The FBI revealed Tuesday that Donald Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks may have owned a social media account whose posts were antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and ultimately “extreme in nature.”
FBI deputy director Paul Abbate did not say what social platform the account was active on, but he said it had pushed out hundreds of posts in 2019 and 2020. Support for political violence was among the posts, he said.
“There were over 700 comments posted from this account,” said Abbate. “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.”
