The local sheriff’s office exchanged emails with Thomas Matthew Crooks before he tried to assassinate President Trump at Butler, Pennsylvania in July 2024.
Newly released federal records show an exchange of emails in the run-up to the assassination attempt.
The records were obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information suit against the FBI and were released on Friday.
The FBI yielded 48 heavily redacted pages related to its investigation into the shooting.
One of the documents was an interview summary involving a Butler County Sheriff’s deputy who told the FBI she had exchanged two emails with Crooks before the shooting.
The contents of the emails remain unknown.
The deputy told investigators she did not have any personal interactions with Crooks.
“[Redacted] advised she [redacted] Thomas Crooks (CROOKS) in the [redacted] was an [redacted] therefore [redacted] with CROOKS. [Redacted] advised she did not recognize CROOKS when everything was on the news over the weekend but on Sunday night, a New York Times reporter emailed her asking questions,” reads the document.
“[Redacted] advised she checked her emails and records and only had two email communications from CROOKS and both emails were in regard to [redacted]. [Redacted] advised she did not have any personal interaction with CROOKS [redacted].”
The documents also reveal that an unknown device with an antenna was retrieved from Crook’s pocket after he was killed by police. No further details about the device are known.
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This claim is false–The Butler County Sheriff’s Office did not exchange emails with Thomas Matthew Crooks prior to the July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Butler County (Ohio) Sheriff Richard Jones slammed the online reports as “completely false”.
Following the backlash and verification of the facts, Judicial Watch removed the claim that Crooks had contacted the deputy from their reports, noting that the deputy’s name does not appear anywhere in the heavily redacted FBI files.
The Butler shootings was a government plot. We know this because the government withheld security then covered up evidence.
LOL! Sure he did. People that believe in this crap trust the jewish run govt.
Looks like Alex will be cooking up some conspiracy theories with this one!
Is that supposed to be analysis? Alex reports accurately, you rant irrationally.