The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1841 - FBI Dumps BIZARRE New Details About Trump Assassination Attempt. What Else Are They Hiding?

Episode Date: September 17, 2026

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and so unbelievably lackadaisical with its security measures that they somehow failed to secure a slightly sloped roof just 150 yards away with direct line of sight to the podium. they just never got around to it, even though they obviously noticed the rooftop during the walkthroughs before the rally. And not only that, the Secret Service didn't bother looking at the roof at any point during the rally, which is how Thomas Crooks was able to get into position without being detected as a significant threat. As one Butler police officer put it in a conversation captured on body cam, quote, I told them post-effing guys over there, why were we not on the roof? Now, if you take this version of events at face value, then you would agree that, unironically, the Secret Service as an agency should have been disbanded immediately.

Replace them with a random Boy Scout troop if you need to. Give every kid a walkie-talkie and station them on the rooftops. And instantly, for a lot less money, presumably, Donald Trump would have much better protection than he was receiving from his Secret Service detail. The Boy Scouts wouldn't have the cool earpieces or the suits, but in all likelihood, they'd be able to spot an assassin visibly running on the roof in plain view of everybody in the crowd. And we know this because the crowd did notice Thomas Crooks long before he opened fire. The Secret Service supposedly didn't. Now, the other option that's been on the table, of course, is that the Secret Service, for some reason, allowed Thomas Crooks to open fire. And if you start thinking that through, it starts to explain a lot of things. They would explain, for example, why the Secret Service couldn't detect Crooks' drone,

even though they had drone detection equipment that conveniently went down while Crooks' drone was in the air. This is one of the elements of the assassination attempt that's rarely discussed, but it should be discussed. The Secret Service actually had a counter-dron system at the rally, but according to the To the Inspector General of DHS, it was, quote, manned by a single under-trained operator who did not test the system prior to the morning of the event. When the system malfunctioned, the operator spent several hours attempting to resolve the issue, during which time Thomas Crooks completed his almost nine-minute drone flight undetected. Now, that's the part of the story you may have heard.

What's less well known is that three days before the rally, the Secret Service agents assigned to protect Trump sent an easy. email to the Secret Service's Technical Security Division requesting an experienced drone operator. Now, the email reads, quote, good afternoon. Candidate Trump is expected to be exposed for the entirety of his remarks and will be vulnerable to drone threats. Trump's details requesting the technical security division provide an operator for the day of the event. That was sent on Wednesday, July 10th at 1023 a.m. And according to the inspector general, quote, we found no evidence that technical security division members who

received these requests responded to the email. So yes, you heard that correctly. They simply didn't respond to the email. And there was a second request, which was actually denied by a member of the technical security division, supposedly because the counter drone operators were busy at the R&C, which was going to take place a couple days later. And when the inspector general interviewed the leader of the counter drone program at the technical security division, he said that he tries to cover all outdoor venues and said he would have probably done that trip in Butler, but he was never made aware of the request. Now, none of these excuses make any sense. There's no reason to ignore the email from July 10th, obviously. There's also no reason to cite

the R&C as an excuse since it was taking place two days later. You would think that if the priority was to protect Trump, who they assessed was vulnerable to drone attacks, they would have found a way to send the experienced anti-drone team, but they didn't do that. Apparently, they didn't even tell the higher-ups about it. Again, complicity makes sense of this, makes more sense, really, than the official narrative. Additionally, if the Secret Service was complicit, it would also potentially explain why the Secret Service managed to deploy highly trained counter-sniper's for this rally when they hadn't used countersnipers at any of Trump's previous rallies during the entire campaign. They couldn't send the anti-drone team, but they were able to send the counter-snipers.

And that could make sense, theoretically, on this version of events, if they wanted to get rid of the assassin after the fact. So he couldn't talk. Now, if the Secret Service was complicit, it would also help explain why the Secret Service director claimed that the agency had suddenly become afraid of slightly sloped roofs, even though there are plenty of pictures of Secret Service agents being stationed on Sliport. sloped roofs, including the counter-sniper team at this very rally. You can see the good slope, bad slope distinction there. It's kind of incredible to look at because the roof with the counter-sniper is actually more sloped than the one that Thomas Crooks was on.

