The FBI have given an extensive exclusive to Fox News Digital highlighting that President Trump’s attempted assassin Thomas Crooks acted alone in his efforts to target Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
It appears this information, from Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino, specifically comes after Tucker Carlson ran a 30-minute segment pointing out inconsistencies in the FBI investigation.
(VIA FOX) – EXCLUSIVE: The FBI came to the conclusion that Butler, Pennsylvania, would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone — after a massive team doggedly pursued interviews with thousands of foreign and domestic individuals as part of an unprecedented global investigation into the 2024 shooting of President Donald Trump, the bureau told Fox News Digital as part of a lengthy, behind-the-curtain rundown of the probe.
FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and a senior official with direct involvement in the Butler, Pennsylvania, investigation sat down for an unprecedented interview with Fox News Digital for more than an hour Thursday afternoon at FBI headquarters. Patel told Fox News Digital that the investigation was a “Day One priority” for the bureau.
“Dan and I have been on this since we got here eight months ago. We not only had to maintain the chain of command to President Trump, but we had to remind the world that President Trump was the victim — one of the four victims — on that day,” Patel said. “There are victims’ rights rules that apply to him, and they don’t get erased because he is the president.”
“We fully briefed the president, as a victim of this case, at the White House, providing him with all of the details of our investigation, and the president was satisfied with the results and where we left it,” he said.
[…] “We have reviewed this case over and over — looked into every nugget. We have spoken to the families, the president — there is no cover-up here,” Bongino told Fox News Digital. “There is no motive for it, there is no reason for it.” (read more)
And they still won’t give us the details.
Didn’t even give us the conclusion until someone called them on misinforming Congress.
First they lie that it was an ongoing court case.
Now they lie that it is to protect Trump.
But while they won’t tell us, they share it all with FoxNews who apparently agreed to not tell us either.
Details?
like…
“Did DHS personnel interact with Crooks when he practiced at the Clairton Sportsman’s Club during any of the 43 times he went there?”
…yeah, no.
“FBI Reaches Conclusion Butler, PA Attempted Assassin Thomas Crooks Acted Alone”
Of course he did, just like Oswald, nobody, short of water-boarding Comey, has evidence against the Biden administration. Where is Mitch Rapp when your need him? RIP Vince Flynn
Speaking of Oswald, what happened 62 years ago today?
If one may recall, “the machine” raised its ugly head that day as well.
When will it be enough?
When will the people finally say ‘no’?
I never thought there was any foreign involvement with Crooks. I do suspect, though, domestic, government involvement, and nothing said has lessened my suspicions. There really are unanswered questions, among them the reason for Crooks’ seemingly sudden political about-face during the “pandemic,” and the identities of the FBI personnel who frequented the same gun range as Crooks. Were they ever there at the same time? If so, did they ever interact? Why did no one care that Secret Service planning and execution were slipshod, to say but the least? Why were coordination and communication both within the FBI and with local law enforcement permitted to be so deficient? The best spin on it is that the Secret Service just did not care–and that’s the best case to be made.
The idea that our national intelligence agencies don’t monitor everything is risible. If Crooks wasn’t “on their radar,” there’s a good reason for it.
The Deep State IS a foreign government and regard the People as interlopers in their country.
#RudeAwakening
Crooks may not have been “on their radar,” but he was in PLAIN SIGHT. It is obvious that this was an op and was facilitated by the FBI/CIA/Deep State, or other. Cui Bono?
If you listen and read carefully the FBI’s statements regarding their investigation and its findings you will notice that the total sum of their efforts is to convince the audience and not convey one pertinent fact. The convince vs convey relationship is a key to unraveling interrogations, interviews, and every other deceptive means of communication. Patel just can’t seem to get out of his own way.
Well stated!
The one pertinent fact that readily disproves their finding is a simple acoustic profile of the shots being fired. The eight shots are clearly from three different guns and shooters: 3 shots from the distance that Crooks was at (but with an upward trajectory), 4 shots from further away with a higher powered weapon, and one shot from a closer distance with a lower powered weapon.
Bongino has always made it clear that we are to trust no one unless they bring the reciepts.
No reciepts, no believe. 🙂
The FBI can say anything they want to say. And they do. At the expense of their credibility. What is a sincere lie?
Patel? Bongino? Non-entites.
Acted alone?
Perhaps.
But, who were his handlers???
Oh!! OK!! Did you hear that everybody? He acted alone! Yeah, yeah, Kash looked into it personally! Turns out the little twerp put the whole thing together himself. Moving on. Next they’re gonna do Las Vegas.
