Charlie Kirk murder suspect identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson: Live updates – UK Times

President Donald Trump said in an interview that he wanted to see conservatives have revenge for the killing of Charlie Kirk by winning elections.

The president spoke on Fox & Friends, where he said he wanted Republicans to win elections as revenge for Kirk’s killing at Utah Valley University in Orem on Wednesday. Afterward, Trump went on his usual tirade criticizing mail-in voting.

“We want revenge at the voter,” he said, before Fox’s host said “ballot box.”

“But unfortunately, we don’t have so many ballot boxes because they have mail-in voting, which is totally rigged,” he said. “They do mail-in voting all over the place, which is rigged.”

Trump’s words come as many conservatives and those on the right have called for revenge against Democrats for Kirk’s killing. Republican members of Congress directly blamed the press and Democrats, with an outright shouting match devolving on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in light of the shooting.

A law enforcement official has told The Associated Press that the suspect in custody regarding Charlie Kirk’s assassination is a 22-year-old from Utah.

Authorities identified the suspect as Tyler Robinson, the official said, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.

“You have to go forward,” President Donald Trump told the hosts of Fox & Friends this morning when asked about lawmakers and other political figures canceling appearances getting cancelled after Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Donald Trump told Fox & Friends this morning that the father of the suspected shooter, whom the president says was arrested, cooperated with investigators.

The man in custody confessed to his father that he was the shooter, two sources confirmed to CNN.

His father allegedly told authorities that he had held his son, waiting for a formal arrest.

Law enforcement officials have detained the suspected shooter who killed Charlie Kirk at a college event this week, President Donald Trump announced Friday morning on Fox & Friends.

“With a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody,” the president told the co-hosts of the popular morning show – contending that he was adding the word “I think” to the sentence, just in case.

Trump told the co-hosts that a person “close” to the suspected shooter turned them in to the police after seeing photos and videos, which federal law enforcement released.

Ariana Baio has the details:

Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization co-founded by Charlie Kirk, will continue, Donald Trump speculated.

“He had a passion for this,” Trump said in a Fox & Friends interview. “I spoke to his wife yesterday. She’s like devastated, but in between the devastation, they want to keep Turning Point going.’

The president said that Turning Point USA has “very good staff” and the organization thinks it can continue running.

Donald Trump says he has not seen the harrowing video of Charlie Kirk’s death that went viral on social media, telling Fox News that he “didn’t want to remember Charlie that way.”

“I didn’t want to watch, I heard about it,” he said. “I would have never made a good doctor, let me put it that way. I mean, I heard, I heard enough – I didn’t want to watch it, I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to remember Charlie that way.

President Trump told Fox & Friends this morning that he hopes that the suspect tied to Charlie Kicker’s shooting death receives the detah penalty.

“Well, I hope – he’s going to be found guilty, I would imagine – and I hope he gets the death penalty,” Trump said. “What he did, Charlie Kirk, he was the finest person that, he didn’t deserve this. He worked so hard and so well, everybody liked him.”

Utah Governor Spencer Cox had already signaled that we would seek to condemn Kirk’s shooter.

“In Utah, they have the death penalty, and you have a very good governor there,” he continued. “The governor, I’ve gotten to know him, the governor is very intent on the death penalty in this case.”

Donald Trump has told Fox & Friends that he believes the suspected shooter who killed Charlie Kirk is in custody.

“I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him,” the president said just moments ago.

Trump said he believes that “somebody close” to the suspect turned him in.