DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The majority of Democrats agreed that “extreme political rhetoric” was a key catalyst in the Sept. 10 assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, according to an NBC News poll released Monday. In the newly released poll, 54% of Democrats said “extreme political rhetoric used by some in the media and by political leaders was an important contributor” to Kirk’s slaying. Meanwhile, 73% of Republicans and 53% of independent voters—about the same percentage as Democrats’—said the same, according to the survey. Of those polled, another 28% said they “feel more this [Kirk’s assassination] is an incident caused by a disturbed person.” By comparison, only 4% of respondents said that they thought both of the two previously mentioned options on the poll contributed to Kirk’s assassination, the survey showed. Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray’s office alleged in September that Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old charged with assassinating Kirk, had engraved phrases such as “hey fascist! CATCH!” on his bullet casings. Robinson reportedly also had a transgender boyfriend. Additionally, a Public First poll released on Nov. 3 showed that 24% of U.S. voters think there are circumstances in which political violence is able to be justified, while 64% said it is never acceptable, Politico first reported. Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, suggested during a Nov. 6 interview on the “Wide Awake Podcast” that he was unsure that Kirk was killed due to his political beliefs. “He wasn’t necessarily shot for his beliefs,” Biden said. “He was shot because he was one of the loudest people speaking out there … I don’t know whether Charlie Kirk was shot because of what he believed or whether he was shot by a disaffected white male, an incel that had ready access to a high caliber rifle and the capacity to be able to shoot a kill shot from over 200 yards from a prone from a roof and somehow disassembled the rifle before he got off the roof without it being able to [be] seen on video.” NBC News’ new poll surveyed 1,000 registered U.S. voters from Oct. 24 to 28 via a mix of telephone interviews and an online survey sent via text message. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Majority of Democrats Admit ‘Extreme Political Rhetoric’ Played Important Role in Charlie Kirk Assassination: POLL appeared first on The Daily Signal.

On 4 November 1922, an archaeologist, after years of painstaking failure in the Egyptian desert, scribbled a hurried diary entry: “First steps of Tomb Found.” That moment, when Howard Carter located the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, marked the start of the most famous archaeological discovery of all time. In a special film from 2022, Tutankhamun: A Century of Discovery, historian Dan Snow commemorated the centenary of that historic event, retracing the incredible story of dedication, despair, and dazzling triumph. Walking in the footsteps of Howard Carter, in the film Dan explores the key sites and exclusive archives that reveal the human story behind the golden mask. The History Hit team gained unprecedented access to key locations associated with this legendary story: Highclere Castle (home of Lord Carnarvon), Tutankhamun’s Tomb in the Valley of the Kings, and the vast Howard Carter archives in Oxford, which hold the secrets of the dig.  Sign up to watch A needle in a haystack To understand the discovery, Dan first travels to the Valley of the Kings, the deep gorge in the desert where the pharaohs sought their ultimate rest. Guarded by pyramid-like peaks, this was the land of the dead, set directly across the Nile and close to Thebes (modern-day Luxor). The film explores the profound commitment of Howard Carter, whose ambition was so singular he built a functional, almost hermitic house as close to the Valley of the Kings as possible. Dan visits the meticulously conserved house and speaks with architectural historian Dr Nicholas Warner, revealing Carter’s intense focus. For 12 agonising years, Carter found nothing. As Dr Warner reveals, 1922 was meant to be the final season funded by his great sponsor, Lord Carnarvon. Carter was completely convinced a missing tomb belonging to the obscure New Kingdom pharaoh Tutankhamun was there, but he needed to be convincing enough to keep his patron on board – a true needle-in-a-haystack quest. Dan also travels to Highclere Castle in Hampshire, Lord Carnarvon’s home, to meet Fiona, the Countess of Carnarvon. She discusses the immense faith Carnarvon placed in Carter – a quest that cost the equivalent of £20 million in modern terms – and the shared love of Egyptology that bound the two men together. Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert at the steps leading to the newly discovered tomb of Tutankhamen, November 1922Image Credit: Harry Burton (Photographer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The archive The most intimate details of the discovery are held not in Egypt, but in Oxford. Dan travels to the Bodleian Weston Library to explore the exhibition ‘Tutankhamun – Excavating the Archives’, home to Howard Carter’s extensive records. Dan gets up close to Carter’s first hurried journal entry: “First steps of Tomb Found.” This led to a detailed note: “Discovered tomb under tomb of Ramses VI… found seals intact.” This meant the tomb was likely an undisturbed Egyptian royal resting place. Carter was forced to wait for his financier, Carnarvon, to sail from England before breaching the final seal. The iconic moment occurred on 26 November 1922. Dan reads Carter’s