The CEO of the social networking website Gab has revealed posts that he claims may have been written by Donald Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks
Andrew Torba said on Wednesday that an unnamed law enforcement agency informed him that Crooks may have posted pro-Biden messages on Gab, a platform known for its alt-right users and conspiratorial content.
The @epicmicrowave account, which Torba has been unable to confirm belongs to Crooks, was last active on the site in 2021.
‘As far as we are aware, the account did not use the site to send any direct messages,’ Torba said.
‘He posted on the site nine (9) times total… While the account made very few posts on the site, the majority of them were in support of President Biden.
‘A number of posts in particular expressed support for President Biden’s COVID lockdowns, border policies and executive orders.’
Torba also shared images of the posts he claimed were written by Crooks.
In a post from February 2021 the poster replies to an electoral projection with: ‘Didn’t you also think Biden would lose in a landslide yeah I would not be very confident in your election predictions.’
In another post, the Gab user defended Biden’s border policies saying they don’t incentivize human trafficking and linked to a study that compared crime by undocumented migrants with those of legal migrants and American citizens in Texas.
The poster wrote: ‘Biden executive orders don’t incentivize human trafficking as human traffickers aren’t interested in citizenships, likewise the majority of illegal immigrants are not criminals and in fact some studies (such as the one linked below) show lower rates of crime committed by these individuals.’
Investigators have found no threatening comments on social media accounts or ideological positions that could help explain what led him to target Trump
The Anti-Defamation League has said Gab is a ‘haven for hate and disinformation.’
According to the ADL: ‘Torba himself espouses much of the same hateful and extremist rhetoric that his platform is known for.’
Cheatle took responsibility for the catastrophic lapses after she was lambasted by Republicans and Democrats alike when she appeared before Congress on Monday.
The security chief had faced mounting questions over why an agent was not stationed on the roof from where Crooks opened fire on the former president, and why Trump was allowed to take the stage even when a threat was detected.
Crooks had been identified as a suspicious person hours before the shooting took place.
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I am still interested in knowing why he wants to kill Trump