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NY Post: FBI Botched Butler Probe, Deviant Shooter
Newsmax ^ | November 17, 2025 | Newsmax Wires

Posted on 11/18/2025 7:25:00 AM PST by Navy Patriot

New York Post columnist Miranda Devine is calling on the FBI and Secret Service to finally produce the full truth about the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt against President Donald Trump — an attack she says federal authorities have mishandled from the beginning.

In a column Monday, Devine wrote that Americans are still waiting for a coherent explanation of how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to climb onto a rooftop overlooking Trump's Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally and fire eight rounds from an AR-15-style rifle, grazing Trump's ear and killing firefighter Corey Comperatore.

"We are all owed a better explanation," Devine wrote, saying the president himself remains "unsatisfied" with the answers the FBI and Secret Service have provided.

Devine noted that then-FBI Director Chris Wray initially told Congress the bureau found nothing in Crooks' online history signaling a motive or ideology.

But just a week later, Wray's deputy Paul Abbate testified Crooks had posted antisemitic, anti-immigration, and violent political comments.

Devine reports that was only part of the story — and that Abbate "misled Congress by omission."

A source uncovered Crooks' hidden digital footprint, revealing a dramatic ideological flip between January and August 2020, when he went from "rabidly pro-Trump" to "rabidly anti-Trump."

The source identified 17 online accounts, including on YouTube, Discord, Snapchat, Venmo, Zelle, Quora, GroupMe, Chess.com, and DeviantArt.

Contrary to the FBI's claim that Crooks lacked a motive or online trail, Devine reports Crooks left a long, visible history of violent rhetoric:

Admiration for mass killers Open talk of political assassination Extreme anti-government posts Ideological radicalization during COVID Attacks on Trump, Fox News, and Republicans Posts calling Trump supporters a "cult" One 2020 post:

"The only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks… track down any important people ... and try to assassinate them."

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1 posted on 11/18/2025 7:25:00 AM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot
Still no evidence that Maxwell Yearick is still amongst the living.

Gonna keep hammering on that.

2 posted on 11/18/2025 7:28:16 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.d)
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To: Navy Patriot

Odd. Eric Trump just said he was satisfied with the FBI investigation.


3 posted on 11/18/2025 7:29:04 AM PST by odawg
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To: odawg
Eric Trump just said he was satisfied with the FBI investigation.

was that before or after he said he was not satisfied.

4 posted on 11/18/2025 7:30:29 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Navy Patriot

I still cannot understand, why they let him get on that roof?
From what little I know about security, even I know that roofs and high level windows are the first things they should secure.
Same with Charlie Kirk assassination!


5 posted on 11/18/2025 7:31:12 AM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Navy Patriot

Never forget:
They knew there was a guy on the roof with a clear shot.
1. They let Trump take the stage
2. The let the gunman take the shot.
3. They executed him within seconds..after he took the shots


6 posted on 11/18/2025 7:31:55 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: Navy Patriot
Devine noted that then-FBI Director Chris Wray initially told Congress the bureau found nothing in Crooks' online history signaling a motive or ideology. But just a week later, Wray's deputy Paul Abbate testified Crooks had posted antisemitic, anti-immigration, and violent political comments. Devine reports that was only part of the story — and that Abbate "misled Congress by omission."

Wray and Abbate are accessories to an attempted presidential assassination coverup.

7 posted on 11/18/2025 7:32:20 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Navy Patriot

It was not botched, it was sanitized, the only failure was that Crooks missed. Ss far as the investigation it did EXACTLY what it was supposed to do, in fact I would say it was likely a complete success.


8 posted on 11/18/2025 7:33:17 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Navy Patriot

9 posted on 11/18/2025 7:36:53 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Navy Patriot

Plenty of evidence of multiple shooters. Also was Crook even firing at Trump?


10 posted on 11/18/2025 7:37:18 AM PST by Swirl
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To: Navy Patriot

> federal authorities have mishandled from the beginning.

Gee, why would they do that?


11 posted on 11/18/2025 7:37:22 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: Navy Patriot

I think “botched” is being kind. The FBI under Wray deliberately hid information about the shooter to advance the Democrat’s political agenda.


12 posted on 11/18/2025 7:37:57 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: AZJeep

> I still cannot understand, why they let him get on that roof?

Because that was the plan.


13 posted on 11/18/2025 7:38:20 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: odawg

Your wrong.
Are you satisfied with the answers that we’ve got from the Butler assassination attempt? Thomas Crooks, 20 years old. Why do we know nothing?” Devine asked Eric Trump.

“No,” he promptly replied. “We know nothing. In fact, not only am I unsatisfied, I’m wholly pissed off about it, and I remain … pissed off about it.”


14 posted on 11/18/2025 7:42:08 AM PST by navysealdad (http://drdavehouseoffun.com/)
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To: Skwor

It is not credible that a 17 year old in 2021 did not continue to have online presence. No Facebook, no Instagram, no email, no Wattsapp, no Signal, no Snapchat - the chance of this is “zero point zero Mr. Blutarsky”. The logical conclusion is that it was an inside job organized by Jill’s preferred Secret Service head “sloped roof” Kim Cheatle, with Wray and Brennan giving a wink and a nod. See my tagline below.


15 posted on 11/18/2025 7:42:14 AM PST by brookwood (First the left said it was OK to steal. Next they said it was OK to kill.)
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To: Navy Patriot
A source uncovered Crooks' hidden digital footprint, revealing a dramatic ideological flip between January and August 2020, when he went from "rabidly pro-Trump" to "rabidly anti-Trump."

Decent citizens are getting around the corrupt MSM and the equally corrupt democrat party. Nice to see truth winning out.

16 posted on 11/18/2025 7:45:48 AM PST by GOPJ (Soros & democrats back criminals, dope dealers, illegals & terrorists.<P><I><B><big><center></B>)
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To: GOPJ

Agree!


17 posted on 11/18/2025 7:51:15 AM PST by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won, Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: GOPJ

Heard that report yesterday and it screamed CIA / MK Ultra for the conspiracy minded.

Given how many conspiracies have been exposed in the last 5 years I am not inclined to dismiss it.


18 posted on 11/18/2025 7:57:10 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Navy Patriot

Did he have a handler inside DC?


19 posted on 11/18/2025 7:57:52 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: iamgalt

In part, those were Jill’s instructions to the SService head she “promoted” and other worthless DEI hires on the security team.

Yeah, the Pres’s wife ordered this.


20 posted on 11/18/2025 7:58:46 AM PST by bobbo666
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