It’s not surprising that the FBI appears to have overlooked the significant mental health aspect involved in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, as well as the murder and injuries of Trump rally attendees. This oversight is consistent with the agency’s past refusal to link mental health “treatment” to any of the mass shootings.
In fact, the FBI’s recently released report on common factors in mass shootings completely ignored and excluded any mention of mental health treatments.
FBI Director Wray’s entire focus is on the alleged shooter, testifying before lawmakers that the FBI believes Thomas Mathew Crooks is the lone gunman. However, the FBI, so far, has failed to provide any physical evidence to prove that Thomas Matthew Crooks actually is the lone shooter.
It took the FBI director almost three weeks to give the public the make and model of the weapon allegedly used, an important piece of information it was aware of the evening of the assassination attempt. Why withhold that information for three weeks?
However, this doesn’t directly link the weapon to Thomas Matthew Crooks. To establish that connection, the public needs to see the results of the ballistics, DNA, and fingerprint tests. We’re still waiting. Equally puzzling as the missing physical evidence is the seemingly gentle treatment of the Crooks family. Why is that?
Apparently, the FBI was able to locate information about the shooter’s family when it identified the weapon on the AGR building roof. It was registered to Matthew Brian Crooks, a licensed mental health expert in the Commonwealth of PA and Crooks’ mother, Mary, also is a licensed mental health provider.
A photograph of the mother finally was released by FOX News on July 30th after concerns were raised by AbleChild that the public had yet to see the mother of the would-be shooter. It was interesting that nearly three weeks into the criminal investigation, the mother seems to be a ghost.
Why? Ironically, the father, Thomas Brian Crooks, seriously seems to act like he is untouchable. For example, the father of the alleged shooter was asked by a reporter if there was anything he had to say, and Crooks replied “I gotta pee.”
These parents have not shown any remorse for the life lost or for those injured, and this is what the father has finally said. Something feels off; it comes across as too arrogant. But the strange behavior doesn’t stop with the father’s insensitive comments.
It is interesting to find out that the mother, wearing dark glasses and using a white cane, appears to be blind which would obviously limit her ability to detect behavioral health changes in people’s faces during mental health sessions and clearly would impact her ability to know what deadly materials her son was compiling in the basement of the family home.
The FBI has consistently assured the public that the parents are cooperating with the investigation. However, it’s notable that several news reports claim the father, who works as a mental health counselor, earns a salary around $300,000.
If accurate, this salary would be unusually high for a mental health professional in that region, where the average salary is around $70,000. Even if the mother were earning a similar amount, their combined income wouldn’t come close to the reported $300,000.
Has the FBI inquired about the family’s finances? What, exactly, is the mental health the Crooks are providing? Are they contracted with the Commonwealth of PA? Has the FBI taken a deep dive into Crooks’ mental health practices? Gun parts and precursors aren’t cheap. What is the family’s money flow?
The alleged shooter made minimum wage as a food service employee at the Nursing Home. Has the FBI investigated the son’s finances? And, if the parents are mental health counselors, how, exactly, did their own son fall thru the cracks?
How can the public accept that there reportedly were no mental health issues with the alleged shooter? After three weeks, the public finally got a look at the alleged shooter’s mother who appears to be visually impaired.
One can only wonder how this disability affects her ability to provide mental health services, which would surely require visual components.
One would expect that the visual disability would limit her ability to notice facial expressions of troubling behaviors in clients and, more so, her own son. One would expect the FBI to address this issue with the “cooperating” parents.
The treatment the Crooks are receiving compared to other parents in mass shooting cases is highly unusual. In other instances, parents of shooters have faced criminal prosecution and have been sentenced to years in federal prison for failing to provide mental health “treatment” for their children.
In other instances, the mental health “treatment” provided to the shooter was inadequate and the focus turned to the number of guns found at a residence.
Why are the Crooks seemingly protected from what usually is standard procedure in mass shooting cases?
The FBI asserts that the parents are fully cooperating and has found no prescription drugs or evidence of mental health “treatment.” It seems like the right time for the FBI to present the evidence backing its conclusions.
Crooks’ parents should have no issue providing all medical, mental health, and school records. It appears the FBI may be shielding these parents, raising questions about whether the father’s connection to the mental health field is influencing this suspicious behavior.
The crooks appear to be getting off the hook, being handled with kid gloves, while other shooting investigations allowed mental health providers to escape the spotlight and responsibility.
Right now, nothing about this assassination attempt is adding up and the behavior of the mental health expert parents is certainly raising red flags. The FBI needs to start releasing information about the family.
Afterall, so far, the FBI has admitted that the family was Crooks’ close social circle. Well, then the family needs to step up and say something more than “I need to pee.”
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