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Father of Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks breaks cover for the first time since terrifying assassination attempt
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 16 2024 | LAURA COLLINS

Posted on 07/16/2024 11:35:13 AM PDT by knighthawk

Seen for the first time since his son attempted to assassinate Trump, Matthew Crooks was pictured at the family home in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as federal investigators visited Monday morning.

Clearly exhausted, his eyes showing the strain and the trauma of the past few days, Crooks opened the door to several members of the FBI who entered the unassuming brick home shortly before ten o’clock.

It was barely 48 hours since the Crooks family’s world was torn apart with the shocking events of Saturday afternoon when son Thomas Matthew, 20, opened fire on the former president as he addressed a rally of supporters in Butler, Pennsylvania.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; behavioraltherapist; crooks; failedassassin; matthewcrooks; thomascrooks; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump
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To: existentially_kuffer

mental health professionals is a title that is very subjective...each county, state having different requirements.....


61 posted on 07/16/2024 1:17:50 PM PDT by cherry
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To: knighthawk

Common thread is unsecured weapons and or parents who know that their over medicated reject kid is a weirdo and allow them access to firearms. Let’s not forget those on the “lists” of the “known of” by the fibbies. The DNC will downplay the assassination attack and shift to anti-2A mode.


62 posted on 07/16/2024 1:28:17 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: 1Old Pro

I saw an interview of his classmate. He said the shooter was bullied, every single day.


63 posted on 07/16/2024 2:12:34 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It makes sense if the young man scrubbed all his social before acting out but forgot the Discord.


64 posted on 07/16/2024 2:52:35 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Republican Wildcat

Western PA is a relatively low cost area.

This house is probably below average quality in its community.


65 posted on 07/16/2024 2:54:32 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: traderrob6

If I was making $$$ and wanted to keep it that is the house that I would live in.


66 posted on 07/16/2024 2:56:00 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: knighthawk

The parents, both college educated, had a son who was winning math scholarships but skipped college to fix meals in an old age home. They knew something was off with their son and most likely had him on SSRI drugs.

This will be another instance of a shooting by a young person with no previous violent incidents, where all reasons will investigated except for the use of the untouchable SSRI.


67 posted on 07/16/2024 3:10:20 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: knighthawk

Speaking to CNN in the immediate aftermath of his son’s identification,


Why CNN?


68 posted on 07/16/2024 3:17:53 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“Father is a shrink. Mother is social worker. So, yes; they’re nuts.”

************

There was an almost identical situation in our neighborhood years ago with the parents’ having similar jobs. Their kid was a real hellian. The parents were in total denial.


69 posted on 07/16/2024 3:18:59 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: NWFree

Now,now,now boys be nice or I’ll send you to be without dinner


70 posted on 07/16/2024 3:45:27 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: knighthawk

Accomplices or not.
Prior knowledge?
Coverup?
Lack of questions to son despite suspicions?
Why do you need a ladder?

Answer those, parents, and then the “world broken apart” stuff unless you are in a holding cell by then.

Both sides find this controversial——
Apr 9, 2024 — Jennifer and James Crumbley, the first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting, were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison.


71 posted on 07/16/2024 4:08:50 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: blackdog

This story isn’t going away despite gun rights, parents’ blame or not and other issues:

Apr 9, 2024 — Jennifer and James Crumbley, the first parents convicted in a U.S. mass school shooting, were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison.


72 posted on 07/16/2024 4:10:49 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: NWFree

That’s not what you claimed - you said the father of Crooks gave him the gun.


73 posted on 07/16/2024 4:37:11 PM PDT by Fury (I )
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To: Jamestown1630
this one apparently had a clean record

It was documented that he was a troubled kid. He needed help, obviously.

74 posted on 07/17/2024 5:29:06 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Hot Tabasco
Obviously you are a fellow professional, what were the kid's issues?

It's been all over TV, the kid was bullied because he was odd, the kids called him "the school shooter", listen to the news.

75 posted on 07/17/2024 5:30:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: roving
I saw an interview of his classmate. He said the shooter was bullied, every single day.

Because he was odd, they called him "the school shooter". kid needed help, parents potentially ignored it.

76 posted on 07/17/2024 5:32:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Where and by whom was that documented?


77 posted on 07/17/2024 10:51:24 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
Where and by whom was that documented?

https://www.tmz.com/2024/07/16/thomas-matthew-crooks-nicknamed-school-shooter-before-trump-attack/ As Julianna told The New York Times ... Thomas was labeled "the school shooter" by his fellow students -- who apparently often teased him for his poor hygiene and body odor.

78 posted on 07/17/2024 10:57:01 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

I don’t think that would have any legal weight. His classmates have already said he was a loner and bullied. There are lots of kids now who present in ways that probably make their classmates say such things. If there was proof that he actually had threatened to kill someone, that would be another matter.


79 posted on 07/17/2024 11:04:56 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: NWFree

The American intelligence agencies have gotten their British counterparts to spread the “lone nut” narrative through a MI-6 asset, the Daily Mail, which is thought to be more credible by conservative Americans than the legacy media. The “Five Eyes” are working overtime.


80 posted on 07/17/2024 11:14:25 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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