And on top of that, when they were hosing down the roof after the shooting, FBI agents had no problem standing on it. But the Secret Service Director insisted, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that slightly sloped roofs are just too dangerous for Secret Service agents. This is now former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheedle. Should that roof have been secure, period. That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there, that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was.

made to secure the building from inside. Yes, they secured the building from the inside, but apparently not, because in practical terms, it means they didn't secure the building at all. They allowed the sniper to climb on top of a building full of cops simply because a slightly sloped roof was too dangerous. That's not remotely coherent, but again, it all makes sense if someone inside the Secret Service wanted to allow Thomas Crooks to take the shot. And while we're at it, if the Secret Service deliberately allowed Crooks to get into position,

it would also explain why they didn't have any meaningful radio contact with the local police who saw Crooks with a rifle on the rooftop early enough that Trump could have been removed from the stage. It would explain why Trump's detail included women who weren't tall enough to shield him from gunfire or draw their weapons properly. It would help explain why the Secret Service ignored local police that Crooks, who, who didn't know. the police photographed, was roaming around the rally site with a range finder. And on and on and on. All this to say, the so-called conspiracy theory that the Secret Service were involved somehow or that they took orders from somebody in the Biden administration who wanted them to leave Trump exposed is a valid theory. It makes sense of the events that transpired. It just does. It's a conspiracy theory that makes the massive security failures at Butler more comprehensible and more logical

than the theory, the official narrative. And therefore, it's incumbent on our government, especially now that Donald Trump's administration has been in office for a long time to provide as much transparency as possible. They need to disclose all the information they have about the assassination attempt in Butler. And in particular, they need to answer every outstanding question about Thomas Crooks himself. And there are many questions along those lines. But instead what's happening is that we're getting kind of drip-fed, a small number of disclosures that taken together make it more likely that the assassination was the result of a wide-ranging conspiracy within Joe Biden's government. So we're going to go through all of the new revelations.

We're also going to point out all the holes that remain in the official narrative, because no matter how much you've read about this case, odds are you're not aware of most of them. And that's by design. That's why they're dripping it out slowly, like it all get kind of lost in the shuffle. Maybe the most important new information, which comes from a recent FBI document dumb, is that on the afternoon before the assassination attempt, Crooks went to Clarton Sportsman's Club rifle range in Pennsylvania to fire two guns, his AR, and a, quote, older military-style rifle. Crooks was specifically practicing a 100-year-old. yard shot. Now, by itself, that's not unusual. Crooks became a member of the club in August of

23, less than a year before the shooting, and he visited the range more than 40 times, spent a variety of holidays at the range, including Christmas Day, Valentine's Day, Halloween, and as far as everyone knew, he was doing all this alone. After all, it's usually pretty difficult to find someone to go shooting with you on every single major holiday. But according to the FBI's investigation, on the day before the assassination attempt, camera footage at the range, quote, shows Crooks talking with another unknown club member on the range. This member was the only other person on the rifle range. Now, what's so strange about this is that by all accounts, Crooks was a loner. He didn't have any friends. He wasn't known to strike up conversations

with strangers. His colleagues at a nursing home called him an odd young man, and he rarely showed emotion or interacted with anyone else, according to his father. So who exactly was he talking with at the range? Was it a random stranger? Was it someone he knew? What were they talking about? Now, it's clear the FBI thought this conversation at the gun range could be significant. So according to this document, the FBI retrieved two images of the unknown individual and images of the unknown individual's vehicle, but we have no idea what, if anything, the FBI found. The FBI isn't telling us whether or not they've determined the identity of this individual or any involvement he might have or not have.

