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00:00:52.640From the moment that a 20-year-old loner somehow managed to shoot Donald Trump in the head at a pivotal moment in the presidential campaign just before he's about to assume the GOP nomination and formally select his running mate, the official narrative has never made any sense whatsoever.
00:01:09.900There were only two options. The first option was that the Secret Service was so utterly incompetent and so unbelievably lackadaisical with its security measures that they somehow failed to secure a slightly sloped roof just 150 yards away with direct line of sight to the podium.
00:01:28.020They just never got around to it, even though they obviously noticed the rooftop during the walkthroughs before the rally.
00:01:33.920And not only that, the Secret Service didn't bother looking at the roof at any point during the rally,
00:01:39.040which is how Thomas Crooks was able to get into position without being detected as a significant threat.
00:01:44.300As one Butler police officer put it in a conversation captured on body cam, quote,
00:01:49.320I told them post effing guys over there. Why were we not on the roof?
00:01:54.360Now, if you take this version of events at face value, then you would agree that, unironically, the Secret Service as an agency should have been disbanded immediately.
00:02:04.700Replace them with a random Boy Scout troop, if you need to.
00:02:08.280Give every kid a walkie-talkie and station them on the rooftops.
00:02:11.440And instantly, for a lot less money, presumably, Donald Trump would have much better protection than he was receiving from his Secret Service detail.
00:02:19.540The Boy Scouts wouldn't have the cool earpieces or the suits, but in all likelihood, they'd
00:02:24.700be able to spot an assassin visibly running on the roof in plain view of everybody in
00:02:38.620Now, the other option that's been on the table, of course, is that the Secret Service, for
00:02:42.760some reason, allowed Thomas Crooks to open fire.
00:02:45.500And if you start thinking that through, it starts to explain a lot of things.
00:02:51.940It would explain, for example, why the Secret Service couldn't detect Crooks's drone, even though they had drone detection equipment that conveniently went down while Crooks's drone was in the air.
00:03:03.400This is one of the elements of the assassination attempt that's rarely discussed, but it should be discussed.
00:03:09.880The Secret Service actually had a counter drone system at the rally, but according to the inspector general of DHS, it was, quote, manned by a single undertrained operator who did not test the system prior to the morning of the event.
00:03:24.660When the system malfunctioned, the operator spent several hours attempting to resolve the issue, during which time Thomas Crooks completed his almost nine minute drone flight undetected.
00:03:35.440That's the part of the story you may have heard.
00:03:37.980What's less well known is that three days before the rally, the Secret Service agents assigned to protect Trump sent an email to the Secret Service's technical security division requesting an experienced drone operator.
00:03:51.220Now, the email reads, quote, good afternoon.
00:03:54.780Candidate Trump is expected to be exposed for the entirety of his remarks and will be vulnerable to drone threats.
00:04:00.100Trump's details requesting the technical security division provide an operator for the day of the event.
00:04:04.980That was sent on Wednesday, July 10th at 10.23 a.m.
00:04:09.360And according to the inspector general, quote, we found no evidence that technical security division members who received these requests responded to the email.
00:04:19.180They simply didn't respond to the email.
00:04:22.020And there was a second request, which was actually denied by a member of the technical security division, supposedly because the counter drone operators were busy at the RNC, which was going to take place a couple of days later.
00:04:33.700and when the inspector general interviewed the leader of the counter drone program at the
00:04:38.220technical security division, he said that he tries to cover all outdoor venues and said he
00:04:43.240would have probably done that trip in Butler, but he was never made aware of the request.
00:04:49.080Now, none of these excuses make any sense. There's no reason to ignore the email from July 10th,
00:04:54.560obviously. There's also no reason to cite the RNC as an excuse since it was taking place two
00:05:00.080days later, you would think that if the priority was to protect Trump, who they assessed was
00:05:06.140vulnerable to drone attacks, they would have found a way to send the experienced anti-drone team.
00:05:11.560But they didn't do that. Apparently, they didn't even tell the higher-ups about it.
00:05:16.740Again, complicity makes sense of this, makes more sense, really, than the official narrative.
