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The Accused Assassins from Butler to Utah, and the Parents Who Escape Investigation

If the public is barred from learning about the parents of Lance Twiggs, Tyler Robinson, or Thomas Crooks, then the government must not be allowed to investigate or expose anyone’s family, no matter the crime or who is accused.

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Foreign involvement has been the focus of respected independent reporters and podcasters, while mainstream media have largely ignored questions about the families of the accused assassin of Charlie Kirk and the accused would-be assassin of President Trump and killer of Corey Comperatore and James Copenhaver. Why not start closer to home, in the United States, with the families? The parents of both accused assassins have documented connections to the behavioral-health industry.

Reports describe Lance Twiggs as a straight-A student in an accelerated program and say his parents sent him money for expenses, including doctor visits and prescription drugs. The public deserves records establishing what support was provided, when, and what the family knew.

Concerning questions have come to light regarding public Utah records linking Scott Miles to Intermountain Support Coordination Services, LLC, where Amber Robinson also worked, and Utah Tech University where Lance Twiggs attended UT SUCCESS Academy, a gifted program. Utah officials should disclose when Robinson and Miles worked with the behavioral provider, Miles’s university role during Twiggs’ enrollment, whether Miles and Twiggs ever met, and what state officials knew.  The timelines and influential relationships surrounding Twiggs are facts that can easily be confirmed by Governor Cox, afterall; he has total access to this information.

These same questions apply to both Thomas Crooks’s parents as well as Tyler Robinson’s parents whose professional backgrounds in behavioral health and recent financial issues have drawn attention. Did the parents supply to investigators education records, mental health records including all psychiatric drug “treatment,” and any participation in special government programs? A congressional task-force report said access to some FBI and ATF records was limited, including a recording of an interview with Crooks’s parents. Officials should identify what remains withheld and under what authority.

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HORROR: Pediatric ICU Doctor Who Cared for Critically Ill Children Stabbed to Death in His Bed While His Children Slept — Suspect Was Out on Non-Monetary Bail in Felony Burglary Case

A respected pediatric critical-care doctor who dedicated his career to treating gravely ill children was stabbed to death inside his Pennsylvania home early Thursday morning while his own two children were sleeping nearby.

And the man accused of the horrific attack was reportedly already facing felony burglary charges, and had been released on non-monetary bail.

Dr. Idris V.R. Evans, 46, served as co-medical director of the Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and as an assistant professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, according to his profile on the University of Pittsburgh.

Colleagues described him as a dedicated caregiver whose work focused on the sickest kids, pediatric sepsis, critical care transport, and keeping children alive when they arrived at the hospital in the worst possible shape.

That life ended around 12:30 a.m. Thursday in the family’s Edgewood home on Linden Avenue, KDKA reported.

According to WPXI, citing Allegheny County police and court documents, 32-year-old Elijah Hemingway of Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood entered the home through a window, went to the third-floor bedroom, and attacked Evans and his wife with a kitchen knife while they slept.

Hemingway was wearing only underwear and reportedly talked about “being God” during the assault.

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FBI Has New Details on Trump Shooter, Attorney General Says

Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday that the FBI has uncovered new information about the man who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump at a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“It is new information about the shooter and about his background, about his history, and that stuff that we didn’t know before,” Blanche told reporters at a White House press conference on Sept. 15.

He did not reveal what the bureau found.

The comments from Blanche came hours after Trump claimed on social media that new information was found about the assassination attempt and alleged that it was really a failed “Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election.”

Investigations into the shooting have found the shooter acted alone.

Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sept. 15: “Everybody knows the Crooked Joe Biden FBI didn’t do what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA. 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?”

Trump added that former FBI Director Christopher Wray, whom he appointed in his first term, “should pay a price” for how the department responded to the assassination attempt “and certainly for the things he said.”

Blanche, who was Trump’s personal lawyer at the time of the assassination attempt, said during the briefing that he was with Trump as the investigation into the shooting was playing out, trying to ascertain what happened.

“His frustration and concern about what the former director was doing is something that is not new,” Blanche said.

