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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: NWFree

[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]


Without shouldering his rifle, which was in a bag. That’s key. Can’t shoot an unarmed civilian. He probed for a gap, limited his actions to what wouldn’t draw fire, then used the minute or so he had after shouldering the rifle to get four hits within feet of Trump under threat of imminent death. Could you do better?

And, let’s face it - if you choose to take a long range shot at Biden, you can be Einstein, and still be unable to do it without a rifle. He chose a long arm instead of the approach taken by Sirhan Sirhan or John Hinckley. One reason so many choose to get up close and personal is possibly because win or lose, the odds of personal survival are better. The Secret Service is a lot more cautious about peppering the crowd around the President with gunfire than they are about blowing away a lone sniper from a distance.


41 posted on 07/18/2024 4:05:53 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 he did this when he was 15 years old

“ EXCLUSIVETrump shooter Thomas Crooks threatened to ‘shoot up’ his high school and ‘put bombs in the bathrooms’ years before his failed assassination attempt on the former president”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13648833/trump-assassination-attempt-shooter-thomas-crooks-school-threat.html

What a genius.


42 posted on 07/18/2024 4:11:25 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Zhang Fei

“ Crooks, 20, has emerged from his beginnings as a ‘normal’ little boy to the young man who grew up to be an increasingly troubled loner whose internet search history included ‘major depressive disorder’ and who some suspected was bi-polar or schizophrenic.”

He was a freakin nutball

You need to change your false narrative


43 posted on 07/18/2024 4:15:34 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Zhang Fei

allegedly wrote on Steam, a popular online platform


https://store.steampowered.com/

How many games there would have assignations? learn how to do it from the games.


44 posted on 07/18/2024 4:38:20 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: NWFree

[He was a freakin nutball

You need to change your false narrative]


He was a smart kid with a screw loose. Not as smart as Kaczynski, but just as crazy, and borderline suicidal. Smart doesn’t mean good. Hitler was estimated to have an IQ as high as 140. Bin Laden was probably in the same range. A lot of constructive potential wasted, to say nothing of the grief and destruction they inflicted.

Everyone he knows, including his folks, is wondering if there’s anything they could have done differently. As an only child, his death will have hit his parents especially hard. No matter how rotten he turned out, his parents will always remember him as a toddler, taking his first steps, saying his first words, and wonder how it all went to hell.


45 posted on 07/18/2024 4:47:01 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

His dumbass parents the supposed behavioral therapists thought it would be smart (there’s that word again) to give him daddy’s gun


46 posted on 07/18/2024 4:58:16 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Zhang Fei

Daddy said he thought junior was just popping off a few rounds at the range instead of killing people with the gun he provided to the nutball


47 posted on 07/18/2024 5:00:02 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: NWFree

[His dumbass parents the supposed behavioral therapists thought it would be smart (there’s that word again) to give him daddy’s gun]


Smart people aren’t always wise. Israel has, arguably, the smartest electorate in the world. It won’t execute Palestinian terrorists convicted of murder, treated Sinwar’s tumor, set him free. Gun control is suffocating there, to the extent maybe 1% of the population has his own private firearm, and gun owners are limited to 50 rounds. Large numbers of Israel’s best and brightest thought it a good idea to live right next to a territory that routinely lobbed thousands of rockets into Israel annually. That doesn’t mean they were any less smart.


48 posted on 07/18/2024 5:08:02 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: NWFree

[Daddy said he thought junior was just popping off a few rounds at the range instead of killing people with the gun he provided to the nutball]


This is called adverse selection. People with murderous aspirations who advertise their dysfunction end up in padded rooms. The ones functional enough to keep quiet are the ones who end up in the news, and occasionally in the morgue.


49 posted on 07/18/2024 5:13:54 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 wasn't an only child. He had an older sister.

Details emerge about Trump shooter Thomas Crooks' sister

50 posted on 07/18/2024 5:19:31 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Zhang Fei

It was probably part of his conditioning to become a mind controlled assassin.


