Utah Governor Spencer Cox said on Sunday that investigators are not ready to discuss the motive behind the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, but he said the suspect had left-leaning political beliefs and disliked the influencer.

“Clearly a leftist ideology,” Cox told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” On CNN’s “State of the Union,” he said, “That information comes from the people around him, his family members and friends.”

Cox said Tyler Robinson, 22, is “not cooperating” and that friends paint a picture of someone radicalized in the dark corners of the internet. “Clearly, there was a lot of gaming going on,” Cox said on NBC. “Friends have confirmed that there was kind of that deep, dark internet, the Reddit culture, and these other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep.”

A Republican who has called on all partisans to tone down their rhetoric following the attack, the governor added on Sunday: “I really don’t have a dog in this fight. If this was a radicalized MAGA person, I’d be saying that as well,” he said, referring to the Make America Great Again movement popularized by US President Donald Trump.

Cox stressed on several Sunday morning news shows, however, that investigators are still trying to pin down a motive for the attack on Kirk, a father of two and Trump confidant, who was killed Wednesday while on one of his signature college speaking tours at Utah Valley University. The governor said more information may come out once Robinson........

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