00:05:23.320Additionally, if the Secret Service was complicit, it would also potentially explain why the Secret
00:05:27.580Service managed to deploy highly trained counter snipers for this rally when they hadn't used
00:05:33.100counter snipers at any of Trump's previous rallies during the entire campaign. They couldn't send the
00:05:38.120anti-drone team, but they were able to send the counter snipers. And that could make sense
00:05:44.260theoretically on this version of events if they wanted to get rid of the assassin after the fact,
00:05:50.320so he couldn't talk. Now, if the Secret Service was complicit, it would also help explain why the
00:05:55.540Secret Service director claimed that the agency had suddenly become afraid of slightly sloped
00:06:00.460roofs, even though there are plenty of pictures of Secret Service agents being stationed
00:06:05.520on sloped roofs, including the counter-sniper team at this very rally.
00:06:11.720You can see the good slope, bad slope distinction there.
00:06:16.720It's kind of incredible to look at because the roof with the counter-sniper is actually
00:06:20.660more sloped than the one that Thomas Crooks was on.
00:06:25.540And on top of that, when they were hosing down the roof after the shooting, FBI agents had no problem standing on it.
00:06:34.640But the Secret Service director insisted, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that slightly sloped roofs are just too dangerous for Secret Service agents.
00:06:43.800This is now former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheadle.
00:06:49.820Should that roof have been secure, period?
00:06:52.100That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point.
00:06:57.260And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.
00:07:03.080And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building from inside.
00:07:09.480Yes, they secured the building from the inside.
00:07:12.960But apparently not, because in practical terms, it means they didn't secure the building at all.
00:07:17.100They allowed the sniper to climb on top of a building full of cops simply because a slightly sloped roof was too dangerous.
00:07:26.720That's not remotely coherent, but again, it all makes sense if someone inside the Secret Service wanted to allow Thomas Crooks to take the shot.
00:07:36.240And while we're at it, if the Secret Service deliberately allowed crooks to get into position, it would also explain why they didn't have any meaningful radio contact with the local police who saw crooks with a rifle on the rooftop early enough that Trump could have been removed from the stage.
00:07:52.620It would explain why Trump's detail included women who weren't tall enough to shield him from gunfire or draw their weapons properly.
00:08:00.620It would help explain why the Secret Service ignored local police that Crooks, who the police photographed, was roaming around the rally site with a range finder and on and on and on.
00:08:14.080All this to say, the so-called conspiracy theory that the Secret Service were involved somehow, or that they took orders from somebody in the Biden administration who wanted them to leave Trump exposed, is a valid theory.
00:08:30.340it makes sense of the events that transpired. It just is. It just does. It's a conspiracy theory
00:08:36.180that makes the massive security failures at Butler more comprehensible and more logical
00:08:43.020than the theory, the official narrative. And therefore, it's incumbent on our government,
00:08:48.640especially now that Donald Trump's administration has been in office for a long time, to provide as
00:08:54.540much transparency as possible. They need to disclose all the information they have about
00:08:59.880the assassination attempt in Butler. And in particular, they need to answer every outstanding
00:09:04.740question about Thomas Crooks himself. And there are many questions along those lines.
00:09:10.180But instead, what's happening is that we're getting kind of drip fed a small number of
00:09:14.320disclosures that taken together make it more likely that the assassination was the result of
00:09:20.640a wide ranging conspiracy within Joe Biden's government. So we're going to go through all of
00:09:26.320the new revelations. We're also going to point out all the holes that remain in the official
00:09:30.320narrative, because no matter how much you've read about this case, odds are you're not aware of
00:09:35.060most of them. And that's by design. That's why they're dripping it out slowly, letting it all
00:09:41.760get kind of lost in the shuffle. Maybe the most important new information, which comes from a
00:09:46.240recent FBI document dump, is that on the afternoon before the assassination attempt, Crooks went to
00:09:52.680Clareton Sportsman's Club rifle range in Pennsylvania to fire two guns, his AR and a
00:09:59.300quote, older military style rifle. Crooks was specifically practicing a 100 yard shot. Now,
00:10:05.600by itself, that's not unusual. Crooks became a member of the club in August of 2023, less than
00:10:11.180a year before the shooting. And he visited the range more than 40 times, spent a variety of
00:10:16.420holidays at the range, including Christmas Day, Valentine's Day, Halloween. And as far as everyone
00:10:20.920knew he was doing all this alone. After all, it's usually pretty difficult to find someone to go
00:10:26.080shooting with you on every single major holiday. But according to the FBI's investigation, on the
00:10:31.680day before the assassination attempt, camera footage at the range, quote, shows Crooks talking
00:10:37.060with another unknown club member on the range. This member was the only other person on the rifle
00:10:41.800range. Now, what's so strange about this is that by all accounts, Crooks was a loner. He didn't have
00:10:47.300any friends. He wasn't known to strike up conversations with strangers. His colleagues
00:10:52.540at a nursing home called him an odd young man, and he rarely showed emotion or interacted with
00:10:57.000anyone else, according to his father. So who exactly was he talking with at the range?
