FBI missed multiple opportunities to stop Thomas Crooks

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00:00Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to shoot and kill President Trump in Butler,

00:04Pennsylvania last year, could have and should have been stopped by the feds.

00:08So says Chris Swecker, a retired assistant FBI director who spoke exclusively to The Post.

00:14He says that the bureau had multiple, quote, missed opportunities to stop Crooks from his

00:19attempted assassination of the then presidential nominee. Now, Swecker also claims that former

00:24director Christopher Wray was desperate to define Crooks as a far-right lone gunman. Now, I told

00:30you last week about the extremist social media post believed to have come from Crooks. Well,

00:35Swecker says that if even half of those posts turn out to be real, Crooks should have been on the FBI's

00:41radar. The 24-year veteran of the bureau told The Post, quote, that constitutes a miss on the part

00:47of the FBI before giving his former colleagues a grade of C- for the investigation. Now, he went

00:52on to accuse the FBI of having a bias toward right-wing extremists, basically saying that if they were

00:58believed to have been behind a crime, it surfaced fast. But if it was a left-wing ideologue, it got

01:04glossed over.