What Is Going On? Lawmakers Accuse Feds of Stonewalling in Butler Assassination Attempt Probes – RedState– redstate.com

Question: Why are there still so many questions surrounding the Butler, 2024 Pennsylvania assassination attempt against Donald Trump?

The lack of information gives plenty of fodder for conspiracy theorists and makes many Americans feel like they’re not being told the whole truth. For instance, why was the shooter’s body cremated only 10 days after the shooting — which left firefighter Corey Comperatore dead and Trump wounded — and who paid for it? If law enforcement knows, they’re not telling us; they’ve only said “an anonymous donor” financed it.

If they don’t know, that would be highly suspect.

As our Jennifer Oliver O’Connell reported Tuesday, Chuck Grassley has obtained new information, some of it frankly weird, as he investigates the attack:

These records were obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as part of his ongoing probe into the Butler debacle. The documents include an FBI interview with Matthew Crooks, Thomas Crooks’ father, only two days after young Crooks’ attempted murder of Trump.

According to the New York Post’s review of the records, Thomas Crooks used the name “Bob Dole” to obtain his stocks of ammunition and gun parts from Amazon and other online retailers, and had these parcels delivered to his parents’ home. The additional gun parts included “‘tools and items to increase the capacity of his rifle,’ the same weapon that his father would give to him on the morning of the rally at the Butler Farm Show Grounds in Pennsylvania.”

Why did it take Senator Chuck Grassley to find this new information about Thomas Crooks? Is he the only person in DC with any investigative powers? The FBI was told by the Crooks’ family that an “anonymous donor” paid for the cremation. It’s been more than two years. Why has… pic.twitter.com/wr2SMuf3tP

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Why did it take Senator Chuck Grassley to find this new information about Thomas Crooks? Is he the only person in DC with any investigative powers? The FBI was told by the Crooks’ family that an “anonymous donor” paid for the cremation. It’s been more than two years. Why has that donor not been identified and questioned? Who was it, what was his/her motivation? What evidence was destroyed?