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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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“Had a 12k$ long range rifle as i understand it.”
I’m skeptical of that. It’d be a dead giveaway of him being a tool. More likely a regular AR-15. More than enough gun for the range involved.
He was 20. This was taken obviously at a college campus in 2020. He would have been 16. Not him.
Jason Kohler didn’t attend any classes with the shooter, yet claims to know why the shooter was allegedly being bullied every day and it was always “hunting clothes” which may mean camo or just t-shirts with deer printed on them. There is no explanation of how he became so close with a guy that he never shared a class with.
His Dad has probably hired an attorney.
What do we know?
20 year old nursing home workers don’t plan the NEAR PERFECT assassination.
He had the right weapon.
He had the perfect location for a kill shot.
He was able to effortlessly navigate into shooting position.
He had to know it was a suicide mission.
He could see the counter snipers had him in their sights.
He was well groomed for the job and he had a handler maybe more than one.
I’m sure his burner phone was destroyed before he got on scene.
Should have worked, but by the Grace of God Trump moved his head a bit.
And he was supposedly bullied about wearing hunting clothes. I don’t know any Republican kid or adult who would make fun of someone in hunting attire...
So are we supposed to believe that intolerant vegans picked on him or what?
such a SCAM that he was a ‘republican’ since nothing about him is republican and we know there’s a big push in dem circles to register as such to taint the primaries.
So, the police ran away?
You don’t need to look for a particular authority figure. Just look at the overall influences of public schooling, leftist entertainment media and news media. What’s amazing to me is that this is not happening more, because the toxic influences that reached him are reaching most people across America. It really becomes a question of whom has WHOLESOME influences left in their lives to counteract the mainstream hate and dysfunction.
He came from a suburb of Pittsburgh, so I am not sure how rural it was, but shouldn’t be that unusual.
Do you want to stick your head up over an wave and try to clamber up onto a roof while a guy a few feet away and slightly above you takes easy shots at your head? Or would you duck back below the wave and call for people in better positions to shoot, to take him out?
The real question is why there was no Secret Service personnel stationed on that roof.
Don’t disagree with you in the least; my comments were more in reference to being in that mindset, not necessarily to that particular act (assassination attempt).
This story has four reporters working on it... that usually means it is a story designed to spread leftwing talking points rather than provide actual news.
It is fine to register in whatever party to play the game. Vote for the candidate that hasn’t a chance to beat your guy in the other party. Come the general election, you don’t have to vote the party you registered for. Lots of people do this. Yes, his true party is the one he sent money to.
The rifle was bought and registered by his daddy.
The KKK was.
Where is his social media footprint?
Dealey Plaza 2.0
“”””The 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump first came to law enforcement’s attention at Saturday’s rally when spectators noticed him acting strangely outside the campaign event. The tip sparked a frantic search but officers were unable to find him before he managed to get on a roof, where he opened fire.”””
The above is the opening paragraph from the AP news report you linked to.
Why is what you posted so different?
“””This story has four reporters working on it... that usually means it is a story designed to spread leftwing talking points rather than provide actual news.”””
you are so right. Here is the opening paragraph of this AP story. I have asked the FR poster of this thread why he/her posted something different on FR.
“””The 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump first came to law enforcement’s attention at Saturday’s rally when spectators noticed him acting strangely outside the campaign event. The tip sparked a frantic search but officers were unable to find him before he managed to get on a roof, where he opened fire.”””
Notice how the AP is reporting that a’frantic search’. That is called changing the narrative.
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