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Here is yet another article on the Trump assassin.

Former classmate describes Trump rally gunman as ‘definitely conservative’​

As mystery continues surrounding the possible motivations of the 20-year-old Pennsylvania man accused of trying to kill Donald Trump at a campaign rally, a former classmate of his came forward to describe him as “definitely conservative” when they were in school together.
“It makes me wonder why he would carry out an assassination attempt on the conservative candidate,” Max R Smith told the Philadelphia Inquirer of the accused shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks.

The FBI has not disclosed details on a possible motive in connection with Saturday’s shooting, which killed one spectator, injured two others and wounded the former US president in the ear – before Crooks was shot to death himself by Secret Service agents.
The bureau had previously seized several of Crooks’s electronic devices in an effort to piece together some of his communications before the rally.

By Monday, the FBI had accessed Crooks’s cellphone, and a preliminary review of its contents had not helped agents determine what his motive was for shooting at Trump, NBC News reported, citing a senior US law enforcement official.

Agents were seen on Monday canvassing Crooks’ neighborhood, knocking on people’s doors and asking them if they knew anything about him.

Smith’s recollection potentially adds contours to the complicated portrait of Crooks, who donated $15 as a 17-year-old to a progressive political action committee in early 2021 – and then registered to vote as a Republican months later aged 18, according to federal finance records and Pennsylvania voter data.

Smith said he and Crooks took a sophomore US history course together at Bethel Park high school, located in a middle-class suburb eight miles (13km) south of Pittsburgh.

Smith told the Inquirer about a mock debate in which the history professor asked students to signal their support or opposition for government policy proposals.

“The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side,” Smith said. “That’s still the picture I have of him. Just standing alone on one side while the rest of the class was on the other.”

Recollections about Crooks’ political views and high school experience vary considerably.

The son of a registered Libertarian father and Democratic mother, who are both licensed to work as behavioral health counselors, Crooks was cast by some former classmates as a tormented victim of bullying – and others as a kind, affable, “nerdy” child who excelled at math and science.

“He was very kind,” Mark Sigafoos told the Inquirer, adding that Crooks would help him in the two classes they shared. “He was a nerdy kid, but I don’t think he was as harshly bullied as some people are saying.

“I feel like this is one of those things that you wouldn’t expect from him … No one that I know said they ever found him to be a creepy, loner kind of guy.”

Sigafoos does not recall Crooks making political overtures in class – but rather as someone interested in how government works, and “not trying to insert his own beliefs into it”.

Yet another student from Bethel Park, who did not share any classes with Crooks, said he was mocked for his clothes, which included hunting outfits.

“He was bullied almost every day,” Jason Kohler told reporters. “He was just a outcast, and you know how kids are nowadays.”

Crooks reportedly shot at Trump wearing a T-shirt promoting The Demolition Ranch, a YouTube channel for gun enthusiasts. The channel has millions of subscribers featuring videos on different guns and explosive devices.

Secret Service counter-snipers fatally shot Crooks after he fired at Trump from a bottle manufacturing plant rooftop with an AR-style semiautomatic rifle legally purchased by his father.

Citing anonymous law enforcement sources, ABC News reported on Monday that local police helping watch the rally crowd had used the plant as a staging area. Investigators believe Crooks got on to the roof without a ladder and were trying to determine whether access to the roof had been properly locked down.

CNN reported being told by a senior law enforcement source that Crooks bought 50 rounds of ammunition hours before Saturday’s attack.

Trump said he was physically “fine” after a bullet hit the tip of his right ear.

The audience member killed was identified as the former firefighter Corey Comperatore, 50. David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, who were also in the audience, were both critically wounded.

Explosives were later found in Crooks’ vehicle, according to several news outlets, including CBS and the New York Times, citing anonymous law enforcement sources.

Crooks graduated high school in 2022.

The Hill reported on Monday that Crooks appeared alongside other Bethel Park high school students alongside a teacher in a video ad for asset manager BlackRock and its management for US public school teachers’ retirement plans.

BlackRock told The Hill that the company had removed the ad from circulation while making its video available to investigators.

He had been working as a dietary aid helping prepare food at a local nursing home. Marcie Grimm, the administrator of Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, said in a statement that Crooks had a clean background check when he was hired.

Initial searches appear to suggest that Crooks was not an avid social media user, and no clues about his motives or political declarations have so far been discovered in online posts or publications.
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Sweeter and Savoury said:
Dude we saw the body. Those round the USSS used do not fuck around. Most of his head was just gone and his chest was a gaping cavity. I dunno what you think they'd find in an autopsy.

"The patient died of blood loss due to complications...

...because 65% of his head and upper torso were missing."
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Wait there are body photos? I only saw the head
 
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Senator Ron Johnson says he read the wrong speech at the Republican National Convention.

Ron Johnson says he read wrong speech after calling Dem agenda ‘clear and present danger’​

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he read the wrong speech after calling the Democrats’ agenda a “clear and present danger” at the Republican National Convention on Monday.

