The Tucker Carlson Show - Who Is Thomas Crooks？

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00:00:30.000 This is a video that the FBI has worked hard to make sure you haven't seen.

00:00:42.360 They're from the Google Drive account of Thomas Crooks.

00:00:45.160 The man who on July 13th, 2024, showed up at the Butler County, Pennsylvania, fairgrounds.

00:00:51.160 And tried to assassinate the frontrunner, Donald Trump.

00:00:54.660 And look what happened to our country.

00:00:57.620 Probably 20 million people.

00:01:00.000 And you know, that's a little bit old, that chart.

00:01:03.340 That chart's a couple of months old.

00:01:04.960 And if you want to really see something that's sad, take a look at what happened.

00:01:12.000 That day, Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country.

00:01:23.160 And yet, a year and a half later, we still know almost nothing about him or why he did it.

00:01:30.580 That's because, for some reason, the FBI, even the current FBI, doesn't want us to know.

00:01:36.500 Watch out.

00:01:36.720 Watch out.

00:01:37.640 Since the start of their investigation, the FBI has claimed that Thomas Crooks acted alone and that he was a virtual ghost online with no presence at all.

00:01:53.760 Their only substantive claim about Crooks' motive was that he was a right-winger.

00:01:59.000 We learned that from FBI Deputy Director Paula Bate, who said this to Congress just one month after the attempted assassination.

00:02:08.020 Something just very recently uncovered that I want to share is a social media account which is believed to be associated with the shooter in about the 2019-2020 time frame.

00:02:19.040 There were over 700 comments posted from this account.

00:02:23.560 Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature.

00:02:36.900 The social media account Abate was describing was Crooks' YouTube comments.

00:02:41.380 When the FBI made that claim, we had to take his word for it.

00:02:44.520 We have no way to check.

00:02:46.300 But now we do.

00:02:47.220 In September, we obtained hundreds of comments from Thomas Crooks' YouTube account.

00:02:53.460 Since then, we've gone to great lengths to verify that they're real.

00:02:57.420 We can now confidently say they are.

00:03:00.100 These are genuine, written by Thomas Crooks.

00:03:03.300 But although Crooks' comments are interesting and give tremendous insight into why he did it, they're not the only story.

00:03:09.960 The other story, in fact, the far more significant story, involves the government, the DOJ, and the FBI, which have hidden from the public what they know about Thomas Crooks.

00:03:21.640 The purpose of this report is to reveal details of Crooks' social media accounts and to confront a series of key questions.

00:03:30.260 Why is the FBI keeping Crooks' views a secret?

00:03:33.880 Why are they ignoring Congressional subpoenas to divulge information?

00:03:38.500 Why are they pretending that there's nothing to see here?

00:03:42.500 And more than anything, what are they hiding?

00:03:45.180 Before we present our findings, it's critical to establish how we obtain the comments and how we know they're real.

00:03:55.480 In late September, we received a tip from a source.

00:03:59.160 He told us he'd gain access to some of Thomas Crooks' accounts.

00:04:03.340 He'd found these accounts by utilizing tools commonly used by private investigators.

00:04:07.880 The key lead was Thomas Crooks' phone number.

00:04:11.880 That was published in documents obtained by America First Legal.

00:04:15.500 That phone number led our source to Thomas Crooks' primary email account,

00:04:20.600 tmcrooks7 at gmail.com.

00:04:24.000 That, in turn, he linked with more than a dozen other accounts.

00:04:27.980 That list includes two foreign encrypted email accounts,

00:04:31.520 americangamer at gmx.com, a German website,

00:04:34.540 and bcook at mailfence.com, a Belgian website.

00:04:38.780 Crooks had a Snapchat, tom-crooks19,

00:04:42.200 a Venmo account, thomas-crooks12,

00:04:45.220 a PayPal account under the alias Rod Swanson,

00:04:48.340 a Zelle registered as thomascrooks,

00:04:50.680 as well as accounts on Discord,

00:04:52.780 a Google Play account called Colossal Microwave,

00:04:55.820 a Quizlet titled thomas-crooks,

00:04:59.060 a chess.com with the same name,

00:05:00.880 and two disabled Cora accounts under the handles thomas-crooks8 and thomas-crooks3.

00:05:07.540 It turns out that Thomas Crooks was hardly an online ghost.

00:05:10.860 He was active,

00:05:12.040 and yet federal investigators lied

00:05:13.980 and told us there was no trace of him online.

00:05:16.980 Some of Crooks' accounts, like his Snapchat,

00:05:19.140 appear to have been fully deactivated

00:05:20.920 and completely taken out of use.

00:05:22.800 Some of them may have been unused

00:05:24.340 or cleared by federal officials during the investigation.

00:05:27.280 We don't know,

00:05:28.360 because the FBI wouldn't tell us.

00:05:30.420 However, our source was able to retrieve

00:05:32.780 all data from thomas-crooks's deactivated YouTube account,

00:05:36.280 tomcrooks2178,

00:05:38.640 visible to other users as Tom Crooks.

00:05:40.660 This account includes his search history,

00:05:43.120 his watch history,

00:05:44.460 and 737 public comments.

00:05:47.480 Another critical account, his Google Drive,

00:05:49.580 is linked to an archive of Crooks' YouTube account.

00:05:52.640 That's where our source obtained the videos

00:05:54.520 of Crooks dry-firing a handgun in his bedroom,

00:05:57.440 with paper targets on the wall behind him.

00:05:59.420 But aside from the video evidence,

00:06:01.940 the email addresses,

00:06:02.840 and the phone number tying Crooks to the account,

00:06:05.060 or the fact that most of these accounts use his actual name,

00:06:08.520 there are other key details

00:06:10.000 that support the authenticity of what we found.

00:06:12.920 For example, this video's metadata shows

00:06:15.260 it was filmed at Thomas Crooks' parents' home.

00:06:17.840 And some of Crooks' YouTube comments

00:06:21.380 are still available on Internet Archive sites.

00:06:24.380 Crooks' YouTube channel was suspended on July 14th, 2024.

00:06:28.980 That's the day after the shooting.

00:06:30.860 Its offense, quote,

00:06:32.140 violating YouTube's policy on violent criminal organizations.

00:06:35.960 And though Crooks' comments are no longer available on YouTube,

00:06:39.140 in many cases, the commenters who responded to Crooks

00:06:42.800 are still there and they match what we see

00:06:45.520 on the Internet Archive sites.

00:06:47.760 When you click on their tags of Crooks' accounts,

00:06:50.720 YouTube takes you to a page that says,

00:06:53.220 this channel was removed

00:06:54.240 because it violated our community guidelines.

00:06:57.320 In other words,

00:06:58.520 there is ample evidence to support

00:07:00.280 the authenticity of these posts.

