A public fight between a former FBI deputy director and Trump's counterterrorism chief has reopened questions about whether the Charlie Kirk assassination probe was cut short — bad news for the administration's claim that the case is closed.

• Joe Kent says his counterterrorism team was asked by the FBI to check for foreign links to the killing, then abruptly cut off and locked out of the case files.
• Dan Bongino, who quit the FBI over the Epstein files backlash, attacked Kent personally instead of answering the substance, and wrongly claimed Kirk backed war with Iran.
• Kirk was on record repeatedly opposing a regime-change war in Iran, and had pushed Trump away from one before the 12-day war.
• The same people who said to move on from Epstein are now saying to move on from the Tyler Robinson case, which is fueling suspicion rather than calming it.
• Cash Patel reportedly shut the foreign-links review down, while the administration stayed eager to hunt foreign funding of Antifa.

Outlook: The Robinson trial in Utah will keep these unanswered questions alive, and the pressure on the FBI's handling of the case is likely to grow.