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Who is Thomas Matthew Crooks? Not much is known at this time but a disturbing picture is starting to emerge
American Thinker ^ | 07/14/2024 | Peter Barry Chowka

Posted on 07/14/2024 10:37:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Late Saturday, the FBI identified the shooter – the attempted assassin – of President Donald Trump as Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks was also allegedly the one who shot and killed a man who attended Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania and critically injured two others.

According to Newsweek:

CBS News reported that Crooks had a rifle and had fired on the former President from a position a couple of hundred feet away from the venue in Butler, [PA] citing anonymous law enforcement sources. The shooter was identified through his DNA, as he was not carrying any identification at the time, the FBI said.

Crooks, 20 years old, according to the government was a resident of Bethel Park, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh about 40 miles south of the Trump rally’s location in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Reuters reported that Crooks was a registered Republican according to state voter records, and that he had donated $15 to a left wing Democrat progressive group, The Progressive Turnout Project, in 2021, through the ActBlue Democrat donation platform. Interestingly, Crooks’ contribution to the leftist group was dated Jan. 20, 2021, the date of Biden’s inauguration, while he registered to vote as a Republican eight months later in September 2021.

Other information about Crooks online, of a more incendiary political and social nature, could not be confirmed at press time.

Crooks graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022. A two-hour-long official video on YouTube of the high school’s 2022 commencement shows Crooks accepting his diploma at this point in the video.

According to the Bethel Park Journal on June 22, 2022, Crooks was one of two dozen graduates of Bethel Park High School who received $500 for a National Math & Science Initiative Star Awards.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 202101; 20210120; 202109; assasination; assassinationplots; banglist; bombmakingmaterials; crooks; explosivedevices; ieds; pennsylvania; progressive; progressives; ptp; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump; turnoutproject
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1 posted on 07/14/2024 10:37:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Interviewed on FOX News this morning at 3:30 AM ET, retired FBI agent Bobby Chacon commented about Crooks:

If we look at this as a suicide mission – he knew that he was going to be a martyr. .  . So what makes him so radicalized that he wants to become this martyr and kill Donald Trump? In my mind, the constant drum beat of comparing Trump to somebody like Adolf Hitler, when Hitler was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people, would be something that would radicalize a young person. If any of us had the opportunity to go back to the 1930s and assassinate Adolf Hitler, we might do it.


2 posted on 07/14/2024 10:38:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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SOURCE: https://www.christianpost.com/news/trump-assassination-attempt-who-is-the-20-year-old-suspect.html

Authorities also found explosive devices in Crooks’ vehicle that was parked near the rally on Saturday, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. This news was followed by an Associated Press report that bomb-making materials were also found at the suspect’s home.

Crooks had no previous criminal history, according to Pennsylvania’s public court records, The New York Times reported.

His background reveals a mixed political profile. Although registered as a Republican, federal campaign-finance records show he made a $15 donation to the Progressive Turnout Project through the Democratic donation platform ActBlue in January 2021, according to the Times.

One audience member interviewed by the BBC on Saturday said he and several others repeatedly told the Secret Service and police about seeing the shooter stationed on top of the roof of a building minutes before the suspect began shooting.


3 posted on 07/14/2024 10:43:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What is the emerging “disturbing picture” the article refers to? He was a good student, smiled a lot, was allegedly a registered Republican, and - in one photo - is seen wearing a patriotic t-shirt. He made a small contribution to a leftist group, and that’s about it.


4 posted on 07/14/2024 10:45:13 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: SeekAndFind

NY Post article linked before this one. Today 1:02 PM extra info on the Bethel/Allegheny County Bomb Squad visit to his daddy’s house. Daddy isn’t talking (trying to figure out what the hell happened. Ominous, impossible for a dad to really know if this arrest record in Seattle and Portland- maybe not the same person for AntiFA rioting there. Before it’s all scrubbed.) Crooks made a Black Live Matter donation to Biden through the paywall for BLM set up by the DNC.... ActBlue!!
15 bucks. “he’s a ‘’’’’’republican’’’’” uh-huh.


5 posted on 07/14/2024 10:45:32 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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The Wall Street Journal reported that "[a]uthorities found explosive devices in the car" belonging to the shooter, citing conversations with people who had been briefed on the investigation now led by the FBI:

The car, which was driven by [the shooter], was parked near the Trump rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday, people said.

