New FBI documents turned over to the Senate show people around wannabe Trump assassin Thomas Crooks saw the engine seize before Butler. He talked to himself. He paced at night. He danced for hours. A coworker said it happened two or three times a week.
Someone confronted him about a jug of liquid he claimed was truck cleaner and watched his ears go red. He denied hearing voices. The behavior still read like a man coming apart. Former FBI agent Jonathan Gilliam said the file looks like a manic, even delusional spiral — and that the motive investigation should not be closed. Crooks took firearm courses in the spring of 2024.
He was seen at a Pennsylvania gun shop with two other men buying ammunition. He shopped online until a site would sell to him. He engaged in all of these odd behaviors, but was still allowed to get on a roof that was suspiciously ignored by Secret Service and get a shot off at the President.
The “lone nut” story is the system’s favorite mop. It ends the questions and gets the focus off of the Deep State that knows how to stage an operation and put a patsy right where they need to be. It protects institutions that missed the red flags and eschews calls for accountability. Crooks also spewed non-stop hatred online. He was part of networks of extremists.
This was revealed months ago. How come he was not on the feds’ radar? Or perhaps he was all along, and the Deep State cultivated him as an asset who could get rid of their biggest enemy, Donald Trump. We will likely never know the full truth, and that is a shame. Because there is nothing stopping the Deep State from running their next assassination plot to get their next enemy off the board.
