Posted on 07/14/2024 3:19:02 AM PDT by Morgana
The gunman who shot Donald Trump last night is a 20-year-old registered Republican who donated to Joe Biden.
Thomas Matthew Crooks was shot dead by a US Secret Service sniper after he opened fire on the former President during a rally in Pennsylvania.
His father, Matthew Crooks, 53, told CNN he was trying to figure out 'what the hell is going on' but would 'wait until I talk to law enforcement' before speaking.
Crooks had fired at least eight bullets from a rooftop just 130 yards from where Trump, 78, was on stage in Butler speaking to thousands of fans at 6.15pm.
Law enforcement sources told CBS News that Crooks, from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, had been armed with 'an AR-style rifle'.
During the attack, he appeared to be wearing merchandise promoting one of YouTube's most popular channels devoted to firearms - Demolition Ranch - NBC News reported.
Special Agent Kevin Rojek, the FBI officer in charge, said Crooks had been identified using DNA as he was not carrying any ID on him.
State voter records show Crooks was a registered Republican. According to US media, when he was aged 17 he donated $15 to the liberal ActBlue political action committee on January 20, 2021 - Biden's Inauguration Day.
Last night a bomb squad and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were at an address registered to Crooks as cops stood guard in front of yellow police caution tape.
A member of the crowd was killed in the deadly shooting, while two others who were wounded are in a critical condition. All three are males, according to law enforcement officials.
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Maybe a familial connection. Parent, sibling...
Isn’t it common sense to not believe liars? (eg, government employees and so forth)
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Yes it is but common sense is not as common as it once was. The public has been dumbed down to a remarkable degree.
It was daddy’s rifle.
“how he got to the event?”
He was outside the event perimeter.
Lefty daddy who owned the gun.
Probably ran the serial number on the rifle and found it belonged to leftist daddy. Thought lefties are against guns...
Simple enough. It was lefty daddy’s gun per the registration.
Good grief. Don’t you know how the game is played? Register in whatever party in the primaries to pull votes from the leader. Happens regularly.
Supposedly the shooter had a clean record. How did they determine the punk’s identification from DNA if he wasn’t in any database? Your name and address isn’t imprinted in your DNA right?
BS story. They knew him beforehand. Kinda like the joke going around
Q: Why didn’t the feds have someone on that roof?
A: They did.
Seriously? SMH...
Maybe he was a loner sad kid who was ‘MKUltraed’ - - discovered on the internet and groomed by the deep state into being an assassin . Anyone surprised he wasn’t told to keep one bullet to kill himself - as was done with Dylann Roof?
Thanks for posting this! Crooks’ far left background is slowly being verified. Saw on another site that this “registered Republican” also participated in several Antifa riots, but I can’t verify that info is true.
I saw that on that ca India (?) site, but can this info be verified as true?
Guess you cant recognise sarcasm.
There’s a lot of doubt that Crooks was the shooter. The waters are so muddy they’re practically solid.
Fired 8 shots while the SS snipers watched.
Perhaps he participated in a "23 and Me"...ancestral search?
I think that was the previous person they identified as a shooter.
Of course
Safe election for Obiden in PA so register as a Republican and vote for the weakest possible GOP candidates to challenge the Dems.
Niki Haley did better then expected in one state, I think NH, based on cross over Democrats voting for her to sabotage Trump
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