<p>A private investigator from Pennsylvania is alleging that President Donald Trump&#8217;s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was not acting alone — and that there may be others planning to pick up where he left off.</p>
<p>Doug Hagmann told <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/us-news/would-be-trump-assassin-thomas-matthew-crooks-may-have-had-accomplice-data-shows/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the New York Post</a> that he and six others have been investigating the case since shortly after the shooting at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 — and said that after interviewing over 100 people, they were convinced that a &#8220;criminal network&#8221; had played a role in the attempt.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don’t think he acted alone. This took a lot of coordination,&#8221; Hagmann said. &#8220;In my view, Crooks was handled by more than one individual and he was used for this [assassination attempt.] And I wouldn’t preclude the possibility that there were people at the rally itself helping him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hagmann also alleged that the FBI might be withholding information about the case, telling the Post that he&#8217;d been shown the door several times — by either security personnel or federal agents — as he attempted to carry out his investigation.</p>
<p>&#8220;One can assist in an operation like this by omission or standing down. There are people still out there involved in this case that need to be brought to justice,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>According to Hagmann and his team, location data — from electronic devices that were geolocated with Crooks at multiple points leading up to the shooting — don&#8217;t add up. At least one device geolocated with Crooks that day is still pinging at a local high school, Hagmann claimed.</p>
<p>Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), who served on the bipartisan task force investigating the attempted assassination, says he believes Crooks acted alone. He did agree with at least one of Hagmann&#8217;s claims, however, saying that the FBI was more of a hindrance than a help to his investigation as well.</p>
<p>Higgins&#8217; theory, rather than a conspiracy involving a &#8220;criminal network,&#8221; is that drugs ultimately played a role in pushing Crooks over the edge.</p>
<p>&#8220;Something happened to make him go crazy and that’s why I think it might have been pharmaceuticals. He performed an attempted assassination and he was committed all the way through – to death. He was not acting erratic but he was a wild lunatic at the same time, incredibly calculating and incredibly smart,&#8221; Higgins told the Post.</p>

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