account from his excavation journal, reliving the moment the archaeologist first gazed into the dark vault. When Carnarvon asked what he saw, Carter famously replied: “It is wonderful.” Along with curator Daniela Rosenow at the Griffith Institute, Dan also examines the original glass plate negatives. These photos are extraordinary, capturing now-familiar objects still covered in the linen and flowers from the 19-year-old pharaoh’s funeral in 1323 BC, a far more immediate and human image than the conserved treasures we see today. Howard Carter examining the innermost coffin of TutankhamunImage Credit: Exclusive to The Times, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The young king Later in the programme, Dan travels into Tutankhamun’s tomb itself, describing it as “one of the most exciting places on earth.” Egyptologist Aliaa Ismail explains a profound irony: Tutankhamun died very young, so his tomb’s walls were left plain in the antechamber, reflecting the custom that “the longer you live, the more impressive your tomb.” Yet, behind the wall lay the sealed and untouched burial chamber, revealing riches beyond measure. The photographs held in Oxford show what happened in the final moments of the burial: Carter’s notes detail how the team had to chop off part of the pharaoh’s feet to fit the coffin into the sarcophagus – a startling reminder of the human element in an otherwise divine ritual. To mark the centenary, a local Oxford florist recreated one of the floral garlands found on Tutankhamun’s mummy. Dan gets a first glimpse of this meticulous recreation, which, as Professor Richard Parkinson explains, helps humanise the story. As Richard points out, the centenary is not just about gold, but “about the death of a young man.” Immortality and legacy Dan concludes the film back in Cairo, by being up close with Tutankhamun’s golden death mask, which he describes as “one of the most famous archaeological treasures ever recovered”: He explores some of the original treasures with conservator Eid Mertah, who uses modern techniques to understand how the treasures were made. The legacy of Tutankhamun is a story of dedication, risk, and ultimate triumph. Howard Carter’s single-minded pursuit, Lord Carnarvon’s unwavering financial faith, and the detailed record-keeping in Oxford have ensured the pharaoh’s memory lives on. As Dan concludes, while Tutankhamun didn’t get to “rest” in the Valley of the Kings, he achieved a different form of immortality: his legacy is an inspiration for all generations. Join Dan Snow as he walks in the footsteps of Howard Carter to relive the greatest archaeological discovery of all time in Tutankhamun: A Century of Discovery. Sign up to watch Discover more of History Hit’s Egyptology collection

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PBS superstation WETA and its subsidiary News Hour Productions are ending broadcasts of PBS News Weekend in early January. The "public" broadcasting news site Current reported the cancellation is "part of a restructuring prompted by the rescission of federal funding for public media." Weekend anchor John Yang will be folded into the weeknight News Hour staff. That's one less openly gay anchor on broadcast TV, promoting strange terms like "transgender men with a cervix."  The last airdate of PBS News Weekend will be January 11. “The weekend show has really done well for us, and I know people really like it, and stations rely on it,” WETA spokesperson Mary Stewart said. “And a lot of news happens over the weekend. This is solely driven by the federal funding cuts.” The cuts do not affect the flagship PBS News Hour or Washington Week with The Atlantic -- which has predictable financial backing from The Atlantic owner Laurene Powell Jobs, the billionaire pal of Kamala Harris.  There's not a lot of "breaking news" on PBS Weekend News. It looks more like a magazine show, with features that are not time-sensitive. Here's the lineup for last Sunday, concluding with a piece on "How the loss of USAID funding affects Indonesia's ability to fight climate change."  This has also included inflammatory weekend segments like the eight-minute promotion for a film on George Orwell that linked the Republicans to totalitarianism. Maybe that was a final middle-finger salute to the defunders.  The rescission of funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting forced the trim, according to WETA CEO Sharon Percy Rockefeller, the wife of former Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller:  Rockefeller told staff in September that the loss of WETA’s CPB Community Service Grant created a $6.7 million budget shortfall for FY26 and a projected $9 million shortfall for FY27. WETA received about $17.5 million in federal funding in FY24, according to CPB’s website. The amount represented nearly 12% of WETA’s $140 million in revenues for that year, according to an annual financial report. Most of the FY24 funding supported WETA’s television operations and programming, including an $8.6 million CSG and $8.1 million in grants for television programs. The balance went to WETA’s classical radio stations and unspecified system support. Nevertheless, WETA will try to produce some half-hour weekend shows to replace the canceled show -- one on international affairs, and one on health and science. Apparently, removing the remote possibility of "breaking news" saves money?  Stewart added that Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication decided not to renew its contract for the News Hour West bureau based in Phoenix. That will close and will make its last contributions to News Hour programming on December 19.

The liberal loons of ABC News’s The View were once again up in arms against President Trump, during Monday’s episode. This time they were upset that Trump had substituted in “Traitor” as a nickname when condemning Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). They suggested that Trump was inciting violence by invoking the term, but the kicker was that The View had previously accused Trump and Republican senators of being “traitors” to America. At the top of the segment, fill-in moderator Joy Behar whined that Trump “has been tearing into her on social media, calling her Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene and even used her recent appearance on The View as proof she has gone far left.” “He called me a traitor, and that is -- that is so extremely wrong, and those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger,” Greene said in a soundbite they shared from CNN. Behar clutched her pearls and suggested he was responsible for what people purportedly could possibly send her: “He likes to say things like that and putting the fear of God in her is not a very nice thing at all. I mean. Now, because people on his team are now sending her threats, it is really disgraceful. Oh, my God.”   The View has embraced inciting rhetoric that puts conservative lives in danger (including open calls to "murder" pro-lifers), now they're upset that Trump calls Marjory Taylor Greene a "traitor" and blame him for the comments they get: JOY BEHAR: He likes to say things like that… pic.twitter.com/geYNA9TMeV — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 17, 2025   Co-host Sunny Hostin agreed and said they were victims of it too: HOSTIN: I'm surprised he is saying nobody cares about her because I'm pretty sure his base is sending her the death threats and the nasty letters. BEHAR: Well, who else? HOSTIN: Same things that many of us have been subjected to. Later in the segment, Behar insisted that Trump had Greene scared for her life. “She’s scared of him and for good reason!” she proclaimed. “But she just said that when he called her ‘Marjorie Traitor Greene’ she started getting death threats, so she’s scared of him.”   In the segment about Trump supposedly trying to get Greene killed, Behar claims Greene is "scared of him and for good reason." pic.twitter.com/jYI1klChyN — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 17, 2025   If Behar thought the use of “traitor” to mock Greene had incited threats, then she was guilty of the same thing. In October of 2024, after the two assassination attempts on Trump, Behar accused Trump along with then-Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Lindsey Graham of being “traitors”: And by the way, the Kremlin has confirmed that he sent the COVID tests to the Kremlin when Americans were in need of the COVID tests. Now, that is – I believe – that is the definition of a traitor. Am I wrong? (…) He wants Trump to win, that's why. That’s why a lot of stuff you see online is coming from Russia. By the way, does this make Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio at least step up to the plate and say maybe we're dealing with a traitor and maybe that makes us traitors?     Back on Monday, fake Republican co-host Ana Navarro backed up Behar’s suggestion that Greene had reason to fear for her life. “I can attest to this. When Donald Trump attacks you, it’s like the Gates of Hell open up and every little demon goes through them and comes at you,” she lashed out at her critics. In other uses of rhetoric from The View that could incite violence, Behar claimed Trump was thinking like Mussolini and could end up “hung” like him. Behar said Trump was a “menace to the planet” and it’s future. Usual moderator Whoopi Goldberg demanded viewers not think of Trump as human. Collectively, they’ve claimed three times (so far) this year that Trump stole the 2024 presidential election, and repeatedly insisted he’s going to steal every upcoming election and use the National Guard to do it. The View has long been a home for inciting rhetoric, including an open call for the “murder” of pro-lifers. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View November 17, 2025 11:19:04 a.m. Eastern JOY BEHAR: Marjorie Taylor Greene. She was here the other – last week. Anyway, she’s in the middle of a very public breakup with Trump. He has been tearing into her on social media, calling her Marjorie “Traitor” Greene and even used her recent appearance on The View as proof she has gone far left. Yesterday she told CNN the impact it has been having on her. Watch. [Cuts to video] REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): He called me a traitor, and that is -- that is so extremely wrong, and those are the types of words used that can radicalize people against me and put my life in danger. (…) 11:20:08 a.m. Eastern BEHAR: He likes to say things like that and putting the fear of God in her is not a very nice thing at all. I mean. Now, because people on his team are now sending her threats, it is really disgraceful. Oh, my God. SUNNY HOSTIN: I'm surprised he is saying nobody cares about her because I'm pretty sure his base is sending her the death threats and the nasty letters. BEHAR: Well, who else? HOSTIN: Same things that many of us have been subjected to. (…) 11:21:29 a.m. Eastern SARA HAINES:  Big moment in life can change you, I would say. And on the heels of, she mentions Charlie Kirk and the