tyler Robinson. All right.
Starting point is 00:33:11 Then there was also the DNA evidence. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, ATF, the DNA Section Chief, Caitlin Oliver, the DNA profile, on the DNA profile on the DNA. the rifle was one trillion times more likely to have originated from Tyler Robinson than from anyone else. And that's just how it works. If you think that's weird wording to say like one trillion or times more likely, that's just what they do. That is true in all of these cases. What are the chances that this is the DNA that corresponds with this person? That's the language that's used. So she says one trillion times more likely to be Tyler Robinson's DNA. So it is Tyler Robinson's
Starting point is 00:33:55 DNA. DNA from Robinson and his lover, Lance Twiggs, who was on the screwdriver found on the low sea rooftop where the shooter allegedly took the shot and on the rifle and towel found in bushes near the UVU campus. The towel was wrapped around the weapon to conceal it and the screwdriver would have been needed to disassemble and reassemble it. So DNA, Lance Twiggs's DNA on these items or at least the towel as well. And Amanda Backer, an FBI forensic DNA analyst, slash examiner explains this, sought seven. You testified about exhibit seven and eight that they both had mixtures. When I calculate the statistic, Twigs' DNA profile aligned with the 5% contributor and Mr. Robinson's
Starting point is 00:34:42 DNA profile aligned better with the 95% contributor. Okay. Same question with regard to eight. I think you said the ratio was 11% from the minor and 89% from the major. is that twigs being the 11% and Robinson being the 89%? Yes, twigs better aligned with that 11% contributor and Mr. Robinson better aligned with that 79% contributor. All right, so that's the DNA evidence that was presented by the prosecution. We also have the discord messages that have been discussed for a very long time, long before this preliminary hearing. We'll get to that in just a
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Starting point is 00:36:39 I'm sorry for all of this. He said in a message from his account sent two hours before he was taken into custody. The New York Times is Robert Draper reported from the courtroom about the content of these discord messages. He says, Robinson's online friends were confused because you're saying it was you. Robinson replied, it was. It was. Another protested. No, it wasn't Alameo. Robinson then wrote, look at the photos from the surveillance footage. It was me. And then we also have Lance Twiggs's testimony. Now, you'll remember that this is the guy who was Robinson's lover, his roommate, apparently some free trans-identifying guy. Now, if you watch his video testimony that was presented in the pretrial, he's very much looks like a man in a suit. I'm sure that is strategic and some ways, or maybe he snapped out of this delusion after everything went down. Not sure. But a recorded
Starting point is 00:37:31 video with Lance Twiggs from April 2026 was played in court during the hearing. A video testimony would not be allowed in the actual trial, but in this preliminary hearing, that is acceptable, normal. The defense strongly objected, however, to showing the video and the accompanying text messages, arguing that it was just hearsay, could taint the jury pool. This led to a lengthy debate and delays on Wednesday and ended with the judge ordering some redaction. So the redacted video was ultimately played on Thursday. In the video, Twigs testified that surveillance footage did actually look like Tyler Robinson, his former lover, Sot 8. Do you recognize the person in these images? I wouldn't say with 100% certainty just because of camera quality, but that looks like him in
Starting point is 00:38:19 terms of the shoes he's wearing the sunglasses. I don't think I'd specifically seen him wearing that hat. but he was usually wearing a hat and then jeans. So it definitely, especially the bottom, the last two, definitely do look like him. Yeah, that's interesting because it's actually the last two pictures that internet sleuths have been zooming in on and saying that's totally not Tyler Robinson. And yet his lover is looking at those two pictures and saying those are the ones that definitely look like him. Twigs also testified that Robinson left their St. George apartment at about
Starting point is 00:38:55 4 a.m. on the day of the shooting. St. George is about 260 miles away from the UVU campus. That's about a three and a half hour drive that matches up with the timeline of the surveillance footage that the prosecution put forth. Twigs also described Robinson acting erratically the day after the shooting, crying and saying he wished he hadn't done it at Sot 9. Did he talk about what he had done? Didn't go into detail. He just, I just asked him in person if what he said was true the night before. and he said it was. I started crying a little bit
Starting point is 00:39:28 and said he wishes he hadn't done it. And then kept going around and just doing stuff, I think, to keep himself busy or distracted or something. Do you talk about what he was going to do next? So as I said, some of that was redacted by order of the judge, but that was Twiggs' testimony about how he was acting.
