Bombshell Report Exposes Cover-Up of Key Details on Trump’s Would-Be Assassin
The FBI has been feeding us a story about Thomas Crooks that doesn’t add up.
New reporting from Miranda Devine at the New York Post blows apart the official narrative that he was some unknowable lone wolf with no clear ideology or motive.
Contrary to what we’ve previously been told, Crooks left behind a massive digital footprint across at least 17 online accounts on platforms such as YouTube, Snapchat, Discord, Quora, and Chess.com.
A source uncovered extensive evidence that Crooks was not a mystery at all. He posted violent threats, embraced extremist ideology, and openly admired mass violence. He discussed political assassination under his real name, and other users flagged him in replies referencing law enforcement. Despite these warnings, his accounts remained active for over five years. The accounts were scrubbed the day after he attempted to kill Trump.
Crooks’s online activity from ages 15 to 17 documents his transformation and raises questions about what shifted his ideology. During Trump’s first term, he was a radical and violent right-winger, posting threats against Democratic lawmakers and comments such as “MURDER ALL DEMOCRATS” on YouTube. In 2020, his focus shifted. He began attacking Trump, Fox News, and critics of mass mail-in voting.
But here’s where it gets even stranger. Crooks appears to have developed an interest in furries and gender ideology, just like Tyler Robinson, the guy accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk. Crooks described himself with they/them pronouns on DeviantArt, one of the biggest online hubs for furry art and the furry community. Two accounts linked to his primary email, epicmicrowave and theepicmicrowave, were found on the platform. The accounts suggest Crooks had an obsession with scantily clad cartoon characters sporting muscle-bound male bodies and female heads. A furry, for those unfamiliar, is someone with an interest in anthropomorphized animal characters, often as a sexual fetish.
Robinson told his parents after the Kirk shooting that he did it because there’s too much evil and Kirk spreads too much hate. Before the attack, Robinson left a note for his roommate, described in charging documents as a biological male undergoing gender transition, stating he had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk. Robinson’s digital footprint revealed ties to the furry subculture, with an account on FurAffinity.net matching usernames he used on gaming and online platforms. Even bullet casings at the scene had inscriptions linked to furry culture.
The parallels between Crooks and Robinson are impossible to ignore. Both men explored gender ideology and the furry subculture before attempting political assassinations. Both claimed to be motivated by opposition to perceived hate and evil. Yet the FBI has refused to acknowledge any pattern or provide answers. When asked if Crooks was ever investigated, visited, or brought to the FBI’s attention before the shooting, the bureau declined to comment. They also refused to explain why they haven’t been forthcoming on congressional oversight requests.
FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on July 24, 2024, just 11 days after the shooting, that the bureau did not have any information about Crooks before the attack. Wray said Crooks was not in the FBI's holdings and that a search of their databases turned up nothing. That claim is hard to believe given what we now know about Crooks’ online activity. The source who uncovered the accounts said the danger Crooks posed was visible for years in public online spaces. His radicalization, violent rhetoric, and obsession with political violence were all documented under his real name.
The threat wasn’t hidden.
None of this online activity was referenced in the final congressional report released in December 2024, which makes the whole situation even more troubling. The FBI wants us to believe Crooks appeared out of nowhere with no warning signs. The reality is that he was screaming his intentions online for years, and nobody stopped him. Now we’re seeing a pattern. Young men immersed in radical gender ideology and fringe online subcultures are turning to political violence. The connection between trans ideology and this violence is becoming too obvious to ignore, but don’t expect the FBI to admit it anytime soon.