00:11:01.920Was it a random stranger? Was it someone he knew? What were they talking about? Now,
00:11:07.700it's clear the FBI thought this conversation at the gun range could be significant. So according
00:11:13.260to this document, the FBI retrieved two images of the unknown individual and images of the unknown
00:11:19.420individual's vehicle, but we have no idea what, if anything, the FBI found. The FBI isn't telling
00:11:24.160us whether or not they've determined the identity of this individual or any involvement he might
00:11:30.380have or not have. Now, it's a big problem because there's additional information to suggest
00:11:35.480that Crooks, despite being a creepy loner, had several other connections who were interested in
00:11:41.740helping him acquire firearms for some reason. On his substack, Tom Elliott has been going through
00:11:47.040the FBI's latest document dump, and he came across this piece of information, which the mainstream
00:11:51.580press is basically ignoring. And it turns out that on May 25th, 2024, a person of interest who
00:11:58.900resembles the shooter was at the Keystone Armory in Edinburgh, which is in Pennsylvania, and was
00:12:05.740there for about an hour. And he was, quote, accompanied by a white male believed to be
00:12:10.000around his mid-30s and another older white male with a gray beard. The Thomas Crooks lookalike
00:12:16.240had booked a 5 p.m. class in Mars, Pennsylvania that same day, and Mars is a short drive from
00:12:23.420Edinburgh. So it's very plausible. It's the same person. And again, if it is Crooks, that would be
00:12:29.240very interesting since he was a loner who, by all accounts, had no friends. So who might these people
00:12:34.780be? Well, we have no idea. Once again, the FBI documents don't explain whether any follow-up
00:12:40.740investigation was conducted or what the FBI discovered. But there are other pieces of
00:12:46.300information that suggest that Crooks may have had some unusual contacts. And as you may remember,
00:12:52.460the Oversight Project, which is part of the Heritage Foundation, managed to acquire cell
00:12:56.840phone data from a device tied to Crooks' home. And according to that data, quote,
00:13:02.300But someone who regularly visited Crooks' home and work also visited a building in Washington, D.C. located in Gallery Place.
00:13:10.740This is the same vicinity of an FBI office on June 26, 2023.
00:13:17.020Now, first of all, we need to say something about how the Oversight Project acquired this data.
00:13:21.800Most people don't realize that you can do this, but it's actually very easy for a private individual organization to obtain detailed records about where your personal cell phone has been.
00:13:31.060for a very long period of time, up to several years, actually. And here's how it works.
00:13:37.280On the open market, you can purchase mobile ads data for specific geographical regions. And this
00:13:42.880mobile data is collected by corporations that create the apps that you use on your phone.
00:13:47.820And they sell this data to brokers for the purpose of selling ads, but it's also an easy
00:13:51.520way to track people. All you have to do is set the GPS coordinates for Thomas Crooks' house,
00:13:56.160and you'll learn the device ID of every phone that regularly goes to that house.
00:14:01.520And then you can ask the data brokers where that device ID typically travels.
00:14:06.740In this case, according to the Oversight Project,
00:14:08.940the phone went from Crooks' house to an area in Washington, D.C.
00:14:12.280that was close to an FBI field office.
00:14:15.240So keep this in mind when you're talking about, you know,
00:14:17.420mass surveillance and cameras and so on.
00:14:19.640The device that you have in your pocket is tracking you all the time
00:14:22.420in ways that you probably don't realize.
00:14:24.780Every so often you ask an employee at a store where to find something, and instead of vaguely
00:14:29.940pointing toward an aisle somewhere, aisle 12 and disappearing, they actually walk you over and help
00:14:35.160you find it. It's a small thing, but you remember it because they went one step beyond what was
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00:15:44.080Apple has introduced a foldable phone that costs roughly $2,000.
00:15:49.400And at that price, dropping it isn't an accident.
00:15:53.520It's a financial emergency, and people will protect it immediately.
00:15:57.400They'll buy the case, the screen protector, the extended warranty.
00:16:01.120By the time they leave the store, the phone is better protected than the income that paid for it.
00:16:06.060That's a strange ordering of priorities.