“Today’s Democrat agenda, their policies, are a clear and present danger to America, to our institutions, our values and our people,” Johnson said in his remarks before the convention audience in Milwaukee.

But he later told PBS Newshour that he had intended to read a different version of the speech that called for unity, and that the teleprompter had loaded an older version of his speech.

“That speech was written last week. They literally loaded the wrong speech,” Johnson said.

“I had taken that out. Instead I’d loaded about that we needed a somber moment in history. We should heed President Trump’s call to unite,” he said.

“We must heal and unify this nation. I didn’t know how to take that out without screwing up the teleprompter.”

The comments come amid talk on both sides of the aisle about campaign rhetoric and the heightened temperature in the U.S. in the wake of the attempted assassination against Donald Trump.

The former president himself has called for Americans to united after the incident, in which a bullet grazed his ear while speaking at a rally in Butler, Pa.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who was just selected as Trump’s running mate, blamed the Biden administration for the recent shooting at the former president’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania.
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Naggers said:
I made one horrible post but I do agree with you
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Double posting is generally frowned upon, and editing messages to update to thread posts is what I've gathered to both more efficient and less obnoxious. At your own pace, I'm not someone to beat someone down, unless they're Tall Guy, I kind of called him a retard.
 
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Betonhaus said:
yeah, I see only two options:

1. The guy came there with bombs and a rifle fully prepared to kill a lot of people, but saw the roof was not being watched and switched objectives to shooting Trump

2. He was a fed plant and the entire thing was orchestrated to kill Trump, but failed.

If he was a fed plant, I want to know what their plan was after Trump was killed. The assassination would still kill any chance of a Democrat president, so were they planning to put one of their RINOs in charge of the RNC and switch teams?
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I'm pretty sure I mentioned this earlier. I think Nikki Haley would be the default nominee if Trump died as she came second in the primaries (since DeSantis dropped out before her) and would get all his electoral votes. So then their candidate would win either way.
 
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Kermit Jizz said:
There's a fair gap between the two. Ana's politics started flipping only when it started impacting her directly, and she has still expressed no regret or concern for all the harm she has caused others through her rhetoric. She is a rat with no scruples at her core, it's all about her well being.

As others pointed out, she's useful for the time being and the anti-establishment needs every voice they can acquire, so fair enough using her for what she's worth. But all the simping over her makes me sick to my stomach. Too many damn fools are eating up her act because she's moderately attractive for a hag.
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Simp means sexually idolizing mediocre pussy. I am not a simp by any means with many neocons I mean traitors to the left and not the war mongers and Peter Zeihan types. There is a sense of almost the newly joined are the most devout we have to see what happens next.
 
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mlanguishi said:
Isn't the saying 'A conservative is a liberal that's been mugged'? I think there's going to be a lot of that now. Especially leftists her age.
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She literally did get mugged and near instantaneously became more redpilled.
Naggers said:
You should let me grow into a more intelligent human being in my time here instead of putting me down. Don’t you think?
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Hard disagree.
 
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ChrisIsGay said:
The Amber Rose speech made me want to vomit.
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Today totally erased all the energy that I had the last two days.
Whore is now peak conservatism
Jeet leading a prayer to Satan.

I would say that in 2 years the Republicans will start doing the meme about leftists being the real transphobes.
 
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Day of the Cope said:
Bruh, we already know he's a WWE Hall of Famer. Of course he knows about blading. God, you're stupid.

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Can't tell if being ironic or not, but I've seen this point made plenty of times now unironically.

Anyway, in wrestling, you blade to get color (blood). The whole point being to make a cut on your skin that bleeds profusely (but not enough to kill you), but also one that (preferably) doesn't end up leaving a permanent mark. That ear mark on Trump is going to leave a very nasty wound unless he's very lucky/has a great plastic surgeon.
I also don't believe the logistics of using a razor sharp enough to leave a large gash in your ear in a matter of seconds *as you're being tackled to the floor* but doesn't cut your entire fucking ear off by mistake.
 
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6MillionCoofs said:
They are so clearly not telling us something. No 20 year old kill that seems mentally fucked up is this clean. Especially when they seemed to know how to rig explosives.
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They delayed releasing his name specifically to scrub the internet of as much of his presence as possible, as usual. The fact that they went the extra mile suggests wither this was a glowy asset, someone they were stringing along to pick up later before the next budget meeting who slipped the leash, or he was so obviously a biden supporting lefty that they had to hide it lest it incite some pretty heavy violence.

mlanguishi said:
And keeping an eye on DU a lot lately too, the seething is really a good sideshow. They're not listening to their master to turn down the heat I guess. Probably wondering 'why would anyone think this talk would make someone want to hurt Trump?!?' while they say it.


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The repeated mentions of DU made me remember LGF exists. LGF, for those that don't remember it, is an old righty blog where the main admin discovered Black Jesus after Obama was elected and went insane hard left.

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They do not disappoint.
 
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