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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Have the police said that’s how they identified him?
He had an AR15,.223/5.56 caliber.
150 yds, an easy shot with that rifle and caliber.
Have the police said that’s how they identified him?
Hitting a golf ball at 150 yards with a .22 is pretty easy, with practice, and good ammo. Target archers shoot 150 yards, sometimes.
Did the government have DNA and fingerprints of this guy?
Guess where a copy of your blood tests go.
In law enforcement, it takes up to 6 months to get results of DNA back from the lab. They match the results against known samples that come from convicted felons and some misdemeanor convictions. This guy had no criminal record, we are told. What did the FBI match the DNA against?
I don’t know.
One report sad they identified him from DNA off the rifle.
A couple of Free Republic paid disrupters threw out ideas about cars serial numbers off the rifle.
I haven’t heard the police say anything about those two things and the disrupters have gone silent.
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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
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Not much the good guys could do, really. You can’t put a .50 cal through somebody’s forehead just because he stuck his head above the ridgeline of a roof. If the villain had a rifle, then you have to make he’s not one of the many and various good guys working security.
Sounds to me like they had the crosshairs on him, waiting for a reason to shoot. I just don’t see how the perp got off more than one shot before they righteously dropped him.
What I find heartening is how the Hand of God was on full and awesome display in this episode. At that distance, any half-assed shooter with a .22 could hit a watermelon, especially with a scope. Instead, Donald turned his head to the right, just at the right time, and avoided his doom by hair’s breadth. One single inch to the right and all the headlines in the world would be different today. That was Divine Intervention, my FRiends. Praise be.
Yes,
But they would not bother with merely $15.
Bundlers want to bundle lots of money. So the individual contribution would probably be a lot more. Maybe up to the legal maximum.
Yes, sounds correct. First he donates to Biden and BLM, then registers Republican? Someone at that Pac suggested that, as a first step in ‘getting rid of Trump.’
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