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Who is Thomas Crooks, the Alleged Gunman in the Trump Shooting?
Tribune Review (Pittsburgh area) ^ | 14 July 2024 | Ryan Deto

Posted on 07/14/2024 1:53:32 PM PDT by Vigilanteman

The suspected gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was a registered Republican from Bethel Park who donated money to a politically liberal group before he was old enough to vote.

The FBI identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, as the shooter early Sunday. He was killed by the Secret Service.

Crooks lived in Bethel Park, a South Hills suburb of more than 33,000 people that is about 50 miles south of the Butler Farm Show grounds where the attempted assassination took place.

Kevin Rojek, FBI special agent in charge in Pittsburgh, said during a news conference early Sunday that investigators had not yet determined a motive.

Crooks lived along the borough’s Milford Drive. Part of the street was blocked off by law enforcement Sunday morning. Firefighters, local police and state troopers could be seen milling about the street Sunday morning. Neighbors and members of the news media also could be seen walking around, many trying to get a glimpse of the house where the shooter lived.

(Excerpt) Read more at triblive.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: assassinationattempt; bethelpark; crooks; hate; leftist; murder; pittsburgh; southhills; thomascrooks; thomasmatthewcrooks; trumpshooter
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To: Scrambler Bob

Very good question going UNANSWERED.


21 posted on 07/14/2024 2:30:18 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: NorthMountain

Agree.

Two of the three psych majors I’ve known were nuts.


22 posted on 07/14/2024 2:38:12 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Vigilanteman

How many more violent guns were at the place he stayed at?
He reportedly was using his daddy’s AR, with permission I would assume?
Come on local DA jump in and do something this needs to be prosecuted


23 posted on 07/14/2024 2:46:31 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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To: NorthMountain

RE:....that most “mental health professionals” are insane.


Can’t remember who said it but he though people who got into the field started as troubled and confused themselves and wanted to expand their knowledge from their initial looking into it.


24 posted on 07/14/2024 2:47:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Vigilanteman

25 posted on 07/14/2024 2:49:46 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Jacquerie

It sounds like this was a setup by your government.


26 posted on 07/14/2024 2:50:47 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: caww

If I were going to be climbing up on a hot metal roof I don’t think I would wear shorts.


27 posted on 07/14/2024 2:58:03 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: 2111USMC

“If I were going to be climbing up on a hot metal roof I don’t think I would wear shorts”

And another dead giveaway he wasn’t LEO. So spare me the excuses SS on why you were late to the party.


28 posted on 07/14/2024 3:01:59 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Vigilanteman

I think this stinks way way beyond coincidence.

Please read these in order. I reposted the 2011 “Prof Raoul X” first, then saw the Laura Loomer Gateway piece.

This stinks light years past Pluto. IMHO, it should be screamed from every rooftop.

https://x.com/Matt_Bracken48/status/1812568690199581105

Western Rifle Shooters Association: Bracken: Professor Raoul X

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/what-trump-shooter-was-featured-blackrock-ad-2023/

https://x.com/Matt_Bracken48/status/1812601393150333335


29 posted on 07/14/2024 3:02:10 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Vigilanteman
The very first photo of Mathew Crooks was not the same guy in the photo the media is broadcasting now. I've scoured the internet, and that first photo is nowhere to be found. It was a night-and-day difference. After seeing this, I have another theory. This isn't the same guy.

The guy who really appears to look like the deceased shooter is a law-breaking leftist activist named Maxwell Yearick. I won't waste space with a link, but you can Google him. The real Mathew Crooks could already be in the "witness protection program" with a fat pocketful of money and a new identity from the deep state in payment for letting them adopt his old identity as a squeaky-clean republican, and assign it to the leftist troublemaker they just shot dead. Mom and dad have been strangely silent. Maybe their silence was also bought. At least, until everyone got their stories straight. After all, letting the public think that a crazed republican tried to take out Trump is just good damage control, and worth any price.

It's just a thought.

30 posted on 07/14/2024 3:02:45 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Pajamajan; NorthMountain

I wouldn’t doubt it that he’s on some sort of antidepressant. They hand that junk out like it’s candy and harmless.


31 posted on 07/14/2024 3:05:59 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Vigilanteman

It is fortunate that Crooks wasn’t prior military. He had several chances to finish Trump even after the SS covered him because they left the vital areas open even as the SS snipers were beginning to open fire.


32 posted on 07/14/2024 3:13:17 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: JSM_Liberty

They say he had bomb making materials in the house. Some alert parents would notice grenades and C5 their kids room


33 posted on 07/14/2024 3:17:53 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Vigilanteman

The cold, dead, assassin probably registered as an (R), just so he could vote for someone else beside Trump in the primary.

The stone cold turd was a member of six far left wing organizations, and donated money to one. Not an (R0 but a left wing ‘Rat.


34 posted on 07/14/2024 3:18:27 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: Vigilanteman

He was a antifa stooge that worked for the democrat party.
Who setup a ladder for him at the building.
How did he know where to go?
How did he know no police would be on the roof.

You cannot just walk in with a rifle and a ladder.
Could just be the DEI agents that the diversity hire head of the secret service fault.


35 posted on 07/14/2024 3:21:21 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: caww

There lies a dead young man whose mind, heart and soul poisoned by leftist vitriol propaganda and probably not taught the truths of Biblical scriptures. What a wasted life with a treacherous ending.


36 posted on 07/14/2024 3:23:41 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Entropy Squared

It’s amazing that this kid could outsmart the Secret Service and all their local law enforcement backup.

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Maybe the SS should hire some lunatic 20 year old to conduct seminars for their agents.


37 posted on 07/14/2024 3:27:36 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Vigilanteman

CNN revealed this:

“Both of Crooks’ parents worked as social workers, according to state license records. His father is registered to vote as a Libertarian and his mother is registered as a Democrat, state voter records show.”

By Casey Tolan, Danny Freeman, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine and Isabelle Chapman, CNN July 14, 2024


38 posted on 07/14/2024 3:28:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: apillar
What I want to know is how some random 20-year-old, with apparently zero in the way of military service or training. Managed to “special forces” his way through multiple checkpoints, find a perfect spot with a view of the stage, climb onto the roof of cordoned off building, set up a sniper nest and manage to take a perfect head shot that would have been a guaranteed kill shot had Trump not turned slightly at the last second.

Post of the day imho. Also might add asking why the SS had failed to secure the location, and did the local LEOs really encounter the shooter and failed to act?

39 posted on 07/14/2024 3:41:05 PM PDT by Robwin ( )
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To: Scrambler Bob
How does he finance all that travel and get around, if he is that young, and menial job?

Lives at home, no bills, no expenses other than (maybe) gas. Basically his income is 100% disposable.

40 posted on 07/14/2024 3:47:42 PM PDT by Terabitten (Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor...)
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