Three police officers and the suspect who opened fire on them are dead after a shooting that took place on Wednesday afternoon in North Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania. Two other officers remain in critical condition but are considered stable.
According to multiple reports, the suspect was the subject of a stalking and trespass charge that was filed earlier in the day in York County, and police were going to make an arrest when the shooter — who has not yet been identified — instead opened fire.
Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner, Col. Christopher Paris, confirmed during a news conference on Wednesday afternoon that three of the Northern York Regional Police Department officers involved had been killed and their attacker had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Paris also announced that an investigation was still ongoing.
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BREAKING: Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner confirms *THREE* police officers from the Northern York Regional Police Dept are dead after a shooting in Codorus Township, near Spring Grove in York County. Two more injured.
Attacker is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. <a href="https://t.co/IohF3u4fDG">pic.twitter.com/IohF3u4fDG</a>
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1968442077198385346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a statement following the tragic shooting, saying via X, &#8220;The @FBI and @ATFHQ are on the scene supporting local law enforcement following the shooting of multiple police officers in York County, Pennsylvania.
Violence against law enforcement is a scourge on our society and never acceptable. Pray for the officers involved.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ATFHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ATFHQ</a> are on the scene supporting local law enforcement following the shooting of multiple police officers in York County, Pennsylvania.
Violence against law enforcement is a scourge on our society and never acceptable. Pray for the officers involved.
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/1968430529033773295?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Governor Josh Shapiro (D-PA) also commented on the shooting, praising law enforcement officers for the work they do every day — and also pointed out that their families serve with them.
&#8220;It’s an extraordinary thing what these law enforcement families do. They support the individual who puts on the uniform and runs toward danger. They’re there for them when they leave in the morning, and they pray throughout the day that they will come home at night,&#8221; he said.

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) used some of his time during a Wednesday hearing to grill FBI Director Kash Patel over what the FBI is no longer doing in order to be more effective and less political.
Jordan asked Patel — who spent much of his Senate hearing on Tuesday and his House hearing on Wednesday facing off with Democrats in both chambers — a series of rapid-fire questions before giving the Director a chance to answer them. Nearly every question referenced something that the FBI had been accused of doing under former President Joe Biden.
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🚨 BREAKING: Jim Jordan just asked Kash Patel a flurry of rapid fire questions and embarrassed every Democrat who has continuously smeared Kash&#8217;s performance at the FBI.
&#8220;Is the FBI still spying on parents at school board meetings?&#8221;
KASH: &#8220;No, sir.&#8221;
&#8220;Is the FBI still targeting… <a href="https://t.co/52gToYqKkD">pic.twitter.com/52gToYqKkD</a>
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&#8220;Director, yes or no, is the FBI still spying on parents at school board meetings?&#8221; Jordan began.
&#8220;No, sir,&#8221; Patel replied.
&#8220;Is the FBI still targeting Catholics?&#8221; Jordan wanted to know.
Patel again answered, &#8220;No, sir.&#8221;
&#8220;Is the FBI still spying on President Trump?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t believe so,&#8221; Patel responded with a chuckle.
&#8220;Is the FBI still censoring Americans?&#8221; Jordan asked.
&#8220;No, sir,&#8221; Patel confirmed.
Jordan asked another: &#8220;Is the FBI still targeting Americans for shopping at Cabela&#8217;s or purchasing Bibles?&#8221;
&#8220;Nobody is targeted for their faith,&#8221; Patel said.
&#8220;Is the FBI still targeting Americans who are pro-life?&#8221; Jordan asked.
&#8220;Nobody is targeting anyone for their beliefs,&#8221; was Patel&#8217;s reply.
&#8220;Is the FBI still cooking the books on crime data?&#8221; Jordan wondered.
&#8220;The crime data is real,&#8221; Patel laughed again.
&#8220;Is the FBI still purging agents for conservative viewpoints?&#8221; Jordan wondered.
&#8220;No one at the FBI is asked their viewpoints on politics,&#8221; said Patel.
&#8220;Is the FBI still labeling the Betsy Ross Flag, the flag of the American Revolution, a &#8216;hate symbol?'&#8221; Jordan asked one last question.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Patel responded.
&#8220;Well, maybe that&#8217;s why you&#8217;ve been able to — what was the number, 23,000 bad guys you&#8217;ve arrested? A HUGE increase from the same time period in the previous administration? I think you said 1,400 predators? 4,000 children rescued? Were those the facts?&#8221; Jordan asked.
&#8220;Forty-seven hundred. A 33% increase on children rescued,&#8221; Patel clarified.
&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; Jordan responded, noting that under Patel&#8217;s leadership, the FBI had also caught the person responsible for the Abbey Gate bombing during the previous administration&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. &#8220;Maybe when you&#8217;re not focused on politics, you can focus on what the FBI is supposed to do — GO GET THE BAD GUYS!&#8221;

