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.”

“Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive,” this person continued.

In addition, two of the people familiar with the probe said it may be difficult to charge Robinson at the federal level for Kirk’s killing, while the third source said there is still an expectation that some kind of federal charge is filed against Robinson.

Factors that have complicated the effort to bring charges at the federal level include that Robinson, a Utah resident, did not travel from out of state; Kirk was shot during an open campus debate at Utah Valley University. Additionally, Kirk himself is not a federal officer or elected official.

A Justice Department spokesperson said, “The investigation is ongoing and beyond that we decline to comment.”

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    “Yet”

    The investigation will continue until we have completed the manufacturing process.

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    They don’t need any links or ties to justify their hate. They just need feelings of being oppressed, wronged, robbed, and disrespected. There is no excuse needed to blame and attack people who aren’t like them. It’s in their DNA, they’ve done this since before this country was a country.

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    Yeah, no kidding there is no connection because there is virtually nothing organized on the left. And what prominent left wing groups use the kind of stochastic terrorism that the conservatives use?

    I mean, on the conservative side, it starts from the very top, with Taco, and continues on down to the very bottom to your average red-hatter. All of them constantly make threats involve violence, all the time.

    Taco talked about “second amendment people”.

    Project 2025 architect says there will be a bloodless revolution, if liberals allow it.

    Kirk gets shot and the conservatives all, without knowing anything about the shooter, decared war on the majority of the country…

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    And there won’t be.

    This was predicted during the first Trump administration. A MAGAt is primed for violence for ten years & then figures out he’s been lied to and propagandized the entire time. They then use that violence on the very scum that lied to them.

    Sometimes the Stochastic terrorism boomerangs.

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    It honestly doesn’t matter. Did or didn’t, left right, or corkscrew. If we knew definitively now factually 100% he can conclusively be put into 1 bucket. The facts don’t matter to them. The truth is already in.

    To be on their side, you “know” the “truth”.

    And if you don’t “know” the “truth”, than by gee you seem awfully suspicious mr…

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      And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth.

      — George Orwell, 1984

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    Here is what we know for sure about the shooter’s politics. His entire childhood, he was raised right wing. He even dressed up as Trump for Halloween a year or two ago.

    Unless he specifically joined a group that promotes violence, there is simply no reason to think that his violence came from anything but his childhood.

    So, even if it was hypothetically true, what MAGA has been saying, that he had recently been dating a trans woman, and his politics had changed, even if that hypothetical was true, it would just mean that his conservative upbringing that glorified violence got a different target.

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      He even dressed up as Trump for Halloween a year or two ago.

      Well if you want to dress up as something scary…

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      He started leaning left at some point.

      Look, we need to accept that he was probably a liberal. It changes nothing, no one loses or gains the moral high ground with nazis and everything this administration is doing is shit they planned for. It might even be better this way then the slow trickle that they would have gone with otherwise because that is easy to distract from.

      The first shots where fired every time an lbgtq person was the victim of a hate crime at the hands of one of Kirks followers.

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    Bullshit. I heard his bestmates’ mothers’ hairdresser’s nephew once changed the oil on a cars transmission.
    Checkmate, you murderous loony lefties!!!

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      Since when have the american right ever cared about facts? These guys are all feefees, no brain. Its why every time somebody capitulates to their demands they create a new dumber demand.

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    Man I really thought his steam play history (specifically power washing simulator) was going to reveal some radical left links!

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    I don’t know why anyone cares about this kid. He’s the alleged shooter. The feds still haven’t provided anything credible to prove he was the guy, no video of the kid on the roof with the rifle, no bullet, no medical report, weird people in the crowd causing a distraction, tampering of the crime scene, clearly fake text exchange…there are so many more important questions that need answers.

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      Because the current admin needs someone to pin this on to appear competent and strong because that’s the foundation of their entire worldview. And they need him to fit an ideological profile so they have something to point to as justification as they continue to escalate their response to political dissent.

      Case in point: Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air for deviating from the accepted party line because the FCC threatened ABC/Disney with retaliation.

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    Utah gov about to have another press conference, ‘he was so deep into the leftosphere that we haven’t even been able to uncover his presence yet. Mark my words, we are working hard to find the connection.’

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      “As yet, the Ultimate Evil remains largely unmanifest, and its powers and exact intentions are still a bit obscure since it lurks just outside the range of even the most sensitive, long-range detectors which we feel gives conclusive evidence as to The Ultimate Evil’s nefarious intent.” - Spathi

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    If he was a lefty they would have been rubbing our faces in it day 1, not doctoring social media messages.