The Ben Shapiro Show - September 02, 2026


What Happens Next in the Tyler Robinson Trial


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8 minutes

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00:00:00.000 Part of the reason why the grifter industrial complex is so horrible is that it has intersected with the trial of Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson.
00:00:07.000 Cottage industries have been propped up by pushing bona fide retardation through online channels.
00:00:12.000 Charlie Kirk's assassination is easily one of the most tragic and horrible things that has happened in modern politics.
00:00:18.000 But here's the thing gossip sells, people cash in on the whore, and conspiracies beget even more conspiracies until people start to lose their minds.
00:00:26.000 And an enormous number of people are doing just that.
00:00:28.000 They're going down every rabbit hole, they're trying to find excuses for why there's a conspiracy or why Erica is bad.
00:00:34.000 Or why TPUSA is at fault.
00:00:36.000 Again, the attention economy leads to ugly results, not just untruth, actual ugly results that hurt people.
00:00:43.000 If you treat the area of informational importance as an area for entertainment and you conflate the two, you will end up with untruth.
00:00:52.000 That will be the result.
00:00:54.000 And again, if you're going to traffic in gossip and smears and nonsense, you ought to be treated that way.
00:00:59.000 Okay, so Tyler Robinson allegedly murdered Charlie Kirk.
00:01:02.000 Literally all the evidence demonstrates that he murdered Charlie Kirk.
00:01:06.000 According to the Daily Wire, a Utah judge ruled on Tuesday that Tyler Robinson will stand trial on all seven charges in the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, leaving him eligible for the death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder.
00:01:18.000 After hearing hours of closing arguments from the defense and prosecution, 4th District Judge Tony Graff found that the state had established probable cause, meaning there was sufficient evidence for the case to proceed to trial.
00:01:30.000 Robinson faces one count of aggravated murder, one count of felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, two counts of obstruction of justice, two counts of tampering with witnesses.
00:01:37.000 One count of committing a violent offense in the presence of a child, according to court records.
00:01:43.000 The judge allowed the aggravated murder charge to move forward, which makes the charge eligible for the death penalty.
00:01:50.000 So Robinson's attorneys don't really have a choice.
00:01:52.000 They're not going to plead this one out.
00:01:54.000 They answered not guilty pleas on his behalf on all seven charges, and Charlie Kirk's parents and his widow, Erica Kirk, appeared in court on Tuesday.
00:02:01.000 The Kirk family put out a statement via Erica Kirk's account.
00:02:06.000 They said, Today's decision, which comes nearly a year since Charlie was taken from us, marks an important step in our family's pursuit of justice for him.
00:02:12.000 Every step in this process carries the weight of all that Charlie's murder has taken from his family, especially his children who will grow up without their father.
00:02:18.000 We are grateful to all who have continued to pray for us, support us, and stand with us through a year of unimaginable grief.
00:02:23.000 As the next phase of the judicial process begins, our family remains united in our love for Charlie, our commitment to the pursuit of justice, and our prayer for a transparent and timely process.
00:02:32.000 Now, when I talk about the grifters, so first of all, there are the grifters on the left who have been promoting the trans agenda, which is a permission structure for violence for a very long time.
00:02:43.000 In fact, Tyler Robinson's defense lawyer basically tried to excuse the alleged murder by claiming that Charlie was mean to the trans.
00:02:53.000 It is true that Mr. Kirk spoke hatefully of certain groups of people.
00:03:04.000 He spoke hatefully of people who don't have traditional, norm conforming gender identities.
00:03:14.000 He spoke hatefully of people who are not strictly heterosexual.
00:03:18.000 He spoke hatefully of people who have sexual relationships out of marriage.
00:03:24.000 And yes, it is true that the evidence from Mr. Twiggs is that he identified in a non gender conforming way to his friends and that he was in a romantic relationship with Mr. Robinson.
