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SunSeeker

(56,786 posts)
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 07:06 AM Sep 20

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, federal officials say

Source: NBC News

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.”

Following Kirk’s shocking assassination, which has sparked a wave of grief, fear and fury on the right, Trump and his allies have threatened to come after left-wing advocacy groups that they saw as fomenting the anger that led to Kirk’s death.

Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, said left-wing organizations amounted to a “vast domestic terror movement.” “With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” Miller said recently. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”



Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/no-evidence-charlie-kirk-shooting-left-wing-groups-rcna232513



Stephen Miller makes me want to vomit.
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'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, federal officials say (Original Post) SunSeeker Sep 20 OP
Dumb fucks tried to pin it on "the left" Blues Heron Sep 20 #1
Put that on a hat. twodogsbarking Sep 20 #3
They're still trying to pin it on "the left" RazorbackExpat Sep 20 #8
They're ALWAYS gonna blame the left. calimary Sep 20 #15
always have been pinning and blameing it on the left. AllaN01Bear Sep 20 #30
ALINSKY!! ALINSKY!! ALINSKY!!! Montauk6 Sep 20 #33
It has to be there because they are hiding it. Like, well, weapons of mass destruction. twodogsbarking Sep 20 #2
shithole going to fire all of the federal officials too................... Lovie777 Sep 20 #4
They don't say there is no evidence about right wing tie tho kerouac2 Sep 20 #5
Don't expect anything from this administration LeftInTX Sep 20 #12
They just can't admit their toxic behavior is the source of these violent right wingers. travelingthrulife Sep 20 #43
Free clue for repube 'officials' BoRaGard Sep 20 #6
Tyler Robinson has been described as being "terminally online," "a guy who plainly had Internet brain poisoning." sop Sep 20 #7
FIRE THEM ALL! PuraVidaDreamin Sep 20 #9
Exactamundo. He will say more Charlie less Epstein! GreenWave Sep 20 #35
I somehow fell in a rabbit hole over a GOP congressional aide who burned to death on Sunday LeftInTX Sep 20 #10
That's what Kimmel was saying and got fired because of it Bengus81 Sep 20 #11
Why do NBC News reporters even talk to Stephen Miller? FakeNoose Sep 20 #13
Post removed Post removed Sep 20 #14
Stephen Miller IS vomit Bev54 Sep 20 #16
At least after I vomit COL Mustard Sep 20 #18
They're too stupid to manufacture credible "evidence". paleotn Sep 20 #17
They know they'd be outed in five minutes which would make it worse for MAGA idiots Bengus81 Sep 20 #32
Let him waste all his days trying to out ANTIFA... MiHale Sep 20 #19
Crazy world we live in. They do the shooting Baitball Blogger Sep 20 #20
They don't need no stinking evidence. Gary 50 Sep 20 #21
Miller is a cancer... GiqueCee Sep 20 #22
It was personal. coffeenap Sep 20 #23
Interesting. VTderry Sep 21 #44
What Miller was really saying was StarryNite Sep 20 #24
I think what he meant was GopherGal Sep 20 #27
Yes, that too. StarryNite Sep 20 #29
No proof of a vast left-wing conspiracy IS proof of a vast left wing conspiracy. YodaMom2 Sep 20 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author QueerDuck Sep 20 #26
Curiously says nothing about Right Wing groups C_U_L8R Sep 20 #28
Huh, could be he is just a good old MAGA person with republianmushroom Sep 20 #31
If Rat Face Miller truly believed in God he wouldn't have Buddyzbuddy Sep 20 #34
Put the searchers who found "massive" 2020 presidential election voter fraud onto this. Gimpyknee Sep 20 #36
In his mind, Robinson was making America great again by ridding it of Charlie Kirk. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Sep 20 #37
GOP "Think Tank" is on the case. Please hold. usonian Sep 20 #38
The two assassination attempts on Drumpf were registered Repukes. The Kirk assassin was in a MAGAot family. Evolve Dammit Sep 20 #39
I hear right wing heads exploding Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 20 #40
"thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups." J_William_Ryan Sep 20 #41
doG IS his witness, Abolishinist Sep 20 #42

RazorbackExpat

(622 posts)
8. They're still trying to pin it on "the left"
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:04 AM
Sep 20

They're stuck in the '70s when a couple of "leftists" tried to off President Ford, and the Symbianese Liberation Army kidnapped Patty Hearst.

calimary

(87,935 posts)
15. They're ALWAYS gonna blame the left.
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 09:20 AM
Sep 20

That’s all they’ve got, and it isn’t even remotely true.

To me, they’re really starting to look pathetic.

Lovie777

(20,495 posts)
4. shithole going to fire all of the federal officials too...................
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 07:20 AM
Sep 20

RWers throwing shit to see what sticks but apparently the only shit that's sticking are RWers' stinky smell.

kerouac2

(1,293 posts)
5. They don't say there is no evidence about right wing tie tho
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 07:22 AM
Sep 20

Funny how they are saying they can't find tie to left but aren't mentioning the right, which he seems to have had ties with in the past...

