Fox Newsâ Peter Doocy provided chilling details after a report this week indicated a possible connection between President Donald Trumpâs would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, and Tyler Robinson, the man charged with killing Turning Point USAâs Charlie Kirk.
âInsisting there is nothing helpful in Thomas Crooksâ digital footprint, there are newly discovered posts believed to be linked to Crooks showing him with guns and showing him with an affinity for assassins. There is a new push to visit bipartisan congressional investigation as investigators claim they were never briefed about any Crooks posts,â Doocy said on Fox & Friends while outside the White House.
âI want to know everything there is to know about this country. I think our country deserves it. I think our family deserves it. I think the world deserves it. By the way, forked credibility of the Secret Service, and I love men and women of the Secret Service, dear friends, better get the real story up. Lack of information could be
made public so far,â Doocy added.
âPeople at the FBI said the president assured them he is satisfied with the investigation of what he has been told. What are you to believe? People who brief the president or Miranda, Levine of the New York Post, or both, or maybe the president changed his mind,â co-host Brian Kilmeade said.
New reporting indicates a connection between Crooks and Robinson.
TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said the development is âa five-alarm fire,â responding Monday on social media to a report by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine.
Devine highlighted Crooksâ online interest in transgenderism and the âfurryâ subculture. Robinsonâs roommate was described as his transgender partner, who also reportedly had a furry fetish.
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Devine reported that investigators have provided little clarity about Crooksâ motive for attempting to assassinate then-candidate Trump in July 2024.
âCrooks was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper, but not before he killed rallygoer Corey Comperatore, 50, and seriously wounded David Dutch, 58, and James Copenhaver, 75, who were sitting in the bleachers behind Trump,â Devine wrote.
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âThere is something very wrong with the official story and that invites conspiracy theories,â she said.
Devine added that a source revealed new details from Crooksâ digital footprint, including posts showing he shifted from enthusiastically pro-Trump to openly hostile toward the former president and his supporters beginning in 2020.
âHow can you people call others sheep, but you are [too] brainwashed to realize how dumb you are,â he wrote on Feb. 26, 2020.
âI mean literally you guys sound like a cult at times.â
In August 2020, Crooks posted that âthe only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks,â urging followers to bomb essential buildings and assassinate political leaders.
Rod Swanson, a former senior FBI agent and former chief of investigations for Nevada during the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, said there is no scenario in which the FBI would have missed Crooksâ online behavior.
âNo matter how ridiculous the allegation, no matter if itâs COVID or not, somebody is going to knock on somebodyâs door,â Swanson said.
âIf they investigated that kid thereâs a record of it and thereâs an assessment that some leader made that this was not a threat or it rose to a level and they did something else.â
Devine also noted Crooksâ identification with âthey/themâ pronouns on the art platform DeviantArt, a major hub for the furry community.
She wrote that he showed a deep interest in anthropomorphized animal characters, often associated with sexual themes.
Lance Twiggs, Robinsonâs roommate, was also reportedly involved in the furry subculture.
Turning Point USAâs Jack Posobiec said Robinsonâs trial should be televised.
âThereâs questions coming out about the strange relationship between Lance Twiggs and Tyler Robinson,â Posobiec said.
âDrug use, obsessions with ChatGPT, the furry lifestyle, black market HRT (hormone treatment).â
Both the Crooks and Robinson cases appear to involve similar underlying mental health struggles.
