The federal investigation into the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has yet to find a link between the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, and left-wing groups on which President Donald Trump and his administration have pledged to crack down after the killing, three sources familiar with the probe told NBC News.
One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.”
“Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive,” this person continued.
In addition, two of the people familiar with the probe said it may be difficult to charge Robinson at the federal level for Kirk’s killing, while the third source said there is still an expectation that some kind of federal charge is filed against Robinson.
Factors that have complicated the effort to bring charges at the federal level include that Robinson, a Utah resident, did not travel from out of state; Kirk was shot during an open campus debate at Utah Valley University. Additionally, Kirk himself is not a federal officer or elected official.
A Justice Department spokesperson said, “The investigation is ongoing and beyond that we decline to comment.”
Here is what we know for sure about the shooter’s politics. His entire childhood, he was raised right wing. He even dressed up as Trump for Halloween a year or two ago.
Unless he specifically joined a group that promotes violence, there is simply no reason to think that his violence came from anything but his childhood.
So, even if it was hypothetically true, what MAGA has been saying, that he had recently been dating a trans woman, and his politics had changed, even if that hypothetical was true, it would just mean that his conservative upbringing that glorified violence got a different target.
Well if you want to dress up as something scary…
He started leaning left at some point.
Look, we need to accept that he was probably a liberal. It changes nothing, no one loses or gains the moral high ground with nazis and everything this administration is doing is shit they planned for. It might even be better this way then the slow trickle that they would have gone with otherwise because that is easy to distract from.
The first shots where fired every time an lbgtq person was the victim of a hate crime at the hands of one of Kirks followers.
Don’t humor lies. That’s like 101 here.
I am going to need more proof then ‘20 year ilds don’t text like that!’
1.) If you didn’t vote in '22 or '24 and legally had the ability, you’re not a liberal or a progressive, full stop.
2.) His steam account name was DonaldTrump.
I need more then a steam account that he had when he was deep in the Mormon shit hole.