In a recent development in the investigation into the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) has requested to examine the body of would-be presidential assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks. However, he discovered that the shooter’s body is “gone” and that the FBI cleaned up biological evidence from the crime scene, which the congressman says “injured” the investigation.
The FBI released Crooks’ body for cremation on July 23, just ten days after the assassination attempt on Trump, and “nobody knew this” until August 5, including the Butler County coroner, law enforcement, and the Butler County sheriff, Higgins said in a Monday report.
The congressman also noted that the coroner’s report and autopsy report are both “late.” As of Monday, August 5, they were a week late. The problem with not being able to examine the actual body is that he won’t know 100% if the coroner’s report and the autopsy report are accurate. We will actually never know.
Higgins said that while he will eventually obtain the reports and photos from the autopsy, “I will not ever be able to say with certainty that those reports and pictures are accurate according to my own examination of the body.
The congressman made his remarks in a Preliminary Investigative Report to Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), the chairman of the “Bipartisan Task Force to Investigate the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump.