Report: FBI Accused of 'Stonewalling' Congress on Trump Assassination Attempt

[ad_1] Two Home Republicans who helped lead the congressional probe into the Thomas Crooks assassination try on President Donald Trump say the FBI "stonewalled" their investigation, and new revelations about Crooks' alleged violent digital footprint are elevating recent calls for for solutions.

Reps. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and Pat Fallon, R-Texas, informed the New York Publish the bureau withheld crucial details about Crooks' on-line historical past, though new reporting exhibits the would-be murderer posted extremist content material for years underneath his actual title.

"I feel there's so many unanswered questions," Kelly informed the Publish. "They do not need individuals to deal with the reality."

Fallon agreed, saying he does not recall ever being proven the violent posts which have now surfaced publicly.

"You may't examine these items sufficient," he stated.

The 2 lawmakers served on the bipartisan Home committee that launched its report in December, 5 months after Crooks managed to fireside eight photographs at Trump throughout a rally in Butler, Pa., grazing his ear and killing Corey Comperatore, 50.

The report concluded Crooks left behind "little notable digital footprint."

However a brand new trove of posts reveals the other.

Miranda Devine's Monday column within the Publish laid out Crooks' intensive on-line path: at the very least 17 accounts throughout YouTube, Snapchat, Discord, Quora, and extra.

Between ages 15 and 17, he glorified mass violence, researched bomb-making, practiced AR-15 capturing stances, praised political assassination, and issued threats towards politicians — together with calls to "MURDER THE DEMOCRATS."

Crooks' ideology additionally flipped sharply. As soon as a self-described hardcore Trump supporter, he all of the sudden turned rabidly anti-Trump in early 2020, attacking the president and GOP issues about mail-in voting.

Devine reported this ideological shift, mixed together with his more and more violent rhetoric, ought to have triggered a number of federal crimson flags.

But FBI Director Kash Patel insisted publicly that Crooks' digital footprint was "unremarkable," whereas former FBI Director Chris Wray informed Congress the bureau had no prior data on Crooks in any respect.

Devine famous that Wray's deputies supplied contradictory testimony and that the FBI is refusing to say whether or not Crooks was ever beforehand investigated.

Kelly stated the Home committee was blocked at almost each flip, from Crooks' speedy cremation to the cleansing of blood proof on the rooftop capturing web site.