“Left-wing radicals” killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk, and “they will be held accountable,” Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed to ABC News in an interview on Monday.
“Who killed Charlie? Left-wing radicals, and they will be held accountable,” Bondi told ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas. “So will anyone in this country who commits a violent crime against anyone. And the death penalty, thanks to Donald Trump, is on the table again.”
The attorney general, however, did not offer a motive as to why the alleged suspect, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, killed Kirk last Wednesday while he was speaking at an event on a university campus in Utah.
Pressed on whether Robinson acted alone, she said it is an ongoing investigation.
“Right now, he is in custody and charged with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I’m not going to get into more details about other people at all, but we have him in custody for assassinating Charlie,” she said.
Bondi said that federal charges in the case are expected to be filed, but did not say when, and did say they are working together with the state of Utah.
The president and other top administration officials have said they are going to use all of the tools of government to go after the “festering violence” on the “far left.”
The attorney general said that anyone who commits a violent act “will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
ABC News’ Pierre Thomas interviews Attorney General Pam Bondi in Washington, D.C., Sept. 15, 2025.
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“Look what almost happened to Governor Shapiro in the governor’s mansion, his wife, his family, they were asleep upstairs, and someone tried to light his house on fire,” she said. “You know, there are so many crimes of violence throughout this country. Doesn’t matter who it is, we’re going to come after you if you commit a violent crime.”
Bondi is referring to an incident in April, when a man attempted to light Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s house on fire.
Bondi also said they will continue to operate “on the facts and the law.”
FBI Director Kash Patel has received criticism for how he has handled some portions of the investigation, including posting that there was a subject in custody before announcing that the subject had been released in the early hours after the assassination.
“The FBI director has been working tirelessly,” she said. “They got this photo out. You know, this is great police work, by the FBI, by the locals, working together. They got this photograph out, you know, we figured someone would identify him based on that, and sure enough, they did.”
The AG added that Patel has her “full confidence.”
Bondi said that when Kirk was shot, she was on a flight with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father, former Attorney General Robert Kennedy, was killed by an assassin.
“I think we were all in shock,” Bondi said of learning about the assassination of Kirk. “We were all praying, all praying, and I said to Bobby, I said, ‘Bobby, how old were you when your dad was assassinated?’ He said, ‘I was 14,’ and Bobby was with him when he died.”
Bondi said this was so personal to her because he was her friend.
She urged the country to “unite and come together” in the wake of the shooting.
“We’ve got to come together as a country, or we’re lost.”
