Trump says Kash Patel ‘has done a great job’ amid criticism over Charlie Kirk shooter investigation | EUROtoday

President Trump on Saturday praised FBI Director Kash Patel following the seize of a suspect within the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“I am very proud of the FBI,” Trump instructed Fox News Digital. “Kash—and everyone else—they have done a great job.”

Patel, a Trump loyalist with much less expertise than earlier FBI administrators, has confronted criticism, together with from the appropriate, over his dealing with of the manhunt that in the end captured suspect Tyler Robinson.

The search, which ended after lower than two days when Robinson allegedly confessed to his father and later turned himself in to police, noticed a sequence of embarrassing moments for the FBI, together with Patel prematurely asserting a suspect had been captured solely to backtrack.

“Historically, the FBI has been very cautious about releasing information to ensure that when they do, it is accurate,” former FBI agent Katherine Schweit, creator of Stop the Killing: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis and How to Talk About Guns With Anyone, instructed The Independent earlier this week, pointing to the bizarre nature of Patel’s posts in regards to the investigation.

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Behind the scenes, in the meantime, Patel reportedly berated his fellow brokers for not instantly exhibiting him a photograph of the suspect that had been discovered, although the picture was reportedly already in Patel’s briefing supplies, The Washington Post reviews.

Morale is low contained in the bureau, and Patel is seen as “crumbling under pressure,” sources instructed the newspaper.

The assassination, one of many largest exams but of Patel’s management, got here because the director had led a sequence of firings of prime brokers, together with three embellished FBI leaders who sued earlier this week, claiming they’d been focused for perceived disloyalty to Trump. Leadership reshuffles meant that the Salt Lake City FBI area workplace, which helped lead the Kirk shooter manhunt, was led by an agent with lower than a month on the job.

Influential right-wing activist Christopher Rufo wrote on X that Patel had “performed terribly” within the search.

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“We would be wise to take a moment and ask whether Kash Patel has what it takes to get this done,” Rufo continued. “I’ve been on the phone the last few days with many conservative leaders, all of whom wholeheartedly support the Trump Administration and none of whom are confident that the current structure of the FBI is up to this task.”

“Thoroughly unimpressed with Kash Patel after this,” conservative media determine John Cardillo wrote on X. “Public info releases from the Bureau have been clumsy and sloppy.”

Others on the web far-right reportedly mocked Patel for saying, after the gunman’s seize, that the FBI director would meet Kirk “in Valhalla,” the afterlife realm for warriors in Norse mythology.

According to the swimsuit from former brokers, Patel and a prime deputy, former podcaster and Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, allegedly instructed FBI officers that they need to be “posting more about their successful investigations and other ‘FBI wins’ on social media.”