00:17:34.160An anonymous donor paid for the cremation of President Trump's would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, just days after the deadly Butler, Pennsylvania, rally shooting.
00:17:46.120Anonymous donor paid for cremation reads a note at the end of a summary of an interview the gunman's father, Matthew, conducted with federal investigators.
00:17:53.900The addendum noted that Matthew was retired and that his wife was on leave from work, suggesting the family couldn't come up with the money for his funeral arrangements.
00:18:03.780Matthew explains in other parts of the federal records, viewed by the Post, that he was unemployed at the time of the shooting.
00:22:39.480Quote, in my opinion, the only way to fight the government is with a terrorism style attacks.
00:22:44.860track down any important people, politicians, military leaders, etc., and try to assassinate
00:22:51.060them. That's Thomas Crooks speaking to Willie Tepas on YouTube using the username Tom Crooks.
00:22:58.460Now, there are only two other documented communications from Crooks to Tepas,
00:23:03.400as reported by Miranda Devine. And you can see those communications on the screen right now.
00:23:09.820These are communications that the FBI claim didn't exist. They flat out denied that Crooks
00:23:13.760had ever spoken to Tepes, and they were wrong. This is from a Fox News article dated November
00:23:19.6602025. Reports have surfaced questioning Crooks' alleged relationship with Antifa-linked individual
00:23:25.960William Tepes. The FBI told Fox News that there has never been any direct communication between
00:23:32.600Crooks and Tepes. Crooks posted on YouTube, Tepes is a Norwegian-Nordic resistance member.
00:23:37.940He simply responded to content Crooks posted. According to Castro Tell, said this, pointing to
00:23:43.220comment Tepes made on a 2020 era video posted on the video sharing platform by Crooks. As for his
00:23:51.000online presence, Bongino said previous FBI leadership initially downplayed his digital
00:23:55.780footprint. The degree of his digital footprint was not messaged correctly at all by prior
00:24:01.540leadership, Bongino said. So if you're following this, in the same interview where they attacked
00:24:09.120the Biden administration for lying about Crooks's online posts, we're getting false information
00:24:14.440about Crooks's online posts. He did indeed speak directly to Tepes. We have the screenshots.
00:24:20.740They're claiming that Tepes merely responded to Crooks and that it was a one-way interaction,
00:24:25.120but that's not true. Crooks spoke to Tepes directly. And they weren't talking about the
00:24:30.460weather. They were talking about murdering political figures in the United States.
00:24:34.200And more importantly, shortly after these interactions, Crooks goes totally dark, which would imply that if they carried on further conversations, which maybe they did, we don't know, they did so in a way that might be difficult to track.
00:24:50.140And that's not far-fetched because in this latest FBI document dump, we learned that Crooks was using several encrypted email services.
00:24:57.240This is from Elliott's reporting again, quote, an analyst reviewing Crooks's phone found it had repeatedly accessed MailFence described in the file as an encrypted email service hosted in Belgium between April 15th and July 8th, 2024, across what appears to be four separate account IDs.
00:25:15.440On July 15th, two days after the shooting, FBI counterterrorism sent formal foreign dissemination requests to two governments' names redacted asking for any and all records on accounts found on the device.
00:25:28.920Representative Mike Waltz later said the accounts traced to Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany.
00:25:34.620What those governments sent back, if anything, is not contained in the document dump.
00:25:38.620now hearing all this you might conclude that well if crooks was coordinating with willie tevis at
00:25:43.760all there would have been no way for the u.s government to know about it after all these are
00:25:48.320just random people on the internet even if it's true as tevis said that it attracted the attention
00:25:53.500of some intelligence services but the narrative gets a little more complicated when you look at
00:25:58.440the timeline concerning the nordic resistance movement this is from the citizen commission's
00:26:04.500documentary. Watch. Several other dates stand out when examining the timeline of the Nordic
00:26:09.920resistance movement. On August 5th, 2020, Crooks and Tepes reportedly interacted in a YouTube
00:26:16.060comment section. In April 2021, Representative Elisa Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan and a
00:26:25.200former CIA analyst, sent letters to the State Department, FBI, and CIA advocating for the
00:26:31.700Nordic Resistance Movement to be formally designated as a terrorist organization. In those
00:26:36.280letters, she explicitly names the NRM, despite it being a relatively small overseas organization
00:26:42.360with only a few hundred members. Then on June 14, 2024, the U.S. State Department officially
00:26:52.060designated the Nordic Resistance Movement as a specially designated global terrorist organization
00:26:57.420during proceedings at the United Nations.