The gunman was identified as Thomas Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. On July 13, 2024, Crooks climbed onto the roof of the American Glass Research building outside the Secret Service’s inner perimeter and opened fire about eight minutes into Trump’s speech. A bullet grazed Trump’s right ear.

Corey Comperatore, a retired firefighter shielding his family, was killed, while James Copenhaver and David Dutch were seriously wounded by shots fired by Crooks. A Secret Service counter-sniper killed Crooks.

Blanche offered no further description of the new material. He did not say when it was developed or whether it would be released at a later date.

In November 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel said the evidence pointed to Crooks planning and carrying out the attack on his own. Patel said the bureau found no evidence of accomplices and no sign Crooks had discussed his intent with anyone.

The work, Patel said, involved more than 480 FBI employees, more than 1,000 interviews, about 2,000 public tips, data from 13 digital devices, review of 500,000 files, hundreds of hours of video, 10 financial accounts, and 25 social media or online forum accounts.

In July 2024, then-Director Christopher Wray told Congress that investigators had not identified a motive and had found no indication of co-conspirators. Wray said Crooks searched online on July 6, the day the Butler rally was announced, for “how far away was Oswald from Kennedy.”

The same day, Wray said, Crooks registered for the rally. Crooks legally obtained the DPMS Panther Arms A-15-style rifle from his father. He bought ammunition about five hours before the shooting, flew a drone roughly two hours before Trump took the stage, and fired eight shots from the roof, Wray said. Investigators recovered relatively crude explosive devices and a detonation device that Crooks had been in possession of.

At least nine federal reports on the Butler shooting have been made public.

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‘A long history of scandal’: Soros DA Larry Krasner referred by judge for criminal investigation

Billionaire influencer George Soros long has funded the political campaigns of leftist prosecutors, and in turn they’ve used their offices to pursue an agenda of leniency for criminals.

Now one is facing trouble for doing just that.

A report at the Federalist explains that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and a top deputy, Matthew Stielger, have been referred for criminal investigation by a federal judge.

He’s suspected of “false statements, false declarations made under oath, perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy.”

Explained the report, “It’s familiar stuff. Krasner, a spectacularly woke prosecutor who won the office with lavish backing from George Soros, has a long history of scandal and crisis, and has been accused of misleading courts in several high-profile cases.”

The report said the present problem “involves an effort by a convicted murderer, Dennis Johnson, to be freed from prison, turning to the federal courts with a repeated request for a writ of habeas corpus after state courts denied his several petitions for release.”

When the court asked Krasner’s office to respond to Johnson’s petitions, “Without investigation, Krasner’s office conceded Johnson’s questionable claims about the supposedly flawed murder conviction, telling the court that prosecutors ‘did not oppose the granting of relief,’ according to the memorandum.”

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A Nasal PCR Test Is Not an Autopsy: The Pennsylvania ‘Measles Death’ That Was Declared Before Anybody Looked

The vaccine cartel is using an old strategy of fear based on news stories about nasal PCR measles positive cases. Somehow the CNN reporter knows nothing about what happened clinically in the case but declares the woman was “unvaccinated.”

The Pennsylvania “Measles Death” That Wasn’t

The CNN headline is doing what mainstream outlets do best: manufacturing a vaccine-compliance morality tale out of a woman who died of end-stage lung disease. Let’s actually read the article — not the headline — and the story unravels almost instantly.

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FBI Foils ISIS-Inspired Mass-Shooting Plot in Butler County, Pennsylvania — Same County Where a Gunman Tried to Assassinate President Trump

An ISIS-inspired terror attack was reportedly stopped in Pennsylvania before innocent Americans could be harmed.

Jonathan Hunter Kramer, 21, of Valencia, Pennsylvania, was arrested by the FBI on September 12 after investigators allegedly caught him taking final steps toward a violent attack in support of ISIS.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged Kramer by federal criminal complaint with receiving a firearm and ammunition while knowing, or having reason to believe, they would be used to commit a felony or federal crime of terrorism.

According to federal authorities, Kramer operated online under the alias “Hamza Al Rashid.” Investigators say the account claimed affiliation with ISIS, offered to share explosive manuals, and discussed preparing for a “mission” while saying he was only missing a weapon.

