The body of Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was gone, a congressman revealed, as federal authorities returned the remains to family in what he called a ‘scorched earth’ investigation.....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
Representative Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana who was appointed to the bipartisan task force reviewing the assassination attempt, tried to view Crooks’ body on August 5 as part of his own personal inspection.
Higgins said his desire to do so ’caused quite a stir and a disturbing fact.’
It was at this point that he learned that the FBI had ‘released the body for cremation 10 days’ after the assassination attempt.
‘Why, then, by what measure, would the FBI release his body to the family for cremation?’ Higgins asked.
The 20-year-old Crooks opened fire at a Trump Rally on July 13, piercing former President Trump in the ear – in addition to killing one rally attendee and injuring two others.
A glaring lack of social media presence and digital footprint on the shooter left authorities with a lack of motive, which Higgins had been attempting to ascertain.
By July 23, 10 days after the shooting, ‘Crooks was gone,’ the congressman wrote.
The congressman from Louisiana accused the FBI of ‘obstruction’ and said ‘we will actually never know’ whether the autopsy report is accurate.
Higgins claimed that the Butler County Coroner possessed ‘legal authority’ over the body.
However, after speaking with the coroner, Higgins determined that he would ‘have never released Crooks body to the family for cremation or burial without specific permission from the FBI.’
In his report, whose legitimacy is unclear, the Republican congressman contends that the coroner’s report and the autopsy were both ‘late.’
‘As of Monday, August 5, they were a week late,’ he wrote.
He continued: ‘The problem with me not being able to examine the actual body is that I won’t know 100% if the coroner’s report and the autopsy report are accurate. We will actually never know.’
‘We’ll get the reports and pictures, etc, but I will not ever be able to say with certainty that those reports and pictures are accurate according to my own examination of the body.’
Prior to being elected to the lower house in 2016, Higgins worked as a police officer in Louisiana.
In November 2023, he suggested that violence at the Capitol on January 6 was caused by operatives who were brought in by the FBI on ‘ghost buses.’
On July 29, 2024, the Louisiana congressman was named as one of seven Republican members of a bipartisan group tasked with investigating the attempted assassination of Trump.
The task force consists of 13 members- seven Republicans and six Democrats. It’s mission is to determine what went wrong on the day of the attempted assassination and it will make recommendations to prevent future security lapses.
The task force will issue a final report before Dec. 13.
In his own report personal report, which is unrelated to the task force, Higgins spoke critically of the FBI.
‘Again, similar to releasing the crime scene and scrubbing crime scene biological evidence… this action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort,’ he wrote.
Higgins stated that on July 23, the day Crooks was cremated, ‘the Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight Committee had begun House Committee jurisdictional investigation [the assassination attempt].’
‘Speaker Johnson had already stated that he was forming an Official Congressional investigative body. Why, then, by what measure, would the FBI release his body to the family for cremation?’
The Louisiana congressman added: ‘This pattern of investigative scorched earth by the FBI is quite troubling.’
Higgins has characterized his own probe as a ‘boots on the ground’ approach.
On August 12, he submitted his findings to Task Force Chairman Mike Kelly (R-PA).
The report, however, had been embargoed for several days.
‘As I have said, every question will be answered, every theory explored, and every doubt erased. The American people deserve the full truth on the attempted assassination of President Trump,’ Higgins said.
‘Our investigative efforts are moving forward in good faith. The release of my preliminary investigative report is reflective of my desire to deliver transparency and reassurance to the American people…CONTINUE READING>>
