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Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was loner ‘relentlessly’ bullied in high school: classmate
NY Post online ^ | July 14th,2024 1:02 PM | Olivia Land (social links for)

Posted on 07/14/2024 10:40:32 AM PDT by John S Mosby

The 20-year-old man who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday was described by former classmates as a bullied loner with a penchant for hunting outfits and video games.

Thomas Matthew Crooks was killed by the Secret Service on Saturday evening after he opened fire at the Butler Farm Show grounds, grazing Trump and killing another attendee.

Crooks – who graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022 – was a loner who was “relentlessly” bullied, former classmate Jason Kohler told KDKA. He was known for wearing “‘hunting’” outfits to class, Kohler added.

The classmate also provided the outlet with two photos of Crooks that were taken during his high school years – including one that showed the future would-be assassin sitting at a desk in a Bethel Park sweatshirt. He was known for wearing “‘hunting’” outfits to class, Kohler added.

The classmate also provided the outlet with two photos of Crooks that were taken during his high school years – including one that showed the future would-be assassin sitting at a desk in a Bethel Park sweatshirt.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassination; assassinationattempt; attempt; bidendonor; booeffinghoo; coreycomparatore; jasonkohler; leftwingdonor; registeredrepublican; shooter; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump; trumpshooter
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To: NautiNurse

The propaganda machine had an anti-bullying campaign several years ago. The only kind of bullying they cared about was the bullying of gays. Was this guy gay?


61 posted on 07/14/2024 11:25:54 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Scarborough: "This is the Best Biden ever.")
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To: John S Mosby

Crooks....received a $500 National Math and Science Initiative Star Award during his graduating year, TribLive reported......

Then why wasn’t he a nerd in some university instead of a would-be assassin?

Why do all assassins have middle names?

And why do we have an incompetent woman as the head of Secret Service instead of a well-qualified military or police veteran?

Why? Why? Why?


62 posted on 07/14/2024 11:26:24 AM PDT by Honorary Serb
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To: ChessExpert

Schools have had anti-bullying programs for a long time. The longer they are in place, the worse the bullying is.

You just can’t get rid of bullying unless you admit that human life is sacred. But that would be anti-abortion so that will never be allowed to be taught.


63 posted on 07/14/2024 11:28:27 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

Picked up and started re-reading C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters”... a dialogue between one of Satan’s main devils and his apprentice junior demon— on how to destroy and obtain a soul. Brilliant work of a Christian soldier.


64 posted on 07/14/2024 11:29:02 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby
It is possible a teacher or counselor with leftist leanings in the high school that Crooks attended introduced him to the local Antifa chapter in the Pittsburgh area. He became an Antifa “soldier” showing up at their riots and demonstrations in Minneapolis, Portland, and Seattle. In the few cases where Antifa members were arrested, they are often not from the local area, so they have the finances to transport East Coast members to West Coast or Midwest events. Antifa may receive indirect funding from George Soros, foreign intelligence services (China, Russia, North Korea), or perhaps from the Federal black budget. It also is possible that FBI or private sector (SPLC, Ford Foundation, ADL) plants within Antifa saw Crooks as a possible candidate for brainwashing and programming. He became a 2024 version of the Manchurian Candidate.
65 posted on 07/14/2024 11:29:25 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: John S Mosby

Define “relentless” - thuggish kids have been bullying others for decades. It usually ends when the victim stands up to the bully.


66 posted on 07/14/2024 11:31:45 AM PDT by meyer ("When, in the course of human events,....")
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To: John S Mosby
Now you wonder was the shooter subject to being brainwashed using MK Ultra techniques.
67 posted on 07/14/2024 11:32:08 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (.FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: butterdezillion

victimizing the assassin, next week he will be a white supremacy nationalist


68 posted on 07/14/2024 11:33:40 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: John S Mosby
Would you be surprised if I told you that Matthew B Crooks, the father of the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks is a mental heath professional?

Shooter had access to all the mental health shrinking that he could ever be manipulated by.

69 posted on 07/14/2024 11:33:43 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Honorary Serb

Remember that the Secret Service failed catastrophically at the assassinations of President Kennedy and his brother. At the time, the Secret Service had no women, certainly not in leadership, and made up almost entirely of physically fit men. No fan of DEI, but the failure of the Secret Service may well have been a deliberate standdown, just as happened with the Kennedys.


