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Would-Be Trump Assassin Used ‘Bob Dole’ Pseudonym

FBI records say Crooks used aliases, encrypted accounts and a 3D-printed handgun while his father described years of strange behavior.

  • Newly surfaced FBI documents provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee detail the planning of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.
  • Records show Crooks employed privacy tools and aliases, including 'Bob Dole,' to procure firearm parts and materials for a 3D-printed Glock while practicing long-range shooting techniques over five years.
  • Matthew Crooks described his son as emotionally distant, saying Thomas "did not scream" when born and "never really had a father/son bond." The father inadvertently provided the Panther Arms A-15 rifle from his locked safe on the morning of the attack.
  • An anonymous donor paid for the gunman's cremation 10 days after the attack, yet the identity and motive of this donor remain unknown despite federal investigation.
  • While investigators found no evidence of foreign actors or co-conspirators, the FBI maintains the shooting was a carefully planned assassination attempt, leaving central questions about Crooks' motive unresolved.
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Trump returns to accuse Joe Biden of a "democratic plot" to kill him in Butler. According to tycoon, at the time of his inauguration on January 20, 2025, much of the documents and information about the attack were already "disappeared, altered or lost" in the failed attempt to eliminate him from the electoral race.

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US President Donald Trump accused the Democrats of being behind the assassination attempt he was targeted in 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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