Former president Donald Trump’s would-be assassin reportedly searched for porn before the shooting, according to the Daily Beast.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate Trump, was found to have searched for pornography on his cell phone shortly before the attack, according to a senior law enforcement source speaking with the Daily Beast. This detail emerged after the FBI’s Operational Technology Division in Quantico, Virginia, announced that it managed to access Crooks’ encrypted Samsung Android phone, which had initially resisted efforts to be cracked open at the Pittsburgh field office.
Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ last online search was for porn https://t.co/vxDBQLjI9j pic.twitter.com/d22M8ahcO8
— New York Post (@nypost) July 19, 2024
The source, who requested anonymity, revealed that the only other recent activity on Crooks’…