Matt Walsh Condemns ABC News for Glorifying Charlie Kirk's Alleged Assassin and Trans Roommate Relationship
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Matt Walsh Condemns ABC News for Glorifying Charlie Kirk's Alleged Assassin and Trans Roommate Relationship
Matt Walsh delivers a searing critique of ABC News reporter Matt Gutman for his coverage of Charlie Kirk's assassination, accusing mainstream media of romanticizing the relationship between the alleged killer and his transgender roommate. Walsh exposes how corporate media outlets deliberately hide trans-related violence while celebrating Kirk's death. He argues that the Trump administration must dismantle what he calls left-wing terror organizations and the transgender ideology movement, while highlighting Kirk's legacy of championing economic populism and engaging directly with college students across America.
Matt Walsh opens with a stark accusation: major news networks have chosen to glorify Charlie Kirk's alleged killers, while many on the left openly celebrate his death. Walsh declares this situation both unsustainable and intolerable, calling on the Trump administration to demonstrate clear progress in dismantling what he terms left-wing terror organizations, starting with transgender ideology.
The narrative machine, Walsh argues, is adapting its approach. Rather than making specific factual claims, media outlets are entering what he describes as the realm of perverse emotional manipulation.
ABC Reporter's Controversial Coverage
Walsh highlights ABC News reporter Matt Gutman's coverage of the Kirk assassination case, playing clips where Gutman describes being touched by text messages between the alleged killer and his transgender roommate. In the messages, the suspect repeatedly calls his roommate "my love" and expresses a desire to protect him.
Gutman characterized the press conference as revealing a duality: an attorney describing how the suspect jeopardized Charlie Kirk's life and the crowd, including children, while simultaneously speaking lovingly about his partner. The ABC reporter called it "very interesting" and "riveting."
Walsh expresses disbelief that Gutman appears genuinely moved by these text messages between what he describes as a cross-dressing furry roommate and the murderer who executed a leading conservative figure in front of thousands of students and children. He criticizes the framing as treating the situation like a classic love story, noting that the assassin discussed hiding incriminating evidence and showed zero remorse or sympathy for the man he allegedly murdered.
The Ideology Behind the Violence
Walsh rejects the notion of any duality in the messages, calling them fundamentally evil. He argues they reflect an ideology of hedonism and violence that is incompatible with Christianity and Western civilization, and bent on their destruction.
The shooter and his transgender boyfriend, Walsh contends, weren't living together to glorify God or bring joy into the world, but to commiserate, hate, and bring others down to what he calls their miserable existence. This dynamic, he argues, explains why at least one member of this pair extinguished one of the leading Christian voices in the entire world.
Yet at ABC, Walsh notes, they're not horrified by this. Instead, he claims, they find it thrilling and can't get enough of it.
Doubling Down on the Narrative
Ten minutes after the initial segment aired, Gutman doubled down with what Walsh considers an even worse follow-up. The reporter again emphasized the presence of children as witnesses, explaining this was one reason the suspect faces the death penalty along with the allegedly political nature of the murder.
Gutman then returned to what he called the duality of "a very human person, a very human experience." He described the mother who discovered her son was the perpetrator—a kid who scored 34 out of 36 on the ACT, maintained a 4.0 GPA, and received a full ride to college. She identified him from pictures.
The ABC reporter stated he had never experienced a press conference with text messages that were simultaneously "so wholesome, so robust, so apparently allegedly self-incriminating, and yet on the other hand so touching." He described the suspect reaching out to his roommate (identified as male at birth, now identifying as female) using terms of endearment, claiming to want to protect him, while also asking him to delete messages and not speak to law enforcement.
Gutman characterized this as a "heartbreaking duality" playing out tragically. Walsh notes that after this report, no producer intervened to tell Gutman to stop. No one at ABC had any issue with what he said, so he repeated it with even more emphasis. The reporter appeared happy to discuss the murderer's standardized test scores and touching conversations right after he allegedly shot Charlie Kirk to death.
Call for Media Accountability
Walsh declares that all these people—Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Gutman, and others—need to be taken off the air immediately by their networks. He calls their behavior irredeemable, not just because of their response to Kirk's murder (though that alone would be sufficient), but because corporate outlets like ABC deliberately hide the truth about transgenderism, leftist extremism, and the violence it unleashes on America.
The Buried Utah Case
Walsh provides an example of a story buried by mainstream media from about a month before Kirk's assassination. A Washington County woman named Mia Bailey faces ten felony charges, including two counts of aggravated murder and one count of attempted aggravated murder following the deaths of her parents, Joseph and Gail Bailey. Authorities say Bailey also attempted to shoot her brother the same night.
