LOS ANGELES.–FBI profilers are busy at work trying to ascertain a motive for 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks who crawled up on a roof July 14 with an AR-15 assault rifle and tried to assassinate 78-year-old former President Donald Trump. Everyone in the White House wants to deny the obvious motive for Crooks shooting, killing one firefighter, wounding two men and grazing Trump upper right ear, in a near miss to political assassination. Crooks’s actions on July 13, crawling up a warehouse roof to get a clear shot at Trump was an abysmal failure of the Secret Service and local law enforcement, not setting a proper perimeter. Crooks was allowed to crawl up a latter to an elevated vantage point to get his shots off without any interference from federal, state or local authorities. Crooks was on a private, secret mission to take out the 45th president of the United States.
FBI officials have found nothing on Crooks’s cell phone at Quantico, Va., nor any other electronic device, tracing carefully his Internet activity. Not finding anything points clearly to his motive for ending his life from a Secret Service sniper that took him out with a shot to his head. Crooks’s lifeless body was found on the warehouse roof but not before getting off seven shots, killing one, injuring two and nearly killing Trump. Trump appeared at the Republican National Convention last night to a hero’s welcome, having dodged an assassin’s bullet. Unlike other U.S. leaders that succumbed to assassins’ bullets, Trump survived the close encounter to make a grand entrance at the RNC convention at Fiserv Forum Arena in Miwaukee. FBI officials found nothing of significance on Crook’s electronic devices, pointing clearly to the motive behind Crooks’s assassination attempt.
Crooks, a peaked looking wayward youth, was brainwashed by the daily drumbeat on U.S. media, driven by the White House narrative, that Trump was a clear-and-present danger to 250 years of American democracy. Without the Covid pandemic to pin on Trump, Democrats used the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to blame Trump for an attempted White nationalist coup to overthrow the U.S. government. Without any facts tying Trump to planning or organizing the Jan. 6 riots, House Democrats led by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), spent a year-and-a-half fabricating an insurrection case against Trump. House Democrats concluded that Trump led an attempted coup on the U.S. government, an outrageous pile of fake accusations. Pelosi tried but failed to impeach Trump on “incitement of insurrection” in 2021 and continued the same persecution after he left office.
When you look at the intent of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee it was to prevent Trump from running for election in 2024, branding him an “insurrectionist” to deny him access to the ballot by using an arcane section of the 14th Amendment. Pelosi’s strategy crashed-and-burned when the Supreme Court ruled March 4 it could not use the 14th Amendment to keep Trump off the ballot. So, the White House and Democrats concluded they must brand Trump the “enemy of the people” who’s trying to destroy 250 years of U.S. democracy. What could be heinous than saying a former President wanted to return to power to destroy the country as we know it? Crooks, as a gullible, brainwashed youth, drank the White House Cool-Aid and tried to play hero to take out a menace to the nation. FBI officials can only conclude now that was Crooks’s precise motive for the assassination attempt.
Questions remain how Crooks got his hand on his father’s, Matthew Crooks, AR-15 assault rifle. There’s new precedent for parental responsibility for youthful killings using parent’s guns. Two Michigan parents were sentenced April 10 to 10 years for not keeping dangerous firearms from their teenager. FBI officials will have to determine whether Matthew Crooks and his wife Elizabeth bear some responsibility for their son’s ballistic episode. Whatever Crooks’s background, whether he was bullied in school, it’s no excuse for the Secret Service and law enforcement to not set up a proper perimeter to prevent the deadly incident from taking place. Whether Crook’s parents bear responsibility or not for using his father’s AR-15 to commit another preventable act of gun violence is anyone’s guess. Crooks nearly assassinated the GOP’s 2024 nominee.
FBI officials will not identify a motive for the killings because it will implicate the White House in their political campaign to demonize Trump. Without Covid in 2024, Democrats launched a diabolical plan to demonize Trump as a menace to American Democracy. Biden has repeated the outrageous accusation that Trump seeks to destroy U.S. democracy. FBI officials know exactly how Crooks was brainwashed by the White House to believe he was a national hero by taking out a dangerous threat to U.S. democracy. White House demonizing of Trump almost cost him his life, all because Democrats can’t talk about Biden’s record only about a fake narrative about Trump. Don’t count on the FBI to come up with any motive for Crooks’s assassination attempt. It’s blatantly obvious that Crooks was brainwashed by the White House to believe Trump was menace to the country.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
