Fox News’ Peter Doocy provided chilling details after a report this week indicated a possible connection between President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, and Tyler Robinson, the man charged with killing Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk.
“Insisting there is nothing helpful in Thomas Crooks’ digital footprint, there are newly discovered posts believed to be linked to Crooks showing him with guns and showing him with an affinity for assassins. There is a new push to visit bipartisan congressional investigation as investigators claim they were never briefed about any Crooks posts,” Doocy said on Fox & Friends while outside the White House.
“I want to know everything there is to know about this country. I think our country deserves it. I think our family deserves it. I think the world deserves it. By the way, forked credibility of the Secret Service, and I love men and women of the Secret Service, dear friends, better get the real story up. Lack of information could be
“People at the FBI said the president assured them he is satisfied with the investigation of what he has been told. What are you to believe? People who brief the president or Miranda, Levine of the New York Post, or both, or maybe the president changed his mind,” co-host Brian Kilmeade said.
New reporting indicates a connection between Crooks and Robinson.
TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said the development is “a five-alarm fire,” responding Monday on social media to a report by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine.
Devine highlighted Crooks’ online interest in transgenderism and the “furry” subculture. Robinson’s roommate was described as his transgender partner, who also reportedly had a furry fetish.
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“Crooks was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper, but not before he killed rallygoer Corey Comperatore, 50, and seriously wounded David Dutch, 58, and James Copenhaver, 75, who were sitting in the bleachers behind Trump,” Devine wrote.
“There is something very wrong with the official story and that invites conspiracy theories,” she said.
Devine added that a source revealed new details from Crooks’ digital footprint, including posts showing he shifted from enthusiastically pro-Trump to openly hostile toward the former president and his supporters beginning in 2020.
“How can you people call others sheep, but you are [too] brainwashed to realize how dumb you are,” he wrote on Feb. 26, 2020.
“I mean literally you guys sound like a cult at times.”
In August 2020, Crooks posted that “the only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks,” urging followers to bomb essential buildings and assassinate political leaders.
Rod Swanson, a former senior FBI agent and former chief of investigations for Nevada during the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, said there is no scenario in which the FBI would have missed Crooks’ online behavior.
“No matter how ridiculous the allegation, no matter if it’s COVID or not, somebody is going to knock on somebody’s door,” Swanson said.
“If they investigated that kid there’s a record of it and there’s an assessment that some leader made that this was not a threat or it rose to a level and they did something else.”
Devine also noted Crooks’ identification with “they/them” pronouns on the art platform DeviantArt, a major hub for the furry community.
She wrote that he showed a deep interest in anthropomorphized animal characters, often associated with sexual themes.
Lance Twiggs, Robinson’s roommate, was also reportedly involved in the furry subculture.
Turning Point USA’s Jack Posobiec said Robinson’s trial should be televised.
“There’s questions coming out about the strange relationship between Lance Twiggs and Tyler Robinson,” Posobiec said.
“Drug use, obsessions with ChatGPT, the furry lifestyle, black market HRT (hormone treatment).”
Both the Crooks and Robinson cases appear to involve similar underlying mental health struggles.
The Trump administration is advancing plans to restore the Pentagon’s original name, the Department of War, according to the Wall Street Journal.
While the change would likely require congressional approval, the White House is weighing alternatives. Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) has introduced an amendment to the annual defense policy bill to rename the department, signaling some congressional backing.
A Pentagon spokesperson said the title “Department of War” better reflects the military’s offensive capabilities.
“As President Trump said, our military should be focused on offense – not just defense – which is why he has prioritized warfighters at the Pentagon instead of DEI and woke ideology. Stay tuned!” said White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly.Trump previously publicly pondered changing the Defense Department’s name back to the War Department a few days ago. The government’s largest federal entity was called the War Department from the country’s founding to the late 1940s, following World War II.
“It used to be called the Department of War and it had a stronger sound,” Trump said. “We want defense, but we want offense too … As Department of War we won everything, we won everything and I think we’re going to have to go back to that.”
President George Washington’s first Cabinet included just four departments: State under Thomas Jefferson, Treasury under Alexander Hamilton, the Attorney General’s office under Edmund Randolph, and the War Department, led by Continental Army General Henry Knox.
The War Department remained until 1947, when it was reorganized into the Departments of the Army, Air Force, and Navy. The Navy Department, first established in 1798, had previously operated under the War Department’s authority.
After World War II, President Harry Truman pushed for a unified defense structure to better coordinate U.S. military affairs. In July 1947, he signed the National Security Act, creating the National Military Establishment and establishing the National Security Council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the U.S. Air Force.
All of these entities were placed under the National Military Establishment, with James Forrestal confirmed by the Senate as its first director the day after it was created. In 1949, the NME was officially renamed the Department of Defense.
The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was dismissed last week after the agency prepared a preliminary bomb-damage assessment — later leaked to the media — that indicated U.S. strikes on Iran had delayed the country’s nuclear program by only a few months.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, who had led the DIA since February 2024, “will no longer serve as DIA director,” a senior defense official told the New York Post.
Deputy Director Christine Bordine is now listed as acting director on the agency’s official website.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly fired Kruse over a “a loss of confidence” in the lieutenant general, two congressional officials told the New York Times.
The DIA’s classified, “low confidence” assessment of the June 21 airstrikes on Iran’s Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz nuclear sites was leaked to CNN three days after U.S. B-2 stealth bombers and cruise missiles targeted the facilities.
An official said the assessment was based on limited intelligence collected the day after the strike. The document reportedly concluded that Iran could restore elements of its nuclear program within one to two months and that its stockpile of enriched uranium had not been destroyed in the airstrikes.
The leak drew sharp anger from President Donald Trump and other senior administration officials. In a Truth Social post, Trump described the leak as “AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY.” He added in all caps: “THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED!”
Special envoy Steve Witkoff dismissed claims that the United States failed to achieve its military objectives in Iran, calling such suggestions “completely preposterous” during an interview on Fox News.