Starting point is 00:39:56 Twiggs said Robinson had asked for a Dremel tool and was engraving bullets for a family hunting trip, quote unquote, roughly a month before Kirk's murder, photos of the bullets. We remember this being reported after Charlie was assassinated. One says fascist catch. And then there are some others that are like really kind of meme language that you see on Reddit and discord, some gay stuff. literally, and there's some others. We can't see everything. One actually says gay. One bullet reads, Oh, Bella Chow. That's an Antifa slogan. Okay, so this guy was radical. He was a far left radical, at least according to these engravings on here. The prosecution showed images from Twigs' phone with his correspondence with the suspect on the day after the shooting. The suspect Tyler Robinson says in these
Starting point is 00:40:56 texts, I am still okay, my love, but I'm stuck in Orum for a little while longer yet. Shouldn't be long until I can come home. To be honest, I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you. And let me just pause right there before I keep reading. I've seen a lot of people on my own social media say, this is not how they talk. This is obviously a Fed. This guy is a Patsy. This is not how young people talk. Well, first of all, if this is not how he really talks, and this was a Fed that was sending these text messages, and it wasn't really Tyler Robinson, he would have done a better, he wouldn't have spoken like this. Like, he would have done a better job of trying to sound like some Gen Z guy.
Starting point is 00:41:36 This guy, what I can tell you, I don't even have to say allegedly, he's weird. He's a great A weirdo, okay? These people, a lot of these nerds that are on Reddit and are on Discord are weird. They talk weird. When people are saying, oh, he talks so foreign. He talked, he said the word vehicle. That's not right. No young person says vehicle. Okay, this guy was very dorky and strange. Nothing wrong with being nerdy and dorky by the way. I'm just saying that it could change how you talk. You might not talk like you think of a typical like Gen Z casual person on a college campus would speak. Okay. I think he probably had a very strange fantasy life that he was involved in. And I think that he was probably a strange.
Starting point is 00:42:23 awkward kid who used awkward wording. There are actually other vehicles or other pieces of footage from his past where he is saying the word vehicle for car. So this was just how he spoke. Lance Twiggs in response in the text. You weren't the one who did it, right? And then Robinson, I am, I'm sorry, Lance Twigs. I thought they caught the person. And then Robinson says, no, they grabbed some crazy old dude that interrogated someone in similar clothing. But most of that side of town got locked down. It's quiet almost enough to get out, but there's one vehicle lingering. Okay, it's quiet, comma, almost enough to get out, but there's one vehicle lingering. And then Twigs also said he found a handwritten confession note left by Robinson and took a photograph of
Starting point is 00:43:13 it. He testified that he later burned the note because he was afraid during the hearing prosecutor showed both the photograph of the intact note and a photograph of its burned. Remainting. and here's SOT 10. I assume you read it. Yeah. And then what did you do with it after you read it? I believe I just put it back down on the desk after I took a picture of it. Okay.
Starting point is 00:43:37 And again, the time you read it was probably around 11 o'clock or so on the 10th. Yes. The night of September 10th. Mm-hmm. All right. And did you ever see that again after you placed it back on his desk? No, I don't think I did. and that was a desk in his bedroom.
