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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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KEYWORDS: bullying; highschool; loner; shooter; thomascrooks; thomasmatthewcrooks
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To: Eleutheria5


Collin Rugg
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NEW: Thomas Matthew Crooks was reportedly rejected from his school’s rifle team because of his bad shot and his “off-color” jokes according to the New York Post.

A former classmates claim he tried out for the rifle team at Bethel Park High School.

The school’s range was 50 feet long and 21 feet wide.

The Post says he once shot from the seventh lane which was closest to the right wall and missed so bad he hit the left wall.

“He tried out… and was such a comically bad shot he was unable to make the team and left after the first day,” a classmate said.

“Our old coach was a stickler, he trained Navy marksmen, so he knew people. He knew when someone’s not the greatest person.”

“We noticed a few things Thomas said and how he interacted with other people… He said some things that were kind of concerning.””


41 posted on 07/14/2024 4:17:31 PM PDT by CFW
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To: Az Joe

“ The deal with us kids was any fight at school was settled off school grounds after school”

I chose you out meant I challenge you to a fight after school.


42 posted on 07/14/2024 4:18:47 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Eleutheria5

Being bullied is irrelevant.

He drank milk too, shall we blame cows?

Logical fallacies abound.


43 posted on 07/14/2024 4:22:21 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Eleutheria5
There's an old Blackrock ad that seems to feature the shooter. His parents are behavioral psychologist which tend to be liberal, yet the father bought an AR-15 six months ago.

Won't be difficult for MK Ultra rumors to go rampant.

44 posted on 07/14/2024 4:22:27 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: Eleutheria5

A lot of us were bullied. We became good citizens and didn’t whine about it.


45 posted on 07/14/2024 4:26:07 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's not as if Biden has the nuclear codes or anything. 😳)
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To: Eleutheria5

So he decided suddenly to kill Trump? 🤔


46 posted on 07/14/2024 4:26:53 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Eleutheria5

“I figured Crooks was bullied just by looking at his photos.”

Hubby had on Fox News (🤮) earlier. The subject was the shooter. The pic they showed was when he was about 8 years old. An innocent child. Rubbed me the wrong away.


47 posted on 07/14/2024 4:29:41 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's not as if Biden has the nuclear codes or anything. 😳)
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To: Tuxedo
Fact is the shooter is dead and we will probably never really know.

Shooter is a ghost.

No friends. No social media accounts. No online activity. No manifesto. No criminal record. What did he do all day?

48 posted on 07/14/2024 4:31:26 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Eleutheria5

He is bullied and tries to kill Trump for it?

Not gonna fly NBC.


49 posted on 07/14/2024 4:31:27 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: Eleutheria5

It’s weird that someone who was “bullied everyday” could scare the pants off a cop.


50 posted on 07/14/2024 4:34:36 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If President Trump loses, ALL AMERICANS LOSE. Vote like your life depends upon it. Because it does.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

You’re probably right.


51 posted on 07/14/2024 4:35:47 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Eleutheria5

Sounds like the perfect stooge e.g. useful idiot.


52 posted on 07/14/2024 4:37:35 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Drew68

No mention of a cell-phone. These days smart phones hold people’s lives.


53 posted on 07/14/2024 4:39:04 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Eleutheria5

They don’t like people who are different than they and their friends.

Some of that can be corrected by blending in somewhat in clothing and hair. As a teenager, I remember parents forcing their kids into out-of-date hairstyles and clothes because they thought it was disrespectful to their authority. Sometimes the kids wanted to be “different” on their own. Being too different has a price. I hated high school, but it helped me figure where and when I fought my battles. Some of the decisions had to wait until you moved away. You can muck up your life before age 24. You have to bide your time. That is part of growing up.


54 posted on 07/14/2024 4:54:35 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Tuxedo

“And where were the parents?...Both parents Dems evidently.”

You answered your question - poor kid never had a chance.


55 posted on 07/14/2024 5:01:38 PM PDT by BobL
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Psychologists. Real good at driving their kids nuts, doing experiments on them.


56 posted on 07/14/2024 5:14:00 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: Az Joe

I had to smile at your blow back your torturer in school. It seems to be a curse for young boys. But girls are not immune to bulling. Mine was on the bus on the way home. Every day, she made fun of me. Now I’m pretty quiet up to a point. One day I went off and smashed her to the floor and pulled mostr of her hair out and smashed her face on the iron guard. You know she did not ever venture anywhere I went from that day on. I’m not a very large woman, but I’m fast, even in my 90th days.


57 posted on 07/14/2024 5:29:15 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Eleutheria5
he wasn't in a small farming town. The shooter is from an affluent Pittsburgh suburb, which is a different culture than Butler.

And there are frequently church schools as alternatives. My son went to a local Catholic school and then to an Evangelical church school.

And when you have a potential suicidal kid and own a gun, why not lock up the gun? and why did the dad own a rifle? Most good old boys own deer rifles aka assault rifles, but usually elites don't hunt so why own that rifle?

58 posted on 07/14/2024 6:14:42 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: Yaelle
"Exactly the kind of guy always picked for such missions. So old fashioned."

From "With Russia, With Love" (1963):

SPECTRE Agent: "This Grant is one of the best men we've ever had. A homicidal paranoiac, superb material. Though his methods were a little crude, his responses to our training and indoctrination have been remarkable."

59 posted on 07/14/2024 6:25:56 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: Eleutheria5

I was bullied in high school. And yet, here I am, not assassinating people.


60 posted on 07/14/2024 6:27:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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