Is he trying to botch the prosecution?

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...what FBI director makes statements like this about ongoing investigations and prosecutions??

Kash Patel: My job as FBI Director is not to speak to motivate, it is to speak to the facts and that's what I'm going to do. His family has told investigators that he subscribed to leftwing ideology and even more so in these last couple of years... I'm committed to transparency and that's what I'm doing here today.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/15/us-news/dna-found-at-spot-where-charlie-kirks-assassin-hid-positively-matched-to-suspect-tyler-robinson-fbi/

Even more so, what is the legal significance of what his ideology was to prosecuting any shooter?

Patel is making broad-based characterizations of 'leftwing idology' (whatever that is), and basically equating what has been an anti-gun advocacy culture on the left with whatever the shooter chose to do.

Moreover, the director of the FBI is pushing the counter-legal argument that there's something other than the shooter's own responsibility for pulling the trigger at issue here. That's antithetical to the prosecution of the suspect, and reminiscent of the excuses offered up by countless Jan. defendants which were rejected as a defense of their criminality in courtroom after courtroom.

What's the actual legal purpose in meting out blame to people or groups with no connection at all to the crime? It's more than a misnomer; it's directing threats and violence that this FBI director is well aware of from conservatives and other supporters of Kirk onto a community of millions of Americans who don't even know who Charlie Kirk is, or, more importantly, don't know the shooter.

That's the only legal relevance of what this person' ideology may have been, or who a college kid shares rent with on a room: what their direct connection was to this crime.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino made even more specious claims about the motivation of the killer when he cited what are essentially rumors and second-hand speculation from people who claim to know the shooter...

“There were people in his network, friends and family who had stated that he had become more political, that he had become at some parts, as I believe some of his co-workers had stated, that he had kind of detached himself when the topic of politics came up and walked away from them​.”

This is a political and social neanderthal's characterization of political intent and belief which has zero substantive facts which relate to the prosecution. There's nothing unusual about a young man coming of age becoming more politically aware and active; and nothing strange about not wanting to talk politics with someone or the other.

But what we're getting from the FBI is what sounds like something off of a maga website with transcripts of a Steve Bannon radio show.

Its like they're performing witchcraft with the "aggressive interview posture at the FBI" Patel describes with which he says was used to decipher the contents of a 'destroyed note" that supposedly tells all about the political accusations he's opportunistically directed at the 'leftwing' of the Democratic party; just a coincidence for this political bombthrower who was basically a conspiracy-mongerer for clicks and donations on the internet and youtube before he took over the nation's premier law enforcement agency.

So, how do you get a successful prosecution when the FBI directors are publicly smearing the defendant at every public opportunity? Do they really want one?

Or is this primarily a political exercise of law enforcement for Patel?