It has been nearly a year and a half since the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, but there continue to be numerous unanswered questions about the individual who fired the rifle from an unsecured rooftop.

Countless Americans are demanding deserved answers to those questions, including the president himself, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the New York Post reported.

The resurgent push for more information about would-be assassin Thomas Crooks comes as a handful of journalists have recently unearthed some of his old, and highly concerning, social media activity -- an online footprint that the FBI previously insisted was virtually nonexistent.

Trump still has unanswered questions

In the latest episode of her "Pod Force One" podcast, New York Post reporter Miranda Devine sat down for a conversation with White House press secretary Leavitt, and part of that discussion was centered on the unanswered questions about Thomas Crooks.

"Those questions are definitely deserving of answers, and I understand why the public wants those answers, and I believe the president does too," Leavitt told Devine. "It’s a good question, and it’s one I’d like to see the answer to -- and I think all Americans would."

As for the specific "lingering questions" that President Trump still has about the young man who tried to kill him last year, the press secretary said, "I don’t want to speak for him on that because it is such a personal thing, but I do know that he has inquired with the Secret Service and the FBI."

"And it was earlier in the administration where he asked them, 'I want an updated briefing on what happened. Do we know any more than when I was briefed immediately following the days after Butler?'" she continued, and added that the president has "been briefed by his own people on the matter, and whether he’s satisfied, that’s only a question he can answer. I can’t answer it for him."

Journalists disprove assassination attempt talking points

The Post reported that the FBI, first under former Director Chris Wray but continuing under current Director Kash Patel, has been less than fully forthcoming or transparent about what the Bureau has learned about Crooks through its investigation, and that some of the public claims made about the deceased shooter have been false or misleading.

The FBI swiftly insisted that Crooks, 20, had little or no social media activity from which to glean any insight into his ideological beliefs and motivations, but that narrative has since been largely disproven by the recent work of a few investigative journalists, including the Post's Devine.

What was discovered, using only Crooks' phone number and readily available internet archives and scraping tools, was that he actually was quite active on social media for several years, using more than a dozen different accounts across several major platforms, beginning around the age of 15.

The old posts and comments showed that Crooks started as an avid supporter of Trump, but around early 2020, he suddenly did an about-face on the president and Republicans, shifting his stance to the political left. Throughout the entirety of his online activity, however, the killer routinely expressed his support for acts of violence and assassinations against his perceived political opponents.

Old narrative still being pushed

Unfortunately, despite the recent plethora of evidence unearthed about Crooks and his highly concerning social media commentary, FBI Director Patel appears to still be pushing the same narratives pushed by the Bureau under the previous administration, with an X post update last week serving as an excellent example of such.

Patel wrote that the FBI has "conducted over 1,000 interviews, addressed over 2,000 public tips, analyzed data extracted from 13 seized digital devices, reviewed nearly 500,000 digital files, collected, processed, and synchronized hundreds of hours of video footage, analyzed financial activity from 10 different accounts, and examined data associated with 25 social media or online forum accounts."

"The investigation, conducted by over 480 FBI employees, revealed Crooks had limited online and in person interactions, planned and conducted the attack alone, and did not leak or share his intent to engage in the attack with anyone," he added.