Dr. Drew Pinsky on the Robinson Case and Reactions to Kirk's Death

Showing 4 Dr. Drew Pinsky videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Dr. Drew Pinsky, an addiction-medicine physician and longtime media commentator, has approached Charlie Kirk's death from two different angles. Alongside trial attorney Mark Geragos, he weighed the legal odds facing Tyler Robinson, walking through why Utah's unusually narrow insanity standard, guilty but mentally ill rather than a traditional not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity finding, leaves the defense little room to work with even if Robinson's mental state becomes central to the case. On his long-running show with Adam Carolla, Pinsky took a more personal angle, saying he had interviewed Kirk and found him genuinely likable, and reflecting on why the visual, public nature of the shooting hit differently than violence usually does. He drew a comparison to public executions in past centuries, arguing that humans react more strongly to witnessing a body violated than to hearing about death in the abstract, and used that observation to explain the intensity of the public response. Pinsky has paired that instinct for behavioral explanation with a recurring theme across his other commentary, from civics ignorance among college students to Anthony Fauci's media habits during the pandemic, of asking what a public figure's visible behavior reveals about their actual judgment.