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Thomas Matthew Crooks ID’d as gunman who shot Trump during Pa. rally
NY Post ^ | 7/13/2024 | By Joe Marino and Katherine Donlevy

Posted on 07/13/2024 8:53:59 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

https://nypost.com/2024/07/13/us-news/thomas-matthew-crooks-idd-as-gunman-who-shot-trump-during-pa-rally/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump Saturday was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, sources told The Post.

Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pa., squeezed off shots — one of which grazed Trump in the ear — at an outdoor rally in Butler, just outside Pittsburgh.

Sources said Crooks was was planted on a roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage at Butler Farm Show grounds.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: assassination; assassinationattempt; banglist; butler; crooks; maxwellyearick; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; pennsylvania; pronounswaswere; thomascrooks; thomasmatthewcrooks; thomasmcrooks; trump; trumprally; trumpshooter; trumpshotbutokay
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I'm sure his socials have already been scrubbed.
1 posted on 07/13/2024 8:53:59 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
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To: NohSpinZone

Scrubbed? Or fabricated?


2 posted on 07/13/2024 8:54:49 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: NohSpinZone
Why Crooks fired on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is unclear.

I'll go out on a limb here and suggest it's because he was trying to assassinate him?

3 posted on 07/13/2024 8:55:50 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: NohSpinZone

Bump


4 posted on 07/13/2024 8:56:12 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Organic Panic

Both.

Manifesto?


5 posted on 07/13/2024 8:56:58 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Billthedrill

I’m leaning towards that theory as well.


6 posted on 07/13/2024 8:57:01 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: NohSpinZone

Wonder if knew getting his brains blown out was part of the deal?


7 posted on 07/13/2024 8:58:34 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: NohSpinZone

Wonder if the shooter knew getting his brains blown out was part of the deal?


8 posted on 07/13/2024 8:59:14 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: Billthedrill

The necessary information is, who paid for him to do this.

Unless the FIB decides to hide it, it should not be hard to determine with a careful police evaluation.


9 posted on 07/13/2024 8:59:17 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: NohSpinZone

Not all (yet).

Online places his residence within the 2500 block of Milford Drive, Bethel Park PA 15102.

There’s more, but it should await confirmation.


10 posted on 07/13/2024 9:00:32 PM PDT by research99
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To: Billthedrill

Whoever this guy truly was if he was indeed 20 what a short wasted life. Like the grail knight said.....he chose poorly.


11 posted on 07/13/2024 9:00:56 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Leep
Wonder if the shooter knew getting his brains blown out was part of the deal?

Doubt it. Probably just as dumb as Oswald.

12 posted on 07/13/2024 9:01:26 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Elections have consequences. Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.)
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To: NohSpinZone
Still got the shovel.

Notice, no alleged to it, statement of fact in the report.

Let the spin begin. Don't believe your lyin' eyes.

13 posted on 07/13/2024 9:01:55 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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To: NohSpinZone

Sources said Crooks was was planted on a roof of a manufacturing plant
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“Sources” LOL

Like it’s top secret and only the Newspapers inside sources know or something


14 posted on 07/13/2024 9:01:55 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Billthedrill

Cause he obviously didn’t think Biden could win even with massive voter fraud?


15 posted on 07/13/2024 9:02:22 PM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: Texas Fossil

I just can’t place much faith in the Biden DoJ’s ability to conduct an investigation on the matter, or more precisely to conduct it and then communicate the results honestly.


16 posted on 07/13/2024 9:02:40 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

There giving ZERO information about anything at the press conference. Big surprise.


17 posted on 07/13/2024 9:03:58 PM PDT by norcal joe
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To: janetjanet998
Sources being the people that were trying to tell the police there was a guy with a gun on the roof.
18 posted on 07/13/2024 9:05:04 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (Where is the vaunted Q team?)
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Califoandrnia Joe: “[…] and the shooter knew it, too!!!”

Excellent point, Joe. So… a guy just decides to show up at a rally and take a potshot at PDJT… and he looks around for a spot that wasn’t covered by USSS and… well whadaya know! He’s in luck. A handy barn roof with no-one on it. And his rifle happens to be sighted in for the distance to the stage.

Now, let’s just see if he can get up there with a rifle without being spotted. Well whaddaya know! Another lucky break! Wait… he was spotted and pointed out to security, Well whaddaya know! Three times lucky! Security blew it off.

Oops. His luck ran out. He was shot deader’n a doornail. Tsk, tsk. Too bad. Can’t question him now.


19 posted on 07/13/2024 9:06:30 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Organic Panic
"Scrubbed? Or fabricated?"

They've had six hours.

Scrubbed for sure.

Believable fabrication takes a lot more work these days unless you do it well in advance.
20 posted on 07/13/2024 9:06:38 PM PDT by indthkr
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