The FBI director is in hot water after his messy handling of the investigation into the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s hand-picked FBI Director, is under fire after his bungled handling of the shocking shooting of right-wing firebrand Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University this week.

The Utah attorney general's office is going all in on the Charlie Kirk investigation, as they are seeking the death penalty in the case.

Before his Charlie Kirk screwup, the FBI director was portrayed by insiders as obsessed with looking good on social media.

FBI Director Kash Patel’s tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk has sparked widespread attention and debate. Kirk, 22, was shot dead on September 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University. During a September 12 press conference announcing the arrest of the alleged shooter,

Yet despite the glare of the world’s media on the killing – described by Republicans as America’s most significant political assassination victim since Robert F Kennedy – the gunman was able to vanish in a puff of smoke.

Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, said that the agency’s investigation was continuing, reversing his earlier announcement that someone had been apprehended.

Meanwhile, FBI Director Kash Patel will testify to Congress starting Tuesday over the highly scrutinized investigation into Charlie Kirk's killing.