Newly Released FBI Records Show Would-Be Trump Assassin Thomas Crooks Had Biden Material on His Device
A tantalizing tidbit has been found on a device owned by Thomas Crooks, the would-be assassin who tried to kill President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024.
An FBI document released in response to a Freedom of Information request that was followed by a lawsuit to kick loose what was not forthcoming says there were “numerous images of guns and various political and other key figures were found on Crooks’ device.”
“There were multiple images of President Biden (POTUS) and FPOTUS, while other individuals were represented in only one to two images,” the document said. FPOTUS generally refers to a former President of the United States, according to the Sun-Journal.
“A review of file paths associated with these images concluded the majority of the images appeared in cache and likely were web images, not photographs or video files,” the document said.
NEW: Newly disclosed records reveal the FBI found “multiple images” of President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on the electronic device of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, who went by the alias “Rod Swanson.”
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) November 13, 2026
“We are currently working to identify additional details related to these images,” the document said.
As noted by Judicial Watch, the information about the images of Biden was contained in a “Foreign Dissemination Request” sent to foreign intelligence partners.
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Judicial Watch noted that at the current rate the FBI is releasing information, its complete file will not be released for 12 years.
“The FBI is abusing FOIA by hiding, redacting, and slow-walking documents on the Butler assassination attempt on President Trump,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “The FBI’s handling of this matter is a scandal.”
A definitive conclusion about the motive of the attempt to kill Trump has remained elusive.
“Crooks left no known written explanation. His political leanings remain unclear. Was the Butler rally just a convenient option for a young man planning mass violence, or was he committed to shooting Mr. Trump?” CBS News wrote in summing up the assassination attempt.
In September, Trump blamed Democrats.
“Everybody knows the Crooked Joe Biden FBI didn’t do what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA,” he posted on Truth Social.
“By the time I got into Office, on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone,” he posted.
🚨 JUST IN: AG Todd Blanche says the Biden FBI’s handling of the Trump assassination attempt was TOTALLY BOTCHED after President Trump sounds the alarm that even more info is coming out about Thomas Crooks
“You have a situation where it’s not really clear what the leadership of the FBI were doing in the weeks and months ahead of the attempted assassination to protect President Trump!”
“That’s the same organization that was simultaneously trying to put him in prison until he DIES.”
“So his frustration and concern about what the former director was doing is something that is not new.”
Trump has EVERY RIGHT to be furious. They tried to not only k*ll him but imprison him for life. And he overcame all of it.
47 DESERVES TO KNOW EVERYTHING about Crooks, as do the families of those who were hurt!
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 15, 2026
“New info was just found! Why wasn’t it seen long ago? This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed. Dirty Cop Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt, and certainly for the things he said,” he wrote. Wray is a former FBI director.
In September, Judicial Watch released information from the FBI’s files indicating that Crooks purchased “a chest rig and ceramic plates” before the attempt to kill Trump and that his behavior had become increasingly erratic.
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