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BumRushDaShow

(160,911 posts)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:39 AM Sep 22

Patel says FBI investigating 'possibility of accomplices' in Kirk shooting

Source: ABC News

September 21, 2025, 6:39 PM


During Charlie Kirk's memorial service on Sunday, FBI Director Kash Patel posted an update on the investigation of Kirk's assassination, saying the FBI is "pursuing every lead." Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested and charged with Kirk's murder, but Patel said the FBI is looking into the "possibility of accomplices."

"We are meticulously investigating theories and questions, including the location from where the shot was taken, the possibility of accomplices, the text message confession and related conversations, Discord chats, the angle of the shot and bullet impact, how the weapon was transported, hand gestures observed as potential 'signals' near Charlie at the time of his assassination, and visitors to the alleged shooter's residence in the hours and days leading up to September 10, 2025," Patel said in a post on X.

Patel made similar assertions during two days of House and Senate oversight hearings last week.

The online messaging platform Discord confirmed reports that about two hours before Robinson was taken into custody, he allegedly posted messages to a small group of friends on the platform that said, "Hey guys, I have bad news for you all … It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/patel-fbi-investigating-possibility-accomplices-kirk-shooting/story?id=125796980

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Patel says FBI investigating 'possibility of accomplices' in Kirk shooting (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 22 OP
I hope that Bill and Hillary have good alibis. markodochartaigh Sep 22 #1
I was thinking Obama, but good one. JohnnyRingo Sep 22 #11
MO: Keep looking until you can pin it on a Democrat. no_hypocrisy Sep 22 #2
Let me guess AZJonnie Sep 22 #3
So the head of the FBI is now posting on social media about a potential criminal investigation? Botany Sep 22 #4
And when asked questions by Congress they say they can't berniesandersmittens Sep 22 #7
Corrupt and feckless... IthinkThereforeIAM Sep 22 #17
They want this case to disappear. travelingthrulife Sep 22 #10
The right is selling the lie that the left is somehow behind the murder of Kirk. Botany Sep 22 #13
They are trying to pin it on the trans roommate? Irish_Dem Sep 22 #5
I don't believe one word from this current FBI. All they do is lie. Walleye Sep 22 #6
The rich widow is one poised to reap the continued grift PSPS Sep 22 #19
And she has probably already figured out how to avoid paying taxes on any of it. They are such "patriots" Walleye Sep 22 #20
Let's see --- top of the list, Joe Biden. Followed by Kamala, Jasmine Crockett, 3Hotdogs Sep 22 #8
lol. Gotta be a liberal somewhere on which we can pin this MAGA's murder of a fellow MAGA. travelingthrulife Sep 22 #9
From where do I claim my reward ... marble falls Sep 22 #12
Patel is desperately looking for anyone who can be accused of being from a Democratic family. Lonestarblue Sep 22 #14
"investigating the possibility" - So this isn't based on any actual evidence. NYC Liberal Sep 22 #15
It's like "concepts of a plan" BumRushDaShow Sep 22 #18
This is exactly correct, and pretty much what they've been doing Prairie Gates Sep 22 #21
They are really desperate to find ANYTHING they can use to blame it on the left. NYC Liberal Sep 22 #25
cleless Patel making noise azureblue Sep 22 #16
Setting himself up for another major fail. Patel is truly stupid. The perfect Trump appointee. Thick as a brick. Martin68 Sep 22 #22
He peaked at Nunes' staff assistant. vanlassie Sep 22 #27
He's chasing X conspiracy theories. There's no way it doesn't end up back with the Groypers. underpants Sep 22 #30
While you're at is maybe you can find out if Elvis is still alive Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 22 #23
Or BumRushDaShow Sep 22 #24
He's trying to find a federal nexus so he and AG Barbie can try the case in federal court. Ocelot II Sep 22 #26
I love your analysis. The interstate connection is that he's a Groyper (Fuentes) underpants Sep 22 #31
They got the murderer of Melissa Hortman on federal charges Ocelot II Sep 22 #32
Patel: Well for one thing. We'd like to know why one member of the chat left to go walk his dog. LuvLoogie Sep 22 #28
Yep. Drag this out as long as possible. johnnyfins Sep 22 #29
They lie about everything Wiz Imp Sep 22 #33
"hand signals"... LudwigPastorius Sep 22 #34

markodochartaigh

(4,181 posts)
1. I hope that Bill and Hillary have good alibis.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:44 AM
Sep 22

Seriously though the guy in the black shirt with the hand signals and the guy in the white shirt with the camera seem odd.