And don’t forget – they interviewed thousands of people ….
If acting alone how did CNN know to cover that rally. The only Trump rally they aired live. FBI needs to be dismantled it has become to corrupted and beyond repair. It was created via EO so it can be cancelled by any president.
It’s never going to happen, Walt. The Structure of Deceit, Power and Control has come too far after years, nah, generations of trial & error as “they” have continuously strengthened, adjusted, and fine-tuned the “machine” to play like a Stradivarius violin. It has become a Matrix of Illusion and The Players (FBI, CIA, Mossad, M16, etc.) similar to the magician, laugh to themselves, and at us, upon so easily persuading the world, and those who just want to quietly live their lives and raise their children. But that’s not happening.
And now with AI, an entirely new chapter is being written – and played. So hang on, because (using the “polite” word) things are about to get very “interesting” IMO.
Depends on the definition of “alone”.
Made me laugh. Clinton’s sex capades while I was raising a teenage boy. ARGH!
“Acted alone “ but the secret service provided the stage and a big green light ! Over there on the only building around a wide one field ! There has never been anything so obvious!
The buddy-cop comedy duo of Bongo&Kash arrived at this conclusion since any evidence the FBI had about Crooks’ possible accomplices is likely gone.
There might be new faces at the top of DOJ and FBI, but the institutional rot reaches all the way down to many individual agents.
When I saw the FBI hosing off the roof (that was to steep for them to protect) the day after the attempt, I knew this was a massive coverup. …but what isn’t these days?
I know Kash and Bongino are the subjects of much opprobrium here, as was Jeff Sessions, who I believe was a good person. I’ll lay this out again. The only logical explanation for their behavior is that they’ve been threatened and/or their family members, and there are actors in intelligence agencies that have the ability to carry those threats out.
Our founding patriots’ lives, families, homes, and businesses were threatened and they acted for the truth and the honorable way despite the threats which in many cases were realized. We have become a nation of cowards hiding behind family. If someone threatened my husband and our family, I pray that he would stand strong and put all of us on the line, praying to our Father in Heaven for mercy.
I think you are absolutely right, Populist. Given the same circumstances, I would probably do the same thing. ‘Good’ has nothing to do with it.
I suspect that the FBI, the CIA, the DOJ, the IC generally, and many other powerful organizations have ‘handlers’ who control their activities. Their employees are subject to the whims of their superiors.
Sessions was a good enough grandfather to slap Biden’s hand away publicly when the pedo reached for his granddaughter. I agree Sessions was a good guy, but they used him against Trump.
I agree that Bongino and Patel have been threatened. They are poor liars. They may be in over their heads as well, I am not sure about this point.
It sounds as if Dan Bongino was reading a report some assistant gave him.
The professionals planned the perfect hit all the way down to the photographer who was to capture it in all its glory on high speed camera for posterity. With a dead “lone gunman” and no trial to leak any details.
God had other plans.
You mean all professional photographers don’t take videos at 8000 fps at political rallies?
Most professional photographers do not have cameras with sufficient speed or memory for the task. Plus, even those that do, do not bring them to every event they photograph.
complete whitewash. Either the government was behind it or the FBI is to stupid or lazy to figure the conspiracy out. November, 1963… rinse and repeat.
Exactly – we make it so easy for them, don’t we?
One of the best posts I’ve ever seen on CTH!
I wonder if it was masking and all the other fear mongering that caused Crooks to flip from one side to the other in 2020. A weak person, a weak selfish atheist, with a lack of humanity and fearing death like all of the karens we witnessed, found salvation in their hatred and violent threats.
I do not believe this for one minute. This FBI and all that talk about transparency was true.
It is very transparent that this FBI and DOJ are quite similar to the last FBI and DOJ that POTUS appointed.
Ever since Operation Warp Speed I have stopped believing DJT is going to save us from the blood thirsty Satanic elites. I voted for him three times because he is far better than the cabal’s Jobama but We the People need to see to our own security. Big government run by even the best intentioned people is still dangerous to We the People.
SO DISGUSTED with the FBI and our government officials who KNOW BETTER and still let the FBI get away with telling as this whopper, patting our little heads in such a condescending manner.
Image above shows Crooks at 4:26pm. Amazingly, he appears to not break a sweat after he’d just flown drone for eleven minutes, “reviewed drone footage”(?), put drone back in his car (parked at AGR building next to Beaver County CS, who left shift right before PDJT scheduled appearance). Crooks is then seen casually walking on other side of venue at 4:26 pm. ALL this happened – with just over thirty minutes to spare before President Trump was scheduled to speak?!