00:27:00.600That designation was officially published into the Federal Register on July 9th, 2024.
00:27:07.240Just days later, President Trump survived the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:27:14.920So the Nordic resistance movement, a tiny group consisting of a few hundred people at most,
00:27:20.520was suddenly attracting some very high-level attention from the U.S. government.
00:27:25.360And I would suggest that in all likelihood, the CIA and FBI were monitoring online communications
00:27:31.280from members of this group. Certainly you'd think that the CIA would notice if a member of this
00:27:36.160group was openly talking about assassinating U.S. officials and trying to recruit U.S. citizens to
00:27:41.660participate in these assassinations. If not, our intelligence agencies are somehow worse than we
00:27:46.660could have possibly imagined. It's an extremely small number of people that we're talking about
00:27:51.540here. It's not like the Nordic resistance movement has a million members, so you'd imagine that
00:27:55.480they'd be relatively simple to track. The other possibility is that someone in the U.S. government
00:28:01.120was aware of this grooming while it was taking place. Maybe Tepes was an informant working with
00:28:07.980U.S. intelligence and he was warning them about crooks, or maybe someone in the U.S. government
00:28:12.140was actively encouraging Tepes to murder Donald Trump. We really have no idea. I mean, all the
00:28:16.620possibilities are on the table because, again, no one in the government has told us anything about
00:28:20.740Tempest one way or another. They could release a statement tomorrow confirming that they've never
00:28:25.940heard of this guy, never interviewed him, never even knew he existed until random people on the
00:28:30.340internet discovered Crooks' social media accounts. In that case, they'd have to explain how they
00:28:34.160missed it, and a lot of heads should roll, but they haven't even done that. They haven't done
00:28:40.120anything. In fact, more accurately, they've apparently been lying to us about what they've
00:28:46.000known about Crooks' social media footprint. So let's look at the timeline of what the FBI has
00:28:52.800said. In July of 2024, right after the assassination, the FBI immediately gets into
00:28:58.460Crooks' phone, roughly 40 minutes after getting it to Quantico. They discover his online presence
00:29:04.100and his encrypted messaging apps, including emails with foreign service providers. According to Fox
00:29:09.060News, the FBI stated that the FBI examined, quote, 35 accounts linked to Crooks, including social
00:29:14.680media bank and other online accounts. The FBI has been able to access all the accounts, the
00:29:19.360official said. There's been reporting to inappropriately and incorrectly state that
00:29:23.340there was encryption the FBI was not able to get into. That's not true. We've been able to get into
00:29:28.020every single account. So they had total access, but they claim there was nothing of note, even as
00:29:33.920other investigators publicly disagreed. This is from New York Post, which actually has more detail
00:29:39.460in the FBI's latest document dump, quote, Doug Hagman, whose team of six other investigators
00:29:45.040have been working the case for months and have interviewed more than 100 people.
00:29:49.180So they also conducted extensive geofencing analysis of cell phones and tablets not belonging
00:29:54.400to Crooks that were found with him at his home at the rifle range where he took target practice,
00:29:59.540at the rally, and at Bethel Park High School where he graduated in 2022.
00:30:04.080We don't think he acted alone, Hagman told the Post. This took a lot of coordination. In my view,
00:30:09.220Crooks was handled by more than one individual, and he was used for this assassination attempt,
00:30:14.340and I wouldn't preclude the possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him.
00:30:19.260Hagman said one of the electronic devices geolocated with Crooks at several different
00:30:23.280places at the time of the shooting is still pinging today at Bethel Park High School.
00:30:28.260FBI officials who served under President Joe Biden accessed Crooks' phone and his computer
00:30:33.620and his encrypted messaging apps in Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany, according to current
00:30:37.300National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, a former GOP congressman. However, they've been very tight
00:30:43.080lipped about what they found. So all this is known to the FBI as of July 2024. In February 2025,
00:30:52.180right after inauguration, Trump demands all available information about the assassination
00:30:56.900attempt. He told Miranda Devine in a phone call that he wanted, quote, every bit of information
00:31:01.400about the two men who tried to murder him during the campaign. Quote, I want to find out about the
00:31:05.260two assassins? Why did the one guy have six cell phones? And why did the other guy have foreign
00:31:10.020apps? No more holding back because of Biden. I'm entitled to know. And they held it back long
00:31:15.000enough. A few months later, in May 2025, Trump told Brett Baer that he has no new information
00:31:21.300and is relying on his appointees, including Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, although he suggested he
00:31:27.660didn't fully trust the answers that he was getting. Watch. And I thought it was strange. You know,
00:35:06.920And so we can't get ahead of the federal court case.
