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Former classmate of Trump rally gunman says he was ‘bullied almost every day’
NBC News ^ | 14/7/24

Posted on 07/14/2024 3:29:53 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

A former classmate of the 20-year-old Pennsylvania man law enforcement identified as the shooter who opened fire at former President Donald Trump’s rally says he was "bullied almost every day" at school. NBC News' Shaq Brewster reports on what is known about the background and life of Thomas Matthew Crooks.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bullying; highschool; loner; shooter; thomascrooks; thomasmatthewcrooks
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To: Eleutheria5

Bullied about what?


21 posted on 07/14/2024 3:49:09 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: madison10

I think most everyone is bullied at some time in their lives.


22 posted on 07/14/2024 3:49:49 PM PDT by tiki (To)
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To: Jemian

Only white kid and weird. Then only orthodox Jew in hippy school, and new at it. And weird. Sometimes I was bullied. Sometimes I was class clown to be popular by disrupting teacher. Then at yeshiva and non-conformist in some ways, and became outcast. A few times, very few, I successfully fought back against tormentors. You get over it. I preferred being an outcast.

So what’s Crooks’ major malfunction?


23 posted on 07/14/2024 3:50:04 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Clhild in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Tuxedo

Parents when a child does things like this are usually unaware and out to lunch.

I do find is crazy that the security lapses just ‘happened’ and only reason Trump is alive is the turning of his head.

Someone definitely wanted Trump dead and either Trump is EXTREMELY lucky, or God was watching over him.


24 posted on 07/14/2024 3:51:05 PM PDT by goodolemr
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To: knarf

Good thing that didn’t release the Nashville shooter’s manifesto. Cause it is a blueprint to mass &#%*{} event.


25 posted on 07/14/2024 3:51:24 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: Eleutheria5

Changing the subject to their pet. Anything to get away from Trump being hit and the death of his supporters. Vermin media.


26 posted on 07/14/2024 3:51:30 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Eleutheria5

Maybe he watched the old movie about Alexander the Great(1956) in which one man says the best way to be remembered is to kill a Great man. that way when the Great man is mentioned so will be his assassin. So Phillip of Macedon was assassinated.


27 posted on 07/14/2024 3:51:37 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: LadyDoc

In a small farming town, there aren’t any alternatives, other than home schooling.


28 posted on 07/14/2024 3:52:06 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Clhild in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: alternatives?

Teenagers are often a@@-holes. They don’t like people who are different than they and their friends. Easy to be branded an outcast.


29 posted on 07/14/2024 3:54:37 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Clhild in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5
High school in the 1970s were the worst years of my life.

I got over it and never shot anybody.

Today I have more money and success than 95% of those turds. Maybe higher percentage than that.

Living well is the best revenge.

30 posted on 07/14/2024 3:57:03 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: mass55th
"This POS left high school in 2022. That’s two years ago. "

Wouldn't that have placed him in High School during the quarantine years?
31 posted on 07/14/2024 3:57:36 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: Eleutheria5

If he had shot up his high school at least that would have made sense..but what does being bullied in high school have to do with trying to assassinate a former and future president of the united states


32 posted on 07/14/2024 3:58:15 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Eleutheria5

Video from 2020 purported to involve the kid. “Slash Republican throats” is said to be one of his choicer statements.

https://x.com/JimHansonDC/status/1225248427946147840


33 posted on 07/14/2024 4:01:21 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Eleutheria5
When viewed from the profile, Crooks has a weird, deformed flat face.
It's as though he shared his mother's uterus with a panini press.

He also has that David Hogg fetal alcohol syndrome thing working.

34 posted on 07/14/2024 4:02:57 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Eleutheria5

“Subdivisions!”


35 posted on 07/14/2024 4:08:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I wonder if the ‘bullied because he was gay’ excuse will appear? Probably.


36 posted on 07/14/2024 4:09:26 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: Zhang Fei

Sure as hell looks like him, although he would be 16/17 y/o. That is questionable.


37 posted on 07/14/2024 4:10:06 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Eleutheria5

Oh, here we go.


38 posted on 07/14/2024 4:11:41 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I do not recognize Biden’s authority. (@FeistyFed on TS) 🐝.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I was bullied by a guy from September to almost May in 8th grade. He wasn’t all that large, but I wasn’t the mad dog I am now.

One day he shoved me (again), and I snapped. I sucker punched him in the back of the head and we went at it for 30-40 seconds fist flying, and I was winning. Teach broke us up.

The deal with us kids was any fight at school was settled off school grounds after school at the regular fighting spot. The word went out and by the end of school about 100 kids had gathered to watch us. I showed, he didn’t. The crowd loved me. Felt like a damn hero. The former bully never said another word to me or came near me that year or the next.


39 posted on 07/14/2024 4:14:37 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: SamAdams76

Very similar to my experience.

High school in the 70s was no place for sissies.


40 posted on 07/14/2024 4:15:21 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I do not recognize Biden’s authority. (@FeistyFed on TS) 🐝.)
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