Turning Point USA (TPUSA) accused the Daily Mail of "media malfeasance" on Tuesday over misleading coverage of a court filing from attorneys for the man accused of assassinating its founder, conservative icon Charlie Kirk.
The legal team for Tyler Robinson, who faces multiple charges including aggravated murder after he allegedly killed Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025, on Friday asked the court for a minimum six-month delay for the preliminary hearing, which is currently scheduled for May 18. Robinson’s legal team said it was "provided with an ATF summary report which indicates that the ATF was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied" the suspect. A second comparative bullet analysis is not yet complete, so the defense wants time to evaluate the findings.
Some reporting on the filing misinterprets the result of the bullet analysis, as it does not rule out it being from the Mauser rifle recovered near the crime scene, which prosecutors allege had Robinson's DNA on it and had been given to him by his father. Instead, the filing noted it was inconclusive in definitively tying the bullet to the rifle, but that didn’t stop news organizations from publishing headlines that made it appear Robinson was essentially off the hook.
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