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your support. So the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said,

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Americans deserve answers on Thomas Crooks, the Dickenzian named would

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be assassin of Donald Trump from last year, Butler Pennsylvania,

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the whack job that took a shot at Donald Trump

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while he was giving a speech and but for a

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millimeter gust of wind or something or a turn of

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the head, miss Donald Trump and struck Corey comparatory volunteer firefighter,

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killed him, seriously wounded two others. So Caroline Levitt was

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asked about well, the question came from Miranda Divine from

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the New York Post during the White House Press briefing,

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and Divine just did this big story where she uncovered

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a lot of the social media posts that Thomas Crooks

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had been making in the years prior to essentially twenty twenty,

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when he went sort of social media silent, so Levitt said, quote,

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those questions are definitely deserving of answers, and I understand

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why the public wants those answers, and I believe the

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president does too. Okay. So that's what happened yesterday. It

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was during the press briefing. And here is the original

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reporting from Miranda Divine, which was then also followed up

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by reporting by Tucker Carlson, although that got pushed back

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from Cash Bettel because of the sloppy way that it

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was written up. I think, so Okay. Miranda Divine's piece

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New York Post, she says, we are all owed a

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better explanation from the FBI and the Secret Service about

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the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Sixteen months ago at

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a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, twenty year old Thomas

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Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper, but

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not before we killed one of the rally attendees, Corey Comparatory,

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who was fifty years old, also seriously wounded David Dutch

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fifty eight, and James Copenhager seventy five, who were sitting

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in the bleachers behind Trump. There is something very wrong

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with the official story that invites conspiracy theories, right, And

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this is the problem. When you don't disclose all of

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the information, when you appear to be hiding things in

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obvious ways, it invites conspiracy theories. Even if you are

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completely you know, transparent in everything, it still invites conspiracy theories,

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to be sure. But the problem is when there are

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things that are obviously suspect or being covered up, or

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being lied about or something, then it makes those conspiracy

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theories gain traction. So the President, you'll recall, had demanded

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answers on this month's ago. Then FBI Director Christopher Ray

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told Congress after the July thirteenth, twenty twenty four, attack,

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that the bureau had found nothing in Crooks's online history

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that pointed to a motive or political ideology. A week later,

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Raised Deputy Paul Abody told Congress that comments posted on

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one of Crooks's social media accounts appear to reflect anti

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Semitic and anti immigration themes, to espouse political violence, and

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are described as extreme in nature. Okay, so the implication

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there is that oh, anti Semitic, anti immigration, he must

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be a right winger, which never made sense. It never

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made sense, But that's all we really got. But now,

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thanks to an enterprising source who uncovered Crooks's hidden digital footprint,

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we can now see that a body misled Congress by

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omission because he left out an entire sou action of

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Crooks's online interactions from January through August of twenty twenty,

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when he did an ideological backflip and went from rabidly

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pro Trump to rabidly anti Trump, and then he went dark,

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never seeming to post again, which I'm not so sure

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about that either. There were also questions that I have

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about how he funded his arsenal right, where he got

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the funds for this stuff, the contact in Ukraine and

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all of this because his parents were not particularly well off,

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so where was he getting his money? Among He had

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seventeen accounts, which I say that like it's a lot,

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but I probably have, like I probably have twice as many,

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but not that I post on. But he had seventeen

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different accounts across YouTube, Snapchat, venmo Zell, group, me, discord,

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Oh there's a red flag, Play, Google Play, quizlt chest

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dot com and qua ok so we had among others.

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Snapchat and discord. Those would be the places I'd be

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surprised if he doesn't have a Reddit profile. He apparently

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posted under two different names, but kind of variations on

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the same name. And I would be surprised if he

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went completely dark in twenty twenty. If he was just

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simply you know, crazy, then you would have you would

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you would still want to have the outlet for expressing

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your lunacy. So that's kind of suspicious to me that

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he went dark in twenty twenty, never to post another

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thing again after posting all of these comments in up

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until twenty twenty. But apparently even Miranda Divine and Tucker

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Carlson their investigations all say the same thing as the FBI's,

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which is that his digital footprint went cold in twenty twenty.

