WSJ Walks Back False Claim About Charlie Kirk Shooter

Saturday, September 13, 2025

The paper had falsely claimed that the alleged shooter engraved messages consistent with "transgender ideology" on bullets recovered by law enforcement officials.

Posted by retort at 12:03 PM | 18 COMMENTS | permalink

Ammunition engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology was found inside the rifle authorities believe was used in Kirk's shooting, sources say.

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-- The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) Sep 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM

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"A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots."

Visitard and lefthandturd and bullbringer will still be repeating this lie a year from now.

#1 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-13 12:56 PM

A retraction should require naming the false sources who initially lied to the reporters.

Sources should be protected. Folks who purposely plant false stories, for personal gain should be exposed.

#2 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-09-13 01:33 PM

archive.is

#3 | Posted by sir_vicks at 2025-09-14 12:16 PM

Re #3

What's your point?

That's not from any transgender ideology that I am aware of.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-14 12:26 PM

As I have stated this didn't end well.

WSJ wasn't wrong.

That's not from any transgender ideology that I am aware of.

You know nothing of the "transgender ideology". Just like myself.

My guess is what the DOJ and FBI is unearthing is going to wake people up to some crazy people. I am already surprised there is a TransDIY on reddit, teaching young kids how to inhibit their hormones with chemicals. I couldn't believe it when I saw it.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-14 12:37 PM

WSJ wasn't wrong.
That's not from any transgender ideology that I am aware of.
You know nothing of the "transgender ideology". Just like myself.
My guess is what the DOJ and FBI is unearthing is going to wake people up to some crazy people. I am already surprised there is a TransDIY on reddit, teaching young kids how to inhibit their hormones with chemicals. I couldn't believe it when I saw it.

Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-14 12:37 PM | Reply

Quit spreading lies and misinformation. You know nothing about what you speak of. Kindly GFY.

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-14 12:46 PM

WSJ wasn't wrong.

Then why did they do a retraction?

#7 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-14 12:58 PM

I made an error, the WSJ had not retracted the story yet, despite many calls to do so.

My bad.

#8 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-14 01:03 PM

They quietly walked it back. By adding a brief statement that contradicted the report that the shooter was pushing transgender ideology.

#9 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-14 01:27 PM

Yeah, it wasn't an "official" restriction. Yet.

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-14 01:30 PM

"My guess is what the DOJ and FBI is unearthing is going to wake people up to some crazy people."

My guess is that the DOJ and the FBI will do whatever Dear Leader says and whatever they do will be based in lies (that you slurp up like fava beans) and be based in a false and hateful ideology being pushed by extremists in the Republican Party to promote the hateful and divisive Trumpian agenda in order to further dived Americans and consolidate his hold on power.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-14 01:32 PM

Dived= divide

#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-14 01:33 PM

WSJ wasn't wrong.
#5 | POSTED BY ONEIDIOT

The Wall Street Journal has quietly walked back early reporting that suggested the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was linked to transgender people.

www.yahoo.com

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-14 01:50 PM

He was in a realtions hip with a transperson / roommate. he is a left wing Democrat freak like all some of the other shooters

if Democrats would stop shooting at people gun violence would be down 90%, but the left certainly doesn't want anyone to hear that fact

#14 | Posted by Maverick at 2025-09-14 04:35 PM

@brisavagepolitics

Charlie Kirk was murdered by a cis white male, alt-right extremist.

Donald Trump's staged assassination attempt, was committed by a cis white Conservative male.

Melissa Hortman, her husband, and their dog, were assassinated by a cis white male Trump supporter.

The 14 assailants convicted in Governor Whitmer's kidnapping plot, were Trump supporters.

The 1,000+ people convicted over January 6th, were MAGA.

Political violence is perpetuated by the alt-right. Not the liberals.

#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-14 04:42 PM

Maverick, crawl back up McVeigh's --------.

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-09-14 04:49 PM

My guess is what the DOJ and FBI is unearthing is going to wake people up to some crazy people.
#5 | Posted by oneironaut

I think if he ends up being a groyper this will be particularly true.

Trans are easy to bash because they're more visible, but the far more insidious indoctrination going on is the "red pilling" of young men.

My nephew is caught in it and the ridiculous s*&^ he says with a straight face is scary.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-15 10:23 AM

We won't know that he's a confirmed Groyper until DEI Patel and the other podcast bros have been flushed from the FBI by the next Dem POTUS. They will cling to this false Tans narrative rather than admit the murder was part of a simmering civil war inside the Reich between the "moderate" Reich, like Kirk and the loony Reich like Loomer, Shapiro, and Fuentes. Patel planted this story in the WSJ. The fact is that everything written on those cartridges can be found on the Groyper spaces on on 4Chan, where they accuse each other of being gay, or Trans, and where they called Kirk a fascist because he supported Israel.

#18 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2025-09-15 12:16 PM

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