He may have expected to be successful and that he would be seen as a hero by millions of people. Whether he calculated his chances of surviving, who knows?
The Democrats today have to say they are glad Trump survived, but how many are saying to themselves, too bad Crooks failed. Bennie Thompson felt obliged to fire his staffer who openly wished that Trump had been killed. (She'll probably get a job with the Southern Poverty Law Center.) But he was spearheading an attempt to strip Trump of his Secret Service protection--he must have been hoping for Trump to be killed.
This guy was socially awkward and introverted to the point of having Zero friends. The best the media can do is find a “classmate” who saw him in the hallways.
This is the only way I can rationalize nobody coming forward yet with stories on his political views.
I believe his social media has been scrubbed,deleted, memory-holed.