It wasn’t until Utah Gov. Spencer Cox spelled out the transgender links to the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination that the New York Times and the rest of the Hate Media and their social media offshoots finally gave up the absurd nudge-nudge-wink-wink pretense that the killer was its favorite type of villain, a MAGA gun nut.

Nope, Tyler Robinson, 22, turns out to be a hard-core leftist, Antifa devotee and Kirk-hater who was living with his transgender boyfriend, identified as Lance Twiggs, 22, who stated, “We are riding with Biden” in a 2022 post on the social media platform Reddit.

The two men also reportedly shared a sexual fetish for “furries,” anthropomorphic animal characters, with Twiggs appearing in photos online wearing animal headdress.

In the midst of an epidemic of left-wing political violence, you’d have to be pretty perverse not to understand the motive for assassinating Kirk.

The 31-year-old conservative leader was shot through the throat just as he was answering a question about transgender mass shooters.

“Too many,” he replied to the question, “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?”

He was silenced with a bullet to stop him from voicing an opinion held by the majority of Americans.

The next day, podcaster Steven Crowder posted a screenshot of what he said was an ATF report showing that the cartridges found with the fatal weapon had engravings “expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”

Sure enough, despite scoffing from the Hate Media, Crowder was right.

The Utah County Sheriff’s Office report described the Mauser bolt-action rifle with scope found wrapped in a towel and stashed in a bush near the murder scene.

“One spent cartridge, three live rounds recovered,” the report notes. “Investigators noted inscriptions that had been engraved on casings found with the rifle. Inscriptions on a fired casing read ‘Notices Bulge OwO what’s this?’

“Inscriptions on the three unfired casings read: ‘Hey fascist! CATCH!’ A second unfired casing read ‘O Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao,........

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