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So the source that worked with Miranda Divine at The

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New York Post says that the danger Crooks posed was

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visible for years in public online spaces. His radicalization, violent rhetoric,

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and obsession with political violence were all documented under his

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real name. The threat was not hidden. The official narrative

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claimed that he acted alone and without a clear motive

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or ideology or digital footprint. Yet the source per Source

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found reams of information that shows Crooks was quote not

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simply some unknowable loan actor. He left a digital trail

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of violent threats, extremist ideology, and admiration for mass violence.

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He spoke openly of political assassination. He posted under his

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real name, and was even flagged by other users who

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mentioned law enforcement in their replies. You may have seen

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where people will tag like DHS on like with all

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Charlotte this week, people are like, you need to go

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do these bad things, you know, and people will tag

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DHS or FBI or something. People were doing that to

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his comments, did the and law enforcement had no idea.

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All Right, so from Miranda Divine's piece at the New

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York Post, where apparently a source of her has uncovered

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the digital footprint, a lot of the digital footprint of

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one Thomas Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate Donald

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Trump last summer. In this document dump, he spoke on

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these platforms openly of political assassination. He posted under his

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real name. He was flagged by other users. Despite this,

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his account remained active for more than five years and

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was only removed the day after the shooting. None of

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this online activity was referenced in the final congressional report

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that was released in December twenty twenty four, which makes

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it all the more troubling. Why wasn't any of this

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in the congressional report? You know? Did they not know?

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Did they know? And they are trying to protect some

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other investigation. That seems kind of odd unless they're going

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to unless they're trying to track down some other network,

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And that might be possible here based on one piece

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of information that I'll get to in a bit. So

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Crooks's trajectory from pro Trump to anti Trump is evident.

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He referred to Trump as the literal definition of patriotism

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in a comment on July twentieth, twenty nineteen. He also

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issued several targeted threats against the Democratic congressional representatives that

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make up the squad right. Those are the uber leftist Democrats.

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But then something happened in early twenty twenty. His online

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behavior flips one hundred and eighty degrees and he became

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very critical of Trump. This was in January of twenty

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two because one might take a guess here that, okay,

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maybe the guy went nuts during the COVID lockdowns or something,

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but no, this happened right after or right before COVID,

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and I know, like January twenty third, that's when he

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made this post where he was talking about He was

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commenting on a video posted about Jonathan Turley where Turley

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was talking about Trump's first impeachment, and Crooks wrote, keep

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in mind, the only reason we may know about any

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of this is because of Trump's stupidity. And then he

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started calling Trump's supporters a cult. What happened? Don't know

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what changed this guy? What flipped him. By April twenty twenty,

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Crooks was constantly criticizing Trump's pandemic response, saying he was

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too slow and everything he's doing now should have been done.

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So Trump's behavior was too slow, which that was the

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narrative adopted by the Democrats and the media. But I

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Trump wasn't doing enough, he wasn't acting fast enough, because remember,

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states of emergency and what would close and all of that.

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and I still believe this now, that was the correct

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increasingly radical and violent. Now, maybe that's part of being

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locked in a house and you're only interactions are coming online.

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It seems pretty clear that he was radicalized online. And

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then there's this nugget. Just like the alleged assassin of

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Charlie Kirk, Thomas Crooks appears to have been interested in

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furries and exploring gender identity. There is a platform called

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deviant Art. Would not recommend you google that while at

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the workplace or on a work platform, and on this platform,

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deviant Art, he had a profile and he describes himself

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in the in the profile with the pronouns they then

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furry art and the furry community. All Right, if you're

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asking me, Pete, what's a furry? So here's a good

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explanation provided by Miranda Divine in her New York Post

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article on Thomas Crooks and his digital profile, his footprint

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that has now been uncovered by amateur sleuths, and it

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contradicts what the FBI has been telling us, notably that

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Thomas Crooks had a profile on the platform deviant Art.

