The FBI is pushing back after a Republican’s startling discovery that Donald Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ body had been quietly cremated.

Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., a member of Congress‘ bipartisan task force reviewing the tragic July 13 assassination attempt, unveiled that Crooks’ body is ‘gone’ in an independent report released this week.

Higgins, a former police captain, wrote that he ’caused quite a stir’ when attempting to review Crooks’ corpse which ‘revealed a disturbing fact.’

It was at this point that he learned that the FBI had ‘released the body for cremation 10 days’ after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.

But the FBI denies the Republican’s insinuation that they are obstructing the probe.

‘Any suggestion the FBI is interfering with congressional efforts to look into the attempted assassination which took place in Butler, Pennsylvania, is inaccurate and unfounded,’ an FBI spokesperson told DailyMail.com.

Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., a former police officer, conducted his own investigation into Donald Trump’s near assassination and revealed that shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ body was cremated before he or other lawmakers could review

‘The FBI has been working closely with our law enforcement partners to conduct a thorough investigation into the shooting, and we have followed normal procedures in the handling of the crime scene and evidence.’

‘The FBI continues its painstaking work on the investigation to develop as complete a picture as possible of what led to the shooting, and we remain committed to maximum transparency as we continue to brief Congress and publish information for the public regarding the ongoing investigation,’ their statement continued.

But the sudden discovery by the Republican has caused a stir with some saying that ‘all roads’ lead to a ‘cover-up.’

‘All roads keep leading back to alphabet agencies being involved and/or covering up what actually happened in Butler, PA when President Trump was shot,’ Kylie Jane Kremer, Women for America First executive director, wrote on X responding to Higgins’ findings.

‘It’s awfully odd in a case of such importance that there would be some rush somehow to cremate the body,’ host Dan Bongino questioned after the report came to light.

Podcaster Chris Martenson posted: ”Disturbing’ doesn’t come close to describing this. It’s now ‘malfeasance’ until proven otherwise.’

Longtime Rush Limbaugh partner and radio host Bo Snerdley wrote on X, ‘Why was the decision made to quickly rid of the body? What purpose did it serve?’

‘The body of alleged Trump assassin, Crooks, has been cremated. The FBI released his body to the family just 10 days after the attack. As of today, the coroner’s report has still not been released. Cover. Up,’ Libertarian podcaster Clint Russell wrote responding to the Republicans’ report.

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Higgins’ report says ‘nobody knew’ that the body had been returned to the family, including the county coroner and local enforcement.

He wrote that the coroner still had ‘legal authority over the body’ when the FBI made this decision and accuses the agency of ‘obstruction’.

The report comes amid grave concerns over how the shooting was allowed to unfold, with Trump barely escaping with his life and a rally attendee being killed in one of the greatest security failings in American history.

His ‘preliminary investigate report’ was submitted to Task Force Chairman Mike Kelly (R-PA) on August 12 and released to the public on Higgins’ website on August 15.

In it he questions why Crooks’ body was released to the family by the FBI without any oversight.

‘The problem with me not being able to examine the actual body is that I won’t know 100% if the coroner’s report and the autopsy report are accurate. We will actually never know,’ Higgins writes.

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By July 23, ‘Crooks was gone,’ Higgins wrote. ‘Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc’

‘Yes, we’ll get the reports and pictures, but I will not ever be able to say with certainty that those reports and pictures are accurate according to my own examination of the body.’

The report continues: ‘Again, similar to releasing the crime scene and scrubbing crime scene biological evidence… this action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort.’

The Louisianan states that on July 23, the day that Crooks was cremated, both the Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight Committee had opened investigations into the assassination attempt, while Speaker Mike Johnson had stated he was forming a congressional investigative body.

‘Why, then, by what measure, would the FBI release his body to the family for cremation? This pattern of investigative scorched earth by the FBI is quite troubling.’

DailyMail.com reached out to the FBI for comment.