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Ms. Green from Georgia states: "the man the 22 year old man, Tyler Robinson, that that murdered Charlie Kirk is not MAGA. His family may be Republican but all of the evidence that is being presented proves that he is a far leftist, very much integrated in online groups that are linked to Antifa. He was in a relationship with a biological male, so called furry, whatever that is, that is transitioning to be a fake woman. That is he was not MAGA, not one bit." She calls it "a complete lie, and it's an insult to every single Republican and person that identifies with those type of politics." She says, "We will not tolerate it," and claims that this language is getting many of us death threats day after day, and led to shootings on the baseball field where Steve Scalise was shot. "This is what led to President Trump nearly being assassinated this past summer. This is what has led to Charlie Kirk being assassinated." And so I just I just wanna give a warning there. "We're not going to tolerate that anymore. Mister chairman You know something else we're not going to tolerate is crime."

By comparing photos, it's clear to me that Maxwell Yurek is the alleged shooter who tried to assassinate President Trump. Yurek, an Antifa member, was arrested at a 2016 Pittsburgh protest and sentenced to jail. My sources within Pennsylvania law enforcement say Yurek is a suspect with a history of assaulting Trump supporters. He seems to more closely resemble the corpse photo. Eyewitnesses saw the shooter, a man in his 30s or 40s, on the roof with a rifle. Videos show Maxwell Yurek being taken to jail for assaulting officers and rioting outside a Trump event. The internet has found the shooter's Steam profile with a review of the game "Mr. President" stating, "I hope this will prepare me for the real thing." His bio says, "July 13, watch this space." He has 132 hours on "Mr. President" but zero on aim lab. This was intended to kill Trump and start a civil war.

Officials say they do not have a motive yet. Law enforcement 'hasn't laid out a direct motive,' though they 'laid out a lot of evidence here of these messages' and 'they said that he was a left wing activist who hated Charlie Kirk.' The panel discusses whether the shooter was a right-wing actor; 'the assassin there was not a right wing assassin acting on a political motive.' They argue violence is partisan: 'It is the left that overwhelmingly celebrates this,' citing Blue Sky as 'a cesspool of leftist celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk,' and polls suggesting Democrats support violence against Musk and Trump. Kamala Harris was accused of funding rioters; 'following the money' for acts of violence is urged. They note past incidents, including the Minnesota murder, calling the perpetrator 'horrible' and saying he should be prosecuted. Senator Ted Cruz closes.

A social media account possibly linked to the shooter in 2019-2020 showed over 700 comments with anti-Semitic, anti-immigration, and violent political themes. The investigative team is verifying the account to confirm its connection to the shooter. Despite the shooter being deceased, the investigation continues urgently.

The discussion centers on motive in a shooting. "we don't have a motive yet. We don't know yet." "That's CNN's position. Mean, he just happened to fire the gun in celebration." They note "law enforcement hasn't laid out a direct motive" though "they laid out a lot of evidence here of these messages." The panel debates whether the shooter was "a left wing activist who hated Charlie Kirk." "I believe anyone engaged in acts of violence should be prosecuted" and "we should follow the money. Anyone funding acts of violence, we should." They claim "the left ... overwhelmingly celebrates this," citing "Blue Sky ... leftist celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk" and "over 50% of Democrats saying violence against Elon Musk is justified." They discuss violence on both sides and conclude, "There are deranged lunatics who attack people both right and left." Sen. Cruz, thanks for your time tonight.

