Exclusive | Chilling new details about Trump shooter Thomas Crooks revealed in bombshell FBI docs: emotionless since birth

President Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was born without making a sound on Sept.20, 2003, a trait that would follow him right up to the end of his short life when the 20-year-old died in a hail of Secret Service gunfire seconds after missing Trump’s head with a bullet by a hairsbreadth.“When Thomas was born he did not scream and he was always quiet from that point on,” his father, Matthew, told feds in newly unearthed documents about the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt in Butler, Penn.The fresh documents were provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) as part of his ongoing inquiry into the Butler assassination attempt and exclusively reviewed by the New York Post.The trove of files includes FBI interviews with Thomas’ father, Matthew, who revealed he “never really had a father/son bond” with the gunman, and that his stoic son rarely expressed strong emotions, hardly laughed and was very difficult to read.Thomas occasionally acted out in elementary school because “he was bored,” his father said, recalling one instance in which he damaged a desk and other school property in a bid for attention.By the time he got to middle school, Matthew said both he and his wife, Mary, “thought Thomas had ADHD” and were concerned he had fallen in with a “bad” group of kids for a brief period.Matthew’s frustration with his son’s dispassionate nature once boiled over at home after Thomas dumped an entire container of fish food into his sister’s betta tank after an argument.He said he “pushed” Thomas to the point he started crying, just trying to elicit some kind of an emotional reaction from the boy.Between his freshman and sophomore year of high school, Matthew noticed a shift in his son’s behavior — he had grown “a little more quiet and reserved” and started having “issues with speaking to his teachers.”He said he frequently caught Thomas talking to himself, however, a quirk that �...

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Publisher: New York Post

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