ABC News reporter Matt Gutman issued an apology on X after referring to the texts sent from Charlie Kirk's accused assassin as 'very touching.'
ABC News reporter Matt Gutman issued an apology on X after referring to the text exchanges between Tyler Robinson,"Yesterday I tried to underscore the jarring contrast between this cold blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk - a man who dedicated his life to public dialogue - and the personal, disturbing texts read aloud by the Utah County Attorney at the press conference," Gutman wrote.
"I deeply regret that my words did not make that clear.""But let there be zero doubt here: I unequivocally condemn this horrific crime and the pain it caused Charlie Kirk's family, those who were forced to witness it at UVU, and the millions of people he inspired," Gutman wrote. On Tuesday, Gutman reported from the press conference in which Utah County Attorney General Jeff Gray announced the charges against Robinson and shared incriminating evidence of Robinson, which included his personal text messages that Gutman called "very touching in a way that many of us didn’t expect." "A very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect's roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who is transitioning, calling him, 'my love"' and "I want to protect you my love,"' Gutman said. "'So, it was this duality of someone who the attorney said not only jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd... And then on the other hand, he was, you know, speaking so lovingly about his partner." In another airing, Gutman talked about the "heartbreaking duality" being "tragically played out" sharing that Robinson was a 4.0 student who received a 34 on his ACT which granted him a full ride at Utah Valley University. "Obviously, Charlie Kirk was murdered brutally in front of a crowd of thousands," Gutman said. "n the other hand, there is this duality of a very a portrait of a very human person, a very human experience from this entire family.""I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a press conference in which we’ve read text messages that are A, so fulsome, so robust, so apparently, allegedly self-incriminating and yet, on the other hand, so touching — right — with the suspect reaching out to his roommate, who was allegedly his boyfriend, who we understand, you know, identified as male at birth, now identifies as female," Gutman said. "And the terminology he used, he was trying to protect him. He kept calling him ‘my love."
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