JohnnyRingo

(20,179 posts)
11. I was thinking Obama, but good one.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:05 AM
Sep 22

I don't trust much of what Patel says. We'll see the evidence.

AZJonnie

(1,672 posts)
3. Let me guess
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:06 AM
Sep 22

His accomplices were "Shifty" Schiff, AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Kamalamaladingdong, in conjunction with Dr. Fauci, a clandestine gaggle of Haitian Immigrants, MS-13 members, RuPaul, Rosie O'Donnell, and the entire cast and production crew of 60 Minutes?

Botany

(75,389 posts)
4. So the head of the FBI is now posting on social media about a potential criminal investigation?
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:06 AM
Sep 22

This crosses every line. He is not qualified for the position he holds.

Btw the DUer in this thread had it exactly right with this:

MO: Keep looking until you can pin it on a Democrat.

berniesandersmittens

(12,662 posts)
7. And when asked questions by Congress they say they can't
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:29 AM
Sep 22

speak about matters currently under investigation.

This whole admin is corrupt, from the top to the bottom.

IthinkThereforeIAM

(3,234 posts)
17. Corrupt and feckless...
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:49 AM
Sep 22

... and to any MAGAt lurkers, "feckless" has nothing to do with not being able to fornicate.

travelingthrulife

(3,370 posts)
10. They want this case to disappear.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:04 AM
Sep 22

The MAGA shooter seems like he came from wealth. Can't have their lives upset.

Botany

(75,389 posts)
13. The right is selling the lie that the left is somehow behind the murder of Kirk.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:26 AM
Sep 22

Kirk = Jesus = Trump.

Seig Heil mit Herr Miller not a Goebbels like speech but exactly a Goebbels speech.


Walleye

(42,645 posts)
6. I don't believe one word from this current FBI. All they do is lie.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:21 AM
Sep 22

Somebody should take a look to see who’s making so much money on this killing

Walleye

(42,645 posts)
20. And she has probably already figured out how to avoid paying taxes on any of it. They are such "patriots"
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:55 AM
Sep 22

3Hotdogs

(14,613 posts)
8. Let's see --- top of the list, Joe Biden. Followed by Kamala, Jasmine Crockett,
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:30 AM
Sep 22

Jack Smi - aw fuck it.

Just take a picture of Congress from the speaker's platform. Anyone on the left side of the floor, indict the fucke

Wait.

Why even go through the bother of a grand jury?

NYC Liberal

(20,425 posts)
15. "investigating the possibility" - So this isn't based on any actual evidence.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:44 AM
Sep 22
We are meticulously investigating theories and questions


In other words, they don't have anything. Pretty sure any murder investigation includes looking into possible accomplices.

Prairie Gates

(6,367 posts)
21. This is exactly correct, and pretty much what they've been doing
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:10 AM
Sep 22

They take something completely ordinary, and then punch it up as if they're doing something remarkable.

Every murder investigation will do at least a cursory examination to determine whether there are accomplices. I mean, duh. Here, they punch up that utterly ordinary task with the words you identified: "We are meticulously investigating theories and questions..."

This is essentially corporate bullshit coming out of the FBI director. He's saying almost nothing, as you correctly state. Good post!

NYC Liberal

(20,425 posts)
25. They are really desperate to find ANYTHING they can use to blame it on the left.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:34 PM
Sep 22

I’m guessing the trans roommate (if that’s true) had absolutely nothing to do with it and had no knowledge. Otherwise you can be damn sure they would be shouting about it from the rooftops.

Now they need something else. My guess is all the evidence points to the shooter being some flavor of right-wing, so we will probably stop hearing much more about the whole thing soon. The guy will be tried and convicted and rot in prison.

azureblue

(2,567 posts)
16. cleless Patel making noise
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:48 AM
Sep 22

to try to rebuild his ruined reputation. He has nothing to go on and no brain to go on with. So he will lie and try to create a "Bad" Democrat out of thin air. Watch.. Then it will backfire on him..

