We have been told for some time that Thomas Matthew Crooks purchased materials for improvised explosive devices prior to the Butler rally assassination attempt. But a new report has surfaced indicating Crooks ordered bomb making material beyond the scope of what was allegedly used in the devices found in the trunk of his vehicle. Nitromethane is a highly explosive compound generally used in fuels, specifically for race cars, usually referred to simply as “Nitro”. It was reportedly the key starter used to blow up the Oklahoma City Federal Building back in the ’90s. And Thomas Crooks ordered enough to potentially drop a similar building 6 months before the rally. On 1/31/24, Thomas Matthew Crooks asked for an update on an order of 2+ gallons of nitromethane, an explosive fuel. He was also polishing college applications. Documents obtained by CBS News shed light on the young man who tried to kill President Trump.https://t.co/0yMU4VvTt1 — Graham Kates (@GrahamKates) May 23, 2025 That’s according to a report by Graham Kates of CBS News who was able to view emails related to the purchase. The CBS reporting expectedly fixates more on the shattered hopes and dreams aspect of Crooks’ life. But it also reveals relatively large purchases of historically dangerous compounds that one would THINK might catch the attention of the FBI — when it happened, as opposed to nearly a year later. As usual, it didn’t.  At least as far as we’ve been told. Here’s a video report with Graham Kates talking about the new information: The journalist, Graham Kates, who obtained the emails did an interview. He discusses the order of nitromethane and the contrast of July 13 vs Thomas Crook’ ambitious engineering path and planning of his future. One more email is shown to us which amplifies his divergent paths. pic.twitter.com/ncyFhzUXUw — JaneDoeUKnow (@MsJaneDoeUKnow) May 26, 2025 Several questions remain, brought back to the forefront of what should still be a primary investigation. Though it seems there is no steam left in the hunt for truth in this situation. The key question is simply whether Crooks was working with someone (undercover FBI… perhaps?) or truly working alone? Either way — how does a 20 year old order more than TWO GALLONS of a key ingredient for a fertilizer bomb without setting off alarm bells? But that’s allegedly what happened, 6 months before the assassination attempt, according to reporting by CBS News: The 20-year-old who, six months later, would open fire at President Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally — striking his ear and killing an audience member — was busy polishing his applications to transfer from community college to a four-year engineering program. He was also designing a bomb. He ordered more than two gallons of nitromethane from an online speciality fuel retailer using an encrypted email account, documents obtained by CBS News show. Twelve days later Crooks’ purchase hadn’t shipped and he wanted to know why. “Hello, my name is Thomas. I placed an order on your website on January 19. I have not received any updates of the order shipping out yet and I was wondering if you still have it and when I can expect it to come,” Crooks emailed the retailer, Hyperfuels, at 7:44 a.m. on Jan. 31, 2024. The nitromethane purchase invoice lists a separate email account from a Belgium-based service that offers end-to-end encryption. FBI Pittsburgh Special Agent in Charge Kevin Rojek told reporters in August that Crooks had researched “nitromethane, and other materials consistent with the manufacturing of explosive devices.” Rojek indicated agents accessed multiple overseas-based encrypted email accounts used by Crooks, who did not use explosives during his attack. Even before the nitro order was known (by the general public), Jack Posobiec interviewed Erik Prince in July of last year, and asked him about the devices that were found in Crooks’ belongings. Posobiec asked him about the specific devices found, to which Prince confidently said there was almost no chance he was able to learn how to construct them on his own: .@realErikDPrince tells @JackPosobiec: Thomas Crooks did not learn to make these explosives in his high school chemistry class pic.twitter.com/xkOpeQEN5x — Human Events (@HumanEvents) July 26, 2024 Again — if he could not have built those devices with information he found on his own… WHO was HELPING Crooks? And now, more questions present themselves on the heels of that new information. Was he planning to blow something up? What was the target Crooks had in mind when he ordered that much nitromethane? To put the possible answers in context, here are some calculations from the folks over at the Western Journal: It has been the better part of a year since Thomas Crooks tried to assassinate now-President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania — and we’re somehow just learning that he attempted to acquire explosives that could, depending on how they were used, take down an entire building. We here at The Western Journal did a little bit of Grok AI research into what could be accomplished with that. If he were to use it to make a backpack-sized bomb, say, it would have a lethal radius of up to roughly 30 feet. However, let’s say he were to build a larger device with nitromethane as a starter and ammonium nitrate, a common ingredient in fertilizer — and in vehicle-borne bombs like the one that brought down the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. Only about 400 pounds of ammonium nitrate would need to be added to the nitromethane to make a bomb with a blast radius capable of destroying a small building. The mere fact that there ISN’T any information released publicly about any of Crooks’ plans is questionable. The idea that he suddenly decided the day of the rally to take his father’s rifle and climb up to the roof in order to take shots at President Trump is silly. If he previously searched information about bombs and assassinations as we’ve been told, it is unlikely he would make a spur of the moment decision to attempt an assassination of his own with a weapon he reportedly had chronic bad aim with. And yet… where are the details of the plans?  Who did he plan WITH?  And WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE he intended for all that nitromethane!? The lack of information forthcoming from the authorities and all the Agencies involved continues to scream “COVERUP”. As Stephen Miller’s compatriot at America First Legal said after hunting for records on the investigation, we still don’t know enough, as reported in the Daily Mail: Wally Zimolong, who chased down the records on behalf of Trump aide Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, told CBS ‘a year later we still don’t know enough’ about Crooks. ‘I think it raises a lot of important questions. Were they investigating anyone else? Are they still investigating?’ Zimolong asked. Online theories swirled that Crooks was part of a large foreign-influenced plot to take out the Republican before the 2024 presidential election, which he went on to win. Crooks was on top of a nearby building a few hundred feet from where Trump was speaking that day, crouched down with an AR-15 rifle. He was able to fire eight rounds in Trump’s direction less than 150 yards from where the former president was speaking. Crooks was killed by counter snipers who took him out before he was able to reap more damage at the Trump rally. The fear is there will be a trickle of information spanning years. Just enough to keep interest alive, but not enough to answer any real questions. That’s what the government did after JFK’s assassination to the point that even when President Trump says they’ve released everything they have more than 60 years later — most people are skeptical. There is only one way the truth of that day is going to come out, and that’s if it happens during the next 4 years while President Trump is in office. That’s the window for finding, and releasing, the truth of who was really behind the Butler assassination attempt. After that… 60 years from now we’ll be remembering decades of trickling information. And when some President 60 years down the line says “That’s it — that’s all we got!” — will you believe them? Me, neither.