The FBI had reportedly known Kramer since 2023, when he was a minor.

In 2023, while still a minor, he was investigated after using Telegram under names including “Nikolas Cruz” and “@ShootIntoACrowd.”

Agents searched his parents’ home and found a recording of him pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Pennsylvania authorities adjudicated him delinquent for his role in a mass-casualty plot and for possessing child sexual abuse material. He was sent to a juvenile facility in Oil City and released in March 2026, NBC News reported.

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PA Dem Candidate Condemns Voter ID, Then Demands It at His Own Campaign Event

Pennsylvania Democrat congressional nominee Bob Brooks opposes voter identification requirements for elections, but his campaign apparently has a different standard when controlling admission to its own events.

Brooks required attendees to present identification, and campaign staff reportedly denied entry to at least one person seeking to attend.

The episode offers voters another striking example of Democrat hypocrisy surrounding basic election security.

Identification is portrayed as sinister when citizens cast ballots, yet it suddenly becomes reasonable when Democrat campaigns want to know exactly who is entering the room.

Brooks is running in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, where he hopes to unseat Republican Rep. Ryan Mackenzie.

The district is expected to host one of the most closely watched and competitive House contests of the 2026 election cycle.

The Democrat nominee has collected endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Those endorsements place Brooks firmly inside the national progressive operation, even as he attempts to appeal to Pennsylvania voters concerned about costs, public safety, and election integrity.

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They Said This Never Happens: Mexican Illegal Charged for Alleged Illegal Voting in Swing State

The Department of Justice announced charges against a 30-year-old Mexican national who allegedly voted illegally in the 2024 election.

Katya Rodriguez, 30, who lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has been charged with “false statement of citizenship in order to vote, fraudulent registration, and voting as an alien,” per a news release from the agency.

“The integrity of our elections, which are fundamental to democracy, should be of utmost importance to every American,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

“It is a cherished right for eligible American citizens, and only eligible American citizens, to vote for their representatives in government,” he added.

“Election fraud is a serious crime, and it is the duty of the Department of Justice to treat it as such.”

Rodriguez faces up to 11 years in prison, as well as a fine and a term of supervised release after her sentence.

Homeland Security Investigations led the investigation into the case.

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The Politics Of Measles

By the middle point of 20th-century American history, measles was widely considered a rite of passage for kids. You get it and you shake it off. You earn lifetime immunity. This was true of every generation just before mine.

For the previous century, measles had become ever less dangerous with sanitation and nutrition. By the time the vaccine came along, it was fully controlled and only very rarely led to hospitalization. The protocols were taught in every school and understood by all classes.

I was apparently part of the first generation to receive the inoculation. It was convenient, but not necessary simply because society had systems and traditions in place to manage it well. How much difference did the shot make in driving infection to zero? Some, surely, and this added to the prestige of vaccines.

That said, I did get chicken pox as a natural infection and recall well what it was like. That no longer happens except in a few communities. I was the last to experience this and I’m happy to share the experience.

My parents came to me excitedly and said we were going to a party. I found myself among a group of kids I did not know and we played and played for hours. Then we left. That was fun, I thought, but a bit confusing. The next day, I woke up with itchy red spots.

My parents cheered. Their plan had worked. I recalled feeling great confusion. Why were my parents celebrating my sickness? It seemed very odd. They had their reasons. They knew the science.

They explained to me how the immune system works and why it is best that I get this when I’m young rather than old. My immunity would be durable and be boosted later in life as my own kids caught the normal childhood infections, which in turn would protect me from the related infection of shingles.

There is this tendency now to treat these strategies as paleolithic as compared with syringes and fluids in the childhood vaccination schedule. Actually, we should look back on these days as the height of serious science. My parents knew exactly what they were doing and it taught me a valuable lesson as a kid. I learned about the high complexity of the immune system that needs exposure as training.

Eventually, of course, the chicken pox vaccine came along and many others as well, resulting in a vast mixture of combined shot after shot. Industry profited. Human health suffered. The Trump administration is trying to fix the problem. Industry doesn’t like that. It is calling in favors from politicians to stop the return to science.