FTA –
At around 4 p.m. the day of the shooting, Crooks flew a drone within about 200 yards of the stage where Trump was set to appear — an hour before the former president was scheduled to appear and two hours before he actually did.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Crooks surveyed the grounds for about 11 minutes, giving himself a view of the surroundings. The FBI official said investigators believe Crooks reviewed the footage, but the FBI did not retrieve any photos or videos from the drone found in Crooks’ car after the shooting.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2024/07/28/trump-rally-butler-security-crooks-assassination/stories/202407280063
I want to know more about the encrypted phone services Crooks used, this sounds a little. high tech for a very young part time nursing home aide.
I want to know more about the contacts Crooks made at the shooting range he frequented, one also used by government spooks.
Lastly, I’d like to know more about what changed Crooks from a die=hard Trump supporter to a Trump hater. Did he take a bunch of strange vaccines around that time? Was he aggressively targeted by some online entities? Did he just descend into insanity due to failing life after high school graduation? All of the above?
I think it’s clear he was recruited and was tricked in to doing a job for intel that turned on him and shot him dead. He thought he was going home
If Trump is fine with the conclusion there was only one assassin, then who am I to say otherwise.
Trump was nearly murdered. I would think he’d be a bit more vested in this investigation. Maybe he is…
My gut feeling says there were more people and institutions involved in that “mission”.
I had high hopes for Dan and Ka$h, but, to be honest, I don’t believe there wasn’t FBLie collaboration in the attempt on Trump’s life. How they can keep most of the Arctic Frost people on the payroll is another troubling matter as well.
Little bastard took a shot at trump and missed, trump is alive, crooks is not, and whether crooks was inspired or led by denizens of the blogosphere or by his cheerios or foreigners or hypnotized or the communist manifesto or by as-yet unknown persons smart enough to dodge the camera, at the end of the day he was just another angry little prock and his actions are as nothing and good riddance
Sadly, I don’t believe this report by Bongino and KA$H
In the photo of him strolling at the rally he looks a lot different from the “smiling little nerd” photo we are constantly shown.
He may have “acted alone” in the specific assassination attempt but its not credible that he was alone throughout the planning process.
Patel ought to specifically address the many questions and oddities about this event rather than just announce the conclusion that Crooks ‘acted alone’. Maybe everything can be explained, but unless everything is explained, doubts will remain.
For them to state out loud and immediately after the attempt that it was a “lone assassin” to the very people who were alive at the time of the Kennedy assassination shows the contempt they have for “we the people,” that they think we are going to fall for this again.
No motive, no reason. He just picked up a rifle, pointed it in a random direction, and started squeezing the trigger. It’s just an astonishing yet totally random alignment of variables that lead to him shooting at Trump. It could have been anybody. So shut your filthy peasant slop-hole and get back to work, taxpayer. Unless you want to wind up in a federal brig, yourself.
Love, Kash & Bongo.
If you believe this hogwash, I have a bridge I’d love to sell you in Brooklyn! It’s a great money-making project, but I need to sell it quickly, so I’ll give you a great discount. Honest, fingers not crossed or anything like that.
“FBI Clears Itself of Involvment in Trump A$$assination Attempt”
He acted alone as much as Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, and James Earle Jones also did.
Col. Fletcher Prouty
I believe you meant James Earle Ray
I certainly did.
Motive and reason is not a requirement of a patsy.
funny that picture shows him in shorts but on the roof the so called dead crooks was wearing pants….
go F your self fbliars so far I have seen more of the same incompetence’s… WHO The Hell are you protecting….
Yeah, Crooks was there but the body of the shooter was probably Yearick. Both have disappeared.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I would say look at the Muslims. We all see Muslims who become radicalized watching and reading things on the internet and then attempt some killing spree.
Are they alone? Heck no.
Did they act alone? In many cases yes.
Yeah, right, Crooks acted alone. /s The logistical nightmare alone refutes that contention. WTH is going on? Patel and Bongino are KNOWINGLY destroying their credibility. Who, in their infinite wisdom, thought this was a good idea?
I can not believe any of the FBI findings regarding this matter and I do not believe in coincidence.
This was not random or solo!
Wasn’t Crooks cremated very soon after the attempted assassination? I don’t hear that mentioned anymore.
Trumpism 101.