The New York Post recently published a report suggesting that the July 13 attempt on President Donald Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, may not have been solely the work of Thomas Matthew Crooks but rather the doing of a “criminal network” that has benefited from alleged efforts by law enforcement to suppress critical information about the shooting.
Dana Kennedy, a reporter who previously worked at CNN and MSNBC, did her apparent best to justify the Post’s claim of an exclusive by speaking to various people who knew Crooks. The report hinged, however, on a well-established theory, this time restated by a Pennsylvania private investigator who has reportedly done some digging in Butler.
Doug Hagmann told the Post that he was hired by a private client to look into the assassination attempt shortly after the deadly rally and has been working the case for several months with a team of six other investigators.
After interviewing over 100 people and conducting geofencing analysis of cellular devices not belonging to Crooks that were detected at his home, the rifle range where he practiced, and at the high school where he graduated two years prior to the shooting, Hagmann concluded, “We don’t think he acted alone.”
Various individuals who spoke to the Post characterized Crooks as a happy and “nerdy” individual — as someone whose transformation into a killer must have been private and possibly even nurtured.
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