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He described himself with the pronouns they them, and devian

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art and the furry community. What is a furry It

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is someone who has an interest in anthropomrph five. Sorry

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I should have just Rea, I should have just said

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it really quickly instead of trying to sound it out.

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ANTHROPOMORPHI animal characters in other words, animals. But they're people

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kind of like you when you dress up your dog

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for Halloween. No, no, I'm kidding, it's it's not quite

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that deranged. No, I kid, I kid. Look, if I

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had a pet that ever suffered getting dressed up like,

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I would totally do it. But every time I try

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to put like a hat or something on any animal

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I've ever owned, it runs away, and I'm not going

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to force the issue. So a furry is someone who

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has an interest in anthropomorphized animal characters, often as a

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sexual fetish. Right, So these are people that really really,

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really really enjoy getting dressed up in sort of mascot

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kind of costumes and then engaging in carnal relations. I

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don't know how you would dry clean the uh the

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outfits afterwards, but it has crossed my mind, like ew, Now,

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not every furry is into the sexual fetish side of

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the furriness. Okay, so it's not. They're like, there's a

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like to tap into my inner Kamala Harris. Like there's

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a then diagram here where you've you know, there's some

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overlap to be sure, but it's not a perfect circle. Okay,

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you got two circles there and they overlap, so you

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may just really be you know, digging on the furry art,

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Like oh, look this lion. It's like a lion but

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looks like a person with a lion's head, you know,

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and not like a like a sagittarius looking thing or

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a minotaur. Was that? No, what's the Yeah, a minotaur

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is another one with a half man and then the

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half beast or whatever. Like the bottom of it's like

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a deer or something. I think that's a centaur. That's it,

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thank you. Minotaur is like the bull. But that's a

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good like somebody were to dress up like that. Anyway,

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I've spent too much time talking about furries. Two accounts

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linked to Crooks's primary email were found on devian art.

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Because you always got to have a burner account, I guess,

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or maybe he just forgot his user passwords so he

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created a new profile or something. I don't know. Maybe

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he used it to click like on his own comments,

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because that's what a deranged person would do. He used

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the user names Epic Microwave and the Epic Microwave, And

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I'm sure there's a whole psychology behind why you would

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come up with that name. You know what it sounds like.

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You never get one of the the Wi Fi Internet

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boxes from the cable company or something, and they you know,

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they have an auto default password and in the old days,

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it used to be like a jumble of numbers and

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stuff and letters and you can never remember it. And

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then they started doing like like phrases like this adjective

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noun phrases. That's what this sounds like. Like this was

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the name of his Wi Fi router, you know, Epic

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microwave or something. Anyway, the account suggests that he had

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an obsession. I'm sorry for this, but an obsession with

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scantily clad cartoon characters sporting muscle bound male bodies and

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female heads. Like, at some point, doesn't this stuff, like

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this imagery, doesn't it conjure up like some of the

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some of the art from you know, long time ago,

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with people sacrificing babies on altars to Moloch, Like, doesn't

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some of this stuff kind of conjure any connection to

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that stuff? So is it possible that he started to

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become radicalized in the furry community. We know that Tyler Robinson,

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the murderer of Charlie Kirk, he was all into this

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stuff too. Spent hours and hours and hours on these games.

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And one of the games was like where you like

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a virtual reality game where you put the goggles on

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and then you're immersed and you're like, you're a furry

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except you're like a cartoon video generated animal of some kind,

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but you're a person still, And then you would have

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virtual relations with these other virtual cartoon characters, which I

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don't even know how that works, but nor do I. No,

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do not send me links. I do not care to know. Also,

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both of these guys were on dish scored, which is

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a messaging app. It's used a lot in the gamer

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community and has been for a long long time. It

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was like this sort of secondary app that gamers would

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use and still do. They use as a separate chat

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box basically while they're playing a game with other people.

