The FBI came to the conclusion that Butler, Pennsylvania, would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone — after a massive team doggedly pursued interviews with thousands of foreign and domestic individuals as part of an unprecedented global investigation into the 2024 shooting of President Donald Trump, the bureau told Fox News Digital as part of a lengthy, behind-the-curtain rundown of the probe.

FBI Director Kash Patel, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and a senior official with direct involvement in the Butler, Pennsylvania, investigation sat down for an unprecedented interview with Fox News Digital for more than an hour Thursday afternoon at FBI headquarters.

Patel told Fox News Digital that the investigation was a ‘Day One priority’ for the bureau.

‘Dan and I have been on this since we got here eight months ago. We not only had to maintain the chain of command to President Trump, but we had to remind the world that President Trump was the victim — one of the four victims — on that day,’ Patel said. ‘There are victims’ rights rules that apply to him, and they don’t get erased because he is the president.’

‘We fully briefed the president, as a victim of this case, at the White House, providing him with all of the details of our investigation, and the president was satisfied with the results and where we left it,’ he said.

Patel, Bongino and the senior official, who has requested anonymity due to his sensitive work, shared new details of the monthslong investigation in an effort to provide maximum transparency to the American people amid recent reports that have suggested several theories, which Patel, Bongino and the official debunked.

‘We have reviewed this case over and over — looked into every nugget. We have spoken to the families, the president — there is no cover-up here,’ Bongino told Fox News Digital. ‘There is no motive for it, there is no reason for it.’

Patel referenced former FBI Director Christopher Wray’s testimony to Congress in 2024 as a potential reason for unfounded theories to surface.

‘My predecessor went to Congress and said he didn’t know if it was a bullet that hit President Trump in the head. The whole world knew it was a bullet,’ Patel told Fox News Digital. ‘For the number one law enforcement officer to say that — it causes a massive disbelief in the institution that Dan and I are now running.’

‘But that is the difference between then and now,’ he said.

The case currently sits in a ‘pending, inactive’ status, but the official called the investigation ‘one of the largest mobilizations of FBI resources in history that, frankly, continued to this day.’

‘If we get a credible lead, we’ll continue to investigate,’ the official said. ‘The director has been very clear about leaving no stone left unturned, and that is what we are committed to.’

On July 13, 2024, Crooks, age 20, opened fire at Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The president was shot, with the bullet piercing the upper part of his right ear. 

The president ducked to the ground and was surrounded by Secret Service agents who evacuated him from the scene. 

Three spectators were hit by gunfire, and one person, a firefighter and father, Corey Comperatore was killed.

The FBI took over the investigation hours after the shooting, and began investigating it as an assassination attempt.

‘Four hundred and eighty-five FBI employees have been involved in some way, shape or form in this investigation,’ the official told Fox News Digital.

‘The FBI around the world has conducted more than 1,000 interviews connected to this case,’ the official continued. ‘We’ve reviewed 2,000 tips that were submitted. We’ve served and executed more than 10 search warrants and 100 subpoenas. In that, we specifically analyzed 13 electronic devices that were associated with Crooks and his family members from his home in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.’ 

The official said the FBI examined ’35 accounts linked to Crooks, including social media, bank and other online accounts.’

‘The FBI has been able to access all of the accounts,’ the official said. ‘There has been reporting to inappropriately and incorrectly state that there was encryption that the FBI was not able to get into — that is not true. We have been able to get into every single account.’

The official said that Crooks maintained foreign-based email accounts from Germany and Belgium.

‘The FBI was able to fully access those accounts within days of the attack,’ the official said. ‘Additionally, the FBI engaged with foreign partners who also provided all of the content of those email accounts.’

‘We can say with confidence that there is no communication, there are no emails that Crooks had that we have not been able to access,’ the official said.

‘The home was completely swept. Every device in the home was collected and accessed fully,’ Patel said. ‘Reports say that we didn’t get into certain devices? That’s false. We got into all of the devices.’

