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Who was Thomas Crooks? One year later, motive and missed warnings haunt Trump rally shooting
Fox News ^ | July 11, 2025 | Sarah Rumpf-Whitten

Posted on 07/11/2025 11:01:11 AM PDT by george76

Shooter's motives still unclear despite extensive investigation into the attack that nearly changed American history..

As the one-year mark nears since the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, questions remain unanswered; notably, why did Thomas Matthew Crooks carry out the attack, and how did he get so close?

Despite the year's passage, the mystery endures surrounding the 20-year-old Pennsylvania native’s motivation. Fox News Digital spoke with two former federal officials about the lingering questions.

Former FBI agent John Nantz said Crooks did not fit the profile of a politically motivated extremist.

"Crooks looked not so much like an ideologue, not so much like an individual who was being directed in some way to conduct an assassination attempt, but more like a person with anti-social issues that may have been seeking notoriety,"

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One year later: Lingering questions about Crooks' motive While investigators have not identified a definitive ideological or political motivation, the FBI has suggested a complex interplay of personal grievances, mental health issues and a desire for notoriety to lead to the attack.

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The breakdown on July 13 led to bipartisan calls for then-USSS Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign. After her resignation, Ronald Rowe Jr., who was serving as the deputy director, was appointed as the acting director.

He held the position until Jan. 22, when Sean Curran, a veteran agent who had been part of Trump's protective detail during the assassination attempt, was appointed as the 28th director of the USSS.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: assassination; attempted; banglist; bondibashing; bondiwhiners; bondiwhining; maxwellyearick; obsessedwhining; pennsylvania; tdstrolling; thomascrooks; trump

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1 posted on 07/11/2025 11:01:11 AM PDT by george76
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Why did they cremate his body and release it before anyone else could examine him? That whole thing stinks.


2 posted on 07/11/2025 11:04:02 AM 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: george76

Who is Maxwell Yearick?


3 posted on 07/11/2025 11:05:28 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: george76

I still want to know what happened to the white van with explosives found in it. It had Arizona tags. It was seen being hauled off by police not far from the Butler rally site later that night. We still don’t know anything about the alleged accomplice Maxwell Yearick who was the one they showed a close-up of his dead face on the rooftop.


4 posted on 07/11/2025 11:07:17 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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To: FamiliarFace

(Why did they cremate his body and release it before anyone else could examine him?)

They did the same thing with Justice Scalia before an autopsy could be done.


5 posted on 07/11/2025 11:08:42 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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To: george76

Only real question is who was he most like?

Guiteau or Czolgosz?


6 posted on 07/11/2025 11:10:55 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: FamiliarFace

Crooks home scrubbed clean ..

https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-07-28-trump-shooter-home-scrubbed-clean-medical-lab.html


7 posted on 07/11/2025 11:11:59 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Spiritual wickedness in high places.


8 posted on 07/11/2025 11:12:09 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Macho MAGA Man; Captainpaintball

Which family member identified the corpse in the morgue?


9 posted on 07/11/2025 11:12:17 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (There are no more conspiracy theories, only questions that further the truth.)
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We know more about John Wilkes Booth than this kid


10 posted on 07/11/2025 11:13:18 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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There’s no information I’ve come across of that says who identified him at the morgue.


11 posted on 07/11/2025 11:14:57 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

No one on earth knows who this guy was or what he was about. The FBI is pretty certain he was hatched from an egg and his whole life spanned 20 days, oh! And of course he was a lone wolf who acted in a vacuum.

12 posted on 07/11/2025 11:16:54 AM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (GO Tigers)
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To: bigbob

an accident that a rooftop 130 yards away was left unguarded?


13 posted on 07/11/2025 11:17:13 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Who was Thomas Crooks?

Just your average twenty-year old dietary assistant at a nursing home.

Unremarkable little fellow flying under the radar with no red flags.

You sheeple just need to move along now.

Nothing to see here.

Team Blondi told me so.


14 posted on 07/11/2025 11:18:57 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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Crooks, the details of his attempt, his family, even security operations that day are all vague and mysterious to the public, and most of what the majority of us are curious about should be just normal reporting.


15 posted on 07/11/2025 11:20:07 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Ron Rowe must be held accountable for yelling at a Congressman. That put me into an indescribable rage.


16 posted on 07/11/2025 11:22:42 AM 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: Macho MAGA Man

Clowns


17 posted on 07/11/2025 11:30:05 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (There are no more conspiracy theories, only questions that further the truth.)
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To: george76

Also this was the covered live by CNN which heretofore had omitted coverage of Trump rallies.


18 posted on 07/11/2025 11:30:06 AM PDT by GoodBadUgly (Action is the soul of progress)
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I’d like to know the motives of the supervisor who told her agents to not shoot Crooks until after he fired.


19 posted on 07/11/2025 11:33:00 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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Get Blondi on this case!

No. Wait. She'll say there was no shooting.

20 posted on 07/11/2025 11:34:24 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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