00:03:40.000 But that doesn't mean that those.
00:03:45.000 Personal choices by Mr. Twiggs and by Mr. Robinson equate with the hate that at least Mr. Robinson says he had toward Mr. Kirk.
00:03:59.000 So we don't know what that is.
00:04:03.000 Okay, and the permission structure for violence that is created by the very online on the left is very real.
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00:05:12.000 Judge Graff apparently says he wants to set a trial date at the next hearing.
00:05:16.000 The next hearing is scheduled for October 23rd.
00:05:19.000 There could be more procedural fights, according to the New York Times.
00:05:21.000 Catherine Nestor, who is one of Robinson's lawyers, Said the judge, she said to the judge that there were still many, many phases of trial before they even get to the trial.
00:05:29.000 Again, the evidence is overwhelming.
00:05:32.000 The defense was trying to get capital punishment taken off the table by arguing that Kirk's assassination had not threatened anyone else in the crowd.
00:05:41.000 That's the aggravating factor that would lead to the possibility of the death penalty.
00:05:45.000 So Robinson's lawyers wrote the shooter did not miss his intended target and did not chamber another round, leaving the spent cartridge in the rifle.
00:05:51.000 The judge rejected that argument.
00:05:53.000 He said prosecutors had established probable cause.
00:05:55.000 That Robinson had knowingly put at least one other person in danger by climbing to a rooftop and firing into a courtyard where Kirk was taking questions from the audience.
00:06:04.000 So, again, the fact that somehow Erica Kirk has ended up as the target of truly terrible people like Candace Owens is an astonishing, astonishing thing.
00:06:13.000 Don't follow the retardosphere.
00:06:14.000 Candace Owens, who has made a small, actually mid sized cottage industry out of slandering Charlie Kirk's family, put out a tweet Go find every single worthless influencer who lied and gaslit you for months about this case, claiming that Tyler Robinson turned himself in and subsequently admitted his guilt.
00:06:29.000 We simply do not hate these people enough.
00:06:31.000 What they actually want is for the American court process to run a guilty until proven innocent process.
00:06:35.000 It is utterly monstrous to insist that someone should be put to death before they are given a fair trial.
00:06:39.000 And while a few of these influencers do it out of sincere stupidity, the majority of them do it for money.
00:06:43.000 Again, every accusation for folks like Candace is an admission.
00:06:48.000 Better stated, they are prostitutes, says the woman who literally sells gear based on the murder of Charlie Kirk.
00:06:54.000 We're at the beginning of this trial, and every one of their lies will be exposed by the end of it.
00:06:57.000 The best thing about Candace Owens' shtick is that basically she's like, behind this curtain, I have something for you.
00:07:02.000 A revelation, and then the curtain is removed, and it's another curtain.
00:07:05.000 And behind that curtain, there is yet another curtain.
00:07:07.000 It's an endless series of curtains.
00:07:09.000 But don't worry, behind the next one will be the secret that solves your life.
00:07:13.000 It's probably the Jews, but it might not be the Jews, but it's the Jews.
00:07:16.000 And another curtain.
00:07:18.000 Also, Canna Zones, one of the worst people in American public life, here she was, ripping into Erica Kirk again, calling her a soul sucking dementor.
00:07:27.000 The barrel, this company is over.
00:07:28.000 I'm just going to be frank with you.
00:07:30.000 Erica Kirk, to me, I describe her when she speaks, I feel like my soul is being sucked.
00:07:36.000 She is a dementor that should be guarding Azkaban.
00:07:39.000 Okay.
00:07:40.000 Every time she speaks, I just feel depressed.
00:07:43.000 I do.
00:07:45.000 She says like this, and I'm like, oh my gosh, I just feel like a prisoner in Azkaban, and my soul is being sucked.
00:07:53.000 She can't lead this company.
00:07:54.000 She doesn't have the spark.
00:07:55.000 She doesn't have the intelligence.
00:07:57.000 She doesn't even have the emotional intelligence, right?
00:08:02.000 This person has a lot of fans.
00:08:04.000 Again, the attention economy leads to pretty bad results, pretty bad results.
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