Joe Kovacs wrote in a July 25 WorldNetDaily article:
Former President Trump’s would-be assassin was a user of the popular social media site Gab.com, whose infrequent posts suggest he was a supporter of Joe Biden, says Gab CEO Andrew Torba.
“In the process of responding to an emergency disclosure request from a U.S. law enforcement agency, Gab learned that a pro-Biden/Harris account on the site was believed to have belonged to Thomas Matthew Crooks, who attempted to assassinate President Trump. After backing up the account, we notified the public,” Torba said.
Torba said Gab “has published the first evidence making it very apparent that Crooks was a left-wing partisan who hated President Trump’s immigration policies – noting that the shooter fired on President Trump when he started talking about those same policies.
“This raises the possibility, for the first time, that his attempted assassination of President Trump was the latest instance of a wider pattern of left-wing domestic terrorism that has plagued our country since the summer of 2020.”
He indicated Gab “will continue to fight for the free speech rights of all Americans. Free speech allows truths like this to surface while censorship seeks to hide the facts in darkness.”
Kovacs is omitting a few facts. While he admitted there were only nine posts, he didn’t highlight that they were made in early 2021, more than three years before the shooting, or that Crooks’ posts were in response to a right-wing troll named Catturd. He did concede that “Crooks was a registered Republican,” which would seem to undermine Torba’s claim that Crooks was a “left-wing partisan.” Kovacs was silent on one other piece of evidence undermining Torba’s narrative: Gab is a right-wing site where “left-wing partisans” are highly unlikely to congregate.
Kovacs is also not going to discuss how self-serving this is on Torba’s part. It’s obvious that Torba went public with this in an attempt to push the narrative that Crooks was a liberal — he would never be so willing to disclose the posts of a right-wing partisan who committed an act of violence. He also seemed to want to distract from reports that Crooks may have had a social media account with “antisemitic and anti-immigration themes,” which Torba raged about a few days later.
Finally, Kovacs laughably described Torba as an “unabashed Christian” who “asked for prayer in dealing with the latest disclosures.” Actually, Torba is a raging anti-Semite — which would seem to put him in league with that alleged Crooks social media account and, thus, unworthy of prayer.