Somebody paid to cremate Thomas Crooks, and nobody is saying who. FBI records turned over to Senator Chuck Grassley's Judiciary Committee, first reported by the New York Post and reviewed by Fox News, include the Bureau's summary of its interview with the gunman's father, and at the very end, one line: an anonymous donor paid for the cremation. According to the records, the detail came from a lawyer for the family; the father was retired and the mother was on leave from work. The records do not identify the donor, do not explain the payment, and, per Fox News, establish no connection between that person and the attack. The same documents show Crooks used the alias "Bob Dole" to order suspicious packages before the shooting. Remember the timing: back in 2024, Congressman Clay Higgins said the FBI released the body for cremation about ten days after Butler, and that he tried to examine it and could not. An anonymous check, a fast cremation, and a body a congressman never got to see. People are going to ask. Chuck is asking already.
Also in today's episode: President Trump writes on Truth Social that by the time he took office "most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone" from the Butler investigation, calls former FBI Director Christopher Wray a "dirty cop," and offers no details, per CNN, while FBI Director Kash Patel tells the Senate Judiciary Committee the Bureau went through about 27 of the shooter's devices and found no contact with anyone but his parents; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells the House there are "ways to do" the $5,000 Trump dividend "that would not affect the deficit," per Yahoo Finance, without saying which, while Speaker Johnson tells the AP Congress would need to act; Catholic parents in Southborough, Massachusetts say the state took their daughter at 15 after they would not call her a boy, a judge blocks the state's request to give her testosterone, and the next hearing is October 29, per IBTimes UK; the Air Force Secretary says out loud for the first time that the United States "now has on-orbit space control weapons," per the Associated Press and Air and Space Forces Magazine; the International Energy Agency says global coal demand will hit a record 8.94 billion tonnes this year because gas stopped coming through Hormuz; and a Hillsborough County deputy chases a five-week-old kitten off Interstate 275 in Tampa, then takes him home and names him Dash.
There is a famine of truth in our land. Seven stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
