Many people credit President Trump’s actions after the assasination attempt in Butler, Pa as being one of the main reasons for his victory in November. It was an iconic moment as he raised his hands and chanted, “Fight. Fight. Fight.” It will remain in people’s minds for many years to come. There are still many question about the assassinatio attempt. The main one being whether he acted alone or did he have help?
The New York Post’s Dana Kennedy, in an exclusive report, has some interesting information from a team of private investigators looking into the incident:
Sources told The Post the FBI has obstructed efforts to solve the mystery of why Thomas Matthew Crooks, who left no manifesto, did what he did. It’s left local law enforcement as well as Crooks’ former friends, classmates and teachers frustrated.
Those who may know, Crooks’ parents Matthew and Mary, have refused all interviews and remain in their small, three-bedroom home here, sealed off from the world like hermits. Neighbors say they only leave the house at 3 am to buy groceries.
Here’s the onion:
A veteran private investigator from Erie, Penn., who was hired shortly after the fateful July 13 event at Butler Farm to look into Crooks by a private client, told The Post he believes a “criminal network” was operating with him at the time of the assassination attempt, is still in existence and still wants to kill President Trump.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELDoug Hagmann, whose team of six other investigators have been working the case for months and have interviewed more than 100 people, said they also conducted extensive geofencing analysis of cell phones and tablets not belonging to Crooks that were found with him at his home, at the rifle range where he took target practice, at the rally and at Bethel Park High School where he graduated in 2022.
“We don’t think he acted alone,” Hagmann told The Post. “This took a lot of coordination. In my view, Crooks was handled by more than one individual and he was used for this [assassination attempt]. And I wouldn’t preclude the possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him.”
A member of the House of Representatives, Clay Higgins (R-LA), is conducting his own investigation:
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) — part of a bipartisan task force looking into Crooks’ actions and his death — found that it although a Secret Service sniper took him down with the kill shot, it was a local SWAT officer who made the shot that initially took him down — something the FBI did not report at the time.
Higgins, who has also been investigating Crooks’ assassination attempt for months, has not seen Hagmann’s geofencing data but downplayed its significance. He told The Post he believes Crooks acted alone and there was no conspiracy. However, he also said the FBI continually obstructed his investigation.
It’s becoming apparent that, out of this case, we’re going to get anything and everything but straight answers. That said, Rep. Higgins does not believe Crooks had accomplices, which he included in his 2024 report:
His report into what he calls “J13” was published Dec. 5 as part of the bipartisan task force on the attempted assassination.
But Higgins admitted even after months of his boots-on-the-ground granular research — including exhaustive ballistics examinations, trips to FBI headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, and lengthy conversations with the high-profile Pittsburgh law firm representing Crooks’ parents — he has only one theory.
He thinks Crooks must have been on some sort of prescription drug that made him, in Higgins’ words, “go crazy.”
