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Well hello again, friends. Another day, another "bombshell" that somehow manages to be both jaw-dropping and completely unsurprising at the same time. The New York Post just dropped the motherlode on Thomas Matthew Crooks, the scumwafer who tried to murder President Trump in Butler, PA last year, and wow, does it ever make the FBI look like the Keystone Kops. [Google them.]
Remember when Chris Wray, still clinging to his directorship like a remora on a shark's back then, went before Congress and swore up and down that the FBI had scoured Crooks’ online history and found exactly zilch.0 about motive or ideology? Yeah, about that.
A week later his deputy, Paul Abbate, shuffled up and admitted there were some comments that "appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature."
Notice how he conveniently left out the part where Crooks spent 2019, up to early 2020 as a full-throated Trump stan? Because an actual journalist with a source who knows how to use the internet just unearthed seventeen accounts Crooks operated under his real name (YouTube, Discord, Snapchat, Venmo, Quizlet, Chess.com, the whole deranged digital petting zoo), and the timeline is a doozy.
Crooks was 15–17 years old and posting stuff like:
Trump is "the literal definition of Patriotism."
And my personal favorite, wishing "a quick painful death to all the deplorable immigrants and anti-Trump congresswoman who don't deserve anything this country [sic] has given them." He was straight-up fantasizing about murdering Democrats. In public. Under his real name. Then, sometime between January and August 2020, the little psycho did a full 180.
First shot across the bow: Jan. 23, 2020, commenting on a Jonathan Turley video about Trump’s impeachment with "Keep in mind the only reason we may know about any of this is because of Trump's stupidity."
By February he’s calling Trump supporters a cult: "How can you people call others sheep, but you are do [too] brainwashed to realize how dumb you are… I mean literally you guys sound like a cult at times."
On the same day he calls Trump "racist." By April he's ripping Trump’s COVID response as "too slow and everything he's doing now should have been done." And of course, because every modern radicalization arc needs that special touch, he started floating "terrorism style attacks" like planting bombs in government buildings.
Oh, and somewhere in there he apparently went full furry on DeviantArt, started using "they/them" ungrammatical pronouns, and buddy-buddied up with actual Norwegian neo-Nazis who egged him on.
Let that sink in. The kid was an open-book violent extremist for years, and the FBI's big conclusion was "nothing to see here." [Where was Kash Patel when we needed him?]
"The danger Crooks posed was visible for years in public online spaces," the source told the Post. "His radicalization, violent rhetoric and obsession with political violence were all documented under his real name. The threat wasn’t hidden."
Another source added: Crooks "was not simply some unknowable lone actor … He left a digital trail of violent threats, extremist ideology and admiration for mass violence." Yet none of this made it into the December congressional report.
So here we are, a year and a half later, finding out that the same FBI that can track down garage-pull-ropes and moms at school-board meetings somehow missed a teenager openly calling for political assassinations under his real damn name.
The real question isn't even "How did they miss this?" It's "Why are they still pretending they did?" Because if an unpaid civilian with a laptop can dig this up in 2025, the FBI absolutely had it in 2024.
They just chose not to tell us.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the actual bombshell.
By February he’s calling Trump supporters a cult: "How can you people call others sheep, but you are do [too] brainwashed to realize how dumb you are… I mean literally you guys sound like a cult at times."
On the same day he calls Trump "racist." By April he's ripping Trump’s COVID response as "too slow and everything he's doing now should have been done." And of course, because every modern radicalization arc needs that special touch, he started floating "terrorism style attacks" like planting bombs in government buildings.
Oh, and somewhere in there he apparently went full furry on DeviantArt, started using "they/them" ungrammatical pronouns, and buddy-buddied up with actual Norwegian neo-Nazis who egged him on.
Let that sink in. The kid was an open-book violent extremist for years, and the FBI's big conclusion was "nothing to see here." [Where was Kash Patel when we needed him?]
"The danger Crooks posed was visible for years in public online spaces," the source told the Post. "His radicalization, violent rhetoric and obsession with political violence were all documented under his real name. The threat wasn’t hidden."
Another source added: Crooks "was not simply some unknowable lone actor … He left a digital trail of violent threats, extremist ideology and admiration for mass violence." Yet none of this made it into the December congressional report.
So here we are, a year and a half later, finding out that the same FBI that can track down garage-pull-ropes and moms at school-board meetings somehow missed a teenager openly calling for political assassinations under his real damn name.
The real question isn't even "How did they miss this?" It's "Why are they still pretending they did?" Because if an unpaid civilian with a laptop can dig this up in 2025, the FBI absolutely had it in 2024.
They just chose not to tell us.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the actual bombshell.
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