00:35:10.960A lot of that information will come out in the federal court cases.
00:35:14.020But we have personally invested our time in making sure that we have looked at all the any possible international connections to terrorism and adversaries alike.
00:35:24.180And we've both been down to Quantico. We've both done the laboratory testing.
00:35:27.840We've both seen the explosives analysis. We've both seen the firearm and physically held it.
00:35:31.940We are all in on these investigations.
00:35:34.140Are we going to be surprised at what you learned?
00:35:38.140Yeah. Cash is not kidding. We've been personally briefed extensively on every single detail,
00:35:47.600nugget, tendril of this case. One is actively in court right now. So out of respect for the case,
00:35:53.520it's probably more appropriate that I stay quiet on that. However, I'm not going to tell people
00:35:59.080what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you the truth. And whether you like it or not is up to you.
00:36:02.900If there was a big explosive there, there, right, given my history as a Secret Service agent and my personal friendship as a director does with the president, give me one logical, sensible reason we would not have.
00:36:29.960If it was there, we would have told you.
00:36:32.900Now, they may be right. It's quite possible there's no grand conspiracy, but that's not
00:36:39.700really the point. The point is that there are clearly relevant pieces of information that are
00:36:43.540being withheld from the public, including the identity of the man Crooks was speaking with
00:36:46.920on the day before the shooting at the gun range, the reason the FBI claimed Crooks never spoke to
00:36:53.060Willie Tepes, the identity of the person who paid for Crooks's cremation, the identity of the people
00:36:58.060paying for Crooks' parents, high-profile attorneys, the people Crooks was speaking with on those
00:37:03.620encrypted apps, the reason the body was released for cremation so quickly, and so on. These are
00:37:09.520all details that, according to FBI's own statements, the FBI has information on, but they're not
00:37:14.620providing them to the public. Instead, as of May 2025, they were simply telling us to trust them
00:37:20.020and nothing important was being withheld. Fast forward to July of 2025, and Ron Johnson, the
00:37:26.440Senator for Wisconsin who chairs the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,
00:37:30.880subpoenas Kash Patel, saying the FBI has, quote, repeatedly failed to produce
00:37:34.460to the subcommittee records and information critical to its investigation.
00:37:39.560According to Johnson, quote, for example, following a briefing on March 21st, 2025,
00:37:44.280by FBI forensic laboratory personnel, the subcommittee requested copies of all the records,
00:37:49.680including photographs presented during the briefing. To date, the FBI has failed to produce
00:37:53.940to the subcommittee these records and photographs. Further, on June 4, 2025, after issuing numerous
00:38:00.060requests to the Pennsylvania State Police, the committee subpoenaed PSP for records related to
00:38:05.960the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt. During a phone call with staff on July 1, 2025, PSP
00:38:12.920informed subcommittee and committee staff that PSP did not possess certain records responsive to the
00:38:19.080June 4th subpoena, such as security camera footage. According to PSP, the FBI possesses
00:38:24.740all security camera footage obtained in connection to the July 13th, 2024 assassination attempt for
00:38:29.960nearly a year. The subcommittee has attempted to obtain these records and other information,
00:38:34.280including the aforementioned security camera footage. However, to date, the FBI has failed
00:38:38.580to produce the requested records. But the stonewalling continued in September of 2025.
00:38:45.420Kash Patel again claims, this time under oath, that there's some mysterious trial of someone that prevents the disclosure of more information about Thomas Crooks.
00:38:55.220This is from the Daily Mail, quote, FBI Director Kash Patel gave a curious answer when asked by a congressman to provide details about President Donald Trump's near assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks.
00:39:05.980During a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Republican Texas Representative Wesley Hunt noted
00:39:09.920that he had asked Patel's predecessor, Christopher Wray, a very detailed question about Thomas Matthew Crooks,
00:39:15.800the shooter responsible for the assassination attempt on President Trump's life.
00:39:19.540Hunt then added that he would like to resubmit the question and asked if Patel would answer them.
00:39:24.700Patel responded that he could commit to providing a response as soon as the trial is over.
