Day Five of Tyler Robinson's Preliminary Hearing

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Yesterday was a big day for the Tyler Robinson case. We got the redacted video of Lance Twiggs in which Twiggs revealed yet another confession by Tyler Robinson. So, if you haven't been following this closely, that makes five known confessions so far.

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  • He left a letter for Twiggs saying he planned to "take out" Charlie Kirk.
  • He texted Twiggs later at night admitting he'd done it.
  • The next day he was in the apartment with Twiggs and became tearful when he said he regretted shooting Kirk.
  • He told his parents he was involved in the murder before agreeing to turn himself in.
  • He sent a message to his Discord group admitting he was the shooter.

    • There were four other significant moments yesterday in the courtroom which are worth mentioning. First, late in the day, the defense brought on an ATF ballistics expert who testified about the bullet that killed Charlie Kirk. That included showing images of the bullet which had broken into at least five fragments.

    The examiner agreed that this deformed bullet pulled from Kirk's body was consistent with a 30-06 rifle. However, as discussed previously the examiner could not match the bullet to this specific rifle and said the comparison was inconclusive. That meant she wasn't ruling the rifle in or out. In reviewing specific comparisons of the bullet that killed Kirk to several test shots she did note there were areas that seemed like a match but the evidence wasn't overwhelming, partly because of damage to the bullet. Watch this to the end.

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    Second, yesterday afternoon we got new images of the rifle when it was first discovered at the scene.

    Ian Carroll and others have claimed for months that the image published by the NY Post was not the actual rifle but a stock image. That was false. These new images show the same rifle in the same cardboard box where it was placed.

    Third, we got images of the text messages Robinson sent to Twiggs confessing.

    The contents amount to one of the five confessions:

    “you werent the one who did it right????” Mr. Twiggs asked Mr. Robinson.

    “I am, I’m sorry,” Mr. Robinson replied.

    Finally, the other big moment yesterday was an accident. It happened when the prosecution was admitting evidence and asked that the photo Lance Twiggs took of the letter hidden under the keyboard by Robinson be put on the screen. This was done but the judge had not approved it being shown to the cameras. But because the camera was already aimed at a screen, we got about 2 seconds showing the letter before the camera panned away and the image was taken down. That was all it took for the image to be circulated online. 

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    The contents of this letter were reported months ago but because this image of the letter was not approved to be shown to the media, the defense is making this out to be a major blunder which has damaged Robinson's chances of getting a fair trial. So the first hour of Day Five (today) was spent with the lawyers talking about this with the judge and the judge wanting to make some decision about appropriate sanctions before moving forward.

    The defense wanted the whole hearing closed to cameras but the judge rejected that request. Instead, he granted an alternate request that the cameras would not be allowed to capture any exhibits for the rest of today. So things can still be shown in court but the cameras are not allowed to show them. I think we only have one defense witness left so I'm not sure this is helping the defense.

    I may write about the final witness later but for now I'm just going to mention one other thing that happened outside the courtroom yesterday. Candace Owens got ratioed by DataRepublican, which gives me some hope that people are getting tired of her lies.

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    Hello Mrs. Owens,

    You told millions of people that Tyler Robinson "wasn't even there." That you felt "confident stating that Tyler Robinson did not kill murder Charlie Kirk."

    He was on camera. Prone on the Losi rooftop at 12:22. Shot at 12:23:28. DNA on the screwdriver at 30 quintillion to one. DNA on the rifle at 1.7 octillion to one. He told his family what he did. His parents helped him surrender. He texted his roommate: "I am, I'm sorry." He engraved "Hey Fascist! Catch!" on the ammunition a month before he used it.

    You said police "didn't even question" Lance Twiggs. He was interviewed twice. FBI the morning after. Joint state-federal team seven months later. His own attorney. Voluntary phone surrender. You laughed when you said it.

    You told Shawn Ryan a shaped charge killed Charlie. That PETN was in his microphone. The medical examiner says gunshot wound. Bullet fragments were recovered from his body. A .30-06 Mauser with Robinson's DNA was found in the woods. Neither side — not prosecution, not defense — has mentioned explosives. Not once in four days.

    You said the shot came from below. The Losi building is above the amphitheater. 

    You called Erika Kirk a "clinical psychopath" to an audience of millions. You said the assassination was "an occult ritual." You said Charlie was "sitting in a pentagram." You told people Israel killed him because he refused Netanyahu.

    You made over a hundred episodes. You built a franchise on a dead man's name.

    And the hardest fact of all: Tyler Robinson's own defense lawyers — the people whose entire career is on the line to get him acquitted — have refused to make a single one of your arguments. Not one. They're challenging DNA methodology. They are doing their jobs. You were doing something else entirely.

    Charlie Kirk changed my life. He platformed my work when nobody knew who I was. He had my back when I was doxxed. I was the ten-thousandth most important person in his world and I will never be able to repay him.

    So I did what I know how to do. I read every transcript. I watched every hour of testimony. I cataloged your claims and I held them up against what was said under oath.

    Every single one failed.

    I don't know why you did this. I'm not going to speculate on your motives, because that would make me exactly the kind of analyst I've spent my career refusing to be. But I know what you did. You told people confident lies about a dead man's murder, and millions of them believed you, and some of them turned that belief into threats against his widow.

    The trial continues. And every day of sworn testimony is another day your words get tested against reality... under oath, on the record, where it counts.

    I'll be here for all of it... because just as Charlie defended me, I will do what little I can to defend his legacy and @TPUSA and @MrsErikaKirk from evil.

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    This post has 3 1/2 times as many likes as Owens' post above it. That's pretty remarkable given that Owens has 7.8 million followers on X and DataRepublican has just 948k. Sadly, there is one prominent person still defending Candace and her "investigation."

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