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Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks purportedly wrote chilling online post foreshadowing rally shooting: report
New York Post ^ | Published July 18, 2024, 3:08 a.m. | Larry Celona and Allie Griffin

Posted on 07/18/2024 1:31:31 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

Would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks purportedly wrote a chilling online message that hinted at his sinister plans for the day he shot up the former president’s Butler, Pa. rally over the weekend.

“July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds,” the 20-year-old gunman allegedly wrote on Steam, a popular online platform where gamers communicate, Fox News reported. Investigators are currently working to determine whether the posting is legitimate.

The foreshadowing was revealed to US senators during a briefing by top law enforcement officials Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 202407; 20240713; alliegriffin; assassination; assassinationattempt; assassinationplots; bombs; crooks; detonator; larrycelona; lorawireless; pa; premiere; steam; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump; trumprally
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To: Zhang Fei
Would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks purportedly

"Purportedly" is the clever new term for idiots wanting read time for their bullshit articles........

And it's also bait for the idiots who want to jump in and pretend they're lawyers........LOL!

21 posted on 07/18/2024 2:13:11 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Verginius Rufus

Watch the new documentaries of JFK shooting with new information out that was held for over 60 years.

JFK was going to end the CIA, Bobby was going after Mafia. So much information, witness testimonies, was left out of the warren commission.

I do believe it was a hit job by you know who.


22 posted on 07/18/2024 2:14:32 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: Zhang Fei

“ They were just up against a smart kid”

That’s why worked at some old folks place place feeding them


23 posted on 07/18/2024 2:16:00 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Zhang Fei

There’s been news about how the kid was too bad a shot to be admitted to the school rifle team.
= = =

This sounds really bogus.

Kids may start off a rest, at 50 feet. hard to miss a 5”x7” paper at that distance.

Then prone with sling. Again hard to miss paper. Bullseye is about an inch dia. Usually they quickly get groups of 1/2 inch, then improve.

Unless he is flailing his rifle around, spraying and praying, with teammates diving for cover.


24 posted on 07/18/2024 2:22:02 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Engedi

And LBJ and his wife were on the receiving end of that!! EVIL PEOPLE!


25 posted on 07/18/2024 2:39:55 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: monkeyshine

The 10’ step ladder belonged to the police.
Crooks’ 5’ ladder was atop the a/c unit on the next building over.
There’s a clear photo of both in place floating around.


26 posted on 07/18/2024 2:40:07 PM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: Zhang Fei

Your premier and your swan song. You forgot that man proposes but God disposes.


27 posted on 07/18/2024 2:41:02 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Zhang Fei

I was under the impression he had no online profile. FBI claimed there was nothing on his phone. He allegedly had two phones. No confirmation on that. Now we’re supposed to believe this?


28 posted on 07/18/2024 2:42:05 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: LeoTDB69

Ditto. He allegedly had no online profile either. Now this pops up? No thanks.


29 posted on 07/18/2024 2:44:06 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Zhang Fei

Unless he was set up.


30 posted on 07/18/2024 2:44:21 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: NWFree

There are plenty of really smart people who are underachievers and/or socially backward.


31 posted on 07/18/2024 2:48:35 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: LeoTDB69; Zhang Fei; All
The account turned out to be fake:

Online account thought to belong to Trump shooter was fake, source says

Another posted article made the same claim earlier.

But, Crooks must have had an online account. It just hasn't been found, yet.

32 posted on 07/18/2024 2:53:48 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

Planned...intentional...blown. The coverup is in full swing.


33 posted on 07/18/2024 2:58:57 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: NWFree

[“ They were just up against a smart kid”

That’s why worked at some old folks place place feeding them]


Ted Kaczynzki might have been certifiable, but he was also certifiably a genius. A white male doesn’t fit any government-sanctioned demographic quota anyone’s ever heard of. Pitt Engineering confirmed he was accepted into its program. As mentioned earlier, average 1400 SAT, ~95th percentile.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-rally-gunman-identified/


34 posted on 07/18/2024 3:05:59 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: Zhang Fei

How much training did he did to feed peas to senile people?


35 posted on 07/18/2024 3:12:51 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Tired of Taxes

It’s likely they scrubbed his stuff early if he had any online presence


36 posted on 07/18/2024 3:17:39 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Zhang Fei

I want the “registered Republican” nonsense upended.

Repeated more times than Bill Clinton’s trips to Epstein’s Lolita Island.

In the interest of harmony however I would accept “Crooks was an avid supporter of Liz Cheney.” Maybe.


37 posted on 07/18/2024 3:37:09 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: LeoTDB69

Cop experts can usually match word usage, syntax and so on to past letters and school papers. Also references only to himself versus fakes showing concern for others and so on. Books about Zodiac and others discuss this.

I would think that the new AI would be even more expert than that.


38 posted on 07/18/2024 3:41:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: NWFree

[How much training did he did to feed peas to senile people?]


How much training did Kaczynski need to become a hermit? The guy was a mathematician, just about the most theoretical egghead thing you can be, taught himself to build these bombs from rudimentary materials you can get from any grocery store. And the kicker is he did it without maiming himself the way even expert homemade bomb builders do.

The thing about some smart people is that they are socially awkward, some in the extreme. But in carrying out what interests them, they are fearless, focused and relentless.

Note that all Crooks had to do was stay alive for the minute or so he shouldered the rifle. Until then, he was just a kid looking at the rally with a pair of binoculars, belatedly identified as a rangefinder - something common in exurbs like Butler, along with pocket knives and Gerber multitools.

Plenty of literal dictators have been killed in more controlled settings. Rich Hanania, who counts JD Vance as a friend, has an essay on how political assassinations used to be more common.

https://www.richardhanania.com/p/why-are-there-so-few-assassinations

Most of the ones who succeeded or came within striking distance had one thing in common - they were prepared to die trying.


39 posted on 07/18/2024 3:41:37 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: Zhang Fei

He was so smart even the spectators had his number crawling along llke a rat and he would have been shot dead if competent security had been in charge


40 posted on 07/18/2024 3:49:05 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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