Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) has accused the FBI of obstructing the investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump by prematurely cremating the body of the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Higgins, a former police captain and member of the bipartisan congressional task force reviewing the incident, uncovered this disturbing fact during his own inspection in early August.
REPORT: The FBI secretly released would be Trump assas*in Thomas Crooks’ body to be cremated before Rep. Clay Higgins could examine it.
According to a preliminary investigative report from Higgins, the FBI cremated Crooks’ body without telling anyone 10 days after the PA rally… pic.twitter.com/AP1Wx53PLi
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On August 5, Higgins attempted to view Crooks’ body as part of his investigation into the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. However, he was informed that the FBI had already released the body for cremation just 10 days after the shooting—without informing the county coroner or local law enforcement, who still had legal authority over the body.
Higgins, in his report released on August 12, criticized the FBI’s actions, labeling them as a “scorched earth” approach that undermines the integrity of the investigation. “The problem with me not being able to examine the actual body is that I won’t know 100% if the coroner’s report and the autopsy report are accurate. We will actually never know,” Higgins wrote.
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He expressed serious concerns about the ability to verify the authenticity of reports and evidence without being able to conduct his own examination.
The congressman’s report comes amidst growing concerns over the FBI’s handling of the investigation, especially after the failed security that allowed Trump to narrowly escape with his life while a rally attendee was killed.
Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle resigned on July 23, but many questions remain unanswered, including the motive behind the 20-year-old Crooks’ assassination attempt.
Higgins, who served as a police officer before being elected to Congress in 2016, is determined to get to the bottom of the incident. H
is preliminary report was submitted to Task Force Chairman Mike Kelly (R-PA) and made public on Higgins’ website, where he questioned why the FBI released Crooks’ body for cremation without proper oversight.
“Why, then, by what measure, would the FBI release his body to the family for cremation? This pattern of investigative scorched earth by the FBI is quite troubling,” Higgins wrote, highlighting the need for transparency and accountability.
In a statement following the release of his report, Higgins vowed to leave no stone unturned. “Every question will be answered, every theory explored, and every doubt erased. The American people deserve the full truth on the attempted assassination of President Trump,” he said, reaffirming his commitment to the investigation.
Higgins was appointed to the 13-member bipartisan task force, which includes seven Republicans and six Democrats. The group is charged with determining what went wrong on the day of the attempted assassination and will issue a final report with recommendations to prevent future security lapses before December 13.
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The US Government is absolutely and fully corrupted at every level.The most corrupt and evil government in the world.
Time to water the tree.
They are just mad because there are less nine month old babies for their luciferian sacrifice rituals.
The FBI is so corrupt that it needs to be disbanded and reorganized. There are a lot of bad apples in the FBlie.
The problem with all of the alphabet agencies start at the top. The people in the trenches, for the most part, are great people who take their jobs seriously. The leadership, however, simply sucks!
That is how this is justified.
Those at the bottom do the will of and execute the decisions of the top.
No tyranny exists without the petty tyrants at the bottom “just doing their job” and an army of compliant supporters hoping the crocodile eats them last.
I think your heart is in the right place but why do people always say it must be reorganized??? Why? Close it down. We don’t need a Federal police force. Period.
and Fascist/Communist Alphabet Departments and Agencies ARE NOT AND CANNOT! BE FIXED-“REFORMED”-“MADE MORE CONSERVATIVE/REPUBLICAN/CHEAPER…like the Ministry of (Governent) “Education” “fixing” inherently evil Marxist NEA Laboratories/PRISONS….sadly the Conditioned oblivious to history AND FREEDOM increasingly propertyless serfs bleat and whine until you change the subject…oh and ALL BIPARTISAN….smh
Sadly we do. Because who else is going to arrest all the Federal criminals who need arresting? Including the current FBI? What we need is a major overhaul of document classification procedures. All the FBIs crimes are hidden behind secrecy that is far in overreach of the classification procedures. While these same agencies want to spy on you 15 different ways 24/7. There need to be major restrictions on what can be classified, subject to review by a citizen board. All other documents, budgets, accounting, reports, etc must be publicly available in live time. The crime of corruption of this process, or by agents in their duties would bring a mandatory charge of treason punishable by death and civil forfeiture of any remaining estate. If there are going to be Federal police they need to swear a blood oath against corruption. Such men do exist but sadly the FBI has criminalized them. Honestly this is a very nonpartisan issue that we should make noise about as a united people. Nobody doesn’t feel the same way about the FBI. This should be our ‘great reset’
The rot is concentrated at the top where you have to be corrupt to get promoted. Remove the top 10-15% and inject seasoned State Police and promote from the lower ranks to replace them.
Trouble is when you put those types who’ve already been inculcated in the same methodology, just different departments, you are gonna get the same results.
