It has been 16 months since the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump on the campaign trail in Butler, Pennsylvania. Thanks to new reporting from Tucker Carlson and Miranda Devine at The New York Post, we are finally learning some information about the man accused of shooting him.
According to The New York Post, Thomas Crooks had a furry fetish and used they/them pronouns. How many of these incidents are we going to have to see this in? How many times does this have to turn out to be the story? And we also got news from Tucker Carlson on this guy’s online social media use in a stunning report he dropped Friday.
The Online Footprint
The Who Is Thomas Crooks? documentary from the Tucker Carlson Network is must-see TV. It’s only 34-minutes long, and I encourage everybody to watch it. What happened, according to Tucker, is someone leaked him some leads on Crooks that had never before been unearthed, and we don’t know whether they’ve been unearthed even by the FBI.
That’s a big question: Does the FBI have this stuff and just didn’t tell us? Or did the FBI not have any of it?
Tucker outlined this guy’s social media use, which is deeply disturbing. It pointed to him being very pro-Trump up until just before the COVID-19 pandemic. He called the president “the literal definition of patriotism” in one 2019 post.
He also made some very racially charged comments. In another post from 2019, Crooks wished “a quick, painful death to all the deplorable immigrants and anti-Trump congresswomen who don’t deserve anything this country has given them.” He threatened Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), the so-called “Squad,” and even Special Counsel Robert Mueller by name. He referenced school shootings and school shooters.
These types of musings continued for months and became increasingly violent in tone. I think Tucker showed them not only to illustrate that he used to be pro-Trump (as he explicitly said), but also that he posted the type of very, very violent rhetoric that would generally get you on the radar of the FBI given the officials that he was threatening.
Tucker reported that at least one of the exchanges is still available to see on the internet, but the FBI maintains that “Thomas Crooks had no online footprint. Ever.”
By January 2020, however, it was a 180. Crooks started to sound much more like a far-left progressive activist. According to Tucker, he referred to “Trump’s stupidity” and began to mock the concept of the Deep State. In February 2020, he called out Trump supporters as “too brainwashed to realize how dumb they are.” The same day, he called them “racist.”
At the peak phase of the coronavirus lockdown in April 2020, he wrote, “sometimes public safety comes before your personal rights.” Crooks also became very critical of conservative media. “Viruses don’t spread through race, just like Tucker Carlson probably told you,” he allegedly posted.
Four months later, he posted that “the only way to fight the government is with terrorism-style attacks,” and he detailed sneaking bombs into buildings and trying to assassinate “any important people,” like politicians and military leaders. “Any sort of head to head fight is suicidal,” he wrote. “Even ambush or surprise attacks likely aren’t going to end well.” That was prophetic.
And then came the introduction of someone who went by the name “Willy Tepes” online. Tucker reported that around August 2020 this person started pressuring Crooks to commit violence. For example, he 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. Nothing in life is simple, but that is no argument against doing it.”
According to Tucker, Crooks’ online footprint abruptly ended after his encounter with this mysterious figure. In the documentary, he posited that “whoever Willy 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.”
Furry Fetish?
Meanwhile, in Miranda Devine’s report in The New York Post published Monday, she wrote that Crooks “appears to have been interested in ‘furries’ and exploring gender identity.” He described himself with the pronouns “they/them” on the platform DeviantArt, which, she noted, is one of the biggest online hubs for “furry” art and the “furry” community.
I think you know this by now, but a furry is someone who identifies as some sort of animal and wears animal costumes. It is a sexual fetish for most, and an overwhelming number of people consider themselves a furry have a link to kink and fetish websites. It is an offshoot of the trans movement. They are very closely linked.
Furry culture happens to have been of interest to the boyfriend of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin. Tyler Robinson was living with and dating a trans-identified furry. It was also mentioned in the writings of the Covenant School shooter in Nashville. And now we find out Thomas Crooks, the Trump attempted assassin, appears to have been interested in furries and was exploring gender identity.
Per The New York Post, two accounts linked to the Crooks’ primary email were found on DeviantArt under usernames “epicmicrowave” and “theepicmicrowave.” Devine wrote that “the account suggests he had an obsession with scantily clad cartoon characters sporting muscle-bound male bodies and female heads.”
This is sick, but, if true, part of a pattern. Now, I know a lot of you may be thinking this is a cover; that they are dangling the shiny thing over here. I am open-minded to that, but I am also open-minded to it being totally true as well because we have seen it time and time again.
Regarless, why are we only learning about that right now?
FBI on Defense
The FBI is on defense. Kash Patel attempted to defend the breadth of the bureau’s investigation in an X post Friday, suggesting they have done everything one would want them to do and disputing that Thomas Crooks had much of an online footprint – though they did not specifically deny that these posts are his.
This whole thing stinks.
Susan Crabtree is a reporter for RealClearPolitics whom I really trust. She covers the Secret Service for them, and she is a totally above-board reporter. She responded to all of this new reporting on X:
“OUTRAGEOUS — So much lying by the Biden-era @FBI and big questions on why the current FBI appears to be continuing to keep their plethora of information about Trump shooter Thomas Crooks locked in a black box.
Hope of all hopes that Dan and Kash were waiting to nail their predecessors on a multitude of lies with the real story about Crooks being the cherry on top — and they were working behind the scenes to keep a lid on the information while they aggressively pursued the investigation, including possible ties to this Crooks social media contact Willy Tepes. Tepes openly encouraged Crooks to commit acts of violence.
That Willy Tepes username was used on a foreign Antifa website linked to the Nordic Resistance Movement, which was designated a terrorist organization by the US State Dept, according to Tucker’s new report.
The FBI was stonewalling @SenRonJohnson and @RandPaul’s staff as of the one-year anniversary of Butler — both Senate offices stated. One of those offices said the Trump FBI at first was cooperating this spring and even had a briefing with Senate staffers on Crooks, Butler et al — but then abruptly stopped doing so.”
That last piece earned a triple exclamation point from me in my notes that something is going on here. It’s not that I don’t trust Kash Patel and Dan Bongino; it’s that I think they have something that, for whatever reason, they feel strongly they cannot tell us.
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