Newly released federal records have revealed that a mysterious “anonymous donor” paid for the swift cremation of President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks just days after the deadly shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The stunning detail is buried in records turned over to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) as part of his investigation into the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt.
“Anonymous donor paid for cremation,” a note attached to a federal interview summary involving Crooks’s father states.
The disclosure adds another unanswered question to a case that, more than two years later, has still produced no publicly established motive explaining why Crooks climbed onto a rooftop and opened fire on Trump.
It also comes after the FBI faced intense scrutiny for releasing Crooks’s body for cremation just 10 days after the attack.
Mystery Donor Paid for Crooks’s Cremation
The newly disclosed information appears to have come from an attorney representing the Crooks family.
Federal records indicate that Crooks’s father, Matthew Crooks, was unemployed at the time of the assassination attempt and later took early retirement.
Crooks’s mother, Mary Crooks, went on leave from work to “process the situation.”
The records nevertheless state that an unidentified third party stepped forward to pay for the gunman’s cremation.
No identity or apparent connection between the “anonymous donor” and the Crooks family is provided in the material.
The disclosure is particularly striking because the rapid cremation of Crooks’s remains has been a source of controversy since shortly after the assassination attempt.
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) revealed in August 2024 that the FBI had released Crooks’s body to his family only 10 days after the shooting.
Higgins discovered the body was already gone when he attempted to examine it as part of the congressional investigation into the catastrophic security failures surrounding the Butler rally.
“My effort to examine Crooks’ body on Monday, August 5 [2024], caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact… the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after (July 13),” Higgins wrote.
Now, federal records reveal that somebody outside the immediate family apparently paid for that cremation.
Crooks Used ‘Bob Dole’ Alias to Buy Gun Parts
The documents contain other previously undisclosed details about Crooks’s activities before he opened fire on Trump.
Records reviewed by the New York Post reveal that Crooks used the name “Bob Dole” while ordering large quantities of packages through Amazon.
Those purchases included “parts, tools, and items to increase the capacity of his rifle.”
According to his father, Crooks began using aliases after Matthew Crooks’s Citizens Bank account was hacked and hit with fraudulent BetMGM charges.
His father warned him that using a fake name on an order would not prevent someone from tracing the transaction because the money was still coming from an account connected to his real identity.
Crooks ignored him.
“Thomas dismissed his dad’s logic and continued using pseudonyms to make his online purchases, believing he was shielding his accounts from being compromised,” the Post reported from the records.
Crooks also instructed his father on using privacy tools.
“He also coached Matthew how to use identity-obscuring software like CyberGhost VPN and the Bravenet Browser — which Thomas would argue made them ‘less likely to be compromised by outside actors.’”
Crooks additionally maintained accounts with multiple privacy-focused encrypted email providers, including GMX and Mailfence.
Father Described Crooks as Emotionless ‘Since Birth’
The federal records also provide a disturbing picture of Crooks’s behavior growing up.
His father described him as a loner who had no friends and showed no interest in girls.
Crooks frequently talked to himself and developed an obsession with firearms during his teenage years.
Most strikingly, his father described Crooks as having been emotionless since birth.
Yet his family apparently did not consider the combination of behaviors serious enough to raise an alarm before the shooting.
On July 13, 2024, Crooks managed to reach a rooftop overlooking Trump’s campaign rally in Butler despite being identified as suspicious before the president took the stage.
He then opened fire.
Trump was struck in the ear by a bullet.
Rally attendee Corey Comperatore was killed while protecting his family, and two other attendees were seriously wounded.
A Secret Service counter-sniper killed Crooks seconds later.
Questions Still Unanswered More Than Two Years Later
The newly released records provide additional information about Crooks’s purchases, online privacy practices, family life, and behavior.
They also reveal the extraordinary fact that an unidentified person paid to have his remains cremated after the FBI released his body.
But the central question remains unanswered.
Why did Crooks try to assassinate President Trump?
More than two years after the Butler attack, federal authorities have still not publicly established a definitive motive explaining why the 20-year-old gunman targeted Trump.
The public is now learning details that were sitting in federal records while questions surrounding the assassination attempt continued to mount.
Crooks used aliases.
He acquired equipment for his rifle.
He maintained encrypted email accounts and used privacy software.
The FBI released his body within 10 days.
An “anonymous donor” then paid for his cremation.
And America is still waiting for a definitive answer explaining why he tried to murder President Trump.
Until federal authorities provide that answer and explain the unanswered circumstances surrounding the investigation, questions about the handling of the Butler assassination attempt are not going away.
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