00:07:02.940 Our source figured it out.

00:07:05.040 So did we.

00:07:05.800 But when we reached out directly to the FBI

00:07:08.340 to ask why the Bureau hadn't shared

00:07:10.940 any details from the account with the public,

00:07:13.380 the FBI responded by questioning

00:07:14.880 whether we could verify the authenticity of the count.

00:07:18.020 We were confused by this,

00:07:19.620 considering the authenticity is self-evident.

00:07:22.080 And of course, the FBI would have known that

00:07:24.180 since the day of the shooting.

00:07:26.200 What exactly is the FBI hiding?

00:07:32.300 Here's what we do know.

00:07:33.480 The digital comments we obtained

00:07:35.460 were posted between 2019 and 2020,

00:07:38.560 when Thomas Crooks was between 15 and 17 years old.

00:07:42.000 They show two things.

00:07:43.300 First, that Thomas Crooks was not some secretive lone wolf

00:07:46.000 who never warned anyone that he was planning violence.

00:07:48.840 Just the opposite.

00:07:50.380 Years before he showed up in Butler,

00:07:52.420 Crooks was leaving a detailed digital trail

00:07:54.760 of violent threats,

00:07:56.640 including calls for assassinations

00:07:58.380 and political violence.

00:08:00.460 Second, they show a man

00:08:01.960 who started out as a radical Trump supporter

00:08:03.980 whose views on the president transformed,

00:08:06.500 changed completely during COVID.

00:08:09.000 The FBI lied about that fact

00:08:11.060 and pretended that Crooks was a right-winger.

00:08:13.780 At 11.35 p.m. on July 19th, 2019,

00:08:17.680 in response to an MSNBC video,

00:08:20.300 Crooks wrote, quote,

00:08:21.380 Ilhan Omar and others are invaders 1.00

00:08:23.440 and should honestly be killed 1.00

00:08:24.860 and their dead bodies sent back. 1.00

00:08:26.420 At 1.17 a.m. on July 20th, 2019,

00:08:30.120 Crooks commented on a CNN video.

00:08:32.240 He said Donald Trump

00:08:33.140 was the literal definition of patriotism.

00:08:36.040 Seven hours later,

00:08:37.140 he commented on an MSNBC video.

00:08:39.500 He wrote, 0.99

00:08:40.220 I hope a quick, painful death 1.00

00:08:41.900 to all the deplorable immigrants 1.00

00:08:43.680 and anti-Trump congresswoman 0.61

00:08:45.240 who don't deserve anything

00:08:46.580 this country has given them.

00:08:47.780 That evening, on a separate MSNBC video,

00:08:50.400 he wrote, quote,

00:08:51.020 Every one of the Trump-hating Democrats 1.00

00:08:52.980 deserve to have their heads chopped off 1.00

00:08:54.900 and put on stakes for the world to see 1.00

00:08:56.920 what happens when you fuck with America. 1.00

00:08:59.580 These sorts of comments continued for months 1.00

00:09:01.780 and became increasingly violent.

00:09:04.460 The following day,

00:09:05.720 Crooks responded to a CBS Evening News video

00:09:08.240 about the Squad saying this, quote,

00:09:10.580 This is going to be blatantly racist, 1.00

00:09:12.400 but I hope Trump has these people murdered. 1.00

00:09:15.820 Crooks openly called for dictatorship 1.00

00:09:17.820 and putting, quote, 0.60

00:09:18.780 Hispanics back in their place. 1.00

00:09:20.280 He warned that if Democrats win in 2020,

00:09:23.100 quote,

00:09:23.620 They won't be in there for long

00:09:24.980 because unlike the Dems,

00:09:26.400 we have guns and lots of them.

00:09:29.360 In one comment,

00:09:30.320 Crooks noted that, quote,

00:09:31.320 50 million Americans with AR-15s

00:09:33.660 will make quick work of any blockades

00:09:35.560 the government can put in

00:09:36.480 to protect the White House.

00:09:38.180 He left multiple references

00:09:39.680 to Mao Zedong's famous line,

00:09:41.820 The only real political power

00:09:43.400 comes from the barrel of a gun.

00:09:45.460 On September 30th, 2019,

00:09:47.880 Crooks responded to comments 0.97

00:09:49.000 about a potential civil war saying this,

00:09:51.540 Most rioters don't bring assault rifles

00:09:53.480 and body armor like we would,

00:09:55.380 and we wouldn't be going to the streets.

00:09:57.160 We'd be going to Washington.

00:09:58.980 At this point,

00:09:59.880 one user named HyperPandas

00:10:01.900 responded saying, quote,

00:10:03.260 Law enforcement will thank you

00:10:04.700 for grouping up and being so visible.

00:10:06.980 It'll make your arrest so much simpler.

00:10:09.820 Crooks responded saying,

00:10:11.240 Cops can't arrest me if they're all dead.

00:10:13.320 Before adding,

00:10:15.240 Even an untrained man

00:10:16.620 with an AR-15 is dangerous.

00:10:18.480 You think Adam Lanza

00:10:19.600 or any school shooter trained?

00:10:21.580 Nope.

00:10:22.300 If you navigate to that YouTube page today,

00:10:24.420 you can still see identical,

00:10:27.020 contextual comments

00:10:28.020 and people referring to Thomas Crooks,

00:10:29.800 including one user who wrote this,

00:10:31.800 You're on YouTube 0.96

00:10:33.200 threatening to shoot government officials. 0.81

00:10:35.640 I sure hope the FBI

00:10:36.560 is monitoring social media

00:10:38.080 for violent nut cases.

00:10:39.640 That exchange is still available

00:10:41.000 on Internet Archive websites.

00:10:43.420 But the FBI didn't see that

00:10:44.900 before the shooting?

00:10:46.200 That's hard to believe.

00:10:47.540 On various occasions,

00:10:48.740 Crooks openly said things like, 0.93

00:10:50.760 Mueller should be hanged 0.97

00:10:51.900 along with the rest of the Democrats 1.00

00:10:53.280 involved in that witch hunt.

00:10:54.600 And I always believed

00:10:56.960 being patriotic

00:10:57.820 was lining up

00:10:58.620 a bunch of socialist Jews 0.79

00:11:00.140 like the ones who booed Trump 1.00

00:11:01.660 and blasting their useless brains out 1.00

00:11:04.140 with an AR. 1.00

00:11:05.400 And yet in early 2020,

00:11:07.580 Crooks seemed to change radically. 0.99

00:11:09.580 On January 23rd of that year,

00:11:12.080 he referred to, quote, 1.00

00:11:13.040 Trump's stupidity. 1.00

00:11:14.840 They began to mock 1.00

00:11:15.720 the concept of the deep state.