Starting point is 00:43:56 Yes, and that's a separate bedroom than your bedroom. Yeah. Okay, so some confusion there. He set it back down. He burned it later, but the note says this, and we have a full screen of it. Luna, if you are reading this, so Luna apparently is what Tyler Robinson
Starting point is 00:44:11 called his lover, Lance Twigs nickname. If you are reading this per my text, then I am so sorry I left the house this morning on a mission and said in auto text, I am likely dead or facing a lengthy prison sentence. I had the opportunity to take out Charlie, Kirk and I took it. I don't know if I will have succeeded, but I had hoped to make it home to you. I mean, obviously, this looks like a child's handwriting. There's a lot that is apparently going on
Starting point is 00:44:33 maturity-wise and mentally there. Not that every evil person is mentally ill. I think that's an excuse, but I think there's some instability here clearly. It actually, this note wasn't supposed to be broadcast or shown publicly. Judge Graff actually ordered it to be redacted. It was accidentally flashed up on the screen, but it had already been in circulation for a while. on social media. So that is the bulk. I, in my view, that is the bulk of the evidence that was presented by the prosecution. That's not to say that the defense won't have their own well-reasoned case. If they are good at their jobs, they will. We will see the totality of everything presented and the witnesses brought forth when the trial actually occurs. I think we'll learn a lot over the
Starting point is 00:45:16 next couple of months, to me, from my personal opinion, it does seem beyond a shadow of the doubt that Tyler Robinson did it, that he was motivated by his animus toward Charlie Kirk because of Charlie Kirk's views and that he decided to take this opportunity to, in his mind and maybe in the minds of other people, to become a hero. That's what it seems to me. It seems pretty irrefutable at this point unless you are to believe that the prosecution and the Orham police and UVU and Israel and Egypt and Erica Kirk and and the federal government and all of the intelligence agencies are somehow working together to cover this up and that Tyler Robinson is just the fall guy. And I will just say like you're going to have to prove that.
Starting point is 00:46:12 You're going to have to prove it. You can't just say it and you can't just say, well, I think that this one thing is weird or I haven't heard a reporting of this. And so that must not be true or they must not be investigating it. We don't know everything that has been investigated. We don't know everything that the prosecution is going to bring forth. We don't know everything that the defense is going to bring forth. One thing I will say is that the defense cares a lot more about defending their client than internet sleuths do. They care a lot more about. winning this case, they care a lot more about presenting alternative theories. And so if there
Starting point is 00:46:49 were any truth to any of the theories out there about other people actually being the ones who were responsible for the assassination of Charlie Kirk, they would be bringing that forth in court. And maybe they will when it comes to the trial. I guess we'll have to see, but so far they have it. So far the defense has not brought forth any of the theories that we see circulating about Israel or other entities actually being responsible for the murder of Charlie. All right. We've got a little bit more on this. We're going to talk about some of the specific counterclaims by those who say, no, this isn't real. Tyler Robinson wasn't the guy who did it in just a second. Let me pause. Let me tell you about our next sponsor. It is Holy Pals. This is a brand that helps you
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Starting point is 00:48:42 Okay, so here's one claim that I've been seeing circulating. The suspects limp shifts from one leg to the other in the surveillance video that we showed that was allegedly Tyler Robinson putting his rifle in his pant leg to conceal it and walking down the stairwells or walking up the stairwell on UVU's campus. Some people are saying that the limp shifts in one shot from one leg to the other. So this is what I would say to this. The purpose of faking a limp would be to allegedly hide the weapon. On a flight of stairs, he would have to favor the specific leg that could bend less on flat ground where he could more easily walk without bending the other leg. He might switch which leg he was bending in order to appear to be limping. It's also been shown that you are actually able to bend your leg even if you had this kind of rifle in your pant leg. So it is possible that he switched legs. he tried to change things up, he forgot which leg he was trying to bend. The limp is not necessarily because the rifle was in that pant leg.
Starting point is 00:49:52 The limp was probably to hide the weapon altogether. And so he was limping around and he could have forgotten and he could have, because he was lying, he could have switched legs. And that alone, even if that is a question of like, why would he switch legs? That does not discount all of the evidence. that has been put forth and even the testimony of people like Lance Twigs about the veracity of the identity of the person in this surveillance video. It's also just important to note that the defense team when watching the surveillance
Starting point is 00:50:27 footage, they had the opportunity to say, hey, look at that. That's a different, that's a changing limp or that's a bit like that obviously isn't him because then they would be saying what this is like a fake person limping and forget, like that would be a whole different theory that they would be pushing. into and they didn't do that. They didn't say, hey, look at that changing limp or look at that bit leg. And if that, if they thought that that would help their client, then they would have presented that and they didn't. Another claim is that the bullet did not match the rifle. The Daily Mail ran a story on March 30th with the headline. The bullet used to kill Charlie
Starting point is 00:51:04 Kirk did not match the rifle allegedly used by the suspect new court filing claims. However, the report was actually inconclusive, and it is incorrect to say that the bullet did not match the rifle. It is very common when the fragments are reportedly too small or too deformed after a shooting to allow for a clear answer. So the report will say inconclusive. This does not mean that they didn't match the rifle. According to a 2002 study, examiners found inconclusive results in about 20% of cases like this. according to Christopher Ballard, a spokesperson for the Utah County Attorney's Office and part of the prosecution team, an inconclusive result from bullet fragment analysis does not mean that the rifle did not fire the bullet.