The FBI conducted a manual review of more than 500,000 individual electronic files and ‘engaged with a number of nations around the world to ensure that all leads were covered.’

‘When there was a lead about an overseas connection — the two instances where we became aware of the foreign accounts — the FBI reached out to foreign governments,’ the official explained.

‘Very quickly, they provided the full contents of the accounts,’ the official said, adding that the FBI had deployed ‘such an extraordinary overseas effort that even people not in Crooks’ age range were interviewed and done completely and thoroughly.’

‘There is no foreign connection in this case,’ the official stressed. ‘There is no individual that is outside U.S. borders or inside U.S. borders that had any role in directing him, inspiring him or assisting him in any way — and that includes foreign governments.’

The official added: ‘There is no information, no evidence anywhere in this investigation, that shows there was any foreign individual or foreign government or foreign organization tied to Thomas Crooks.’

‘We would have cracked the biggest investigation in human history — a foreign-directed plot,’ Bongino said. ‘Why would we withhold that? But we can only follow the facts, and they are just not there.’

Reports have surfaced questioning Crooks’ alleged relationship with Antifa-linked individual William Tepes. 

The FBI told Fox News Digital that there was never any direct communication between Crooks and Tepes.

‘Crooks posted on YouTube. Tepes is a Norwegian, nordic resistance member. He simply responded to content Crooks posted,’ Patel said, pointing to a comment Tepes made on a 2020-era video posted on the video-sharing platform by Crooks.

As for his online presence, Bongino said previous FBI leadership initially downplayed his digital footprint.

‘The degree of his digital footprint was not messaged correctly at all by prior leadership,’ Bongino said.

The official told Fox News Digital that Crooks’ online activity largely took place in 2019 and 2020, when Crooks was just 16 years-old — nearly five years before the attack.

‘He called our Republicans and Democrats. He went as far as saying, ‘In my opinion, the only way to fight the government is with terrorism-style attacks.’ I won’t try to get into his brain,’ the official said. ‘But there is a limited record of him making political statements and advocating for political violence in 2019 and 2020.’

The official detailed some of Crooks’ online behavior leading up to the attack, including on July 6, 2024, when he used his email account to register to attend the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally on the Trump campaign website. Crooks also searched ‘how far was Oswald from Kennedy?’

The official also said Crooks searched for what the weather would be in Butler, Pennsylvania, on the day of the attack and where the podium would be, and he looked up directions from his home to the Butler Farm Show grounds and directions from the grounds to the closest hospital.

‘But Crooks left no manifesto. He had no seepage of any kind. He didn’t give any indication anywhere that he was going to do this or why he did this,’ the official said. ‘There are many instances in notable assassinations that they do want folks to know why they did it, but we don’t know that here, because Thomas did not leave any of those artifacts.’

‘The rage, the anger, I totally get it. I’m with you. [Trump] is a friend of ours, he was shot in the head on live television — we want an explanation, too,’ Bongino said. ‘Where is the manifesto? The answer is — it doesn’t exist.’

Reports have suggested Crooks had some interest in the ‘furry’ anthropomorphic community online.

But Patel told Fox News Digital that evidence obtained through the FBI’s investigation revealed ‘no evidence’ of involvement in that community.

‘He went on a website, called Deviant.com, and that website contains pornographic material — animated pornographic material related to the furry community — a whole host of things Americans would never look at,’ Patel said, noting FBI evidence that Crooks displayed an interest in ‘animated female muscle-building erotica.’ 

‘Crooks was on that website and looked at images related to women who work out … a lot. That was his interest, and so we are sharing this with you to show that just because he was on a website that has a voluminous amount of terrible information on it, there is no investigative fact to back up a connection between Thomas Crooks and a portion of the website that had the ‘furry’ on it.’

Patel said questions are also being raised as to why the FBI did not stop the assassination attempt before it happened. 

