Anyone who has spent time on Twitter/X knows that Tribe has a reputation for being a total wingnut. There were a number of people on the left who pushed this because they wanted so badly for it to be true. Tribe has since walked it back, see his tweet below:
FOX News reports:
Harvard Law professor spreads debunked rumor about Charlie Kirk assassination suspectA distinguished Harvard Law professor and legal scholar was hammered on social media after spreading a debunked rumor that the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination was “ultra-MAGA” and that Republicans were trying to “blame” liberals for the tragedy.Laurence Tribe made the comment in a post on X that shared a lengthy post from an account called Occupy Democrats, which attempted to paint a picture of suspect Tyler Robinson’s political ideology.”Kirk’s apparent assassin seems to have been ultra-MAGA, exploding the GOP/MAGA attempt to pin the blame for this tragedy on liberals,” wrote Tribe, a professor at Harvard Law School from 1968 until his retirement in 2020. He is currently the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus at the school.Robinson, 22, was in a “romantic relationship” with a transgender partner, senior-level FBI officials confirmed to Fox News Digital. The officials said Robinson lived with the unnamed person, who is a male transitioning to a female and that they shared an apartment in Saint George, Utah.
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