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The recent reporting by Miranda Devine that unearthed an extensive online footprint for Thomas Matthew Crooks should set off alarm bells in every corner of Washington. For months lawmakers and the public were told Crooks was a cipher with no clear motive, but Devine’s work — and sources feeding journalists — show a dramatically different picture that the FBI and the Biden administration owe the nation a straight answer about.
On July 13, 2024, Crooks opened fire at a Trump rally near Butler, Pennsylvania, wounding the former president and killing at least one attendee before being shot dead by Secret Service snipers — a horrific act that should have triggered full transparency, not bureaucratic stonewalling. The basic facts of the attack and its tragic aftermath are settled and demand open answers about how and why it happened.
Devine says sources have produced material from as many as 17 online accounts tied to Crooks, painting a portrait of someone who flipped from pro-Trump to violently anti-Trump between 2020 and 2024. If true, that online trail — on platforms ranging from YouTube to Discord and DeviantArt — contradicts early public assurances that investigators found no explainable motive and suggests the public has been given an incomplete narrative.
That inconsistency is not a small error — it’s a rhetorical and investigative failure. Initially, FBI leadership told Congress there was little online evidence to explain Crooks’s motive, only for deputy officials to later acknowledge violent, antisemitic and anti-immigrant posts. Americans deserve to know whether those contradictions were the result of sloppy work, bureaucratic spin, or political pressure to downplay inconvenient facts.
The discretion shown by federal agencies only deepens suspicion when paired with other troubling details — including reports that Crooks’s body was cremated unusually quickly, a move critics say hampered independent scrutiny. When the executive branch controls the narrative and limits outside review, it invites the very conspiracy theories a responsible government should be squashing with clear evidence and accountability.
Conservative journalists and commentators have been ridiculed for pushing these questions, but reasonable skepticism is the antidote to institutional secrecy. If the FBI truly did a thorough, unvarnished investigation, then release the records, preserve forensic evidence, and let Congress and the public examine what led to this catastrophic breach of security and public trust.
Patriots who love this country — regardless of their politics — should demand the truth and reform. We must insist on transparent answers, accountability for any failures, and safeguards so that no American leader or citizen is left in the dark about threats that touch the heart of our republic. The time for platitudes is over; the American people deserve the whole story.