Now, it's a big problem because there's additional information to suggest that Crooks, despite being a creepy loner, had several other connections who were interested in helping him acquire firearms for some reason. On his substack, Tom Elliott has been going through the FBI's latest document dump, and he came across this piece of information, which the mainstream press is basically ignoring. And it turns out that on May 25th, 2024, A person of interest who resembles the shooter was at the Keystone Armory in Edinburgh,

which is in Pennsylvania and was there for about an hour. And he was, quote, accompanied by a white male believed to be around his mid-30s and another older white male with a gray beard. The Thomas Crook's lookalike had booked a 5 p.m. class in Mars, Pennsylvania, that same day, and Mars is a short drive from Edinburgh. So it's very plausible. It's the same person. And again, if it is Crooks, that would be very interesting since he was a loner who, by all accounts, had no friends.

So who might these people be? Well, we have no idea. Once again, the FBI documents don't explain whether any follow-up investigation was conducted or what the FBI discovered. But there are other pieces of information that suggests that Crooks may have had some unusual contacts. And as you may remember, the Oversight Project, which is part of the Heritage Foundation, managed to acquire cell phone data. data from a device tied to Crook's home. And according to that data, quote, someone who regularly visited Crooks' home and work also visited a building in Washington, D.C., located in Gallery Place. This is the same vicinity of an FBI office on June 26, 2023. Now, first of all, we need to say

something about how the Oversight Project acquired this data. Most people don't realize that you can do this, but it's actually very easy for a private individual organization. to obtain detailed records about where your personal cell phone has been for a very long period of time, up to several years, actually. And here's how it works. On the open market, you can purchase mobile ads data for specific geographical regions. And this mobile data is collected by corporations that create the apps that you use on your phone. And they sell this data to brokers for the purpose of selling ads. But it's also an easy way to track people. All you have to do is set the GPS coordinates for Thomas Crooks' house. And you'll look at it. You'll look at the

learn the device ID of every phone that regularly goes to that house, and then you can ask the data brokers where the device ID typically travels. In this case, according to the oversight project, the phone went from Crooks' house to an area in Washington, D.C., that was close to an FBI field office. So keep this in mind when you're talking about mass surveillance and cameras and so on, the device that you have in your pocket is tracking you all the time in ways that you probably don't realize. Every so often you ask an employee at a store where to find something, instead of vaguely pointing toward an aisle somewhere aisle 12 and disappearing, they actually walk you over and help you find it. It's a small thing, but you remember it because they

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But together with all these revelations about people Crooks was spending time with, from gun ranges to ammo shops, it's time we got some clarity from the FBI. Who exactly are these people? Have you identified them? Why or why not? Now, according to these documents, there are other anonymous individuals connected to this case

that we still know nothing about. This is from the New York Post. Quote, an anonymous donor paid for the cremation of President Trump's would-be assassin Thomas Crooks just days after the deadly Butler-Pensilvania rally shooting. Anonymous donor paid for cremation, reads a note at the end of a summary of an interview that gunman's father Matthew conducted with federal investigators. The addendum noted that Matthew was retired and that his wife was on leave

from work suggesting the family couldn't come up with the money for Thomas for his funeral arrangements. Matthew explains in other parts of the federal records viewed by the post that he was unemployed at the time of the shooting. Now, could this be innocuous? It could be. Maybe a family member paid for the cremation. But it's certainly strange since Crooks was released for cremation in around 10 days with bullet fragments still lodged inside his body before any independent congressional investigators could inspect the body. Clay Higgins, the congressman from Louisiana, reported that he attempted to inspect Crooks' body on August 5th, but by that point, it was too late. No one told him crooks would be cremated. The sheriff in the county coroner had no idea. So given how this looks,

we should learn the identity of the person who paid for this cremation. It's been two years. There's no reason to keep the information secret. So should be released. And while we're at it, we need to know everything the FBI hasn't covered about the figure known as Willie Tepas. Now, this is an individual who was totally unknown to the public until a Tucker Carlson documentary reported on his identity. As it turns out, Teppas had communicated directly with Crooks on social media just before Crooks, just before his online footprint, appeared. And that's significant because in his online post, Teppas explicitly called for political

