Newly uncovered accounts tied to Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks (they/them) reveal transgender ideology, “furry” fetish content, and ties to a retired FBI agent, reports the New York Post.

Notice how that whole story died.

Intrepid journalist Miranda Devine uncovers details on Trump shooter hidden by FBI/Secret Service.

One of the most iconic moments in political history and the Media memory holed it.

Like it never happened.

Think about that…pic.twitter.com/UG2AAdYPpx

— C3 (@C_3C_3) November 15, 2025

Crooks used the pronouns “they/them” and “like alleged Charlie Kirk as**ssin Tyler Robinson, Crooks appears to have been interested in ‘furries’ and exploring gender identity.”

It’s time for a real conversation in America about why some groups disproportionately commit violence. pic.twitter.com/eKTZLXoKVj

— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) November 17, 2025

Sixteen months after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, major questions remain about how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto a rooftop with an AR-15-style rifle and nearly killed the former president. Although the FBI initially claimed Crooks had no clear ideology, newly uncovered digital records paint a very different picture. Between 2019 and 2020, Crooks, a violent anti-Trump extremist, posting hundreds of public comments that celebrated political violence and assassination. His online trail — spread across at least 17 platforms — shows years of radicalization, threats, and extremist rhetoric under his real name, much of it visible and unaddressed by authorities. The revelation that he even used the name of a retired FBI agent on one account raises further questions about the thoroughness and honesty of the federal investigation, and why this disturbing evidence never appeared in the official reports to Congress.

So the would be Trump assassin was on YouTube posting violent threats against Trump for months in the comments — UNDER HIS OWN NAME — and the FBI told us they couldn’t determine a motive. That’s where we are, folks. Dark times.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) November 17, 2025

Miranda Devine: FBI, Secret Service butchered the Thomas Crooks case and invited conspiracies – we deserve the truth

By: Miranda Devine, NY Post, Nov. 17, 2025, 6:00 a.m. ET

We are all owed a better explanation from the FBI and Secret Service about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump 16 months ago at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa.

The president himself remains unsatisfied with the answers he’s been given about the circumstances leading to 20-year-old Thomas Crooks climbing on a rooftop with an AR-15-style rifle and firing eight times at Trump, narrowly missing his head but hitting his ear.

Then-FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress after the July 13, 2024, attack that the bureau had found nothing in Crooks’ online history that pointed to a motive or political ideology.

A week later, Wray’s deputy Paul Abbate told Congress that comments posted on one of Crooks’ social media accounts “appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature.”

Then-FBI Director Chris Wray told Congress after the July 13, 2024, attack that the bureau had found nothing in Crooks’ online history that pointed to a motive or political ideology.

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Thanks to an enterprising source who uncovered Crooks’ hidden digital footprint, we can see that Abbate misled Congress by omission, because he left out an entire section of Crooks’ online interactions from January to August 2020 when he did an ideological backflip and went from rabidly pro-Trump to rabidly anti-Trump and then went dark, never seeming to post again.

Among the 17 accounts uncovered by our source were ones on YouTube, Snapchat, Venmo, Zelle, GroupMe, Discord, Google Play, Quizlet, Chess.com and Quora.

The online interactions from when Crooks was ages 15 to 17 give us a better understanding of his evolution into an assassin, and invite more questions about what — or who — reversed his ideology.

“The danger Crooks posed was visible for years in public online spaces,” says the source. “His radicalization, violent rhetoric and obsession with political violence were all documented under his real name. The threat wasn’t hidden.”

Donald Trump with blood on his face, surrounded by Secret Service agents, with an American flag in the background.

Yet the source found reams of information that shows Crooks “was not simply some unknowable lone actor … He left a digital trail of violent threats, extremist ideology and admiration for mass violence. He spoke openly of political assassination, posted under his real name and was even flagged by other users who mentioned law enforcement in their replies. Despite this, his account remained active for more than five years — and was only removed the day after the shooting.

“None of this online activity was referenced in the final congressional report released in December 2024, making this even more troubling,” the source said.

Starting with Crooks’ phone number, the source used tools available to private investigators and web archives to uncover the assassin’s very visible online persona.

The official narrative claimed Crooks acted alone and without a clear motive, ideology or digital footprint.

James Copenhaver

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By April 2020, Crooks was constantly criticizing Trump’s pandemic response, saying he was “too slow and everything he’s doing now should have been done.”

Through the summer of 2020, Crooks’ online rhetoric became increasingly radical and violent.

On Aug. 5, 2020, Crooks wrote: “IMO the only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks, sneak a bomb into an essential building and set it off before anyone sees you, track down any important people/politicians/military leaders etc and try to assassinate them.

“Any sort of head-to-head fight is suicide and even ambush/surprise attacks likely aren’t going to end well. A large portion of the war will also be propaganda/information wars — both sides will want people to join them, and a big deciding factor in wars is often which side has more popular support for them,” he wrote.

Among the 17 accounts uncovered by our source, only one, on PayPal, was operated under an alias: “Rod Swanson.”

Rod Swanson is a former senior FBI agent who was the chief of investigations for the state of Nevada during the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.

He also previously served on FBI Director Robert Mueller’s protective detail and as a firearms instructor in Pennsylvania.

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