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FBI Director Kash Patel went toe to toe with several Democrats during a Tuesday hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, clashing with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) over the release of files related to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Raskin, who led the second impeachment hearings during President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term, heavily suggested that Patel was stonewalling Democrats in their persistent efforts to make the Epstein files public — efforts in which they showed no interest while former President Joe Biden was in office — and that he was likely doing so at Trump&#8217;s request. Patel repeatedly reminded Raskin that numerous court orders prevented him from simply releasing the files.
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🚨 &#8216;I&#8217;M NOT GONNA BREAK THE LAW TO SATISFY YOUR CURIOSITY!&#8217;: Kash Patel beats down the insufferable Rep. Jamie Raskin, holds nothing back. <a href="https://t.co/LLzsGfrEWx">pic.twitter.com/LLzsGfrEWx</a>
&#8220;YOU didn&#8217;t join us when we filed in the courts to release the court orders. You could&#8217;ve. You have lawyers. You…
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&#8220;You were sworn in as director more than 200 days ago. Now the Black Book is under your direct control. So why haven’t you released the names of Epstein’s co-conspirators in the rape and sex trafficking of young women and girls?&#8221; Raskin demanded.
Patel pointed to the multiple court orders and a previous agreement Epstein had reached with federal prosecutors, noting that the disgraced financier had been free for 12 years and previous administrations — including former President Barack Obama&#8217;s — had done nothing to move his case forward.
&#8220;Has anyone released more information on Epstein than I have? Did Comey? Did Wray?&#8221; Patel asked, and Raskin insisted that it wasn&#8217;t enough.
&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you just release the entire file as you promised to do?&#8221; Raskin asked.
&#8220;I literally just told you, there are multiple federal court orders, I’m not going to break the law to satisfy your curiosity,&#8221; Patel shot back. &#8220;You didn&#8217;t join us when we filed in the courts to release the court orders. You could&#8217;ve. You have lawyers. You could&#8217;ve shown up. You didn&#8217;t do that!&#8221;
&#8220;That’s a tiny fraction of the material we’re talking about,&#8221; Raskin insisted.
Patel pointed out that if the information had not been released, Raskin could not possibly know how much information there was. &#8220;How do you know that? Have you seen everything?&#8221;
&#8220;It’s all misdirection,&#8221; Raskin claimed as his time expired.