00:11:18.020 He suggested it was a code word

00:11:19.480 used by Trump supporters

00:11:20.660 for, quote,

00:11:21.440 anyone who disagrees

00:11:22.540 with the right wing.

00:11:23.640 Suddenly, he sounded like

00:11:24.460 an MSNBC commentator.

00:11:26.260 In February of 2020,

00:11:27.620 he called out Trump supporters

00:11:28.980 as, quote, 0.95

00:11:29.640 too brainwashed to realize 1.00

00:11:31.060 how dumb you are. 1.00

00:11:32.240 I mean, literally, 1.00

00:11:32.960 you guys sound like a cult at times.

00:11:35.200 That same day,

00:11:36.180 he called Trump

00:11:37.160 and his supporters, quote,

00:11:38.020 racist.

00:11:39.020 It was an amazing transformation.

00:11:40.980 That April,

00:11:41.640 during the peak phase

00:11:42.560 of the coronavirus lockdowns,

00:11:44.300 Crooks wrote, quote,

00:11:45.360 it seems that you people

00:11:46.380 don't understand

00:11:47.300 that sometimes

00:11:48.220 public safety comes

00:11:49.560 before your personal rights.

00:11:51.480 Are you not willing

00:11:52.180 to quarantine

00:11:52.840 one member of your family

00:11:54.060 to save the rest?

00:11:55.600 If so,

00:11:56.060 you are not a patriot

00:11:57.040 and you aren't protecting anything.

00:11:59.540 Around this time,

00:12:00.500 the new left wing version

00:12:02.000 of Thomas Crooks

00:12:02.960 became very critical

00:12:04.220 of conservative media.

00:12:05.420 He said at one point, quote,

00:12:06.460 going to a Chinese New Year's party

00:12:08.360 in America

00:12:08.900 isn't putting you at risk

00:12:10.200 for coronavirus

00:12:10.840 because, believe it or not,

00:12:12.760 viruses don't spread through race

00:12:14.440 like Tucker Carlson

00:12:15.480 probably told you.

00:12:16.720 That may,

00:12:17.840 as state officials

00:12:18.420 across the country

00:12:19.260 overhauled election systems

00:12:20.620 to promote mail-in voting,

00:12:22.680 Crooks attacked Republican concerns 1.00

00:12:24.540 about voter fraud

00:12:25.400 as, quote, 1.00

00:12:26.060 ignorant. 0.98

00:12:27.080 Four months later, 0.97

00:12:27.880 in August 2020,

00:12:29.460 his tone had shifted

00:12:30.240 even further to the left.

00:12:32.360 He said, quote,

00:12:33.180 I believe the outcome

00:12:34.820 will be irrelevant.

00:12:36.280 In response to the same video,

00:12:38.200 Thomas Crooks issued

00:12:39.140 what sounds a lot like

00:12:40.320 a digital manifesto,

00:12:42.120 quote,

00:12:42.880 In my opinion,

00:12:43.920 the only way to fight

00:12:45.080 the government

00:12:45.620 is with terrorism-style attacks.

00:12:48.280 Sneak a bomb

00:12:49.100 into an essential building

00:12:50.260 and set it off

00:12:50.920 before anyone sees you.

00:12:52.640 Track down any important people

00:12:54.200 or politicians,

00:12:55.120 military leaders, etc., 0.98

00:12:56.260 and try to assassinate them. 0.78

00:12:58.360 Any sort of head-to-head fight 1.00

00:13:00.020 is suicide, 0.75

00:13:00.840 and even ambush

00:13:02.180 or surprise attacks

00:13:03.540 likely aren't going to end well.

00:13:05.780 These remarks

00:13:06.420 were especially notable

00:13:07.400 because they came

00:13:08.480 at the final phase

00:13:09.640 of Crooks' YouTube commenting.

00:13:11.860 At that point,

00:13:12.640 a new character emerged

00:13:14.020 into the conversation,

00:13:15.220 a user named

00:13:16.120 Willie Tepas,

00:13:17.900 who started pressuring Crooks

00:13:19.680 to commit violence.

00:13:21.140 For example, quote,

00:13:22.260 If a gun and a badge

00:13:23.600 is all that is needed,

00:13:25.020 then authority obviously

00:13:26.120 comes from the barrel of a gun.

00:13:28.280 We have more guns

00:13:29.360 than they do.

00:13:29.920 There is no way

00:13:31.120 we can avoid a war

00:13:32.060 at this point,

00:13:32.900 so you better just

00:13:33.620 get used to the idea.

00:13:35.060 We have nothing to lose

00:13:36.160 and everything to win.

00:13:37.960 And the alternative,

00:13:38.960 a global police state,

00:13:40.100 is unacceptable.

00:13:41.700 Nothing in life is simple,

00:13:43.180 but that is no argument

00:13:44.180 against doing it.

00:13:45.840 So who is this Willie Tepas?

00:13:48.100 Unfortunately,

00:13:48.840 we don't know.

00:13:49.820 The FBI hasn't made

00:13:50.900 any mention of him

00:13:52.020 in public,

00:13:52.700 although they certainly

00:13:53.380 know he exists.

00:13:55.000 Just days after the shooting,

00:13:56.680 somebody screenshotted

00:13:57.820 Tepas' YouTube account page

00:13:59.480 despite the fact

00:14:00.540 he had very few followers.

00:14:02.080 To the extent

00:14:02.480 that he can be traced online now,

00:14:04.900 you can find his username

00:14:06.120 being used

00:14:06.820 on a foreign Antifa website.

00:14:08.840 Those sites link him

00:14:09.880 to the Nordic Resistance Movement,

00:14:11.740 which has been designated

00:14:12.640 a terrorist group

00:14:13.600 by the U.S. State Department.

00:14:14.820 That's all we know.

00:14:16.420 We do know, however,

00:14:17.580 that Crooks' online footprint

00:14:19.180 abruptly ends

00:14:20.300 after his encounter

00:14:21.280 with this mysterious figure,

00:14:23.280 Willie Tepas.

00:14:24.320 Regardless of whoever

00:14:25.100 Willie Tepas is or was,

00:14:27.040 and what his motives may have been,

00:14:28.460 who he may have been working for,

00:14:30.160 there is no doubt

00:14:31.280 that Crooks was ripe 0.76

00:14:32.680 for recruitment by someone.

00:14:34.760 From early 2019

00:14:36.220 to mid-2020,

00:14:37.940 as his political views

00:14:38.860 were evolving,

00:14:40.120 Crooks searched for Trump 0.96

00:14:41.380 more than 700 times online.

00:14:43.640 He also searched

00:14:44.260 for Jack Ruby,

00:14:45.480 the man who assassinated

00:14:47.020 Lee Harvey Oswald.

