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Former classmate recalls Trump shooter grilling him over support for former POTUS: 'Did not like politicians.'
Fox News via AOL ^ | July 17, 2024 | Michael Ruiz

Posted on 07/17/2024 9:50:19 AM PDT by Freeleesy

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1 posted on 07/17/2024 9:50:20 AM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: Freeleesy; bitt; Red Badger; Tilted Irish Kilt; null and void; ZULU; rodguy911; fieldmarshaldj; ...

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2 posted on 07/17/2024 9:52:23 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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He also pushed back on reporting that Crooks was a complete loner. He had a friend group, he said, although it was both small and concerning. "They were definitely the type, and they did, make threats to shoot up our school," he said.

So Crooks made threats to shoot up the school and the staff ignored them?

3 posted on 07/17/2024 9:54:01 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I don’t think the parents are being truthful....in many, many ways. And I think he called them just before going on the roof and told them what he was about to do. We know they have his phone...but we haven’t heard boo.


4 posted on 07/17/2024 9:57:40 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It looks that way.


5 posted on 07/17/2024 9:58:03 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Sacajaweau

Exactly.


6 posted on 07/17/2024 9:58:13 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Freeleesy
, 'Well, you're Hispanic, so shouldn't you hate Trump?'" Vincent Taormina told Fox News Digital Tuesday.

That's definitely how lefties think. They can't imagine how a "minority" could possible support Trump.

7 posted on 07/17/2024 9:58:33 AM PDT by Tipllub
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

People aren’t aware to what degree the liberals have pushed “juvenile rights” to the point that police and educators risk prosecution for taking action.

This has happened mostly for “racial justice” reasons.

It used to be kids making violent threats were removed in a hurry, but I gather that pendulum has swung the other way.


8 posted on 07/17/2024 10:02:03 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yes, another question that hasnt been asked but should be: “If he was observed making a phone call just before the shooting, who did he call?”


9 posted on 07/17/2024 10:03:04 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Tipllub

I don’t think the idea that this kid is MAGA, can possibly hold up.

But they are trying, even after the guy tried to shoot Trump in the head.


10 posted on 07/17/2024 10:03:42 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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Wow. This blows apart the sanitized version we’ve gotten of Crooks upt to now, if what this guy says is true - especially about threats being made at the school and then Crooks being gone the next few days after the threat, and suspicions that it was Crooks who had made the threats, and then Crooks changing to not be so confrontational about politics when he disagreed with others.

The stories/claims have varied so wildly, there’s got to be narrative-setting going on.


11 posted on 07/17/2024 10:07:49 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

So Crooks made threats to shoot up the school and the staff ignored them?


Did staff have any idea? Kids usually don’t ‘tell’ on each other. It’s the kids’ code.

Many years ago, I had my 8th graders tell me about how the year before ‘Detritus’ (not his real name, but close) had brought a gun to school and was pointing it at the 7th grade teacher while she was writing on the chalkboard. Everyone in the class saw him do it more than once, and none of them said a word to any adult until they told me the next year. He had since moved out of state; he had a reputation in the neighborhood of threatening kids with guns, so they may have kept quiet out of fear.


12 posted on 07/17/2024 10:08:12 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

If Crooks did in fact threaten to shoot up the school, even if in jest, it makes complete sense of an interview I watched on YouTube yesterday. A young man who was a year ahead in school and lives on the same street was interviewed. He made the off hand comment “it’s really scary because he could have chosen to carry out something else. You know, taken a different route to carry out whatever he’s trying to prove “.

Ok. If your goal is to take out Trump there IS no other route to something else. It’s take out the target. The whatever he’s trying to prove was also odd.


13 posted on 07/17/2024 10:08:20 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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To: Sacajaweau

I don’t know if he called the parents definitely had reason to be suspicious of him.


14 posted on 07/17/2024 10:08:44 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Finally, four days after the “registered Republican” story has had time to sink in, after the claim that the shooter appeared to be non-political has set in, after Newsweek has told us the shooter’s family had pro-Trump signs in the yard, we hear from an acquaintance who reports that the shooter hated Trump, even suggesting that the shooter and his small group of friends had threatened the school.


15 posted on 07/17/2024 10:10:47 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Sacajaweau

I don’t think the parents are being truthful..


I agree. I think they knew that ‘something was up’, something bad. Why else call the cops to report an adult child missing for a few hours?


16 posted on 07/17/2024 10:11:07 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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If the son left a note I wonder if the parents destroyed it rather than use it to implicate their son further.


17 posted on 07/17/2024 10:11:29 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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Do you have a link for that?

Right now I’ve got so many tabs open I couldn’t find anything if I tried. lol


18 posted on 07/17/2024 10:12:01 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: hanamizu

Possibly because daddy realized his rifle was also missing?


19 posted on 07/17/2024 10:12:51 AM PDT by sevinufnine
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I guess it depends on how much the kids like the teacher. In my school, I didn’t see it, but a Jr. high student pulled a knife on a female teacher and one of the brothers knocked the MFer out cold with his book bag.


20 posted on 07/17/2024 10:13:08 AM PDT by Pol-92064
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