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Daily Wire host Isabel Brown is set to speak at a Turning Point USA event at Colorado State University — an event where the campus organization’s founder, Charlie Kirk, was initially scheduled to appear before his assassination in Utah on Wednesday, September 10.
Brown, an alumna of CSU herself and the former TPUSA president for that campus’ chapter, said that the organization had declined to cancel the planned event in the wake of Kirk’s murder — but had instead booked a larger venue and forged ahead with what quickly became a vigil for their late founder.
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Charlie Kirk was scheduled to speak tomorrow at my alma mater, Colorado State University, where in 2018 he came to speak to our <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TPUSA</a> chapter while I was then-chapter president.
He was SO excited to be back in Fort Collins, and two weeks ago was texting me links to local media… <a href="https://t.co/mJt3zd0uCm">pic.twitter.com/mJt3zd0uCm</a>
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb/status/1968295242110472206?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Charlie Kirk was scheduled to speak tomorrow at my alma mater, Colorado State University, where in 2018 he came to speak to our @TPUSA chapter while I was then-chapter president,” Brown posted via X. “He was SO excited to be back in Fort Collins, and two weeks ago was texting me links to local media coverage about his return to campus.”
When Kirk was shot during an appearance at Utah Valley University a week prior, however, Brown said that the expectation was that TPUSA would cancel the Colorado State University event.
“Everyone expected the students to cancel their event,” she continued. “Instead, they moved it — to the largest venue on campus as a place for people across Colorado &amp; the West to mourn Charlie&#8217;s life and honor his legacy. I am humbled and honored to have been asked to return to CSU to speak tomorrow at Charlie&#8217;s vigil.”
“This will be one of the hardest events I’ve ever done, but easily the most important by a mile,” she concluded. “See you tomorrow, Rams. God Bless You.”
Brown offered her thoughts on Kirk’s passing — and his legacy — in a lengthy post still pinned to her X profile.
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Words will never be able to convey how devastated we are that Charlie Kirk was taken from us far too soon.
I had the honor and privilege of not just knowing Charlie professionally as a fellow warrior in the conservative movement, but as a close friend and my most influential… <a href="https://t.co/atGBDlfYUs">pic.twitter.com/atGBDlfYUs</a>
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb/status/1965925470261670305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“He transformed the world. And we will never be the same without him,” she said at the time.

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) refused to let it go when CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins claimed that no one could really speak to the motive in last week’s assassination of conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Cruz joined Collins to discuss the still-unfolding case after charges were officially filed against suspected assassin Tyler Robinson, 22, and text messages between Robinson and his live-in boyfriend — who is transitioning to identify as a woman — were released to the public.
“We don&#8217;t have a motive yet. We don&#8217;t know yet. We&#8217;re waiting,” Collins said, noting that several officials have spoken about the shooting and the subsequent arrest, as well as a number of interviews with people who knew Robinson.
“Of course we know. Come on. &#8216;We don&#8217;t have a motive yet. We know we don&#8217;t have a motive yet.&#8217; Really, that&#8217;s CNN&#8217;s position? He happened to fire the gun in celebration?!” Cruz pushed back.
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CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins on the Charlie Kirk assassination: &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a motive yet. We don&#8217;t know yet. We&#8217;re waiting&#8230;&#8221;
Sen. Ted Cruz: &#8220;Of course we know. Come one. &#8216;We don&#8217;t have a motive yet. We know we don&#8217;t have a motive yet.&#8217; Really, that&#8217;s CNN&#8217;s position? He… <a href="https://t.co/n2ERQpoa73">pic.twitter.com/n2ERQpoa73</a>
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Collins continued to claim that the motive was unknown, and Cruz continued to push back as the segment progressed.
“With all due respect. You know exactly what I&#8217;m saying. I&#8217;m not arguing with you politically. I&#8217;m saying that law enforcement has not put a specific motive. You know that there&#8217;s a difference of what they&#8217;re putting in a legal argument and what you&#8217;re talking about,” Collins argued.
“What you just said is false,” Cruz said, and the two continued to talk over each other before moving on to discuss political violence in more general terms.
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DA: Charlie&#8217;s killer &#8220;had started to lean more to the left, becoming more pro-gay and trans rights oriented&#8221; &amp; was dating his transgender roommate.
The killer also wrote in a message: &#8220;I had enough of his hatred. Some hatred can&#8217;t be be negotiated out.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/5A3pinqBG6">pic.twitter.com/5A3pinqBG6</a>
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As Cruz noted, the district attorney had said that Robinson had been radicalized with far-Left ideology. Robinson himself had allegedly told his roommate and boyfriend that he’d shot Kirk because he “had enough of his hatred. Some hatred can&#8217;t be negotiated out.”

