The most important piece of evidence in the failed assassination attempt against President Trump has already been destroyed by the federal government. The dead body of the alleged assassination attempt suspect Thomas Crooks was allowed to be cremated just 10 days after the shocking attempt on Trump’s life.
The FBI, which has been investigating the assassination attempt but suffers from lack of credibility, quietly released the body of Thomas Crooks to his family for cremation ten days after the attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania. This fact came to surface only last week when Republican Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana, who is part of the bipartisan House task force investigating the shooting, revealed it in his preliminary report.
Higgins, a military veteran who worked in local law enforcement in Louisiana for many years before winning his House seat, requested to examine Crooks’ body in the first week of August. That’s when he learnt of, what he termed, “a disturbing fact” – the body was gone. Higgins wrote:
“On J23, Crooks was gone. Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc.”
Higgins called the FBI’s release of the suspect’s body for cremation without permission from the House investigative task force an act of obstruction. In his words:
“This action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort.”
The disposal of the body before any lawmakers from the House task force could examine it means that the task force would not be able to verify whether the autopsy report presented to them matches their own observations of the body. In other words, they would have to take the feds’ word on it.
As reported in Newsweek (August 16), Higgins also noted that the coroner’s report and the autopsy report are both late.
Commenting on the news of the cremation of Crooks’ body, investigative journalist Steve Baker told Blaze TV that the suspect’s body should never have been turned over before multiple agencies had the opportunity to examine it and document their observations.
Conservatives on social media expressed outrage at the obvious cover-up and questioned the disposal of Crooks’ body.
Payton Kelly wrote, “We are watching one of the most important coverups in American history right before our eyes.”
The news about the cremation of rooks’ body also strengthens the conviction that it was an inside job.
A day after Higgins’ report made news and sparked a backlash against the FBI for its apparent cover-up attempt, the FBI fired back in its defense and told Fox News that it is not interfering with the congressional investigation into the shooting targeting Trump in Butler, PA, on July 13. Fox News wrote:
The agency said that Crooks’ body was released to his family after coordination with the coroner’s office as well as state and local law enforcement partners “in keeping with normal procedures.”