FBI accesses phone of alleged Trump rally shooter

The FBI has gained access to Thomas Matthew Crooks' phone and are continuing their investigation into the assassination attempt against former President Trump.
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[@stevenbrown5210]

". nothing was found on his phone" - FBI

[@KithEsq]

lol

[@Davidrcobb]

Was this before or after his social media was scrubbed?

[@donnawanna9833]

Isn't the FBI the last ones we would want to get hold of that phone?

[@AnonymousT206]

Idiotic comment. So called patriot. lol

[@Spiritual64Surrender]

when trump was president yes, but they wiped the crap off the organization since then

[@jimtwodogs3084]

The FBI is part of the swamp.

[@Angelo-fo8de]

Russian disinformation ! The Dems are liers !

[@713Clown]

Remember 51 intelligence officials said laptop in there possession was Russian disinformation 😂

[@len3169]

That’s racist…….

[@AuthEarth]

@@len3169?

[@-danR]

Area51 officials, gonzalev?

[@tclifford38]

And most news

[@713Clown]

@fluffycat3438 it is the same corrupt partisan FBI. That's the point junior.

[@siphotheguy1870]

No girls numbers on that phone no doubt

[@aaronturnell564]

only Hillary

[@neoneherefrom5836]

@@aaronturnell564and your mother

[@dracoinvictus]

No, but Epstein's number was on Trump's phone.

[@Powerhaus88]

@@neoneherefrom5836 cope leftoid

[@AlejandroDiaz-xz9to]

@@Powerhaus88😂

[@elciomartins3235]

“Alleged” shooter ? What does that mean?

[@imtryinghere1]

Not found guilty yet. It's for liable laws so nbc doesn't get sued

[@robertkoth4022]

@@elciomartins3235 can't hurt his feelings o thats right he has no feelings now.except heat

[@amjgbaobei]

@@robertkoth4022His family could still sue…. You should educate yourself.

[@robertkoth4022]

@@elciomartins3235 it's a Democrat

[@John-s9d]

Discord says they didn't find much but deleted his profile.

[@jillthinksimabreakfasttaco4904]

That seems odd... Like Hillary's email server odd...

[@Thomas-vm1jy]

@@jillthinksimabreakfasttaco4904 deleted it before

[@neoneherefrom5836]

😂 @ “Discord”

[@chilirasbora]

No one believes your BS anymore.

[@quesoblanco444]

Any reason besides Trump told you not to trust em?

[@danielhoward4566]

@@quesoblanco444 It's called intelligence.

[@quesoblanco444]

@@danielhoward4566 it's not smart to trust a corrupt billionaire tv reality show host.

[@KithEsq]

​@@quesoblanco444 They have lied about 99.8% of the time.

[@quesoblanco444]

@@KithEsq Name some lies. So, I know you are not making stuff up.

[@videomofo]

I'm sure the oh so trust worthy FBI won't scrub it

[@X4Adventures]

Yes, surely the dumbest conspiracy theory you can think in under 10 seconds is the truth.

[@MJMcKenzie322]

@@X4Adventureslike the one about the assassination attempt being staged?

[@X4Adventures]

@@MJMcKenzie322 yes, like that

[@puravidahomeinspections474]

Alleged?

[@MJMcKenzie322]

What do you mean “alleged?”

[@Miles-wy1zr]

Alleged lol

[@tclifford38]

Dad called after to save himself

[@tman3943]

this will be the plot of a movie in 10 years

[@CrazyWhiteBoomer]

Okay.

[@avid4jdepp]

And the story changed again, I just heard from ABC that the son asked his dad for the pew pew for target practice… is it gonna be another coverup?

[@bluberry3400]

Did he have a burner phone? Or just basic face to face meeting 🤔🤨

[@susanjackson6521]

Do you think calling Trump “Hilter” may have influenced him🤔

[@PinaKoalaGaming]

Or maybe Trump constantly using Hitler’s campaign tactics and quoting him at least half a dozen times and laying out plans for a “2nd american revolution” which mirrors Hitler’s campaign promises before he got elected and started the holocaust.

[@crptnite]

Probably not anymore than Trump openly stating in a public interview that he would be a Dictator at least for one day.

[@quesoblanco444]

Who called Trump Hitler?? I heard his voice choice did, but who else?

[@FrontRangFrenchies]

@@quesoblanco444cnn, abc, nbc, msnbc

[@jgould30]

​@@quesoblanco444do you live under a rock for a decade?

[@SJNrider500]

So far nothing on that phone. This is what we all expected the conspiratorial FBI to find. Jeez our government thinks we are dumb.

