The Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk assassins shared one sick fetish that has the FBI sounding the alarm

Two political assassinations shook America in 2025.

The FBI kept claiming they couldn't find any connection between the shooters.

But the Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk assassins shared one sick fetish that has the FBI sounding the alarm.

Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to blow President Trump's head off at a Butler, Pennsylvania rally in July 2024.

Tyler Robinson allegedly murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.

The FBI spent months telling Congress these were isolated incidents from lone wolves with no clear ideology or motive.

Turns out the FBI was either lying or incompetent — probably both.

New evidence exposes disturbing pattern FBI tried to hide

New reporting from the New York Post's Miranda Devine just blew the lid off what FBI Director Kash Patel is now calling "a five alarm fire."

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Both assassins were deeply immersed in the same twisted online subculture — the so-called "furry" fetish community centered around sexualized anthropomorphic animal characters.¹

Crooks maintained accounts on DeviantArt under usernames "epicmicrowave" and "theepicmicrowave" where he used they/them pronouns and posted obsessive content featuring "scantily clad cartoon characters sporting muscle-bound male bodies and female heads."²

Robinson's transgender roommate Lance Twiggs was reportedly into the same furry fetish.

Robinson himself played pornographic furry video games and watched content from creators known for "furry porn" depicting underage characters.³

The overlap doesn't stop there.

Both men were socially isolated young white males from middle-class suburban families who'd once been Trump supporters before radical ideological shifts drove them toward political violence.

Both selected rooftop sniper positions at outdoor political rallies.

Both left disturbing digital footprints the FBI either ignored or actively suppressed.

Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet didn't mince words when the connection came to light.

"This is beyond correlation, this is a five alarm fire," Kolvet posted on social media.⁴

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FBI knew about Crooks for years but did nothing

The Post obtained information from 17 different online accounts belonging to Crooks spanning platforms including YouTube, Snapchat, Discord, Google Play, Quizlet, and Quora.

These accounts prove Crooks wasn't some unknowable ghost — he left "a digital trail of violent threats, extremist ideology and admiration for mass violence."⁵

In August 2020, Crooks posted: "IMO the only way to fight the gov is with terrorism style attacks, sneak a bomb into an essential building and set it off before anyone sees you, track down any important people/politicians/military leaders etc and try to assassinate them."⁶

Rod Swanson, a former senior FBI agent who was chief of investigations for Nevada during the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, told Devine there's no way the FBI didn't know about Crooks.

"No matter how ridiculous the allegation, no matter if it's COVID or not, somebody is going to knock on somebody's door," Swanson explained. "If they investigated that kid there's a record of it and there's an assessment that some leader made that this was not a threat or it rose to a level and they did something else."⁷

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Translation: the FBI knew and chose not to act.

Then-FBI Director Chris Wray testified to Congress that investigators found nothing in Crooks' online history pointing to a motive or political ideology.

That was a complete lie.

Pattern reveals dangerous threat FBI refuses to confront

Conservative analyst Jack Posobiec connected the dots the FBI won't acknowledge.

"We need to understand how young, white men and their demonization and dispossession is driving more extreme sexual behavior, fetishes, and yes, violence," Posobiec wrote.⁸

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Both Crooks and Robinson fit the same profile — downwardly mobile young men from conservative families who got sucked into online subcultures where economic resentment, racial grievance, and sexual deviancy all converge.

Economic opportunity that previous generations took for granted has been stripped away while these men are simultaneously told they're the villains of American history simply for existing.

So they retreat into online spaces where the same forums hosting furry fetish content also host left-wing extremist planning and anti-white radicalization.

"Both of them seem like the type who, in another era, would have had fantastic economic opportunity," commented Joshua Lisec, co-author of Unhumans. "That's the entire point of the populist right. It all comes back to economics and opportunity."⁹

The Minneapolis school shooter Robin Westman followed the same pattern — transgender identity, furry subculture involvement, and radicalization leading to mass violence against Christians.

This isn't three isolated incidents.

It's a pattern of radicalization the FBI refuses to investigate because it contradicts their preferred narratives about domestic terrorism.

The Heritage Foundation has now petitioned the FBI to designate "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism" as a formal domestic terror threat category.

But FBI leadership under the Biden administration spent more time investigating concerned parents at school board meetings than tracking actual terrorists posting assassination fantasies online.

President Trump deserves answers about what the FBI knew, when they knew it, and why they did nothing to stop Thomas Crooks.

Charlie Kirk's family deserves the same.

And every American should be asking why the FBI keeps covering up obvious patterns that don't fit their political agenda.

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¹ Miranda Devine, "Trump's would-be assassin had furry fetish, used they/them pronouns," New York Post, November 17, 2025.

² Ibid.

³ "Report: Trump's Would-Be Assassin Was Interested in Furries, Used 'They/Them' Pronouns Online," Breitbart, November 17, 2025.

⁴ Andrew Kolvet, post on X, November 17, 2025.

⁵ Miranda Devine, "Trump's would-be assassin had furry fetish, used they/them pronouns," New York Post, November 17, 2025.

⁶ Ibid.

⁷ Ibid.

⁸ Jack Posobiec, "Making Beasts of Men: Why are two high-profile political assassins tied to the furry fetish?" Human Events, November 17, 2025.

⁹ "JOSH LISEC to JACK POSOBIEC: The same 'furry' online world radicalized both Thomas Crooks and Tyler Robinson," Human Events, November 17, 2025.