FBI Director Kash Patel reiterated Wednesday that the family of Charlie Kirk murder suspect Tyler Robinson, “who has since been interrogated, specifically stated to FBI interrogators that because of the video that the FBI released at my direction, and because of the photographs that they released, they identified their son.
“They confronted their son when he swung by their home,” Patel said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the FBI. “And that's what led to his apprehension.”
“We are still -- the FBI -- has that investigation ongoing, and it continues to be ongoing,” Patel also said.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who is the Ranking Member of the committee, told Patel earlier, “When Charlie Kirk was assassinated while his killer was still on the loose, you decided you didn't need to be at FBI headquarters in Washington to work with your team while the chaotic manhunt unfolded.
“You spent your evening dining in a swanky midtown Manhattan restaurant and tweeting out false information that the subject of the shooting was in custody, a statement you had to retract one hour later,” he continued. “Your performance was so disturbing that even the MAGA base was alarmed.”
“The FBI might be able to survive your delusions of grandeur and the explosively volatile temper that was on display yesterday in the Senate. But the intractable problem is that you are running the FBI not as a law enforcement agency charged with keeping the American people safe, but as a political enforcement agency working directly for the president's vengeance campaign,” Raskin also said.
Posted by Greg Norman
