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Saturday, October 18, 2025

Harvard Law professor spreads debunked rumor about Charlie Kirk assassination suspect - Fox News

A distinguished Harvard Law professor and legal scholar was hammered on social media after spreading a debunked rumor that the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination was "ultra-MAGA" and that Republicans were trying to "blame" liberals for the tragedy.

Laurence Tribe made the comment in a post on X that shared a lengthy post from an account called Occupy Democrats, which attempted to paint a picture of suspect Tyler Robinson’s political ideology.

"Kirk’s apparent assassin seems to have been ultra-MAGA, exploding the GOP/MAGA attempt to pin the blame for this tragedy on liberals," wrote Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School from 1968 until his retirement in 2020. He is currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus at the school.

Robinson, 22, was in a "romantic relationship" with a transgender partner, senior-level FBI officials confirmed to Fox News Digital. The officials said Robinson lived with the unnamed person, who is a male transitioning to a female and that they shared an apartment in Saint George, Utah.

Kirk was killed Wednesday at Utah Valley University, where he was speaking to students at a Turning Point USA event on its campus in Orem. Moments before Robinson allegedly shot Kirk, someone asked Kirk if he knew how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters.

Jeremy Carl, a senior fellow at Claremont Institute, responded to Tribe’s post on X, accusing the professor of spreading "pure" disinformation by sharing the claim that Robinson was a...



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