FBI 'stonewalled' House Trump assassination attempt investigation, congressmen allege

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The FBI "stonewalled" the House investigation into Thomas Crooks’ attempted assassination of President Donald Trump , two Republican lawmakers were quoted as telling the New York Post. Earlier this week, the newspaper reported on social media posts believed to be linked to the 20-year-old shooter. The Post described the messages as including numerous endorsements of political violence and a sharp turn away from being an advocate for Trump. Reps. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania and Pat Fallon of Texas said the FBI never shared those files with members of Congress who were investigating the attempted assassination in July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to the New York Post. "We were stymied so much by the feds on what we could look at, what we couldn’t look at," Kelly told the Post. "We knew we were going to get stonewalled on a lot of stuff." AMERICA NEEDS A FRESH INVESTIGATION OF WOULD-BE ASSASSIN THOMAS CROOKS — AND THE FBI’S BUNGLED FIRST PROBE "I think that there’s so many unanswered questions about it," Kelly added. "They don’t want people to handle the truth." "We all know it wasn’t done, it wasn’t complete and the reason for that is they can’t handle the truth," Kelly also reportedly said in reference to how the FBI treated the congressional probe. Authorities told Congress they found no evidence that Crooks followed any particular ideology on his laptop, but according to the Post's source, there was a clear timeline of Crooks' changing ideology and violent rhetoric that remains to be addressed. "The danger Crooks posed was visible for years in public online spaces," an unnamed source said to have uncovered more than a dozen of Crooks' accounts told the paper. "His radicalization, violent rhetoric and obsession with political violence were all documented under his real name. The threat wasn’t hidden." While the FBI has not publicly identified a political motive, Crooks’ online comments over several years shifted from pro-Trump to anti-Trump, according to…