assassination. I never watched that. One, it is terrible enough not having seen the video but a lot of people did. And she said seeing this and knowing what time we are living in, it’s time to go back, you know, to not that level of rhetoric. I miss the good old days. The bottom line is no one in this country hates this country. No one is trying to destroy it or – At the end the day these people -- BEHAR: How do you know that? HAINES: Because I would argue that the people doing it actually have their own mission and a different way of getting there. I don't think people are sitting -- HOSTIN: You’re not referring to domestic terrorists or anything like that? HAINES: Extreme things to everything, but I’m saying just because someone falls on the other side of the political spectrum does not mean they're trying to burn down the house down. They actually believe in what they’re saying and have a different way of getting there. With exceptions. HOSTIN: We also don't know these are Trump's people, right, that are attacking her. She could be getting attacked from all over the place. HAINES: We have seen Pelosi attacked, but we’ve seen the right get attacked. But my point here is: you should be able to have a beer with someone you disagree with at the end of is day. BEHAR: But those days are – that ship has sailed. HAISNE: I believe that it has to come back. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But I’d also remind people. When Marjorie Taylor Greene sat at this table, she still referred to President Trump as her favorite president of her lifetime. HOSTIN: She sure did. [Crosstalk] BEHAR: She’s scared of him and for good reason! FARAH GRIFFIN: I don’t think that’s true. BEHAR: Oh come on. FARAH GRIFFIN: I think she is with him with the majority of his policies, but I believe her fundamentally on two things. I think that she genuinely cares about the Epstein issue. I think that, for her, it wasn’t just about getting elected and getting retweets. She wants justice for women. And I believe for her on healthcare because her family and her constituents personally saw their premiums skyrocket. BEHAR: But she just said that when he called her “Marjorie Traitor Greene” she started getting death threats, so she’s scared of him. FARAH GRIFFIN: Oh, I agree. But I do think she still supports him on most things. That’s my point though. [Crosstalk] BEHAR: And if she doesn’t it just gets worse. ANA NAVARRO: Yeah. But listen, the fact that – and it is absolutely true. You know, I can attest to this. When Donald Trump attacks you, it’s like the Gates of Hell open up and every little demon goes through them and comes at you. So yeah, that part is true. (…)

Buckley Carlson, son of Tucker Carlson, works in Vice President JD Vance's office as deputy press secretary. There appears to be a campaign underway to have him removed over the perceived sin of having Tucker Carlson as a blood relation.Amid mounting pressure on the young man to disavow his father or at least denounce some of his father's remarks, Vance and other conservatives have made abundantly clear that they will not throw Buckley Carlson to the wolves.'You don’t assign your hate for his Dad to him, and you don’t ask sons to disavow their fathers or mothers.'Vance stressed in a multipart defense of his staffer on Sunday, "I have an extraordinary tolerance for disagreements and criticisms from the various people in our coalition. But I am a very loyal person, and I have zero tolerance for scumbags attacking my staff.""And yes, *everyone* who I've seen attack Buckley with lies is a scumbag," added Vance.While Laura Loomer and others have concern-mongered in recent months over the presence of a Carlson in the vice president's office, Vance was responding to comments by Jennifer Sloan Rachmuth.Rachmuth, a Republican operative and journalist who was arrested last year on a cyberstalking charge that was quickly dismissed, stated in a viral Saturday post on X that "racism and antisemitism is a Carlson family trait.""Is Tucker's son Buckley, who serves as JD Vance's top aide also a vile bigot?" Rachmuth asked, after claiming that Tucker Carlson's brother idolized Nick Fuentes. "America deserves to know how deep the Carlson's family ethnic and religious hatred runs."RELATED: Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and the war for the conservative soul Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesRachmuth, who previously suggested that Vance's ties to the Carlson family are "indefensible," hinted on Monday that this pressure campaign might have less to do with Vance's staffer and more to do with the front-runner for the 2028 Republican nomination.After accusing Tucker Carlson of being "America's most prolific antisemite," Rachmuth noted, "The vice president is close friends with Tucker and yet, he hasn’t weighed in on his targeting against Christians and Jews."Rachmuth noted further that "when senior aides like Carlson contribute to national policy discussions, clarity regarding his stance on equality and minority protections will maintain public trust in Vance’s policymaking."Rachmuth, Tucker Carlson, and the vice president's office did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.Vance did not mince words when responding to Rachmuth, writing, "Sloan Rachmuth is a 'journalist' who has decided to obsessively attack a staffer in his 20s because she doesn't like the views of his father. Every time I