UNDER-FIRE ABC NEWS REPORTER MATT GUTMAN ISSUES GROVELING APOLOGY OVER SYMPATHETIC KIRK ASSASSIN COVERAGE

ABC News correspondent Matt Gutman issued a groveling apology Wednesday after coming under fire for his bizarre take on text messages sent by Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, and his transgender partner. The network’s chief national correspondent said he now “deeply” regrets the way he breathlessly described the suspected assassin’s deranged texts as “intimate” and “very touching.”

“Yesterday I tried to underscore the jarring contrast between this cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk — a man who dedicated his life to public dialogue- – and the personal, disturbing texts read aloud by the Utah County Attorney at the press conference,” Gutman said in his apology on social media. MORE AT ABC News reporter Matt Gutman apologizes for sympathetic Charlie Kirk assassin coverage