Any law enforcement agent will tell you that the first 24 hours after a murder are the most crucial.

The killer is on the move and trying to evade capture. Real-life shooters aren’t like Frederick Forsyth’s fictional assassin in The Day of the Jackal. They are out in the open. They panic. They make mistakes.

But as 24 hours passed since Charlie Kirk was shot in cold blood as he sat in the middle of the Utah Valley University campus, the hunt for the gunman was reduced to a fuzzy photo and a plea to phone 1-800-CALL-FBI.

FBI boss Kash Patel threw some cash at the problem, offering a $100,000 reward.

But despite what the Trump administration may believe, money doesn’t solve every problem.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, Patel, and his deputy Dan Bongino may have been doing a “fabulous job,

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