The more details that trickle out about the FBI’s handling of the Charlie Kirk assassination manhunt, the stranger it all looks. According to a New York Times report, agents in Salt Lake City sat on a photo of the suspect for nearly 12 hours before showing it to FBI Director Kash Patel. Yes, twelve hours—during an active search for an assassin who had just murdered one of the most prominent conservative activists in America.
Kash Patel needs to clean up the incompetence FBI. The agents in Salt Lake City waited 12 hours to give him information and a picture of the suspect. He and Bongino had to fly to Utah to personally take over the investigation themselves.
Unfuckingbelievable… pic.twitter.com/WJwZlNBQ1c
— Alberto Gutierrez (@DeezzzNutzzz07) September 12, 2025
Independent journalist Breanna Morello highlighted the report, noting that Patel confronted roughly 200 agents in a tense online meeting the next morning. Patel, along with his deputy Dan Bongino, reportedly ripped into subordinates, furious that such a critical piece of evidence was kept from him. Patel even called it a “Mickey Mouse operation,” one of the few things he said without profanity, according to participants on the call.
Think about how insane that is. You don’t need a badge and a bureau-issued firearm to understand that time is everything in a manhunt. Photos and videos can make the difference between an assassin vanishing into thin air and being caught within hours. And in this case, the FBI eventually released those very photos to the public—which led to Tyler Robinson, the killer, being turned in by his own father. So why the delay? Why the hesitation?
Patel himself has been candid. In a post on X, he admitted he went against “all law enforcement recommendations” when he released the suspect photos to the public. In other words, someone inside the system was telling him not to release information that ultimately ended the manhunt. If that doesn’t raise eyebrows, nothing will.
Now, the Times’ reporting should always be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism. But the bigger questions remain regardless of the outlet. Why would any law enforcement agency sit on a suspect photo for half a day when the nation was on edge? Why would officials recommend withholding that information from the public, especially when thousands of people were looking for ways to help?
Whether this was incompetence or something worse, it doesn’t pass the smell test. Charlie Kirk was assassinated, the country was reeling, and the FBI allegedly sat on actionable intelligence. If Kash Patel’s frustration is any indication, this isn’t going to be swept under the rug. Something is very, very fishy here.
There are still many in the Federal government operating against the Trump Admin. They were probably delaying to see if they might have to cover someone’s tracks or just ignore some evidence.
Not a conspiracy: “3000 members of the Obama Administration.” Back in 2020, the MSM did not report the full text of an AP article. On 16 May 2020, the AP reported Barack blasted Trump’s handling of the pandemic in an online graduation speech. The MSM gleefully reported that and ignored the rest of the article. A couple sentences later, the article stated Barack also made the remarks during a “conference call with 3000 members of his administration.”
So, Obama left the WH in Jan 2017, but in May 2020, was still conducting conference calls with 3000 people who identified as part of his administration. I can only imagine the conference calls continued through Biden’s time, encouraged them to cover for Joe. The calls are probably still happening. That scale of a conference call takes planning and coordination. Hundreds of people across the country still participating, or looking the other way. Phone records would show who they are, as they probably use their office land lines, or personal cell phones.
It is safe to presume that most of the 3000 people were probably still in the Federal government. They are proud of “resisting” Trump and believe they are “saving democracy.”