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[00:00:07] These are videos the FBI has worked hard [00:00:09] to make sure you haven't seen. They're [00:00:12] from the Google Drive account of Thomas [00:00:14] Krooks, the man who on July 13th, 2024, [00:00:18] showed up at the Butler County, [00:00:19] Pennsylvania fairgrounds and tried to [00:00:22] assassinate the frontr runner Donald [00:00:24] Trump. [00:00:24] >> And look what happened to our country. [00:00:27] probably 20 million people. [00:00:31] And you know that's a little bit old [00:00:32] that chart. That chart's a couple of [00:00:34] months old. And if you want to really [00:00:36] see something this take a look at what [00:00:38] happened [00:00:49] >> that day, Thomas Krooks came within a [00:00:51] quarter inch of destroying this country. [00:00:54] And yet, a year and a half later, we [00:00:56] still know almost nothing about him or [00:00:58] why he did it. That's because for some [00:01:02] reason, the FBI, even the current FBI, [00:01:05] doesn't want us to know. Watch out. [00:01:15] Since the start of their investigation, [00:01:17] the FBI has claimed that Thomas Krooks [00:01:19] acted alone and that he was a virtual [00:01:21] ghost online with no presence at all. [00:01:24] Their only substantive claim about [00:01:26] Krooks's motive was that he was a [00:01:28] right-winger. [00:01:30] We learned that from FBI Deputy Director [00:01:32] Paul Leate, who said this to Congress [00:01:35] just one month after the attempted [00:01:37] assassination. Something just very [00:01:39] recently uncovered that I want to share [00:01:41] is a social media account which is [00:01:43] believed to be associated with this with [00:01:45] the shooter in about the 2019 2020 time [00:01:48] frame. There were over 700 comments [00:01:51] posted from this account. Some of these [00:01:54] comments, if ultimately attributable to [00:01:56] the shooter, appear to reflect [00:01:58] anti-semitic and anti-immigration themes [00:02:02] to espouse political violence and are [00:02:04] described as extreme in nature. The [00:02:07] social media account Abate was [00:02:08] describing was Krooks's YouTube [00:02:10] comments. When the FBI made that claim, [00:02:12] we had to take his word for it. We have [00:02:14] no way to check, but now we do. In [00:02:18] September, we obtained hundreds of [00:02:20] comments from Thomas Krooks's YouTube [00:02:22] account. Since then, we've gone to great [00:02:24] lengths to verify that they're real. We [00:02:27] can now confidently say they are. These [00:02:30] are genuine, written by Thomas Krooks. [00:02:33] But although Krooks's comments are [00:02:35] interesting and give tremendous insight [00:02:36] into why he did it, they're not the only [00:02:39] story. The other story, in fact, the far [00:02:42] more significant story, involves the [00:02:44] government, the DOJ, and the FBI, which [00:02:48] have hidden from the public what they [00:02:50] know about Thomas Krooks. The purpose of [00:02:53] this report is to reveal details of [00:02:55] Krooks's social media accounts and to [00:02:57] confront a series of key questions. Why [00:03:00] is the FBI keeping Krooks's views a [00:03:03] secret? Why are they ignoring [00:03:06] congressional subpoenas to divulge [00:03:07] information? Why are they pretending [00:03:10] that there's nothing to see here? And [00:03:13] more than anything, what are they [00:03:14] hiding? [00:03:19] Before we present our findings, it's [00:03:21] critical to establish how we obtained [00:03:22] the comments and how we know they're [00:03:24] real. In late September, we received a [00:03:27] tip from a source. He told us he'd gain [00:03:30] access to some of Thomas Krooks's [00:03:32] accounts. He'd found these accounts by [00:03:34] utilizing tools commonly used by private [00:03:37] investigators. [00:03:38] The key lead was Thomas Krooks's phone [00:03:41] number that was published in documents [00:03:43] obtained by America First Legal. That [00:03:45] phone number led our source to Thomas [00:03:47] Krooks's primary email account, TM [00:03:51] Crooks [email protected]. [00:03:54] That in turn he linked with more than a [00:03:56] dozen other accounts. That list includes [00:03:59] two foreign encrypted email accounts, [00:04:01] americanmx.com, [00:04:03] a German website, and [00:04:05] [email protected], [00:04:07] a Belgian website. Crooks had a Snapchat [00:04:10] Tom_crooks [00:04:11] 19, a Venmo account Thomas-C 12, a [00:04:15] PayPal account under the alias Rod [00:04:17] Swanson, a zel registered as Thomas [00:04:20] Crooks, as well as accounts on Discord, [00:04:22] a Google Play account called Colossal [00:04:25] Microwave, a Quizlet titled Thomas [00:04:28] Crooks, a chess.com with the same name, [00:04:31] and two disabled Kora accounts under the [00:04:33] handles Thomas Krooks 8 and Thomas [00:04:36] Krooks 3. It turns out that Thomas [00:04:38] Krooks was hardly an online ghost. He [00:04:41] was active. And yet, federal [00:04:42] investigators lied and told us there was [00:04:45] no trace of him online. Some of Krooks's [00:04:47] accounts, like his Snapchat, appear to [00:04:49] have been fully deactivated and [00:04:51] completely taken out of use. Some of [00:04:53] them may have been unused or cleared by [00:04:55] federal officials during the [00:04:56] investigation. We don't know because the [00:04:58] FBI wouldn't tell us. However, our [00:05:01] source was able to retrieve all data [00:05:03] from Thomas Krooks's deactivated YouTube [00:05:05] account. Tom Krooks 2178 visible to [00:05:09] other users as Tom Krooks. This account [00:05:11] includes his search history, his watch [00:05:13] history, and 737 public comments. [00:05:17] Another critical account, his Google [00:05:19] Drive, is linked to an archive of [00:05:20] Krooks's YouTube account. That's where [00:05:23] our source obtained the videos of Krooks [00:05:25] dryfiring a handgun in his bedroom with [00:05:27] paper targets on the wall behind him. [00:05:30] But aside from the video evidence, the [00:05:32] email addresses, and the phone number [00:05:33] tying Crooks to the account, or the fact [00:05:35] that most of these accounts use his [00:05:37] actual name, there are other key details [00:05:40] that support the authenticity of what we [00:05:42] found. For example, this video's [00:05:44] metadata shows it was filmed at Thomas [00:05:46] Krooks's parents' home. [00:05:49] And some of Krooks's YouTube comments [00:05:51] are still available on internet archive [00:05:53] sites. Krooks's YouTube channel was [00:05:55] suspended on July 14th, 2024. That's the [00:05:59] day after the shooting. Its offense, [00:06:01] quote, violating YouTube's policy on [00:06:04] violent criminal organizations. And [00:06:06] though Krooks's comments are no longer [00:06:07] available on YouTube, in many cases, the [00:06:10] commenters who responded to Krooks are [00:06:13] still there and they match what we see [00:06:15] on the internet archive sites. When you [00:06:18] click on their tags of Krooks's [00:06:19] accounts, YouTube takes you to a page [00:06:22] that says, "This channel was removed [00:06:24] because it violated our community [00:06:25] guidelines." [00:06:27] In other words, there is ample evidence [00:06:29] to support the authenticity of these [00:06:31] posts. Our source figured it out. So did [00:06:35] we. But when we reached out directly to [00:06:37] the FBI to ask why the bureau hadn't [00:06:40] shared any details from the account with [00:06:42] the public, the FBI responded by [00:06:44] questioning whether we could verify the [00:06:46] authenticity of the count. We were [00:06:48] confused by this considering the [00:06:50] authenticity is self-evident. And of [00:06:52] course, the FBI would have known that [00:06:54] since the day of the shooting. What [00:06:56] exactly is the FBI hiding? [00:07:02] Here's what we do know. The digital [00:07:04] comments we obtained were posted between [00:07:06] 2019 and 2020 when Thomas Krooks was [00:07:09] between 15 and 17 years old. They show [00:07:12] two things. First, that Thomas Krooks [00:07:14] was not some secretive lone wolf who [00:07:16] never warned anyone that he was planning [00:07:18] violence. Just the opposite. Years [00:07:20] before he showed up in Butler, Krooks [00:07:22] was leaving a detailed digital trail of [00:07:25] violent threats, including calls for [00:07:27] assassinations and political violence. [00:07:30] Second, they show a man who started out [00:07:32] as a radical Trump supporter whose views [00:07:34] on the president transformed, changed [00:07:36] completely during co the FBI lied about [00:07:40] that fact and pretended that Krooks was [00:07:42] a right-winger. At 11:35 p.m. on July [00:07:46] 19th, 2019, in response to an MSNBC [00:07:49] video, Krooks wrote, quote, "Elan Omar [00:07:52] and others are invaders and should [00:07:53] honestly be killed and their dead bodies [00:07:55] sent back." At 117 a.m. on July 20th, [00:07:59] 2019, Krooks commented on a CNN video. [00:08:02] He said, "Donald Trump was the literal [00:08:04] definition of patriotism." 7 hours [00:08:06] later, he commented on an MSNBC video. [00:08:09] He wrote, "I hope a quick painful death [00:08:11] to all the deplorable immigrants and [00:08:13] anti-Trump congresswoman who don't [00:08:15] deserve anything this country has given [00:08:17] them." That evening on a separate MSNBC [00:08:19] video, he wrote, quote, "Every one of [00:08:21] the Trump-hating Democrats deserve to [00:08:23] have their heads chopped off and put on [00:08:25] stakes for the world to see what happens [00:08:27] when you [ __ ] with America." These sorts [00:08:30] of comments continued for months and [00:08:32] became increasingly violent. [00:08:34] The following day, Krooks responded to [00:08:36] an CBS Evening News video about the [00:08:38] squad, saying this, quote, "This is [00:08:40] going to be blatantly racist, but I hope [00:08:42] Trump has these people murdered." [00:08:45] Krooks openly called for dictatorship [00:08:47] and putting quote Hispanics back in [00:08:49] their place. He warned that if Democrats [00:08:52] win in 2020, quote, they won't be in [00:08:54] there for long because unlike the Dems, [00:08:56] we have guns and lots of them. [00:08:59] In one comment, Krooks noted that, [00:09:01] quote, "50 million Americans with AR-15s [00:09:03] will make quick work of any blockades [00:09:05] the government can put in to protect the [00:09:07] White House." He left multiple [00:09:09] references to Mao Dong's famous line, [00:09:11] "The only real political power comes [00:09:13] from the barrel of a gun." On September [00:09:16] 30th, 2019, Krooks responded to comments [00:09:19] about a potential civil war, saying [00:09:20] this, "Most riers don't bring assault [00:09:23] rifles and body armor like we would, and [00:09:25] we wouldn't be going to the streets. [00:09:27] we'd be going to Washington. At this [00:09:29] point, one user named Hyper Pandas [00:09:32] responded saying, quote, "Law [00:09:33] enforcement will thank you for grouping [00:09:35] up and being so visible. It'll make your [00:09:37] arrest so much simpler." Crooks [00:09:40] responded saying, "Cops can't arrest me [00:09:42] if they're all dead." Before adding, [00:09:45] "Even an untrained man with an AR-15 is [00:09:47] dangerous. You think Adam Lanza or any [00:09:50] school shooter trained?" Nope. If you [00:09:52] navigate to that YouTube page today, you [00:09:54] can still see identical [00:09:56] contextual comments and people referring [00:09:58] to Thomas Krooks, including one user who [00:10:00] wrote this. You on YouTube threatening [00:10:03] to shoot government officials. I sure [00:10:05] hope the FBI is monitoring social media [00:10:08] for violent nut cases. That exchange is [00:10:10] still available on internet archive [00:10:12] websites. But the FBI didn't see that [00:10:14] before the shooting. That's hard to [00:10:16] believe. On various occasions, crooks [00:10:19] openly said things like, "Muller should [00:10:21] be hanged along with the rest of the [00:10:22] Democrats involved in that witch hunt." [00:10:24] And I always believed being patriotic [00:10:27] was lining up a bunch of socialist Jews [00:10:30] like the ones who booed Trump and [00:10:32] blasting their useless brains out with [00:10:34] an AR. And yet in early 2020, Crook [00:10:37] seemed to change radically. On January [00:10:40] 23rd of that year, he referred to quote [00:10:43] Trump's stupidity. They began to mock [00:10:45] the concept of the deep state. He [00:10:48] suggested it was a code word used by [00:10:50] Trump supporters for quote anyone who [00:10:52] disagrees with the right wing. Suddenly, [00:10:53] he sounded like an MSNBC commentator. In [00:10:56] February of 2020, he called out Trump's [00:10:58] supporters as quote, "Too brainwashed to [00:11:00] realize how dumb you are." I mean, [00:11:02] literally, you guys sound like a cult at [00:11:04] times. That same day, he called Trump [00:11:07] and his supporters quote racist. It was [00:11:09] an amazing transformation. That April, [00:11:11] during the peak phase of the Coronairus [00:11:13] lockdowns, Krooks wrote, quote, "It [00:11:15] seems that you people don't understand [00:11:17] that sometimes public safety comes [00:11:19] before your personal rights. Are you not [00:11:22] willing to quarantine one member of your [00:11:23] family to save the rest? If so, you are [00:11:26] not a patriot and you aren't protecting [00:11:28] anything. Around this time, the new [00:11:30] left-wing version of Thomas Krooks [00:11:33] became very critical of conservative [00:11:35] media. He said at one point, quote, [00:11:36] "Going to a Chinese New Year's party in [00:11:38] America isn't putting you at risk for [00:11:40] Corona virus, cuz believe it or not, [00:11:42] viruses don't spread through race like [00:11:44] Tucker Carlson probably told you." That [00:11:47] May, as state officials across the [00:11:49] country overhauled election systems to [00:11:50] promote mail and voting, Krooks attacked [00:11:53] Republican concerns about voter fraud as [00:11:55] quote ignorant. 4 months later, in [00:11:58] August 2020, his tone had shifted even [00:12:00] further to the left. He said, quote, I [00:12:04] believe the outcome will be irrelevant. [00:12:06] In response to the same video, Thomas [00:12:08] Krooks issued what sounds a lot like a [00:12:10] digital manifesto. quote, "In my [00:12:13] opinion, the only way to fight the [00:12:15] government is with terrorism style [00:12:17] attacks. Sneak a bomb into an essential [00:12:20] building and set it off before anyone [00:12:21] sees you. Track down any important [00:12:23] people or politicians, military leaders, [00:12:26] etc., and try to assassinate them. Any [00:12:28] sort of head-to-head fight is suicide, [00:12:31] and even ambush or surprise attacks [00:12:33] likely aren't going to end well." These [00:12:36] remarks were especially notable because [00:12:38] they came at the final phase of Krooks's [00:12:40] YouTube commenting. At that point, a new [00:12:43] character emerged into the conversation, [00:12:45] a user named Willie Tempus, who started [00:12:48] pressuring Krooks to commit violence. [00:12:51] For example, quote, "If a gun and a [00:12:53] badge is all that is needed, then [00:12:55] authority obviously comes from the [00:12:56] barrel of a gun. We have more guns than [00:12:59] they do. There is no way we can avoid a [00:13:01] war at this point, so you better just [00:13:03] get used to the idea. We have nothing to [00:13:05] lose and everything to win. And the [00:13:08] alternative, a global police state, is [00:13:10] unacceptable. Nothing in life is simple. [00:13:13] But that is no argument against doing [00:13:15] it. So, who is this Willie Tempus? [00:13:18] Unfortunately, we don't know. The FBI [00:13:20] hasn't made any mention of him in [00:13:22] public, although they certainly know he [00:13:23] exists. Just days after the shooting, [00:13:26] somebody screenshotted's YouTube account [00:13:29] page, despite the fact he had very few [00:13:31] followers. to the extent that he can be [00:13:33] traced online. Now, you can find his [00:13:35] username being used on a foreign Antifa [00:13:38] website. Those sites link him to the [00:13:40] Nordic resistance movement, which has [00:13:42] been designated a terrorist group by the [00:13:43] US State Department. That's all we know. [00:13:46] We do know, however, that Krooks's [00:13:48] online footprint abruptly ends after his [00:13:50] encounter with this mysterious figure, [00:13:53] Willie Tepus. Regardless whoever Willie [00:13:55] Tepis is or was and what his motives may [00:13:58] have been, who he may have been working [00:13:59] for, there is no doubt that Krooks was [00:14:02] ripe for recruitment by someone. From [00:14:05] early 2019 to mid 2020, as his political [00:14:08] views were evolving, Krooks searched for [00:14:11] Trump more than 700 times online. He [00:14:13] also searched for Jack Ruby, the man who [00:14:16] assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald. 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[00:16:39] And then you have at the very end of his [00:16:42] years commenting in public, espousing [00:16:44] violence in exchange with a mysterious [00:16:48] figure [00:16:49] affiliated with a group that we know is [00:16:52] being monitored by the US State [00:16:53] Department. [00:16:54] H. It turns out that around the same [00:16:57] time that Thomas Krooks was making these [00:16:59] searches and posting overt threats of [00:17:01] violence against public figures on [00:17:03] YouTube, the FBI was issuing contracts [00:17:05] to private sector tech surveillance [00:17:07] firms to harness the power of mass data [00:17:10] collection tools that would monitor [00:17:12] social media for people just like Thomas [00:17:14] Krooks. It's hard to imagine that Thomas [00:17:16] Krooks, who was making these posts [00:17:17] publicly and in his own name, had not [00:17:19] been identified and looked at closely by [00:17:21] federal law enforcement. In fact, it's [00:17:24] impossible to imagine. [00:17:27] What do we know? Well, we know that the [00:17:29] FBI had access to these YouTube [00:17:31] comments, and rather than giving us [00:17:32] valuable information about them, giving [00:17:35] us a sense of why Thomas Krooks did what [00:17:37] he did, they used a selective read of [00:17:40] those comments to lie about what Thomas [00:17:43] Krooks was thinking. Two and a half [00:17:46] weeks after the attack on July 30th, a [00:17:49] source familiar with the investigation [00:17:51] told CNN that quote, "Federal [00:17:52] investigators are looking into a YouTube [00:17:54] account possibly connected to Krooks in [00:17:57] which the user espoused political [00:17:58] violence as well as anti-Semitic and [00:18:01] anti-immigration themes." Well, of [00:18:03] course, it wasn't possibly connected to [00:18:05] Thomas Krooks, as the FBI knew full well [00:18:08] it was Thomas Krooks's account. There [00:18:10] was never any question about that. And [00:18:11] yet the same day, the FBI's then deputy [00:18:14] director made the same dishonest claim [00:18:16] before Congress. The week previous, then [00:18:19] FBI director Christopher Ray publicly [00:18:22] questioned whether Trump was even shot. [00:18:24] >> With respect to former President Trump, [00:18:27] um there's there's some question about [00:18:29] whether or not uh it's a bullet or [00:18:31] shrapnel that, you know, that hit his [00:18:33] ear. In February 2025, the New York Post [00:18:36] reported that quote, "The FBI has [00:18:38] obstructed efforts to solve the mystery [00:18:40] of why Thomas Matthew Krooks, who left [00:18:43] no manifesto, did what he did." And this [00:18:45] fact, said the Post, left local law [00:18:48] enforcement, as well as Krooks's former [00:18:49] friends, classmates, and teachers [00:18:51] frustrated. The level of lying and [00:18:53] obstruction is shocking. Less than a [00:18:56] month after the shooting, Congressman [00:18:58] Klay Higgins of Louisiana, a former [00:19:00] police officer, traveled to Butler to [00:19:02] conduct his own investigation into what [00:19:04] happened. When he arrived, he discovered [00:19:06] a disturbing fact. The FBI released [00:19:09] Krooks's body for cremation 10 days [00:19:12] after July 13th. This wasn't known to [00:19:15] the public until Higgins arrived in [00:19:17] Butler on August 5th when the coroner [00:19:19] told the congressman, quote, he would [00:19:21] never have released Krooks's body to the [00:19:23] family for cremation or burial without [00:19:26] specific permission from the FBI. The [00:19:28] timing of Krooks's cremation is notable. [00:19:30] The day Krooks's body was burned was [00:19:34] also the day the House Homeland Security [00:19:36] and Oversight Committees had begun their [00:19:38] investigations into the shooting. The [00:19:40] fact the body was cremated made it [00:19:42] impossible for investigators outside the [00:19:45] FBI to verify the coroner and autopsy [00:19:48] report. You can't do a new talk screen [00:19:50] because the body doesn't exist. [00:19:53] According to Higgins, quote, "This [00:19:54] action by the FBI can only be described [00:19:57] by any reasonable man as an obstruction [00:19:59] to any following investigative effort." [00:20:02] Another notable detail is that photos [00:20:04] from the day after the shooting show an [00:20:06] FBI agent hosing down the site where [00:20:08] crooks died. Highlevel intelligence [00:20:11] officials and congressional sources told [00:20:13] us this is very strange and that the FBI [00:20:16] usually hires out crime scene cleanup to [00:20:18] third-p party contractors. But in this [00:20:21] case, they did it themselves, leaving no [00:20:24] blood and no tissue for anyone else to [00:20:27] analyze. In the photo, the agent shirt [00:20:30] says he's from the technical hazards [00:20:32] response unit, a unit that collects [00:20:34] traditional forensic evidence [00:20:35] contaminated with hazardous materials. [00:20:37] After the shooting, the FBI sent [00:20:39] Krooks's phone to the bureau's [00:20:40] laboratory at Quantico, Virginia. Agents [00:20:42] there were able to open it in less than [00:20:45] 40 minutes using technology from an [00:20:47] Israeli tech firm called Celebrate. [00:20:50] According to the post, FBI officials who [00:20:52] served under President Joe Biden [00:20:54] accessed Krooks's phone, computer, and [00:20:57] his encrypted messaging apps in Belgium, [00:20:59] New Zealand, and Germany. Yet, none of [00:21:02] the online activity the FBI's discovered [00:21:04] was referred to in any way in the final [00:21:07] congressional report that was released [00:21:08] in December of 2024. [00:21:10] >> By the way, why do we still know nothing [00:21:11] about that guy in Butler? What's going [00:21:13] on? [00:21:14] >> That was a good question. A question [00:21:16] that most people thought would be [00:21:17] answered by the new administration. [00:21:19] Within weeks of retaking office, Donald [00:21:21] Trump told the New York Post Miranda [00:21:23] Divine that he had quote ordered the [00:21:25] Secret Service on Friday to provide him [00:21:27] every bit of information about his two [00:21:29] would be assassins. You've had two [00:21:32] assassination attempts. One obviously [00:21:34] where you got hit by that bullet in [00:21:36] Butler. There's a lot of frustration [00:21:37] that we still don't know about that [00:21:40] shooter in Butler and we don't know [00:21:42] about his communications. We get [00:21:44] stonewalled all the time asking [00:21:45] questions about it. Is there frustration [00:21:48] on your part? Do we will we get [00:21:50] transparency? Will we know the bottom [00:21:52] line story? [00:21:53] >> It's very interesting because we have [00:21:54] great people. I think Pam is incredible. [00:21:57] I think Cash is incredible and they're [00:22:00] doing a great job. They're being [00:22:01] recognized as doing a great job. [00:22:03] >> Well, you're the president. [00:22:05] >> No, no. I I know. I know. I know. Uh I'm [00:22:08] relying on my people to tell me what it [00:22:11] is. [00:22:11] >> But his people insist there's nothing [00:22:13] there and they don't seem interested in [00:22:14] finding out more. How come we don't have [00:22:16] more information on the assassination [00:22:19] attempts on President Trump? [00:22:21] >> There's uh two reasons. Two open ongoing [00:22:25] prosecutions, but we have personally [00:22:28] invested our time in making sure that we [00:22:30] have looked at all the any possible [00:22:32] international connections to terrorism [00:22:35] and adversaries alike. And we've both [00:22:36] been down to Quantico. We've both done [00:22:38] the laboratory testing. We've both seen [00:22:40] the explosives analysis. We've both seen [00:22:42] the firearm and physically held it. We [00:22:44] are all in on these investigations. [00:22:46] >> Are we gonna be surprised at what you [00:22:47] learned? [00:22:49] >> You know what, Maria? Um, [00:22:53] Cash is not kidding. We've been [00:22:55] personally briefed extensively on every [00:22:57] single detail, nugget, tendril of this [00:23:01] case. One is actively in court right [00:23:03] now. So, out of respect for the case, [00:23:05] it's probably more appropriate that I [00:23:07] stay quiet on that. However, I'm not [00:23:10] going to tell people what they want to [00:23:11] hear. I'm going to tell you the truth. [00:23:12] And whether whether you like it or not [00:23:14] is up to you. If there was a big [00:23:17] explosive there there right given my [00:23:19] history as a secret service agent and my [00:23:22] personal friendship as a director does [00:23:24] with the president give me one logical [00:23:27] sensible reason we would not have to if [00:23:29] you can think of one there isn't there [00:23:31] isn't there in some of these cases the [00:23:33] there you're looking for is not there. [00:23:36] What a baffling thing to say. Thomas [00:23:39] Krooks is dead. Of course, there was no [00:23:41] trial against Thomas Krooks. And by the [00:23:44] way, they weren't misspeaking. This [00:23:45] wasn't an accident. We know that because [00:23:48] the director of the FBI said the same [00:23:50] thing once again under oath in front of [00:23:53] Congress in September. [00:23:54] >> When your president sat right there in [00:23:55] that seat a couple years last year in a [00:23:58] committee hearing, I asked him a very [00:23:59] detailed question about Matthew Thomas [00:24:00] Krooks, the shooter responsible for the [00:24:02] assassination attempt on President [00:24:04] Trump's life. I did get an answer from [00:24:06] Chris Ray that day and I submitted [00:24:09] written questions to the FBI and into [00:24:11] the record of this committee and I'm [00:24:13] going to resubmit those questions today [00:24:16] because I think we are still wait [00:24:17] awaiting answers to those questions. So, [00:24:18] Mr. Chairman, I'd like to submit them [00:24:20] for the record, please. [00:24:22] >> I'd like to ask you, sir, and the FBI [00:24:24] under your leadership, would you please [00:24:25] respond to these questions and can you [00:24:27] commit to doing that? [00:24:28] >> As soon as the trial is over. [00:24:31] But if it's true that there's nothing [00:24:32] here, then the FBI has a very strange [00:24:34] way of showing it. In July of 2024, a [00:24:37] bipartisan group of senators led by [00:24:39] Republican Senator Ron Johnson of [00:24:40] Wisconsin sent a letter, quote, [00:24:42] requesting records related to the July [00:24:44] 13th, 2024 assassination attempt. Fully [00:24:47] a year later, the FBI still had not [00:24:50] responded. What is this about? This [00:24:52] summer, Senator Johnson issued a new [00:24:54] subpoena, noting that, quote, "Nearly a [00:24:57] year after the assassination attempt and [00:24:59] the initiation of the subcommittee's [00:25:00] investigation, the FBI has repeatedly [00:25:02] failed to produce the subcommittee [00:25:04] records and information critical to its [00:25:06] investigation." In the subpoena, they [00:25:08] demanded pictures and images related to [00:25:10] the assassination, video footage, [00:25:12] forensic reports, records related to FBI [00:25:15] interviews, and notably, all records [00:25:18] referring or relating to any of Thomas [00:25:20] Krooks's electronic devices. digital or [00:25:22] financial accounts or online search [00:25:24] history. [00:25:24] >> What are you telling us? [00:25:27] >> I am totally unsatisfied. I am totally [00:25:30] unsatisfied. You had a person with a a [00:25:32] modern rifle, modern scoped rifle at 130 [00:25:35] yards who shot at the former [00:25:36] commander-in-chief of the United States [00:25:37] and a guy who was going to be by all [00:25:40] accounts at that point the future [00:25:41] commander-in-chief. And then they tried [00:25:43] to kill my father 8 weeks later, you [00:25:44] know, at his golf course in Palm Beach [00:25:46] County, a golf course that I run every [00:25:48] single day. I am totally unsatisfied [00:25:50] that we have one picture of that [00:25:51] shooter. The guy looks like he was 14 [00:25:53] years old in the picture. We know [00:25:54] nothing about him. We We know nothing [00:25:56] about him. Right. And I I am totally [00:25:58] unsatisfied with the result. And I think [00:26:00] a lot of America is unsatisfied with the [00:26:02] result. And I think we better get to the [00:26:03] bottom of Are you telling me there's a [00:26:05] Are you telling me there's a conspiracy [00:26:07] here that you believe that Eric Trump [00:26:09] believes resulted in the assassination [00:26:11] attempt? [00:26:12] >> Yes. I think they tried to kill my [00:26:13] father because they did not want his [00:26:15] voice on that stage. [00:26:20] Unfortunately, the reality is that the [00:26:22] FBI as of today is not only [00:26:24] stonewalling, but is actively preventing [00:26:27] an honest look at what happened in [00:26:29] Butler. Within days of the shooting, FBI [00:26:31] agents collected all the relevant [00:26:33] surveillance footage. That includes [00:26:35] footage from local businesses, the state [00:26:37] police, and critically the gun range [00:26:40] where Thomas Cooks trained. Did he train [00:26:42] alone? We don't know because to this day [00:26:46] the FBI refuses to release the footage. [00:26:49] They confirmed it exists. They confirmed [00:26:51] the existence of one gaming account and [00:26:54] then publicly said a few days later the [00:26:56] account wasn't real. Was that [00:26:58] incompetence or are they lying? Within a [00:27:00] day of the shooting, the social media [00:27:02] companies that hosted Krooks's comments [00:27:04] took his accounts offline. In some [00:27:06] cases, the records of those comments in [00:27:08] the internet archive were also erased. [00:27:11] Did the FBI order that, too? What we do [00:27:14] know is that on the day of the attacks, [00:27:16] Thomas Krooks got extremely lucky. [00:27:18] Miraculously lucky. After he arrived at [00:27:21] the Butler County Fairgrounds on the [00:27:23] morning of the shooting, Thomas Krooks [00:27:24] conducted surveillance by flying his [00:27:27] drone over the rally site. He flew that [00:27:30] drone for 11 minutes. It just so [00:27:32] happened the Secret Service's anti- [00:27:34] drone system were down at exactly the [00:27:37] same moment. What are the odds? Later [00:27:40] that afternoon, police officers saw [00:27:41] Krooks loitering with a backpack and a [00:27:44] rangefinder. They identified him as a [00:27:46] suspicious person, which he clearly was, [00:27:48] but quickly lost track of him. And so [00:27:52] Krooks climbed to the top of the [00:27:53] American Glass Research Building that [00:27:56] happened to be the only building in the [00:27:58] area that did not have a video [00:27:59] surveillance system. It was also, [00:28:01] remarkably, inexplicably [00:28:04] outside the Secret Services security [00:28:06] perimeter despite the fact it was very [00:28:08] close to the stage. Two local police [00:28:10] officers assigned to the building saw [00:28:12] Krooks, but they didn't report him. A [00:28:14] third officer who was supposed to be [00:28:16] there left early. At 6:11 p.m., Crooks [00:28:19] opened fire from the rooftop. [00:28:21] >> Take a look at what happened. [00:28:26] Within the vacuum left by the FBI and [00:28:28] its total unwillingness to explain what [00:28:30] had happened, the media were able to [00:28:32] leverage the shooting to serve its own [00:28:34] political ends. On ABC, we learned that [00:28:37] this happened because white men own [00:28:40] guns. [00:28:40] >> It was, you know, a 20-year-old lone [00:28:44] wolf white whack job with easy access to [00:28:49] a gun. And we have to have a [00:28:51] conversation about that. And within days [00:28:53] of the shooting, US intelligence [00:28:54] officials started leaking about a [00:28:56] supposed plot by the Iranian government [00:28:59] to kill Trump. There was never any [00:29:01] evidence, but if you were planning a [00:29:03] regime change war against Iran, you [00:29:06] might claim otherwise. [00:29:07] >> Let me read to you this breaking