{"id":2306757,"date":"2024-07-23T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-trump-shooter-post-july-13-will-be-my-premiere-on-steam\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:10:42","slug":"fact-check-did-the-trump-shooter-post-july-13-will-be-my-premiere-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-trump-shooter-post-july-13-will-be-my-premiere-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did The Trump Shooter Post \u2018July 13 Will Be My Premiere\u2019 On Steam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-the-trump-shooter-post-july-13-will-be-my-premiere-on-steam%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2306757&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vatican-walks-back-decree-about-firing-staff-who-refuse-vaccine\/\" title=\"Vatican Walks Back Decree About Firing Staff Who Refuse Vaccine\">media outlets reported<\/a> that \u2064Thomas\u200b Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, \u200bwrote a message\u200b on the \u2062gaming\u200c platform Steam, saying \u2064&#8221;July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds.&#8221; However, investigators later determined that the \u2063account associated with Crooks \u200bwas fake. The\u2064 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed that the account was \u200bnot \u200cauthentic. Investigators are still\u2062 trying\u200b to determine the motive behind Crooks&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amnesty-international-strips-aleksei-navalny-of-prisoner-of-conscience-status-for-decades-old-comments-on-immigration\/\" title=\"Amnesty International Strips Aleksei Navalny Of \u2018Prisoner Of Conscience\u2019 Status For Decades-Old Comments On Immigration\">assassination attempt<\/a>. Various news sources reported\u200d on\u2063 the alleged\u2064 message on Steam, \u200cbut\u200c it was ultimately found \u200bto be misleading \u2062information.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Multiple media outlets, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/RwH7B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>, have reported that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, wrote on Steam, &ldquo;July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While investigators believed the account may have been associated with Crooks, they later determined it was fake, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-more-votes-than-voters-in-key-swing-states\/\" title=\"Trump: More Votes Than Voters in Key Swing States\">multiple sources<\/a>. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly said the account was fake.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still determining what motivated Crooks to attempt to assassinate Trump, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2024\/07\/21\/thomas-crooks-adam-lanza-shooters-assassins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2024\/07\/22\/fact-check-video-first-harris-presidential-ad\/\"><strong>(RELATED: No, Video Does Not Show First Kamala Harris Presidential Ad)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Media outlets reported that sources said that Crooks wrote a message on Steam alluding to the assassination attempt. Steam is a popular <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steam_(service)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">computer gaming platform<\/a> that is managed by Valve. Fox News reported that: &ldquo;Crooks, 20, wrote in a post earlier this month, &lsquo;July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The claim originates from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jussie-smollett-will-soon-learn-his-fate-after-staged-attack-conviction\/\" title=\"Jussie Smollett Will Soon Learn His Fate After Staged Attack Conviction\">call law enforcement officials<\/a> had with the Senate. Sources told Fox News&rsquo; Jacqui Heinrich&rdquo;&lsquo; that Thomas Crooks wrote on a gaming platform called &lsquo;Steam&rsquo;, &ldquo;July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#128680;NEWS: Fox has learned that Senators were told in the all-member briefing today that Thomas Crooks wrote on a gaming platform called &lsquo;Steam&rsquo;, &ldquo;July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When investigators reviewed the laptop, they found a few searches in July of: Trump,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacquiHeinrich\/status\/1813761191056941344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A source familiar with the call told Check Your Fact that investigators did say Crooks had a Steam account. The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/17\/us\/trump-shooting-crooks-motive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-service-director-clarifies-role-in-securing-trump-rally-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Secret Service director clarifies role in securing Trump rally - Washington Examiner\">law enforcement &#038;ldquo<\/a>;were investigating the possibility that an account bearing Mr. Crooks&rsquo;s name on the gaming platform Steam had previewed the attack.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-shooter-thomas-matthew-crooks-called-july-13-premiere-online-post-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> that while investigators believed that the account was genuine, they later determined it was fake. CNN, citing a source, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/18\/politics\/thomas-matthew-crooks-steam\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> that investigators believe the account is fake. The New York Times also reported that investigators determined it was fake.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact found a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/dggRY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steam account<\/a> that federal investigators may have found. The account had Crooks&rsquo; name and image. On the profile, it reads, &ldquo;July 13 will be my premier [sic], watch as it all unfolds.&rdquo; The account&rsquo;s name was changed on July 14, a day after the assassination attempt, according to a SteamID. (Check Your Fact took the screenshot before the username was changed again).<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Screenshot\/SteamID<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The account then <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/mLxcS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> that the FBI made them change their name (Check Your Fact could not independently verify this claim). Steam ID <a href=\"https:\/\/steamid.uk\/profile\/76561199508120480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shows<\/a> that the account appears to have changed its name three times since July 14.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8169561\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-8169561\">Screenshot\/SteamID<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aric Toler, a New York Times reporter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AricToler\/status\/1813972534129562105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated<\/a> that the&rdquo; FBI (or whoever contributed to that Senate briefing)&rdquo; was &ldquo;fooled by an obvious fake.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Well, cross Steam off the list for now, with the FBI (or whoever contributed to that Senate briefing) getting fooled by an obvious fake. That said, I&rsquo;m pretty certain he did have a Steam account, just not sure what the username is.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aric Toler (@AricToler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AricToler\/status\/1813972534129562105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/trump-shooter-used-gaming-site-features-presidential-assassination-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> after Check Your Fact sent an inquiry, noting that a federal source told the outlet that the account was fake. A Fox News spokesperson pointed Check Your Fact to the editor&rsquo;s note that reads,&rdquo;Editor&rsquo;s note: This story has been updated to reflect the latest on the Steam account.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The FBI told Check Your Fact that it did not have a comment on July 18. A FBI spokesperson reportedly confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/thomas-crooks-posted-ominous-message-shooting-july-13-will-premiere-wa-rcna162514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a> on July 22 that the account was fake. Check Your Fact reached out again on July 23 for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact reached out to Valve for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple media outlets reported that \u2064Thomas\u200b Matthew Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, \u200bwrote a message\u200b on the \u2062gaming\u200c platform Steam, saying \u2064&#8221;July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds.&#8221; However, investigators later determined that the \u2063account associated with Crooks \u200bwas fake. The\u2064 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2306758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2161922289-3-scaled-e1721657062735.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13420,35894,11691,34998],"class_list":["post-2306757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fact-check","tag-july-13","tag-steam","tag-trump-shooter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/GettyImages-2161922289-3-scaled-e1721657062735.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}