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Look, I get it, everybody is livid. A 20-year-old scumcrumpet almost blows President Trump's head off in broad daylight on live television, and we're supposed to believe it was just one depressed gamer with a drone and daddy's AR? The skepticism is healthy, but at some point, the "second shooter / deep-state / Antifa super-cell" crowd needs to take the 'L,' because the person who's now running the FBI just dropped a thermonuclear truth bomb on the entire grift.
"Many people make a lot of money on social media pushing conspiracy theories for clicks. That is a fact," FBI Director Kash Patel said, and he isn't wrong.
Deputy Director Dan Bongino went on Fox and basically told the tinfoil brigade to pound sand.
"It is the FBI’s conclusion that Crooks acted alone," Bongino said flat-out.
They cracked every single one of Crooks' 35 accounts, social media, banking, the works. Even the sketchy foreign email addresses out of Germany and Belgium? Fully accessed within days.
"The FBI has been able to access all of the accounts," a senior official told Fox. "There has been reporting to inappropriately and incorrectly state that there was encryption that the FBI was not able to get into, that is not true. We have been able to get into every single account."
"There is no foreign connection in this case," the official added. "There is no individual that is outside U.S. borders or inside U.S. borders that had any role in directing him, inspiring him or assisting him in any way, and that includes foreign governments."
They swept the shooter's house top to bottom. Every phone, every laptop, every thumb drive, all imaged, all cracked.
"Every device in the home was collected and accessed fully," Patel said. "Reports say that we didn't get into certain devices? That's false. We got into all of the devices."
That whole "Antifa super-soldier William Tepes" thing had the timeline in a frenzy. It turns out the Norwegian neo-Nazi just replied to one of Crooks' public YouTube comments. That's it. No secret Discord, no encrypted Signal chats, no "hey bro, here's the exfil plan."
"Crooks posted on YouTube. Tepes is a Norwegian, nordic resistance member. He simply responded to content Crooks posted," Patel explained, basically rolling his eyes through the television screen.
The investigation? Over 1,000 interviews, 2,000 tips, a dozen search warrants, 100+ subpoenas. No manifesto, no accomplices, no shadowy handlers.
And then Bongino went full "A Few Good Men" on the angry mob:
"No one is interested in guilt or innocence, they’re interested in someone to blame," Bongino said. "The public is pissed off. We get it. We sympathize with you. It couldn’t have just been this guy, it couldn't have just been this guy, it is. There is no reason I would tell you otherwise." He even addressed the "why would you cover for the deep state" crowd directly:
"I would ask the public: What motivation would Kash Patel and Dan Bongino possibly have to hide from their personal friend, not just their boss, the president, information about a crime where he was the victim?" Bongino asked. "I don’t understand what the motivation would be."
Exactly. The same Kash and Dan who’ve spent years torching the FBI for Russia-gate and Crossfire Hurricane are now the ones running the joint — and they’re telling you, on the record, there’s nothing there.
Yet the same accounts that cried "trust the plan" for four years ago are now calling these guys deep-state shills because the story doesn’t have enough James Bond villains in it.
"We are very confident in the outcomes of this investigation," Bongino said. "We have pulled on every threat. We are absolutely confident, and if information surfaces, please, immediately get it over to us for instant action."
In other words: Put up or shut up.
The only people making bank off this tragedy are the ones Patel called out — the professional conspiracy influencers who know a juicy "what really happened at Butler" thread gets more clicks than "FBI says lone nut, case closed."
"As to why people keep coming back to this on social media, the reality is, many people make a lot of money on social media pushing conspiracy theories for clicks," he said. "That is a fact."
The truth might be boring, folks, but sometimes the 20-year-old incel with a rifle really is just a 20-year-old incel with a rifle. And no amount of Substack subscriptions is going to conjure a second shooter onto that roof.
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