BREAKING: Thomas Crooks’ Final Online Search Revealed

Days after a harrowing assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a political rally, chilling new details have emerged about the suspect, Thomas Matthew Crooks. Investigators revealed that Crooks had scouted the rally location twice before the incident and found images of both Trump and President Joe Biden on his phone. The motive behind the attack remains shrouded in mystery.

Authorities are probing Crooks’ digital footprint, which included marked dates for the Democratic National Convention and various Trump events. However, the implications of these searches are still unclear, according to U.S. officials.

Just before the shooting, Crooks’ last online search was for pornography. This was discovered when the FBI managed to break into the 20-year-old’s encrypted Samsung phone, a senior law enforcement official disclosed to The Daily Beast.

Previous attempts to access the Android device at the Pittsburgh field office were unsuccessful, prompting a transfer of the phone to Quantico for further examination by agents. The only other recent activity detected on the phone were texts from Crooks’ parents inquiring about his whereabouts.

The Daily Beast reported:

The last search Thomas Crooks made on his cell phone before attempting to assassinate Donald Trump was for pornography, a senior law enforcement source tells the Daily Beast.

The source, who asks not to be named, said the FBI’s Operational Technology Division in Quantico, Va., made the discovery when it finally gained access to the contents of 20-year-old Crooks’ encrypted Samsung phone. Initial attempts at the Pittsburgh field office to crack open the Android failed and the device was flown to Quantico on an FBI plane.

The only other recent activity on the phone which the FBI discovered were texts from his parents asking where he was. The source says the parents thought their son had taken the AR-style rifle and gone to the shooting range where he sometimes practiced.

The FBI recovered Crooks’ phone from his body, along with four rifle magazines and a remote control capable of detonating the explosives found in his car. He was on the roof (top) when he fired at Trump, who was on the red carpet covering the stage.

“By 6 pm he was dead,” the source said.

According to the source, the FBI has largely completed its examination of the phone’s contents and is now at work on the gunman’s laptop and a number of hard drives which were recovered from his bedroom.

According to law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation, the phone was also found to contain an array of photos of politicians. This included Democrats’ House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), alongside others like Rudy Giuliani.

The sources, who provided details to CNN, indicated that the majority of these images seem to have been sourced from the internet, and there were no accompanying threats or ominous messages linked to these figures. Further investigations into the shooter’s phone revealed searches stretching back to spring, meticulously tracking the dates and locations of Trump rallies and gathering information on major political conventions.

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