Starting point is 00:51:52 Another claim is that it's not possible that a 30-0.6 round would not have produced an exit wound because we've heard from the beginning, there was no exit wound in the body of Charlie Kirk that his neck actually stopped the bullet from the beginning. there have been people saying that's not possible. That just makes this all kind of a conspiracy. For example, one person said on X, a 30-a-6 goes through three cast-iron pans, but somehow produces no exit wound in Charlie Kirk's neck. Many online claims assume that every 30-0-6 always exits, which is incorrect. Court evidence and forensic testimony identified the ammunition as a soft point. So that's a big game hunting bullet. These are intentionally, designed to expand quickly on impact, dump energy into the target, and then often stop inside. This is actually why they're used for big game hunting because you don't want a bullet that is going to destroy the knack or destroy the meat off of an animal that kind of takes the point
Starting point is 00:52:54 out of actually killing the animal, especially if you're using it to eat. That's the lack of explosive nature of these kind of soft point bullets is exactly why they are so commonly used and why they typically don't have an exit point, whether it's a deer's neck or whether it is a person's neck. A related claim to there being no exit wound, Charlie wasn't killed by a gunshot, but by an explosive in his mic. And this claim seems to be closely related to Israel did it for some reason. On Thursday, the bullet fragments found inside Charlie's body were shown in court contradicting the theory that an exploding Mike killed him. And so you've got these fragments right there that are shown in court.
Starting point is 00:53:45 Also, we don't have any evidence of his mic exploding. People who have said, oh, Charlie didn't typically use this mic. So again, that's another part of the conspiracy here that the person who put the mic on Charlie was also in on his death. And so this idea that Charlie was wearing a different kind of lavalier mic, that's the kind of mic that you would place on your shirt this time and that that had some kind of explosive mechanism in it. But that's not true.
Starting point is 00:54:14 If you look back at the footage of Charlie and previous campus stops, he was wearing the exact same kind of mic, again, we've got no evidence of that whatsoever. The video, which I have unfortunately seen that so many of you have seen of Charlie being shot, you can see his neck go that way and fall and he falls and he slouches down. You would also have to assume that every single person who witnessed him being shot, every single person who was with him in the car trying to save his life, that they were also all lying about it, that all of the witnesses there who claimed that they saw him get shot and saw him fall in a way that corresponds with being shot
Starting point is 00:54:56 in the neck that they are all lying too. So I just don't see any substantiation for the idea that he wasn't shot at all and that his microphone exploded. There are lots of other claims. We don't have time to get into them today. But if you have a claim that you're like, I really want you to address this. I want you to talk about this. You can send it to me. You can comment.
Starting point is 00:55:18 You can send a message. Or if there's something that I said that you want me to clarify or dig more into, then we'll try to do that on Wednesday. I do think it's important to address those specific claims. The truth is I just don't see any evidence or substantiation for the other theories surrounding this. I just don't. I see a lot of conjecture. I see a lot of guessing.
Starting point is 00:55:38 I see a lot of, well, isn't this weird? I see a lot of, well, I'm just asking questions. But at the same time, I'm going to implicitly accuse this person, a friend of Charlie, a wife of Charlie, a confidant of Charlie of being in on a grand conspiracy to murder him. But that's slander without evidence. And so I just don't see any veracity to those kinds of claims. It seems to me like the prosecution has done a good job that the defense so far hasn't really done a good job of contesting the main thrust of the evidence against Tyler Robinson.