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Montel Williams attempted to paint suspected assassin Tyler Robinson as an emotionally-driven “love-torn child” who felt like killing conservative commentator and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was his only option.
Williams joined host Abby Phillip and a panel of other commentators on CNN’s “NewsNight” to discuss the still unfolding story about Robinson, his gender-transitioning live-in boyfriend, and the text messages the two exchanged after Robinson allegedly shot Kirk at Utah Valley University — and he argued that Robinson likely shot Kirk out of desperation because of his views on the relationship in which he was involved.
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WATCH: Montel Williams on CNN Thunderdome says the suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination was &#8220;a love-torn child&#8221; likely in the throes of &#8220;his first real relationship and someone was disparaging the person he loved&#8221; and thus not &#8220;motivated politically&#8221;&#8230;.
&#8220;There are people… <a href="https://t.co/hSuDLIfriw">pic.twitter.com/hSuDLIfriw</a>
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“There are people who are trying to pigeonhole this as a leftist thing and a Right thing, and what we’re really talking about — hear me, because I&#8217;m going to throw you when I say this, we&#8217;re talking about a love-torn child, a kid,” Williams said despite the fact that Robinson is 22 years old. “This is probably his first real relationship. And somebody was disparaging the person that he loved.”
“He sat on that building for 30 minutes before he took the shot. Why do you wait until the first word trans came up? Then he took the shot,” Williams said, arguing that Robinson had been listening to Kirk’s event live and had waited until the first mention of the word “transgender” intentionally. “I think he could hear it.”
Williams went on to say that he believed the shooting had been rooted in emotion rather than politics, failing to acknowledge that the two can indeed intersect. “I think he also — I don’t believe he was motivated politically. I think this was motivated emotionally. I think this was an emotionally stunted person who literally, when I say it this way, just hear me, tried to defend his significant other, not trying to defend some ideology.”
Williams’ assessment came just hours after ABC reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abc-reporter-describes-suspects-texts-confessing-to-charlie-kirk-assassination-as-very-touching">Matt Gutman</a> took a wave of backlash for saying that the texts between Robinson and his boyfriend — which appeared to include an admission of guilt as well as detailed information about the weapon he allegedly used and where he left it — were “very touching” because Robinson also used the phrase “my love” when addressing his partner. Gutman later <a href="https://x.com/mattgutmanABC/status/1968261725943472448">apologized</a> on X.

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ABC News reporter Matt Gutman offered an explanation and an apology after taking an immense amount of public backlash for his on-air description of a text exchange between suspected Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson, 22, and his live-in boyfriend, who is transitioning to identify as a woman.
Gutman took to X to share a statement clarifying his position, saying, &#8220;Yesterday I tried to underscore the jarring contrast between this cold blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk — a man who dedicated his life to public dialogue — and the personal, disturbing texts read aloud by the Utah County Attorney at the press conference.&#8221;
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2. I deeply regret that my words did not make that clear.
But let there be zero doubt here: I unequivocally condemn this horrific crime and the pain it caused Charlie Kirk&#8217;s family, those who were forced to witness it at UVU, and the millions of people he inspired.
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&#8220;I deeply regret that my words did not make that clear,&#8221; Gutman continued. &#8220;But let there be zero doubt here: I unequivocally condemn this horrific crime and the pain it caused Charlie Kirk&#8217;s family, those who were forced to witness it at UVU, and the millions of people he inspired.&#8221;
Following the publication of the text exchange — in which Robinson referred to the boyfriend as &#8220;my love&#8221; while appearing to confess to the murder of the Turning Point USA founder and give detailed information about the weapon he&#8217;d used and then hidden — Gutman had commented on the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abc-reporter-describes-suspects-texts-confessing-to-charlie-kirk-assassination-as-very-touching">very touching</a>&#8221; nature of some of the texts.
After remarking on the level of detail included in the texts with regard to the murder weapon, Gutman said at the time, &#8220;It was very touching, in a way, that I think many of us didn’t expect — a very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who is transitioning, calling him ‘my love.’ And ‘I want to protect you, my love.'&#8221;

