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Trump Rally Gunman ID’d as 20-Year-Old Math Geek Thomas Matthew Crooks

Posted on | July 14, 2024 | 2 Comments

The official confirmation of the Trump rally shooter’s identity — Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania — came about 3 a.m.:

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump during a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, has been pictured for the first time.
Cooks, 20, was on the roof of a manufacturing plant over 130 yards away from Trump’s rally at Butler Farm Show grounds on Saturday when he took fire at the former president — grazing Trump’s ear and killing one rally attendee.
Immediately after he began shooting, Secret Service snipers took the 20-year-old out. He was found with an AR-style semi-automatic assault rifle and was wearing a shirt for a popular gun YouTube channel, Demolition Ranch.
One former classmate, who confirmed photos of Crooks, told The Post, “He didn’t seem like really weird or anything. I would have pegged him as a Republican.”
The classmate added: “He was more of a loner. He probably had a friend group, but not many friends.
Asked why he wasn’t in the 2022 yearbook, the classmate said “Maybe he didn’t come back after Covid.”
Crooks grew up in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park, Pa., a village about 40 miles south of Trump’s rally in Butler.
According to state voter status records, he was a registered Republican.
He also made a single $15 donation to the liberal ActBlue political action committee on Jan. 20, 2021 — President Biden’s Inauguration Day, the Intercept reported.
At the time of the donation, Crooks was 17 years old. He registered to vote upon turning 18 in September of that same year as a member of the GOP, records show.
Crooks was a member of the 2022 graduating class at Bethel Park High School, the school district confirmed Sunday morning.
Video shows him walking across a stage to accept his diploma.
He also received a $500 National Math and Science Initative Star Award during his graduating year, TribLive reported.
Why Crooks fired on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is unclear.
Early Sunday the FBI officially confirmed the Post’s reporting, calling Crooks the “subject involved” in the attack on Trump.

A loner math geek — of course. It all makes sense now. It’s never the gregarious English majors who commit these atrocities.

UPDATE 11:45 a.m. ET: Are we paranoid enough?

These are my suspicions as well — once the FBI gets involved, the suspect’s social media accounts disappear, so that if he did say anything on Facebook, Reddit, etc., that would give us a sense of his motive, nobody but the FBI can know about it. That’s why I can guarantee you that the shooter is not an anti-Semite or a white supremacist or any kind of “right-wing extremist,” because if that were the case, we would have learned about it many hours ago. One of my acquaintances believes this assassination attempt was a CIA op and, while I am dubious of his theory, I can’t prove it’s wrong, because the FBI has successfully suppressed every independent source of knowledge about the suspect’s motive.



 

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