FBI documents show Trump shooter emailed Butler County deputy before July 2024 attack
Thomas Matthew Crooks exchanged emails with a Butler County Sheriff's deputy before he opened fire on President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, a detail buried in heavily redacted FBI files that the bureau released only after a watchdog group sued to pry them loose.The documents, first reported by the Daily Caller, emerged through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch. The conservative legal organization forced the FBI to make dozens of records public, records the bureau had, until now, kept from the American public nearly two years after the assassination attempt that left Trump wounded and a rallygoer dead.
Among the released files is an FBI electronic communication dated July 16, 2024, just three days after the shooting, titled "Disc of 5 Deputies of Butler County Sheriff's Office." The document compiles interviews the bureau conducted with five local deputies.
One unnamed deputy told FBI agents she had "checked her emails and records and only had two email communications" from Crooks. She said she had no "personal interaction" with him.
The content of those two emails remains unknown. The FBI's heavy redactions stripped most context from the released pages, leaving the public to guess what Crooks wrote to a local law enforcement official before carrying out his attack.
The content of those two emails remains unknown. The FBI's heavy redactions stripped most context from the released pages, leaving the public to guess what Crooks wrote to a local law enforcement official before carrying out his attack.
Why a 20-year-old would contact a sheriff's deputy by email, what he asked or discussed, and whether anyone flagged the exchange before July 13, all of that sits behind black bars on a government page.
That pattern of secrecy has defined the FBI's handling of the Butler shooting from the start. Judicial Watch had to go to federal court just to get the files released. No docket number or court name has been disclosed publicly, but the organization published the production documents on its website.
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That pattern of secrecy has defined the FBI's handling of the Butler shooting from the start. Judicial Watch had to go to federal court just to get the files released. No docket number or court name has been disclosed publicly, but the organization published the production documents on its website.
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1 comment:
Oh well remember back when this all happened a lot of news agencies from the right like revolver news showed how the FBI and the CIA had also been in contact through telephone with him many times before this happened so he was set up to do this anyway and it was probably from our own government from within they just cover everything up, our government is pretty corrupt and pretty horrible and probably Biden and all his cronies were behind all of this and they just cover it all up it's very disgusting but a lot of evidence has already shown that this guy crooks was already in contact with the FBI and the CIA even before all of this shooting happened that day. It's pretty sad but our government is pretty corrupt too!
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