Donald Trump was almost murdered on live television.
But he survived and rallied to win the 2024 Presidential election.
And one shocking image just changed everything about Trump’s assassination attempt.
New details about Butler shooting
Donald Trump was less than an inch away from being assassinated at his Presidential rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
Would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to get off multiple shots at Trump from an unguarded roof.
Despite being a 20-year-old young man, Crooks seemingly had zero social media presence, which seems almost impossible.
In fact, incredibly little is known about him, as the FBI and Secret Service have been tight-lipped.
Crooks’ home was scrubbed immediately, and his body was cremated.
But now there are reports that Crooks might have had an accomplice.
The New York Post reported that a “veteran private investigator from Erie, Pa., who was hired shortly after the fateful July 13 event at the Butler rally to look into Crooks by a private client, told The Post he believes a ‘criminal network’ was operating with him at the time of the assassination attempt, is still in existence and still wants to kill President Trump. Doug Hagmann, whose team of six other investigators have been working the case for months and have interviewed more than 100 people, said they also conducted extensive geofencing analysis of cellphones 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.”
It would make sense that Crooks had an accomplice in order to pull off a near-assassination of a past and future President.
Hagmann told The Post, “We don’t think he acted alone. . .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.”
Mysteries still abound
Crooks was somehow able to evade law enforcement and get a direct line of sight to the stage.
It would have been more believable if he had help.
Pictures show that he was seemingly on the phone with somebody before taking shots at Trump.
Who was Thomas Crooks on the phone with before he shot the President of the United States in the face? https://t.co/efSQQgduHC pic.twitter.com/GyW530OVWe
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 28, 2025
The Post added that “FBI officials who served under President Joe Biden accessed Crooks’ phone, computer and his encrypted messaging apps in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany, according to current national security adviser Mike Waltz, a former GOP congressman. However, they have been very tight-lipped about what they found.”
Hopefully with Trump in the White House and Kash Patel running the FBI, the American people can finally get concrete answers about what happened that day.
Hagmann added that someone or something radicalized Crooks along the way.
He explained, “Thomas Crooks was a brilliant engineering student who was on a path to success…Something happened to make him go crazy and that’s why I think it might have been pharmaceuticals. He performed an attempted assassination and he was committed all the way through — to death. He was not acting erratic but he was a wild lunatic at the same time, incredibly calculating and incredibly smart.”
If Crook had accomplices, then apprehending them must be a top priority.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
