FBI Director Kash Patel is taking heat over his handling of the manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s assassin from key figures in the MAGA movement in which he initially became a star.

Patel stumbled in the early hours after the shooting when he indicated on X that a suspected shooter was in custody, before it later turned out the killer was still at large.

Even after a suspect, Tyler Robinson, was apprehended, Patel continued to get heat over his leadership and his candor.

“I'm grateful that Utah authorities have captured the suspect in the Charlie Kirk assassination, and think it is time for Republicans to assess whether Kash Patel is the right man to run the FBI,” anti-DEI crusader Chis Rufo posted on X on Friday morning. “He performed terribly in the last few days, and it's not clear whether he has the operational expertise to investigate, infiltrate, and disrupt the violent movements—of whatever ideology—that threaten the peace in the United States.”

Rufo added that many conservative leaders he’s talked to are not confident in “the current structure of the FBI.”

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, speaking on “Bannon’s War Room” show immediately after a law enforcement press conference revealing some details about Robinson and his family, expressed annoyance as speakers at the event offered kudos for the investigation and the arrest of Robinson.

“It appears the kid had said something to the family, the family confronted him, and the family turned him in. I’m not seeing the great law enforcement work,” Bannon said. “They all came together, I got that. But this was not great law enforcement work.”

Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) said that Robinson’s family member reached out to a friend who then contacted the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, saying that Robinson had “confessed to them or implied........

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