The July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on Donald Trump by Thomas Matthew Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, has devolved into a textbook case of institutional cover-up, with the FBI and DOJ stonewalling key details even under Trump’s own appointees. Over a year later, the public knows precious little about the 20-year-old shooter—who grazed Trump’s ear, killed one attendee, and was neutralized by Secret Service—despite exhaustive access to his devices and accounts. Tucker Carlson’s explosive 34-minute exposé, “Who is Thomas Crooks?,” unearthed a trove from Crooks’ Google Drive, including years of YouTube comments from 2019-2020 laced with calls for political violence, assassination plots, and “terrorism-style attacks” on officials, plus watch history of mass shooting videos and encrypted foreign messaging ties. This contradicts the FBI’s initial claim of “no online footprint,” a narrative echoed by congressional reports that omitted his digital manifesto, raising alarms of deliberate suppression. The real question isn’t just what Crooks hid, but why the deep state’s grip persists, with security lapses—like ignored warnings and rooftop access—mirroring broader intelligence failures designed to erode trust in democratic safeguards.

Even more baffling is the complicity of Trump loyalists Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi, whose roles in the cover-up have shattered illusions of a swift swamp-drain. As FBI Director, Patel—once a vocal deep-state critic—defended the bureau’s “exhaustive” probe while waiving polygraph requirements for Bongino and other deputies, citing no ongoing trial despite Crooks’ death at the scene. Bongino, now Deputy Director, praised the Secret Service’s “proper protocol” in a May 2025 interview alongside Patel, dodging specifics and vanishing from public view amid Epstein file clashes with Bondi, who as AG has overseen DOJ memos scrubbing Trump mentions from sensitive records. Carlson lambasts them for “hiding what they know,” suggesting internal sabotage or elite pressures have co-opted even these outsiders. Their silence fuels speculation: Are they protecting foreign handlers, like rumored Mossad-linked terror groups in Crooks’ orbit, or shielding a bipartisan Blob that views full disclosure as existential threat?

This isn’t isolated—Crooks’ profile fits a chilling MKUltra-style intelligence infiltration op, weaving through Calvary Chapel networks and the Charlie Kirk assassination probe to manipulate masses via programmed assets in Hollywood, politics, and beyond. MKUltra, the CIA’s real 1953-1973 mind-control horror—dosing unwitting subjects with LSD for brainwashing, hypnosis, and behavioral reprogramming—evolved into modern psyops targeting vulnerable youth like Crooks, whose right-wing radicalization (praising Trump early, then flipping to far-left violence) screams handler influence. Ties to Calvary Churches, via Kirk’s ally Pastor Rob McCoy at Godspeak Calvary Chapel, intersect with Kirk’s September 10, 2025, Utah assassination by suspect Tyler Robinson—a Mormon with inscribed bullet casings hinting at online radicalization—exposing elite orchestration from CIA/Mossad cutouts. Global puppeteers deploy celebrity vectors—Brittney Spears’ conservatorship (tied to Lou Taylor’s Mossad-linked firm), Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us” takedown, Kanye West’s silencing, Kardashians as soft-power influencers, Justin Bieber’s breakdowns, Courtney Love’s Manson echoes—to steer culture while infiltrating banking, tech, sports, and medicine. Decades of this playbook, from Charles Manson’s CIA ties to Epstein’s elite honeypot, explains the why: total control, with Kirk’s “martyr” death and Crooks’ erasure as warnings to dissenters, demanding a reckoning before the next “lone wolf” strikes.