assassinations in the United States. And he was so flagrant about it that other users called him a Fed. This is from a documentary from Citizen Commission, which is an account on X that's done extraordinary amount of research into the assassination attempt in Butler. Watch. That Tucker Carlson's reporting raise that I really do think needs to be answered is who this Willie Teppas guy is. Because as soon as the would-be assassin switched over to hating Donald Trump, you have this Willie Teppas guy in the comments urging him to use political violence. And then after that, suddenly, you don't hear anything from this assassin. You don't see any more online activity from this individual. It's really strange. Teppas began with 3D weapons-focused content

in August of 2021. He posted a picture of this gun and says the police conference, He investigated his previous prototype. By late 2022, he openly called her violence, saying, quote, All I want for Christmas is bloody revolution against the global elites, in response to a post about U.S. politician Adam Schiff. He posted photos of himself, commenting that the higher-ups already have him on file. He also posted these videos, alleged to be in Oslo, Norway, and he identifies himself as the person at the front of the march.

These marches strongly resemble activities, coordinated by the U.S. base group Patriot Front. In January of 2024, a user named Abu Aseh Alahan made an inarticulate threat against the U.S., referencing the killing of General Soleimani in 2020. In response to this, Tepis explicitly says, quote, assassinations on foreign soil are not just possible for the U.S. There are lots of U.S. officials that can be targeted. It does not really matter if they are further down the ladder. The point is that they live in fear. He uses language and encourages others to, quote, take out the man at the top

and calls for, quote, killing tyrants. Due to the constant and ongoing flow of his extreme post, Tepis continued to receive accusations of being a Fed. In reference to another post about it, he said, quote, there is a Fed in every chat. Lucky for me that it is not illegal to advocate for bloody revolution in another country than my own. Perhaps most chillingly of all, on October 5th, 2025, Tepis wrote, quote,

people who ask you to contact them when they just as easily could contact you are feds. This is how they avoid accusations of entrapment. Both American and Russian intelligence does this. I have chatted with both. So Tepas is a strange figure who, by his own mission, has been in communication with American and Russian intelligence services. He develops a reputation for talking about political assassinations to the point that other people, think he's a Fed. He's tied to a fringe group called the Nordic Resistance Movement. And in August 2020, Crooks tagged this guy in a post where he explicitly discusses the possibility of conducting

assassinations. We'll put that up on the screen. Quote, in my opinion, the only way to fight the government is with terrorism-style attacks, track down any important people, politicians, military leaders, et cetera, and try to assassinate them. That's Thomas Crook speaking to Willie Tech. on YouTube using the username Tom Crooks. Now, there are only two other documented communications from Crooks to Teppas, as reported by Miranda Devine. And you could see those communications on the screen right now. These are communications that the FBI claim didn't exist.

They flat out denied that Crooks had ever spoken to Teppas, and they were wrong. This is from a Fox News article dated November 2025. Reports of service questioning Crooks' alleged relationship with Antifa-linked individual William Teppas. The FBI told Fox News that there has never been any direct communication between Crooks and Teppas. Crooks posted on YouTube. Teppas is a Norwegian, Nordic resistance member. He simply responded to content Crooks posted. As Gordon Cash Retell said this, pointing to a comment Teppas made on a 2020-era video posted on the video sharing platform by Crooks.

As for his online presence, Bongino said previous FBI leadership initially downplayed his digital footprint. The degree of his digital footprint was not messaged correctly at all by prior leadership, Bongino said. So, if you're following this, in the same interview where they attacked the Biden administration for lying about Crooks' online posts, we're getting false information about Crooks' online posts. He did indeed speak directly to Teppas. we have the screenshots. They're claiming that Teppas merely responded to Crooks and that it was a one-way interaction, but that's not true. Crooks spoke to Teppas directly. And they weren't talking

about the weather. They were talking about murdering political figures in the United States. And more importantly, shortly after these interactions, Crooks goes totally dark, which would imply that if they carried on further conversations, which maybe they did, we don't know, they did so in a way that might be difficult to track. And that's not far-fetched because in this latest FBI document dump, we learned that Crooks was using several encrypted email services. This is from Elliott's reporting again, quote, An analyst reviewing Crooks' phone found it had repeatedly accessed mail fence

