What you thought you knew about the Butler murder and attempted assassination of Donald Trump is wrong. The FBI lied to you.
We learned yesterday that an anonymous donor paid to have Thomas Crooks cremated. Investigators got the documents through a family lawyer. The media reported that Dad was unemployed. Mom was off work. The household couldn’t cover the bill, so an anonymous check did. However, the father was retired, and the mother was on leave, possibly not impoverished as the media suggests.
Who paid to burn Crooks up within days?
The weird young man…
Crooks didn’t have any friends, talked to himself, and was obsessed with guns. If he didn’t act alone, he certainly was the perfect patsy. Registered Republican, he donated to a progressive group. Crooks scored a 1400 on the SAT without studying and was described as nearly emotionless.
Federal records obtained by Fox News Digital show that would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks reportedly received packages containing gun parts under the alias “Bob Dole.”
He was a weird young man. His father said he never cried when born and was quiet ever after. He had no interest in girls, and cooked with his mom most nights.
The mystery men…
There are more anonymous people. Two mystery men were with him at a gun store weeks before Butler. The store calls the FBI and hands over the video footage. The files show no follow-up done by Wray’s FBI. Another unidentified man trained with him the day before.
Crooks had spoken with strange accounts about his hatred of Donald Trump and violence in general.
The FBI lied about all of this.
Details…
“It’s totally weird. It’s totally wrong. We still don’t know enough.”
Greg Kelly digs into new details surrounding Thomas Crooks and the 2024 assassination attempt against President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.@gregkellyusa pic.twitter.com/7aP6dtVZAR
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) September 16, 2026
Tom Elliott and the ten weirdest things he found in the latest Thomas Crooks FBI drop:
1. The FBI had the ladder. A private citizen found it in a wood lot in Bethel Park on July 17, 2024, along with Crooks’ rifle bag and his gun-club ID. A week later, Christopher Wray told Congress, “We did not find the ladder at the scene.” Technically accurate, but misleading. The ladder was 40 miles away, in FBI custody.
2. Agents were searching a specific dumpster for a third Crooks phone. They already had two of his phones.
3. A gun store in Edinboro, two hours from home, reported someone who looked like Crooks browsing for an hour with two other men, a month and a half before Butler. The file gives us no further details, but the suspect’s ammo purchase matched one of Crooks’ rifles.
4. The day before the shooting, he spent two hours on the range talking with an unidentified man. Agents ran plates. No follow-up included in the file.
5. Crooks’ apparent bag had weird stuff: a Stanley 12-foot tape measure, a red Sharpie, a Hyper Tough stapler, and a box of light-duty staples.
6. He accessed four encrypted Belgian email accounts. The FBI sent formal requests to two foreign governments for records on them. The files do not include whatever came from those requests.
Additional information…
7. The Deputy Attorney General authorized something important, and it was kept from the public. We don’t know what it was. Two FBI officials “accessed the [redacted]” pertaining to Crooks. The remaining five pages are blacked out. They consulted with another unnamed agency.
8. Crooks talked to himself frequently and in an animated fashion. He told his father there were no voices. He was just talking to himself.
9. A classmate said Crooks never talked about personal issues, and another said he was the smartest person in the room, would not engage in small talk, and it was “analogous to having a course with Lee Harvey Oswald.”
10. An addendum notes the father was “retired” and the mother on leave from work, which the Post reads as the family being unable to cover the cost; elsewhere in the same records, the father describes himself as “unemployed” at the time of the shooting. The Post couldn’t reach him.
President Trump believes it was a Democrat plot, especially given the lies from Christopher Wray. By the time he “got into office, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone.”
Why was the 93-year-old Chuck Grassley the only person to find this information?
🔥🚨 JUST IN — An anonymous donor paid to cremate Thomas Crooks ten days after he tried to kill President Trump in Butler, PA, and the paper trail just landed in Chuck Grassley’s committee file.
“Anonymous donor paid for cremation.”
Thomas Matthew Crooks grazed Trump’s ear,… pic.twitter.com/nGAGXT1H00
— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) September 15, 2026
Too many failures to be explained by incompetence. They knew Crooks was suspicious, saw Crooks on the roof, and never told the President not to take the stage. The CIA director lied about the slanted roof.
1 year ago today, a 20 year old named Thomas Crooks somehow evaded local law enforcement and Secret Service and nearly blew off President Trump’s head on live TV.
Crooks’ body was quietly released shortly after the incident by the FBI and cremated.
We have no clue what… pic.twitter.com/1tn88VSwXc
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 13, 2025
Crooks was even in a confrontation with Trump supporters right before the assassination attempt.
Judicial Watch president @TomFitton tells me official FBI documents reveal that Thomas Matthew Crooks got into a confrontation with Trump supporters right before he tried to assassinate the President:
“He climbs up on the roof [after that] and evidently, there was no security… pic.twitter.com/ieolcfPwTI
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) June 11, 2026