Why did the FBI fail to track down – or make public – important information about would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks?
Shouldn’t the Bureau have been aware of Crooks’ alarming and visible social media profile long before he opened fire on President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year?
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The information Miranda Devine shared in Monday’s Post directly contradicts then-FBI Director Chris Wray’s public claims that Crooks was a mystery man with a limited or non-existent online presence.
The methods Devine’s source used — starting with Crooks’ phone number to track down his accounts on YouTube, Snapchat, Venmo, Zelle, GroupMe, Discord, Google Play, Quizlet, Chess.com and Quora — cannot be foreign to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is chased off stage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being hit by a bullet during a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images)
How could the FBI miss the YouTube account “Tomcrooks2178” (which was shown to other users as Tom Crooks), active from January 14, 2019, until its suspension on July 14, 2024, the day after Butler?
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Federal officials supposedly monitor social media for signs of danger; Did messages like the capital letters “MURDER THE DEMOCRATS” from December 12, 2019 really not cause any alarm?
In fact, he got even creepier after turning left, writing in August 2020: “The only way to fight the government is to attack terrorist style, sneak a bomb into a vital building and detonate it before anyone sees you, track down all the important people/politicians/military leaders etc and try to kill them.”
None of these speeches are grounds for arrest – but it’s definitely something you’d expect to get someone on the FBI’s radar, and certainly things they should take into account when the author is an inch away from an assassination attempt.
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Especially when, according to Devine’s source, Crooks’ creepier posts “were even flagged by other users who mentioned law enforcement in their replies.”
A new investigation is now a must: Probe Crooks, his pursuit and possible co-conspirators, and of the FBI officials who somehow dropped the ball – as well as of the current FBI leaders, who also fell.
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All of the above, from the Secret Service’s claim that no agents were posted on the roof Crooks used because it was too steep to Wray’s bizarre testimony to Congress that Trump might not even have been shot, has launched a thousand conspiracy theories.
The decline of the FBI, which dates back at least to Robert Mueller’s post-September 11 “reforms,” is old news, but Team Trump would turn things around; the nation needs to know why that work is clearly going far too slowly.