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ABC News reporter Matt Gutman described the texts sent from suspected assassin Tyler Robinson to his trans-identifying boyfriend — in which he appears to confess to murdering conservative commentator Charlie Kirk — as &#8220;very touching.&#8221;
Gutman was reporting on the text exchange, which was released on Tuesday by authorities, when he commented on the fact that despite confessing to murdering someone in front of hundreds of college students — and putting their lives in danger as well — Robinson seemed to really care about his partner.
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Gutman began by saying that he wasn&#8217;t sure &#8220;if we have seen an alleged murder with such specific text messages about the alleged murder weapon — where it was hidden, how it was placed, what was on it — but also it was very touching, in a way, that I think many of us didn’t expect — a very intimate portrait into this relationship between the suspect’s roommate and the suspect himself, with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who is transitioning, calling him &#8216;my love.&#8217; And &#8216;I want to protect you, my love.'&#8221;
&#8220;So, it was this duality of someone who the attorney said not only jeopardized the life of Charlie Kirk and the crowd, but was doing it in front of children, which is one of the aggravating circumstances of this case,&#8221; Gutman continued. &#8220;And then, on the other hand, he was, you know, speaking so lovingly about his partner. So a very interesting and, as Pierre said, riveting press conference.&#8221;
Gutman continued in the same vein a short time later, adding, &#8220;It’s heartbreaking on so many levels, Kyra. Obviously, Charlie Kirk was murdered brutally in front of a crowd of thousands &#8230;[O]n the other hand, there is this duality of a very a portrait of a very human person, a very human experience from this entire family &#8230; the kid who had got a 34 out of 36 on the ACT, who had a 4.0.&#8221;
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ABC’s Matt Gutman doubled down, ten minutes later after this on ABC News Live: “It’s heartbreaking on so many levels, Kyra. Obviously, Charlie Kirk was murdered brutally in front of a crowd of thousands&#8230;[O]n the other hand, there is this duality of a very a portrait of a very… <a href="https://t.co/0ykDhsg1Ko">pic.twitter.com/0ykDhsg1Ko</a>
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1968045665541365867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a press conference in which we’ve read text messages that are A, so fulsome, so robust, so apparently, allegedly self-incriminating and yet, on the other hand, so touching — right — with the suspect reaching out to his roommate, who was allegedly his boyfriend, who we understand, you know, identified as male at birth, now identifies as female,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And the terminology he used, he was trying to protect him. He kept calling him ‘my love.’ ‘My reason for doing this is to protect you,’ you know, but also asking him to delete the messages and not speak to law enforcement. So there’s this, this heartbreaking duality that we’re seeing very tragically playing out here.&#8221;

ABC Reporter Describes Suspect’s Texts Confessing To Charlie Kirk Assassination As ‘Very Touching’

ABC Reporter Describes Suspect's Texts Confessing To Charlie Kirk Assassination As 'Very Touching'

FBI Director Kash Patel unloaded on Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) during a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling him a &#8220;political buffoon&#8221; and an &#8220;utter coward&#8221; who was fine with lying to the people as long as he could use it to keep the political donations coming in.
Schiff kicked off the heated exchange with a question about convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving time for her crimes related to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, asking about the fact that she&#8217;d recently been moved to a minimum-security facility.
Patel said that the Bureau of Prisons had approved the transfer, but Schiff mentioned Maxwell&#8217;s meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and argued that the timing made the move suspect. &#8220;You want the American people to believe that? Do you think they&#8217;re stupid?&#8221;
&#8220;No, I think the American people believe the truth. That I&#8217;m not in the weeds on the everyday movements of inmates,&#8221; Patel replied. &#8220;What I am doing is protecting this country, providing historic reform, and combating the weaponization of intelligence by the likes of you and we have countlessly proven you to be a liar in Russiagate, in January 6. You are the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate. You are a disgrace to this institution and an utter coward.&#8221;
Schiff attempted to shout Patel down throughout, pointing his finger and repeating, &#8220;This stinks to high heaven.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised —&#8221; Schiff said.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised,&#8221; Patel shot back. &#8220;That you continue to lie from your perch and put on a show so you can go raise money for your charade. You are a political buffoon at best.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised &#8230; You can take — you can make an internet troll the FBI Director, but he will always be nothing more than an internet troll,&#8221; Schiff insisted, smiling.
&#8220;All you care about is a child sex predator who was prosecuted by a prior administration, and the Obama Justice Department and the Biden Justice Department did squat, and what did President Trump do? Bring new charges, courageously. And what have we done?&#8221; Patel continued. &#8220;Thirty-three thousand pages of information &#8230; Go ahead and run to the cameras, where you want to go now.&#8221;