00:14:48.260 He then submitted queries

00:14:49.640 for craziest chemical reactions,

00:14:51.780 cars running over protesters,

00:14:53.480 best places for mass shooting,

00:14:55.520 mass shooting El Paso,

00:14:57.660 Trump's Civil War,

00:14:59.200 Orlando's shooting reaction,

00:15:01.220 firing an AR-15

00:15:02.600 as fast as possible,

00:15:04.020 fertilizer bomb,

00:15:05.360 how to make napalm,

00:15:06.480 how to make a Molotov cocktail,

00:15:08.240 mass shooting Canada, 0.53

00:15:09.720 Oklahoma bombing,

00:15:10.980 and sniper in Dallas shooting.

00:15:13.180 He also searched

00:15:13.860 for American Nazi Party,

00:15:15.800 German National Anthem,

00:15:17.340 1933-1945,

00:15:19.580 Hitler's speeches

00:15:20.220 with subtitles,

00:15:21.360 neo-Nazis,

00:15:22.260 and, quote, 0.99

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00:17:26.800 So here you have

00:17:28.120 a volatile,

00:17:29.220 troubled, 0.75

00:17:29.640 possibly mentally ill 0.98

00:17:31.040 young man 0.95

00:17:31.760 with a long record

00:17:33.480 of espousing violence

00:17:34.780 in public.

00:17:36.160 The FBI clearly knew

00:17:37.680 he existed.

00:17:39.320 And then you have

00:17:40.360 at the very end

00:17:41.760 of his years

00:17:43.240 commenting in public

00:17:44.400 espousing violence

00:17:45.560 in exchange

00:17:46.880 with a mysterious figure

00:17:48.860 affiliated with the group

00:17:51.180 that we know

00:17:52.320 is being monitored

00:17:53.040 by the U.S. State Department.

00:17:55.040 Hmm.

00:17:56.060 It turns out

00:17:56.760 that around the same time

00:17:58.100 that Thomas Crooks

00:17:58.820 was making these searches

00:17:59.960 and posting

00:18:00.640 overt threats of violence

00:18:02.620 against public figures

00:18:03.560 on YouTube,

00:18:04.380 the FBI was issuing

00:18:05.380 contracts to private sector

00:18:07.200 tech surveillance firms

00:18:08.420 to harness the power

00:18:09.420 of mass data collection tools

00:18:11.320 that would monitor

00:18:12.120 social media

00:18:12.960 for people just like

00:18:14.060 Thomas Crooks.

00:18:14.920 It's hard to imagine

00:18:15.900 that Thomas Crooks,

00:18:16.820 who was making these posts

00:18:17.640 publicly and in his own name,

00:18:19.460 had not been identified

00:18:20.740 and looked at closely

00:18:21.960 by federal law enforcement.

00:18:23.860 In fact,

00:18:24.400 it's impossible

00:18:25.360 to imagine.

00:18:27.120 What do we know?

00:18:28.660 Well,

00:18:29.160 we know that the FBI

00:18:30.000 had access

00:18:30.660 to these YouTube comments

00:18:31.920 and rather than giving us

00:18:32.840 valuable information

00:18:33.660 about them,

00:18:35.320 giving us a sense

00:18:36.020 of why Thomas Crooks

00:18:36.820 did what he did,

00:18:38.100 they used

00:18:38.940 a selective read

00:18:40.940 of those comments

00:18:41.760 to lie

00:18:42.880 about what Thomas Crooks

00:18:44.360 was thinking.

00:18:45.820 Two and a half weeks

00:18:46.660 after the attack

00:18:47.820 on July 30th,

00:18:49.280 a source familiar

00:18:50.120 with the investigation

00:18:51.060 told CNN

00:18:52.260 that, quote,

00:18:52.880 federal investigators

00:18:53.720 are looking into

00:18:54.360 a YouTube account

00:18:55.200 possibly connected

00:18:56.460 to Crooks

00:18:57.000 in which the user

00:18:58.300 espoused political violence

00:18:59.680 as well as anti-Semitic

00:19:01.280 and anti-immigration themes.

00:19:03.160 Well, of course,

00:19:04.080 it wasn't possibly

00:19:05.180 connected to Thomas Crooks

00:19:06.440 as the FBI knew full well

00:19:08.440 it was Thomas Crooks' account.

00:19:10.300 There was never

00:19:10.740 any question about that.

00:19:12.060 And yet the same day,

00:19:13.460 the FBI's

00:19:14.080 then deputy director

00:19:15.100 made the same dishonest claim

00:19:17.080 before Congress.

00:19:18.800 The week previous,

00:19:19.980 then FBI director

00:19:20.940 Christopher Wray

00:19:21.680 publicly questioned

00:19:22.800 whether Trump

00:19:23.400 was even shot.

00:19:24.480 With respect to

00:19:25.440 former President Trump,

00:19:27.000 there's some question

00:19:29.680 about whether or not

00:19:30.680 it's a bullet

00:19:32.060 or shrapnel

00:19:32.720 that, you know,

00:19:33.440 that hit his ear.

00:19:34.520 In February 2025,

00:19:36.080 the New York Post

00:19:36.720 reported that, quote,

00:19:37.680 the FBI

00:19:38.260 has obstructed efforts

00:19:39.840 to solve the mystery

00:19:40.880 of why Thomas Matthew Crooks,

00:19:43.100 who left no manifesto,

00:19:44.640 did what he did.

00:19:45.780 And this fact,

00:19:46.520 said the Post,

00:19:47.400 left local law enforcement

00:19:48.740 as well as Crooks'

00:19:49.560 former friends,

00:19:50.700 classmates,

00:19:51.260 and teachers

00:19:51.760 frustrated.

00:19:52.540 The level of lying

00:19:53.800 and obstruction

00:19:54.440 is shocking.

00:19:55.460 Less than a month

00:19:56.600 after the shooting,

00:19:57.980 Congressman Clay Higgins

00:19:59.100 of Louisiana,

00:19:59.960 a former police officer,

00:20:01.460 traveled to Butler

00:20:02.100 to conduct his own investigation

00:20:03.640 into what happened.

00:20:04.820 When he arrived,

00:20:05.920 he discovered

00:20:06.460 a disturbing fact.

00:20:07.920 The FBI

00:20:08.480 released Crooks' body

00:20:10.440 for cremation

00:20:11.300 10 days

00:20:12.260 after July 13th.

00:20:14.240 This wasn't known

00:20:15.200 to the public

00:20:15.920 until Higgins arrived

00:20:17.180 in Butler

00:20:17.600 on August 5th,

00:20:18.980 when the coroner

00:20:19.580 told the congressman,

00:20:20.600 he would never

00:20:21.940 have released

00:20:22.480 Crooks' body 1.00

00:20:23.300 to the family

00:20:23.940 for cremation

00:20:24.740 or burial

00:20:25.460 without specific permission

00:20:27.220 from the FBI.

