The FBI identified the shooter, who is dead, as Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. A motive was not clear.
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Bethel Park is a predominantly white, relatively well-to-do city in the southern reaches of greater Pittsburgh. The site of the rally, Butler, is about an hour’s drive north of Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania voter records listed a Thomas Matthew Crooks with the same address and birth date as a registered Republican, though it was not clear from the records when that was put in place.
I guarantee you that MAGA people will claim that he registered as a Republican as part of a big conspiracy that involves Biden personally sending him to kill Trump (which they won’t realize is arguably acceptable unless he is impeached and removed from office according to SCOTUS).
Already came out that he donated to a liberal group once. They will latch onto that
Yeah, single donation of $15 on January 20th, 2021 for voter turnout PAC.
You don’t think he was one of the Republicans that were outraged after January 6th?
Everything we know about him so far, screams “libertarian”.
Dad and sister are registered libertarians. Mom is a registered dem. Take from that what you will. I’m sure we’ll learn more about him in the coming days and weeks.
Sure, but even if that didn’t come out, he’d be a secret librul.
They already latched on to spouting BS that about him attending BLM protests and going all the way cross the country to Seattle to come to CHOP.
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I read the FEC page. Same name, same zip code. Highly unlikely it’s someone else. Kid was 17 at the time and his job was “Not Employed”
NYTimes screenshot of the FEC document:
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/fe91e6ba36695009/ac182c3a-full.pdf
The donation is almost certainly him
Turns out the only good republican was a dead republican.
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Miss.
They didn’t miss the good guy.
He was a registered Republican but he also gave $15 to The Progressive Turnout Project which is a Democratic run group.
Honestly, it kind of seems like if he didn’t do this, he would be a mass shooter. He was constantly bullied and was a quiet loner.
this is speculation but
disillusioned youth, no prospects, small hope in progressive cause (probably Bernie), gets screwed by the party, gets further disillusioned, sees TFG, thinks it’s good to have an outsider to show these establishment politicians what’s what, registers republican, gets easily reeled in to the far right pipeline, becomes interested in Q stuff, gets obsessed with pedophilia and Epstein, sees recent Epstein revelations about TFG, ends up where too many people end up in the US: full of anger and hate with easy access to guns.
could be far off, but i wouldn’t be surprised.
What’s TFG?
the former guy. the orange turd. the fascist orangutan. the bitch baby.
Cheeto-Benito Mango-Mussolini.
That Fucking Guy
Honestly that is an extremely common path. Mussolini took that route. He was a socialist that was pissed about the lack of progress so he went far right in the other direction.
Different Thomas Crooks.
Same zip code and age. Do you have evidence that it is a different person?
Different zip and city it seems
Pittsburgh vs New Bethel
And no middle names, just Thomas Crooks
Thank goodness Republicans have made it so anyone can get a gun at any time for any reason. /s
