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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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[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 227 points 2 weeks ago

“Yet”

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

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 19 points 2 weeks ago

"Yet" appears to be editorialized. The actual quote doesn't use that word

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 weeks ago

It says "thus far" which is synonymous

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Not quite.

Yet implies they expect to.

Thus far is more neutral, erring towards not expecting to find anything.

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[-] rafoix@lemmy.zip 133 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks 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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[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago

Utah is on the left side of the Country, he must be left!

[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 57 points 2 weeks 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.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks 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...

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 52 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 38 points 2 weeks ago

No. The right has decided and they’re banded together on this, at least among the people in my circles I still talk to.

“I’m all out of grace for the left.”

“You fascist, hate filled leftists have crossed the line this time. We’re done.”

“We’re past dialogue with you people.”

Catch the running theme? It’s likely what the pundits are pushing as the narrative, I’ve been too busy and too tired to listen in this week, so I don’t know.

And neither do they. But someone on the perception management team over there seems ready to give marching orders.

So yeah, as you say, it likely doesn’t matter.

[-] nozone@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago

but hey! he had a trans roommate or something!

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

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[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly. Just like the attempted assassinations of trump

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 weeks ago

He's a shadow recruit of George Soros, who is incredibly rich with $7 billion, which is a lot more than Elon Musk's paltry $429 billion and why he's so much more effective than poor, sensible, people like Musk at influencing politics and must be stopped. /j

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn’t matter the right made up their minds about this the second he was shot.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 weeks 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...

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[-] D_C@sh.itjust.works 29 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What leftwing groups or even prominent individuals in the US with any actual following advocate for political assassinations and direct violence against rightwing people they don't like? Where are all the lefties supposedly making calls to violence and terrorism?

The media and even a lot of people here will flip a shit about someone like Hasan Piker being so radical and yet if he even remotely said something like "maybe we should just start shooting rightwing media figures" an overwhelmingly massive chunk of Hasan's audience would tell him to fuck off and cause an uproar because that clashes with the basic foundational ideologies of leftwing movements in the US, they are about obtaining a state of freedom for all, the idea of targeted violence has little salience to a US leftist as we are well aware that 1. senseless violence doesn't change anything, it will not lead to freedom for all, it just accelerates the bad things. 2. the ruling class in the US will jump at any chance to radically villainize the left, the bulk of the country will blindly follow along in this, thus random senseless acts of violence aren't just bad because they are evil they actually existentially threaten leftwing movements in the US as a whole, leftists in the US are WELL aware of this...

The difference between the left vs the center and rightwing of the US is that the left actually builds coalitions on shared values, most leftists in the US these days are strongly influenced by figures like Bernie Sanders who has been mainly focused on broad social programs to improve people's quality of life like healthcare and for fighting wealth inequality. How the hell would advocating for shooting someone like Charlie Kirk make affordable healthcare more likely in the US? How would it help get the public focused on Citizen's United and getting money out of politics? Leftists in the US are about ideas and policies, this isn't just an aesthetic, if you enter US leftist circles and start advocating for targeted violence as retribution, preemptive violence or really for anything for any reason at all the leftists around you are going to turn on you for being a hateful bastard trying to distract from the actual issues at hand.

If there is one thing that ties virtually all leftists in the US together it is that we fucking LOVE to argue about things.... so much so that sometimes we can never agree on stuff because we want to argue the little details on and on forever. It is not lost on us that the very first thing that happens when you commit violence against others is that they stop listening to the wisdom of your arguments and ideas.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

If he had actually gotten connected with any decent left wing group - instead of just being stuck mostly alone in Utah to stew with his (totally understandable) anger at the things Kirk was saying - that group probably would have told him something like "bro, chill, shooting people is only going to make shit worse for everybody we care about, now wash these dishes instead so we can open the soup kitchen on time tonight, we got hungry neighbors"

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 25 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] ClownStatue@piefed.social 23 points 2 weeks ago

That is a load bearing “yet!”

[-] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] dirigibles@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[-] Gaja0@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 weeks ago

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 weeks 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.

[-] southrydge@lemdro.id 21 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] KnitWit@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

Utah gov about to have another press conference, ‘he was so deep into the leftosphere that we haven’t even been able to uncover his presence yet. Mark my words, we are working hard to find the connection.’

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

They’ll fabricate something.

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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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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[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 10 points 2 weeks ago

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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