[@hoodooking1133]

The motive is that he was suggested certain ads and content viewed, brainwashed

[@mikemike-fc5dq]

Hunter's laptop 🤫

[@realmusicnews]

“alleged” 😅

[@user-zm1jf6zy7v]

México support Trump

[@ChaseSanchez-ym6eb]

I thought America was a nation of God? 😂

[@dracoinvictus]

Wrong!!!! America is a secular nation. Gawd botherers were not allowed to force their religion on the nation, from the very beginning. Read the 1st Amendment if you don't believe me.

[@ChaseSanchez-ym6eb]

@@dracoinvictus Then why does your schizophrenic nation have “in God we trust” on its currency?

[@danielk2715]

​@@dracoinvictus one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[@Tallacus]

​@@danielk2715which was added during the Cold war to make us self righteously different from the Soviets

[@ChaseSanchez-ym6eb]

@@dracoinvictus Then why does your schizophrenic nation have “in God we trust” on its currency?

[@jensee2691]

Did Trump make sure he got his shoes on?

[@anaya6928]

Pffff

[@user-ul9vy9ri7n]

'Merica

[@BEasay]

Roger Stone on speed dial.

[@amyblue4204]

Exactly

[@Abaddon231]

Personally I just think he was insane .. TMZ released a revent video of him in college .. he was definitely on the spectrum , had no friends , and was bullied from day one . Thats the only reason that he got as close as he did .. He didnt blab to friends , he didnt post online , he didnt make political views public .. and the one time he did (years ago) he said he was an anarchist .. So its my guess he wanted to unalive himself and go out with a bang , doesnt matter if it was biden or trump there , he was gonna take some shots regardless (as long as it was government related) Insane ppl dont care about life , they only care about being remembered and living rent free in everyones minds .

[@divinelovestar]

Not just that the point that we were living in a orwellian world where some people is made mk ultra with some programs of mind control and sophisticated technology for that is a bit more worrying and seems that some people just never knew they where one, to take care of themselves and avoid being that kind of target of some orwellian agencies...seems like conspiracy theories are more than conspiracy truths sometimes

[@ajcates9136]

Thank goodness they are in charge what happened about independent inquiry yea right

[@wadecartwright4277]

This is hog wash😂😂😂

[@fabioconcato5945]

They should check for Melania's number😂

[@SmashKing17]

Your sick dude not cool

[@Mike-ye8qv]

Probably called u right before... pos

[@quesoblanco444]

​@@SmashKing17lol, triggered

[@quesoblanco444]

​@@Mike-ye8qvthey should check Melanias phone

[@SmashKing17]

@quesoblanco444 are you evil, what is funny about anyone almost losing their lives. Sick people walk amongst us these day. Unruly and Ungodly fallen

[@samkitzmiller4302]

To delete there calls

[@Howiex-is8gq]

He had contacts in Moscow...

[@richardscranton4159]

He had Putin in his contacts! 😮

[@sillkthashocker]

Maxwell Yearick

[@crptnite]

Thank you for this information.

[@neoneherefrom5836]

@@crptniteyou mean misinformation 🤣

[@loud102]

the motive is obvious

[@ryanyates570]

The FBI erased Biden’s phone number 😂

[@user-ee6tx7dl7x]

WOULDNT SHOCK ME IN THE LEAST

[@Abaddon231]

And the DNC hotline

[@karmenkoleiro6757]

Alleged??

[@brandonmaxie3871]

Liars

[@mikewhitman578]

Black man with white cowboy hat

[@guidoconvertino3571]

Giuseppe Ceracchi e Joseph Antoine Aréna - 1801 Anteo Zamboni - 1925 Violet Gibson - 1926 Leoníd Ogarjóv - 1931 Georg Elser - 1938 Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg - 1944 Matthew Crooks - 2024

[@michaelharding675]

Where's Waldo has been turned by the Iranians? Or Young Republicans are dissatisfied

[@leonardwashington6456]

Who is Maxwell Yearick?

[@bigolbeardog3777]

😂😂😂 I wonder what the motive was

[@jrrarglblarg9241]

He wanted to impress Jodie Foster.

[@blueabattoir]

jrrarglblarg9241 Taylor Swift

[@dracoinvictus]

Trump was too liberal for him.

[@TRIPLEDIGITS]

Usual suspect

[@erichskrika4041]

What a kid stricken with TDS?

[@jrrarglblarg9241]

White male with black rifle, yes.

[@damattice23]

While Christianity is the largest religion in our country, there are more non- Christians than Christians. Meaning, if you combine all the other religions, agnostics, and atheists- we outnumber Christians. Which is why church and state need to remain separate.

[@ChaseSanchez-ym6eb]

I’m not exactly sure how true that is. According to Wikipedia, the U.S. population is 332 million. There are 140 million Protestant Christians and 70 million Catholics. Other denominations make up another 13 million. That is clearly more than half of the population.

[@nvkulk]

Oh

[@robg_]

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

[@hangender]

Aw yea. Get rekt apple

[@Abaddon231]

Yup took em two days .. Apple encryption can no longer be trusted ..

