"The former federal prosecutor lit into FBI Director Kash Patel for botching the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination. Patel has faced intense criticism from inside and outside the administration for his handling of the high-profile case including for his announcement that authorities had a suspect in custody in the early hours after the shooting on Wednesday, only to later walk that back."
"Now, can you imagine if someone at DOJ even mentioned the word special counsel'? They'd be immediately fired by [Attorney General] Pam Bondi. Honig argued that Trump 2.0 isn't just more combative, but less constrained. In the past, he said, figures like former Attorney General Bill Barr or former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly sometimes acted as guardrails, like a parent with a toddler."
"For Honig, it was a vivid example of the cost to sacrificing real expertise, which he says is a recurring theme of President Donald Trump's second administration. Honig's warning that Trump has stacked the Justice Department with loyalists dovetails with the focus of his riveting new book, When You Come at the King, which traces half a century of independent investigations into presidents, from Watergate to Special Counsel Jack Smith's Trump probe."
FBI Director Kash Patel announced a suspect in custody after the Charlie Kirk shooting and later retracted that claim; the alleged gunman, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was arrested the following night. The episode was characterized as amateur and humiliating and presented as an example of the cost of replacing experienced prosecutors with political loyalists inside the Justice Department. The book When You Come at the King traces independent presidential investigations from Watergate to the Jack Smith probe and frames the second Trump administration as more combative and less constrained, with figures like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel cited as enabling that posture.
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