Donald Trump Jr. appeared on FOX News fter attending the preliminary hearing for accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson. Trump Jr. spoke about the hearing and his efforts to preserve Kirk’s legacy.
“The impact that Charlie had on so many Americans on so many youth is, you know, frankly generational,” Trump Jr. said. “It could have been so much more, but it was important to be there and to see the actual facts laid out, Bill, because there was so much stuff that, you know, amidst the noise and the internet chatter that was laid out that, you know, I had never heard and makes this case very cut and dry to me.”
BILL HEMMER, FOX NEWS: So I want to ask you about that. Based on, I’m listening to all the legal analysts who were in court as well, and they’re suggesting the evidence is overwhelming. And how did the prosecution’s case sound to you in court?
TRUMP: Very strong and the defense sounded very weak. The defense is only real tactic was seemingly to either stall or try to not admit essentially any evidence whatsoever, because I guess it would be too damning to their client. It was truly crazy, but you see the video.
You know, this is someone who lived four and a half hours south, who, importantly, and, you know, most people didn’t know this was not a student at Utah Valley University. He came up four and a half hours away, very distinctly. I guess it was a Dodge Challenger in a car with very distinct rims.
So they’re able to identify the vehicle. They see him coming in early. He interacts with some turning point.
People apparently asking them, you know, what was happening here? Who were the speakers? What was the timing? Whatever that may have been, it seems. He then leaves, but he’s wearing shorts and a t-shirt. He comes back wearing long pants with a limp that magically somehow developed.
Is seen on video going up to this rooftop, which was the perfect vantage point to make this shot. You know, then jumps off the building carrying a long object that looked like the shape of a gun according to one of the witnesses wrapped up in something. And there was a screwdriver left, which to me, you know, leads me to believe that he walked up there with a limp and had disassembled the gun, you know, put both the stock and the barreled action.
I guess down his pants walked up there, put the gun together. That takes 30 seconds, made his shots. They saw evidence of the indents of where, you know, there would have been a snipers hide the indents from his knees and elbows where he would have lane prone to make this shot.
The shot happens and within seconds he’s seen the limp has disappeared and he’s seen, you know, jumping off the building and running into the nearby woods. Then there’s ring cam footage of him pulling up again in this very distinct car at 12.30 a.m. again on a university campus that he does not go to lives four hours away. To me, that seems like he’s there to retrieve the weapon that was stashed earlier in the day.
You know, my other minor details like, you know, he turned himself in and these kinds of things. But it’s just been very tough to watch. I haven’t frankly opined and I’ve taken a lot of heat from people because I haven’t opined on a lot of the stuff that’s been out there because I didn’t know that any of it had any basis in fact.
But once this hard evidence was laid out to me in a courtroom before my very eyes, seeing the reaction of the defense, you know, this thing is much more cut and dry than I would have ever even imagined.
HEMMER: I’ve got one more minute here. Some of the video that was played in court is something that we have never seen before and the public seeing it for the first time. It’s my understanding on Monday.
There was some video that was played in Erika chose to get up and leave the courtroom at that time for obvious reasons when that failed shot was fired. How’s she doing? What does she want American to know?
TRUMP: Listen, she is doing as well as she can be under the circumstance that she was obviously very grateful that Petina and I were there to just support her. Obviously, I’ve been friends with her as long as she’s known Charlie and she’s just a great person, a mother trying to get by trying to fulfill her husband’s legacy. There’s obviously a lot of sadness in all of this.
I think there’s a lot of frustration, frankly, that this could have ever happened. I mean, one of the things I did here that was sort of shocking was that there were only six officers on duty on this campus event. No, no briefing beforehand.
No real set game plan and six officers for a turning point event. And anyone who’s watched the news in the last decade or so would realize there’d be thousands of people on this campus. So, you know, I imagine there’s some frustration with that, but I think she just wants justice.
She’s doing an incredible job just holding it together, given the circumstances and the sheer brutality of how this all happened. And, you know, frankly, some of the sheer noise that has come after her and attacked her and the organization and all of that, which is, again, I’ve stayed quiet. I’ve supported her.
We’ve talked regularly ever since. I haven’t been that vocal because I haven’t known what’s real and what’s not, but having literally been there in the room, seen the evidence with my own eyes. You know, it’s very clear to me that Tyler Robinson will be found guilty back in court today, a couple hours from now.
