Friday Update: September 12, 2025
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including shocking events surrounding the murder of Charlie Kirk, after a 33-hour search, the suspected assassin, Tyler Robinson, is captured, and President Trump's comments regarding political radicals and the federal response to crime in Memphis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America Show Midday Update for Friday, September 12th. |
| 0:05.0 | Happy Friday, folks. After a 33-hour search, Charlie Kirk assassin, Tyler Robinson has been |
| 0:10.0 | identified, found, and captured. The 22-year-old was taken into custody Friday morning after his |
| 0:15.8 | father confronted him about the murders. Charlie Kirk was murdered, of course, in cold blood on |
| 0:20.2 | Wednesday at an event in Utah Valley University |
| 0:22.4 | after Robinson opened fire on him from an elevated position on the rooftop. Robinson's father, a veteran |
| 0:28.3 | police officer confronted him after Utah authorities released new photos of the suspect on Thursday. |
| 0:34.2 | The suspect fessed up to the horrific shooting when his dad asked if he pulled the trigger, |
| 0:38.3 | but originally refused to turn himself into law enforcement, according to sources. |
| 0:42.3 | He told his father he would rather kill himself, leading the parents to convince his son, |
| 0:46.3 | to speak with their minister, who also happened to be a U.S. Marshal Service's fugitive task force officer. |
| 0:52.3 | The probable cause affidated that was used to arrest, |
| 0:55.2 | Tyler Robinson has been released. He's been arrested on suspicion of capital murder, felony, |
| 0:59.8 | discharge of a weapon, causing serious bodily injury, obstruction of justice, according to this |
| 1:05.4 | probable cause affidavit. This man deserves to rotten hell. He is a coward and will rot in hell. We thank the parents of this coward, his roommate, who also helped turn him in, showing some of the messages that were sent to him via Discord, a messaging app, to the police and to the FBI agents. The murder weapon was also found before he was captured |
| 1:28.8 | in a wooded area wrapped in a towel. According to those discord messages, Robinson had relayed |
| 1:35.9 | to his roommate that he needed somebody to go retrieve the gun that was left in a bush in a towel. |
| 1:41.1 | Inscriptions were also found on three unfired casings. The first one read, quote, |
| 1:46.2 | Hey, Fascist, Catch with an up arrow, a right arrow, and three down arrows. The second one read |
| 1:52.7 | Oh, Bella, Chow Bella, Chow, Chow, Chow, Chow, and the third one read, if you read this, |
| 1:59.8 | You Are Gay, L-M-A-O, which is an acronym for |
| 2:04.1 | laughing my ass off. The references on those casings, the first one, Hey, Fascist Catch, |
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