SHOCK Alleged Details About Lance Twiggs and Tyler Robinson's Life

In September, a popular YouTuber by the name of Tom Swanson, who's known as Turkey Tom, that's his moniker, at the platform, dropped a bombshell report about Lance Twiggs and Tyler Robinson. Swanson claims that a friend of Robinson's and Twiggs reached out to him, providing him with new details about their relationship, what life was like inside their apartment, and the events leading up to the shooting. First, some background on Tom Swanson. He's very popular on YouTube. He has over 1.5 million subscribers. He puts out long-form documentary-style videos about online controversies, mostly to do with internet and gaming culture. And that is clearly how this person found him. In September, he covered Charlie's murder in a 40-minute video that he posted to YouTube. Watch. Who was actually behind the assassination? A whole day and a half after the shooting, on the evening of the 11th, the pictures of the killer in a cap and dark glasses were released. One of Tyler's friends, who was in the same Discord server with about 18 other people, sent the picture to their chat, jokingly remarking that it looked like Tyler, and asking him where he was at. Tyler responded, saying that his doppelganger did it, to which someone else sarcastically replied, Tyler killed Charlie. Clearly, the mere concept of Tyler doing such a thing was something his acquaintances wouldn't even consider. He was a seemingly intelligent guy, as his mother proudly bragged on Facebook about his 4.0 GPA. He was a mild-mannered indoorsman who gamed a lot, and although he wasn't a Republican like the rest of his family, he also wasn't even registered to vote, and didn't express his opinions that much. Swanson says after that, someone familiar with both Robinson and Twigs reached out to him. This person wanted to remain anonymous, he says, but says that they have been friends with Robinson and Twigs for six years, and that this source, this friend, counted them as close friends of his. Swanson says this person provided Swanson with a multitude of information to verify this person's identity. They also provided photos from inside Twigs and Robinson's apartment, drawings allegedly made by Lance Twigs, and Discord archives of three servers that this person claims that he was in, along with Twigs and Robinson. Swanson says to his knowledge, the only other people who have the Discord servers outside of the people who were in them is the FBI. Now, we reached out to Swanson, and he stood by his story. So to be clear, this is Swanson's reporting. We have not independently verified the messages sent by the anonymous friend. We did reach out to the FBI, who told us they do not comment on ongoing investigations. The Swanson report was picked up by various outlets online, but others questioned it. Some specifically wondering whether Swanson was being used by someone, possibly the government, to spread information they wanted into the public domain. Fair question. We have no way of verifying or dismissing those suspicions. But since the court has decided to allow such secrecy around the Twigs video, we decided to err on the side of more disclosure, and let viewers decide what value this is. Twigs has refused to speak with the media, including us. The Daily Mail reports that he and his family have now moved to Texas, where the mail caught up with Twigs en route to or from a Taco Bell, and they report that he refused to speak with them. Swanson, meantime, said he did reach out to Twigs after getting this report from the alleged friend, and reports that Twigs told him he could not say anything due to the ongoing investigations. The Megyn Kelly Show also attempted to connect with Lance Twigs and with Swanson's source, but we received no response. A family member of Lance Twigs did speak with Brian Enten of News Nation back in January. Here is what she said, just to set this up, about Twigs and Robinson and those now infamous texts that allegedly were exchanged right after the shooting. There's text messages between Tyler and Lance where they're texting after the event. A lot of people find them unusual. The world that they were in, like this gaming world, like that was a normal way that they kind of spoke, that this wasn't an abnormal. The way they spoke wasn't abnormal. The FBI has said all along that Twigs is cooperating with the authorities. First, we'll start with what this anonymous friend said about Lance Twigs. We did not censor or redact these texts. Swanson said he did censor parts of the texts in order to keep his source's identity private. The friend was a wealth of information. For example, he told Swanson that Robinson and Twigs' apartment would, quote, drastically shift from clean to super dirty, depending on the state of Lance's mood. He said they would have friends over, but everyone would kind of get weirded out by all the trash. The friend said Twigs basically had layers of wires, random Timu trinkets, decorations, random art projects, clothes and empty alcohol containers everywhere. And if anyone touched it, he'd get livid. The friend provided this photo allegedly from inside the apartment. He said Twigs would have piles and piles of random messes like this all over the home, but usually it was much worse than what you see in this photo. For the listening audience, it's a long table like you might set up at a Thanksgiving dinner with just wires and electronics and a mess all over it. The friend went on writing, Tyler, quote, was always really levelheaded and easygoing. But Lance could be anywhere from too depressed to talk to to manic, wide eyes, crazy person, end quote. The friend said Tyler Robinson loved to talk about hunting, camping and gaming, but that Lance Twigs had a different personality. If he became too depressed, he would take the day off work and just scroll online while vaping. He said Twigs also had a habit of doing experiments in the kitchen using Tupperware to grow mold. He also accused Twigs of doing all kinds of drugs, weed, LSD, DMT and shrooms. He said Twigs consumed, quote, alcoholic levels of alcohol. DMT is a hallucinogenic tryptamine drug that produces a brief but intense visual and auditory hallucinogenic experience. The friend gave details about Twigs alleged relationship with his