We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of the date when Thomas Matthew Crooks shot President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. After all these months, why do we know more about the people who got urinated on at Diddy’s house than we do about Crooks?
We learned three amazing “facts” this week when FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino sat down for a joint interview with Fox News.
First, Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. Second, Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Routh were not part of a broader conspiracy to assassinate candidate Donald Trump last year. And third, after 80 years of crimes against the civil rights of innocent Americans, the FBI is getting a big, shiny, brand-new headquarters building.
When Bongino and Patel both stated that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his jail cell, every person watching that interview thought, “We’re never going to see the Epstein files, are we?”
No, we’re not. While the promises of government transparency from President Trump were earnest and honest, the forces opposing transparency are likely to win this time.
Over a month ago, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) requested five specific JFK assassination files that are still sealed despite a presidential order to release them. The CIA told her that she would get “most” of the files at some undetermined future date.
So, we’re never going to see the JFK files, the Epstein files, the UFO files, the 9/11 files, or any of the other things we were promised and that President Trump ordered released.
As for Crooks and Routh, we’re supposed to believe that there was no broader conspiracy to murder President Trump. That claim just blows my mind.
We know that Thomas Crooks trained for a year before his attempt at the same shooting range in Pennsylvania where the Department of Homeland Security trains all its agents. He took a random trip to Washington, DC, a year before the attempt and his car was parked for three hours at the mall across the street from the Hoover Building.
Ryan Routh had no job, eleven cell phones, and dozens of contacts in Ukraine and the Mexican drug cartels. He set up his sniper nest at the Palm Beach Golf Course just 25 minutes after the Secret Service learned that President Trump would be golfing the next morning. But he’s not a spook and he had no help in his assassination attempt? Okay.
And a new FBI headquarters building for the FBI? Okay, great. That’s just great.
We didn’t vote for the Democrat Party’s personal secret police Gestapo agency to all get cookies and head pats for their “stellar” work. We don’t want FBI agents getting a warm glass of milk and tucked into bed at night.
I voted for the FBI to be thrown in the ocean, and for their headquarters building to be burned to the ground. I didn’t vote for them to spend a bunch of my tax dollars on a shiny new building.
I absolutely HATE having to criticize Bongino and Patel, but that interview was a train wreck. Everyone who knows them says they’re great guys and highly professional.
What I think is happening here is that Patel and Bongino are in over their heads. Neither one of them has ever run a large, entrenched, and sophisticated intelligence agency like the FBI before. They’re good and honorable men, but that doesn’t make them qualified for what we’re expecting.
I’m a great guy too, but if you make me the head coach of the Red Sox, fans in Boston are going to be very disappointed. I think that’s what’s happening with Bongino and Patel.
And while we criticize the DOJ and the FBI, that’s not to say that President Trump and most of his team are not doing an amazing job. They are.
Prices at the grocery stores are dropping. The price of eggs has dropped 60% where I live in the past four months. We have operational control of the border and no more foreign invaders are getting in. Global trade imbalances are finally being corrected to benefit Americans. New jobs are being created.
Great things are going to be happening over the next three-and-a-half years and hopefully, for years to come. In the meantime, we should just expect disappointment at the efforts to reform the DOJ and the FBI.
