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.”
Damn I wonder why this can’t be tied to the left? 🤔 Makes you think
They’ll make something up. It’ll be a bad forgery, but they’ll run with it because they’re arrogant.
I think the only reason there hasn’t yet been a full-blown pogrom against the LGBTQ community is that the shooter they apprehended was a far-right groyper and not the far-left antifa terrorist they assumed would target someone like Kirk.
But with the sheer number of people on the left openly celebrating Kirk’s death, I don’t think they’ll really need evidence to start going after the left.
Pretending to be sad about the spearhead of the Nazi youth is just pathetic. Even if everyone pretended it would not stop them, it is just a matter of if you go down swinging or not.
I heard that he might be one at first, but newest news say exactly what the article said: no groyper, no leftist.
Which makes sense because it both sounded weird to me that a leftist would write “whoever reads this is gay lol” or that a right-winger would write “Bella chiao” or “take that, fascist”.
I think one of them said catch fascist or something like that. Which is kind of funny. But if you can read this you are gay. I think he was just messing with everybody at this point.
This is a great example of how BOTH sides live in bot-fed echo chambers - just as much misinformation was flowing in the progressive online communities (including here) and it didn’t help our credibility.
We really need to get in the habit of sourcing things before we breathlessly repeat them on social media. It’s not hard to verify something.
Don’t worry I’m sure they’ll find some eventually if they just keep looking. The libs are very good at hiding themselves. Sometimes they vote for republicans, that’s a sure sign their liberal, voting for republicans.
Doesn’t matter the right made up their minds about this the second he was shot.
Since when have the american right ever cared about facts? These guys are all feefees, no brain. Its why every time somebody capitulates to their demands they create a new dumber demand.
But somehow trans people are the terrorists. The Heritage Foundation even cited Tyler Robinson as evidence of “trans shooters”
I know that the apparently had a trans woman mate but was he personally himself trans, I hadn’t heard that. Was it just more made up nonsense.
They’ll fabricate something.
forensically
I hate to say this but I feel like nbcnews will be shut down for this article
The guy had a left hand. If that’s not enough evidence, I don’t know what you need.
/s
I don’t know why anyone cares about this kid. He’s the alleged shooter. The feds still haven’t provided anything credible to prove he was the guy, no video of the kid on the roof with the rifle, no bullet, no medical report, weird people in the crowd causing a distraction, tampering of the crime scene, clearly fake text exchange…there are so many more important questions that need answers.
And yet, even with this dude they don’t have a shred of evidence of left-wing involvement.
He had a left hand. Checkmate!
Clearly fake text exchange… that the other party of the chat admits participating in?
Have you read the text exchange? No timestamp, no confirmation on what platform the exchange even took place on so that the third party could verify their legitimacy, and their exchange just so happens to layout the motive, discussed the murder weapon, uses perfect punctuation, and just flat out sounds weird.
To be real, I have no idea if those messages are fake or not. At this point, nobody but the FBI can vouch for their legitimacy and they don’t have the best track record.
Because the current admin needs someone to pin this on to appear competent and strong because that’s the foundation of their entire worldview. And they need him to fit an ideological profile so they have something to point to as justification as they continue to escalate their response to political dissent.
Case in point: Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air for deviating from the accepted party line because the FCC threatened ABC/Disney with retaliation.
It honestly doesn’t matter. Did or didn’t, left right, or corkscrew. If we knew definitively now factually 100% he can conclusively be put into 1 bucket. The facts don’t matter to them. The truth is already in.
To be on their side, you “know” the “truth”.
And if you don’t “know” the “truth”, than by gee you seem awfully suspicious mr…
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth.
— George Orwell, 1984
If he was a lefty they would have been rubbing our faces in it day 1, not doctoring social media messages.
…yet
Why not look at the other wing group? Ah too much evidence
But damn it all if they aren’t going to spend millions looking.
Or millions making it up
It’s the Iraq WMDs of this administration.
