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INSIDE THE THOMAS CROOKS PAPER TRAIL AND THE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS · the objective JERK

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  SPEAKER_00: You're listening to the objective jerk and I am said jerk.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: What's going on?
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's too hot.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, I gotta let it cool off a minute.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: How's everybody doing?
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for asking.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to talk about so there was a couple days ago or whatever there were some emails that were released regarding Matthew Thomas Crook, the guy who tried to kill Trump.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean everybody's like talking about you know the the what do you call it?
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_01: The assassination of Charlie Kirk and that and doing all these conspira and just going off the rails and and to me it's like there's no conspiracy.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_01: The shooter's alive, he's being tried, you know, it's when the shooter's taken out.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: Whether, you know, by Secret Service or whatever, you know, Jack Ruby.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's you know, that's when you kind of like, okay, they're trying to, they're trying to keep the secret from getting out.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, the Charlie Kirk, I don't pay attention to any of that crap.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I liked Charlie Kirk, and I think it's you know sad and it's messed up, but like just all the all the all the just the BS that's surrounding all that and with Candace Owens and all that, and just like I don't even want to.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: There's a there's a there's a guy, Coach Collin, I think is I I used to watch him his videos.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: I think he probably has a couple channels, but but he started just everything was just Candace Owens, like in a positive light, and I was just like, what dude?
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: And then I I quit following him because it's just like uh I don't know.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe he's gotten more subscribers from it, though.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: Who knows?
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: Not more than me, huh?
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, anyway.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: So there's a couple articles here and and some recent updates regarding it.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna read this article.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: So that means I need to go over here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go over here and do this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
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  SPEAKER_01: Trump shooter, Thomas Crookes emails reveal a student dreaming of a bright future and contempl uh contemplating a violent a violent attack.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: So Thomas Matthew Crooks had a lot in his mind.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: 20-year-old.
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  SPEAKER_01: Six months later would open fire at President Trump at a rally, striking his ear and killing an audience member.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_01: Was busy polishing his application to transfer from community college to a four-year engineering program.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks was gathering transcripts and asking friends to review his personal statement.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: He was also designing a bomb.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: Who wrote that?
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: CBS News.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_01: See, that's the other thing, though.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, man, some of these mainstream gotta take it with a grain of salt, sorta.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that sad?
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_01: Everything's gotta be fact-checked and taken with a grain of salt.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the fact checking, I guess, is good, but a lot of people don't do that.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, he ordered more than two gallons of nitroine from an online specialty fuel retailer using an encrypted email account.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_01: Documents obtained.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: Twelve days later, Cooks purchased hadn't shipped.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: He wanted to know why.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_01: Hello, my name is Thomas.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so he's talking about he haven't gotten his stuff.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks emailed the retailer.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks used his community college email account to inquire about the shipping.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: One of the few operational missteps that was that has allowed for a rare look into the dark side of the ambitious young student.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: Two weeks after the email, Crooks focused, returned to his academic future.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_01: So he was multitasker, huh?
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_01: A student who went above and beyond.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: Very little is known about how or why Thomas Crook set out to shoot then President Canada Donald Trump, which don't you think it's see that's what's weird too.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, everything about this is weird.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: Just the social media just gone.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: He's on a Blackwater commercial.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: The coincidence, coincidental whatever with that is like, come on.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: You got the house when they went to check it, they had like no silverware, if I remember right.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: And just a whole bunch of weirdly odd, it just everything just screams that he was maybe not Manchurian candidate, although I think he was, but you know, something to that effect.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm trying not to read this whole article, just kind of he has he was a meticulous and motivated student attending community college after scoring 1530 on SATs.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: He told an advisor he was starting at the school to save money before transferring.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the hundreds of college emails obtained by CBS News, Crooks rarely veers into personal territory with a few exceptions.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_01: When an upcoming assignment required the presence of five adults, he asked the professor if it would be okay if he only brought two or three.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_01: Brooks Crooks said that other than that, his sister and his parents did not have access to any other adults.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks wrote a passage from school and why his favorite season is fall.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's mine too.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's a lot of people's favorite season.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_01: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: Halloween Thanksgiving.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks took his classwork seriously, routinely contacting professors to protest if he wasn't satisfied with his grades.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: That's the thing my son needs to get on about.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks did a level work.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks again.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_01: Blah blah blah.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: One project in particular, while professors in the engineering department.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks, whose mother is uh is visually impaired, designed and 3D printed a unique chessboard.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_01: The prototype included braille labeling along the rows and columns and alternating raised squares with peg holes to prevent the pieces from being knocked over.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: Hmm.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's it right there.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's pretty cool actually.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: A skeptic of government, man.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: Who isn't?