Article does at least mention rw being worse than all other groups combined, along with a graph.

Including this

Since 2002, right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terrorism plots in the United States, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

travelingthrulife

(3,365 posts)
43. They just can't admit their toxic behavior is the source of these violent right wingers.
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 09:20 PM
Sep 20

Pretty clear the shooter is and was a MAGA type. His gun humping family and his religious training groomed him since birth.

BoRaGard

(7,586 posts)
6. Free clue for repube 'officials'
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 07:23 AM
Sep 20

You just might want to check out his right-wing roots which run so damn deep

sop

(16,219 posts)
7. Tyler Robinson has been described as being "terminally online," "a guy who plainly had Internet brain poisoning."
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 07:57 AM
Sep 20

Trump's First Amendment crackdown should be directed at social media companies spreading their poison, but that would require going after many of his closest benefactors.

LeftInTX

(34,006 posts)
10. I somehow fell in a rabbit hole over a GOP congressional aide who burned to death on Sunday
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:40 AM
Sep 20

Somehow I stumbled on tweets about Charlie Kirk and how his shooter was involved in some Armed Queers group in SLC. No evidence, just that there was an Armed Queers group in Utah and since his roommate was queer and the shooter was armed, he was obviously involved with them.

I think Trump reads this stuff and thinks it's true. Even Sen Mike Lee was retweeting the stuff.

Bengus81

(9,459 posts)
11. That's what Kimmel was saying and got fired because of it
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:41 AM
Sep 20

No mention of Saint Charlie anywhere.

FakeNoose

(38,776 posts)
13. Why do NBC News reporters even talk to Stephen Miller?
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:59 AM
Sep 20

It's obvious that Miller has no useful information on this case, and everything he says is total bullshit.

If NBC is going to quote Stephen Miller on anything, they also have a responsibility to fact-check what he says before they publish any of it. This is on you, NBC! Do your job properly or get out of the news business.

The same goes for the other news networks, including Faux Noise.

Response to SunSeeker (Original post)

GiqueCee

(2,855 posts)
22. Miller is a cancer...
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 09:58 AM
Sep 20

... even his uncle despises him. He's been a despicable, lying sociopath his entire life.

coffeenap

(3,276 posts)
23. It was personal.
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 10:46 AM
Sep 20

Kirk was famous for energizing the mean and cruel parts of people. He trained by verbally accosting old people at arts festivals in Illinois while still in high school. I knew him when he was a child, had one off connection to him for many years. He was not nice.

VTderry

(51 posts)
44. Interesting.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 07:19 AM
Sep 21

He always struck me as a textbook case of arrested development -- stuck in the know-it-all teenage asshole phase that some boys go through, with a heavy dusting of taking pleasure in the misery of others, in his case.

Those "Prove Me Wrong" banners he used to fly were hard evidence that he never understood how often and thoroughly people did.

StarryNite

(11,876 posts)
24. What Miller was really saying was
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 10:47 AM
Sep 20

“We will do everything we can to exploit Charlie’s name. We will milk this for everything it’s worth. To take the focus off the Epstein files and to silence anyone who doesn’t agree with us.”

GopherGal

(2,612 posts)
27. I think what he meant was
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 12:08 PM
Sep 20

"We're forging the proof as fast as we can! We've got our best men on it!"

YodaMom2

(122 posts)
25. No proof of a vast left-wing conspiracy IS proof of a vast left wing conspiracy.
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 11:07 AM
Sep 20

They’re so good at covering their tracks, you’ll never find any evidence. What more proof do you need?

That’s why they never found any credible evidence that the 2020 election was rigged.

And no evidence of climate scientists phonying up studies to benefit “big green energy”.

And nothing credibly linking vaccines to autism.

You can’t prove the left did any of these things because they don’t *want* you to. They’re that diabolical.

What more proof do you need?

In case it wasn’t evident.

Response to SunSeeker (Original post)

republianmushroom

(21,487 posts)
31. Huh, could be he is just a good old MAGA person with
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 12:39 PM
Sep 20

no ties to a left wing group. More firing if there is no evidence.

Buddyzbuddy

(1,576 posts)
34. If Rat Face Miller truly believed in God he wouldn't have
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 01:28 PM
Sep 20

invoked God to witness his his evil lies and activities.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,172 posts)
37. In his mind, Robinson was making America great again by ridding it of Charlie Kirk.
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 01:49 PM
Sep 20

In a roundabout way, Kirk killed himself, as he was part of the sickness of MAGA-ism. Perhaps, this is what was going through Thomas Crooks mind with his attempt to cut off the head of The Snake.

Evolve Dammit

(21,254 posts)
39. The two assassination attempts on Drumpf were registered Repukes. The Kirk assassin was in a MAGAot family.
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 06:08 PM
Sep 20

J_William_Ryan

(3,034 posts)
41. "thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups."
Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:33 PM
Sep 20

‘Thus far,’ 'yet.’

Nothing this government does can be trusted or believed.

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