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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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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

I hate to say this but I feel like nbcnews will be shut down for this article

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

They’ll fabricate something.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

But somehow trans people are the terrorists. The Heritage Foundation even cited Tyler Robinson as evidence of "trans shooters"

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago

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...

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

If he was a lefty they would have been rubbing our faces in it day 1, not doctoring social media messages.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 hours ago

And there won't be.

This was predicted during the first Trump administration. A MAGAt is primed for violence for ten years & then figures out he's been lied to and propagandized the entire time. They then use that violence on the very scum that lied to them.

Sometimes the Stochastic terrorism boomerangs.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Exactly. Just like the attempted assassinations of trump

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

But damn it all if they aren't going to spend millions looking.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

It's the Iraq WMDs of this administration.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago

But we sure are lookin'. Cletus has gotten into generative AI, so we'll see what comes up.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 6 hours ago

If the Discord groups he hung out in were leftist or in any way "antifa" they would have been screaming about it this whole time. He hung out in far right meme circles. It looks like they've decided on the lone, crazy gunman approach so they can avoid accountability yet again.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

but hey! he had a trans roommate or something!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Maybe. That might have also been fully fabricated. Hard to tell anymore.

Will be very funny if all this bullshit FBI efforts to blame someone other than him somehow gets his case thrown out.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 59 minutes ago

Yeah we've left the era in which we can trust narratives that are being built, and that's really fucking bad for everyone. This is especially present whenever claims of trans people come up. History may find out what happened but we won't know aoon

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, from the stuff posted, it sounds like he used it just like most people do. To have conversations with friends about life and games. But that won't stop them from continuing to talk about them like they were. It's all lies all the time.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour 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.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 6 hours ago

Bullshit. I heard his bestmates' mothers' hairdresser's nephew once changed the oil on a cars transmission.
Checkmate, you murderous loony lefties!!!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

When I was young, cars were either manual or automatic, none of this in the middle bullshit!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

CVTs are a symptom of the woke mind virus

[-] [email protected] 53 points 8 hours ago

They don't need any links or ties to justify their hate. They just need feelings of being oppressed, wronged, robbed, and disrespected. There is no excuse needed to blame and attack people who aren't like them. It's in their DNA, they've done this since before this country was a country.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

This is the level-headed comment so far. Its true too about hate, that's how he pulled the trigger, an intense hatred. He didn't just disagree with Kirk on most stuff, no, he must have rejected and despised every word he said. Honestly, I've seen some of that hatred too, its real and scary to see people talking about really desiring to hurt other strangers. Coming from either side.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, no kidding there is no connection because there is virtually nothing organized on the left. And what prominent left wing groups use the kind of stochastic terrorism that the conservatives use?

I mean, on the conservative side, it starts from the very top, with Taco, and continues on down to the very bottom to your average red-hatter. All of them constantly make threats involve violence, all the time.

Taco talked about "second amendment people".

Project 2025 architect says there will be a bloodless revolution, if liberals allow it.

Kirk gets shot and the conservatives all, without knowing anything about the shooter, decared war on the majority of the country...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The last time anything resembling the left in this country committed terrorism on a large scale was by anarchists in the late 19th and early 20th century. They did via bombing. https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-anarchist-incidents

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Weather Underground was in the 1960s-70s but was bombing as well.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 45 minutes ago

Hasn't that almost always been the case? It seems to me that generally, left-wing terrorism is rare. When it is committed, it's almost always destruction of property, a building, a piece of equipment, etc. Right-wing terrorism seems to always be about targeted destruction of human lives.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 7 hours ago

Man I really thought his steam play history (specifically power washing simulator) was going to reveal some radical left links!

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

We'd kno wIf he was remotely left of center he'd have gotten the Luigi / Hannibal Lecter treatment

[-] [email protected] 187 points 10 hours ago

“Yet”

The investigation will continue until we have completed the manufacturing process.

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[-] [email protected] 117 points 10 hours ago

lol It’s so obvious that they’re starting this investigation with a “conclusion” and they’re trying really hard to make it fit.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

I'm just shocked that despite that, they seem to actually at some level be admitting the evidence doesn't fit the narrative. I would have fully expected them to try, fail, then just make something up without ever making a peep that the narrative may have been off.

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