Sen. Ron Johnson slammed the FBI on Tuesday for trying to portray Trump would-be-assassination suspect Thomas Crooks as some sort of right-winger.
Appearing on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle,” he said outright that this narrative concocted by the FBI is trash.
“They’re trying to paint this as a MAGA Republican trying to take out, I guess, the MAGA President,” he said. “It makes no sense whatsoever, but that’s why you can’t trust the FBI.”
Listen:
(Video Credit: Fox News)
His remarks came hours after Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the agency had located a Gab social media account belonging to Crooks containing antisemitic and anti-immigrant content.
The “anti-immigrant” part triggered accusations on social media that Crooks had been a so-called MAGA extremist.
But according to Gab founder Andrew Torba, there’s a big problem with this narrative. In a tweet published sometime after the hearing Tuesday afternoon, he claimed that Crooks’ account had in fact contained pro-immigration and pro-Biden content.
“[T]he account … was, UNEQUIVOCALLY, pro-Biden and in particular pro-Biden’s immigration policy,” he wrote. “To the best of Gab’s knowledge, as of 2021, Crooks was a pro-lockdown, pro-immigration, left-wing Joe Biden supporter.”
BREAKING: The FBI is now claiming that the Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks had an unspecified “social media account” in 2019/2020 (when he was 14/15 years old) that posted “anti-immigrant and anti-semitic” content.
This is not consistent with Gab’s understanding of the… pic.twitter.com/UPPJSAkPqp
— Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba) July 30, 2024
But there’s more.
“The account was last active on the site in 2021,” Torba continued in another post. “As far as we are aware, the account did not use the site to send any direct messages. He posted on the site nine (9) times total.”
“While the account made very few posts on the site, the majority of them were in support of President Biden. A number of posts in particular expressed support for President Biden’s COVID lockdowns, border policies, and executive orders,” he added.
This time he included receipts.
Look:
Approximately 30 minutes ago, Gab learned that Thomas Crooks, the deranged Joe Biden supporter who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump, may have had an account on our platform. We are unable to confirm that the account in question actually belonged to him.
The… pic.twitter.com/BcJrZJ4Yhk
— Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba) July 24, 2024
— Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba) July 24, 2024
In one Gab message that Crooks posted on Feb. 3rd, he defended President Joe Biden’s immigration policies and illegal migration itself.
“Biden executive orders don’t incentivize human trafficking as human traffickers aren’t interested in citizenships,” he falsely claimed. “Likewise the majority of illegal immigrants are not criminals and in fact some studies (such as the one linked below) show lower rates of crime committed by these individuals.”
The false, BS talking points were straight out of the Democrats’ playbook.
In a post published on Feb. 4th, 2021, he mocked another Gab user for rightly predicting that disgraced former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney would lose her 2022 primary election.
“Didn’t you also think Biden would lose in a landslide yeah I would not be very confident in your election predictions,” Crooks cockily and arrogantly wrote back.
It appears, for all intents and purposes, that the FBI therefore lied when it claimed Crooks’ account contained anti-immigrant content. Critics for their part aren’t remotely surprised.
Look:
FBI:
“Trust us, there was definitely a secret social media account where Crooks said he was a MAGA Iranian agent from Palestine.”— Beyond Party Lies (@beyondpartylies) July 30, 2024
If he really was in any way, shape, or form right-wing, why would he attack the only semi-viable right-wing candidate?
Doesn’t make any f*ing sense whatsoever.
These f*ing gov’t assholes are lying, and they know we know they’re lying.
— FrostyPixelsOG (@FrostyPixelsOG) July 30, 2024
The FBI doesn’t have an ounce of credibility anymore. I don’t listen to anything they have to say. In my eyes they are paid actors who exist to fulfill anything the Democratic party needs. Their entire existence today is to harm right wingers and protect Democrats.
— SwayTheSwamp (@gbellnasa) July 30, 2024
Do you mean the same FBI who joined with the Intel Community to swear Hunter’s Laptop was Disinfo right b4 the last Election + then memory-holed it like they did Weiner’s Laptop + Hillary’s Emails + Epstein’s Hard-Drives + all the way back to the Finders + the Franklin Coverup +…
— Childe Roland (@iggyb70) July 30, 2024
We all know FBI is a straight shooter . They wouldn’t lie to Americans. pic.twitter.com/FUx6aMxXDe
— Thomas Musket ⓒ (@ThomasMusket) July 30, 2024
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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