Steve Bannon expressed skepticism about the text messages allegedly sent by the suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination to his roommate, saying the conversation sounded like a "bad script."
The former Donald Trump adviser told viewers of his "War Room" podcast that messages the FBI presented as evidence against 22-year-old Tyler Robinson did not sound authentic to him, reported The Daily Beast.
“I’m particularly not buying those text messages, it just seems too stilted, too much like a script — actually, like a bad script," Bannon told his viewers on Tuesday. "So we've got to get to the bottom of it."
The right-wing podcaster tied Kirk's shooting to the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in summer 2024, saying "Kirk is a casualty of war."
“You’ve got to get to the bottom of these groups, you’ve got to get to the bottom of antifa, you’ve gotta see if there’s any connections to Butler,” he said. “We’ve got a whole lot of work to do, and no, I’m not buying the script that was in the text messages.”
Bannon was especially skeptical that the suspected gunman's primary concern was retrieving his grandfather's rifle.
“You just murdered the most important young person in the conservative movement, you shot him down like a dog, and you’re telling me you’re texting, ‘Dad’s going to be very upset I lost grandpa’s rifle,‘" Bannon said. "Are you kidding me? You expect me to believe that?”
“How did the guy have time to write a sonnet?" he added. "How did he worry about ‘Dad’s really going to be upset about grandpa’s rifle‘? Dude, I think your father may be upset that you shot a man in cold blood in front of the world. I am absolutely not buying this.”