Just after 6 p.m. last Wednesday, FBI director Kash Patel said on X that he was praying for the family of Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated in Utah hours earlier. Many expected Patel to fly to the scene of the shooting to lead the hunt for the suspect who had killed his friend. Instead, he was reportedly seated at Rao’s , the exclusive East Harlem Italian restaurant once favored by wiseguys . The next morning, he posted again on X , wrongly announcing that the suspect had been caught. Less than two hours later, Patel had to walk back his claim. In a press conference on Thursday, he praised law enforcement for its response — “This is what happens when you let good cops be cops” — without acknowledging that the suspect was found because his own father turned him in.

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