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Trump shooter Thomas Crooks was not a member of rifle team, wasn’t bullied despite previous reports, school claims
NY Post ^ | 7/20/24 | Olivia Land

Posted on 07/20/2024 12:05:20 PM PDT by hardspunned

Failed Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ high school further deepened the mystery surrounding the disturbed shooter’s teen years Saturday when officials denied allegations that he tried out for its rifle team, was bullied and threatened to shoot up the school years before carrying out his sinister plot.

Bethel Park High School “has no record” of Crooks, 20, trying out for the school’s rifle team, it said in an updated statement Saturday.

“The coach does not recall meeting him. However, it is possible that Crooks informally attended a practice, took a shot, and never returned,” the statement read.

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To: TauntedTiger

Crooks apparently was a member of a gun club with a range [which he apparently visited on Friday].


21 posted on 07/20/2024 12:23:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: cgbg
This reminds me of the fake “Lee Harvey Oswald” going to a rifle range in Dallas and insulting the customers to make sure he was noticed and everybody knew his “name”. The “legend” continues... Lol.

Something def smells about all this, but with all the claims and counter-claims... Forget the water tower, I want to know who was on the grassy knoll...
22 posted on 07/20/2024 12:26:59 PM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: hardspunned

Crooks was the perfect patsy..this was ordered by Biden and his cronies..this was Biden’s way of blaming Iran when it was them the whole time. Tell me why before the shooting Biden’s team was so convinced they could win the election and now they are in freak out mode, because their plan failed..Trump was NOT supposed to move his head


23 posted on 07/20/2024 12:27:32 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: gibsonguy

“The Deep State is fill the scene with fog and mirrors creating as much confusion as possible”

By now they should have completely inspected the rifle Crooks had on the scene. During that process they can identify if the rifle was shot. By now they should have recovered bullets from the scene if they are properly doing their job. So by now they know if Crooks was the only shooter, one of multiple shooters. or not a shooter but present with a gun while others did the shooting.

Ignore the fog and gaslighting of the media, politicians and bureaucrats. Minimally he was a felon attempting to murder a former president and/or people in the crowd. All indications so far are he was an actual murderer bent on assassinating a candidate for president and thereby changing the course of an election. Nothing else matters unless he was part of a conspiracy involving other people. His relationships in school, his parenting, his membership or not on a rifle team, his current job, and any other facet of his life have no bearing on the crime he committed. He is accountable.

The only issue other than the identity of the shooter or shooters that matters is why law enforcement did not perform its duty. Was it incompetence, poor leadership, or actual participation in the assassination attempt? This question has not been answered. We do not even know who the Secret Service supervisor of security at the event was that day. Someone must be held accountable for the failure of law enforcement that day. If law enforcement was involved in facilitating the shooting, multiple people need to be held accountable and punished severely.


24 posted on 07/20/2024 12:30:17 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: hardspunned

We have 3-d re-creations of the position of DJTs head. We have photos of bullets flying through the air. We have the technology to recreate the event.

Yet there is no official timeline of the assassination attempt. We don’t know where each bullet that was fired landed. We don’t know if that gigantic ladder against the building is always there. Or where it came from.


25 posted on 07/20/2024 12:31:36 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Don’t ever tell me “it can’t happen here.”)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Hid father owned guns, including an AR, he probably learned to shoot like kids used to, with dad.


26 posted on 07/20/2024 12:33:43 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Has anyone yet asked Biden, “What did you mean when you said ‘Trump was going to have a very bad week’? And what did you mean when predicting that ‘Trump was going to be challenged in a way he’s never been challenged before’? These certainly sound like statements made with foreknowledge of the assassination attempt.”


27 posted on 07/20/2024 12:34:48 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: BikerJoe

James Jesus Angleton, CIA Counterintelligence Chief was the master of sowing disinformation and confusion.

His plots were ridiculously complex—if you had a chart of the deceptions it would look like a bowl of spaghetti.

While they were mostly used to confuse foreign adversaries they were also employed in the JFK assassination and related events.