described in the file as an encrypted email service hosted in Belgium between April 15th and July 8th, 2024, across what appears to be four separate account IDs. On July 15th, two days after the shooting, FBI counterterrorism sent formal foreign dissemination requests to two governments' names redacted asking for any and all records on accounts found on the device. Representative Mike Walts later said the accounts traced to Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany. What those governments sent back, if anything, is not contained in the document done. Now, hearing all this, you might conclude that, well, if Crooks was coordinating with Willie Tebis at all, there would have been no way for the U.S. government to know about it. After all, these are just random people on the internet, even if it's true, as Tepa said, that it attracted the attention of some intelligence

services. But the narrative gets a little more complicated when you look at the timeline concerning the Nordic Resistance Movement. This is from the Citizen Commission's documentary watch. Several other dates stand out when examining the timeline of the Nordic Resistance Movement. On August 5th, 2020, Crooks and Tepis reportedly interacted in a YouTube comment section. In April 2021, Representative Elisa Slotkin, a Democrat from Michigan and a former CIA analyst, sent letters to the State Department, FBI, and CIA advocating for the Nordic Resistance Movement to be formally designated as a terrorist organization. In those letters, she explicitly names the NRM, despite it being a relatively small overseas organization. with only a few hundred members. Then on June 14, 2024,

the U.S. State Department officially designated the Nordic Resistance Movement as a specially designated global terrorist organization during proceedings at the United Nations. That designation was officially published into the Federal Register on July 9th, 2024. Just days later, President Trump survived the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. So the Nordic Resistance Movement,

a tiny group consisting of a few hundred people at most, was suddenly attracting some very high-level attention from the U.S. government. And I would suggest that, in all likelihood, the CIA and FBI were monitoring online communications from members of this group. Certainly, you'd think that the FBI would notice if a member of this group was openly talking about assassinating U.S. officials and trying to recruit U.S. citizens to participate in these assassinations. If not, our intelligence agencies are somehow worse than we could have possibly imagined. It's an extremely small number of people that we're talking about here. It's not like the Nordic Resistance Movement has a million members, so you'd imagine that they'd be relatively simple to track.

The other possibility is that someone in the U.S. government was aware of this grooming while it was taking place. Maybe Tepas was an informant working with U.S. intelligence and he was warning them about crooks, or maybe someone in the U.S. government was actively encouraging TEPA's to murder Donald Trump. We really have no idea. I mean, all the possibilities are on the table because, again, no one in the government has told us anything about Tappas one way or another. They could release a statement tomorrow confirming that they've never heard of this guy, never interviewed him, never even knew he existed until random people on the internet discovered Crooks' social media accounts. In that case, they'd have to explain how they missed it, and a lot of heads should roll,

but they haven't even done that. they haven't done anything. In fact, more accurately, they've apparently been lying to us about what they've known about Crooks' social media footprint. So let's look at the timeline of what the FBI has said. In July of 2024, right after the assassination, the FBI immediately gets into Crooks' phone, roughly 40 minutes after getting it to Quantico. They discover his online presence and his encrypted messaging apps, including emails with foreign service providers, According to Fox News, the FBI stated that the FBI examined, quote, 35 accounts linked to crooks, including social media, bank, and other online accounts. The FBI has been able to access all the accounts, the official said.

There's been reporting to inappropriately and incorrectly state that there was encryption the FBI was not able to get into. That's not true. We've been able to get into every single account. So they had total access, but they claimed there was nothing of note, even as other investigators publicly disagreed. This is from New York Post, which actually has more detail in the FBI's latest document dump. Quote, Doug Hagman, whose team of six other investigators have been working the case for months and have interviewed more than 100 people. So they also conducted extensive geofencing analysis of cell phones and tablets not belonging to crooks that were found with him at his home at the rifle range where he took target practice at the rally and at Bethel Park High School, where he graduated in 2022. We don't think he acted alone, Hagman told the post.

