I don't understand, and I don't have any answers yet to help me understand how the Secret Service and DHS came out so quickly and said – and I think the FBI as well, Crooks operated alone. How do you know that mere days into your investigation?
You can't tell us his motive, but you could tell us he operated alone? You can't get into these encrypted overseas accounts, but you can tell us he acted alone? So, I don't buy that yet.
I don't know of many 19-year-old kids who could make multiple IEDs with a remote detonator on their own. Why didn't that get picked up if he's searching that online or buying literature on how to do that?
The thing that's most disturbing is that we have ongoing plots from Iran to take out a former president, leading candidate, and that a Pakistani national was just arrested after making a down payment for hitmen, and it's barely even being covered in the news.
Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a healthcare aide need encrypted platforms* not even based in the United States, but based abroad where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into? That’s a question I’ve had since day one.
Republican Rep. Mike Waltz (FL)
*Crooks had encrypted messaging accounts on platforms based in Germany, Belgium, and New Zealand, which is rather abnormal.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13767237/Rep-Mike-Waltz-says-isnt-convinced-Donald-Trump-shooter-Thomas-Crooks-acted-assassination-attempt.html