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Trump gunman had Michigan school shooter's photo, foreign encrypted apps, FBI tells Congress
https://justthenews.com ^ | 7/22/2024 | JOHN SOLOMON

Posted on 07/22/2024 6:16:35 PM PDT by bitt

Contents of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks' primary cell phone has become a key focus of the probe.

While Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle frustrated lawmakers Monday with sparse details about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the FBI has disclosed to Congress that the shooter used three encrypted communications apps ostensibly tied to Germany, Brussels and New Zealand and also possessed an arrest photo of an earlier Michigan school shooter, Just the News has confirmed.

In multiple briefings, FBI leaders told lawmakers that the 20-year-old would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ primary cell phone has become an important focal point of the probe, including some 14,000 images that were found on it, according to multiple sources familiar with the briefings. The FBI has not issued an update on their findings to the public since July 14.

That phone included an arrest photo and other information related to Ethan Crumbley, who was convicted in the deadly 2021 shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan, as well as information about Crumbley’s parents, the sources said, speaking only on condition of anonymity.

The phone also included stock images of firearms and guns, articles regarding U.S. government figures as well as a screenshot of online live coverage of July 13 rally saved at 6:01pm, about 10 minutes before Crooks began shooting from a rooftop near the Butler, Pa., venue where Trump was speaking.

One of the most tantalizing pieces of evidence from the phone, according to the sources, was three foreign encrypted platforms used by Crooks that were apparently based in Germany, New Zealand, and Belgium. The encryption on the apps “poses a significant challenge,” according to one source.

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To: RideForever

I wonder if Crooks had any AntiFa influences? I wonder if the FBI found what this website suggested, that he was involved in violent Antifa demonstrations and arrests:

https://www.caclubindia.com/assets/thomas-crooks/


21 posted on 07/22/2024 7:11:52 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: bitt

Ethan Crumbley posted crap lime “I am Death, destroyer of worlds” and threatened stuff ahead of time.
He had things in his notebook - in Greek- about a “com together revolution” and according to some wrote several “satanic looking messages.”
Parents refused to cooperate from the get go.


22 posted on 07/22/2024 7:13:08 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: bitt

Oxford School District destroying evidence after deadly shooting: lawyers
nypost ^ | December 11, 2021 | Jon Levine
Posted on 12/12/2021, 2:17:08 PM by MarvinStinson

Lawyers for a Michigan high school student injured in a deadly mass shooting are accusing the district of destroying evidence pertinent to the case....


23 posted on 07/22/2024 7:15:39 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: bitt

Blah... Blah... Blah... that’s Yearlick laying there, not Crooks.


24 posted on 07/22/2024 7:17:08 PM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: bitt

Hey Congress, you’re all fools if you believe anything the FBI tells you.


25 posted on 07/22/2024 7:18:25 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: Deo volente

Anyone know where his parents worked?


26 posted on 07/22/2024 7:22:57 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Nessun Dorma.)
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To: bray

I have been asking that question for 7 days. Apparently he was shot but I haven’t seen any photo or vid of it happening. We don’t know if Crooks shot Trump and we don’t know who shot the Crooks!


27 posted on 07/22/2024 7:30:26 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Borders, language and culture. Michael Savage)
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To: HandyDandy

If you look the opposite direction of where the media wants you to believe you will likely find the truth.


28 posted on 07/22/2024 7:32:01 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: bitt

The Michigan school shooter’s attack occurred at a time that the Dem candidate for governor, Whitmer, had slipped way down in the polls, IIRC.


29 posted on 07/22/2024 7:42:01 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: bitt
The FBI has not issued an update on their findings to the public since July 14.

Why not? 10 day anniversary tomorrow.

If they don't suspect anyone else is involved, why not release what they have?

What's the secret?

30 posted on 07/22/2024 7:45:09 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

“What’s the secret?”

Damage control?


31 posted on 07/22/2024 8:47:47 PM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: bitt

Bttt


32 posted on 07/22/2024 8:53:22 PM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do)
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To: LastDayz

Probably, but the longer they wait to answer legitimate real easy questions the worse it looks for them.

It’s becoming a painful spectacle compounded by that coverup performance Cheatle put on during that hearing. Us vs them attitude...Like the American people are the enemy that can’t be trusted. The whole time Cheatle’s expression looked like she was walking the stairs to the gallows. Only one reason to hold back on details at this point, and that’s if additional people are involved or are suspected.


33 posted on 07/22/2024 9:18:01 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: LastDayz
that’s Yearlick laying there, not Crooks.

I keep wondering who the van belonged to. Crooks drove the Sonata.

34 posted on 07/23/2024 4:20:13 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump Triumphant !)
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To: Sirius Lee

What was the initial position of the van since it was of such import.


35 posted on 07/23/2024 5:16:07 AM PDT by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: RideForever

Crooks was a patsy.


36 posted on 07/23/2024 5:16:46 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: LastDayz
As I recall, it had a bomb or bomb making materials, and an AZ license plate. Then the story of it existing disappeared for a day, then was reported by the MSM as being towed away a day later. Then the media went radio silent about it again.

I'm thinking that Crooks wouldn't be driving a van with an AZ plate, but maybe the antifa creep would have.

37 posted on 07/23/2024 5:21:45 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump Triumphant !)
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To: bitt

Calling them “encrypted apps” is too late now. The usual geniuses are already running around pretending that the “encrypted overseas accounts” mentioned earlier are like bank accounts in the Virgin Islands. That junk is wild in the ecosystem now, so we’re going to have to hear it for years and years and years.


38 posted on 07/23/2024 8:56:21 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: AnthonySoprano

A living patsy is of no use to the true perps.

Lee Harvey Crooks.


39 posted on 07/23/2024 10:52:30 AM PDT by Disestablishmentarian (#T-Party 2024)
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To: bitt
It looks like the FBI has been assigned the role of “good cop” to the Secret Service's “bad cop”. Cheatle fell on her sword and resigned immediately after her hearing before Congress. The FBI has to get 100% Democratic and RINO support to stay in business assuming Trump is elected.
40 posted on 07/23/2024 11:01:37 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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