It was straight out of the MAGA world’s greatest fantasy—a report that painted the Charlie Kirk assassin as an amalgamation of the right’s biggest boogeymen.

A Wall Street Journal update, which has since been rewritten, originally read: “Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.”

It didn’t take long for the inevitable walk-back.

“A senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that the report had not been verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other summaries of the evidence and might turn out to have been m

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