00:20:28.540 The timing

00:20:29.140 of Crooks' cremation

00:20:30.280 is notable.

00:20:31.240 The day Crooks' body

00:20:32.700 was burned

00:20:33.500 was also the day 1.00

00:20:35.140 the House Homeland Security

00:20:36.580 and Oversight Committees

00:20:37.560 had begun their investigations

00:20:39.420 into the shooting.

00:20:40.520 The fact the body

00:20:41.360 was cremated

00:20:42.500 made it impossible

00:20:43.740 for investigators

00:20:44.620 outside the FBI

00:20:45.740 to verify

00:20:46.800 the coroner

00:20:47.780 and autopsy report.

00:20:49.060 You can't do a new tox screen

00:20:50.520 because the body

00:20:51.560 doesn't exist.

00:20:53.600 According to Higgins,

00:20:54.700 quote,

00:20:54.940 this action by the FBI

00:20:56.320 can only be described

00:20:57.480 by any reasonable man

00:20:58.940 as an obstruction

00:21:00.140 to any following

00:21:01.020 investigative effort.

00:21:02.460 Another notable detail

00:21:03.560 is that photos

00:21:04.500 from the day

00:21:04.940 after the shooting

00:21:05.840 show an FBI agent

00:21:07.380 hosing down the site

00:21:08.600 where Crooks died.

00:21:10.640 High-level intelligence

00:21:11.640 officials

00:21:12.060 and congressional sources

00:21:13.100 told us

00:21:13.760 this is very strange

00:21:15.300 and that the FBI

00:21:16.460 usually hires out

00:21:17.660 crime scene cleanup

00:21:18.700 to third-party contractors

00:21:20.360 but in this case

00:21:21.980 they did it themselves

00:21:23.240 leaving no blood

00:21:24.980 and no tissue

00:21:26.000 for anyone else

00:21:27.200 to analyze.

00:21:28.680 In the photo

00:21:29.420 the agent Schertz says

00:21:30.660 he's from the

00:21:31.220 Technical Hazards Response Unit

00:21:33.000 a unit that collects

00:21:34.180 traditional forensic evidence

00:21:35.740 contaminated with

00:21:36.500 hazardous materials.

00:21:37.920 After the shooting

00:21:38.620 the FBI sent Crooks' phone

00:21:40.240 to the Bureau's laboratory

00:21:41.240 at Quantico, Virginia.

00:21:42.960 Agents there

00:21:43.400 were able to open it

00:21:44.520 in less than 40 minutes

00:21:46.340 using technology

00:21:47.340 from an Israeli tech firm

00:21:49.220 called Celebrate.

00:21:50.620 According to the Post

00:21:51.580 FBI officials

00:21:52.500 who served under

00:21:53.260 President Joe Biden

00:21:54.160 accessed Crooks' phone

00:21:55.840 computer

00:21:56.740 and his encrypted

00:21:58.080 messaging apps

00:21:59.020 in Belgium, New Zealand

00:22:00.500 and Germany.

00:22:01.880 Yet none

00:22:02.680 of the online activity

00:22:03.880 the FBI has discovered

00:22:04.980 was referred to

00:22:05.860 in any way

00:22:06.620 in the final congressional report

00:22:08.220 that was released

00:22:08.840 in December of 2024.

00:22:10.560 By the way

00:22:11.040 why do we still

00:22:11.560 know nothing about

00:22:12.220 that guy in Butler?

00:22:12.900 What's going on?

00:22:14.740 That was a good question.

00:22:16.140 A question that

00:22:16.740 most people thought

00:22:17.800 would be answered

00:22:18.420 by the new administration.

00:22:19.720 Within weeks

00:22:20.460 of retaking office

00:22:21.380 Donald Trump told

00:22:22.300 the New York Post's

00:22:23.140 Miranda Devine

00:22:24.280 that he had

00:22:25.080 quote

00:22:25.280 ordered the Secret Service

00:22:26.300 on Friday

00:22:26.840 to provide him

00:22:27.580 every bit of information

00:22:28.940 about his two

00:22:30.020 would-be assassins.

00:22:31.320 You've had

00:22:31.760 two assassination attempts

00:22:33.620 one obviously

00:22:34.380 where you got hit

00:22:35.460 by that bullet in Butler.

00:22:36.820 There's a lot of frustration

00:22:38.100 that we still

00:22:39.160 don't know about

00:22:40.400 that shooter in Butler

00:22:41.340 and we don't have to know

00:22:42.500 about his communications.

00:22:44.320 We get stonewalled 0.99

00:22:45.080 all the time

00:22:45.640 asking questions about it.

00:22:47.660 Is there frustration

00:22:48.340 on your part?

00:22:49.340 Will we get transparency?

00:22:51.220 Will we know

00:22:51.760 the bottom line story?

00:22:53.400 It's very interesting

00:22:54.500 because we have

00:22:55.000 great people.

00:22:56.480 I think Pam is incredible.

00:22:57.960 I think Cash is incredible.

00:23:00.200 And they're doing

00:23:00.820 a great job.

00:23:01.520 They're being recognized

00:23:02.420 as doing a great job.

00:23:03.920 But you're the president.

00:23:04.760 Can't you find out?

00:23:05.380 No, no.

00:23:05.780 I know.

00:23:06.500 I know.

00:23:06.920 I know.

00:23:08.580 I'm relying on my people

00:23:10.120 to tell me what it is.

00:23:12.160 But his people insist 1.00

00:23:13.080 there's nothing there

00:23:13.920 and they don't seem interested

00:23:14.900 in finding out more.

00:23:16.220 How come we don't have

00:23:17.140 more information

00:23:17.800 on the assassination attempts

00:23:19.860 on President Trump?

00:23:21.800 There's two reasons.

00:23:24.480 Two open,

00:23:25.160 ongoing prosecutions.

00:23:26.880 But we have personally

00:23:28.460 invested our time

00:23:29.420 in making sure

00:23:30.220 that we have looked

00:23:31.620 at all the,

00:23:32.520 any possible

00:23:33.100 international connections

00:23:34.180 to terrorism

00:23:34.940 and adversaries alike.

00:23:36.640 And we've both

00:23:37.240 been down to Quantico.

00:23:38.100 We've both done

00:23:39.120 the laboratory testing.

00:23:40.320 We've both seen

00:23:40.860 the explosives analysis.

00:23:42.080 We've both seen

00:23:42.680 the firearm

00:23:43.260 and physically held it.

00:23:44.300 We are all in

00:23:45.280 on these investigations.

