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.
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Either that or he changed his affiliation in order to fit in at GOP events to get closer to his target, maybe even get to the convention; perhaps this event was an unexpected opportunity he couldn’t resist closer to home.
PERHAPS NO CHARGES-—
BUT PLENTY of ANTIFA EVENTS
If you commit a murder suicide as an adult, what is the justification for keeping juvenile, school, etc records sealed. Can’t hurt the perp. Might help rest of us prevent next perp to release. And knowing past embarrassments would come out might dissuade some perping.
Car registration
Yet somehow they have this person’s DNA as they were able to “quickly Match” the profile?
Yeah sure!
Known. Gun man.
No!
$15 is about what an unemployed high school student could afford. Actually quite a lot for that kind of guy!
In case of bundle, the donation would be a lot larger!
Yep. He probably did it to vote against Trump in the primary.
What I don’t understand is how the shooter had line of sight to Trump. He was nowhere near the peak of the roof. How did he see over it?
Apparently, ActBlue was known for bundling using a file of names.
That one slander is being relentlessly used by the Leftist media.
Someone has to repeat the tactic of registering to the opposite party for a primary is a well known tactic.
I’ve never heard a news show state that as of now.
I am just noticing how long this guys hair appears to be in a span of 2 years. Since graduation?
Something in his life radically changed.
before trump hit the ground we heard audible, “shooter is down” which means they had thier sites on him before he took his first shot and allowed it to happen.
Another article on front page, snipers might have had him in sight 40 seconds before.
The serial number from the weapon and looked it up.
The MSM are liars and dissemblers, the pretorian guard of the power structure. Journalism is dead on cable/network TV and most print, but fortunately it is decentralized now and more and more people are going to alternate streaming services and voices and websites. (And that is why of course that the FBI and DHS et al put their thumbs on the facebooks and twitters to censor and shadowban voices). I’m pretty sure Joe Rogan gets more viewers and listeners than all the cable news combined - if not live when broadcast, people can tune in anytime that is convenient even years after the fact. The MSM does all it can to scrub or edit their stuff as soon as possible and move to the next talking point of the week or month. Podcasters want their stuff to stay up forever. Tells us all we need to know about who is principled and who is playing with our heads.
That story was pulled. I suspect it was not verifiable. And it is hard to believe. But if such a rumor gains traction perhaps LE will have to answer it.
Who radicalized him? How about the NEA and AFT for starters.
I read somewhere that shooter was 150 yards from Pres Trump. That’s pretty far, is it not? Football field is 100 yds acc to internet. That’s far, esp for .22
And the guy was 20 yo. How can he be a sharp shooter.
Was he carrying the car registration?
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