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Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) admitted to FBI Director Kash Patel during a Tuesday hearing that there are, in fact, biological differences between men and women that can greatly impact their physical capabilities.
Hirono, who has repeatedly advocated for men to be allowed to self-identify as females and play in girls&#8217; and women&#8217;s sports leagues, complained during the hearing that FBI applicants were expected to do one pull-up regardless of whether they were male or female.
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🚨WATCH: Sen. Mazie Hirono says female FBI applicants struggle to do pull-ups because of “physiological differences.”
Kash Patel: “If you want to chase down a bad guy and put him in handcuffs you better be able to do a pull-up… Doing one pull-up is not harsh.” <a href="https://t.co/kD571CRi36">pic.twitter.com/kD571CRi36</a>
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&#8220;One question I had is that you are now requiring applicants to be able to do a certain kind of pull-ups, which a lot of women can not because of physiological differences,&#8221; Hirono said. &#8220;Are you requiring these kinds of pull-ups?&#8221;
&#8220;We are requiring the physical program at BFTC (Basic Field Training Course) at Quantico because FBI agents carrying guns in the field, have to chase down bad guys, and do really hard work,&#8221; Patel replied. &#8220;The physical fitness standards of those agents —&#8221;
&#8220;So are you requiring these kinds of pull-ups?&#8221; Hirono interrupted.
&#8220;We are requiring everybody to pass the standards at BFTC,&#8221; Patel replied. &#8220;If you want to chase down a bad guy and put him in handcuffs you better be able to do a pull-up.&#8221;
&#8220;The reason I ask is that there are concerns about whether or not being able to do these kinds of harsh pull-ups is really required of FBI agents,&#8221; Hirono tried again.
&#8220;Doing one pull-up is not harsh,&#8221; Patel shot back, adding, &#8220;And there are always medical exemptions to them.&#8221;
Hirono, as recently as April of this year, was complaining about Republican efforts to bar men from playing in women&#8217;s sports in spite of the same &#8220;physiological differences&#8221; she raised concerns about at Tuesday&#8217;s hearing.
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In 100 days, Trump launched an all-out war on diversity &amp; inclusion. Here&#8217;s what that looks like.
Federal diversity programs have been abolished, prompting the firings of 275,000 federal workers.
Diverse histories taught at K-12 schools are on the chopping block.
Trans rights…
— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) <a href="https://twitter.com/maziehirono/status/1917357228031631391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Trans rights are being eradicated,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;Gender self-identification on federal documents are prohibited, specific bathroom access is restricted, trans people are banned from the military, and trans girls can&#8217;t compete on girls’ sports teams in school.&#8221;