51 posted on 07/18/2024 5:25:08 PM PDT by FrdmLvr
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To: Tired of Taxes

[He wasn’t an only child. He had an older sister.
Details emerge about Trump shooter Thomas Crooks’ sister]


Thanks for the correction. Good for the family.


52 posted on 07/18/2024 5:29:45 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

Well it seems the FBI has had plenty of time to fabricate his entire back ground. I figured they would have had it complete by Monday.


53 posted on 07/18/2024 6:06:38 PM PDT by Organic Panic (SDemocrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Ezekiel

A premiere is a beginning, not a suicidal end.


54 posted on 07/18/2024 6:41:36 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Zhang Fei

There is another article on the Post site that includes that Kelley Little neighbor who said the family were Trump supporters but at some point unexplained took the signage down.
Also in this other article in the post they claim (citing this British channel https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-secret-data-on-gunmans-family ) that the social working family of a Libertarian father and Democrat mother were targeted for campaign purposes as pogenital supporters to reach out to.

Still unexplained is why a registered libertarian would be called a Republican and also unexplained is the lack, so far as we know, of political donations to conservative organizations by any of them.

Also unexplained is his donation to an obscure progressive organization through ActBlue right around the time another witness says Crooks and/or his friends made a threat of a school shooting.

Has anyone researched the one organization he donated to?


55 posted on 07/18/2024 6:59:25 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Did Crooks have a girlfriend?


56 posted on 07/18/2024 7:00:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Zhang Fei

The snipers knew he was on the roof for around 20 minutes and let him take the first shot. This was criminal negligence more than some F’ing brilliant POS kid.


57 posted on 07/18/2024 7:10:14 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: Zhang Fei

They are already walking this story back...


58 posted on 07/18/2024 7:13:41 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ohioman

[The snipers knew he was on the roof for around 20 minutes and let him take the first shot. This was criminal negligence more than some F’ing brilliant POS kid.]


They saw a kid with binoculars, belatedly identified as a rangefinder. In an exurb, probably as common as hen’s teeth. They’re used in golf, hunting and can, in a pinch, work as binoculars. The kid shouldered the gun at the last minute or so.

Note that whatever optics the cops are using, it’s like looking through a straw. They have to pan over other possible spectators or shooters looking at the rally through binoculars, some of whom may be concealed behind a hide, a curtain or a window as Lee Harvey Oswald was.

In retrospect, Crooks was the only game in town, as far as assassins go. At that moment, they had no clue he was the sum total of the threats they faced. And what if Crooks was a decoy, the unarmed civilian leg of a two- or however many-strong crew deployed to draw the cops away from the actual shooters? Or just the wrong man at the wrong time, as the Atlanta Olympics security guard was, when he found the homemade bomb? Things that are clear to the cops now weren’t until Crooks fired the first shot. Then the Secret Service marksman quickly focused on where he had last seen him, unarmed, and took him out.


59 posted on 07/18/2024 8:02:56 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: piasa

[There is another article on the Post site that includes that Kelley Little neighbor who said the family were Trump supporters but at some point unexplained took the signage down.

Also in this other article in the post they claim (citing this British channel https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-secret-data-on-gunmans-family ) that the social working family of a Libertarian father and Democrat mother were targeted for campaign purposes as pogenital supporters to reach out to.

Still unexplained is why a registered libertarian would be called a Republican and also unexplained is the lack, so far as we know, of political donations to conservative organizations by any of them.

Also unexplained is his donation to an obscure progressive organization through ActBlue right around the time another witness says Crooks and/or his friends made a threat of a school shooting.

Has anyone researched the one organization he donated to?]


I think his political affiliation is up in the air, but it would be unsurprising if the kid were either Republican or conservative, although it would be preferable, for 2024, if he were both Democrat and progressive. JFK wasn’t killed by a Republican (or the so-called atmosphere of hate in Dallas invented out of whole cloth by Jackie Onassis, with the connivance of JFK’s mythmakers) - Oswald was a communist unhappy that JFK was not left-wing enough for him. James Garfield was killed by a favor-seeker of the same party. The thing with people who aren’t all there is you never know what will set them off.


60 posted on 07/18/2024 8:31:41 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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