‘It Doesn’t Sound Like a Joke to Me!’ CNN’s Scott Jennings Explodes Over Denial of Kirk Shooter’s Motives

CNN’s Scott Jennings was visibly disgusted by Montel Williams’s effort to paper over the political motivations of Tyler Robinson, the alleged murderer of Charlie Kirk, on Tuesday’s edition of CNN NewsNight.

After playing a clip of Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray describing Robinson’s left-wing politics and how they differed from the rest of his family’s, host Abby Phillip handed the floor over to Williams, who said, “I gotta tell you, there’s so much more that needs to be said. You read a couple of excerpts from some of this texts, one of his texts said, when asked, ‘How long you thinking about this?’, a week and a half. It wasn’t, ‘I’ve been thinking about this for the last year and a half.’ He said a week and a half. If we’re going to believe what he said in other places in his texts, why not believe that?”

“What does that say to you?” followed up Phillip.

“What it says to me is that I think we’re-, we or we,  there are people who are trying to pigeonhole this as a leftist thing and a right thing, and what we’re really talking about — hear me because I’m going to throw you when I say this — we’re talking about a love-torn child, a kid,” replied Williams. “This is probably his first real relationship, and somebody was disparaging the person that he loved. He sat on that building for 30 minutes before took the shot. Why do you wait until the first word trans came up, then he took the shot?”

“You think he heard it?” inquired Phillip.

“I think he could hear it. I think he also-, I don’t believe he was motivated politically. I think this was motivated emotionally. I think was a emotionally stunted person who literally — when I say it this way, just hear me — tried to defend his significant other, not trying to defend some ideology,” insisted Williams.

Eventually, Jennings got to respond.

“Guys, guys… the evidence here is overwhelming. He said, ‘Charlie Kirk, I can’t stand his hate anymore. I’m going to take him out.’ The testimony from him, and the statements of his family, he had become more left-wing. He etched the statements that are made by the Left about Republicans, and conservatives, and Charlie Kirk fascist on the bullet casings,” began Jennings.

“He made a joke about it in his last text,” interrupted Williams.

“Well, it doesn’t sound like a joke to me because someone’s dead and about to be buried. So it doesn’t sound like joke to me!” shot back Jennings. “So I’m just telling you, there is an effort-, there was an effort all weekend long on the left to try to make this guy sound like he was a conservative. That failed. That was passed around all over the weekend, that has now failed. The evidence has now come out. He was motivated by hate, he was motivated by left-wing radicalism. He got mixed up with some trans ideology in his life. We’ll learn more about that, I’m sure, when more evidence and testimony comes out. We are looking around the edges of this for something other than what’s staring us in the face! Left-wing radicalism got this kid, he went up to a roof, and he murdered our friend, and that’s what happened!”

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