The discussion centers on Charlie Kirk and the handling of his death. The speakers are uncertain about the official account and call for a truly rigorous and honest federal investigation. Specific points raised include: - A claim that Canada said Egyptian-registered aircraft followed Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, around for years in various places; the speaker asserts this is factually true and notes it is a very strange data point, though its meaning is unclear. - A claim that Erika Kirk’s event had a disproportionately large number of foreign-registered cell phones, which is also stated as true. - The speakers emphasize that the FBI has a moral and legal obligation to investigate openly and to consider all possibilities, applying the same process as in science, journalism, and law enforcement. They express a lack of confidence in the FBI and the officials who run it, and argue that honesty and a coherent narrative are needed to restore public trust. - Foreknowledge of the incident is discussed: posts on X allegedly predicted that Charlie Kirk would be killed on the date of the college event in Utah. The question is raised about whether those posts were just guessing and whether those involved have been interviewed by the FBI to determine how they knew what they knew. - The speakers compare the investigation to other events, suggesting that if they investigated, they would examine who publicly posted foreknowledge and seek detailed explanations: who they spoke to, what they know, and how to verify it. - There is a request for an explanation of how the killer transformed into a radical, violent actor, with a note that the speaker does not automatically endorse trans ideologies but wants to understand the radicalization process. - The speakers discuss Candace Owens’ role: the controversy and turmoil surrounding her claims, and the idea that those in authority are responsible for the investigation, not individuals like Candace or podcasters. - A concluding sentiment expresses greater trust in Candace Owens’ intent than in the average DOJ official, framing Candace’s presence as filling a vacuum left by authorities, while insisting that the people in charge must restore confidence through honest reporting and a plausible narrative.

There is a video circulating about a BlackRock video from a year ago in a school setting. The shooter from a recent Trump rally, Crooks, was a registered Republican who made a donation to a Democratic super PAC at 17. The longer video is deleted, raising questions about why it was removed.

A speaker asks if the recipient is aware that many Americans believe a recent shooting was a coordinated assassination attempt, not the act of a lone shooter. The speaker cites the shooter's age, proximity to the target with an AR-15, drone surveillance, and being spotted with a rangefinder as reasons for suspicion. The speaker, identifying himself as a former Navy SEAL sniper, notes the obvious sniper position from a water tower. He asks if the recipient is surprised that Americans suspect more to the story, given attempts to bankrupt and imprison the target, and depictions of him as Hitler. The speaker asks if the recipient's team entered and investigated the suspect's home prior to the shooting, to which the recipient says they participated in securing it and provided bomb assets. The speaker then asks if any agents reported anything "fishy" at the home, such as silverware or trash, or if it was extremely clean like a medical lab. The recipient states he was not given those details. The speaker concludes that this is what he is hearing and finds it "interesting."

The speaker believes Thomas Crooks, like the Gretchen Whitmer case, was set up by the FBI. In the Whitmer case, an undercover FBI employee posed as an explosives expert and showed a video of an SUV being blown up, produced by the FBI. The speaker questions how Crooks, a 20-year-old, acquired the skills to build pipe bombs, suggesting he was likely in communication with an FBI informant, undercover agent, or DHS asset, especially given his training at a rifle range used by government employees. The speaker believes the FBI is creating domestic violent extremists, not targeting or arresting them. She is confident the pipe bombs were planted shortly before being found and that Crooks had a federal handler, fitting the profile of a loner who suddenly becomes an expert in explosives and drones.

Speaker questions the FBI and media’s suggestion that 'this Tyler was some type of trans kid, lone shooter on a roof.' They claim they could give '150,000 reasons why Israel would benefit from Charlie Kirk being assassinated' and that 'the government in Israel ... would have fallen' if Kirk continued speaking. They say they can't give 'one reason why Tyler would' do it, even if he had a trans boyfriend. They reference 'Raw Alerts' and claim 'the dude running the Raw Alerts page is wearing a doggy mask and diapers and into trans fetish crap' and that he’s 'on our side fighting to expose corruption.' They argue the shooter 'didn't seem radicalized' with no posts on social media, asking what radicalized trans person do you know that didn't leave a memoir. They declare, 'this demonic state ... worship Satan, bomb children' and wonder how Israel would benefit; 'What about you guys?'

The more he's labeled a threat to democracy, the more attacks he faces, which is frustrating. One of the people he follows is allegedly connected to the CIA, suggesting a possible handler. It's a bizarre time politically. Interestingly, the recent shooter appeared in a BlackRock commercial, raising questions about coincidences. Just over two months ago, another shooter was also featured in a BlackRock ad. Additionally, this shooter was seen in a protest video. It's all quite strange, though it could just be coincidental.

Speaker 0 raises a series of pointed questions and concerns about FBI and government actions surrounding the monitoring and reporting of online activity and potential threats, urging a demand for answers: - Why did the FBI present only early pro-Trump posts and hide the anti-Trump phase? Two answers are implied: under Biden, the existence of a narrative, and a need to ask who was involved in that decision and why it happened. - After the election, why did the FBI continue to toe that line, and who made that decision? - The speaker notes that authorities are monitoring people who ask how to build bombs or evade assassination scenes, and asks how such monitoring relates to successful assassinations and the future locations of political actors; suggests an algorithmic tie and notification so someone is watching. - Why did they ignore Crooks’s really unbelievable threats? Why were ordinary Americans arrested for memes, while Crooks’s behavior appeared to be ignored? - Why did intelligence agencies monitoring extremism miss a kid openly fantasizing about assassinations, who connected with a Swedish individual allegedly part of a large Nazi movement in Sweden? - Why was the scene cleaned prematurely? Why did every digital trace of his political shift get kept out of public discussion? Why did authorities claim he had almost no footprint when, in fact, the footprint seemed large but scrubbed? - The speaker notes a pattern: every single mistake by the FBI and government seems to point toward ignorance, negligence, hiding inconvenient data, and shaping a political narrative; questions whether the pattern indicates incompetence or intentional action. - Is this incompetence or something more problematic? The speaker says they aren’t asserting a conspiracy but emphasize something feels wrong and that the official story is hard to believe. They ask why the government that supposedly monitors everything would become blind, deaf, and mute when a presidential assassin emerges on their radar. - The question is posed non-partisan: under different presidents, why would the narrative stay the same if the government can see everything? What does that imply about the FBI, DOJ, and CIA—whether they are lying, incompetent, or selectively monitoring—since any of these possibilities should be unsettling. - The FBI and mainstream media, including MSNBC, are said to have referenced leaks from Crooks’s social media indicating pro-Trump and anti-immigration stances, while being described as having almost no online footprint; Crooks reportedly had Discord, Snapchat, and an active YouTube presence, with violent 2019 YouTube comments about decapitating government officials, followed by a shift. - The speaker asserts the iceberg is deep and suggests a broader pattern of concerns about oversight, control, and the potential overreach or misalignment of intelligence agencies, with a friend claiming the CIA may be completely out of control and implying limits to accountability, while noting it could extend beyond the CIA. Overall, the remarks center on questioning the completeness, transparency, and motivation behind FBI monitoring, narrative shaping, data handling, and the handling of Crooks’s threats and online footprint, while expressing concern about systemic issues within intelligence agencies.

"I don't know who did this. And I sure hope that it was not from the left that would be better." "But it doesn't matter because the first Trump assassination also was not from the left." "It was just a guy who was going to also had Biden on his target list." "And it's been made in the ideology of this far right that you're seeing online." "It's part of a line, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump assassination, how Charlie Kirk," "It doesn't matter that it wasn't from the left because that part has been erased in the common litany of grievances." "Absolutely." "I mean, it's just it's just about the, momentum of violence. Right?" "If one side keeps punching, that's bad, that's really bad." "But it's much worse when one side punches, the other punches back." "That causes an escalation."

These remarks were especially notable because they came at the final phase of Crooks' YouTube commenting. At that point, a new character emerged into the conversation, a user named Willie Tepes, who started pressuring crooks to commit violence. For example, quote, if a gun and a badge is all that is needed, then authority obviously comes from the barrel of a gun. We have more guns than they do. There is no way we can avoid a war at this point, so you better just get used to the idea. We have nothing to lose and everything to win. And the alternative, a global police state, is unacceptable. Nothing in life is simple, but that is no argument against doing it. So who is this Willie Tepes? Unfortunately, we don't know. The FBI hasn't made any mention of him in public, although they certainly know he exists. Just days after the shooting, somebody screenshotted Tepes' YouTube account page despite the fact he had very few followers. To the extent that he can be traced online now, you can find his username being used on a foreign Antifa website. Those sites link him to the Nordic resistance movement, which has been designated a terrorist group by the US State Department. That's all we know. We do know, however, that Crooks' online footprint abruptly ends after his encounter with this mysterious figure, Willie Tepes. Regardless whoever Willie Tepes is or was and what his motives may have been, who he may have been working for, there is no doubt that Crooks was ripe for recruitment by someone.

These this lone shooter as it pertains to Charlie Kirk is not a lone shooter. It's a hive. I had been able to scrape everything about Thomas Crooks before the feds got rid of everything, and it's shocking there is no way this person was not on the federal radar. "the bait is to make me as a conservative hate you if you were on the left." The reality of Thomas Crooks is going to be a story that we should get familiar with. He was at first very angry against the left, outwardly calling for the murder of people that are on the left. "videos that he was posting of himself shooting with no bullets in the gun in his bedroom." We blurred the weapon. "That's funny because I always believed being patriotic was lining up a bunch of socialist Jews like the ones that booed Trump and blasting their useless brains out with an AR." "every one of the Trump hating Democrats deserves to have their heads chopped off and put on stakes for the world to see what happens when you f with America." His Google history includes "best places for a a mass shooting," "how to molotov make a molotov cocktail." He was fascinated with this stuff. Around 2020 he pivoted after COVID and "tried to assassinate him post COVID." "I think that this is a program. I do. I don't know know, but I know." "MK Ultra" and "I have no reason to believe that that program was ever discontinued." He suggests "they find these candidates in schools" and says he will post an 80 page document. We're never gonna be told what therapists he was seeing.

A social media account possibly linked to the shooter in 2019-2020 had over 700 comments with anti-Semitic, anti-immigration, and politically violent themes. The investigative team is verifying if the account belonged to the shooter. Despite the shooter being deceased, the investigation continues urgently.

The speakers discuss the attempted assassination of Trump, questioning why the would-be assassin had no social media footprint and a professionally scrubbed house. They find it suspicious that CNN streamed the rally live and that the Secret Service deemed the roof he was on unsafe, while snipers occupied a steeper roof. They speculate it could have been a coordinated assassination attempt, with the shooter intended to be killed afterward. They highlight the suspect's young age and the possibility of radicalization or manipulation. The speakers are concerned about the lack of information released and the absence of a formal report. They mention leaked cell phone records showing a phone traveling from outside the FBI offices in DC to where the suspect lived. They find it odd that the suspect had multiple phones and no cutlery in his house. They suggest the suspect could have been under the influence of psychotropic drugs or hypnosis, referencing MK Ultra and Jolly West's experiments.

"First of all, you know, I'd heard different things about his ideology." "He wasn't a registered democrat or republican." "He may have been a groyker, which is a follower of Nick Fuentes, who's on the right." "But I'll say this, it shouldn't matter." "This has happened to democrats." "This has happened to republicans." "The shooters were on both sides of the extreme." "And so what should matter is that we should all come together to, one, tone down the rhetoric, and two, keep our events safe, and and three, make sure that this doesn't happen again." "And so playing the blame game is not toning down the rhetoric." "Playing the blame game only makes the rhetoric and the problem worse."

