This article, authored byHudson Crozieris republished under the Creative Commons “CC BY-NC-ND” license with permission fromThe Daily Caller News Foundation.

A neo-Nazi who may have interacted with would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks online revealed himself to be Bjorn Leif Hjelmerud of Norway, The Daily Mail reported.

Hjelmerud admitted to being in contact with a “Tom Crooks” YouTube accountbelieved by some to bethe 2024 Butler, Pennsylvania, shooter who nearly took the president’s life,the outlet reportedciting a text exchange with Hjelmerud.

A member of the white supremacist Nordic Resistance Movement, aU.S.-designated terrorist group, Hjelmerud egged on violent comments from “Tom Crooks” about overthrowing the government in a 2020 YouTube comments section.

“If a gun and a badge is all that is needed, then authority obviously comes from the barrel of a gun,” Hjelmerud told the account while using the username “Willy_Tepes,” The Daily Mail reported. “We have more guns than they do … There is no way we can avoid a war at this point, so you better just get used to the idea.”

Hjelmerud said he did not talk to “Tom Crooks” on any other online platform in comments to the outlet. Secret Service agentsfatally shot the Butler gunmanafter he hit Trump in the ear with a rifle from a rooftop during a campaign rally, narrowly missing his brain.

“I believe it was a US intelligence operation using a patsy to boost Trump’s popularity,” Hjelmerud allegedly told The Daily Mail about the assassination attempt. “Crooks was not censored but I was. YouTube does not allow calls for violence.”

Trumpsaid in Julyhe was “very satisfied” with law enforcement’s investigation of the shooting, which foundno one else involved in Crooks’plot and did not determine his precise motives.

“The Jews have banned me from all their social media platforms, so I am effectively censored,” Hjelmerud allegedly told The Daily Mail. “But it does not matter as the world has collectively noticed what I have been pointing out. Have a nice day and death to Israel!”

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