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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What meds was he on?
It happened in the late 70's, early 80's big-time in NY State. Mario Cuomo shut down a bunch of psych centers to save money, and tossed the residents onto the street, claiming they could receive better treatment in the community. We all know that was a bunch of hooey, because a large number of those psych residents ended up in NY State's prison system. I know, because I was working State Corrections at the time. When crime went up, and they needed places to put the newly incarcerated mentally ill, Cuomo turned around and renovated the psych centers he'd closed into prisons. I worked at one of them for most of my 25 year career. When I retired in 2003, they were taking a whole building, and turning it into a place to house all the mentally ill inmates who needed medication dispensed to them. They figured it was easier putting them all on the same side of the prison as the infirmary was, so they wouldn't have to go far, and were easier to control when they went on their med run.
Andrew Cuomo and Hochul shut 6 prisons two years ago, and Hochul is planning on shutting down 6 more this year. Of course they are claiming that crime is down, but we all know that's a bunch of hooey all over again, and it's the same as before, just to save money so the RATS who control the State will have that extra taxpayer money to invest in projects to make their big donors even richer.
I was talking to one of my old co-workers about a week ago. She and her husband were involved in a Teddy-Bear project, and had a table at the DestinyUSA mall in Syracuse, New York. They discovered a table manned by officers from NY State Corrections at the event. They were there to try to get people registered to take the Correctional Officer exam. We couldn't believe they had people doing it, because with these new closures, staff will be bounced around, and demoted based on their seniority standing and whether they hold a permanent or temporary item in one of those closing facilities. The staff at the bottom, mainly the newly hired officers will be bounced out of a job, so why they were recruiting people when they know they will be displacing plenty of other employees was something we couldn't understand.
Yes, indeed. In the case of a few have known— they became top Black Belt in Judo to fight off union grocery store organizers who beat them up in parking lots after work, to then become Scout Sniper with the rifle (USMC), with a family of great children all self confident.
The bullies who survive, when properly helped, become the often called Sheepdogs to the bullied sheep. You are correct. It’s true in world leadership as we have see with the quite weak incompetent leader of the free world (xiden joey bags- not respected by anyone of any real character in Eurotrashland or in the Western world).
...and so it begins...
As expected...
Communists never waste time getting over a defeat...
Unless Crooks was armed with a rifle equipped with a scope then it is likely he had a handler that made sure he was in the right place at the right time while the actual shooter’s kill shot was foiled by divine intervention.
The fact the police and Secret Service did not respond to reports of an armed man on the roof would support the theory if in fact “Crooks” did not have a scoped rifle.
I remember attending a rally for Sarah Palin (when she was a VP candidate) in Butler PA in the local high school stadium, there was security all around on the roofs, first time I ever saw armed security officers with machine guns out in force on nearby rooftops, it reassured me and I felt safe because there had been a slew of negative, nasty press against Sarah Palin which was a concern. (Sean Hannity was speaking at this rally and it was a true celebration of Republican strength in western PA. Since that time, the Democrats have upped their efforts to increase their wins in western Pennsylvania counties and municipalities, and the Dems have been very efficient in winning even ‘small’ victories, getting out their supporters for school board elections, county council elections, pushing the progressive tax and spend agenda.)
M-2010 Win Mag .300
“So, a stereotypical “moody loner with handguns” type, except with a rifle.”
Mental illness and guns are always a bad mix.
Don’t care how often this loser was bullied. The SOB shot at a presidential candidate. He deserved what he got.
The donor was a 69 year old Pittsburgh resident with the same name. Not the shooter.
Saw that as well- and we know the cruelty of kids.
Here’s something :
You’ll bite the dust,kid. You might get busted. Somebody on the Tube just...Did!
Too bad- California is a mental state. The place is real but the picture’s fake. Lose your turn if you hesitate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QVWAUrpH1o
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Come to think of it— haven’t yet seen a evidence photo of the rifle he used, whatever has been genericized by creative writing. Scope on it- what caliber. All pretty screwy. They came right out with the carbine oswald used—bolt action. So they get by with “semi-automatic” AR “style” rifle. WTH?
He definitely got it— from somebody or two. Not our place to be worried about psychology of the disturbed at age 20. Agree with you.
Could guess— maybe Adderall. His daddy the counselor knows— and may spout the “excuse”. Or not.
The fact that the MSM is robotically denouncing “conspiracy theories” in connection with the alleged assassin makes me believe that the plan is to scrub his affiliations as much as possible. Remember the woman who killed six people at a Christian school in Nashville. The FBI have strongly opposed the revelation of her diaries even though she is dead. The theme appears to be to promote the “lone nut” story about Crooks, as we saw since the days of the JFK assassination.
Anyone else notice from his HS pic that he was an apparent cleft lip? I did not realize that having a cleft lip is also associated with many mental disorders.
I read that AGR makes plastic cups.
“hearing voices in his head telling him to do the deed. This is easily achievable with microwave technology)”
The jargon for that technology is “Voice of God” technology.
Here is one 2007 article about it—use this link to override paywall:
Then put this url in the “Saved From” box:
https://www.wired.com/2007/12/the-voice-of-go/
The Deep State should have perfected it by now.
More likely that was some kind of sore. It shows up in one high school photo but not in other pictures, including the more recent problems. Kids with cleft palate or cleft lip do get grief from other kids but there’s no reason to add to those troubles by speculating about a connection between cleft lip or palate and mental illness.
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