Yesterday, just hours before the district attorney of Utah County formally announced the charges against Charlie Kirk's assassin, and before he ran through some new evidence that authorities had collected, a left-wing journalist named Ken Clippenstein published an exclusive article on his substack, which happens to be one of the most popular political substacks in the country.

To much fanfare, Clementine reported that he had obtained private messages from people who knew the shooter,

which were sent on the day that Charlie Kirk was killed.

These messages were uploaded to a private server on Discord,

which is a communication service that's popular among young people,

particularly young people who play video games.

Here's one of the screenshots that Cleippenstein provided in his article.

As you can see, at 3.17 p.m. on September 10th, somebody wrote, Charlie Kirk got shot.

And then around 30 minutes later, somebody writes, dead.

Roughly an hour after that, somebody else writes, I just saw that video, RIP, I guess,

Bro didn't deserve to go out like that, sad. And then according to this screenshot, the messages

stop there. No one says anything at all, again, until late the next day on September 11th at

8.57 p.m. And that message comes directly from the shooter.

He says he's sorry and tells his friends that he's going to turn himself in. And then on

September 12th, this message was posted in the Discord server. It reads,

Hey, everyone, if you have not seen the news yet, Tyler's post is true. He was taken into custody

earlier today

for the shooting of Charlie Kirk. While Charlie Kirk's politics were not acceptable to some,

I asked that we all say a prayer for him and his family during these confusing times.

Close quote. Now, the rest of the article contains quotes from one of the shooter's friends,

claiming he was generally apolitical. And then Clippenstein offers this conclusion, quote,

Trump and company portray the alleged Utah shooter as left wing and liberals portray him as right wing.

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