Posted on 07/30/2024 1:21:01 PM PDT by Red Badger
This story is popping on Twitter, and -- if true -- it makes the entire mess surrounding the investigation into the Trump assassination attempt even worse.
In the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt, the Left argued Crooks was a registered Republican even though he'd made donations to ActBlue and Biden himself on inauguration day. Not exactly Republican, pro-Trump behavior.
At this time, it's not confirmed that the account in question belonged to Thomas Crooks, but if it does -- and the FBI requested info on this particular account -- the way it was portrayed in Congressional testimony is different from what the account actually posted. The FBI seems to be going with the 'Crooks was right-wing' narrative, implying his posts were 'anti-immigration.'
But Gab founder Andrew Torba disagrees, and has some documentation that contradicts the FBI.
And that's a bad look for the FBI.
Remember how the FBI had to walk back testimony after Director Christopher Wray fueled the 'Trump wasn't really shot' conspiracy theory.
FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told Congress recently the account had 'anti-immigrant' and 'anti-semitic' views.
Here's the post from Torba:
The entire posts reads:
This is not consistent with Gab's understanding of the shooter's motives based on an Emergency Disclosure Request ("EDR") we received from the FBI last week for the Gab account "EpicMicrowave" which, based on the content of that EDR, the FBI appeared to think belonged to Thomas Crooks.
Many, particularly regime media reporters, have doubted Gab's claims that this request existed. Normally we don't confirm the existence or content of law enforcement communications. In this instance we had to make an exception due to the overwhelming public interest in disclosure and transparency.
As a courtesy to law enforcement, we are not going to post the entire request. This is the first page of that request.
The story is this: the account for which data was requested was, UNEQUIVOCALLY, pro-Biden and in particular pro-Biden's immigration policy.
To the best of Gab's knowledge, as of 2021, Crooks was a pro-lockdown, pro-immigration, left-wing Joe Biden supporter.
Most interesting
Very.....................
What you wanna bet that there are some Trump supporters in the upper echelons of the FBI that are feeding him info surreptitiously ..................
The FBI fibbed? Say it ain’t so!
I noticed you getting pummeled on another related thread, and figured this might be of interest to you.
I watched Abatte under oath say crooks Gab account had anti immigrant and anti Semitic posts
It just keep getting weirder and weirder
” . . . the Left argued Crooks was a registered Republican . . .”
For the nth time, one must point out again that the sort of pinheads who populate the ranks of the press are incapable of distinguishing between the terms ‘registered Republican’ and ‘registered *as* a Republican’, the distinction of which makes all the difference in the world in any open primary state.
Could Crooks have another account beyond the Gab account?
Gab says 9 posts, Abbate says over 700.
Now that 700 post account might exist, it might be from the right time frame, it might or might not be a handy little artifact - to bolster a cover story or be a kind of drop gun as it were.
There may be a large number of handy little accounts out there.
Fibbers gonna FIB!
With things like this, it makes it difficult to believe the FBI had nothing to do the Butler PA attempt. Something along the lines of “lying even when being served better by telling the truth.”
fixed it
“What you wanna bet that there are some Trump supporters in the upper echelons of the FBI that are feeding him info surreptitiously ..................”
If someone in the FBI is feeding info and they’re not authorized to do so, then they are going to be found out. I forget the name of the project the NSA has been recording and data mining fantastic amounts of data for at least a decade. Since the alphabet agencies all report to Biden you can bet they exchange that data regardless of the rules.
At my local level, a black employee where I work was murdered. The case rapidly went racial as the family had pull and pushed the racist button. In response the cops asked the cell phone tower operator for a list of phones at that address at the time of the murder. They had suspects in custody in hours. (All black, BTW.) If the locals can do things like that imagine what the NSA can do.
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Dog and Pony show.
Get back to me with that Information- and they laugh into their sleeves.
95% of the questioners are fake as hell.
” . . . the Left argued Crooks was a registered Republican . . .”
“For the nth time, one must point out again that the sort of pinheads who populate the ranks of the press are incapable of distinguishing between the terms ‘registered Republican’ and ‘registered *as* a Republican’, the distinction of which makes all the difference in the world in any open primary state.”
As a practical matter, it’s a distinction without a difference in our political system.
What is increasingly clear is that Crooks was a screwed up young man with many conflicting thoughts and opinions.
Not too unusual for someone still in their teens until recently.
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