While the rest of us thought the gunman who shot and killed Charlie Kirk was still on the loose Thursday night, we learned Friday that the FBI had the likely shooter in custody since 10 PM in Utah the night before.

Why did the bureau withhold an announcement that could have helped ease the minds of many? So that incoherent geezer Donald Trump could look presidential on TV the next morning.

Via The Daily Beast :

Two days after Kirk’s murder, a tense manhunt was set off. Patel revealed on Friday that Tyler Robinson, 22, had been taken into custody at 10 pm on Thursday in Utah, or midnight Eastern Standard Time.

However, the bureau did not inform the public that an arrest had been made until about nine hours later, allowing Trump, a former reality TV star-turned-politician, to reveal

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