Chilling footage has been found on the Internet that shows President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, dry-firing a weapon in his bedroom.
The footage of Crooks quickly disappeared from the Internet after he was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
The videos were unearthed and posted on Candace Owens‘s podcast.
Cell phone video showed a handgun lying neatly atop Crooks’s made bed.
It then progresses to him picking it up and taking a tactical stance as he dry-fires it at a real or imaginary target off-camera.
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A second, shorter video showed Crooks again dry-firing the weapon, this time looking even more menacing than before.
Crooks, 20, shot President Donald Trump in the ear during a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally in August 2024.
The bullet was intended to kill Trump.
However, it only grazed Trump’s ear when he turned his head at the last minute.
Crooks’s digital footprint showed that he had been obsessed with assassinations, mass shootings, guns, and explosives.
As far back as 2019, when he was only about 15 years old, he made violent comments on YouTube videos.
Despite frequent internet searches on these topics and his comments, Crooks had not come to the attention of the