Today, Tucker Carlson published an investigative report that reveals an extensive collection of social media accounts and digital records his team claims belonged to Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate President Trump in Butler, PA.
I have independently obtained the same source document Tucker used, which contains Crooks’ alleged full online history (YouTube comments, search records, Discord activity, emails, etc.).
The source explicitly states that this material was repeatedly offered to the FBI, which had every chance to examine and act on it—but chose to do nothing with the information.
‘I have reached out to the FBI for comment.
Here’s Crooks’ alleged Snapchat account:
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Here are some comments Thomas Crooks made on his alleged YouTube page before the Covid pandemic:
The earliest known instance of him publicly criticizing the president on this platform occurred in January 2020. In a comment beneath a YouTube video discussing Trump’s first impeachment, he wrote: “Keep in mind the only reason we may know about any of this is because of Trump’s stupidity” (YouTube, Opinion | Jonathan Turley: Trump does not have to commit a crime to be impeached, January 23, 2020). This remark indicates that Crooks believed Trump’s own foolishness was what ultimately exposed the underlying controversy.
He pushed back against early Republican assertions regarding mail-in voting and election integrity, contending that mail-in voting would boost voter turnout and that Republicans were mistaken to oppose it. Crooks wrote, “OK heres what I don’t understand, voting by mail will help more people vote so in fact Republicans should be standing up for that why aren’t they?” (YouTube, Va. Gov. Signs 3 Gun Bills Into Law!, May 9, 2020).
One of his last known comments—reconstructed from a now-deleted thread using surviving replies and archived screenshots—outlined a deeply disturbing endorsement of political violence in the United States.
As Trump began to emerge as the presumptive Republican nominee, Crooks’ search history revealed an escalating focus on tactical details, strongly suggesting deliberate, long-term preparation for a mass-casualty attack. Examples include:
• “Craziest Chemical Reactions” - April 5, 2019
• “Deadliest Mass Shooting in World” - June 18, 2019, September 22, 2019
• “People attacking pride parades” - June 28, 2019
• “Cars running over protesters” - June 29, 2019
• “Getting away with racism”- July 20, 2019
• “Best places for mass shooting” – August 5, 2019
• “Pulse nightclub”- August 10, 2019 • “Pulse nightclub police body camera”- August 10, 2019
• “Mass shooting El Paso”- August 20, 2019
• “Mass shooting”- August 20, 2019
• “ Trump Civil War”- September 30, 2019
• “Trump Church Shooting Video”- October 14, 2019 • “Guns vs Protesters”- October 15, 2019
• “Orlando Shooting Reaction” – October 15, 2019
• “Why I’m missing handgun” – October 19, 2019
• “Firing an ar15 as fast as possible”- March 4, 2020
• “Fertilizer Bomb” – March 29, 2020
• “How do you use a tourniquet” – April 16, 2020
• “How to make napalm” – April 21, 2020
• “Molotov cocktail” and “How to make Molotov cocktail” – April 21, 2020
• “Mixing gasoline with styrofoam” – April 22, 2020
• “Mass shooting Canada”- May 2, 2020
• “Oklahoma Bombinh (bombing)” - May 9, 2020
• “Sniper in Dallas shooting”- May 16, 2020
Crooks actively used his Quizlet account throughout high school to create flashcard sets for a range of subjects, with U.S. history being the most prominent. While he occasionally collaborated with classmates on certain decks, he personally authored the vast majority of the history material. One particularly significant set, created in March 2020, contained extensive notes on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as the Warren Commission’s investigation. In a flashcard titled “Assassination of JFK,” he noted: “November 22, 1963, shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald.” Another card summarizing the Warren Commission stated: “The point of the commission is to see if someone paid for the assassination of Kennedy.”
As part of the wider examination of Thomas Matthew Crooks’ behavioral and operational patterns, investigators confirmed he held accounts on three major peer-to-peer payment services: Venmo, Zelle, and PayPal. The Venmo and Zelle accounts were registered in his real name, Thomas Matthew Crooks. In marked contrast, the PayPal account was created under the pseudonym “Rod Swanson,” a choice that prompts significant questions about his motives, efforts to obscure his identity, and any possible symbolic or psychological significance behind the alias.