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And then like, if you're doing like a first person

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shooter game, you can be texting like coordinates or whatever.

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You can be talking in those chat boxes. You can

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be texting, you can be talking whatever. It's a messaging app.

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Is that where his radicalization occurred? Did he too find

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love in the furry community and did the furries convince

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him that he had to take out Trump like Robinson

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had to take out Kirk. But wait, there's more. You know,

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so what have we learned? Thanks to the amateur sluthering

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by some source that went to Miranda Divine at the

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New York Post, found all of these profile matches with

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Thomas Crooks that would be assassin of Donald Trump. From

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last summer he was very anti left pro Trump, then

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flipped like on a dime and became very anti Trump

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and then goes dark in late January of twenty twenty.

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So what happened, Well, we found out that now apparently

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he had multiple profiles on this furry platform he called himself.

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They them, But there's more. One of the people that

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Crooks interacted with online was a member of the Norwegian

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neo Nazi group called the Nordic Resistance Movement, which has

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since been designated a terrorist organist by the State Department.

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He was interacting with someone that went by the name

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Willie Tepys Tepees or TEPS. Teps encouraged violence and encouraged

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Crooks's extremism, and he would use the phrase sorry, political

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power comes from the barrel of a gun. That is

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from Mao, communist Chinese. Right, everyone's favorite kami over there Mao.

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Crooks would then repeat that line several times in his

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own posts. Shortly after his interactions with Teps, Crooks disappeared offline.

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Did his brush with the Norwegian and his own violent

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rhetoric win him a visit from the FBI or the

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Secret Service. If not, why not? If so, why was

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that not disclosed? The FBI refused to comment when asked

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on Sunday whether Crooks was ever investigated, visited, or in

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some way brought to the attention of the agency before

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he tried to assassinate Trump, or whether there was an

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FBI file on Crooks before Butler Pennsylvania. And that's kind

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of odd. Sometimes I will tell you something in journalism,

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sometimes a no comment is just as good as a comment.

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The FBI also refused to comment on why it has

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not been forthcoming on congressional oversight requests. Former FBI Director

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Christopher Ray told Congress in July of twenty twenty four,

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eleven days after the shooting, that the bureau quote did

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not have any prior information about the shooter and that

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he was not in our holdings before the shooting. He

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said the FBI ran a search for Crooks through its

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databases and he was not found. Susan Crabtree, an investigative

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reporter at Real Clear Politics who has broken multiple stories

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about the failures at Butler, says her key Secret Service

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from the twenty twenty time period told her that quote

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Crooks was not a person of record at the Secret

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Service in twenty twenty and was not known to Secret

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Service until Butler Pennsylvania. So something here doesn't add up.

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How can he be making all these comments? How could

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other people see the comments? Tag law enforcement? And he

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never was on anyone's radar. He was talking to this

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guy in Norway, that is this neo Nazi guy. And

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by the way, the Secret Service after action report on

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the assassination attempt is still classified. Requests for information from

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the FBI by Senator Ron Johnson have been rebuffed, including

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under the current director, Cash Bettel. Johnson had to issue

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a subpoena back in July on the first anniversary of

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the Butler attack, and has complained that he's being stonewalled

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by the FBI and the Secret Service in his efforts

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to request the security camera footage, along with forensic reports

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and other documents related to the case. Trump and those

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close to him are skeptical about the official story, and

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they questioned the impoverished parents of Crooks, who had to

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ask for money from neighbors to pay for their son's funeral,

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how they could afford to hire a high priced white

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shoe law firm called Quinn Loeg out of Pittsburgh. Where

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did they get that money from. It's hard to believe

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the FBI and or the Secret Service missed Crooks. It

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does seem that way, doesn't it. It seems hard to believe.

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On the text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC seven

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oh four number, says Pete. More importantly, who covered up

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Crooks's online profile? Don't know. Sean wants to know if

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you dress your dog like a person? Is he a fleshy?

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That's that's a good question. We'll do a three part

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series next week. Maybe. All right, that'll do it for

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