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.

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      That 70% figure is only achieved because they separated right-wing and Islamic extremists. Islamic extremists are right-wing extremists. If you add up all the categories who are right-wing it’s over 95%.

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        I can do basic math and tell you that it’s not over 95%, though it isn’t far off. With ~50 from left wing even if the rest was right wing, you’d need a total of over 1k, which there isn’t.

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          I should’ve said “over 90%” because this adds up to 93%. You felt the need to leave this comment and make me break out a calculator over 2%? There was another study that showed right-wing at 97% which is where I got that “over 95%.” I wrongly assumed this study was the same one that was posted yesterday.

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              “I can do basic math” and “it was pretty obviously wrong” are goofy things to say if you didn’t do the calculation in the first place, lol.

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                Not really. For it to be less than 5% the total has to be a least 20x. You don’t need exact numbers to see the total isn’t close to 1k.

                Nothing is actually calculated unless you want to count adding 3+2+2+1+1, rounding the big categories up. And 50x20, now that I think about it.

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

    Kirk’s ideology

    His ideology? You mean like christo-fascism and the right in general? The shooter found it “personally” offensive instead of politically offensive this “one” time?

    its crazy the amount of spin being put on this so it doesn’t turn into an other Luigi.

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    Who cares fake news ran with it was a liberal… Everyone now moved one and in their minds he is a liberal.

    Propaganda be like that. Useful idiots don’t care about the facts. A good narrative is more important.

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    I ready he thought charlie kirk was not far enough to the right. He was a nick fuentes groyper.

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      Because that’s the predetermined outcome the FBI is trying to manufacture.

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    When reached for comment, the investigator said, ‘look, we were trying to find every angle that it was a left wing extremist. If we don’t soon, just make some shit up. Hail Trump’

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    But…but he used Reddit and knew a trans person!!! That’s all the evidence you need to prove he was a leftist!!!

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      If true, that trans person was his lover. That is a big fucking leap over merely knowing one.