https://nypost.com/2025/11/17/opinion/fbi-secret-service-butchered-the-thomas-crooks-case-and-invited-conspiracies-we-deserve-the-truth/The new york post has identified and detailed 17 social media accounts belonging to Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin of Trump, and catalogued his political evolution.
Until now the FBI has been insisting its not a clear social media presence or motive or ideology, but this illustrates it pretty plainly.
They got accounts linked to his email and phone number from YouTube, his main posting site, as well as Snapchat, Venmo, Zelle, GroupMe, Discord, Google Play, Quizlet, Chess dot com and Quora
Circa 2019 Crooks was still a teenager and posting zealously pro-Trump on various accounts. He called Trump the "literal definition of Patrotism" in July 19 and was already posting violent rhetoric wishing a painful death on members of the squad, and "MURDER THE DEMOCRATS" in all caps earlier in december 19
But the next year in 2020 he started shifting extremely anti-Trump online, first talking about Trump's stupidity in January, then calling MAGA cultists, calling Trump racist. By the summer of 2020 he was already turning his violent rhetoric online against Trump & co and talking about assassinations
At the same time he immersed himself in furry culture on deviant art, taking 'they/them' pronounces and "the account suggests he had an obsession with scantily clad cartoon characters sporting muscle-bound male bodies and female heads."
He interacted online directly with a neo-nazi leader from norway who directly encouraged him to take violent measures against the government; “Political power comes from the barrel of a gun,” which Crooks repeated several times."