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Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) attempted to steamroll FBI Director Kash Patel during a testy Capitol Hill hearing on Tuesday, but Patel pushed right back — and Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) quickly backed Patel.
Booker had the chance, as a member of the committee, to question Patel during his allotted time — and he did ask a few questions of the FBI director, although he spent the majority of his time pontificating about his assessment of Patel&#8217;s job performance thus far. When he&#8217;d exhausted his own time, Grassley allowed Patel to respond — but Booker could not resist the opportunity and began to protest while he was speaking.
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Democratic Sen. Cory Booker and FBI Director Kash Patel clashed during a Senate hearing, with Booker accusing Patel of making the country &#8220;weaker and less safe.&#8221;
&#8220;That rant of false information does not bring this country together,&#8221; Patel responded. <a href="https://t.co/SoVf1ll1rm">https://t.co/SoVf1ll1rm</a> <a href="https://t.co/LqCJFE4zzi">pic.twitter.com/LqCJFE4zzi</a>
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Booker began by claiming that the FBI&#8217;s mission was being compromised and agents were being &#8220;reassigned&#8221; to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, and argued that Patel was failing the agency by firing a number of agents with years of experience and seniority.
&#8220;Because of your failures of leadership, I don’t think you’re fit to lead the bureau. Here’s the thing, Mr. Patel, I think you’re not going to be around long. I think this might be your last full oversight hearing. Because as much as you supplicate yourself to the will of Donald Trump and not the Constitution of the United States of America, Donald Trump has shown us in his first term, and in this term, he is not loyal to people like you. He will cut you loose,&#8221; Booker claimed. &#8220;This may be the last time I have a hearing with you, because I don’t think you’re long for your job.&#8221;
When the New Jersey Senator had finished, Grassley offered Patel the chance to respond, uninterrupted, and he took it.
&#8220;Sir, that rant of false information does not bring this country together,&#8221; Patel began. &#8220;If you want to work on bringing this country together — it&#8217;s my time, not yours.&#8221;
&#8220;My God. My God,&#8221; Booker&#8217;s tone grew increasingly dramatic. &#8220;You&#8217;re going to lecture me about dividing this country?&#8221;
Booker then claimed that he followed Patel&#8217;s social media posts &#8220;that tear this country apart&#8221; — all while Patel attempted to continue his testimony and Grassley banged his gavel, chastising Booker for interrupting.
&#8220;It is my time,&#8221; Patel repeated. &#8220;You had your time. Your time is over.&#8221;
&#8220;Sir, you don&#8217;t tell me my time is over,&#8221; Booker insisted, pointing a finger at Patel. &#8220;The people of New Jersey tell me what my time is — you can&#8217;t lecture me —&#8221;
The crosstalk continued until Grassley once again banged the gavel, reminding Booker that he had, in fact, already had his time to talk and Patel was to be allowed to continue.
Patel followed with a list of the accomplishments made by the bureau under his leadership, pointedly addressing Booker as he argued that a &#8220;failing&#8221; leader could not have made such gains.

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‘This Is My Time’: Kash Patel Shuts Down Cory Booker In Heated Capitol Hill Clash

'This Is My Time': Kash Patel Shuts Down Cory Booker In Heated Capitol Hill Clash

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Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah — who was with the outlet for just over a decade — was terminated over a Bluesky post in which she misquoted the recently-assassinated conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
Attiah claimed in a Substack article that the outlet had fired her for doing her job as a journalist, saying that she&#8217;d only been &#8220;speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.&#8221;
In a series of Bluesky posts, Attiah claimed that Americans would never take action on gun control because they were fine with sacrificing the lives of children in order to keep access to firearms — and &#8220;especially white America is not going to do what it needs to do to get rid of the guns in their country.&#8221;
The only post that mentioned Kirk by name was a quote she attributed to him:
<blockquote>&#8220;Black women do not have the brain-processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person&#8217;s slot.&#8221;</blockquote>
&#8220;The Post accused my measured Bluesky posts of being &#8216;unacceptable,&#8217; &#8216;gross misconduct&#8217; and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues — charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false,&#8221; Attiah added.
But as journalist Jerry Dunleavy noted, Attiah&#8217;s quote was inaccurate. She suggested, as a number of others had, that Kirk was referring to all black women when he said that they lacked &#8220;the brain-processing power to be taken seriously.&#8221; In reality, Kirk had directed that comment at a few specific black women: Michelle Obama, the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, former MSNBC host Joy Reid, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Karen Attiah says she has been fired by WaPo. In her Substack, she shares her post which had mentioned Charlie Kirk &amp; doubles down — &amp; it’s a fake quote! Charlie did not say this about “Black women” writ-large, he said it about Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee, &amp; KBJ. <a href="https://t.co/mN326WXKcS">pic.twitter.com/mN326WXKcS</a>
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1967565540333117900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Charlie Kirk&#8217;s thoughts on Michelle Obama, Joy Reid, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. <a href="https://t.co/A3hwo1NYOq">pic.twitter.com/A3hwo1NYOq</a>
— VIBE Magazine (@VibeMagazine) <a href="https://twitter.com/VibeMagazine/status/1966544520046354857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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