Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy delivered an unsettling and consequential update this week after new reporting suggested a possible alleged digital and ideological overlap between Thomas Matthew Crooks—the 20-year-old gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a July 2024 campaign rally—and another individual facing unrelated homicide charges in a separate political violence case. While authorities have confirmed no formal operational link between the two incidents, the emerging similarities in online behavior and radicalized digital footprints have reignited public demand for full transparency from federal investigators.

Reporting live from outside the White House on Fox & Friends, Doocy emphasized that investigators had insisted for months that Crooks’ digital footprint contained “nothing helpful,” a claim now sharply contradicted by newly uncovered social media posts believed to be linked to the young shooter. These posts reportedly show Crooks posing with firearms, expressing admiration for historical assassins, and documenting violent ideation paired with ideological instability. Doocy underscored that the existence of such material raises serious questions about the integrity of the initial investigation and the accuracy of early official briefings.