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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.”

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[–] Gaja0@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bro he has 2 discord messages in like 4 years and they read like 'trump might get impeached' and 'it looks like trump is in the lead' on election night.

Is there some line where it's acceptable to start murdering oppressors? No one would argue against jews murdering their nazi oppressers, but bisexual murdering homophobic stochastic terrorists? How much must one endure before being permitted to act in favor of their own survival?

[–] lowleekun@ani.social 19 points 2 days ago

Looking at how the palestinians have been treated and our reaction to their resistance shows people need to endure their complete extermination before the oppressors accept acts of defense.

The right knows full well that they openly cheer on terror acts from the right but they pretend to value the same ethics. They don't and we should not give them the benefit of the doubt. We should stand to what we say. It is time to take back the narrative.

Charlie Kirks killing was by no means a tradgedy and i will refuse to be sorry for such a dick reaping the hate he sowed while innocents are getting bombed with the very weapons we supply.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump: "If you can't find evidence, invent some. Here, have a sharpie."

[–] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

And if you won't use the sharpie, you're fired and I'll find someone who will

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago
[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So no evidence of collusion with left wing groups and no word about anything on right wing groups.

Not that I trust any of these law enforcement to do any actual due diligence in their investigation of this guys ties to racist Republican ideology even though his whole family is MAGA.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

He was a groyper. They have been threatening violence against Kirk, Shapiro and Trump since 2019. They know this, which is why Shapiro is in hiding shitting his pants since Kirk got shot.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The guy had a left hand. If that's not enough evidence, I don't know what you need.

/s

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

I'm sure the guy who modified a hurricane path map with a sharpie wouldn't cook up the result he wants on this.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

don't worry, They don't need actual factual ties.. they've already made plentiful amounts of false information that fox news and other conservative outlets have run with.

cause its not about truth and facts, its about the narrative.. and the narrative has to be about how hateful right wing extremists are the poor victims of the big mean liberal agenda.

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[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

They’ve already spread the message that he is and they’re not known to retract anything, just double down if they’re proven wrong, so they’ve already done their damage. It doesn’t matter what the investigation finds.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The reality is people are messy. They don’t typically fit into neatly defined boxes and neither do their politics, even when given a forced choice in a duopoly every 4 years.

What we know so far. He’s from a conservative Christian family and was raised such that he knew how to use that family rifle and make that difficult shot. And he may be gay with a maybe gay or trans partner, it’s all very mysterious. And the reporting on his politics are flip floppy. No neat box there.

And the engravings, if the article I read today is to be believed, they reference a meme and Helldivers 2? Some inside joke about nuke dropping or something. ??? Was this half LARP for him, hence the disengaged texts afterwards?? Who knows.

There’s no neat and tidy here, no matter how much the perception management brigade wants it to be so.

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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

The search continues

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Facts and evidence are for libruls. We just know!"

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago
[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago
[–] Naich@lemmings.world 7 points 2 days ago

Since when has lack of any evidence stopped Trump farting out his usual halfwitted bullshit? It doesn't matter if they find any evidence or not, the demented orange fuckwit will say it was those evil leftists.

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