Bailey, a transgender woman who legally changed her name and gender in 2023, submitted a written request to the judge appealing the state's decision not to seek the death penalty. This individual shot both parents to death and, after being arrested, showed no remorse. When the state announced it wouldn't pursue the death penalty, Bailey filed a motion requesting execution.
Walsh notes this unusual motion—a defendant requesting death—would typically receive significant coverage in a sane society. Yet no one talked about this case. Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Gutman certainly didn't mention it, and Walsh believes we all know why.
Hidden Epidemic of Violence
The vast majority of trans violence goes unreported, Walsh argues. Unless trans-identifying individuals cause mass casualties at schools, churches, or conservative events—which he notes they're doing with increasing frequency—no one hears about the murders they commit against family members or other individuals they know personally. Walsh describes this as an epidemic of violence being deliberately hidden.
Policy Prescriptions
Walsh calls on the Trump administration to dismantle this threat. He advocates that the entire industry of transgenderism must be outlawed, with no healthy individual ever injected with cross-sex hormones or mutilated. Terror cells that openly advocate for murder on platforms like Reddit, Blue Sky, and Discord must be shut down, with everybody involved hauled to prison. This approach, he argues, is how you prevent these militants from coordinating and finding affirmation in their delusions, and how you prevent them from killing more people.
Charlie Kirk's Legacy of Engagement
One of the many things Charlie accomplished better than anyone else, Walsh reflects, was having the kind of discussions not allowed on major television networks or social media platforms. Walsh shares a clip from one of Kirk's campus debates about four months prior.
A sociology professor approached the microphone asking what Donald Trump was doing to improve students' lives. Despite being in office for only about 80 days at that point, Kirk listed several accomplishments: the price of oil was already down, making it easier and cheaper for students to drive home, which would also lower inflation; a proposed tax bill with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and the largest middle-class tax cut in history, allowing students with overtime jobs to keep more of their money; and opening federal lands to build more homes, addressing the inaccessibility of home ownership for many in the audience.
Kirk explained that Trump won partly because of a significant shift in the youth vote, as the Democrat party took younger voters for granted and didn't have an optimistic, hopeful agenda for home ownership, marriage, and having children. Kirk expressed his desire to see the Trump administration go further, making home ownership accessible to every young person. He advocated prohibiting major funds like BlackRock from buying private family homes, preventing competition with institutional buyers. He also publicly lobbied against allowing the Chinese Communist Party to buy farmland in the western United States or single-family homes.
The sociology professor agreed with most of what Kirk was saying, demonstrating the broad appeal of his message.
Why Charlie Kirk Was Dangerous
The applause showed that young people wanted to hear exactly what Charlie was saying, Walsh observes. They wanted an administration that would make housing more affordable, stand up to China and BlackRock and big institutional buyers of suburban homes, and provide cheaper gas for more manageable commutes.
These proposals would seem to align with typical leftist agendas—certainly nothing like what you would hear from Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, or George Bush. What Charlie was saying was more populist than anything else. Bernie Sanders supporters would endorse every word. Even the sociology professor in the footage was on board.
This broad appeal, Walsh suggests, explains why ABC and many other corporate networks have decided to defame Charlie in death, deliberately inciting LGBT terrorism and celebrating it when it happens. Charlie was resonating with people across the political spectrum, which made him dangerous.
Kirk actually believed in free expression and advancing the interests of people who had no voice. He spent extensive time on college campuses listening to random college students recite their orthodoxy and debating them with respect and patience in every case. He didn't have to do that—he had much more important people he could be talking to and could have spent his whole career speaking to millionaires and billionaires.
But unlike Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or Adam Schiff, Kirk actually cared what no-name 18-year-olds had to say. He recognized their importance not simply as voters but as human beings with inherent value. This commitment is why he appeared in public so often in wide-open venues, and Walsh believes, why he was murdered.
The Path Forward
It has been a week since that day, Walsh concludes. The official narrative that media and leftist mouthpieces are pushing remains incoherent. The text messages don't make sense. Major news networks have decided to glorify the killers. Many leftists are openly celebrating Charlie's death.
This situation is neither sustainable nor tolerable. The administration must demonstrate clear and discrete progress in dismantling left-wing terror organizations, starting with the cult of trans ideology, and it needs to do so immediately. The opportunity is there.
If the last 24 hours have made anything clear, Walsh argues, it's that these people are panicking. They're desperately trying to come up with some new defense or distraction, however implausible. They know the hammer is coming down, and now it's time to deliver the blow they're expecting and the one they deserve.