Why do you think only law-enforcement can run for election as a sheriff?.
It is to ensure you aren’t gonna get somebody outside of the fold who will truly clean things up in that county.
Yes, time to water the tree on our terms this time!
Another government JFK redux that went bad for the government.
Grassy Knoll revisited.
The rot is legion
Our govt yet again hiding something. Tell us our govt is involved by saying they are not from their own filthy lying mouths..
Of course they are. They missed and are now cleaning up their mess. Surely lots of things/people must simply ‘go away’.
Another Clinton suicide?
The FBI is investigating the FBI’s part in the government assassination attempt. The corruption is complete. Ammo up. These people cannot
be voted out.
Why have they not released the actual caliber of all 8 or 9 shots by Crooks? We just keep hearing “AR Style”. Shouldn’t all rounds be the same caliber? What if they aren’t? What if they are .22lr and .223? Multiple shooters? What if it’s only .22lr? Doesn’t exactly fit the “ban all ar-15” narrative. Release the calibers…
If they can cremate the body of a would-be presidential assassin without even an autopsy, they can throw away the shell casings, or substitute for the caliber of their choice.
There is still the body of the innocent bystander to consider; was the bullet recovered–or did he get cremated too? What about the bullet from the wounded bystander? Once again, crickets . . .
No one said that there wasn’t an autopsy done. There IS a coroner’s report and an Autopsy report. Rep. Higgins isn’t able to confirm the findings in the two reports.
“The problem with me not being able to examine the actual body is that I won’t know 100% if the coroner’s report and the autopsy report are accurate. We will actually never know,” Higgins wrote.
They are frantically, burning, bleaching, cleaning, removing, bribing, any and every spec of evidence. Why wash off the roof the next day? Oops, DNA!!! No phone records or computer conversations. And they think we believe them. Not ever again!
Absolutely right. And we want to know the caliber of the shot that killed Crooks too. Maybe that’s why they cremated the body so quickly!
They had to get rid of the body because it wasn’t Crooks. It was Maxwell Yearick. The nose and lips are very different from Crooks but oddly look very much like Maxwell. Also looking at the body cam pics on the roof there are two small moles on the neck just below the jawline that match Maxwell. But the clincher would be to see the eyes. Crooks had brown eyes and Yearick had blue. A pic of the dead shooter had his left open just a crack, doesn’t look brown to me.
They shot Crooks with a .338 or a .308.
Right, maybe he was shot in the back of the head.
All AR style firearms are not .223 or 5.56. There are many different calibers now associated with the AR platform. You can disgard 22lr. We have a man that was killed and others that were critically wounded. A 22lr at that distance is not going to do that.
A .22lr can kill past 1000 yards
No, it can’t. It could bruise you but 40 gr with no velocity is like a paint ball.
Most .22 rifles have a bullet drop from line of sight, of 36″ or more at 200 yards. Just save yourself embarrassment and stop with the 22 BS!
But it won’t leave an exit wound comparable to a close range 308 or 556.
To show how stupid these people are a suppressed 300 blackout sub sonic would’ve been more than enough to do the job.
This stinks of corruption like a rotting whale.
Murder, not corruption.
Both, and treason.
Had Trump been president and it was Biden who got shot by someone the FBI secretly cremated, there would be nationwide riots, investigations, and perps going to prison. But since it was Trump–crickets . . .
We all know it was an inside job. So enough of the stonewalling. Just say what really happened. Put these animals on notice & go arrest each one of them. Put them all in the Epstein gulag in NYC, then hang them. Time for treating them as the Dems would if they were us.
Fight fire with fire! The justice system is dead in America. Until it returns, go after them DEM STYLE. So sick of them doing what they please!!!
The FBI needed to erase evidence of their wrongdoing by having the body cremated as fast as possible, no way to tell if the shooter was on powerful psychotropic drugs that may have signalled him being under someone’s control.
Be interesting to know whether any toxicology was done before the evidence was destroyed. MK Ultra anyone?
They didn’t want the mk ultra recipe getting revealed
Exactly!
They will try again, they crossed the line over a year ago. They know prison is more than likely if President Trump is elected. Watch your back boys!!
That’rich; the organization charged with solving crimes is actually perpetrating crimes and perpetrating cover-ups. Now we can’t verify what chemicals this mook had in his body, if there were any wounds, scares etc. Cremated men tell no tales.
Was a tox screen performed?
Do we know what drugs (Rx and illegal) were in his system?
So who will be fired? No one.
Well, that’s one way of hiding the mind altering drug cocktail residuals.
Dear Rep. Higgins,
If Crooks was the assassin and shooting at PDJT at a downward angle from the peak of the roof, which is where he would have HAD to have been positioned to take those shots, assuming he was shooting up until time he was killed, WHY is Crooks’ body 5’ – 6’ or so BELOW the peak of the roof, with no trail of his blood and brains down to his body?!