Martin68

(26,519 posts)
22. Setting himself up for another major fail. Patel is truly stupid. The perfect Trump appointee. Thick as a brick.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:04 PM
Sep 22

underpants

(193,278 posts)
30. He's chasing X conspiracy theories. There's no way it doesn't end up back with the Groypers.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:59 PM
Sep 22

I’ve seen all the crazy “what ifs” mentioned by him on X and Facebook. More crazy below.

The almost certainly shooter is a Groyper. Follower of Nick Fuentes, bitter rival of Kirk’s. Fuentes came out and basically admitted it the best night saying any of his followers who “took up arms against rivals” would be “disowned”.

All the language etched on the rounds was immediately recognized by people who watch these groups as part of the canon and dogma of Groypers.

Are you ready?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220662720

BumRushDaShow

(160,911 posts)
24. Or
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:49 PM
Sep 22

find where Jimmy Hoffa's body is. Geraldo Rivera certainly couldn't find it on his own!!11!!11

Ocelot II

(127,482 posts)
26. He's trying to find a federal nexus so he and AG Barbie can try the case in federal court.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:41 PM
Sep 22

If he can find accomplices or coconspirators who participated in planning the shooting using the Internet, which is an instrumentality of interstate commerce, he can prosecute Robinson in federal court. This would not take the case away from Utah, since there can be parallel prosecutions (though the outcome, the death penalty, would be the same in either case). But Patel stepped pretty hard on his dick during the initial investigation, and he probably figures that if the feds can take the lead in the prosecution he might look less of a putz.

underpants

(193,278 posts)
31. I love your analysis. The interstate connection is that he's a Groyper (Fuentes)
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:19 PM
Sep 22

The language is all the same. There’s a pic of him doing a stance that’s basically a Groyper gang sign.

I took Kimmel”s “….anyone but them” was alluding to that.

You’re right he has to find something outside of Utah but it’s going to take some serious control. So far Utah has appeared to be as insular as stereotyped. Kirk is the savior of distraction but there’s always a time to get to the next story. Jesus they are ALL in on Kirk. It’s like the Epstein files, they got in waste deep and can’t get out.

Ocelot II

(127,482 posts)
32. They got the murderer of Melissa Hortman on federal charges
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:28 PM
Sep 22

even though he never left Minnesota, because he had used the Internet, US mail and GPS to plan the murder and to stalk the victims (stalking using instrumentalities of interstate commerce for the purpose of inflicting fear, harm or death is a federal crime), and for using a firearm in connection with that federal crime. I think Patel is looking for a similar nexus. (Boelter is also being prosecuted on murder and attempted murder charges in Minnesota, which means he can't be pardoned.)

LuvLoogie

(8,285 posts)
28. Patel: Well for one thing. We'd like to know why one member of the chat left to go walk his dog.
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 07:50 PM
Sep 22

The chat member said, and I quote. "Sick! Guys, I have to go walk my dog."

Now everyone knows that "Sick." means "Cool" or "Awesome" in today's lingo. And going to walk your dog when a human has just been brutally murdered suggests more concern for an animals comfort than the sanctity of human life. Is this a member of that radical leftist group PETA?

Karoline Leavitt the next day. " We know that one of the ring leaders was a possible member of PETA and other leftist groups like Antifa."

Wiz Imp

(7,547 posts)
33. They lie about everything
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:46 PM
Sep 22
The online messaging platform Discord confirmed reports that about two hours before Robinson was taken into custody, he allegedly posted messages to a small group of friends on the platform that said, "Hey guys, I have bad news for you all … It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this."


If that's true, then why wasn't it included in the transcript in the charging document?

LudwigPastorius

(13,492 posts)
34. "hand signals"...
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:18 PM
Sep 22

What is this, the Federal Bureau of QAnon?

I bet Patel has already reached the conclusion that the trans roommate, in collaboration with George Soros, is guilty...and now he just needs to work backward and 'find' the evidence.

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