🚨Approximately 30 minutes ago, Gab learned that Thomas Crooks, the deranged Joe Biden supporter who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump, may have had an account on our platform. We are unable to confirm that the account in question actually belonged to him.
The account 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. 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.
We have saved the account data pending receipt of a search warrant.
We are disclosing this information at significant personal and business risk. If the past is any guide, defying the D.C. consensus by publishing the first definitive evidence that the shooter was a Biden supporter - something Democrats and their media allies have tried to cover up and deny at every turn - has a high probability of resulting in significant political and media backlash.
In the past, we have been the target of politically motivated inquiries from both the House Oversight Committee and the Joint Committee on the January 6th Attacks, both of which sought to interfere with our mission of protecting free speech online. The enemies of freedom have the ability to impose significant present and future legal costs and any donations we receive will help to defray those costs.
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BREAKING: The FBI is now claiming that the Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks had an unspecified "social media account" in 2019/2020 (when he was 14/15 years old) that posted "anti-immigrant and anti-semitic" content.
This is not consistent with Gab's understanding of the shooter's motives based on an Emergency Disclosure Request ("EDR") we received from the FBI last week for the Gab account "EpicMicrowave" which, based on the content of that EDR, the FBI appeared to think belonged to Thomas Crooks.
Many, particularly regime media reporters, have doubted Gab's claims that this request existed. Normally we don't confirm the existence or content of law enforcement communications. In this instance we had to make an exception due to the overwhelming public interest in disclosure and transparency.
As a courtesy to law enforcement, we are not going to post the entire request. This is the first page of that request.
The story is this: the account for which data was requested was, UNEQUIVOCALLY, pro-Biden and in particular pro-Biden's immigration policy.
To the best of Gab's knowledge, as of 2021, Crooks was a pro-lockdown, pro-immigration, left-wing Joe Biden supporter.
A thread of additional information from last week:
This entire plan is a slap in the face to White Christian men, like me, who Trump needs to show up in PA to win. Good luck. axios.com/2024/07/10/tru…
Trump personally rolled the RNC on abortion and gay marriage. It wasn’t the RNC that did this, it was him personally.
“How can we win back the declining White vote in swing states? I know, let’s invite 50 Cent and Amber Rose to the RNC to show how we’re more than yucky White MAGA.”
The ADL lobbied the DOJ to investigate Gab and throw me in jail after January 6th even though I didn’t even attend the rally. #BantheADL
The CEO of the ADL went on national television and called me one of the most toxic people in public life for daring to say that America is a Christian nation and it should stay that way. #BantheADL
The ADL has multiple articles smearing me. They have a deal with Google where their website outranks all other results, even my own Gab profile that has my name on it 70,000 times and gets millions of visits daily. They also run Google ads for promoting these articles to people who search my name. #BanTheADL