Police received multiple reports of suspicious packages around near where the shooter was, authorities said, prompting them to dispatch bomb technicians. Investigators were still working to make sure the scene was clear well into the night. They also searched [the shooter's] home and spoke with his family.

The Pentagon said on Sunday it had "confirmed with each of the military service branches that there is no military service affiliation for the suspect...in any branch, active or reserve component in their respective databases."


6 posted on 07/14/2024 10:47:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It was reported that the assassin didn’t have any ID on him.

How did they identify him in a couple of hours?

DNA results take some time.

At least that’s what they tell us.

Fingerprints?

That would mean he’s been in trouble before.

Did the government have DNA and fingerprints of this guy?

Oopsie.


7 posted on 07/14/2024 10:49:47 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course knowing what hitler became and did this far in the future. But it is impossible to say what any here today without that knowledge and living in the 1930’s would have attempted in Weimar Germany. Hitler did have many attacks on his life— the last being the non-suicidal Prussian Von Staufenberg who could have, but didn’t stay to make sure his bomb was in the right place. July 20, 1944. End of the war very different, and possible the Soviets wouldn’t have gained as much as they did during the year that followed.

What we know from “In the Garden of the Beasts” by Larsen— we know much about FDR’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany (and the State Department jew haters who loved them some hitler. Them being dems and machine FDR people— good Socialists like they are today—no surprise).


8 posted on 07/14/2024 10:50:31 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: SeekAndFind
A guy with a rifle got within 152+ yards from a presidential nominee, unseen, and got shots off. Who is in charge of the Secret Service?...No 👁's on a firing position that close?


9 posted on 07/14/2024 10:50:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind; Steve_Seattle
Interestingly, Crooks’ contribution to the leftist group was dated Jan. 20, 2021, the date of Biden’s inauguration, while he registered to vote as a Republican eight months later in September 2021.

Republicans don't donate to Act Blue, ever. He changed his registration so he could participate in the Republican primary and vote for the weakest Republican. This is a common tactic of both parties.

10 posted on 07/14/2024 10:51:22 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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The disturbing image unrevealed is how he decided to crawl up on a roof and take a shot at POTUS Trump. My guess is that a series of deceitful, maniacal, derange-riddled emails he received from dozens of political action committees resulting from his giving his email address to ActBlue set him off. But it’s just a guess.


11 posted on 07/14/2024 10:53:21 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Lizavetta

He donated to the PAC when he was 17 so not legal. He registered Republican to try to stop Trump.


12 posted on 07/14/2024 10:54:51 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: SeekAndFind
This is interesting...

Here is everything we know about the shooter who tried to take out Donald Trump: "The only 20 year old on Earth without social media"

13 posted on 07/14/2024 10:56:02 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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The internet scrubbing. Did it take place before or after the shooting?


14 posted on 07/14/2024 10:56:48 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: monkeyshine
The gun Crooks used was reportedly purchased by his father. Authorities say Crooks had explosives in his car.

While Crooks was allegedly a registered Republican (let's not forget that PA Democrats were encouraged to register as Republicans to primary Trump out), he also reportedly donated to ActBlue on Biden's inauguration day.


15 posted on 07/14/2024 10:58:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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If there were no eyes on him, how did they locate and shoot him so quickly? What was the vantage point of the sniper who shot him?


16 posted on 07/14/2024 10:58:35 AM PDT by henkster (He's got a day time job; he's doing all right)
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To: SeekAndFind; Steve_Seattle
Interestingly, Crooks’ contribution to the leftist group was dated Jan. 20, 2021, the date of Biden’s inauguration, while he registered to vote as a Republican eight months later in September 2021.

Republicans don't donate to Act Blue, ever. He changed his registration so he could participate in the Republican primary and vote for the weakest Republican. This is a common tactic of both parties.

17 posted on 07/14/2024 11:00:33 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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Yes, it was not lost on me he could have registered R as a tactical matter to vote against Trump in the primary.


18 posted on 07/14/2024 11:03:21 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Lizavetta

My son’s theory is that he did not donate to ActBlue but instead his identity was used as part of a bundle.


19 posted on 07/14/2024 11:10:29 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: henkster
What was the vantage point of the sniper who shot him?

Above and behind the stage where DJT was speaking, I believe.

20 posted on 07/14/2024 11:10:36 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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