00:39:29.340But there is no trial for Crooks, as he died shortly after firing his shots at then-candidate Donald Trump.
00:39:35.280with multiple references to a trial and no one knows who's on trial. That's very strange.
00:39:42.760Then in December of 2025, Ron Johnson told Miranda Devine that the FBI still hasn't been
00:39:49.060providing any information and that he's relying on subpoenas to telecom companies instead. Watch.
00:39:56.420What is going on there? And why did you have to subpoena Kash Patel's FBI in July
00:40:04.780to get any information you know it dawned on me i mean i'm the older you get the faster time flies
00:40:11.880right yeah and all of a sudden we're coming up on the one year anniversary of the assassination
00:40:17.200attempt and you start realizing well we haven't got any of this information again my assumption
00:40:22.880was and it's always dangerous to assume yes my assumption was well president trump takes office
00:40:27.500yeah you know he's obviously interested in this he's he's going to make sure that his fbi director
00:40:33.420and people around him are going to get to the bottom of this.
00:40:36.620Yeah, I don't like duplicating effort.
00:42:35.820No, but I mean, it's shocking that we don't know. I mean, 18 months later.
00:42:39.760No, I mean, very early on, and I think this was a news outlet, might have been New York Post. I mean, it did a geo positioning search on Crooks's phone and kind of like that family circus deals, you know, all over the place, you know, the FBI headquarters. It's like, what's pulling off here?
00:42:57.940now somewhere in this timeline while congress was getting stonewalled by the fbi
00:43:04.480an anonymous source got crooks's phone number from foyer request and was able to hack into
00:43:10.400crooks's account where he found that in fact crooks did have a prolific social media footprint
00:43:15.480and this revelation totally undermined the official fbi narrative that crooks had no social
00:43:20.520media footprint which cash patel either didn't know about or lied about in that interview we
00:43:25.680played earlier. And now this week, as the FBI finally starts releasing documents, Trump is flat
00:43:31.180out saying that the assassination attempt and the cover-up was a Democrat plot. Quote,
00:43:38.000everybody knows the crooked Joe Biden FBI didn't do what they should have with respect to the
00:43:43.000lunatic who shot me in Butler, Pennsylvania. By the time I got into office on January 20th,
00:43:48.400most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone. New info was just found.
00:44:07.280That, by the way, is this is not being treated as major headline news.
00:44:11.840The president of the United States just flat out said that there was a government conspiracy among the Democrats to assassinate him.
00:44:19.760that's the kind of thing that you think there'd be some follow-ups i'm like okay well we don't
00:44:25.860just say that and then move on and if there's going to be any kind of follow-up which it should
00:44:33.720be a lot more than if the president united states is is directly accusing the democrat party at the
00:44:41.260highest levels of trying to kill him then we need a lot more than a follow-up there should be major
00:44:46.760investigations, arrests. I mean, it should be, this should be treated as a, as a five alarm fire,
00:44:53.180obviously. But realistically, we're a couple of months away from not being able to do any of that
00:44:58.660because, because probably going to lose control of Congress. I mean, that's almost guaranteed at
00:45:04.960this point, although no one on the right wants to admit it, but it's true. And when that happens,
00:45:11.060congressional subpoena power is gone. Democrats will spend all their time investigating Trump,
00:45:14.840filing fake impeachment charges, packing the court, making Puerto Rico a state,
00:45:19.780destroying the United States as we know it. You know, they get right back to what they were doing
00:45:23.940before, before they lost power. And we are running out of time for an actual accounting
00:45:29.280of what happened in Butler and also the Ryan Ruth assassination attempt. There's plenty of
00:45:33.400foreign connections there as well. If you release all the information and it turns out that Dan
00:45:37.820Bongino was right, then, you know, that's great news for the country. We should celebrate it.
00:45:42.380But if the information suggests something else, that deep state operatives tried to murder Donald Trump, as Trump himself is now indicating, because they knew he was about to win the election, then we need a total non-negotiable purge of the U.S. federal government immediately.
00:46:03.260Think of how differently things could have played out.
00:46:06.340Just one day before the Trump assassination attempt, the FBI arrested an Iran-connected
00:46:10.920operative named Asif Merchant, saying that he was plotting to kill Donald Trump.
00:46:16.800Now, if Trump had actually been killed in Butler, it's conceivable that the deep state
00:46:20.380would have found a way to blame Iran to say the shooting was tied to Merchant's conspiracy