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FBI Director Kash Patel said Tyler Robinson, the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk, wrote a note stating his intention to "take out" the influential conservative activist.

Patel, speaking to Fox & Friends on Monday, said the FBI had "forensic evidence" of the note, but that it had "since been destroyed."

They have a note but it's been destroyed. Yeah, nothing fishy about this BS at all and it goes without saying completely incompetent that they continue to leak half baked, incomplete investigative information.

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[–] selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 21 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Shooter was a MAGAt from a MAGAt family. Left a note saying what he was going to do. So the 'government"'s response? Oh we gonna crack down on the left's violence and make it illegal to be a Democrat!

Fucking morons...

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

...can we all stop with the dumb insults like "magat"? It's always so cringey. That honestly sounds like something a MAGA idiot/Russian agitator bot would say.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

he "left" a note?

large scale left wing conspiracy confirmed

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

He also had to write* it.

*alternative spelling

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 34 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

This is literal toddler-level finger pointing.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

Newsweek. Its a tabloid and should not be used for serious discussion.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Toddlers can learn better.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Yes. Yes they do.

Source: raised 5 kids, last one is still toddler

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 hours ago

Damn liberals. So cunning that they recruited a right wing nut job to shoot a right wing nut job.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I'm just kinda impressed that a political assassin has managed to follow the golden rule of having been arrested: shut the fuck up, repeat ad nauseum

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Do you really think he hasn't been talking this whole time? If he said anything supporting the Left, they'd have blabbed it all over the world. They're just saying he's not saying anything because what he's really saying is far-far right stuff.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

That's the rule when you're a petty criminal, or a lawful person being investigated. When you are committing civil disobedience or terrorism, you fucking claim it.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 hours ago

This is pathetic even by tinpot dictatorship standards.

[–] Corelli_III@midwest.social 5 points 8 hours ago

smells like bullshit, maybe they will fuck up prosecution

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

I think this kid just wanted to be famous calling him left and right wing shows a clear lack of understanding the internet

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 68 points 18 hours ago

They read the note from golden plates inside a hat and then an angel took them to heaven.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

My guess would be that it was a note on some form of digital media. Say you make a document on your computer that you later delete. The data doesn't actually get deleted, your computer just removes the location from it's giant table of contents and marks the space "available to write". Typically that information can still be retrieved using software tools until it is actually overwritten, and even then there are exceptions. So yes, it is entirely plausible for them to have forensic evidence of a note that someone attempted to destroy.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

Or it just gets automatically uploaded to microsoft.

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Except that isn't what he said. He didn't say that someone attempted to destroy it. He said it was destroyed.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Maybe I should have left that out, that's just me analyzing it too much. But lets say you shred a document. You would probably say that you've destroyed that document. If someone then took the pieces from the trash and painstakingly put them back together into a readable document, did you still destroy it? Or did you attempt to destroy it?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 99 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"It was kept in the home of the suspect and his alleged transgender partner,"

Why keep mentioning the transgender thing from just an allegation about someone who had nothing to do with this? These fuckers know exactly what the fuck they're doing.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 13 points 8 hours ago

The governor finds a way to put "transgender" in every sentence, and at the same time he deliberately uses the wrong pronouns for this person.

They're doing it on purpose, and it is disgusting.

[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 79 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

We found a note where he said he did this in honor of his black transgender immigrant girlfriend named Marxina McWoke. But the dog ate it.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

This is toddler shit. Fucking clowns.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 30 points 19 hours ago

The note probably also said that he was the one who messed with the 2020 elections so that Trump didn't win. And also the note said that he had planned all the wildfires that have hit USA recently.

In a few months he will probably also confess to spreading the Covid Virus in the US

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 56 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The note says that Biden personally asked him to do it. But it’s magically disappeared. There is not note. Stop asking about the note.

[–] Natanael 16 points 18 hours ago

The note is among the Epstein files. They don't exist.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 156 points 1 day ago (8 children)
[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 129 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, but he LEFT it. It was a note that was LEFT.

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[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago

Patel, speaking to Fox & Friends on Monday, said the FBI had "forensic evidence" of the note, but that it had "since been destroyed."

So there was no note

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Either he's lying or someone is committing the crime destruction of evidence.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 35 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

It was destroyed when his Canadian girfriend and his dad who works for Nintendo were fighting over it.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 10 points 18 hours ago

I heard the note was deep within the source code of Half Life 3

[–] j_roby@slrpnk.net 124 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (17 children)

I read a ~~great thread on Bluesky earlier~~ detailing how many times Kash Patel may have completely botched this case by all the stupid things he's said on FOX today. Definitely worth a read!

*Edit to add ~~Skyview thread unroll link~~

*Edit #2: it was pointed out in the comment below that many folks in the thread I linked are calling into question the OOP's claims and professional background. After a brief view myself, there is at least one person within those comments whom I do believe when they say its "full of errors"
I'm leaving my original comment up for now for posterity sake, but I am more than willing to remove it if that would be more appropriate.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

Upvoting for honesty.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It’s been less than a WEEK, and they DESTROYED the NOTE??

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[–] ceph@lemmy.world 26 points 21 hours ago

I'd be more inclined to believe the FBI if it wasn't gutted and ransacked only to be run by the stupidest doofuses to ever have existed.

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