Speaker 0: How was your weekend? You probably watched football, picked pumpkins, spent time with your family. Trump spent his weekend demolishing the East Wing to make room for a big beautiful ballroom. Vance hung out with the marines at Camp Pendleton. Speaker 1: Who rah, marines? Who rah. I didn't hear you. Who rah, marines? Who rah. Speaker 0: Look up in the sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. It's the Secretary of War. Pete spent the weekend doing flyovers and fighter jets. Oh, it was also No Kings Day. Speaker 2: Here in the friendly neighborhood Burger King, enjoying my No Kings Day, with some traditional flame broiled goodness in my hand right now. Like it says right there, if you're heading to Eli Grody, you rule America. We don't have a king in this country. We've got a president. He's doing a pretty darn good job. Speaker 0: Now if you don't know what no kings day is, you're not alone. Maybe you went downtown and got stuck in traffic and wondered, is that a transgender shark? Speaker 3: Why are you here today? Speaker 4: I'm here to stand up against our regimes oppression against the American people and immigrants in our country and minorities, including trans people like myself. Speaker 5: I am the unity uniform. I've got my head out of my costume because I can't breathe right now, but we're here doing a peaceful protest, trying to get our democracy back. Speaker 0: Spartacus and Pencil Neck didn't dress up as trans sharks and unicorns. This is what they really look like. Speaker 1: This is what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like. Speaker 0: Are they dating? We don't know, but they were hugging and singing on a parade float. In Chicago, Ribs got his steps in. JB back at the Windy City doing the electric slide. You know who can't move her hips like that? Nancy. Poor thing. But she was still tearing it up. Speaker 5: Gonna tear up the crown. Speaker 0: Schumer marched too. Schumer and Pelosi, that king and queen have been ruling America for a combined eighty two years. Trump's only been king for a minute. No Kings was a who's who of people with TDS. Even my mom was there. George Conway was walking around in an Antifa shirt. Irish Rosie must have had FOMO, but don't worry, Hollywood was in the house. Here's John Cusack. Speaker 6: Go to hell. Speaker 3: Is that the message from Chicago? Speaker 6: Yes. What's interesting is that he he doesn't understand that all the labor rights around the world came from this town, this place. So if he thinks this place is gonna be a fascist hub, no chance. Speaker 0: Dougie Not So Fresh was there too, but that kinda looked more like the women's march. Doug was on the prowl. He was going stag. Where's Kamala? Speaker 7: So get out there and join the No Kings event near you, and please take care. I'll see you later. Speaker 0: Kamala couldn't make it. She had other plans, big birthday plans. It's always about her. You know who else was a no show? Hillary. Trump world says, no queens. As for a king, the White House told MSNBC this about the march. Who cares? Do the people even know what they're protesting? Speaker 3: I was wondering how president Trump has put your your freedom in jeopardy. Speaker 1: I wanted to say my freedom is in jeopardy. Speaker 3: So whose freedoms and why are you out here at the no kings protest, I guess? Speaker 0: No one really thinks Trump's king. It just seems like it because he works harder than Biden. Speaker 8: I'm not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That's all it is. I'm not a king at all. Speaker 0: If Trump was king, there'd be no march, no MSNBC calling him Nazi, and no shutdown. The funny thing is the left actually loves the government telling them what to do. During the pandemic, Democrat kings and queens told you to close your business, what to wear on your face, how far away you could stand next to someone. They told you couldn't have grandma over for Thanksgiving and liberals obeyed. They took away your first amendment rights and democrats said, good, free speech is dangerous. They tried to take away your second