ABC News’ Matt Gutman apologized Wednesday after conservatives ripped him for casting a romantic glow on the text exchanges between Charlie Kirk murder suspect Tyler Robinson and his roommate.
Gutman was accused of gushing over the terms of endearment Robinson apparently used, drawing the ire of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (“Legacy media in all its glory”), Indiana Sen. Jim Banks (“Wait, what???”) Fox News host Will Cain (“Fundamentally, irredeemably, broken”) and Meghan McCain (“Is everyone @ABC out of their minds?!”).
After the prosecution laid out its case at a press conference with text messages as evidence, Gutman focused on Robinson’s lovey-dovey language: “It was very touching in a way that many of us didn’t expect. A very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who was transitioning, calling him ‘my love’ and ‘I wanna protect you, my love.’”
“So it’s this duality of someone who the attorney said not only jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd, but was doing it in front of children ... and on the other hand, he was speaking so lovingly about his partner,” Gutman said.
On Wednesday, Gutman addressed the outrage he’d provoked:
