America needs a fresh investigation of would-be assassin Thomas Crooks — AND the FBI’s bungled first probe

Why did the FBI either neglect to way down large accusation astir would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks — oregon neglect to marque it public?

Indeed, shouldn’t the Bureau person been alert of Crooks’ alarming and disposable societal media illustration agelong earlier helium opened occurrence connected President Donald Trump successful Butler, Pa., past year?

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The accusation Miranda Devine shared successful Monday’s Post straight contradicts nationalist claims by then-FBI Director Chris Wray that Crooks was a enigma antheral with a bladed oregon nonexistent online presence.

The methods Devine’s root utilized — starting with Crooks’ telephone fig to way down his accounts connected YouTube, Snapchat, Venmo, Zelle, GroupMe, Discord, Google Play, Quizlet, Chess.com and Quora — can’t beryllium alien to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Then-Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump pumps his fist arsenic helium is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents aft being grazed by a slug during a rally connected July 13, 2024, successful Butler, Pennsylvania.  (Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images)

How could the feds miss the YouTube relationship "Tomcrooks2178" (which showed to different users arsenic Tom Crooks), progressive from Jan. 14, 2019, to its suspension connected July 14, 2024, the time aft Butler?

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Federal officials supposedly show societal media for signs of danger; did posts similar the all-caps "MURDER THE DEMOCRATS" of Dec. 12, 2019, truly acceptable disconnected nary alarms?

Thomas Matthew Crooks was a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump during a 2024 statesmanlike run rally earlier being changeable and killed by Secret Service agents. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

In fact, helium got much spooky aft helium turned to the left, penning successful August 2020, "the lone mode to combat the gov is with coercion benignant attacks, sneak a weaponry into an indispensable gathering and acceptable it disconnected earlier anyone sees you, way down immoderate important people/politicians/military leaders etc and effort to assassinate them."

None of this code is grounds for apprehension — but it’s perfectly the benignant of happening you expect to get idiosyncratic onto the feds’ radar, and surely worldly they should enactment aft the writer has travel a fraction of an inch from succeeding successful an assassination.

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Especially when, per Devine’s source, Crooks’ scarier posts were "even flagged by different users who mentioned instrumentality enforcement successful their replies."

Undated record photograph of Thomas Matthew Crooks successful a yearbook photo. Crooks is alleged to beryllium the shooter successful the assassination effort connected Donald Trump successful Butler, Pennsylvania connected July 13, 2024.  (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

A caller probe is present a must: Probe Crooks, his backtrail and imaginable co-conspirators, and of the FBI officials who 1 mode oregon different dropped the shot — arsenic good arsenic of existent FBI leaders, who besides fell down.

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All the erstwhile weirdness, from arsenic the Secret Service’s assertion it posted nary agents connected the extortion Crooks utilized due to the fact that it was excessively steep to Wray’s bizarre grounds to Congress that Trump whitethorn not person adjacent been shot, has launched a 1000 conspiracy theories.

The FBI’s decline, dating backmost to astatine slightest Robert Mueller’s "reforms" aft 9/11, is aged news, but Team Trump was expected to beryllium turning things around; the federation needs to cognize wherefore that enactment is plainly going acold excessively slowly.