Posted on 07/14/2024 4:02:36 PM PDT by DFG
The 20-year-old nursing-home employee from suburban Pittsburgh who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was a registered Republican who packed explosives in the vehicle he drove to the campaign rally an hour from his home.
Law enforcement officials were working Sunday to learn more about Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to determine what motivated him to open fire on the rally from a nearby rooftop, killing one spectator, before he was shot dead by the Secret Service.
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Crooks tried out for the school's rifle team but was turned away because he was a bad shooter, said Frederick Mach, a current captain of the team who was a few years behind Crooks at the school.
Jason Kohler, who said he attended the same high school but did not share any classes with Crooks, said Crooks was bullied at school and sat alone at lunch time. Other students mocked him for the clothes he wore, which included hunting outfits, Kohler said.
“He was bullied almost every day,” Kohler told reporters. “He was just a outcast, and you know how kids are nowadays.”
Crooks worked at a nursing home as a dietary aide, a job that generally involves food preparation. Marcie Grimm, the administrator of Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, said in a statement she was “shocked and saddened to learn of his involvement.” Grimm added that Crooks had a clean background check when he was hired.
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Why, he was a damn right-wing crazy!
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
Who was his FIB handler?
Who was his FIB handler?
Had a 12k$ long range rifle as i understand it.
“Crooks tried out for the school’s rifle team but was turned away because he was a bad shooter, said Frederick Mach, a current captain of the team who was a few years behind Crooks at the school.”
Is it possible at this point that all his social media’s contents and all his phone records including his gps whereabouts in past 5 years are obtained by investigators ? Can dead man hire attorney?
They say the shooter is registered republican. THey are really lying...here’s why. He gave $$$$ to act blue a left wing democrat electing organization.
Also Pennsylvania is a CLOSED PRIMARY state. So you have to declare your party to vote in the primary. Remember Joe ran virtually unopposed so democrats were switching to GOP just to vote for Nikki Haley.
Don’t let them lie to you.
Every damn story leads with registered Republican like that means anything in many states.
Hunter Biden special Agent to the President
So Im supposed to believe that a 20 yr old high school bullied “Republican” decided to try to assassinate Donald Trump..yeah cause that makes total sense that a Republican would want to murder the nominee for the Republican party..yeah that sounds about right/sarc..Republican my ass, anyone could switch party affiliation to vote in the primaries, in fact Dems told people to do it and vote for Haley so he probably forgot to register back commie
Supposedly that video was taken at Arizona State University so might not be him
I believe that Hitler was a registered DEMONCRAT>
I guess I just don’t get it. This kid went through nothing that I didn’t in school, yet I and many like me NEVER went out to kill anyone!!!
I don’t think bullying had anything to do with hit. I could understand if he tried to kill the people who bullied him, but not this. This was something else. We need to crawl through the lives of every authority figure he ever encountered with a microscope. Someone radicalized him. Bet on it.
So the rifle team info comes from a Frederick Mach, who is “a few years behind” Crook, in other words about 3 years younger than the shooter and probably never met the guy or actually saw him shoot, but is probably just passing on rumors. Frederick Mach is thus just 16 or 17 years old and possibly excited by being interviewed by a news agency. Not sure how much weight to give his words.
A lot of Antifa/Rats registered GOP for open primaries.
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