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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,468 posts)
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 08:16 PM Sep 2025

Running Tally of Investigative Mistakes Made By Kash Patel & Trump's FBI in the Charlie Kirk Assassination Investigation


Thus far, the second Trump administration’s Federal Bureau of Investigation has:

Arrested a suspect on-scene for Obstruction of Justice and then let Utah Valley State University officials and national media wrongly tell the public that this arrest was of the shooter, without correcting that misinformation for over an hour;

detained a second suspect merely for interrogation, then allowed Utah Valley State University officials and national media to wrongly tell the public that this arrest was of the shooter, without correcting that misinformation for several hours;

posted to the official social media feed of FBI director Kash Patel a false claim that the shooter was in custody, which misinformation then had to be retracted;

allowed Patel to post about this case as it was ongoing in the first instance, which is inconsistent with FBI protocols (which send all comms through the Special-Agent-in-Charge on-scene, who briefs the media at regular intervals on-camera);

https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/a-running-tally-of-investigative
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Running Tally of Investigative Mistakes Made By Kash Patel & Trump's FBI in the Charlie Kirk Assassination Investigation (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2025 OP
Too bad they fired all those experienced agents, huh Arkansas Granny Sep 2025 #1
Bingo!! FadedMullet Sep 2025 #2
It's a great time to be an assassin. Turbineguy Sep 2025 #3
FBI used to be the finest criminal investigative agency in the world. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #4
Wife and I are in season 8 of the 60s/70s tv series, The FBI, w/Efrem ZImbalist, Jr. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Sep 2025 #5
Accumulating likes on social media is way different malaise Sep 2025 #6
Who woulda thunk kerouac2 Sep 2025 #7

Irish_Dem

(82,369 posts)
4. FBI used to be the finest criminal investigative agency in the world.
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 08:33 PM
Sep 2025

Now it looks like a clown show.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(2,262 posts)
5. Wife and I are in season 8 of the 60s/70s tv series, The FBI, w/Efrem ZImbalist, Jr.
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 08:41 PM
Sep 2025

Maybe we should send the set over to Kash & Co when we're done!.

kerouac2

(1,519 posts)
7. Who woulda thunk
Thu Sep 11, 2025, 09:11 PM
Sep 2025

So much talent, top talent, the best I tell you... Thankfully we have others just like him running our country...

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