[@user-uv3mc6cl9x]

God saved President Donald and also Saint Patrick who has President Donald Trump as one of his beautiful gifts, he knows him when he played as a child in his beloved Manhattan, he has seen his buildings, his Towers, he knows that the President knows Civil Engineering and Construction Civil

[@charlesmitchell9690]

He's 20. You're looking at phone records like he's 50. He's likely to have been communicating through apps not phonelogs. Whether those apps are through video games meaning consoles or through computers. Generally speaking 20 year olds might text but that's only if they have a lot of friends or people who they hope to make friends with but that's not entirely true either. The diminished social media presence is an absolute clue as to who he is. He was a college student locally his friends are likely to have moved away and gone on with their lives. He is considered a loner by some people who scratch the surface of who he is was etc. It's the summer so if those college friends returned home? 2 years has gone by though generally by this point people who fled away to their school of choosing are settling down in that area not always flying back to the coup they've been in. Due to his looks he's not going to be the premiered feature of social media ya know because internet trolls are very mean? Or girls are more concerned with being repulsed by what they see vs an embracing person who is willing to look past looks? The likelihood he played games is incredibly high not just due to his age or gender but just the nature of technology and how technology is used to create friends. Apps are like discord however since he was in college he had to have had ways to communicate with classmates? With people who he went to college with the courses he took? I mean if you need help in understanding something you're going to communicate somehow someway and there's no better way for a young person than through an app? Not through a call log. Phones are seen as tracking devices of who where when. Please let us know when he became aware and how he became aware a Trump rally was happening and where it was happening. The idea that the bombs were assembled where that was assembled? How it was assembled? That's more than grabbing a gun off the shelf. The ability to watch his finances to plan for building what is alleged to have been built? The possible searches for how to build? It might not be recent. Then there's tracking the last few months of his life. What has he done of recent including online tracking him but if he for whatever reason truly isn't a techie (seems off with the engineering field) what has he watched or listened to? Where his debit card was used how far away? Schools been out for a month or 2? So did he just sit around in the house and watch tv or was he driving somewhere daily weekly where did he get gas how often etc. LOok he's a kid probably not a big bank account and any expenditure leads to where he was including taking cash withdrawls suddenly and what day?

[@jonahansen]

How come when I post a comment as long as yours it gets removed?

[@crptnite]

​@@jonahansenyou're likely telling a Truth that you're not supposed to Know the Truth about.

[@charlesmitchell9690]

@@jonahansen I don't think it has anything to do with length. I think it has to do with language. I have had quite a few comments removed due to language and censors. I have also noticed if you link videos including videos on yt that removes the comment as well.

[@charlesmitchell9690]

@@crptnite I used to think that until I leaned into why the possibilities of removal are. Language is one reason I've noticed. The other seems to be links even if they are just yt links. I'm not suggesting people who own comments don't delete they possibly do. Content owners and comments under their content can remove if they so choose.

[@jonahansen]

@@charlesmitchell9690 I understand what you're saying, and you are absolutely right about links - even ones that were present for a year - so they must have changed the rules and gone over all the old comments. Also, "language", but not just swear words - sometimes they are removed if they mean something someone doesn't like - like anything critical of palestine - but they may have particular people flagged as offenders from previous comments. Also you are right that the owner can delete them, but sometimes it happens so fast it is hard to believe the uploader is really sitting there scanning the comments in real time. But I just did an experiment last week where I created a reply to someone's comment, and it got removed within 30-60 seconds, even after it appeared after hitting reply. So I split it up into segments, and small enough pieces got to stay - in the end I had to split it up into 5 pieces. But what I stated here is perhaps not precise enough - maybe the size only applies to replies, and not an initial comment? Haven't tested an initial comment that was big, as I haven't experienced it yet.

[@luisfbetancourt6218]

Guess what the FBI found in that phone 🤔yes you got it, pictures of Trump and stormy Daniel

[@racheldent6595]

Oh my goodness

[@Kallista1972]

So many old people

[@ChaseSanchez-ym6eb]

Shows you how out of touch they are

[@paulrash8861]

Elders on both platforms,, and it is sad

[@j.b.macadam6516]

Wow, there's a lot of white faces out there, and not many brown faces! That speaks volumes about the MAGA GOP!

[@robertkoth4022]

Yea but there not many black people there.blacks will put PRESIDENT TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

[@Youabich4real]

Blacks couldn’t afford to get in.

[@MaryEbr-yq7om]

Maybe they don't have a lot of minorities in that area of Pennsylvania.

[@j.b.macadam6516]

@@MaryEbr-yq7om I was referring to the scene in the background, showing the GOP convention in Milwaukee. That's the MAGA GOP !

[@user-rr4so1st5d]

Lots of diverse people in MAGA, we don't care about skin color, we care about freedom!