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.223/5.56 is a light bullet, any crosswind at all would have pushed it off course at that distance, not to mention we don't know if this guy had his sights adjusted correctly or had zeroed his rifle for a cold barrel shot. If the shooter had any hunting or military experience he would have gone with a .308 at the very least
.223 is perfectly fine to shoot 130 yards. This isn’t some William Tell derring do, but a very average kind of shot considering that yeah, his sights were probably set decent and he was shooting prone with a rest.

Like if I had to rate difficulty/execution, this was like a 5.5/10 for a civilian hobbyist shooter. Standard iron sights, one click at 100 yards moves the bullet one inch vertical. That’s a general sense of the resolution you’d be working with
As always, Aim little, miss bigly. The Shooter may have been aware that trump wears body armor under his clothes, so a body shot with a 5.56 may or may not have done serious damage depending on the plates and Kevlar level, but I get the feeling this guy wanted to splatter his brains on the crowd to "send a message" and insure that his death was caught on film rather than him being rushed ti a hospital and passing there.
 
NOTE: As of 4:14AM July 14, 2024 the most updated version of this post is in the more publically available thread in the Happenings forum.

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I made this new thread^ in a forum available to non-registered-users to share all the info I could with Styxhexenhammer666. I didn't want him to have to log in to see the information.

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UPDATED CLARIFICATION POST
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According to FOX News Digital and their correspondence with the FBI:


"The FBI has identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the subject involved in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on July 13, in Butler, Pennsylvania," the FBI said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

"This remains an active and ongoing investigation, and anyone with information that may assist with the investigation is encouraged to submit photos or videos online at FBI.gov/butler or call 1-800-CALL-FBI," the statement continued.

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TIMELINE OF REPORTING

Part ONE

So, before FOX News Digital released that information, the New York Post was the FIRST outlet (i repeat, the FIRST media outlet) to report the name "Thomas Matthew Crooks"


"The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump Saturday was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, sources told The Post."

The New York Post mentioned the name 'Thomas Matthew Crooks' around an hour BEFORE all the other news outlets did. Some of us, myself included, assumed that the New York Post got duped by a Twitter troll named @jewgazing. It was a reasonable assumption, partly because the New York Post also INITIALLY erroneously reported that the wannabe assassin was Chinese. I had to edit my previous Clarification Post because my analysis was that the New York Post not only mistook the assassin as someone who is 'Chinese' (because they definitely made that mistake, see pic below) but that the New York Post foolishly got duped into thinking that the assassin's name was Thomas Matthew Crooks based on a faggot twitter troll named @jewgazing.

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Part TWO

@jewgazing is a faggot twitter troll who posted this video


claiming to be Thomas Matthew Crooks and posted other pictures of himself claiming that the pictures were of the assassin. He (apparently) fooled me into believing that his name really is Thomas Matthew Crooks and that he duped the New York Post and other media outlets into spreading his name and pictures around

apparently (again, according to the FBI correspondent to FOX), the REAL name of the wannabe assassin really is Thomas Matthew Crooks. But they're not claiming that those @jewgazing pics are the wannabe assassin.

IF they start claiming those @jewgazing pics are attributable to the actual wannabe assassin , then we have some sinister potential fuckery on our hands


as well as this pic of him with a poster that says Shadilay

@jewgazing is obviously NOT the wannabe assassin. He is obviously STILL alive. If the FBI correspondent to Fox News Digital is telling the truth, then @jewgazing's real name is NOT actually Thomas Matthew Crooks, but some irrelevant name unknown to me

I assumed the NY Post made an error with the name "Thomas Matthew Crooks" because of this twitter faggot who may have fooled them, as media outlets tend to get fooled by online rumors.

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so at the very least, shadilay faggot = @jewgazing --> NOT the wannabe assassin, and likely to NOT be Thomas Matthew Crooks

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Part Three

Shortly after I apparently incorrectly summarized the events as best I could --- which was that @jewgazing=TM Crooks =/= wannabe assassin (<<----INCORRECT)

----I saw a conflicting report from Fox News Digital, which was claiming that an FBI correspondent revealed to them that the real legit name of the wannabe assassin actually WAS Thomas Matthew Crooks all along (!!!), which surprised me

My Reaction Was: "wait...so the New York Post leaked that name over an hour before everyone else did? They didn't get duped, like I assumed, into misreporting a fake name by the twitter troll @jewgazing, like they got duped into reporting at first that the wannabe assassin was Chinese??"

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(Compilation of Correct Information on Thomas Matthew Crooks)

I'll edit this post for the high school graduation ceremony vid later, but there is video footage of Thomas Matthew Crooks from his 2022 High School Graduation and also yearbook pictures of him. Assuming that FOX News Digital and their FBI correspondent aren't bullshitting us, that 2022 year old HS graduate, apparently born September 2003, **IS** the wannabe assassin.

edit: here's a supposed family picture i found on /pol/ of family members related to the wannabe assassin
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His mother is Mary Crooks, his father is Matthew Crooks.

