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New Evidence Refutes FBI Testimony That Trump Shooter Is Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant

• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Debra Heine

A top FBI official made a point of testifying that President Trump's would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks may have espoused far-right extremist viewpoints on an unnamed social media account five years ago, but forgot to mention that Crooks may have shared pro-Biden viewpoints on Gab more recently.

Both accounts have not yet been fully verified as belonging to Crooks.

FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told senators on Capitol Hill Tuesday that a social media account believed to be Crooks' appears to have shared antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and  "extreme in nature" posts in 2019 and 2020. Crooks would have been 14 to 15-years-old in that time frame.

"There were over 700 comments posted from this account," Abbate testified before a joint Senate Judiciary Committee and Homeland Security Committee hearing entitled "Examination of the Security Failures Leading to the Assassination Attempt on Former President Trump."

"Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature," Abbate added.

The deputy director said while the FBI was still verifying that the account belonged to Crooks, the Bureau felt it was important to detail the social account's nature because of the "general absence of other information" establishing Crooks' "motive and mindset."

GAB CEO Andrew Torba, however, shared plenty of information on X last week about a GAB account the FBI appeared to believe was Crook's, saying the content of the posts "UNEQUIVOCALLY" reflected  a "pro-Biden and in particular pro-Biden immigration policy."


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