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Who Is Thomas Crooks?

Published November 14, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:07

These are videos The FBI has worked hard to make sure you haven't seen [videos from the Google Drive account of Thomas Crooks]. They're from the Google Drive account of Thomas Crooks, the man who on July 13, 2024 showed up at the Butler County, Pennsylvania fairgrounds and tried to assassinate the front runner, Donald Trump. (00:07–00:12)

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Asserts that the FBI is actively preventing the public from seeing certain videos related to Thomas Crooks.

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“The FBI ran released Crooks body for cremation 10 days after July 13th.”
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“Photos from the day after the shooting show an FBI agent hosing down the site where Crooks died.”
Who Is Thomas Crooks? | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 20:03-20:10
“The FBI sent Crooks phone to the Bureau's laboratory at Quantico, Virginia. Agents there were able to open it in less than 40 minutes using…”
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“Within days of the shooting, FBI agents collected all the relevant surveillance footage.”
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“The Secret Service's anti-drone systems were down at exactly the same moment [Thomas Crooks flew his drone over the rally site].”
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“Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country.”
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“The FBI has claimed that Thomas Crooks acted alone and that he was a virtual ghost online with no presence at all.”
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“We obtained hundreds of comments from Thomas Crooks YouTube account.”
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“Crooks had a Snapchat TomCrooks19, a Venmo account, Thomas Crooks12, a PayPal account under the alias Rod Swanson.”
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“Federal investigators lied and told us there was no trace of [Thomas Crooks] online.”
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“Crooks YouTube channel was suspended on July 14, 2024.”
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“The FBI responded by questioning whether we could verify the authenticity of the [YouTube] account.”
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“The digital comments we obtained were posted between 2019 and 2020, when Thomas Crooks was between 15 and 17 years old.”
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“Years before he showed up in Butler, Crooks was leaving a detailed digital trail of violent threats, including calls for assassinations and…”
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“The FBI lied about that fact and pretended that Crooks was a right winger.”
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“In early 2020, Crooks seemed to change radically.”
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“As state officials across the country overhauled election systems to promote mail-in voting, Crooks attacked Republican concerns about voter…”
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“The FBI hasn't made any mention of [Willie Tepes] in public, although they certainly know he exists.”
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“The FBI clearly knew [Thomas Crooks] existed.”
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“The FBI was issuing contracts to private sector tech surveillance firms to harness the power of mass data collection tools that would…”
Who Is Thomas Crooks? | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 17:03-17:15
“The FBI had access to these YouTube comments and rather than giving us valuable information about them, giving us a sense of why Thomas…”
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“The FBI's then Deputy Director made the same dishonest claim before Congress.”
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“The FBI has obstructed efforts to solve the mystery of what why Thomas Matthew Crooks, who left no manifesto, did what he did.”
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“The day Crooks body was burned was also the day the House Homeland Security and Oversight committees had begun their investigations into the…”
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“The FBI usually hires out crime scene cleanup to third party contractors. But in this case they did it themselves.”
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“None of the online activity the FBI has discovered was referred to in any way in the final congressional report released in December of…”
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“Donald Trump told the New York Post's Miranda Devine that he had quote, ordered the Secret Service on Friday to provide him every bit of…”
Who Is Thomas Crooks? | Uploaded November 14, 2025 | 21:19-21:31
“A bipartisan group of senators led by Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin sent a letter, quote, requesting records related to the…”
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“Nearly a year after the assassination attempt and the initiation of the subcommittee's investigation, the FBI has repeatedly failed to…”
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“The FBI refuses to release the footage.”
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“It was also remarkably, inexplicably outside the Secret Service's security perimeter, despite the fact it was very close to the stage.”
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“Within the vacuum left by the FBI and its total unwillingness to explain what had happened, the media were able to leverage the shooting to…”
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“And within days of the shooting, US intelligence officials started leaking about a supposed plot by the Iranian government to kill Trump.”
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“There was never any evidence, but if you were planning a regime change war against Iran, you might claim otherwise.”
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“Why is the FBI telling us that they'll release this information, quote after the trial, when there is no trial?”
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“Why did an FBI agent from the Technical Hazards Response Unit hose down the crime scene the day after the attack?”
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“Does the FBI have surveillance footage of Thomas Crook's shooting that day?”
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“When Congress demanded the autopsy, did the FBI restrict what the examiner could tell the Congress?”
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“When the FBI cleared the corner to release Crooks body for cremation, did they keep tissue samples, brain tissue samples, spinal cord…”
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“Why did the former Deputy Director of the FBI, Paul Lebate suggest to Congress that Crooks was a right winger when he clearly wasn't?”
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