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: Well, except for the you know who you are.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks was focused on engineering and computing while at the community college, but a handful of written assignments show hints of deep skepticism of the federal government and corporations.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: Prompt asking students to consider whether engineers involved in NASA's ASICs challenger disaster acted ethically yielded a dubious reply.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks blamed NASA's administrators who, in pushing for the ill-fated launch, were trying to live up to the lofty promises they made to Congress, which they were never going to be able to fulfill.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks wrote about George Orwell's essay Shooting an Elephant.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks called the essay a powerful allegory, warning against adopting imperialistic policy.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh let's see.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks wrote about Mr.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: Trump at least once.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: The essay was called Why Nuclear Energy is the key to cleaner future.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: And Crooks briefly touched on the.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: See, he didn't.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_01: That's what makes me think that it was Manchurian candidate.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: He wasn't he didn't have those, you know, he was just susceptible to the brainwashing.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: He didn't have any kind of.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of makes you wonder.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: A grand jury with a dead suspect.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_01: Man, this is longer than I.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, that's the end.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: The nitro nitromethane.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, how did I said that so wrong last time?
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: Purchases, invoice, lists a separate email account from a Belgian-based service that offers end-to-end encryption.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: FBI Pittsburgh Special Agent in Charge, Kevin Rojak, told reporters and honestly, Crooks had researched night nitromethane and other materials consistent with manufacturing of explosive devices, which he supposedly he had something in his car.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: I remember them saying something like that, but I don't remember hearing anything else.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: And like he might have had like a triggering device, electronic on him on his persons or something.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: Hyperfuel's employee asked about Crook's purchase last year.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: Said the company was aware of the whole situation.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: The company's president did not respond to phone or tech Crook's transcript and certain other academic rights.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: First made public by America First Legal.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_01: Letter from the Justice Department official to the college.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: Confirmed the subpoena related to an active FBI criminal.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: Investigation.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_01: I think it raises a lot of important questions.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: Were they investigating anyone else?
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: Are they still investigating?
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: Zimlong asked.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: He said it adds to the mystery surrounding the young man who seemed determined to continue with college until the day he climbed.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so it's really kind of weird.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: Very strange.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: Was there another gunman behind the grassy knoll?
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: I know some people have said that.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_00: That he, you know, was just there to get what happened to him.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: And then somebody else actually took the shot but missed, obviously.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't be surprising, right?
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_01: So then here's like records from July 17, 2024, FBI electronic communication indicate Butler Sheriff's Office exchanged two emails with crooks prior to July 13 Trump assassination attempt.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: And then you can see it's redacted like a mofo.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wednesday, July 17th, 2024.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_01: Special agent telephonically interviewed, don't know, you know, telephone number, email, work address, blank, after being advised the identity of the interviewing agent and the nature of the interview.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: Blank provided the following.
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  SPEAKER_01: Blank advised she blank Thomas Crooks in the blank was in blank, therefore, blank with crooks.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: Advised she did not recognize crooks when everything was on the news over the weekend.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_01: But on Saturday night, a New York Times reporter emailed her asking her questions, advised that checked her email and records, and only had two email communications from crooks.
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  SPEAKER_01: Both emails were in regard to blank advice.
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  SPEAKER_01: She did not have any personal interaction with Crooks.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, like, why is it redacted?
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then where was it?
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: I saw oh wait, hold on.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: So that was like the first one.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh no, that was no, this is the newest one.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: So it says, I am now being told by a reliable source that the screenshot below, which is the one I just read, is not a description of the Butler Callean Sheriff's off office emailing receiving in an email from Thomas Crooks.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm told that further whatever, blah, blah, blah.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like I've attained a less redacted version of the electronic.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: The document shows specifically that what Crooks was emailing his college professor about, a math assignment.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: But I don't understand this.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: Emailing his professor, so what is this document?
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: So this was a conversation between his math teacher and an FBI.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: So she saw and then she called and you know realized hey, he so there's probably some information on here.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm guessing he said some stuff that was kind of weird.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: But then also they added the teachers math assigned to math, you know, adding the math crap.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: So I think a professor, teacher, whatever, had an email exchange with Thomas Crooks.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe he said something weird.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: And at the time she thought it was weird, but didn't think much of it.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: And then after everything, she was like, Oh crap, that's what's his face, and then so then she gave the information to the FBI.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: But why is it why are they redacting it?
