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# This Contradicts the FBI Narrative
- URL: https://goodoil.news/this-contradicts-the-fbi-narrative/
- Published: 2025-11-19T23:30:04.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-19T23:30:03.000Z
- Description: Devine argues the new material suggests investigators either missed or withheld key information about Crooks’ motives and online associations
- Author: Reproduced with permission
- Tags: USA Politics, Crime

[**DTNZ**](https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/trump-would-be-assassins-online-footprint-contradicts-fbi-narrative-ny-post-journalist/?ref=goodoil.news)

*New York Post* columnist Miranda Devine says newly uncovered information from 17 online accounts linked to Thomas Crooks – the 20-year-old who allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania – paints a far more complex picture than what the FBI publicly presented.

Speaking on Fox News’ America Reports, Devine said investigators initially portrayed Crooks as having little to no digital history, but a source has now provided her with data showing widespread activity across platforms ranging from Google Play to the art and role-play site DeviantArt.

Devine argued that this “massive digital footprint”, which included Crooks allegedly using they/them pronouns and engaging with online furry communities, raises new questions about how thoroughly federal agencies investigated his background.

According to Devine, Crooks’ online posts reveal a dramatic shift in political identity: early messages showed pro-Trump sentiments and hostility toward Democrats, but in 2020 his tone reportedly flipped toward rabid anti-Trump rhetoric, with a neo-Nazi alias encouraging increasingly violent language.

She claims Crooks abruptly vanished from the internet in August 2020\. The FBI previously told Congress that Crooks expressed extremist, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic themes, but did not address any ideological shift.

Devine argues the new material suggests investigators either missed or withheld key information about Crooks’ motives and online associations – especially significant given that his 2024 rooftop attack killed a firefighter, wounded two attendees, and grazed Trump’s ear.

This article was originally published by the [Daily Telegraph New Zealand](https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/news/trump-would-be-assassins-online-footprint-contradicts-fbi-narrative-ny-post-journalist/?ref=goodoil.news).