FBI Director Issues Update on Trump Rally Shooter
Facts Matter
The Epoch Times
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today we present updates on the 2 assassination attempts made on President Donald Trump’s life, as well as the hunting perch that was discovered near a Florida airport by Secret Service agents roughly a month and a half ago.
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| 0:00.0 | On Friday, November the 14th, you had FBI director Cash Patel take to the podium in the White House |
| 0:04.7 | in order to give the American public an update on Thomas Crooks, the failed assassin in Butler, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:11.3 | Although I call him the failed assassinate Trump, even though he failed to assassinate Trump, |
| 0:15.8 | Thomas Crooks did murder a man who was shielding his family from gunfire, and he also seriously wounded |
| 0:22.5 | two others in attendance. Now, in regards to the update, Cash Patel said that after conducting |
| 0:27.4 | their investigation, the FBI has determined that Thomas Crooks acted alone. |
| 0:32.5 | Quote, FBI director Cash Patel announced on November the 14th that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old, |
| 0:38.9 | who attempted to assassinate then presidential candidate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania |
| 0:43.5 | in July of 2024, planned and executed the attack on his own with the FBI finding no evidence |
| 0:50.1 | of accomplices or prior discussions by him of his intent. Then in a follow-up statement, you had Cash Patel basically give an overview of the breadth |
| 0:58.7 | of this FBI investigation by noting the scale of the resources that were involved and also |
| 1:03.9 | the amount of proverbial rocks that were turned over and looked under. |
| 1:07.8 | Quote, over 480 FBI employees were involved in the Thomas |
| 1:11.8 | Crook's investigation. Employees conducted over 1,000 interviews, addressed over 2,000 public |
| 1:17.3 | tips, analyzed data extracted from 13 seized digital devices, reviewed nearly 500,000 |
| 1:23.6 | digital files, collected, process, and synchronized hundreds of hours of video footage, |
| 1:28.4 | analyzed financial activity from 10 different accounts, and examined data associated with 25 social |
| 1:33.6 | media or online forum accounts. The FBI's investigation into Thomas Crooks identified and |
| 1:38.6 | examined over 20 online accounts, data extracted from over a dozen electronic devices, |
| 1:44.0 | examination of numerous financial accounts, and over 1 over a dozen electronic devices, examination of numerous |
| 1:45.2 | financial accounts, and over 1,000 interviews and 2,000 public tips. The investigation, |
| 1:50.6 | conducted by over 480 FBI employees, revealed Crooks had limited online and in-person interactions, |
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