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's just kind of weird.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if there's like certain individuals' names or whatever, why not just have like special agent or just something?
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: They need to, it's just it's kind of annoying that it's just more weird shit with this with this case.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: And let's see, so this is when I was looking stuff up, this kind of came up, so I was kind of interested in this, but I was worried it was gonna be long as hell.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it looks like that's kind of it.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna try and skim through it though.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_01: So a month-long investigation by CBS.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: So this is, I think, similar to what I just read.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Bill Brought, let's see.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: Before Thanksgiving online was fairly routine.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, maybe not.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so before Thanksgiving 23, Thomas Crooks' online life was fairly routine for a 20-year-old.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: He scrolled through social media, listen to music on Spotify, visit news sites, and pursue Reddit.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Reddit's not good.
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  SPEAKER_01: But a plan for mass violence was brewing, and in order for it to succeed, Crooks had to compart I can never say this, compartmentalize, compartmentali mentalize.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like I'm saying it wrong.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: Compartmentalize.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: Compartmentalize.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: I I I feel like I'm saying it wrong.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: His life.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_01: It was something he was already comfortable doing from childhood, in which he let few people get close.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_01: Some people think that his parents are actually handlers.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like I heard Jack from them.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_01: Everything about this is just weird.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_01: Friends knew little about his home and tight-knit family.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: They were really invited over.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's almost like they're his parents were actually like Russian spies or some shit.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's like insane.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: Building homemade improvised explosive device in his bedroom and planning an assassination attempt while pursuing a career in engineering.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: Provide the most umbring portrait, yeah.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: Young man who died in an assassination attempt, crafted a for double life in the months leading to the attack, unbeknownst to the people closest to him.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: They sound like they weren't all that close, though.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks is born in 2003, that's insane.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: Lived his entire life in Surband home purchased by his parents before he and his older sister came along.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: Tucked along a Leafy Street, Pennsylvania.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: Man, I swear they're like spies.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: They're agents.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: Some sort of sp you know cell spy cell family thing.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: What was the show I watched where I can't remember what show it was, but it was a girl who the mother was killed, and they thought it was the dad, but it was actually the handler for the parents who were actually spies, and so it's like, you know, you look at that and you kind of look at this, and you're like, huh.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of crazy.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks and his mother who is visually Yeah, we already talked about that.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_01: Kindergarten met, they ate lunch together frequently throughout most of elementary, middle, and high school, and kept in touch after they both enrolled at the same college.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: I've known Tom like all my life.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: Radcliffe said he was cool, you know, he was kind of just Tom to me.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, there are many things about Crooks that stayed familiar and consistent throughout the years.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: His tight jeans, what the fuck?
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_01: His tidy shirts and his bespeckled smooth face.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, he was weird looking though.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like his profile, he looked odd.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: He was never invited to Crookes' home, and Crooks really talked about his family.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: See?
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, man.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: They were his handlers.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: They weren't his real family.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, that's a nice boy.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: It was probably his dad.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_01: No, the guy was kind of he couldn't really move much, huh?
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_01: Nice boy who kept to himself, Crooks neighbor said.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: The family didn't interact much with folks on their block, and the children really had Yeah, see, it's weird.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: So they they went along about as much as they could to make it seem like they were a family, but there's probably a bunch of these all over, just like a fake family, and they have some, and he gets, you know, the the CIA brainwashing kind of crap for just in case for whatever they need him for.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Came off smart.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: Crook's grades and test scores supported that as the tight quarters and crowded classroom high school gave way to the sprawling remote coursework of commuter college.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_01: Crook's social connections largely evaporated, allowing his secret life, yeah, to go unnoticed.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: They don't say nothing about him being in that commercial, which I think is kind of poignant, you know?
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: Crook stood out among his peers, according to former but he was so quiet.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, that's a little contradicting.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_01: How'd he stand out?
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: Well, maybe he stand out because he was so quiet and I thought he was a star student.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: He had his head on straight and he was on the path.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_01: She recalled showing other professors in her department one of Crook's projects, which exceeded her expectations.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: He just okay, I talked about that.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: One assignment was called a like see it seems like they're just trying to they're trying to kind of try and squash the Manchurian candidate.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: But if anything, this makes it worse.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: Talked about that.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: Fall du longs of Crooks K.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: Two particular two particular days, December 6th, January 24th, standout.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: December 6th, Crooks checked various news sites and the White House website archives from Mr.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: Trump's first administration, followed by visits to firearms websites the following month.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_01: On January 24th, Crooks showed the single largest number of internet requests in the logs.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: 1364.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: He started to consistently use the VPN after that day.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: What is that it?
