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We are finally getting the kind of details the American people deserved from day one: new reporting shows Thomas Matthew Crooks left a sprawling online trail — including accounts on DeviantArt where he used “they/them” pronouns and posted sexualized “furry” imagery — that directly contradicts the narrative we were fed about a mysterious loner with no clear motive. This isn’t just salacious tabloid chatter; multiple outlets that have examined the accounts say the digital footprint is extensive and bizarrely intimate, raising basic questions about how our security services missed it.
Investigative work has tied usernames like “epicmicrowave” and “theepicmicrowave” to Crooks’ verified contact information, and reporters say he used an alias — the name of a former senior FBI agent — on a PayPal account. Those discoveries, combined with dozens of other accounts across platforms, paint a picture of a young man who was not a digital ghost but someone very active online for years.
That reality slams headlong into what the FBI and some congressional briefings told the public: that Crooks left little online trace and that investigators couldn’t identify a clear ideological motive. If agents truly saw only a handful of innocuous searches, then why are so many reporters finding abandoned accounts full of threats and extreme rhetoric? The discrepancy smells of either gross incompetence or purposeful omission at the highest levels.
Even more damning: the alias Crooks allegedly used matches the name of a former FBI investigator, and that agent has publicly said he would have expected to be contacted had the bureau known someone was using his name. That admission by an outside former official only amplifies the suspicion that the FBI’s public story omitted material evidence that should have been in the congressional record. Americans deserve to know whether this was negligence or a willful cover-up.
The new reports also detail Crooks’ interactions with extremist accounts and a string of violent online posts and searches — from encouraging political violence to researching the JFK assassination — all the things you’d expect to see in the digital history of someone who planned political murder. These are not harmless teenage pranks; they are red flags that were, for reasons still unexplained, minimized or left out of official summaries. The families of the dead and every citizen demanding safety have a right to a full accounting.
On top of the information gaps, congressional investigators have uncovered troubling failures in how the Secret Service and supporting federal personnel were deployed that day — including reports that many guarding the event were pulled from other duties and given minimal training. Combine that with the newly revealed online trail and you have a portrait of systemic breakdowns that nearly cost the life of a former president and did cost innocent Americans their lives.
Patriots should not reflexively distrust every federal agency, but neither should we be naive. This episode shows why transparency and real accountability matter: when agencies talk past the public and protect narratives instead of facts, trust dies and conspiracies flourish. Congress, the Department of Justice, and the incoming administration must demand full, declassified disclosures of what was collected, what was redacted, and why — because protecting America means protecting the truth.
