Thomas Matthew Crooks had Donald Trump signs in his yard—neighbor

the media:

we'll stop naming school shooters due to copycat killers

also the media:

his name was thomas matthew and here's a 90 minute special about his preferred breakfast cereal

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ITT: Look at the parents, this kid was just rebelling!

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Or… He was a conservative that saw MAGA as the existential crisis that it is. He decided that he had nothing left to lose. He went for it.

Let’s be real here. The only shame was that he missed.

I think he died for a cause. But that could just be my bias showing.

Makes sense, most shooters show warning signs.

It is crazy how missing one shot could have changed the course of history. People are really trying to paint this guy as a leftist because of a donation lol.

Wasn't that $15 from a 69 year old veteran with the same name?

Do records show that he donated to a progressive PAC? I thought they show a person with the same name donated but that the age was different

False flag is a possibility but the US has enough crazy for something like this to just happen.

Who’s seen the new season of the boys

OK, so the signs were in his family's yard. This means his parents were supporters and the kid grew up w/ conservative parents. My guess (and this is just a guess) is his actions were in part a rebellious act against his parents.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A neighbor of the 20-year-old who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump said there have been pro-Trump signs on display in the yard of his family's home.

Authorities identified Thomas Matthew Crooks as the gunman who opened fired from a rooftop as the former president spoke at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

He was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but records show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on January 20, 2021—the day President Joe Biden was sworn into office.

A neighbor in Bethel Park, the Pittsburgh suburb where Crooks lived, said they saw pro-Trump signs in the family's yard as recently as a few months ago.

Crooks graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022 and worked as a dietary aide at a nursing home less than a mile from his family's house.

His father Matthew Crooks told CNN late on Saturday that he was trying to figure out "what the hell is going on" and would not speak publicly about his son until after he talked to law enforcement.

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I feel bad for the yard-neighbor, bet it hurt to get impaled with those signs.

They found themselves a useful idiot

If you try to kill anyone, let alone a politician running for president, you're likely a mentally imbalanced human that people usually only feel sorry for. I don't give a fuck if your 20yr old ass had any party alignment. This is such a joke.

He did it as a Tiktok challenge.

Maybe he was a Buddhist? “If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him”

My theory.

Kid is queer or weird or something. Parents forced him to register Republican and were generally abusive

I just saw a headline on 1440 that the Secret Service around Trump had been increasing security due to an Iranian security threat and that this shooting may be related to that.

I don't buy it, but do think it is a signal of where our next Middle East War will be.

Middle East III: Ayatollah We'd Be Back.