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The Guardian - US
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Ben Makuch

FBI director ridiculed by far right for clumsy response to Charlie Kirk’s killing

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Kash Patel speaks in Orem, Utah, on 12 September. Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters

The killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has conjured a storm of online criticism on the far right towards the FBI director, Kash Patel, both for his perceived incompetent stewardship of the bureau and his invocation of Viking lore.

During the news conference announcing the arrest of Tyler Robinson, 22, the alleged killer of Kirk at a university campus on Wednesday, Patel made triumphant statements as Utah governor Spencer Cox looked on.

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