Republican Sen. Ron Johnson acknowledged a “bizarre” mystery surrounding Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who targeted President Donald Trump, during an interview on Pod Force One.
“All of a sudden I realize, here we are a year later, I haven’t heard a peep out of this. We still don’t know about, what did his social media accounts say?” Johnson said.
“Why haven’t we unlocked this information? Why doesn’t America know more about it?” he added. “There’s some odd things about it, him appearing in commercials for, was it BlackRock, just like the other potential assassin down in Palm Beach. I mean, it’s just bizarre stuff. I mean, explain this to us.”
Crooks was fatally shot by countersnipers after firing a shot during Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on July 13, 2024, which killed firefighter Corey Comperatore and injured two others. Johnson, who leads the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, subpoenaed the FBI in July for records on Crooks, which he called “friendly subpoenas.”
There’s so many enormous messes that Trump and his department heads are trying to clean up. Some of these are maybe a high priority to me or you, but they’ve got kind of bigger fish to fry,” Johnson said on Pod Force One.
“I think this was a news outlet, it might have been New York Post [that] did a geo-positioning search on Crooks’ phone and kind of like that Family Circus deals, all over the place, the FBI headquarters,” he continued.
“My staff kind of cautions me about talking about that, because we’re not quite sure of the validity of that as well. But I mean, again, those are the kinds of questions that deserve answers,” Johnson added.
“It’s those kind of questions that go unanswered that just feed into conspiracy theories.”
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