This took a lot of coordination. In my view, Crooks was handled by more than one individual, and he was used for this assassination attempt, and I wouldn't preclude the possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him. Hagman said one of the electronic devices geolocated with Crooks at several different places at the time of the shooting is still pinging today at Bethel Park High School. FBI officials who served under President Joe Biden accessed Crooks' phone and his computer. and his encrypted messaging apps in Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany, according to current National Security Advisor Mike Wals, a former GOP congressman. However, they've been very tight-lipped about what they found. So all this is known to the FBI as of July 2024. In February

2025, right after inauguration, Trump demands all available information about the assassination attempt. He told Miranda Devine in a phone call that he wanted, quote, every bit of information about the two men who tried to murder him during the campaign, quote, I want to find out about the two assassins. Why did the one guy have six cell phones? And why did the other guy have foreign apps? No more holding back because of Biden. I'm entitled to know, and they held it back long enough.

A few months later in May 2025, Trump told Brett Baer that he has no new information and is relying on his appointees, including Pam Bondi and Cash Patel, although he suggested he didn't fully trust the answers that he was getting. Watch. And I thought it was strange. You know, the one guy had 18 cell phones. Okay. I have a lot of cell phones, but I have like two. You know, I call that a lot. And I think I probably make more girls than him. It's like that's all I do. And I had to, why does somebody have 18?

Another one, the first one, one from Butler, he had three apps, very unusual apps, and two of them were foreign apps. And then he ends up with a white shoe lure. meaning a super lawyer from Pittsburgh, you know, the big city. And they live outside a butler in a little place. Where do they get this lawyer that would represent IBM and would represent ExxonMobil? You're the president. Can't you find out?

No, no, no, I know, I know, I know, I know. I'm relying on my people to tell me what it is. You know, we have deep-seated craziness in this country. And I'm relying on my people. And so far they, and they're good. But so far they, and in this case at Secret Service, they tell me it's fine. But it's a little hard to believe, to be honest with you, okay?

It's a little bit hard to believe as I get that throbbing feeling. Yeah, yeah. I get a little throbbing feeling. If you find out, we'd love to know. We continue to ask. And a lot of people ask us. It's a little bit strange. We have incredible people in there now.

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Fox News and with a similar message, there's nothing to report. Patel suggests there's an ongoing prosecution to worry about, even though Thomas Crooks is dead. So is there an accomplice on the loose? I mean, who would we prosecute? He didn't say, but it was strange. Watch. How come we don't have more information on the assassination attempts on President Trump? There's two reasons, two open, ongoing prosecutions.

So two of the investigations are obviously closed because the individuals are dead. But there's two live prosecutions. And so we can't get ahead of the federal court case. A lot of that information will come out in the federal court cases, but we have personally invested our time in making sure that we have looked at any possible international connections to terrorism and adversaries alike. And we've both been down to Quantico. We've both done the laboratory testing.

We've both seen the explosives analysis. We've both seen the firearm and physically held it. We are all in on these investigations. Are we going to be surprised at what you learned? You know what, Maria? Cash is not kidding. We've been personally briefed extensively on every single detail, nugget, tendril of this case. One is actively in court right now.

So out of respect for the case, it's probably more appropriate that I'd stay quiet on that. However, I'm not going to tell people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you the truth. And whether you like it or not is up to you. If there was a big explosive there there, right, given my history as a secret service agent and my personal friendship, as the director does with the president, give me one logical, sensible reason we would not have. If you can think of what, there isn't, there, in some of these cases, the there you're looking for is not there. And I know people, I get it. I understand. It's not there. If it was there, we would have told you. Now, they may be right. It's quite possible there's no grand conspiracy, but that's not really the point. The point is that there are clearly relevant pieces of information that are being withheld from the public, including the identity of the man Crooks was speaking with on the day before the shooting at the gun range. The reason the FBI claimed Crooks never spoke to Willie Teppas, the identity of the person who paid for Crooks' cremation, the identity of the people paying for Crooks' parents, high-profile attorneys, the people Crooks

was speaking with on those encrypted apps, the reason the body was released for cremation so quickly, and so on. These are all details that, according to FBI's own statements, the FBI has information on, but they're not providing them to the public. Instead, as of May 2025, they were simply telling us to trust them, and then nothing important was being withheld. Fast forward to July of 2025, and Ron Johnson, for Wisconsin who chairs the Senate's permanent subcommittee on investigations, subpoenas Cash Patel, saying the FBI has, quote, repeatedly failed to produce to the subcommittee records and information critical to its investigation. According to Johnson, quote, for example, following a briefing on March 21, 2025 by