amendment right, democrats said, good, no one needs a rifle. There's nothing the left loves more than submitting to government power. But Robert De Niro says, if you love freedom, you're a brainwashed hick. Speaker 9: Somewhere way out in the Midwest, somewhere out in out West, in certain places, the rural places. That's the truth. Because he gets the airtime. I think that we need more airtime. Just more push against and not I wish that you can't do this in some ways, but that the the news media could find ways to kind of ignore or tamp down nonsense from Trump. Speaker 0: The Democrat party rigged the primary, stole Biden's votes, crowned Kamala, and tried to put their rival in prison. And if you were a reporter who told the truth about Biden, they'd cut off your access. Trump talks to the press every day. Would a king do that? And if the press broke a mirror in the map room, would he let him live? Speaker 8: Oh, you gotta watch that. Watch that. You you're not allowed to break that. That mirror is 400 years old. The camera just hit the mirror. I just moved it up here special from the vaults, and the first thing that happens, the camera hits it. Hard to believe, isn't it? Hard to believe. But these are the problems in life. Speaker 0: Seven years of bad luck. A king would have tossed him in the gulag. Aye, aye, aye. And look what happens when they keep calling us Nazis. Speaker 3: Who are you gonna kill? Nazis. Who who do you Nazis. Define as a Speaker 6: What do you mean? It's pretty Speaker 3: In this in this context, who's a Nazi? Stephen Miller's a Nazi. So you're gonna kill Stephen Miller? If I had Speaker 6: a chance, yeah, I was. Speaker 0: Once you crack the surface at No Kings, there's a dark and violent underbelly seething with hatred. Speaker 1: You gotta grab a gun. We gotta turn around the guns on this fascist system. These ICE agents gotta get shot and wiped out. This state, the state machinery, there's a folder display right there has to get wiped out. Speaker 0: One woman with a Mexican flag was mocking Charlie Kirk getting shot in the neck when a MAGA truck rolled by. Who is this woman? Well, she's a teacher at an elementary school. These are the people in charge of our kids. Isn't it crazy how every time we ID these maniacs they happen to be teachers or professors? What is it about the left and death? Speaker 6: Okay. So for for a birthday present, what do you hope happens? You you wake up tomorrow morning. Speaker 3: I hope that I see the obituary that we're all waiting for tomorrow. That's what I hope for. Yeah. Speaker 6: You you wishing that president Trump is dead? Speaker 3: Yes. Absolutely. Okay. Absolutely. Speaker 0: Well, Trump was already shot in the head and almost killed during a round of golf. The Secret Service just found a sniper's nest in Palm Beach with a direct line of sight to Air Force One. Speaker 10: This hunting stand was appropriately dismantled, is being flown to our our lab. I believe it's there right now. And all of the forensic tools we have, from digital tools to biometric tools, They are all gonna be applied to try to find out who put this up there, and why. Speaker 0: In North Carolina, shots were fired over a Trump flag. A guy didn't like that a guy had a MAGA and flag over his house and then went and ripped it down. And then he came back in his vehicle, aimed the pistol from the sunroof and fired shots at his property. The vigilante's been arrested. Is this what we're doing now in America? We're shooting people over politics? Liberals have lost the argument, they've lost the election, and now they've lost their minds. Trump won the popular vote. That doesn't make him king, it makes him president. And he's taken a lot of action because Biden left such a mess. The president has a mandate to stop migrants, drugs, wars, and crime, and so far he's doing a really good job. And the Supreme Court says everything he's doing is legal. It was actually Biden that the Supreme Court ruled against over and over and over again. Just because there's a lot of gold in the White House doesn't mean he's sitting on a throne.