family, writing, quote, Lance has always been a little weird and quirky, but never really crazy. He was constantly arguing with his mom every time he saw her and then ranting about Republicans and Mormons when he got home. Swanson reports that the friend told him that one day Twigs announced he was transgender. The friend did not give a time frame of when this exchange happened, writing, quote, he told me he was trans and that it wouldn't change anything and that I could even use whatever pronouns and he wouldn't care. End quote. The friend said after Twigs came out as transgender, Twigs started to clean up the house and became, quote, mostly normal. The friend group returned to having in-person gaming nights, and the friend said at first he didn't realize that there was a romantic relationship developing between Twigs and Tyler Robinson, writing, quote, one of my gym buddies was the first to pick up on Tyler and Lance being really close. I was in denial for months because I thought Tyler was straight. And also, I kind of did not want it to be true. Eventually, I kind of snapped out of it like the ninth time I saw them asleep and cuddling on the couch. The friend said at one point he became uncomfortable seeing the pair constantly making out. The friend said they started noticing changes in Twigs as the presidential election of twenty twenty four got closer. He claims Twigs started complaining about people staring at him, which the friend thought was weird since Twigs did not care what pronouns people even used for him and had not done much to mask his biological sex besides changing his hairstyle and wearing mascara. Regarding Tyler Robinson, quote, Tyler wouldn't really get political until after the election. He'd sometimes just casually bring up the latest thing Trump had done and complain about what it would do to the country, but in a very level headed way, end quote. Then he continued, quote, after the election, they became a lot more political, but not to an extremist level. By this point, I could safely say Lance and Tyler were some flavor of left wing, but never anything I thought was like dangerous. The friend also describes Twigs, quote, beginning to grow breasts. The friend does not give a time frame of when this happened, but it seems it would have been in late summer, early fall 2025, writing, quote, a couple of months before we noticed Lance had been growing breasts and said he'd been taking black market HRT, which I do not know what that would entail, but I think it was making him very erratic. By black market HRT, we believe he's referring to hormone replacement medications obtained without a prescription or medical supervision. Obviously, that would come with all sorts of risks, including the drugs being counterfeit, corrupted or the wrong dosage. The friend said that in January 2025, the group held another in-person gaming night. Twigs threw cards and seemed erratic, writing, quote, Lance had gone upstairs and gone into full tantrum mode and was thrashing around on the floor while Tyler tried to calm him down. This would be, by our count, nine months before Charlie's murder. After that, Lance went ******* mental. This is in quotes, and he'd be super wide eyed with either a loopy grin or a rictus grin like the ******* Joker, depending on his mood. The friend wrote that Twigs began making weird drawings while giggling, performing more experiments and hardly ever slept. The friend telling Swanson, quote, the experiments got scarier to like jugs of water with whisks full of aluminum foil that had two copper wires coming out of them. The friend also sent Swanson several photos of drawings he claims Twigs made and left all over the apartment. In this one, you see the reads stabilize and calm down. In this one near the crease, it reads I'm alone. The friend sent Swanson numerous photos of the scribbles. It's unclear when these photos were taken, either before or after Charlie's murder. We don't know. But you see the drawings are on Post-it notes inside journals, books and letter paper. The friend Swanson claims told him that while these drawings look creepy, what was scarier was how Twigs would giggle as he drew. The friend writing, quote, if I were religious, I would have called an exorcist. The smile was so ******* scary. Twigs also apparently started using chat GPT to solve equations backwards. The friend said the chats went on forever and that Tyler Robinson said at one point that Twigs had been up for three straight days talking to chat GPT. The friend writing to Swanson and that's Turkey Tom, from whom we're getting this reporting, quote, Twigs would sometimes just be sobbing in Tyler's arms and Tyler would be rocking him back and forth. We all thought Tyler was a trooper for putting up with Lance in that state. The friend also sent Swanson a photo of a condom on a bathroom sink and wrote, quote, crazily enough, while Lance was like that, Tyler was still hitting that. Obviously, he means the pair was having sex. The friend said that at some point prior to Charlie's murder, Lance Twigs had apparently begun seeing a psychologist writing, quote, we all thought Lance would be OK because he had Tyler, who was basically his handler at this point to take care of him. But then Twigs got in a fight with his grandfather and his car was taken away. The friend continued, quote, I imagine Lance was just alone with Tyler in the apartment, just driving Tyler ******* crazy. I'd be hard pressed to stay sane while living alone with Lance while he's like that. Swanson claims the friend told Swanson that the friend moved away, but would still have discord calls with Twigs and Robinson, writing, quote, Lance joined and would say like one thing, then be silent. And Tyler would talk just normally. Tyler even joined the call like two weeks before the assassination and acted completely normal, end quote. The friend also addressed Robinson's alleged confession messages to Twigs. In the messages, Robinson refers to Twigs as my love, which many people have remarked sounds odd for two Gen Z young men. Swanson reports that the friend told him it is true that Robinson would use that term of affection for Twigs, writing, for the record, Tyler 100 percent calls Lance my love when they are talking alone. That, more than anything, makes those texts real to me, end quote. The