Respectfully.
Higgins stated in his report that the shooter positioned himself lower than the peak of the roof to make hitting him more difficult.
it should of been examined automatically by several agencies and independent coroners, and the dna should of been taken and positively matched against his parents dna. they should of tried their very best to disprove that this was crooks, that was we would positively know that it was or wasn’t crooks.
Well then you have to ask what about his body are they trying to hide? Psychoactive drugs? Transitioning drugs? Tat’s linking him to a leftist philosophy or group? What is so important about his body they had to reduce it to ashes before any other agency could examine it?
It was not Crooks.
Beware of Higgins. He talks tough but he is adopting the same positions the FBI makes. Higgins has seen no evidence showing Crooks fired all 8 shots. Crooks was shooting at an FBI/DHS shooting range, shells from his gun could easily be planted. The acoustics show 2 shooters.
more virtue signaling over something that will never be addressed or followed up with.
j6 evidence destroyed
hillarys emails destroyed
afghan withdrawl records destroyed
now this
when will our side do SOMETHING
Is there equal justice in America? Alec Baldwin, Robert Blake, and OJ Simpson are not complaining.
If the GOP were smart they would’ve/should’ve tried to get a writ preserving all evidence in the case. But once again… 1963 all over again.
The higher ups even tried to destroy the drugs found in the Whitehouse. The agents and police officers insisted that they be retained as their SOP required. The former SS head did everything in her power to have them destroyed. But, she was given that job because Jill wanted her there. Who in hell is running this Country?
Auto pilot from George Soros. Camel is campaigning, Joe is vacationing, where is BO?
Ahh true! But GOP RINO’s like McConnell stop that!
It’s the democRAT – Deep States way.
It just proves that the FBI is complicit in everything, so it is the Fox investigating the Henhouse on why the hens were assaulted.
Something they had to make disappear. It is the FBI, corrupt and owned by the DNC/Deep State.
FBI and Secrete Service covering up the evidence. Remember when Justice Scalia was found dead in Texas? His body was creameted before any autopsy could be made. More government corruption.
They took care of Lee Oswald and they have done the same with this shooter. Gone. Poof. Nothing to see here.
Correct. But even Oswald’s body was released to his wife Marina, and it was buried in the usual way. That should always be the procedure, out of respect and concern for the wishes of a dead criminal’s family. As a secondary benefit to burial of an intact body, it is obviously available for subsequent exhumation if legitimate questions arise later, which is exactly what occurred back in the early 1980s. IIRC, there were questions about whether LHO was actually the body in the casket. He was. It would be a lot harder to determine that sort of thing with ashes!
Oh, gee, the FBLie is going to have to endure more aggressive Republican finger wagging and stern letters. 😣
GOP theater. But videos needed to pimp for MAGA rube donations for investigations that go nowhere.
These things are happening more and more frequent when the DOJ/CIA/FBI are involved in them.
Waco
Oklahoma
911
Seth Rich and all the Clinton Arkancides.
All evidence erased immediately
I hope when Putin finally decides to push his RED Button that DC is his first target while both houses are in full session and Obiden and Obamala are in the WH. He won’t need to target any other place, he will have destroyed the evil with that first target.
You forgot about demonRat governors.
No one seems to be noticing another angle of overreach by the FBI/DOJ: since when do they get a right to bypass the wishes of the family? Even death row inmates’ bodies are released to family after the execution if that is desired. And they were actually tried, convicted and executed. It sounds like Crooks’ family wasn’t even consulted.
A quickie cremation (they never seem to just inter the body!) already smells of some kind of coverup; but not even respecting his parents wishes (they’re not guilty of anything, btw) just reeks to high heaven.
Sumpms up!
Clearly a government coverup of an attempt to eliminate our only hope for an honest government. They tried everything to get rid of President Trump and now have tried to assassinate him. God saved him.
81 million votes have consequences.
Crooks cremated to destroy evidence. Crooks shot from window behind him?
Babbitt? No, “a body” was cremated two days later to destroy evidence of victims identity. Babbitt may be still alive under a new identity.
Clay be like Trey
” … without informing the county coroner or local law enforcement, who still had legal authority over the body.”
So, the FBI, and the firm/individual who provided cremation services, each committed crimes. Local LEOs should be demanding charges and trial in a local court.
Want to discourage future crimes such as this? Make the punishment extreme, and public.
So no drug testing.
Read the entire chapter replace Egypt with America and you’ll get the picture.
An excellent series “ How God destroys nations” Can be found on sermon audio dot com by Pastor John Weaver.
Isaiah 19
“The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.“
Crooked as a dog’s hind leg.