FBI forensic laboratory personnel, the subcommittee requested copies of all the records, including photographs presented during the briefing. To date, the FBI has failed to produce to the subcommittee these records and photographs. Further, on June 4th, 2025, after issuing numerous requests to the Pennsylvania State Police, the committee subpoenaed PSP for records related to the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt. During a phone call with staff on July 1st, 2025, PSP informed subcommittee and committee staff that PSP did not possess certain records responsive to the June 4th subpoena, such as security camera footage. According to PSP, the FBI possesses all security camera footage obtained,

connection to the July 13th, 2024 assassination attempt for nearly a year, the subcommittee has attempted to obtain these records and other information, including the aforementioned security camera footage. However, to date, the FBI has failed to produce the requested records. But the Stonewallin continued. In September of 2025, Cash Patel again claims this time under oath

that there's some mysterious trial of someone that prevents the disclosure of more information about Thomas Crooks. This is from the Daily Mail, quote, FBI director Cash Patel gave a curious answer when asked by a congressman to provide details about President Donald Trump's near-assassassant Thomas Matthew Crooks. During a hearing of Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Republican Texas Representative Wesley Hunt noted they had asked Patel's predecessor Christopher Ray a very detailed question about Thomas Matthew Crooks, a shooter responsible for the assassination attempt on President Trump's life. Hunt then added that he would like to resubmit the question and asked if Patel would answer them. Mattel responded that he could commit to providing response as soon as the trial is over. But there is no trial for crooks as he died shortly after firing his shots at then-candidate Donald Trump.

We have multiple references to a trial and no one knows who's on trial. That's very strange. Then in December of 2025, Ron Johnson told Miranda Devine that the FBI still hasn't been providing any information and that he's relying on subpoenas to telecom companies instead. Watch. What is going on there? And why did you have to subpoena Cash Patel's FBI in July to get any information? You know, it dawned at me. I mean, the older you get, the faster time flies, right?

Yeah. And all of a sudden, we're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the assassination attempt. And you start realizing, well, we've got any of this information. Again, my assumption was, and it's always dangerous to assume. My assumption was where President Trump takes office. Yeah. You know, he's obviously interested in this. He's going to make sure that his FBI director and people around him are going to get to the bottom of this.

Yeah, I don't like duplicating effort. No. No, if James Comer's doing something in the house, I mean, let them do it. Yeah. I've always described myself as a mosquito and a nudist colony. It's a target-rich environment. So I got plenty of things to keep me busy. Yeah.

Well, I've got to find out of realizing, I mean, here we are a year later. I haven't heard a peep out of this. We still don't know about, you know, what to his social media accounts say, me, what, why haven't we unlocked this information? Why does an American know more about it? Because, again, there's some odd things about it. Yeah. You know, him appearing in commercials for, was it black rock and, you know, just like the other,

you know, potential assassin down in Palm Beach. Like, I mean, it's just bizarre stuff. I mean, explain this to us. And didn't he also practice guns at the, the range that how many of federal officials were at? Yeah. So there's information we want to get from, you know.

But why did you have to subpoena the FBI? What Cash Patel doesn't seem like he's really on top of things or has he been captured by the deep state? I think views, again, my subpoenas to this administration, our felony subpoena, it's just kind of prompt action. Part of the problem, I'm highly sympathetic with this, whether it's Bobby Kennedy and HHS or Pan Bondi or Cash Patel. I mean, it is a deep state. It's a pervasive deep state. It's a really deep state, okay? And it's populated primarily by partisan leftists. So have you got

anything on Crooks? No. We are hoping, we're hoping the telecommunication companies, you know, work with us. But no, we haven't really uncovered things. Right. So why is that? I mean, there are so many theories about Thomas Crooks, 20 years old, you know, did he act alone? I can't answer that question. Right. It's shocking that you can't answer that question. Well, sorry. No, but I mean, it's shocking that we don't know.

