It’s no secret that the FBI became highly politicized during and after Barack Obama’s time in the White House. Even when President Trump was in office for his first term, there were still too many bad actors in positions of power within the bureau. That, of course, carried well into Sleepy Joe Biden’s administration, as we saw with the politicized investigations against disfavored conservatives.
Now, we’ve learned some disturbing new information about the FBI prior to Kash Patel taking it over.
It seems as though the bureau knew about some emails that were exchanged between Thomas Crooks, the man who nearly killed President Trump during an assassination attempt in Butler, Pa., during the summer of 2024, and the local sheriff’s department. That seems like pertinent information regarding this incident that was never released to the public:
Newly-released FBI documents that were obtained by government watchdog group Judicial Watch revealed that Thomas Crooks, the gunman who wounded President Donald Trump and killed retired firefighter Corey Comperatore during a 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, exchanged emails with local law enforcement prior to the shooting.
The documents, which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, include summaries of interviews with law enforcement personnel involved in the response to the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt.
One key detail from the records is that a deputy from the Butler County Sheriff’s Office exchanged two emails with Thomas Matthew Crooks prior to the event. According to a July 17, 2024, FBI electronic communication summarizing interviews conducted on July 16, 2024, with five deputies, the unnamed deputy stated that she did not initially recognize Crooks when his identity became public after the shooting.
She reported receiving a query from a New York Times reporter on the Sunday following the incident, which prompted her to review her email records.
The deputy indicated that she located exactly two email communications from Crooks. The content and subject matter of these emails remain redacted in the released documents.
The original FOIA request, filed in July 2024, sought investigative files, interview summaries, reports, communications, and other records related to Crooks and the assassination attempt. The FBI’s production of these documents occurred after litigation compelled responses.
It’s not clear why it took a Judicial Watch lawsuit to pry this information from the bureau after the organization initially made a request for it a few weeks after the assassination attempt.
NEW: @JudicialWatch announced that it forced the release of 48 heavily redacted pages from the FBI through FOIA lawsuit revealing that a Butler County Sheriff’s deputy exchanged emails with would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks prior to the July 13, 2024, shooting. The records… https://t.co/8F64teF85r
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) June 6, 2026
But here we are. The fact that the FBI under Biden fought disclosure of information stemming from an attack on Trump completely fits the ‘politicized’ nature of his ‘Justice’ Dept. But that doesn’t make it any less outrageous.
Here’s hoping Kash Patel continues to make progress in ridding the bureau of these hacks.
