Possible Thomas Crooks Contact Allegedly Unmasked

A neo-Nazi who may have interacted with would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks online revealed himself to be Bjorn Leif Hjelmerud of Norway, The Daily Mail reported.

Hjelmerud admitted to being in contact with a "Tom Crooks" YouTube account believed by some to be the 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania, shooter who nearly took the president's life, the outlet reported citing a text exchange with Hjelmerud. A member of the white supremacist Nordic Resistance Movement, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, Hjelmerud egged on violent comments from "Tom Crooks" about overthrowing the government in a 2020 YouTube comments section...