Nearly eight months after President Trump was shot, allegedly by a young man identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, the public knows little about the details of the failed assassination attempt aimed at stopping Trump from reclaiming the White House. The reason for this darkness is a three-lettered name – FBI.
On Thursday (February 27), the New York Post published an exclusive report on the investigation into the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on President Trump in Butler, PA. The report cited sources familiar with the investigation and confirming what conservative voters and commentators have suspected since day one – Thomas Crooks was not a lone shooter but had help from others who wanted President Trump dead. And the alarming part of the story is those people are still up for their target.
The story cited private investigator Doug Hagmann, who has been looking into the Crooks’ assassination attempt on Trump along with a team of six fellow investigators. The team has interviewed more than 100 people so far; in addition, they have analyzed electronic devices and other data collected at Crooks’ home, school of graduation, and the rifle range where he went for target practice. In Hagman’s words:
“We don’t think he acted alone,” Hagmann told The Post. “This 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 wouldn’t preclude the possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him.”
To the question of why there’s little information available about the assassin and the assassination attempt, the story noted that Biden’s FBI has remained very tight-lipped about their findings. The paper added that Republican Congressman Clay Higgins of LA has also complained about the FBI continually obstructing his congressional investigation into the incident.
Higgins disagrees with Hagmann’s findings that Crooks’ assassination attempt on Trump was a coordinated effort with help from accomplices. Instead, the congressman has theorized that Crooks was likely under the influence of some drug that made him act crazy and violent while he acted alone in targeting Trump.
Crooks’ teachers and people in the community who knew him disagree with Higgins and the mainstream media stories in that they remember Crooks as a normal person, not a troubled loner engaging in any disorderly conduct or acting as if under the influence of any substance.
Last July, just a week after Crooks’ assassination attempt on President Trump, American Military News published a story to report at a possible link between Crooks and the FBI as discovered by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. They tracked a person who regularly visited the home and the workplace of Crooks and also visited a “building in the ‘same vicinity’ of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office in Washington, D.C.”
Commenting on the NYP story, The Western Journal wrote (March 3) that over all these weeks and months since the first assassination attempt on President Trump, the FBI “only makes itself look more and more complicit.”
Currently, the FBI has also been in the news for withholding thousands of pages of Jeffery Epstein files despite being ordered by Trump’s Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi. Many conservative MAGA supporters have turned on AG Bondi for not acting tough enough to have the files released already and bring the bad actors within the FBI machinery to justice.
The head of the NY field office for the FBI, James Dennehy, was pressured into immediate retirement by Bondi’s DOJ following severe backlash against Bondi on social media over failing to get the Epstein files promised to be released on day one. Dennehy was recognized as the one responsible for allowing his NY field office to withhold the files. While many conservatives hailed this development as a victory for MAGA, others were disappointed as they demanded criminal prosecution and not just giving a safe passage to the bad actors in the FBI.
In another related story, the FBI recently made news by refusing to release the Seth Rich files. Rich, a Democrat staffer, was murdered in 2016 in D.C., a case widely suspected to be a politically motivated assassination by the leftist deep state. Records related to Rich’s killing were expected to be released on March 10 but on Monday, as reported in The Gateway Pundit, Attorney Ty Clevenger, who has been trying to get the records from the FBI, was informed that the bureau would not be releasing the records to him.