news [00:29:09] that we are reporting from three US [00:29:11] officials who have been briefed on the [00:29:13] matter. The US obtained intelligence in [00:29:15] recent weeks about an Iranian plot to [00:29:18] assassinate Donald Trump. [00:29:20] The stonewalling, the lying, the [00:29:23] persistent unwillingness to explain [00:29:25] anything. All of it makes you wonder [00:29:28] what are they hiding. If the leadership [00:29:31] of the FBI and the DOJ had any desire [00:29:33] whatsoever to prove to the public that [00:29:35] there's in fact nothing there, they [00:29:37] could do that. But first, they would [00:29:40] have to answer these questions. Was [00:29:42] Thomas Krooks known to federal law [00:29:43] enforcement before the shooting? Was he [00:29:45] known to local law enforcement before [00:29:47] the shooting? And if not, why not? Who [00:29:50] is Willie Tepus? And was he known to [00:29:53] federal law enforcement? Is Willie Tis [00:29:55] linked to any violent organizations? Is [00:29:57] he linked to any governments? And if so, [00:30:00] then around the time of the shooting, [00:30:01] did the FBI have assets inside those [00:30:04] organizations? If Krooks wasn't known to [00:30:06] anyone in in authority before the [00:30:08] shooting, how was he able to post [00:30:10] hundreds of violent extremist comments [00:30:12] under his real name between 2019 and [00:30:15] 2020 without being detected by law [00:30:17] enforcement or intel agencies at a time [00:30:19] we know they were monitoring social [00:30:21] media? Were those comments, including [00:30:23] specific assassination threats against [00:30:25] specific public officials, ever reported [00:30:28] to YouTube? Other users complained about [00:30:31] them? Did YouTube know? Why is the FBI [00:30:35] telling us that they'll release this [00:30:36] information, quote, after the trial when [00:30:40] there is no trial? Why did an FBI agent [00:30:42] from the Technical Hazards Response Unit [00:30:44] hose down the crime scene the day after [00:30:46] the attack? That seems very strange. [00:30:49] What happened on the roof of the [00:30:51] American Glass Research Building for the [00:30:53] 10 seconds after Krooks's last shot [00:30:56] until he was killed by the Secret [00:30:57] Service? Does the FBI have surveillance [00:31:00] footage of Thomas Krooks shooting that [00:31:02] day? Was the FBI present at the medical [00:31:04] examiner's autopsy? Are there still [00:31:06] blood samples? Can they be examined by [00:31:10] outside authorities? When Congress [00:31:12] demanded the autopsy, did the FBI [00:31:14] restrict what the examiner could tell [00:31:16] the Congress? [00:31:18] When the FBI cleared the corner to [00:31:20] release Krooks's body for cremation, did [00:31:22] they keep tissue samples, brain tissue [00:31:24] samples, spinal cord samples, or spinal [00:31:27] fluid samples? Law enforcement sources [00:31:30] told us that in a typical investigation [00:31:31] in a crime of this nature, it would be [00:31:33] normal to preserve all of that, those [00:31:36] samples. If the FBI didn't, why not? And [00:31:40] who made that decision to destroy what [00:31:42] could be critical evidence in an [00:31:44] attempted murder case? FBI agents went [00:31:46] to the same gun range that Thomas Krooks [00:31:49] was using. Who were those agents, and [00:31:50] did any of them at any time have any [00:31:52] contact with Thomas Krooks? Who did he [00:31:55] train with exactly? And why can't we [00:31:57] know? Was Thomas Krooks taking drugs [00:32:00] that might have turned up on the [00:32:01] toxicology report, but that weren't [00:32:03] listed somehow? [00:32:05] On what date specifically did FBI agents [00:32:08] stop investigating Thomas Krooks's [00:32:10] online presence? Why did the former [00:32:12] deputy director of the FBI, Paul Abate, [00:32:15] suggest to Congress that Krooks was a [00:32:17] right-winger when he clearly wasn't? Was [00:32:19] the FBI aware of Krooks's public [00:32:21] comments before the shooting, many of [00:32:23] which are openly violent that included [00:32:25] specific assassination attempts [00:32:26] involving public officials? Who was [00:32:28] Thomas Krooks in communication with in [00:32:30] the days before the attack? What is his [00:32:32] burner phone show? And in fact, why did [00:32:35] he have a burner phone and encrypted [00:32:37] foreign email accounts? Who were the [00:32:39] government officials trying to link Iran [00:32:41] to the shooting? Why did the FBI suggest [00:32:43] that he had no digital footprint in the [00:32:45] first place when the FBI had a great [00:32:48] deal of evidence, hundreds and hundreds [00:32:50] of comments from his digital activity? 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