Attempted Trump assassin Thomas Crooks used 'Bob Dole' alias before anonymous donor paid for cremation: docs
The packages said Bob Dole. An unnamed donor paid to burn the file after Butler.
Summary
- Fox News reports Senate-bound federal documents, first detailed by the New York Post, show Thomas Matthew Crooks used the alias Bob Dole to order suspicious packages before the July 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt that killed a bystander and wounded two others. President Trump survived.
- Crooks, 20, typically collected the Dole-addressed packages before his father, who worked late, came home. A family attorney told investigators he was cremated shortly after he was shot, paid for by an anonymous donor.
- His father, Matthew Crooks, told FBI agents the day after the shooting that his son never identified anyone as a friend through middle and high school, later talked to himself, and feared he might not get into college. Matthew, who worked in mental health, said he did not see other signs of mental illness. The father took early retirement. The mother, Mary, went on leave.
- Matthew said his son was a straight-A student who scored 1400 on a first SAT try without studying and later scored over 1500. The Dole name, the father said, started after the father's checking account was hacked and fraudulent gambling charges appeared. The records were compiled for the Butler investigation.
Commentary
A mill dad still waits in a gravel lot for a rally to start and knows a rooftop is supposed to be HVAC, not a firing point. He did not buy a ticket so a kid with a fake name on a box could rewrite a country's night.
Bob Dole on the label. An anonymous check for the cremation. A 1400 SAT and no named friends. The honest household already paid for a Secret Service that missed the roof. The cold rain on that Butler grass still waits.
Look every working father who still takes a kid to a public rope line in the eye and answer this: if the packages already had a fake name and the ashes already had a hidden payer, who still owns the next rally roof that was supposed to be swept?
Comments
Dole alias. Anonymous cremation. Butler July 2024. Keep that order.
I stood a rope so a rally still meant a speech. A rooftop is not optional.
Thomas Crooks. Matthew Crooks. 1400 then 1500. Senate docs. Print the four.
Allied details still treat an alias on a package as a hunt, not a quirk.
Late-shift dad. Packages collected first. Hacked checking story. File the three.
I still work late. I want the next box on a kid's porch opened by a cop, not a eulogy.
An unnamed donor for a cremation is not closure. It is a warning the street already paid.
A missed roof is a second border around every outdoor stage.
Fox printed the alias, the donor, and the SAT scores. Argue those nouns.
Sweep the roof. Trace the boxes. A rally ticket is not supposed to be a last night.
