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Americans deserve straight answers, not evasions, about Thomas Crooks and the July 2024 attempt on President Trump’s life — yet new reporting this week suggests the FBI has left major pieces of the puzzle off the public table. Investigative work by New York Post reporter Miranda Devine and conservative commentators has unearthed online accounts and activity that were reportedly not highlighted in earlier briefings, raising urgent questions about what the bureau knew and when.
The facts of the attack are grim and established: on July 13, 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired from a rooftop at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounding President Trump and several others before being stopped by security; the episode prompted a broad federal probe. Law-enforcement testimony at the time described Crooks as a young man with a concerning online footprint from his teenage years, but officials said they had not found a clear motive. Those basic truths still demand clarity from the agencies charged with protecting Americans.
What’s newly being reported is not speculation but a digital trail: multiple accounts across platforms, alleged use of they/them pronouns on DeviantArt, and involvement in furry communities under usernames that commentators say were linked to Crooks. Conservative investigators say those records paint a longer arc of radicalization, including violent rhetoric and ideological shifts that were not fully publicized in congressional testimony. If true, this is not merely salacious detail — it’s evidence that could reshape our understanding of prevention failures.
Instead of owning these gaps, the bureau and its defenders have pushed back, prompting a bitter public clash — Tucker Carlson and others accused the FBI of misdirection, while Director Kash Patel and the agency’s new communications arm insisted the bureau never claimed Crooks had no online footprint and promised transparency. That fight over facts shouldn’t replace the only thing that matters: an evidence-first accounting to the American people and to the families of the victims. No amount of spin can substitute for documents, timelines, and testimony.
Let’s be candid: this episode sits at the intersection of cultural rot and institutional failure. When federal agencies, Big Tech, and an activist media world create a fog around dangerous behavior — whether because of ideology, incompetence, or politics — ordinary citizens pay the price. Conservatives must demand not only answers about Crooks’s social media and associations, but also a hard look at whether fashionable identity politics and online echo chambers are incubating violent resentments that lead to real-world carnage.
Congress and the American people should insist on full disclosure: release of relevant files, unredacted timelines, and sworn testimony from every agency that handled evidence. Director Patel and lawmakers who care about justice owe the public an unvarnished accounting — no excuses, no delays, and no more secrets about the men who would do us harm.