see a public attack on Buckley it's a complete lie. And yes, I notice ever [sic] person with an agenda who unfairly attacks a good guy who does a great job for me.""Sloan describes herself as a defender of 'Judeo-Christian Values.' Is it a 'Judeo-Christian value' to lie about someone you don't know?" continued Vance. "Not in any church I ever spent time in!"Republican Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana similarly defended Buckley Carlson, noting that the young man had worked for him for years and was "one of the smartest, most trustworthy and loyal staffers I’ve ever had.""These personal attacks are disgusting and don’t serve your cause well," added Banks.Some critics of Rachmuth's attack characterized it as a spillover of venom intended for Tucker Carlson.Normalcy advocate Robby Starbuck, for instance, noted, "Attacking Buckley is really messed up. Even if you don’t like Tucker, you don’t assign your hate for his Dad to him and you don’t ask sons to disavow their fathers or mothers. Come on.""They can't bring down Tucker so they're going after his son," wrote conservative commentator Megyn Kelly. Christina Pushaw, an aide to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), noted, "If us political staffers are accountable for everything our uncles might post online, we're all in trouble," adding in a separate post that it's a "good thing blood-lines don't predetermine our views, and good thing we live in America where we reject the concept of blood-guilt."Tucker Carlson has been the target of intense criticism in recent weeks over his interview with Nick Fuentes, a rightist provocateur who routinely attacks both Vance and Israel. When asked about Tucker Carlson on Sunday, President Donald Trump said, "You can't tell him who to interview and if he wants to interview Nick Fuentes — I don't know much about him — but if he wants to do it, get the word out. ... People have to decide. Ultimately, people have to decide."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Concerned fathers of female athletes are taking matters into their own hands.After two bills failed to pass through the Maine state legislature, parents are taking to the streets to collect signatures in hopes of getting their own set of rules passed.'We will effect change across the entire state all at once.'The group of fathers, called Maine Girl Dads, is asking the general public of Maine to sign a petition for the initiative titled "An Act to Designate School Sports Participation and Facilities by Sex."The act would require schools in the state to designate "athletic teams and private facilities," including bathrooms and locker rooms, on the basis of biological sex."This is important, as we will effect change across the entire state all at once, while providing a private right of action for enforcement, clarifying statutory cross-references, and ensuring severability," the group wrote on its website.The dads are hoping to garner the 68,000 signatures required to get the initiative on the ballot in the 2026 midterms next November. Weathering a cold November day in the Northeast, the group recently held a signature drive that saw overwhelmingly positive results.RELATED: Maine Democrat says transgender athletes make women better "We collected over 53K signatures! In just one day, we're over halfway to our goal of 100K," the group recently wrote on X. "When this gets on the 2026 ballot, we win and girls' sports are protected. Let's keep going, Maine!"WMTW-TV caught up with Steven Scharf, one of the men taking roadside signatures over the weekend, to see what the reactions were like from the general public."Everybody who's stopped by has been very eager to sign and can't understand why this is not just automatic and why this needs to go through a process of being voted on, and why the state legislature has not passed this as is," Scharf told the outlet.Sending the question of banning boys from girls' sports directly to the voter circumvents the state. Not only has Maine defied President Trump's early February executive order on this matter, but the state Senate has shot down two different bills that would have achieved the same end.RELATED: Liberal state gives ridiculous reason to justify refusal to ban men from women's sportsOn Election Day, we collected over 53K signatures! In just one day, we're over halfway to our goal of 100K. When this gets on the 2026 ballot, we win and girls' sports are protected. Let's keep going, Maine! pic.twitter.com/OeiyQAr3EU— Maine Girl Dads (@MaineGirlDads) November 5, 2025Two bills passed the Maine House, which has a virtual split between Democrats (74) and Republicans (73), with three independents. However, neither passed in the state Senate, which is composed of 20 Democrats, 14 Republicans, and one independent.Proposal LD 1134 was rejected by the Senate on June 13, while LD 233 was rejected just days later on June 16.If the Maine Girl Dads get their way and their proposal is passed, it would become effective on Jan. 1, 2027.