00:23:46.540 Are we going to be surprised

00:23:47.560 at what you learned?

00:23:49.620 You know what, Maria?

00:23:53.420 Cash is not kidding.

00:23:55.020 We've been personally

00:23:55.920 briefed extensively

00:23:56.960 on every single detail,

00:24:00.060 nugget, tendril

00:24:00.860 of this case.

00:24:02.180 One is actively

00:24:03.260 in court right now.

00:24:04.300 So out of respect

00:24:05.060 for the case,

00:24:05.800 it's probably more

00:24:07.000 appropriate that I

00:24:07.700 stay quiet on that.

00:24:08.960 However, I'm not going

00:24:10.940 to tell people

00:24:11.540 what they want to hear.

00:24:12.280 I'm going to tell you

00:24:12.740 the truth.

00:24:13.360 And whether you like it

00:24:14.520 or not is up to you.

00:24:15.780 If there was a big

00:24:17.260 explosive there there,

00:24:18.760 right, given my history

00:24:19.900 as a Secret Service agent

00:24:21.440 and my personal friendship

00:24:23.240 as a director does

00:24:24.480 with the president,

00:24:25.840 give me one logical,

00:24:27.540 sensible reason

00:24:28.180 we would not have.

00:24:29.840 If you can think of one,

00:24:30.940 there isn't.

00:24:31.700 There isn't.

00:24:32.780 In some of these cases,

00:24:34.140 the there you're looking for,

00:24:35.360 is not there.

00:24:37.000 What a baffling thing

00:24:38.120 to say.

00:24:39.260 Thomas Crooks is dead,

00:24:40.420 of course.

00:24:41.580 There was no trial

00:24:42.520 against Thomas Crooks.

00:24:43.880 And by the way,

00:24:44.580 they weren't misspeaking.

00:24:45.680 This wasn't an accident.

00:24:47.380 We know that

00:24:48.180 because the director

00:24:49.420 of the FBI

00:24:49.960 said the same thing

00:24:51.400 once again

00:24:52.280 under oath

00:24:53.200 in front of Congress

00:24:53.960 in September.

00:24:54.820 When your predecessor

00:24:55.340 sat right there

00:24:56.080 in that seat

00:24:56.660 a couple of years,

00:24:57.640 last year in a committee hearing,

00:24:58.820 I asked him a very detailed

00:24:59.820 question about

00:25:00.540 Matthew Thomas Crooks,

00:25:01.600 the shooter responsible

00:25:02.380 for the assassination

00:25:03.500 attempt

00:25:04.320 on President Trump's life.

00:25:06.140 I did get an answer

00:25:06.980 from Chris Wray that day

00:25:08.380 and I submitted

00:25:09.080 written questions

00:25:10.040 to the FBI

00:25:11.000 and into the record

00:25:11.980 of this committee.

00:25:13.200 And I want to resubmit

00:25:14.620 those questions today

00:25:16.000 because I think

00:25:16.860 we are still awaiting

00:25:17.800 answers to those questions.

00:25:19.160 So, Mr. Chairman,

00:25:19.760 I'd like to submit

00:25:20.380 some for the record, please.

00:25:22.300 I'd like to ask you, sir,

00:25:23.820 and the FBI

00:25:24.440 under your leadership,

00:25:25.560 would you please respond

00:25:26.340 to these questions

00:25:26.920 and can you commit

00:25:27.620 to doing that?

00:25:28.200 As soon as the trial's over.

00:25:31.200 But if it's true

00:25:31.940 that there's nothing here,

00:25:33.400 then the FBI

00:25:33.960 has a very strange way

00:25:35.280 of showing it.

00:25:36.220 In July of 2024,

00:25:37.620 a bipartisan group

00:25:38.560 of senators

00:25:39.080 led by Republican Senator

00:25:40.320 Ron Johnson

00:25:41.040 of Wisconsin

00:25:41.660 sent a letter,

00:25:42.760 requesting records

00:25:43.840 related to the July 13th,

00:25:45.520 2024 assassination attempt.

00:25:47.660 Fully a year later,

00:25:49.340 the FBI still

00:25:50.080 had not responded.

00:25:51.440 What is this about?

00:25:52.640 This summer,

00:25:53.740 Senator Johnson

00:25:54.340 issued a new subpoena

00:25:55.680 noting that,

00:25:56.740 nearly a year after

00:25:57.760 the assassination attempt

00:25:58.940 and the initiation

00:25:59.960 of the subcommittee's

00:26:00.780 investigation,

00:26:01.880 the FBI has repeatedly

00:26:03.000 failed to produce

00:26:04.000 the subcommittee records

00:26:05.080 and information

00:26:05.740 critical to its investigation.

00:26:07.620 In the subpoena,

00:26:08.400 they demanded pictures

00:26:09.400 and images

00:26:10.000 related to the assassination,

00:26:11.620 video footage,

00:26:12.860 forensic reports,

00:26:14.180 records related

00:26:14.800 to FBI interviews,

00:26:16.100 and notably,

00:26:17.320 all records

00:26:18.240 referring or relating

00:26:19.240 to any of Thomas Crookes'

00:26:20.800 electronic devices,

00:26:22.240 digital or financial accounts,

00:26:23.600 or online search history.

00:26:24.900 What are you telling us?

00:26:27.760 I am totally unsatisfied.

00:26:29.540 I am totally unsatisfied.

00:26:31.380 You had a person

00:26:32.100 with a modern rifle,

00:26:33.480 modern scoped rifle

00:26:34.500 at 130 yards

00:26:35.600 who shot at the former

00:26:36.720 commander-in-chief

00:26:37.460 of the United States

00:26:38.160 and a guy who was going

00:26:39.060 to be, by all accounts

00:26:40.600 at that point,

00:26:41.600 the future commander-in-chief.

00:26:42.920 And then they tried

00:26:43.400 to kill my father

00:26:43.960 eight weeks later, 0.99

00:26:45.080 you know,

00:26:45.360 at his golf course

00:26:46.180 in Palm Beach County,

00:26:46.980 a golf course that I run

00:26:48.020 every single day.

00:26:48.940 I am totally unsatisfied

00:26:50.360 that we have one picture

00:26:51.420 of that shooter.

00:26:52.340 The guy looks like

00:26:52.880 he was 14 years old

00:26:53.760 in the picture.

00:26:54.400 We know nothing about him.

00:26:55.860 We know nothing about him.

00:26:58.060 Right?

00:26:58.260 And I am totally unsatisfied

00:26:59.880 with the result.

00:27:00.580 And I think a lot of America

00:27:01.480 is unsatisfied with the result.

00:27:02.640 And I think we better

00:27:03.180 get to the bottom

00:27:03.820 of exactly what happened.