I mean, 18 months later. No, I mean, very early on, and I think this was a news outlet, it might have been New York Post. I mean, it did a geo-positioning search on Crooks' phone. And kind of like that family circus deals, you know, all over the place, you know, the FBI headquarters. It's like, what's pulling off here? Now, somewhere in this timeline, while Congress was getting stonewalled by the FBI, an anonymous source got Crooks' phone number from FOIA request and was able to hack into Crooks' account where he found that, in fact, Crooks did have a prolific social media footprint. And this revelation totally undermined the official FBI narrative that Crooks had no social media footprint, which Cash Patel. either didn't know about or lied about in that interview we played earlier.

And now this week, as the FBI finally starts releasing documents, Trump is flat out saying that the assassination attempt and the cover-up was a Democrat plot. Quote, everybody knows the crooked Joe Biden FBI didn't do what they should have with respect to the lunatic who shot me in Butler, Pennsylvania. By the time I got into office on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone. New info was just found. Why wasn't it seen long ago? This was all a Democrat plot to get me out of the election that failed. Dirty cop, Christopher Ray, should pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt, and certainly for the things he said. God bless America.

That, by the way, is this is not being treated as major headline news. The President of the United States just flat out said that there was a government conspiracy among the Democrats to assassinate. him. That's the kind of thing that you think there'd be some follow-ups. I'm like, okay, well, we don't just say that and then move on. And if there's going to be any kind of follow-up, which it should be a lot more than a follow-if, if the President of the United States is directly accusing the Democrat Party at the highest levels of trying to kill him, then we need a lot more than a follow-up. There should be major investigations, arrests. I mean, it should be, this should be treated as a five-alarm fire, obviously.

But realistically, we're a couple months away from not being able to do any of that because probably going to lose control of Congress. I mean, that's almost guaranteed at this point, although no one on the right wants to admit it, but it's true. And when that happens, congressional subpoena power is gone. Democrats will spend all their time investigating Trump filing fake impeachment charges, packing the court, making Puerto Rico a state, destroying the United States as we know it.

You know, they'll get right back to what they were doing before, before they lost power. And we are running out of time for an actual accounting of what happened in Butler and also the Ryan Ruth assassination. There's plenty of foreign connections there as well. If you release all the information, and it turns out that Dan Bongino was right, then, you know, that's great news for the country.

We should celebrate it. But if the information suggests something else that deep state operatives tried to murder Donald Trump, as Trump himself is now indicating, because they knew he was about to win the election, then we need a total non-negotiable purge of the U.S. federal government immediately. Think of how differently things could have played out. Just one day before the Trump assassination attempt, the FBI arrested an Iran-connected operative named Asif Merchant, saying that he was plotting to kill Donald Trump. Now, if Trump had actually been killed in Butler, it's conceivable that the

deep state would have found a way to blame Iran to say the shooting was tied to merchants' conspiracy somehow. They could then install someone like Nikki Haley as a GOP nominee, totally bypassing JD Vance because remember he hadn't been nominated yet. And then we could be living through a host of foreign wars right now, even bigger and more destructive than the ones we're currently experiencing. Maybe we'd have boots on the ground in Tehran. It's impossible to know, really, but it's also not terribly far-fetched, given the sheer magnitude of the deception we've all been subjected to over the past two years. That deception must end. The federal government must tell us everything they know about Thomas Crooks because it's very clear they know a lot.

otherwise the next time a threat to the establishment runs for office they'll do the exact same thing they'll shoot them in the head in front of millions of people and barring another miracle the second time around they probably won't miss that'll do it for the show today thanks for watching thanks for listening we'll talk to you on Monday have a great weekend godspeed every significant movement in history has started with protesting

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