In one of the most atrocious cases of clickbaiting in recent memory, the UK’s Daily Mail is doing its damnedest to fire up the conspiracy theorists. As the trial of Charlie Kirk’s killer nears, his attorneys claim that the bullet fragment that was recovered doesn’t have enough material left to get a positive ballistic match—based upon the lands and grooves— with the killer’s rifle. The Daily Mail’s story about the tactic is entitled, Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match rifle allegedly used by suspect Tyler Robinson, new court filing claims.
That’s apparently how Tyler Robinson’s legal defense team is going to try to convince America that he didn’t do it. It’s modern day OJ Simpson defense nonsense: “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” Nevermind the overwhelming evidence that the 22-year-old radical leftist lunatic drove three hours to Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025, picked his spot, and assassinated Charlie Kirk in a premeditated political hit. Or that he confessed to his family after the shooting. And in a note to his roommate.
The evidence isn’t just strong, it’s a mountain that would convince any sane jury. DNA all over the family Mauser rifle and the area on the roof from where the shot was fired. Texts to his roommate bragging about ditching grandpa’s “unique” bolt-action, worrying what dad would do if he didn’t retrieve it. Admitting he’d changed clothes after the murder. A confession made to his own father, who turned him in. Bullet casings etched with anti-fascist memes and “Hey, fascist, catch!” The exact online sludge Robinson had been marinating in for months.
Yet here’s the Daily Mail, headline screaming “Bullet used to kill Charlie Kirk did NOT match Tyler Robinson’s rifle…” as if the defense team’s allegation somehow erases everything else. The ATF couldn’t get a positive ballistic ID because the recovered fragment was likely too mangled. That’s not “exculpatory.” That’s what happens to high velocity rifle bullets when they hit. A .30-06 rounds tears through tissue and objects, causing them to deform and frequently fragment.
But the Daily Mail’s and the media ecosystem will lap all up, hoping this will be their their OJ Simpson sequel: manufacture just enough courtroom theater to let a deranged radical walk free, all while quietly delighting that a voice on the right has been is silenced.
Kirk’s widow forgives? Fine. The rest of us don’t. Robinson isn’t some misunderstood kid who “had enough of Kirk’s hatred.” He’s an insane ideologue who carved sick little internet jokes onto his ammunition and pulled the trigger.
The logic being peddled here is as deeply flawed as the Mariana Trench—bottomless, dark, and full of pressure that tries to crush the truth. No ballistic match on a mangled slug? Case closed! Please. DNA doesn’t lie. Texts don’t lie. Family recognition of the rifle doesn’t lie. The only thing lying is the media’s portrayal of the defense’s desperate motion to delay the preliminary hearing another six months while they “analyze” 20,000 files. They’re, hoping the public forgets the mountain of proof and whipping up the conspiracy theorists even more.
Robinson deserves the death penalty, full stop. He’s earned the full weight of justice: a trial, a conviction, and a miserable life for as long as he draws breath so every other too-online radical sees the price of turning memes into real world murder.
From the Daily Mail:
The bullet that killed conservative commentator Charlie Kirk did not match the rifle used by suspected killer Tyler Robinson, a bombshell new court filing states.
Robinson, 22, is facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence for Kirk’s murder at Utah Valley University on September 10.
But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ‘was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.’
The defense team may now offer the ATF firearm analyst’s testimony as exculpatory evidence, they said in a motion filed on Friday to push the preliminary hearing back at least six months, Fox News reports.
It also notes that DNA reports filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and ATF will take time for the defense team to analyze because reports indicated that several different DNA were found on some items of evidence.
‘As these cases indicate, determining the number of contributors to a DNA mixture and determining whether the FBI and the ATF reliably applied validated and correct scientific procedures… is a complicated process which requires the assistance of various types of experts, including forensic biologists, geneticists, system engineers and statisticians, all of whom must review and evaluate’ several different categories, the filing states, according to Deseret News.