This takes us to the wild drama now playing itself out in Pennsylvania. In April of this year, the media and the governor’s office started going on about a measles outbreak. It was centered in Lancaster and Lebanon counties – both with sizable Amish and Mennonite populations.

The framing here matters. The Amish and Mennonite communities routinely expose children, just as my parents did. It is not an “outbreak” but an application of sophisticated science.

The health of this community ranks among the highest. The most common health issues affecting children in the United States are nearly absent among the Amish, including autism, obesity, diabetes, ADHD, and so on.

Nonetheless, Pennsylvania set up 91 pop-up clinics around the infected community and jabbed kids with more than 4,000 doses using the MMR shot that many people connect to the rise of autism. Forty more clinics are planned.

In science, you have the control group and the tested group. The Amish are the control and keep revealing that there might be a better way. Eliminate the control and you eliminate the embarrassment. This is precisely what both Pfizer and Moderna did after their own tests of the COVID shot: they pushed it on the saline group following first results.

In Pennsylvania, opposition arose to this push for industrial inoculation, and understandably so. In the post-COVID era, trust in public health is depleted to near zero.

Here is where the current drama picked up. On Aug. 14, a newborn child died in Strasburg Township, Lancaster County. The cause of death was later given by the county coroner: lacerated/ruptured spleen, massive blood loss. The postmortem used the PCR test (which detects presence, not infection) and found measles in utero. Obviously, this baby could not otherwise have been vaccinated. It is pointless to call a baby unvaccinated for measles, just as it is ridiculous to observe the infant is illiterate.

A week later, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced two “measles-associated” deaths in Lancaster County: unvaccinated residents, they said. They claimed these were the first measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania in 35 years. There were no other details given: nothing about the cause of death, nothing about ages, nothing about anything.

Governor Josh Shapiro announced two deaths caused by measles. Not merely associated or related, but caused. The media ran with the story, using the language of causation. He called the deaths preventable and tied them to lack of immunization. He highlighted his clinic campaign and told reporters that Secretary Kennedy had called to offer help with the outbreak to which he responded:

“I was very, very blunt with him, and I made very clear that his actions and the rhetoric that’s coming from this administration are having a negative impact on communities across America, particularly right here in Pennsylvania.”

It was at this point that the narrative fell apart. The CDC called. The governor’s office could give no more information. The Lancaster County Commissioner Josh Parsons spoke out and said that the coroner’s office has zero deaths with measles listed as immediate cause; one person died with measles, not from it.

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Trump DOJ Charges FIVE for Illegal Voting in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Wisconsin — Including Two Illegal Aliens from Mexico in Key Swing States

The Trump Justice Department announced Friday that five individuals living in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Wisconsin have been charged in connection with alleged illegal voting or fraudulent voter registration during the 2022 and 2024 elections.

The defendants include two illegal aliens, two other foreign nationals, and one American citizen accused of helping his noncitizen wife unlawfully register and vote.

But Democrats and their media allies keep telling Americans that noncitizen voting is merely a “conspiracy theory.”

The latest federal charges tell a very different story.

Attorney General Todd Blanche declared, “Election fraud is a serious crime, and it is the duty of the Department of Justice to treat it as such.”

According to the Justice Department:

Middle District of Pennsylvania

Thomas Holtzman, 68, and his wife Marisol Guzman, 50, both of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to Guzman illegally voting as an alien in the 2024 election. Guzman was charged with voting as an alien. Holtzman, a U.S. citizen, was charged with false statement of citizenship in order to vote and aiding and abetting and fraudulent registration and aiding and abetting.

Katya Rodriguez, 30, an illegal alien from Mexico living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to illegally voting as an alien in the 2024 election. Specifically, Rodriguez was charged with false statement of citizenship in order to vote, fraudulent registration, and voting as an alien.

If convicted, Holtzman faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a term of supervised release, and a fine. Guzman faces a maximum penalty of one year in prison, a term of supervised release, and a fine. Rodriguez faces a maximum penalty of 11 years in prison, a term of supervised release, and a fine. Any sentence would be imposed by a judge after consideration of the applicable federal sentencing statutes and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.

HSI investigated the cases. Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Ford for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is prosecuting the cases.

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