Speaker questions the FBI/media claim that 'Tyler was some type of trans kid, lone shooter on a roof' and says, 'I could actually almost guarantee you that the current government in Israel that is blackmailing the most powerful government in the entire world would have failed, would have fallen had Charlie Kirk continue speaking the way he was speaking.' He adds, 'I can't give you one why Tyler would.' He notes 'Raw Alerts' with 'doggy mask and diapers' and claims the operator is 'on our side fighting to expose corruption.' He states there were 'no posts on social media about it,' and asks, 'What radicalized trans person do you know that didn't leave a memoir that you mean to tell me he was engraving this stuff on-site?' He ends with, 'What about you guys? Drop some comments below.' He asserts, 'Israel, this demonic state that literally seems to worship Satan, bomb children, blow up women and children, murder journalists, assassinated multiple leaders in America already... would benefit from this.'

These remarks were notable as Crooks reached the final phase of his YouTube commenting, during which a new figure, Willie Tepes, pressured Crooks to embrace violence. Tepes wrote, “if a gun and a badge is all that is needed, then authority obviously comes from the barrel of a gun. We have more guns than they do. There is no way we can avoid a war at this point, so you better just get used to the idea. We have nothing to lose and everything to win. And the alternative, a global police state, is unacceptable.” The identity of Willie Tepes remains unknown; the FBI has not publicly mentioned him, though they are aware he exists. Days after the shooting, someone screenshotted Tepes’ YouTube account page despite him having few followers. The user’s online footprint now appears on a foreign Antifa website linking Tepes to the Nordic Resistance Movement, a group designated a terrorist organization by the US State Department. Crooks’ online footprint abruptly ends after his encounter with Tepes. Regardless of Tepes’ motives or affiliations, Crooks was clearly ripe for recruitment; from early 2019 to mid-2020, his political views evolved and he searched for Trump more than 700 times online, as well as for Jack Ruby, the man who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald. He submitted queries including “craziest chemical reactions,” “cars running over protesters,” “best places for mass shooting,” “mass shooting El Paso,” “Trump’s civil war,” “Orlando shooting reaction,” “firing an AR-15 as fast as possible,” “fertilizer bomb,” “how to make napalm,” “how to make Molotov cocktail,” “mass shooting Canada,” “Oklahoma bombing,” and “sniper in Dallas shooting.” He also searched for “American Nazi Party,” “German national anthem 1933, 1945,” “Hitler’s speeches with subtitles,” “neo Nazis,” and “why gays need to go.” Thus, a volatile, troubled, possibly mentally ill young man with a long record of espousing violence in public. The FBI clearly knew he existed. At the same time Crooks was making these posts publicly, the FBI was issuing contracts to private sector tech surveillance firms to harness mass data collection tools to monitor social media for people just like Crooks. It is hard to imagine Crooks, posting in his own name, had not been identified and looked at closely by federal law enforcement. The FBI had access to these YouTube comments, and instead of providing valuable insights, they selectively read them to mischaracterize Crooks’ thoughts. Two and a half weeks after the July 30 attack, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN that federal investigators were looking into a YouTube account possibly connected to Crooks that espoused political violence as well as antisemitic and anti-immigration themes. It wasn’t “possibly connected to Thomas Crooks” as the FBI knew it was Crooks’ account; the same day, the FBI’s deputy director made the same dishonest claim before Congress, and the previous week FBI Director Christopher Wray publicly questioned whether Trump was even shot. In February 2025, the New York Post reported that the FBI obstructed efforts to solve why Thomas Matthew Crooks, who left no manifesto, did what he did. The Post said this left local law enforcement, Crooks’ former friends, classmates, and teachers frustrated, and noted that the cremation timing raised concerns. Less than a month after the shooting, Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a former police officer, investigated in Butler and learned that the FBI released Crooks’ body for cremation ten days after July 13. Higgins reported that the coroner said Crooks’ body would not have been released to the family for cremation or burial without FBI permission. The cremation, the day House Homeland Security and Oversight Committees began investigations, made it impossible for investigators outside the FBI to verify the autopsy report; a new tox screen could not be performed because the body no longer exists.

"the person who shot and killed right wing political commentator Charlie Kirk was like the majority of shooters in America, a young white male from a conservative pro gun religious background." "After being told for two straight days that the left had declared war on America, that the shooter was most likely trans, or in congresswoman Nancy Mace's words, pro tranny." "We still don't know the motivation for the killing, but we will find out more in the coming days." "We have a gun problem in America." "the two children who were shot in school the same day Kirk died were shot by a 16 year old who had been radicalized online by white supremacist groups and had easy access to a handgun." "The day Charlie Kirk died, the Republicans in the Senate voted not to release the Epstein files, something Kirk himself had called for them to do."