Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman at the infamous Donald Trump rally in Butler, PA, on Saturday, July 13, reportedly used the controversial right-wing social media platform Gab to express his “support of President [Joe] Biden.”
CEO Andrew Torba announced the news on Wednesday, July 24, after the company “received an emergency disclosure request” from law enforcement officials investigating the assassination attempt. Torba added that the company was “unable to confirm that the account in question actually belonged” to Crooks, which only posted nine times in February 2021.
The majority of the posts from the “epicMicrowave” account believed to have been Crooks’ were in support of President Biden. Most focused on a Biden administration executive order regarding immigration, although the account also posted a number of times concerning the results of the 2020 presidential election.
A sampling of his alleged comments can be read below.
CEO Torba – who is a vocal critic of Joe Biden and the left – issued an additional statement on Thursday, July 25.
“Yesterday, in the process of responding to an emergency disclosure request from a U.S. law enforcement agency, Gab learned that a pro-Biden/Harris account on the site was believed to have belonged to Thomas Matthew Crooks, who attempted to assassinate President Trump,” Torba wrote on X. “After backing up the account, we notified the public.”
Torba added that the site had “published the first evidence making it very apparent that Crooks was a left-wing partisan who hated President Trump’s immigration policies”.
However, he was unable to confirm which agency had issued the search warrant due to the ongoing investigation.