Tools in the toolkit included:

—Fake people—sometimes not even good lookalikes. The most famous one was the laughable “Oswald in Mexico”.
—Fake witnesses just making up lies
—Controlled journalists or writers cranking out more lies
—Diversion and distraction. The facts could be correct but designed to draw attention away from data that needed to be hidden.
—Name calling—weaponized the “conspiracy theory” term. It had been around for a long time but exploded in the mass media after the JFK assassination.
—Patsy creation, training, monitoring and control. (Training = teaching a few Marines Russian as one example.)
—Fake evidence—guns, ammunition, fingerprints, and of course document forgeries.
—Fake politics—have patsy hand out leaflets, order literature, write letters to leave a “trail” that looked they had certain political views.


28 posted on 07/20/2024 12:39:33 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: GSWarrior
We have 3-d re-creations of the position of DJTs head. We have photos of bullets flying through the air. We have the technology to recreate the event.

Yet there is no official timeline of the assassination attempt. We don’t know where each bullet that was fired landed. We don’t know if that gigantic ladder against the building is always there. Or where it came from.

 

And 60 years later - despite million of days spent by authorities and everyone else as they recreated the Kennedy assassination - We still don't know the real truth of what happened.

29 posted on 07/20/2024 12:41:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: hardspunned

He’s a friggin’ commie lib liar. A turd rolling Democrat.


30 posted on 07/20/2024 12:41:36 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hi! I'm Fling. My pronouns are Dem, Deez and Doze. )
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To: Responsibility2nd

Crooks and his father belonged to the Clairton Sportsmen’s club close to their home. He’d probably been shooting for years.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/us/thomas-crooks-trump-rally-shooting-invs/index.html


31 posted on 07/20/2024 12:42:50 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: ansel12

Hid father owned guns, including an AR, he probably learned to shoot like kids used to, with dad.

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He shoots better than most marksmen. In a matter of seconds he trained his weapon away from the cop climbing onto the roof.

Then he went back to his position, regrouped on to his target, rescoped as necessary, then fired a bullseye at 135 yards.


32 posted on 07/20/2024 12:44:22 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Soul of the South

Incompetence or lack of personnel is part of the smokescreen now. The most important thing now is the fact that they had eyes on a man with a rifle on a roof with clear line of sight an ex President for a least 30 minutes and let him take the shots before taking action. You will notice the videos of people screaming they see a shooter are vanishing


33 posted on 07/20/2024 12:44:52 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Jamestown1630

I barely qualified with the M-16 while in the Marines. Yet I could hit a target of that size from that distance from a prone position.


34 posted on 07/20/2024 12:45:37 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Don’t ever tell me “it can’t happen here.”)
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To: GSWarrior

I’ve heard other experienced shooters say the same.


35 posted on 07/20/2024 12:48:48 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: hardspunned

Of course the school administration is going to say, “Nope..no bullying reported here!”

Because even kids that are bullied know better than to report it. That just leads to more bullying.


36 posted on 07/20/2024 12:49:08 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: hardspunned

The number of people so frothed up in conspiracy theories when good old crazy and lazy can account for every mistake made here.

And there was no second shooter. If there were, Trump would be dead.


37 posted on 07/20/2024 12:51:11 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
If he didn’t learn how to shoot a rifle at school, then who did train him?

I learned at home. My father taught me a bit, and I learned a bit from books.

At his age, I could shoot as well.

Shooting is a skill that can easily be self taught.

38 posted on 07/20/2024 12:54:31 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: John S Mosby

Let’s be clear. You do not believe Crooks was a member of the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club at age 20?

Did his father purchase a DPMS AR-15 5.56 in 2013? Do you believe that? Did Crooks use it that day? Why or why not do you believe that?


39 posted on 07/20/2024 12:54:43 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: hardspunned

He had 3 offshore banking accounts, linked to BLM, ANTIFA, The Freemasons and also a member of the loyal order of the moose.
He is a true man of mystery. But Im sure the FBI will get to the bottom of this like they did with the SCOTUS leak and the Jan 6 pipe bombers.


40 posted on 07/20/2024 12:58:45 PM PDT by Yorlik803
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