‘The FBI can only investigate based on a lawful predicate to open,’ Patel said. ‘Does the American public really want the FBI scouring social media and content everywhere without a lawful predicate and trampling over First Amendment rights?’

Patel said that if someone had called in a lead, ‘immediately there would be action.’

‘But no one did that,’ Patel said. ‘No one.’

‘People are asking why we didn’t act on his posts on certain sites. No one in law enforcement knew who he was. No one referred him to law enforcement, and we do not monitor every single American’s use of YouTube and Google and Twitter and Facebook,’ Patel said. ‘Because then people come back and say to us: ‘Why are you on our First Amendment rights?’’

As for the weapon used to shoot the president, Crooks used a 223 rifle. Crooks’ father controlled access to the gun vault and the gun.

The weapon was used to fire eight rounds in the vicinity of the president and the stage. The official told Fox News Digital that there were 22 additional unfired rounds in the weapon and a number of unused magazines that were located in his vehicle on a ballistic vest.

The officials all shot down any theories of a potential second shooter, noting that the individual near the water tower around the site was a Pennsylvania State Police officer.

‘There were no phantom rounds. Every single round was accounted for,’ the official said.

Bongino stressed that ‘it is the FBI’s conclusion that Crooks acted alone.’

‘It is our conclusion, and it is likely, given politically motivated assassination attempts in history,’ Bongino said. ‘These are historical incidents that have already happened — Arthur Bremer; (Squeaky) Fromme; Sara Jane Moore; John Hinkley — those names should all ring a bell.’

He added, ‘We’re not saying Crooks didn’t deal with anyone ever — we are just saying that the people he dealt with had no role in inspiring, motivating or directing this attack.’

Meanwhile, the FBI discovered an undetonated explosive device inside Crooks’ vehicle.

‘The device had a receiver on it which would receive a message from a transmitter in order to detonate,’ the official explained. ‘The receiver was positioned in the off position. Had it been positioned in the on position, and if it activated from the triggering device on the person, our assessment is that it would have activated. But the position was in the off position.’

Patel told Fox News Digital that he ‘recreated what it would have looked like if the explosive device was in the on position.’

‘We walked members of Congress through a visual of what would have happened,’ Patel said. 

‘Because it seems so unlikely you would build a device and forget to turn it on — but he did,’ Bongino said. ‘That’s how it was found. Was it just stupidity?’

As for the crime scene in general, Patel, Bongino and the official explained that the FBI controlled the crime scene from July 14, 2024, at midnight until July 18, 2024. 

‘We do not hold the crime scene forever. We have to give it back — that is standard operating procedure,’ Bongino said.

Crooks’ body was removed from the roof by the Pennsylvania state coroner. In coordination with State Police, the FBI then ‘cleaned the roof with water, as we were going to release the scene.’

‘We had onlookers and souvenir hunters — the FBI is not going to turn over a blood-stained roof. AGR was a functioning business,’ the official said. ‘Our standard operating procedure is to acquire services to clean the roof. The decision was made to do that, but only after all evidence on the roof was collected, including the firearm, shell casings, biological samples left behind, photos, blood.’

The official said an autopsy of Crooks was conducted the next day, and an FBI and Pennsylvania State Trooper sat in on the autopsy.

‘Before the body was released to the family, which is protocol in every crime incident ever, the FBI collected DNA — fingernails, hair samples, and blood from Crooks, that remains in FBI evidence to this day,’ the official said. ‘After those collections were made, our examination of the body was done and completed. At that point, it was turned over to the family for burial and for plans they had.’ 

The official added: ‘They chose to cremate.’

‘The FBI did not make the decision to cremate the body,’ Bongino said. ‘The family did. It was their son. The FBI had nothing to do with this decision at all.’

Meanwhile, Patel addressed criticisms from members of Congress who claim he has not turned over documents pertaining to the probe.

‘Congress is accusing us of not turning over all of this stuff — but all of this stuff doesn’t exist. It is an empty narrative they’re firing into a vacuum,’ Patel said. ‘The very limited information we have not turned over is respective to victims’ rights. There isn’t some trove of documents that we haven’t sent over there.’ 

Patel said the FBI has ‘fully debriefed the lawmakers.’ 

‘We’ve even had members of Congress come to Quantico in our lab facility there and walk them through the exact investigative steps, the video and audio recordings, the repercussions of the explosion that did not occur that day and how that would have impacted the people that were attending the rally, and so they have been given a full inside view of what we did on those days,’ Patel said. ‘We gave them all of the material we are legally able to give them.’ 

He added: ‘They have seen video recordings. We’ve literally shown them and delivered them the audio and video recordings — the totality of what we possess. They have that. They have our investigative information. There is nothing more for us to turn over. We don’t have anything else in our holdings.’

The FBI told Fox News Digital that the bureau has turned in more than 1,375 pages to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Permanent Select Committee on investigations. Those documents include FBI interviews — or 302s — with U.S. Secret Service and state and local police, state and local lab reports, including ballistics, crime scene photos, videos and more.

The total pages produced to the Senate numbered more than 2,750. 

‘Come put out 3,000 documents to Congress during his tenure. Wray, in his seven or eight years put out 13,000,’ Patel said. ‘We, in eight months, have put out over 40,000 documents to Congress — to include this, Crossfire Hurricane, Arctic Frost and more.’

‘But there are investigations ongoing surrounding that, so we are working with Congress, not only for constitutional oversight and reform in legislation, but we’re working on the accountability piece, and to do that, we have to run our investigations. And we’re not done.’

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a Friday statement to Fox News Digital, ‘Under Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino’s leadership, the FBI is doing tremendous work to investigate the horrific attempted assassination of President Trump that resulted in the heartbreaking murder of Corey Comperatore. We will help prevent what happened in Butler from ever happening again.’

The sit-down interview with Fox News Digital lasted for more than an hour, as Patel, Bongino and the senior official sought to provide as much information as possible on the probe and to debunk the recent public criticism they have faced. 

‘We don’t blame people for asking questions,’ Bongino said. ‘The president, the candidate at the time, was shot in the head on live TV. Our position is — please — ask away.’

Bongino added: ‘We are very confident in the outcomes of this investigation. We have pulled on every threat. We are absolutely confident, and if information surfaces, please, immediately get it over to us for instant action.’

‘I would ask the public: What motivation would Kash Patel and Dan Bongino possibly have to hide from their personal friend — not just their boss — the president — information about a crime where he was the victim?’ Bongino asked. ‘I don’t understand what the motivation would be.’

But Bongino quoted a line from the movie ‘A Few Good Men.’

‘No one is interested in guilt or innocence, they’re interested in someone to blame,’ Bongino quoted. ‘The public is pissed off. We get it. We sympathize with you. It couldn’t have just been this guy — it couldn’t have just been this guy — it is. There is no reason I would tell you otherwise.’

‘As to why people keep coming back to this on social media, the reality is, many people make a lot of money on social media pushing conspiracy theories for clicks,’ Patel said. ‘That is a fact.’

As for Trump, he told Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade Friday that he has ‘confidence in Kash, a lot of confidence, and the DOJ, and they are giving me reports, and their reports are seeming to balance out, so I have confidence in these people.’ 

‘I wasn’t confident with Christopher Wray, but this group, it is a different group,’ Trump said. ‘It’s Kash, as opposed to Christopher Wray, and I have confidence in Kash.’ 

A group of House GOP lawmakers is urging the Trump administration not to give New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani a federal security clearance.

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., is leading seven fellow House Freedom Caucus members in writing a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, accusing Mamdani of supporting ‘violent movements’ and having ‘radical’ ties that they claim make him unfit for classified federal settings.

‘DHS must deny Zohran Mamdani a security clearance. The federal government has a constitutional duty to defend the nation against threats both foreign and domestic,’ the letter said.

‘Mamdani’s record of radical ties, anti-American rhetoric, and support for violent movements makes him unfit. Granting him access to classified information would be reckless and would endanger NYPD officers and federal agents.’

The letter noted that Mamdani co-founded a chapter of Students for Justice In Palestine at Bowdoin College when he was a student there, and it accused the group of praising Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack in Israel.

‘He has blamed the FBI for radicalizing al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki, undermining counterterrorism efforts. He has appeared alongside clerics who prayed for the annihilation of Israel’s supporters and praised Hamas fighters,’ the letter said.

The GOP lawmakers said granting Mamdani a security clearance could ’empower agitators, escalate threats, and put more of these brave agents’ lives in danger.’

‘His hostility toward immigration enforcement would make federal coordination unsafe and undermine national security,’ they said.

The mayor of New York City, while not a federal official, does traditionally get a security clearance in order to get briefed on possible terror threats and other national security matters affecting the largest city in the U.S.

The letter comes on the same day that Mamdani is in Washington, D.C., to meet with President Donald Trump, a fellow New Yorker, as an introduction after he won his election earlier this month.

The New York City mayor-elect has sought to moderate his views, at least publicly, since the waning weeks of his campaign.

He has pledged to be a mayor for all residents despite critics raising concerns about his hostile rhetoric toward Israel and lackluster pushback on questions of whether he supports Hamas.

Fox News Digital reached out to both Mamdani’s transition team and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment.

Congress is once again on the edge of considering a bone-crushing sanctions package against Russia, but procedural disagreements threaten to derail the process.

Senators Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., have been working on a sanctions package that would hit Russia and its energy trade partners where it hurts in a bid to cripple the Kremlin’s war machine.

Movement on their legislation, which has over 80 co-sponsors in the upper chamber, has lurched and stalled over the last several months as President Donald Trump and his administration work to hammer out a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine to see an end to the war.

Now, the president seems ready to get the package through Congress.

Graham said that, over a round of golf last weekend, Trump told Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., ‘Move the bill.’

‘I think it’s very important we not screw this up,’ Graham said. ‘If you want [Russian President Vladimir] Putin at the table, there will be no successful 28-point plan or 12-point plan unless Putin believes that we’re going to continue to support Ukraine militarily and that we’re going to come after people who buy cheap Russian oil.

‘It’s important that the Congress pass this bill to give leverage to the president as he tries to negotiate with Putin.’

While the changes to the bill still remain under wraps, a White House official told Fox News Digital that both Congress and the White House are working together to ensure the legislation advances, ‘The President’s foreign policy objectives and authorities.’ 

‘The Constitution vests the president with the authority to conduct diplomacy with foreign nations,’ the official said. The current bipartisan sanctions legislation provides new sanctions authorities for the president to conduct foreign diplomacy.’

And Despite Graham and Blumenthal having worked on the bill together in the Senate for months, Thune believed it may be better if a sanctions package comes from the House.

He said that what is more likely to happen is that the House originates the legislation because it’s a revenue measure, which typically starts in the lower chamber.

‘We had one available to us in the Senate. We could do it here,’ Thune said. ‘But I think, too, if you want to expedite movement in terms of getting it on the president’s desk, it’s probably quicker if it comes out of the House, comes over to us, to take it up and process it on the floor.’

But there may be an issue with the House starting the process.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox News Digital that, based on conversations with Thune, he understood that the legislation would originate in the Senate and then be shipped to the House. It was ‘news’ to him when Thune made the case that the House should be at the start of the legislative process.

He warned that, in the House, it would be ‘a much more laborious, lengthy process,’ and that he was of the notion that the Senate would send its bipartisan package to them, which would make it easier to pass.

‘The reason is because it’s a faster track to get it done,’ Johnson said. ‘If it originates in the House, then it goes to seven different committees of jurisdiction, which, as you know, takes a long time to process. And even if I can convince some of the chairmen to waive jurisdiction, not all of them will.’

But there are procedural hurdles that could bog down the process in the Senate, too.

So far, the original version of the bill has sat in the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs since April. It would have to be considered in committee, then discharged and then put on the floor — and at any point could be blocked along the way.

Still, there is hope that movement on the bill will come to fruition. And both Graham and Blumenthal have been tweaking the legislation in the background to best meet the White House’s desires.

Blumenthal told Fox News Digital after a recent meeting with Graham that the bill was largely the same but wouldn’t get into specifics on what the changes were.

He noted that Trump’s move to sanction two major Russian oil companies, which took effect Friday, was a good start.

‘I think we’re waiting to finalize the bill and see what the president thinks about it,’ Blumenthal said. ‘And, obviously, he’s imposed sanctions already on India, on two major Russian oil companies, so he’s in the right frame of mind.’

A moderate House Democrat representing a district that President Donald Trump won in 2024 is warning fellow elected officials, both within his party and the GOP, from pandering to the extremes of their base.

‘It’s a road to ruin, because too many extremists, too many elected officials, are busy pandering to their base instead of listening to the general public and instead of trying to find common ground,’ Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., told Fox News Digital.

Suozzi said people on the far-left and far-right make up a relatively small — but active — section of both sides. He suggested that it’s a group that’s had an outsized influence in Congress as well.

‘We have not seen much compromise these days. And everything has been, you know, one party or the other trying to do a my-way-or-the-highway partisan effort,’ he said. ‘I’m sure both sides are inspired by good intention, but it’s not long-lasting, and it’s not going to help move our country forward.’

Suozzi’s district encompasses part of the New York City suburbs of Long Island and includes part of the Big Apple itself as well.

But his district is not as progressive as other parts of New York that have shown support for socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani — whose candidacy Suozzi spoke out against on multiple occasions. 

Suozzi did not answer directly when asked if Mamdani’s leadership in the city will affect him in the coming 2026 midterms, but he pointed out significant Republican gains in the district in the 2025 election cycle where he won.

‘In Queens, in my portion of the district, Mamdani lost to Cuomo by 27%. And also, a Republican city councilwoman from the City of New York won in my district, and she won big. And then in my Long Island portion of it, which is not the city, but it’s right next to the city, Mamdani was weaponized by the Republicans in their races, and they won everything,’ Suozzi said.

‘I was always in a vulnerable district, because Trump won by 19,000 votes and I won by 11,000 votes, and I had to get 20,000 people who voted for Donald Trump to also vote for me,’ he said. ‘But that’s still the case for me. So while there were a lot of Democratic victories throughout the country on Election Day, in my district, it still performed pretty Republican.’

He credited his success with ‘listening’ to voters on both sides and reflecting those views in Washington.

‘The reason I was successful in 2024 is because I was endorsed by the police, is because I was clear on my position on immigration, that we do need to secure the border, because I’m fighting for affordability. I mean, I feel like I’ve got to do what the people are asking to do,’ he said.

Suozzi conceded that he believed both Trump and Mamdani were correct in their focus on the high cost of living.

‘Mamdani was right, much like Trump is right, that people are economically insecure. They’re worried about their financial security. They properly diagnose the problem,’ he said.

‘The challenge is, you know, what’s the solution? I believe that socialism is a terrible solution. It will not work. It’s never worked in the history of the world. And it will not work now.’

But he urged Democrats nationwide to continue the focus on affordability, both trying to find solutions that are unique to their districts and on the federal level.

One example he cited was the minimum wage, which has been $7.25 on the federal level since July 2009.

‘That’s absurd, 20 states have a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. We should be fighting to increase the minimum wage,’ he said.

In the end, however, he called for a Democratic Party that errs away from socialism on the national level.

‘We’ve got to be capitalist, not socialist. We’ve got to be mainstream, not extreme. We’ve got to be about safety, not lawlessness. We’ve got to be for reform, not the status quo,’ Suozzi said. ‘We have to be proud of our country, not ashamed of our country.’