Starting point is 00:56:11 And so I think more truth is going to come out as the months go on. I think we're going to see a stronger and stronger case made against Tyler Robinson that a lot of these theories are going to be outright debunked altogether. but if someone is wedded to a theory and they're wedded to a lie for whatever motivation, well, then of course, everything can be claimed to be fake, everything can be AI, everything can just be added to the large pile of conspiracy. But I think most people get fatigued by that. It becomes less and less compelling as time goes on.
Starting point is 00:56:45 No matter what you think, pray for Erica, pray for the family, pray for everyone who is involved in this, pray for Tyler Robinson's parents as well. and for truth to prevail and for justice to overcome in this situation. And then also for those who have been duped by the lies that have kind of sucked into this internet black hole. I know that some of you have people in your life and they believe that they're on the side of truth, but you can just see that it's stolen, the joy and the contentment and really the moral compass from their lives.
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Starting point is 00:59:05 communion and baptism. He believes in Pato Baptism, and I believe in believers' baptism. My question is, I'm trying to be a loving and submissive wife, but I'm unsure if I should be submitting to him in this, or if I should submit to what I know to be true according to God's word. Thank you for all you do. Oh, I think that this is such a great question and can be really difficult. So I think one important thing is that you're not argumentative and nagging about this.
Starting point is 00:59:36 Obviously, it is really important. These doctrinal issues matter. I don't want to minimize that. But at the same time, since they are not salvific, at least from your perspective, it sounds like, because you called them these secondary doctrinal issues, then I would say that there is a time and a place, a proper context in which these can be discussed in a non-emotional, respectful, biblical, and open way without it being a divide that starts to characterize your marriage.
Starting point is 01:00:12 I would say that this is something that you should both be open to, that if he has a book or an article or a podcast that he wants you to read or to listen to or a sermon that he wants you to watch, then you should be open to doing that. At the same time, because you are first and foremost a Christian, you should have your Bible open. You should be like the Beretans. You should be testing these things to see whether or not they're true. And in an open and respectful way, I think that you can go to your husband and you can say, look, I hear you. And hear the points that I think are really compelling that I've never thought about before, about you said Pato baptism. For those who don't know, that's infant baptism. And, um, and, uh,
Starting point is 01:00:54 And here's what I think is compelling. Here's what I'm still getting hung up on. Because the Bible says this, every single instance in scripture, is the baptism of someone who had already believed or the household of people who had believed. I don't see any evidence or any example of infant baptism in scripture. So where are we getting this? And so I think that you can do that in a very, like, respectful and loving way. and I do think that because this is not salvific, if he says, look, I think that we need to start
Starting point is 01:01:29 going to a Presbyterian church, then I do think you as his wife have to say yes and okay to that. Now, that would be different if he was like, I think that we should leave the faith altogether. We should start doing something that is clearly against the gospel and clearly unbiblical. Then that would be a different story and a different voicemail to answer. And I would have a different answer for you. But in this case, when it comes to these issues and when it comes to the direction that he's leading, I think you can submit respectfully while also standing firm on God's word and truly praying about it yourself. And if it's not something that you can meet eye to eye on and it just seems to cause division and
Starting point is 01:02:14 argumentation within your marriage, then I think that we rely on that passage that says like there are many wives who have won over their husbands without a word because of their honorable and respectful conduct. It might just be something that you no longer are discussing as often. I think like every disagreement, there is a time and a place in a way to do it that should be edifying and doesn't tear down. But you are right to feel tension about this. We uphold God's word is the only inerrant and fallible source of authority. We also know that wives are called to submit to our husbands, and that marriage is a reflection of Christ in the church.
Starting point is 01:02:55 It's a representation of Christ's leadership of the church, and that that mirroring here on earth really does matter and how we conduct ourselves within marriage matters. And so there is attention there, and I think that there is a way to navigate it in a way that is godly and God glorifying. Let me know what you think about that. and any of you, if you have good, godly, biblical insight there, feel free to leave a comment or send a message. All right, thank you guys so much. That's all we've got time for today. We will be back here on
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