Harvard Law professor spreads debunked rumor about Charlie Kirk assassination suspect

A 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.

The Democratic group also tried to link the messages etched into bullet casings found near the suspect’s weapon to a “white nationalist” and video games.

Of one casing engraved with the message, “Hey fascist! Catch!,” the group claimed the inscription “does not appear to be a left-wing ‘antifa’ message” and tried to connect it to a popular video game.

The other etchings included the phrases “Notices,” “bulges,” “OWO,” “what’s this?,” “Bella ciao bella ciao ciao,” “If you read this, you are gay LMAO” and a series of arrows, one pointing up, one pointing to the right and three pointing down. 

“Bella Ciao” is an anti-fascist song popularized by left-wing Italian partisans during World War II, according to the New York Post. 

Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman and Gabriel Hays contributed to this report.