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: Or is it just not letting me oh no, it goes on a lot further.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Oh oh oh oh oh shit.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I thought these were ads.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: So this is kind of a oh, okay.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: This is actually dang it, this is gonna be a little longer than I expected.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I'm scrolling through here, and I thought these were like pop-up ads or something.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, let's see.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we did that.
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_01: Oh doing the brand safe.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: Ammunition, guns, accessories.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: After Thanksgiving, Crooks visited more news sites in just eight days.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: Checked into Clarence Sportsman's Club and used the rifle range.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: January 24th, a day with the single largest number.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: So crooks visited several news on social media.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks visited Hyper Fuels, a website that sells and delivers racing fuels.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks made the first of 39 log requests that day.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks also began consistently hiding his internet traffic by directing it through the mole bad VPN service.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but I think that you can still get that information though.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: After January 24, there are 25 days with activity, but nearly all of them have a few requests.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_01: See, it's like they let just enough to get through.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: Here, use the VPN here, but not here.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: Last entry in the logs is single request to Mulvad VPN nearly three months before Crook's attempt.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_01: On some days he left little trace of his activity, choosing instead of first turn on the VPN.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_01: So if he's smart enough to use the VPN, wouldn't you think he would do it when he's doing the other things that kinda corroborate?
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it just it seems so set up and handled and manufactured.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: That if somebody abuses the service for nefarious purposes, we cannot block that individual user and unfortunately can't provide any additional information about them.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I thought the information was still there, it's just harder to find or something.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: If the company lets them, I don't know.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: In December, a month before Crook's final semester started, his life began.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: To split into one day he emailed himself to review his personal statement for his application.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: On another, he emailed customer service to complain.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's pretty smart actually emailing yourself.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, not that, you know.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, when you have an email, you know, you email it to yourself so you can see how it'll look to the person you're emailing it to.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: Because it does change a little bit.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: According to experts of the Pennsylvania State Police Report, those excerpts were first made public in December by the House of Representatives.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: Crook's father explained that within the last year he observed several instances of his son dancing in his bedroom throughout the night.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_01: Is that part of the brainwashing?
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: Pennsylvania investigator wrote he would occasionally see crooks talking to himself with his hands moving, which he expressed an uncommon and had become more prevalent after he had finished.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, psychotropes, psycho Yeah, he was brainwashed, dude.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: Manchurian candidate.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_01: Radcliffe noticed similar changes when he bumped into him on campus.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_01: He would always move his legs around a lot and he moved kind of talk pretty fast, like he's on Adderall or something.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: So he was on some some sort of meds, some shit.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: Chris graduated from Cunningham College in 24.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: On June 14th, less than a month before the assassination attempt, he sent one less email.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: It was to register to receive his diploma.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_01: In the month before July 13th, Crooks turned his attention to the presidential campaign, researching the candidates online more than 60 times, including searches on July 5th for the DNC convention.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: He visited Butler Farm Show Grounds in person on July 7th and searched for Butler Farm Show photos, according to investigators.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: He also researched AGR International Company with buildings adjacent to the grounds.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: Day before the attacks, Crooks made one last visit to the rifle range.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_01: On the morning of the attack, Crooks drove to the Butler Farm Grounds, stayed in for a little more than an hour before driving home.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: Investigators said that at about 1.30 p.m., Crooks got his rifle from the house.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: It was the gun he had purchased from his dad the year before.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: So he's looking at all these different gun stuff, but decides to just get the one from his dad.
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_01: See?
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Why I don't know.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: See, like it's like they made him or somebody was searching up guns for him.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, could it have actually happened?
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, of course, but it's just so many little things that it's just like, dude, it just doesn't make sense.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: In addition to the rifle, Crooks put a drone and two homemade bombs in his trunk.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, yeah, so that's what I thought.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: Along with the remote transmitters capable of detonating them from more than a thousand feet away, he left the partially assembled explosive device in his bedroom.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: Why would you leave a partially ex- See, he was dude, it was so set up.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks went to a store near his home and bought ammunition, according to investigators, and then returned to Butler Farm show grounds as Trump supporters lined up to enter the highly publicized rally.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: He took his drone out of his car, flew over the rally site, potentially using the drone's camera to view the podium where he was going to speak, which he shouldn't have been allowed to do.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like, how did he get away with that?