friend Swanson claims concluded by writing about Robinson's demeanor after Charlie's shooting, quote, after talking to another friend, apparently right after he did the shooting, he joined a bunch of different discord calls, asking if anyone had seen the news while breathing heavily. And literally the next day he was in the call, just chatting with people, playing one of his puzzle games. As we mentioned, the friend also appears to have sent Tom Swanson discord logs. They date back to 2020. Most of them are just back and forth jokes, but one of them is dark. When you see these on the screen, Tyler Robinson is zealous monkey. Lance Twigs Twigs is flux a lot. Any other name in the conversation has been blacked out by Tom Swanson. A friend writes, quote, they should remake snakes on a plane. But instead of snakes killing people on a plane, dot, dot, dot, Robinson responds, snakes on a peen. Twigs responds, gross. The friend responds, quote, nobody said gross when you said you wanted to F your two year old cousin, Lance, end quote. Obviously, we don't know the context of that message or whether Twigs ever made such a statement. Maybe the friend was just joking around, but it's obviously disturbing. The friend who Swanson says sent him these messages made no allegations even remotely like that in his own messages about Twigs. It's unclear if the friend in the discord chat is the same one contacted Swanson, but there are a few more notable messages, and they include this one from Tyler Robinson. It was written in 2020, and it reads, quote, I wish at least ---- like anti Vax wasn't protected under freedom of speech because it's speech that actively harms people. It's very interesting. He's starting to make distinctions between speech that's OK and speech that's not OK and and harmful speech being on the not OK list. Robinson also took issue with being called a furry by the friend back in 20 who also took issue with being called a furry by the friend back in 2020 writes this. The country's going to ----. I told someone I wasn't going to watch their anime one time and get called a goddamn furry. So he wrote there. He didn't appreciate that. But then, of course, he goes on to data furry and worse. I'm going to get to it in a second. In 2023, Robinson allegedly wrote about the trade school he was then attending, quote, second day of electrical school. We're doing basic math like learning fractions and ----. I paid tuition for this. In July twenty twenty four, Robinson purportedly wrote about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's life, quote, snowflake liberals can't shoot straight because they're too busy being gay. It's very interesting that he's lamenting anti Vaxpeak in twenty twenty and in twenty twenty four talks about snowflake, no snowflake liberals who can't shoot straight in September of twenty twenty five. We're told he shot Charlie Kirk because some hate can't be negotiated out in June of last year. Twigs also posted about a no King's protest against President Trump asking if anyone wanted to go to it. It's unclear if he went or if anyone responded. Tom Swanson also detailed some of the other online accounts belonging to Robinson, who, according to Swanson, had been railing against being called a furry in twenty twenty, but was now listing his pronouns as they them and mentioning a furry website. Watch. Tyler had a few blurbs of unusual online presence that I hadn't seen. For example, he had a deviant art under his older handle Krafton 247, where he lists himself as they slash them. It's not possible for this account to belong to someone else that created it after the assassination as it was created two years ago. Then we have another account with the same exact handle, this time on for affinity. But there doesn't seem to be any significant activity on it, just like on deviant art. And for those of you who don't know, for affinity is like the the furry website. It's the number one furry website. OK, then there's this final message. This is the full alleged discord chat of Robinson confessing to murdering Charlie Kirk to the group, which investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein reported in the days following the shooting. Reading from the bottom up. September 10th. Friend, Charlie Kirk got shot dead. Another friend. I just saw the video. Holy ----. Rest in peace, I guess. Bro didn't deserve to go out like that. Sad. Someone appearing to be Robinson then writes the next day. Hey, guys, I have bad news for you all. It was me at UVU yesterday. I'm sorry for all of this. I'm surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments. Thanks for all the good times and laughs. You've all been so amazing. Thank you all for everything. The next day, a friend writes. Hey, everyone, if you have not seen the news yet, Tyler's post above is true. He was taken into custody earlier today for the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Regardless of the horrible actions that took place, you must take this moment to remember that God is a living and loving God who loves all his children. God calls sinners to be his saints. And I ask that you all take a quiet moment to pray for Tyler and his repentance. While Charlie Kirk's politics were not acceptable to some, I ask that we all say a prayer for him and his family during these confusing times. Love you all. God bless. And of course, the FBI has alleged Tyler Robinson did turn himself in through the help of a family friend who was a retired deputy sheriff. The FBI has said that Twiggs is being treated as a significant and essential witness and that he is not a suspect. And that's certainly going to be center stage moments from now as he speaks out in this much objected to courtroom video over which they continue to haggle. Would love to hear your feedback. You can email me to Megan, M-E-G-Y-N at MeganKelley.com or just leave a comment below. But join the community by becoming a subscriber. We really, really value your input and your support. We may not always agree, but we are always going to talk about it and respect. No BS, no agenda, no fear. For the first time since World War II, our national debt has exceeded the gross domestic product. America's reckless government spending keeps catching up with us. 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