The “leftist radicals” killed the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and “will be responsible,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi A Abc News in an interview on Monday.
“Who killed Charlie? Radicals of the left, and will be responsible,” Bondi told the correspondent of the president of ABC News, Pierre Thomas. “Anyone will also do it in this country that commits a violent crime against anyone. And the death penalty, thanks to Donald Trump, is again on the table.”
However, the attorney general did not offer a reason why the alleged suspect, Tyler Robinson, 22, killed Kirk last Wednesday while talking in an event on a university campus in Utah.
He pressed if Robinson acted alone, said it is an ongoing investigation.
“At this time, he is in custody and accused of the murder of Charlie Kirk. I will not have more details about other people, but we have it in custody to kill Charlie,” he said.
Bondi said that federal charges are expected to be presented in the case, but did not say when, and said they are working together with the state of Utah.
The president and other senior administration officials have said that all the government tools will use to go after the “supposed violence” in the “left end.”
The attorney general said that anyone who commits a violent act “will be prosecuted to the maximum extension of the law.”
Pierre Thomas of ABC News Interview with Attorney General Pam Bondi in Washington, DC, on September 15, 2025.
ABC News
“Look what almost happened to Governor Shapiro in the governor’s mansion, his wife, his family, they were asleep up and someone tried to light his house on fire,” he said. “You know, there are so many crimes of violence throughout this country. No matter who is, we will come after you if you commit a violent crime.”
Bondi refers to an incident in April, when a man tried to illuminate the house of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, in flames.
Bondi also said they will continue to operate “about the facts and law.”
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, received criticism for how he has handled some parts of the investigation, including the publication that there was a subject in custody before announcing that the subject had been released in the early hours after the murder.
“The director of the FBI has been working tirelessly,” he said. “They took out this photo. You know, this is a great police job, by the FBI, for the locals, working together. They took this photograph, you know, we think that someone would identify it based on that, and indeed, they did.”
The AG added that Patel has its “full confidence.”
Bondi said that when Kirk was shot, he was on a flight with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father, former attorney general Robert Kennedy, was killed by a murderer.
“I think we were all in shock,” Bondi said about learning about Kirk’s murder. “We all pray, everyone praying, and I told Bobby, I said: ‘Bobby, how old were you when your dad was killed?’ He said: ‘He was 14 years old,’ and Bobby was with him when he died. “
Bondi said this was very personal for her because he was her friend.
She urged the country to “join and meet” following the shooting.
“We have to unite like a country, or we are lost.”