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: Three local police officers, personals, crooks, 5 PM, one officer, sniper said Crooks stood out.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_01: I remember hearing about that.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks was alone.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: Officers knowing he wasn't paying attention to the campaign festivities.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: Walk around the grassy area, kept looking up, looking at the building.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: At one point, it was what raised my suspicion is he was looking directly at the window I was positioned at Cypertill Investigators.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_01: The AGR building was approximately 150 yards from where Mr.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: Trump was speaking.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: Local officers began keeping tabs on crook.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: One saw him using a range finder.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_01: Dude, that right there.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_01: If you recognize that he's using a rangefinder, collect him up and hold him for questioning till after the thing.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_01: Till after the the the campaign, the what do you call it?
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: The thing where he's talking.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_01: The oh my gosh, I can't think of what it's called.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: Local officers began keeping tabs on crooks.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I already saw that.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: Rangefinder.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: One officer suggested notifying the Secret Service about the suspicious young man.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the rangefinder.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Later told investigators that he had alerted Secret Service personnel to the suspicious person.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: Congressional Task Force of Escadar said there was no indication the message reached Secret Service.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because they were.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: That guy knew I I don't listen.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: Well just after six PM, an officer saw Crooks near the picnic table and watched him grab a backpack.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: He took off running.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: Officers began to leave their post to look for crooks who had seemingly disappeared.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: Butler County said in an interview, news that poor planning and communication gave Crooks the opportunity.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but it was such he had help, dude.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: There was no way he had help.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: Local police weren't apprised of the Secret Service security plan until the afternoon of the shooting, which is the shitty planning right there.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_01: So that it was never specified to local enforcement.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: There was a sign to secure the area where Crooks was able to climb into onto the building.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: Secret Service, yeah, that was done on purpose.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn said the agency tasked with protecting Mr.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: Trump bears responsibility for what happened next.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: I would ask Americans to understand that it was an organizational failure within the Secret Service.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: A purpose.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: It was done on purpose.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: And we are laser focused on making sure that never happens again.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_01: By hiring a bunch of retarded females that can't fucking holster their gun.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, at 6-2, Trump took the stage, crooks ascended to the roof three minutes later.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: 6 11, moments before crooks on fire, a butler detective decided to pursue crooks.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, what?
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks ascended to the rooftop three minutes later.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: Panicked by Sanders began calling the police.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_01: At 6 11, moments before Crooks opened fire, a butler detective decided to pursue crooks on the roof.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean decided?
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: What did they say, yo, there's somebody on the roof?
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: We're getting reports of a roof.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, okay, fine.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'll just I'll just go do it.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like, somebody's on the roof.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's a problem.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody's using a range fighter.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's a problem.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: You know?
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody oh my gosh, dude.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I see Crooks facing downrange towards the stage, but his eyes are back at me as I'm coming up, and I would say like his facial expression was surprised.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: His eyes were very big, like, what are you doing up here?
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: No, what the fuck are you doing up here?
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: You're a detective.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks turned his gun towards the detective who fell backwards, immediately radioed that the suspect was armed.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: The message never made the security detail.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: How convenient, right?
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: Hmm.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, they didn't tell them to secure that building.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that meant it's like this was such a conspiracy.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's not even funny, dude.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_01: A few seconds later, crooks open fired eight shots, killing firefighter Corey.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: Copper Copper Tor.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: And Trump.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: Shooter's down.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: He's down.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, Mr.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_01: Trump said before.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, fight, fight, fight.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_01: Unearns.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, this is a lot longer than I thought.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_01: Shit.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's almost there, though.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry for the long.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_01: Where am I at?
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: Damn, I'm already at 30 minutes.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, unanswered questions remain.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: Law enforcement soon descended on Bethel Park, tracing Crooks via the gun he purchased.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_01: His father.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks' home was in place, but just 11 minutes later, his father called 911.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_01: He said he had was worried because his son had not returned after saying much earlier in the day that he was going to the local gun club.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_01: When agents knocked on the door, Matthew Crooks asked if it's true.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: He said someone from CNN had called and said his son shot Trump.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: Investigators questioned him and Crooks' mother.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder what his expression was.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like someone said they sh that he shot Trump.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_01: Like if the guy said yes, he did.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: Like, but then found out he was still alive.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder if you know what I mean, if there's any signs.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: They fanned out across Bethel Park, Butler, and Pittsburgh, interviewing Ratcliffe and Thompson.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_01: Anyone that knew him, they checked with local library.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_01: Mesker visited the gun club, the store where he bought the ammo, purchased the ladder.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: Your dad doesn't have a ladder.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: They scoured videos.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: Well, maybe he needed one that folded up, I guess.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_01: They scoured videos from before, during, and after the campaign rally.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: Details emerge about Crooks' planning, but nearly a year later, many unanswered questions about his motivation remain.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_01: Crooks left no known written explanation.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_01: His political leanings remain unclear.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: Was the butler rally just a convenient option for a young man planning mass violence or was he committed to shooting mister Trump?
