George Zinn, who allegedly fabricated a confession in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has been arrested on charges of obstruction of justice and possession of child sexual abuse material, Utah authorities said.
Zinn, 71, was arrested at the scene of the September 10 shooting at Utah Valley University in Orem after shouting, “I shot him, now shoot me.” He later told investigators he faked the confession to help the real suspect—later identified as Tyler Robinson—escape, according to a probable cause statement.
Authorities said an investigation into Zinn led to the discovery of explicit material on his phone, including more than 20 images of children between the ages of 5 and 12. Court records also cite graphic messages in which Zinn admitted to being aroused by the material.
According to court documents obtained by TMZ, FBI agents interviewed Zinn at the hospital where he was taken after complaining of chest pain. During that interview, Zinn admitted to viewing child sexual abuse material and said he was “sexually aroused” by children.
Investigators reportedly found images of underage girls in their underwear on his phone.
Seeing all this insanity play out since they’ve cleaned house and tried to remove anyone who isn’t a loyalist, and then being forced to listen to their insane explanations that just make no sense whatsoever, is like getting a glimpse into what it must be like to be part of maga and look to these people to guide you.
The experience of this being who I have to turn to by default for an explanation of what is happening. Being gaslit with explanations that never make any sense or address all the weird shit they’ve unintentionally exposed. And every time it seems like you caught them red handed. There is no way they can keep denying this, but then they just spin it on to someone else.
Like I can’t help but think what if I actually trusted these people? What if this was like an abusive relationship where you want to believe so badly all their lies and excuses, and all the attempts to explain why it’s not what it looks like. But always somehow getting away with it, is part of the thrill for your abuser. So they just keep escalating, and each attempt at a new explanation just gets more and more far fetched. Until one day you find yourself standing in a random D.C. pizzaria taking hostages and demanding the children be freed from the basement?
Like I think I kinda get how that could happen.
Because it is exactly like that. I’ve been on the receiving end of an abusive relationship - the similarities here are astounding.
Same
Ignorance is bliss?
I guess? Maybe it just hits different if you’re not the group having a murder that was most likely carried out by a ring of narcissistic pedophiles somehow blamed on you?
Your mistake is thinking like conservatives have the same faculties as you. They don’t.
The thing they aim to do when they communicate, and the means by which they do it, are entirely different. Their words are not specific symbols for constructing meaning, but vibesy triggers for existing structures of meaning. It means they’re a lot more sensitive–one could say ‘reactive’ to that, but words do not ‘mean’ things to them in the same way they ‘mean’ things to you and I.
Likewise, when they talk, they’re not saying what the words they’re saying literally mean. They’re howling. Signalling to the pack or trying to get a response in an entirely interiority-free chinese-room sort of way.