A social media account allegedly linked to would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Crooks shows he used “they/them” pronouns and appeared to participate in the online “furry” community, according to a Nov. 17 New York Post opinion piece.
Writing for the Post, Miranda Devine reported that Crooks operated two profiles on the DeviantArt platform under the usernames “epicmicrowave” and “theepicmicrowave,” where he listed “they/them” pronouns. She described the platform as a major hub for the “furry” community or for “those who have an interest in anthropomorphized cartoon animal characters, which is often a sexual fetish.”
“The account suggests he had an obsession with scantily clad cartoon characters sporting muscle-bound male bodies and female heads,” Devine wrote.
According to the platform’s website, DeviantArt allows users to access “370 million pieces of art” and to “[s]howcase, promote, sell & share your work with over 61 million members.”
Devine also detailed what she called Crooks’ political “180” in the years leading up to his July 2024 attempt to assassinate Trump.
As CatholicVote previously reported, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson last week released a video claiming an anonymous source used private-investigator tools to access and authenticate several of Crooks’ digital accounts — information he said the FBI failed to disclose.
Carlson argued that the FBI portrayed Crooks as a “right-winger,” even though the recovered social media activity shows a teenager who once praised Trump but turned sharply against him and his supporters during COVID.
“The FBI lied about that fact and pretended that Crooks was a right-winger,” Carlson alleged.
Devine also challenged the FBI’s claim that Crooks acted alone, had no motive, and left no digital trail. She cited an anonymous source who claimed Crooks “left a digital trail of violent threats, extremist ideology and admiration for mass violence” and “spoke openly of political assassination.”
Devine further highlighted a user known as “Willy_Tepes,” whom Carlson previously accused of encouraging Crooks on YouTube to commit violence. According to the Post, the user is a member of a Norwegian neo-Nazi group called the Nordic Resistance, which the State Department has designated as a terrorist organization. Willy_Tepes also claimed in an October 2025 comment that he had been contacted by both Russian and American intelligence agencies.
“Did his [Crooks’] brush with the Norwegian and his own violent rhetoric win him a visit from the FBI or the Secret Service?” Devine asked. “If not, why not? If so, why has it not been disclosed?”
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