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What we know about the 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump
AP via Yahoo ^ | 07/14/2024 | MICHAEL BIESECKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and JIM MUSTIAN

Posted on 07/14/2024 4:02:36 PM PDT by DFG

The 20-year-old nursing-home employee from suburban Pittsburgh who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was a registered Republican who packed explosives in the vehicle he drove to the campaign rally an hour from his home.

Law enforcement officials were working Sunday to learn more about Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to determine what motivated him to open fire on the rally from a nearby rooftop, killing one spectator, before he was shot dead by the Secret Service.

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Crooks tried out for the school's rifle team but was turned away because he was a bad shooter, said Frederick Mach, a current captain of the team who was a few years behind Crooks at the school.

Jason Kohler, who said he attended the same high school but did not share any classes with Crooks, said Crooks was bullied at school and sat alone at lunch time. Other students mocked him for the clothes he wore, which included hunting outfits, Kohler said.

“He was bullied almost every day,” Kohler told reporters. “He was just a outcast, and you know how kids are nowadays.”

Crooks worked at a nursing home as a dietary aide, a job that generally involves food preparation. Marcie Grimm, the administrator of Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, said in a statement she was “shocked and saddened to learn of his involvement.” Grimm added that Crooks had a clean background check when he was hired.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassination; assassinationattempt; bethelpark; crooks; frederickmach; fredmach; jasonkohler; kohler; mach; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump; trumpshooter
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1 posted on 07/14/2024 4:02:36 PM PDT by DFG
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The 20-year-old nursing-home employee from suburban Pittsburgh who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was a registered Republican who packed explosives in the vehicle he drove to the campaign rally an hour from his home...

Why, he was a damn right-wing crazy!

2 posted on 07/14/2024 4:05:28 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: DFG

Video from 2020 purported to involve the kid. “Slash Republican throats” is said to be one of his choicer statements.

https://x.com/JimHansonDC/status/1225248427946147840


3 posted on 07/14/2024 4:07:31 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: DFG

Who was his FIB handler?


4 posted on 07/14/2024 4:07:36 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DFG

Who was his FIB handler?


5 posted on 07/14/2024 4:07:36 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DFG

Had a 12k$ long range rifle as i understand it.


6 posted on 07/14/2024 4:08:39 PM PDT by KC Burke
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To: DFG

“Crooks tried out for the school’s rifle team but was turned away because he was a bad shooter, said Frederick Mach, a current captain of the team who was a few years behind Crooks at the school.”


7 posted on 07/14/2024 4:09:07 PM PDT by DFG
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Is it possible at this point that all his social media’s contents and all his phone records including his gps whereabouts in past 5 years are obtained by investigators ? Can dead man hire attorney?


8 posted on 07/14/2024 4:09:50 PM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: Steely Tom

They say the shooter is registered republican. THey are really lying...here’s why. He gave $$$$ to act blue a left wing democrat electing organization.
Also Pennsylvania is a CLOSED PRIMARY state. So you have to declare your party to vote in the primary. Remember Joe ran virtually unopposed so democrats were switching to GOP just to vote for Nikki Haley.
Don’t let them lie to you.


9 posted on 07/14/2024 4:09:53 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Steely Tom

Every damn story leads with registered Republican like that means anything in many states.


10 posted on 07/14/2024 4:09:58 PM PDT by pas
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To: Paladin2

Hunter Biden special Agent to the President


11 posted on 07/14/2024 4:11:23 PM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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So Im supposed to believe that a 20 yr old high school bullied “Republican” decided to try to assassinate Donald Trump..yeah cause that makes total sense that a Republican would want to murder the nominee for the Republican party..yeah that sounds about right/sarc..Republican my ass, anyone could switch party affiliation to vote in the primaries, in fact Dems told people to do it and vote for Haley so he probably forgot to register back commie


12 posted on 07/14/2024 4:12:08 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Zhang Fei

Supposedly that video was taken at Arizona State University so might not be him


13 posted on 07/14/2024 4:12:29 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: DFG

I believe that Hitler was a registered DEMONCRAT>


14 posted on 07/14/2024 4:13:28 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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I guess I just don’t get it. This kid went through nothing that I didn’t in school, yet I and many like me NEVER went out to kill anyone!!!


15 posted on 07/14/2024 4:14:09 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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Wearing hunting gear to school is not uncommon in rural areas.
There must have been some really stuck up townies at his school.

16 posted on 07/14/2024 4:14:20 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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He was just a outcast, and you know how kids are nowadays.


17 posted on 07/14/2024 4:15:05 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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I don’t think bullying had anything to do with hit. I could understand if he tried to kill the people who bullied him, but not this. This was something else. We need to crawl through the lives of every authority figure he ever encountered with a microscope. Someone radicalized him. Bet on it.


18 posted on 07/14/2024 4:15:28 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: DFG

So the rifle team info comes from a Frederick Mach, who is “a few years behind” Crook, in other words about 3 years younger than the shooter and probably never met the guy or actually saw him shoot, but is probably just passing on rumors. Frederick Mach is thus just 16 or 17 years old and possibly excited by being interviewed by a news agency. Not sure how much weight to give his words.


19 posted on 07/14/2024 4:15:41 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: for-q-clinton

A lot of Antifa/Rats registered GOP for open primaries.


20 posted on 07/14/2024 4:17:49 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it’s not a horse race the money dries up.)
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