00:27:04.680 Are you telling me

00:27:05.380 there's a conspiracy here

00:27:08.020 that you believe

00:27:08.780 that Eric Trump believes

00:27:09.900 resulted in the assassination attempt?

00:27:12.480 Yes.

00:27:12.800 I think they tried

00:27:13.520 to kill my father

00:27:14.200 because they did not 1.00

00:27:15.100 want his voice

00:27:15.840 on that stage.

00:27:17.040 Unfortunately,

00:27:21.380 the reality is

00:27:22.240 that the FBI,

00:27:23.200 as of today,

00:27:24.300 is not only stonewalling,

00:27:26.260 but is actively preventing

00:27:27.640 an honest look

00:27:28.420 at what happened in Butler.

00:27:29.680 Within days of the shooting,

00:27:31.280 FBI agents collected

00:27:32.200 all the relevant

00:27:33.240 surveillance footage.

00:27:35.080 That includes footage

00:27:35.980 from local businesses,

00:27:37.220 the state police,

00:27:38.300 and critically,

00:27:39.220 the gun range

00:27:40.280 where Thomas Cooks trained.

00:27:42.100 Did he train alone?

00:27:44.160 We don't know.

00:27:45.660 Because to this day,

00:27:47.120 the FBI refuses

00:27:47.980 to release the footage.

00:27:49.480 They confirmed it exists.

00:27:51.260 They confirmed the existence

00:27:52.180 of one gaming account.

00:27:54.120 And then publicly said

00:27:55.400 a few days later

00:27:56.080 the account wasn't real.

00:27:58.260 Was that incompetence?

00:27:59.460 Or are they lying?

00:28:00.800 Within a day of the shooting,

00:28:01.860 the social media companies

00:28:02.880 that hosted Crooks' comments

00:28:04.180 took his accounts offline.

00:28:06.320 In some cases,

00:28:07.160 the records of those comments

00:28:08.200 in the Internet Archive

00:28:09.340 were also erased.

00:28:11.180 Did the FBI order that too?

00:28:13.920 What we do know

00:28:14.860 is that on the day

00:28:15.600 of the attacks,

00:28:16.300 Thomas Crooks

00:28:16.800 got extremely lucky.

00:28:19.340 Miraculously lucky.

00:28:21.080 After he arrived

00:28:21.820 at the Butler County Fairgrounds

00:28:23.260 on the morning

00:28:23.660 of the shooting,

00:28:24.620 Thomas Crooks

00:28:25.160 conducted surveillance

00:28:26.440 by flying his drone

00:28:28.420 over the rally site.

00:28:30.080 He flew that drone

00:28:30.880 for 11 minutes.

00:28:32.520 It just so happened

00:28:33.460 that the Secret Service's

00:28:34.580 anti-drone system

00:28:35.800 were down

00:28:36.720 at exactly the same moment.

00:28:39.200 What are the odds?

00:28:40.160 Later that afternoon,

00:28:41.180 police officers saw Crooks

00:28:42.600 loitering with a backpack

00:28:43.800 and a rangefinder.

00:28:45.440 They identified him

00:28:46.280 as a suspicious person,

00:28:47.540 which he clearly was,

00:28:48.940 but quickly lost track

00:28:50.000 of him.

00:28:51.900 And so,

00:28:52.500 Crooks climbed to the top

00:28:53.700 of the American Glass

00:28:54.840 Research Building.

00:28:56.040 That happened to be

00:28:56.800 the only building

00:28:57.920 in the area

00:28:58.500 that did not have

00:28:59.180 a video surveillance system.

00:29:00.760 It was also,

00:29:02.080 remarkably,

00:29:03.260 inexplicably,

00:29:04.700 outside the Secret Service's

00:29:06.360 security perimeter,

00:29:07.520 despite the fact

00:29:08.320 it was very close

00:29:09.460 to the stage.

00:29:10.260 Two local police officers

00:29:11.540 assigned to the building

00:29:12.480 saw Crooks,

00:29:13.720 but they didn't report him.

00:29:14.880 A third officer,

00:29:15.700 who was supposed to be there,

00:29:17.380 left early.

00:29:18.280 At 6.11 p.m.,

00:29:19.780 Crooks opened fire 0.99

00:29:20.780 from the rooftop.

00:29:21.700 Take a look at what happened.

00:29:24.420 Within the vacuum left

00:29:28.020 by the FBI

00:29:28.920 and its total unwillingness

00:29:30.500 to explain what had happened,

00:29:31.660 the media were able

00:29:32.720 to leverage the shooting

00:29:34.140 to serve its own

00:29:35.020 political ends.

00:29:35.960 On ABC,

00:29:37.140 we learned that this happened 0.86

00:29:38.500 because white men

00:29:39.960 owned guns.

00:29:40.980 It was,

00:29:41.940 you know,

00:29:42.460 a 20-year-old,

00:29:44.400 lone wolf,

00:29:45.640 white, 0.91

00:29:46.820 whack job 0.94

00:29:47.640 with easy access

00:29:49.300 to a gun.

00:29:50.260 And we have to have

00:29:51.240 a conversation about that.

00:29:52.680 And within days

00:29:53.600 of the shooting,

00:29:54.240 U.S. intelligence officials

00:29:55.400 started leaking

00:29:56.140 about a supposed plot

00:29:57.840 by the Iranian government

00:29:59.520 to kill Trump.

00:30:01.260 There was never 0.87

00:30:01.800 any evidence

00:30:02.580 that if you were planning

00:30:03.460 a regime-change war

00:30:05.100 against Iran,

00:30:05.960 you might claim otherwise.

00:30:07.680 Let me read to you

00:30:08.860 this breaking news

00:30:09.680 that we are reporting

00:30:10.580 from three U.S. officials

00:30:12.200 who have been briefed

00:30:13.160 on the matter.

00:30:14.260 The U.S. obtained intelligence

00:30:15.800 in recent weeks

00:30:16.760 about an Iranian plot

00:30:18.280 to assassinate Donald Trump.

00:30:20.720 The stonewalling, 1.00

00:30:22.440 the lying,

00:30:23.560 the persistent unwillingness

00:30:24.980 to explain anything.

00:30:26.900 All of it makes you wonder,

00:30:28.960 what are they hiding?

00:30:30.200 If the leadership

00:30:31.360 of the FBI

00:30:32.240 and the DOJ

00:30:33.180 had any desire whatsoever

00:30:34.620 to prove to the public

00:30:35.780 that there's in fact

00:30:36.500 nothing there,

00:30:38.000 they could do that.

00:30:39.580 But first,

00:30:40.120 they would have to answer

00:30:40.900 these questions.

00:30:42.240 Was Thomas Crooks

00:30:42.920 known to federal law enforcement

00:30:44.660 before the shooting?