70 posted on 07/14/2024 11:34:50 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: DFG
"What medications was he taking?"

Whatever the alphabet agency handling him got their psychiatrist to prescribe.

71 posted on 07/14/2024 11:36:03 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Honorary Serb

Because the incompetent woman was, when xiden was obamaumao’s VP— on the VP’s SS protective detail. Don’t know what level of that team, but she had to have been there when joey bags liked to go swimming naked and flash the female Secret Service agents. One of whom complained vigorously and whose boyfriend got in a fight with another male agent over it.

Thinking broadly, not provably, that this purported female now heading the entire SS (Xiden appointed her, naturally!) might have been “super OK” with the weiner flapping joey bags— maybe really “into it” like a swinger type. She left the SS to go head up “security” at PepsiCo— the bottling/food company in Purchase, NY (a NY hook up so to say)—ie. the “other” much preferred cola company, NOT Coca-Cola. And bang-zoom— comes back in to head up the SS under DHS Head Communist Alejandro Mayorkas (the Greek-Cuban Commie).

End of coffee rant- connected and some stray thoughts on this.She needs, as Bongino has pointed out— to be fired, for the refusal of resources issue ALONE (whether to Trump or denial to RFK,Jr! so someone might take him out, also imho).


72 posted on 07/14/2024 11:38:05 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

Yes, it is very insightful.

I don’t think I could read it right now though because it’s too real. I see these tactics in the media every day. And SO MANY Christians don’t discern it. I have several sisters who are lovely people but they don’t see this evil right in front of their faces.

Now the media is going to say that people like me are “violent” because we say that the exploitation of children and the black ops need to stop. Heaven forbid anybody actually get seriously angry about the murdered innocents all around us.

The opposite of love is apathy. And the media is trying to make sure that anybody who cares enough - LOVES enough - to get angry at the abuse they are doing is called a “violent, angry, extremist”

As Jesus said, because of the increase of wickedness the love of most will grow cold. I see it all around me every day.

But I needed to see what happened yesterday. I needed to see that the powers of Hell had everything right where they wanted it.... and God stopped it by simply having Trump turn his head. When demons came face to face with Jesus it was the demons who screamed in fear. If God is for us and with us, Hell doesn’t stand a chance. So let’s git ‘r done. Let’s expose what this satanic cabal is all about and watch God rescue the hostages.


73 posted on 07/14/2024 11:38:41 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Wallace T.

How would one uncover that chain of command decision- inside Mayorkas’s run DHS. If they were still with Treasury it would be better done. Even so, SS does police work on Counterfeit currency in tandem with the Federal Reserve Bank. Oh how the webs weave to enable to deceive.


74 posted on 07/14/2024 11:40:21 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Wallace T.

These are the claims but the place I saw them originally being made was on a site that stated outright that it used anonymous online sources.

Do we have any LEGITIMATE evidence of any of this?


75 posted on 07/14/2024 11:40:22 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Great question!!


76 posted on 07/14/2024 11:40:51 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: John S Mosby

One of the reasons that people pay little attention to Free Republic is the juvenile maunderings of people like you.


77 posted on 07/14/2024 11:41:14 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Wallace T.

So true. The night before the JFK Dallas trip, several SS agents went to a party. Badges. IDs and weapons were lost. They showed up to work hung over. Accident ? Coincidence ?


78 posted on 07/14/2024 11:45:48 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: butterdezillion

All humbling and how Great He is. Could say (and you no doubt know this) that the greatest act Satan has continued to commit is to hide and convince others he does not exist. For many- it has taken them a lifetime to realize that Satan is quite real, and people are willing to do most anything, and yet are not cognizant of how unfulfilled they are. Until perhaps.. imminent death (bed conversion). Reflecting, this is quite sad, and why true believers who are not fakirs- hold them in high regard.


79 posted on 07/14/2024 11:46:04 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: John S Mosby

Advice to the bullied. Don’t wait until years later to get revenge for being bullied and then use bullying as an excuse for killing innocent people. Don’t be such a despicable coward, and if you need revenge at least get it on the ones who wronged you.


80 posted on 07/14/2024 11:49:08 AM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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