He lived in Bethel Park, PA and went to Bethal Park High

High School Graduation Ceremony Pic

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^^^donated to ActBlue ( EARMARKED FOR PROGRESSIVE TURNOUT PROJECT (C00580068) ) as an underage 17 year old on January 20, 2021, when chomo joe was inaugurated


Voter Registration Info for Thomas Matthew Crooks, Born September 20, 2003, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania

sauce: https://www.pavoterservices.pa.gov/Pages/voterregistrationstatus.aspx

1. Find voter by name/county
2. Select Allegheny County
3. Zip code 15102
4. Name Thomas Crooks
5. Born 9/20/2003

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NOTE: Despite being a registered Republican, it is likely he did so to interfere in the Republican primaries to either vote AGAINST Republican primary candidates he didn't like, or to vote FOR Republican primary candidates that he perceived to be easier to beat. It's pretty much confirmed that many people interfered in the 2024 Republican Presidential primaries to vote for Nikki Haley in a foolish attempt to try to stop Trump from being the nominee.

Of course, it could also be the case that he's a registered R to avoid conflict with family members. It's currently unknown exactly why he registered as an R in Late 2021 (he would've turned 18 in September 2021; perhaps his parents made him register R)
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ADDENDUM

Shorter tentative **POSSIBLE Timeline of the Media Reporting on the Wannabe Assassin**

first of all, it's quite possible that a LEGIT source told the New York Post the name "Thomas Matthew Crooks" and that the New York Post released that name BEFORE all the others. However, the New York Post also erroneously first reported that the assassin was 'Chinese', which made people like me suspect they released bullshit to the public when they claimed the name was 'Thomas Matthew Crooks'

and then -- @jewgazing (twitter faggot I'm still annoyed at for confusing me and many other people) saw that New York Post article and started claiming that HE is Thomas Matthew Crooks (even though he isn't). Then people started spreading pictures of @jewgazing claiming that those pics are of Thomas Matthew Crooks. This episode may have fooled me into thinking that @jewgazing's IRL name = Thomas Matthew Crooks, when it really isn't. Look, you can accuse me of being faceblind, but @jewgazing has similar nose and lips to the guy in the high school graduation ceremony, so my erroneous assumption was that 'Thomas Matthew Crooks' = @jewgazing who is still alive, and that the real name of the wannabe assassin would get revealed eventually

and then, something that threw me in for a loop and surprised me and confused a bunch of people who read my post --An FBI correspondent tells FOX News Digital that the real name of the wannabe assassin is Thomas Matthew Crooks

of course, there's the possibility that FOX is also misreporting, and their 'FBI correspondent' is a gay ass bullshitting troll, but I'll assume that FOX and their FBI correspondent are legitimate for the time being

The Shadilay Pic and that @jewgazing video of him in the blue shirt (as well as some other pics of @jewgazing) are MOST DEFINITELY NOT of the actual wannabe assassin. However, @jewgazing verbally stated that he is "Thomas Matthew Crooks" (most likely not; unless the 'FBI correspondent' to FOX is a bullshitter or a fuckup). If FBI correspondent to Fox News Digital is legit, then the

CORRECT INFORMATION IS: Thomas Matthew Crooks, Born September 20, 2003; Went to Bethel Park High School; Pictures and Video Footage of Bethel Park High School 2022 graduation depicting Thomas Matthew Crooks in 2022 is footage of the actual wannabe assassin from his high school graduation

DISTORTED INFORMATION: Shadilay pic is NOT the wannabe assassin;; wannabe assassin is NOT blue shirt guy @jewgazing who was claiming he is 'Thomas Matthew Crooks' (the real name of @jewgazing is unknown to me at this point in time); jewgazing claims he can sue the New York Post but perhaps not, if all they did was show the wrong pictures of the wannabe assassin as opposed to showing the wrong name

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of course, if I wake up tomorrow and it turns out that the "FBI correspondent" to Fox News Digital was full of shit and the name of the wannabe assassin turns out to actually NOT be Thomas Matthew Crooks...I'm going to give up on writing these effort posts and leave it to the more experienced summarizers and sleuths
 
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The friendship between Shinzo Abe and Trump was one of the most genuinely heartwarming things I've seen from world leaders in decades. Always made me laugh. Probably had bunk beds at the G8 summit and stayed up late playing Battletoads on the Nintendo.

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everyone in this thread complaining about the shooters aim is dumb. the shot was good, it literally hit him. only for trump turning his head a split second before, it probably would have caved his head open. rewatch the clip.
.223/5.56 is a light bullet, any crosswind at all would have pushed it off course at that distance, not to mention we don't know if this guy had his sights adjusted correctly or had zeroed his rifle for a cold barrel shot. If the shooter had any hunting or military experience he would have gone with a .308 at the very least
223 or 556 aren't gonna be affected at 150 metres. it's 1.5 football pitches. most rifles default to being zero'd at 200 and he had (what appears to be) a perfect vantage point.
 
The friendship between Shinzo Abe and Trump was one of the most genuinely heartwarming things I've seen from world leaders in decades. Always made me laugh. Probably had bunk beds at the G8 summit and stayed up late playing Battletoads on the Nintendo.

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The only G7 leader that actually liked him and wasn't a douche to him.
 
The friendship between Shinzo Abe and Trump was one of the most genuinely heartwarming things I've seen from world leaders in decades. Always made me laugh. Probably had bunk beds at the G8 summit and stayed up late playing Battletoads on the Nintendo.

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Shinzo Abe was shot.... Trump was just shot at..... Turns out Globohomo just could not handle their friendship and sick videogame skills. Also, never realized until now how fast Abe getting shot got buried.
 
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