00:30:45.900 Was he known

00:30:46.380 to local law enforcement

00:30:47.780 before the shooting?

00:30:48.980 And if not,

00:30:49.840 why not?

00:30:50.420 Who is Willie Tepes?

00:30:52.720 And was he known

00:30:53.540 to federal law enforcement?

00:30:55.100 Is Willie Tepes

00:30:55.840 linked to any violent organizations?

00:30:58.020 Is he linked

00:30:58.380 to any governments?

00:30:59.680 And if so,

00:31:00.640 then around the time

00:31:01.260 of the shooting,

00:31:01.720 did the FBI

00:31:02.560 have assets

00:31:03.500 inside those organizations?

00:31:05.580 If Crooks wasn't known

00:31:06.900 to anyone in authority

00:31:08.380 before the shooting,

00:31:09.700 how was he able

00:31:10.360 to post hundreds

00:31:11.520 of violent extremist comments

00:31:13.160 under his real name

00:31:14.360 between 2019 and 2020

00:31:16.300 without being detected

00:31:17.580 by law enforcement

00:31:18.500 or intel agencies

00:31:19.480 at a time we know

00:31:20.640 they were monitoring

00:31:21.400 social media?

00:31:22.600 Were those comments,

00:31:23.460 including specific

00:31:24.480 assassination threats

00:31:25.640 against specific

00:31:26.600 public officials,

00:31:27.920 ever reported to YouTube?

00:31:29.180 Other users complained

00:31:31.220 about them.

00:31:32.280 Did YouTube know?

00:31:33.840 Why is the FBI

00:31:34.920 telling us

00:31:36.020 that they'll release

00:31:36.840 this information

00:31:37.620 quote,

00:31:38.420 after the trial

00:31:39.360 when there is no trial?

00:31:41.940 Why did an FBI agent

00:31:43.180 from the Technical Hazards

00:31:44.300 Response Unit

00:31:45.160 hose down the crime scene

00:31:46.460 the day after the attack?

00:31:47.780 That seems very strange.

00:31:49.720 What happened

00:31:50.260 on the roof

00:31:50.960 of the American Glass Research

00:31:52.940 building

00:31:53.280 for the 10 seconds

00:31:54.280 after Crooks' last shot

00:31:56.120 until he was killed

00:31:57.280 by the Secret Service?

00:31:58.220 Does the FBI

00:31:59.500 have surveillance footage

00:32:00.660 of Thomas Crooks'

00:32:01.780 shooting that day?

00:32:02.980 Was the FBI present

00:32:04.140 at the medical examiner's autopsy?

00:32:06.440 Are there still blood samples?

00:32:08.520 Can they be examined

00:32:09.520 by outside authorities?

00:32:11.720 When Congress demanded

00:32:12.760 the autopsy,

00:32:14.080 did the FBI restrict

00:32:15.220 what the examiner

00:32:15.880 could tell the Congress?

00:32:18.220 When the FBI

00:32:19.080 cleared the corner

00:32:20.320 to release Crooks' body

00:32:21.540 for cremation,

00:32:22.660 did they keep tissue samples,

00:32:24.200 brain tissue samples,

00:32:25.480 spinal cord samples,

00:32:26.860 or spinal fluid samples?

00:32:29.080 Law enforcement sources

00:32:30.280 told us

00:32:30.820 that in a typical investigation

00:32:32.060 in a crime of this nature,

00:32:33.620 it would be normal

00:32:34.180 to preserve all of that,

00:32:36.280 those samples.

00:32:37.560 If the FBI didn't,

00:32:39.080 why not?

00:32:40.180 And who made that decision

00:32:41.580 to destroy

00:32:42.460 what could be

00:32:43.340 critical evidence

00:32:44.500 in an attempted murder case?

00:32:46.080 FBI agents

00:32:46.820 went to the same gun range

00:32:48.520 that Thomas Crooks

00:32:49.260 was using.

00:32:49.960 Who were those agents

00:32:50.720 and did any of them

00:32:51.760 at any time

00:32:52.460 have any contact

00:32:53.460 with Thomas Crooks?

00:32:55.360 Who did he train with

00:32:56.500 exactly?

00:32:57.260 And why can't we know?

00:32:58.500 Was Thomas Crooks

00:32:59.120 taking drugs

00:33:00.160 that might have turned up

00:33:01.380 on the toxicology report,

00:33:02.920 but that weren't listed somehow?

00:33:05.400 On what date specifically

00:33:07.220 did FBI agents

00:33:08.220 stop investigating

00:33:09.320 Thomas Crooks'

00:33:10.260 online presence?

00:33:11.520 Why did the former

00:33:12.600 deputy director

00:33:13.540 of the FBI,

00:33:14.360 Paula Bate,

00:33:15.340 suggest to Congress

00:33:16.220 that Crooks

00:33:17.140 was a right-winger

00:33:18.220 when he clearly wasn't?

00:33:19.420 Was the FBI aware

00:33:21.080 of Crooks' public comments

00:33:22.520 before the shooting,

00:33:23.340 many of which

00:33:23.780 are openly violent

00:33:24.680 that included

00:33:25.320 specific assassination attempts

00:33:26.800 involving public officials?

00:33:28.380 Who was Thomas Crooks

00:33:29.320 in communication with

00:33:30.520 in the days before the attack?

00:33:32.260 What does his burner phone show?

00:33:34.440 And in fact,

00:33:35.120 why did he have a burner phone

00:33:36.560 and encrypted foreign

00:33:37.720 email accounts?

00:33:38.980 Who were the government officials

00:33:40.000 trying to link Iran

00:33:41.600 to the shooting?

00:33:42.560 Why did the FBI suggest

00:33:43.820 that he had no digital footprint

00:33:45.640 in the first place

00:33:46.640 when the FBI had

00:33:47.980 a great deal of evidence,

00:33:49.640 hundreds and hundreds

00:33:50.380 of comments

00:33:50.940 from his digital activity?

00:33:53.400 And what's on the other

00:33:54.440 dozen accounts

00:33:55.760 that the FBI

00:33:56.740 clearly had access to?

00:33:58.320 How long had Thomas Crooks

00:33:59.460 been planning to commit

00:34:00.800 an assassination?

00:34:01.920 If there's nothing there,

00:34:03.820 if they tell you

00:34:04.520 this is just a lone nut

00:34:05.840 who gave no indication

00:34:07.440 he might do this,

00:34:08.840 then what is stopping

00:34:09.920 the FBI

00:34:11.040 from at least giving

00:34:12.420 the facts to Congress?

00:34:14.840 Because if there's

00:34:16.000 nothing there,

00:34:16.960 these should be

00:34:17.520 very easy questions

00:34:18.940 to answer.

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Who Is Thomas Crooks？

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