Far-right favourite Kari Lake couldn’t assist however push a conspiracy concept about Charlie Kirk’s killer throughout a Sunday prayer vigil for the slain political pundit.
In the course of the occasion at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Heart, the failed Senate candidate steered that suspect Tyler Robinson was “brainwashed” at school and warned dad and mom to not ship their kids to “indoctrination camps.”
“How does a 22-year-old become so filled with hate?” Lake requested. “Five years earlier, I was told he was a Trump supporter. And we sent our kids off to college, and they brainwashed him.”
The MAGA darling’s concept about Robinson’s liberal school indoctrination doesn’t make a lot sense when trying on the accused murderer’s precise training.
He attended Utah State College as a pre-engineering main for only one semester earlier than enrolling in {an electrical} apprentice program at Dixie Technical School, in line with The New York Occasions.
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Dixie Technical School boasts “hands-on” coaching alternatives for careers in building, nursing, firefighting, automotive restore and different trades on its web site.
The tiny school doesn’t seem to supply any liberal arts packages, like those which conservatives have accused of being channels for far-left propaganda mills for years.
Kirk’s personal conservative campaign was anchored in the concept American faculties and universities had been “indoctrination zones.” In 2012, he based a community of conservative school teams referred to as Turning Level USA, which a stored a “Professor Watchlist” of school it accused of pushing “leftist propaganda.”
In a 2022 Fox Information op-ed, he wrote, “I firmly believe that most—if not all—the destructive ideas that are now eating away at the foundation of American society originated on college campuses.”
When he was shot and killed at Utah Valley College final Wednesday, Kirk was in the course of one in every of his signature campus political debates.
Whereas Kirk was one of many nation’s most high-profile conservative figures, Robinson’s precise motives and political views nonetheless stay unclear.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) initially advised The Wall Avenue Journal that the suspect was “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology” however declined to supply any specifics.
The governor mentioned that Robinson has “not confessed” and is “not cooperating” with authorities throughout a Sunday press briefing however mentioned that relations and acquaintances been working with investigators.