Two federal inmates previously on death row, one a crooked New Orleans cop and the other the man behind a multi-state killing spree, have been transferred to a notorious ‘supermax’ prison in Colorado, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital. 

News of their transfers comes as U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi looks to crack down on the previous administration’s sweeping clemency actions, especially those against violent crime. 

The former death row inmates were transferred Thursday to the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, also known as ‘ADX,’ Justice Department officials confirmed. 

They are among the 37 death row inmates whose sentences Biden commuted shortly before leaving office last December. The news prompted criticism and complaints that the record clemency and commutation actions were done as a political ‘Hail Mary,’ and without proper vetting.

Eight death row inmates have already been transferred to ADX, the Justice Department told Fox News Digital, bringing to 10 the number of death row inmates that have been transferred to the facility since mid-September. 

More are expected soon, as all 37 death row inmates commuted by Biden are expected to be moved to the facility by ‘early next year,’ the Justice Department told Fox News Digital.

The effort comes as Bondi and the Trump administration have sought to reverse some of the Biden administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform, with an emphasis on cracking down on violent crime.

Though sentence commutations cannot be fully reversed, Justice Department officials told Fox News Digital, Bondi has prioritized ways to penalize these individuals, in coordination with directives from Trump, and to ensure that the ‘conditions of confinement’ are ‘consistent with the security risks those inmates present because of their egregious crimes, criminal histories, and all other relevant considerations,’ according to an earlier DOJ memo. 

‘Two more monsters who plotted and violently murdered innocent people will spend the rest of their lives in our country’s most severe federal prison,’ Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News Digital in a statement. 

‘This Department of Justice will continue to seek accountability for the families blindsided by President Biden’s reckless commutations of 37 vicious predators,’ she added.

Like the eight former death row inmates that were sent to Colorado’s supermax prison, the two criminals processed in ADX on Thursday have been convicted of particularly heinous crimes. 

One individual chased down his ex-girlfriend from Roanoke, Virginia, to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he cut the phone lines to the apartment she was living in before using cans of gasoline to set the building on fire.

Though she escaped via a second-story window and was hospitalized for second-and third-degree burns, he followed her back to her family’s home in Virginia two months later, where he gunned her down on the streets of her neighborhood and just steps from her mother.  

Another inmate, a former New Orleans police officer dubbed ‘Robocop’ for his large physical demeanor and aggressive law enforcement style, was caught on tape by the FBI as he ordered and orchestrated the killing of a mother of three who had come to the precinct hours earlier to submit a supposedly confidential brutality complaint about his behavior that she witnessed on her way home the night before. 

The FBI had stumbled upon the conversation as part of a broader probe they had started to investigate a so-called ‘protection racket’ between cocaine dealers in New Orleans and the city’s police force, which had been guarding a warehouse stocked with the drug. The same officer was later revealed as one of the chief conspirators in the protection racket. 

He was also found to have falsely testified in two murder cases, including one murder he has since been linked to. The statements were used to exonerate four men from prison, including three teenagers who had been wrongfully convicted of a murder 28 years prior.

ADX is the only true federal ‘supermax’ prison in the U.S., and its inmates are as notorious as the prison’s reputation. 

Among them are Ramzi Yousef, convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombers; former Sinola Cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán, or ‘El Chapo’; and Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, the co-founder of al-Qaeda.

Shortly after her confirmation as attorney general, Bondi issued a memo aimed at ‘restoring a measure of justice’ to the victims’ families. 

The measures granted by Biden earned more criticism than former President Barack Obama: As Fox News reported at the time, the vast majority of Obama’s clemency actions focused on commuting the sentences of federal inmates who met certain criteria outlined under his administration’s Clemency Initiative.

Bondi hosted victims’ families earlier this year to hear their concerns about the commutations, DOJ said. Some said they had been stunned by the eleventh-hour commutations, and that they not been given a heads-up by the Biden administration.

In February, Bondi issued a memo to the Bureau of Prisons ordering an evaluation of where these prisoners should be detained.