Two days ago, Tucker Carlson released a thirty-minute video accusing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of lying to the American people about the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump and reporting “that day Thomas Crooks came within a quarter inch of destroying this country and, yet, a year and a half later we still almost nothing about him or why he did it.” Frankly, more is expected of someone of Carlson’s caliber of journalist.
The fact is, Tucker Carlson has no basis for reporting that Thomas Crooks attempted to kill anyone.
There has been no physical evidence provided by the FBI, Pennsylvania State Police, Butler Police, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, Congressional Committees, the Butler, PA Coroner or the Allegheny County Coroner.
While Carlson focuses on proving the FBI lied about Crooks not having any online presence, AbleChild would argue that, while interesting, knowing what Crooks posted online two years before the assassination attempt still does not provide any proof that Crooks was the shooter.
To legitimately convict Thomas Matthew Crooks of attempting to kill Donald Trump and being responsible for the death of Corey Comperatore, much more solid evidence is needed, beginning with the FBI’s ballistics report. It was reported by the Congressional Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump that the projectile recovered from the roof of the AGR building next to Crooks, that “although a microscopic comparison was inconclusive, the grooves on the fragment were consistent with the rifling characteristics of test rounds fired through the Secret Service rifle.” “Consistent with?” That’s not a match. The FBI is merely suggesting that the grooves of the fragment were “consistent.” The microscopic comparison either shows that the grooves of the recovered projectile match the barrel of the sniper’s weapon or they don’t.
Further, the FBI also would have conducted DNA and fingerprint analysis on the alleged weapon and any other evidence found on the alleged shooter’s body or the roof of the AGR building. However, there are obvious problems with the chain of custody of any evidence collected from the roof of the AGR building. Recall that the alleged shooter’s body laid on the roof of the AGR building the entire night until 6:30 a.m. the following morning when the Butler Coroner, William Young, finally decided to perform his death investigation.
Who had control of the AGR building during the evening hours after the 6:23 p.m. shooting until 6:30 a.m. the following morning? This is no minor issue as the body and evidence could have been tampered with during that 12-hour timespan. Plus, why was this information not important for Carlson to mention?
Of course, other issues make it ironic that Carlson, like so many others, is convinced that Crooks was the shooter even though there is no physical evidence that has been made publicly available to support this conclusion, beginning with the destruction of Crooks body within days of autopsy.
AbleChild would argue that the Allegheny County Medical Examiner who conducted the autopsy of the alleged gunman failed to adequately test of psychiatric drug use of the alleged shooter, rather only testing for “alcohol and drugs of abuse.” Why? Why in such an important case would the medical examiner fail to test for prescription mind-altering drugs, especially in light of the family’s mental health background?
More interesting is that the Medical Examiner does not reveal how he identified that the body being autopsied was that of Thomas Matthew Crooks. The only accompanying evidence was “a clear plastic bag containing medium length brown hair (submitted as evidence).”
Did Butler County Coroner, William Young, provide that bag of hair? Who knows? Young has never made public his investigative notes. In fact, it is anyone’s guess how Young identified Crooks as the body lying on the roof. Having Young’s investigative notes would be extremely helpful, especially having any information as to why the coroner was turned away from the AGR building on the evening of July 13th and forced to leave the body on the roof all night before identification could be made.
At the end of the day, Carlson’s video about the FBI’s mistakes regarding Crooks’ online presence, while interesting, doesn’t get us to the point of who pulled the trigger.
If there is chastising to be done, it should be about the FBI’s refusal to release its investigation, along with all physical evidence reports. The same can be said about the Pennsylvania State Police Report. Why have these reports been withheld?
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