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
made public so far,” Doocy added.
“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.
Devine reported that investigators have provided little clarity about Crooks’ motive for attempting to assassinate then-candidate Trump in July 2024.
“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.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist who narrowly won New York City’s mayoral race this week, will face steep challenges when he takes office on Jan. 1, 2026, political strategists told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Mamdani captured 50.4% of the vote Tuesday, edging out former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent and finished with 41.6%. The tight margin fell well below pre-election polls that showed Mamdani with leads of up to 25 points, The Daily Caller
After the race was called, Mamdani delivered a fiery victory speech at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater that took aim at both Cuomo and President Donald Trump. The tone, political observers said, raised questions about his leadership style before he even begins his term.
“Last night was an angry Mamdani, was a bitter Mamdani. He wasn’t magnanimous,” political strategist Adam Weiss told the outlet. “He was calling Trump all sorts of names. I don’t know why he’s going off on Trump, the sitting president of the United States. Be magnanimous, say, ‘We’d love to work together.’”
Weiss said the remarks showed poor political judgment and a lack of grace after a divisive campaign. “If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,” Mamdani said in his speech, drawing cheers from his supporters.
The socialist also took a shot at Cuomo, saying, “I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life. But let tonight be the final time I utter his name.”
“It’s not the way you treat people in our society, it’s really a bad look,” Weiss said. “If Trump or any Republican had done that, there would be wall-to-wall negative coverage.”
Veteran Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf said Mamdani’s rhetoric reflects his movement’s confidence. “He doesn’t have to [moderate], because he doesn’t have to do anything,” Sheinkopf said. “The issue will be does he disappoint his constituency if he moderates his rhetoric?”
Sheinkopf said Mamdani’s far-left platform — which includes free citywide bus service, rent freezes, and city-run grocery stores — will likely hit hard limits once he takes office.
“He doesn’t have the power at the MTA to get free buses, necessarily, because he’s only got four votes on the board,” Sheinkopf explained. “He doesn’t have all the power he thinks he has on the rent stabilization board either. It’s not so simple.”
Still, Sheinkopf credited Mamdani’s campaign strategy. Running as the Democratic nominee in deep-blue New York gave him a major advantage, while Cuomo’s name appeared at the bottom right of the ballot on his independent “Fight and Deliver” line.
“Also what advantaged Mamdani was the changing nature of the city’s population,” Sheinkopf said, pointing to growth in African, Muslim, and Chinese communities.
A Patriot Polling survey conducted two weeks before the election found 62% of foreign-born New Yorkers supported Mamdani, compared with just 31% of American-born voters.
Weiss said the mayor-elect’s narrow victory leaves him with a divided city and a skeptical electorate. “He doesn’t really have a crazy mandate,” Weiss noted, pointing out that outgoing Mayor Eric Adams won in 2021 with nearly 70% of the vote.
Weiss added that Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members like Mamdani are “great at organizing” and inspiring young, idealistic voters but struggle when it comes to governing.
“When it comes to governing, their ideas stink,” Weiss said. “You can’t just give away things, tax rich people, and think they’ll just sit there and say, ‘OK, tax me to death.’ They’re going to leave.”
As Mamdani prepares to lead America’s largest city, analysts say his success may depend on whether he can temper his rhetoric, build coalitions, and prove his socialist agenda can function in a capitalistic economy.