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Social media comments attributed to Thomas Matthew Crooks, the dead man who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump last year, suggest that he may have been yet another shooter captive to gender ideology and other genres of sexual perversion.Crooks fired eight shots at Trump during a campaign rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. While he managed to strike only the ear of the man whom Democrats characterized as a "clear and present danger," the failed assassin killed heroic former fire chief Corey Comperatore and severely injured David Dutch and James Copenhaver, who were seated behind the president.'The threat wasn’t hidden.'The FBI has long suggested that Crooks' motives were unclear.Days after former FBI Director Christopher Wray testified to Congress that "a lot of the usual repositories of information have not yielded anything notable in terms of motive or ideology," then-FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate revealed that hundreds of comments had been found on one social media account believed to be associated with the dead shooter in the 2019 to 2020 timeframe."There were over 700 comments posted from this account. Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes, espouse political violence, and are extreme in nature," said Abbate.Days after Tucker Carlson shared various screencaps of posts allegedly made by Crooks, the New York Post's Miranda Devine suggested on Monday that Abbate neglected to inform Congress that a significant portion of Crooks' online interactions from January to August 2020 signaled that "he did an ideological backflip and went from rabidly pro-Trump to rabidly anti-Trump and then went dark, never seeming to post again."RELATED: Groomed for violence? The dark world of furries and transgenderism in America's classrooms Blaze Media illustration "The danger Crooks posed was visible for years in public online spaces," a source who apparently uncovered the shooter's hidden footprint told the New York Post. "His radicalization, violent rhetoric and obsession with political violence were all documented under his real name. The threat wasn’t hidden."After reviewing Crooks' interactions across various platforms and pages including YouTube, Snapchat, Discord, GooglePlay, and Quora, the source concluded that the official narrative claiming that Crooks operated alone without a clear motive or ideology was bogus.The shooter "was not simply some unknowable lone actor," said the source. "He left a digital trail of violent threats, extremist ideology and admiration for mass violence. He spoke openly of political assassination, posted under his real name, and was even flagged by other users who mentioned law enforcement in their replies. Despite this, his account remained active for more than five years — and was only removed the day after the shooting."In 2019, Crooks allegedly made a number of pro-Trump, anti-Democrat remarks online, suggesting, for instance, that the president was "the literal definition of Patriotism" and stating, "MURDER THE DEMOCRATS."In early 2020, Crooks apparently changed his tune and began deriding Trump and his supporters, defending draconian COVID-19 lockdowns, and lambasting Republicans over voter-fraud concerns, while in some instances being cheered on by an apparent member of a Norwegian neo-Nazi group.Crooks allegedly suggested in a Feb. 26, 2020, post that Trump supporters were too "brainwashed to realize how dumb you are" and accused Trump of being a "racist" in a separate post the same day.'This is a five alarm fire.'Within months of his political about-face, Crooks was reportedly advocating for "terrorism style attacks" and political assassinations. At some point, Crooks also reportedly began associating with furries online.According to the Post, Crooks reportedly began referring to himself using "they/them" pronouns on DeviantArt, an "online social network for artists and art enthusiasts" that teems with "furry" imagery depicting sexualized and anthropomorphized animals.RELATED: Trans-identifying teen agrees to plead guilty to plotting Valentine's Day massacre at high school A demonstrator holding an image of Crooks. Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images.The histories of two DeviantArt accounts linked to Crooks' primary email address indicate he possibly had a furry fetish, obsessing over cartoon characters with male anatomies and female heads.Trump's failed assassin would hardly be the first radical in recent years who was immersed in trans and/or furry subcultures.Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin was reportedly not only in a homosexual relationship with a transvestite, who on at least one occasion dressed up in a furry outfit, but was himself possibly active on a furry fetish website.An engraving on a bullet casing linked to Kirk's assassination made reference to gay furries.There was also the:trans-identifying man who shot up a Catholic church full of children in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, killing two children and injuring 30;male-identifying woman who planned to shoot up an elementary school and a high school in Maryland in April 2024 but was stopped in time by police — then later convicted;trans-identifying teen who stalked the halls of a school in Perry, Iowa, on Jan. 4, 2024, ultimately murdering a child and an adult and wounding several others; and thetrans-identifying woman who stormed into a Presbyterian school in Nashville on March 27, 2023, murdering three children and three adults.Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said of the news of Crooks' possible trans-identification and furry fetish, "This is beyond correlation, this is a five alarm fire."Like Blaze News? 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