New Details — and Questions — With Butler Documents.

He never cried. Not at birth, not much after. That’s how Thomas Matthew Crooks’ own father described him to federal investigators — a boy who came into the world silent and stayed that way, right up until the rooftop in Butler, Pennsylvania. New documents, handed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and reviewed by The New York Post, lay out the fullest portrait yet of the young man who came within a hair’s breadth of killing Donald Trump. It is not a comforting read. He couldn’t hit a target at first. Then he spent four or five years turning himself


