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Conservative backlash reached a fever transportation implicit this ABC News reporter's awkward investigation of Charlie Kirk's suspected killer's alleged texts.
After the prosecution laid retired its lawsuit astatine a property league with substance messages arsenic evidence, Gutman focused connected Robinson’s lovey-dovey language: “It was precise touching successful a mode that galore of america didn’t expect. A precise intimate representation into this narration betwixt the suspect’s roommate and the fishy himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who was transitioning, calling him ‘my love’ and ‘I wanna support you, my love.’”
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“So it’s this duality of idiosyncratic who the lawyer said not lone jeopardized the beingness of Charlie Kirk and the crowd, but was doing it successful beforehand of children ... and connected the different hand, helium was speaking truthful lovingly astir his partner,” Gutman said.
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On Wednesday, Gutman addressed the outrage he’d provoked:
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“Yesterday I tried to underscore the jarring opposition betwixt this acold blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk - a antheral who dedicated his beingness to nationalist dialog - and the personal, disturbing texts work aloud by the Utah County Attorney astatine the property conference,” Gutman, ABC’s main nationalist correspondent, wrote connected X.
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“I profoundly regret that my words did not marque that clear,” he continued. “But fto determination beryllium zero uncertainty here: I unequivocally condemn this horrific transgression and the symptom it caused Charlie Kirk’s family, those who were forced to witnesser it astatine UVU, and the millions of radical helium inspired.”
2. I profoundly regret that my words did not marque that clear.
But fto determination beryllium zero uncertainty here: I unequivocally condemn this horrific transgression and the symptom it caused Charlie Kirk's family, those who were forced to witnesser it astatine UVU, and the millions of radical helium inspired.
@mattgutmanABC/X / Via x.com
Outlets and individuals have been speedy to apologize and instrumentality further action for their genuine and perceived missteps amid the hostility generated by Kirk’s assassination.
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