Governor Cox Must Answer for Kirk Killing and Utah State Security Collapse
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
Governor Spencer Cox oversees one of the largest economic forces in Utah, with the military and defense sector contributing an astonishing $22.2 billion to the state’s GDP and employing more than 173,000 workers. Hill Air Force Base, one of the nation’s largest military installations, stands as a testament to Utah’s critical role in national defense. Yet despite this massive responsibility, Cox’s leadership appears to crumble when it comes to ensuring public safety and security on his home turf.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University exposed glaring flaws in the state’s law enforcement response under Cox’s watch. According to the Governor, the accused gunman, Tyler Robinson, changed clothes multiple times and managed to evade clear identification on surveillance photos that failed to capture a clear image of the alleged shooter. The subsequent investigation has been riddled with confusion and unanswered questions. For example, Governor Cox told the world that Tyler Robinson confessed to his parents and surrendered to law enforcement, then, oddly enough, Cox explained that Robinson wasn’t cooperating and, ultimately, pleaded not guilty.
Meanwhile, Utah County Sheriff, Mike Smith, who has a troubled past marked by critical failures in a previous high-profile child sex trafficking case, led the Kirk investigation. The 33-hour manhunt wasn’t due to great police work from Utah or the FBI. The person of interest turned themselves in. According to the official story, Robinson turned himself into a friend of the family who happens to be a retired detective according to Washington County Sheriff (WACO) Nate Brooksby. Local News Fox13 Utah reported, Brooksby then outlined how his office became involved. Brooksby clarified that, although Robinson turned himself in at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, that office was merely assisting by taking the suspect into custody until the lead investigators arrived.
Brooksby said he got a call around eight o’clock Thursday evening from a retired WCSO detective whose name is being withheld. Why? Brooksby then contacted lead investigator, Sheriff Mike Smith who, according to Brooksby, “was shocked as I was to hear the news.” Brooksby further explained that Robinson was “cooperative, somber, quiet,” but there was no concern about Robinson being suicidal.
Brooksby explained that he knew Robinson’s family “through The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and wasn’t a person in leadership — it was just someone who they knew from their local congregation.”
Clearly the Robinson family was very well connected to the State of Utah. After all it is well known that the alleged shooter’s mother, Amber Robinson, worked for Intermountain which is a 750k behavioral health vendor that coordinates patient care, which includes mental health, psychiatric and transgender care to Intermountain Hospital. Sheriff Brooksby and local law enforcement have a collaborative relationship with Intermountain Healthcare, particularly concerning behavioral and mental health crisis care. In fact, Intermountain Healthcare made a significant $50,000 donation to help establish a receiving center, highlighting their partnership with law enforcement and community stakeholders.
Brooksby said there was some negotiation between him and the suspect: Robinson would turn himself in, but he wanted it to be as peaceful and comfortable as possible. Brooksby said Robinson was worried about a potential SWAT encounter at his home or his parents’, and he feared being shot himself. The retired detective then drove Robinson and his parents to the sheriff’s office, where he was met by plain-clothes officers and not handcuffed. Robinson and his parents waited about two and a half hours until the lead investigators came and took Robinson into their custody.
During that time, Brooksby said they didn’t try to interview him as they weren’t the agency in charge. Their duty, he said, was to keep him there, safe and secure, until the lead agencies arrived. He said Robinson stayed on a couch in an interview room, not handcuffed, and supplied with water. Perhaps at the intermountain receiving center? It appears if you throw a rock, you hit intermountain transgender care in Utah.
This sequence of events doesn’t inspire confidence and has left the public questioning the entire surrender. The Governor implied that Tyler confessed obviously that was incorrect, he pleaded not guilty.
Sheriff Mike Smith believes Robison was the sole shooter in the Charlie Kirk assassination and clearly wanted to distance Lance Twiggs involvement, you know Tyler’s “transgender lover”. One has to wonder if Twiggs was involved in services at the Intermountain transgender psychiatric care unit.
Adding a troubling dimension to this story is the connection of the accused’s mother with Utah’s behavioral health system—a sector contributing around $2 billion to the state’s GDP. Under Governor Cox’s watch, Utah has seen a dramatic increase in the transgender healthcare market, driven by a reported 193% rise in gender dysphoria diagnoses over a recent four-year period. This market, valued in the tens to hundreds of millions annually, includes gender-affirming care such as hormone therapies and surgeries. However, this rapid expansion occurs despite ongoing concerns that it is not evidence-based, lacks consistent clinical standards, and raises significant ethical questions about its practice. This is human experimentation tied in with the psychiatry department of the Intermountain Hospital in Utah.
Governor Cox’s encouragement of this market growth amid these concerns adds another layer of ethical debate to his leadership. Critics argue that supporting such an unchecked and rapidly expanding sector raises profound questions about governance, especially in a state where public safety and accountability already appear compromised.
Instead of answering growing public concerns with transparency and accountability, Governor Cox has pushed an agenda aimed at suppressing free speech and dissent. His political program “Disagree Better” focuses on discouraging challenges to government authority and controlling the narrative when failures in public safety occur. Obviously, the assassination of Charlie Kirk in cold blood in front of the world shows the evidence-based outcome of his “disagree better” agenda in the State he manages is a colossal failure.
Mind you Charlie Kirk wanted Governor Cox thrown out of this republic party for his stand on men in women’s sports and his recent passage of very controversial legislation. From Cox bizarre few news conferences which provided little evidence to convince the world they “got the right guy” to blaming Kirk for being hostile to transgender psychiatry. Why haven’t other republicans called Cox out for his mishandling of this investigation and his overall lack of human rights at Intermountain hospital’s psychiatric transgender care unit? Has anyone asked if Lance Twiggs was a patient there? These aren’t hard questions.
If Cox cannot even protect a guest speaker at a university event, how can Utahans trust him with the oversight of one of the nation’s most significant military installations? This failure exposes a dangerous gap between economic power and actual governance, questioning whether Cox’s administration is fit for the complex duties it purports to fulfill.
The assassination of Charlie Kirk lays bare a sobering reality: colossal military might and economic contributions are meaningless if the lives and safety of Utah’s residents cannot be secured. If anything, the Kirk assassination has shined a light on Governor Cox’s inability to provide the necessary safety required in his state.
Photo Credit: FBI, Department of Public Safety and police work at the family home of Tyler Robinson, who is the suspect in the Utah Valley University killing of Charlie Kirk, in Washington, Utah, on Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. Kirk was a conservative activist and the founder and president of Turning Point USA. AbleChild Purchased Photo from Deseret News
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