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_01: Did he have a plan for his bombs?
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: Did he understand he was on a suicide mission?
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: No, because he was brainwashed.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_00: Everything was set up for him.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: He was told what to do.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: Neighbor said that there are only a few clues that suggest family even still resides at the home.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure they're gone.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: They went back to Russia.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_01: Brooke's parents did not respond to interview requests.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: Their attorney declined to speak on their behalf.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_01: A postal employee said the mailbox is always empty when he delivers each day.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: And the neighbor speculated that the couple leave their home under the cover of darkness.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_01: Blurred.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, what?
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_01: Their house, which has now multiple security cameras, is blurred on Google Maps.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: You can blur your house?
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know that.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: You can blur your home.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: I had no idea.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's good to know.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_01: Mary Crook submitted her resignation from the job she held for nearly three decades.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: Three decades, man.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: She's a they're, you know, devout Russian spies.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_01: The resignation letter, first reported by New York Times, lived to the shooting as a reason.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_01: Certain circumstances have left me with no other option.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_01: Blah blah blah blah blah.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: Others in Crook's life are still haunted by the connection.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: Thomas Thompson compiled Crook's discussion response and projects from her class in one document.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_01: Why would this kid who had his whole future laid out in front of him?
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_01: Because we know why.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_01: I mean.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: Ba ba ba.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: I'm still in disbelief.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so that's it.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: Everything about this, I'm gonna have to edit this, man.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going, well, who cares?
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: What?
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: I got a long video.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: So what?
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: So what?
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_00: How do I minimize this now?
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: Minimize.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: So closing arguments.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: Thirty-three minutes, okay.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: So to close it, yeah, and candidate one hundred percent.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_01: I believe that certain individuals I wonder how what other kind of commercials, but I believe that he was that Thomas Crooks was vetted or checked out during the commercial.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_01: And then that was what, you know, or they probably maybe had like I have to I've said this before, like I think they they check out kids' records who've been on what this and I mean it could be, you know, I mean I was I've been saying, you know, the Russian spy thing, but I'm I'm joking.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, I wouldn't be surprised.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, I think they look at someone's lifestyle and they know the type of individuals that they can influence the easiest.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_01: So he was probably checked out, you know, and yes, he'll be good.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_01: It's not like they're planning to for him to shoot Trump then, but they have these people in waiting, you know.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you guys see like, I mean, it's a movie, but like, you know, born identity.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_01: You just have these guys just doing their thing, and then they get the call, hey, and they just grab their stuff and they go.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I don't think it was like that, but I think he was slowly being, you know, brainwashed and influenced and managed by somebody, and then they they had a hand in for him to do the planning, the searching, why some stuff that would obviously, you know, point to him being guilty, and then most of it's on the VPN, probably the that all that stuff was the communication between somebody.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then he was probably told, hey, check out this place, check out this, go to this, look at guns, even though you're gonna buy one from your dad.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, the you're gonna bring two bombs that don't go off.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, and then you're gonna have one that's half built at your home, so when they come and look at it.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_01: By the way, we're gonna take all your silverware, like, you know, like what the fuck it is strange.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_01: It reminds me so much of Oswald.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_00: Oswald was probably supposed to be killed, but he made it and then that's when they killed him when he was leaving.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: He made it to the jail or whatever.
• 36:39
  SPEAKER_01: But I bet you if you know we had the technology and the information that we have now, we would there would be so much more regarding that.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_01: So I just I see a lot of that with this.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's very strange.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I don't know, the redacted letters, like so you you put in Freedom of Information Act, but then they redact everything.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's like if it's not a big deal, why is it redacted?
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and if it's somebody's name you're trying to think, then okay, cover it up with say, you know, professor's name or something.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's a little strange.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's definitely strange.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, let me know what you think.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate your your conspiracy theories and you know what your thoughts are.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'll talk to you guys later.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for hanging out.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_01: God bless.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.