Follow-Up to the December Post:
Would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks may have had accomplice, data shows, as investigators say FBI suppressing info
But terms like âwild lunaticâ and âincredibly calculatingâ are not adjectives that any of the former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends whom The Post interviewed duâŚ
nypost.com
27 Feb 2025 ~~ By Dana Kennedy
BETHEL PARK, Penn. â Itâs been almost nine months since a seemingly mild-mannered 20-year-old attempted to assassinate then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a rally in Butler.
And we still have no good reason why.
Sources told The Post the FBI has obstructed efforts to solve the mystery of why Thomas Matthew Crooks, who left no manifesto, did what he did. Itâs left local law enforcement as well as Crooksâ former friends, classmates and teachers frustrated.
Those who may know, Crooksâ parents Matthew and Mary, have refused all interviews and remain in their small, three-bedroom home here, sealed off from the world like hermits. Neighbors say they only leave the house at 3 am to buy groceries.
âBy the way, why do we know nothing about that guy in Butler?â Elon Musk yelled out to the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, before warning that FBI Director âKash (Patel) is going to get to the bottom of it.â
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Doug Hagmann, whose team of six other investigators have been working the case for months and have interviewed more than 100 people, said they also conducted extensive geofencing analysis of cell phones and tablets not belonging to Crooks that were found with him at his home, at the rifle range where he took target practice, at the rally and at Bethel Park High School where he graduated in 2022.
âWe donât think he acted alone,â Hagmann told The Post.
âThis took a lot of coordination. In my view, Crooks was handled by more than one individual and he was used for this [assassination attempt]. And I wouldnât preclude the possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him.â
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Hagmann said he was personally escorted to the Butler County line and told to leave twice during the course of his teamâs investigation. The people who did so were either federal agents or some type of private security.
He added âone can assist in an operation like this by omission or standing down. There are people still out there involved in this case that need to be brought to justice.â
FBI officials who served under President Biden accessed Crooksâ phone, computer and his encrypted messaging apps in Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany. However, they have been very tight-lipped about what they found.
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Some believe Crooks was radicalized while at Allegheny community college, but his academic advisor Todd Landree doubts it. He remembers Crooks as being smart and being impressed with one of his assignments, a chess project he printed out in 3-D so blind people could play chess, which he said was âfantastic.â
Even though Congressman Higgins has been named chairman of a new subcommittee that will continue the shooting investigation, Xavier Harmon doubts the truth will ever come out.
âI just want everybody to understand who Thomas really was and the individual I knew,â he said. âThe monster being created is not the individual who sat in my classroom for two years. Iâm going to focus my heart and my mind on that young man.â
Commentary:
Was the Biden government involved? Why did the Wray led FBI suppress evidence?
We saw this factually, because of the total lack of importance and transparency about the attempted assassination by the Biden administration and Federal law enforcement. This has large segments of the American public thinking "what are they trying to hide" or worse, "they were in on it."
There is no way someone with a rifle could just walk to that rooftop and climb to the roof, while not getting caught, out of sheer luck. This would be like breaking into a bank and guessing the combination to the safe. Whoever came up with the security plan and stationed SS agents left an open path for him. The question; was it incompetence, or done specifically.
It' now in the hands of Kash Patel. The question remains, Will Patel re-investigate and solve the this questionable act by a young man who by all circumstances would not commit such an act.
Unfortunately, the FBI may have destroyed whatever evidence there was. The social media of Crooks was scrubbed quite swiftly after the attempted assassination and the FBI claimed they couldn't access the encrypted messages on his phone.
Notably. this article barely touched on the things that don't add up about the kid and the attempt, too many to be coincidence, but most people will chalk it up to conspiracy theory.
There are still many questions that the new director of the FBI must investigate and report back to the PEOPLE .
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