Occupy Democrats: FBI Drops BOMBSHELLS About The Trump Shooter (Shooter Fits Profiles)

[TheBlackAdder]

White, teen, bullied, AR-15 gun fetishist.

He was a Republican but donated to Act Blue

[snowybirdie]

1. He didnt

donate to Vote Blue. It was another guy who was 69 years old with the same name. So he was just another dissatisfied young incel.

[LexVegas]

3. False. nt

[Indykatie]

7. I've Seen Reference to His Donation to a Dem Candidate All Over the Internet

I figured it was bogus because he would have been under 18 when he was supposed to have made the donation. The donation was for $15.

[TheProle]

9. False

[Kingofalldems]

58. Registered republican-- TRUE.

In case you missed it.

[TheProle]

60. Didn't miss it and didn't respond to that point. Go play elsewhere.

[Polybius]

61. That's not what the poster said

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Why not reply to the other poster?

[Kingofalldems]

62. Here's some more:

Link to tweet

[Polybius]

64. A Never Trumper?

[Kingofalldems]

65. Not a Democrat---which the MAGAt internet trolls are screaming.

[Polybius]

66. The only things that we know for a fact at this time are his Party registration and one small donation

I look forward to the FBI report.

[Cha]

12. TY... do have a link for that? This is the first

I've read of this

[snowybirdie]

15. I saw

a voters card posted on Threads with this information. It was next to the voters card of the shooter. Looks like I've opened a hornet's nest for some folks. The theories are flying everywhere today . Sorry if I've offended anyone.

[Cha]

18. Not offended.. Just intensely curious. I hope it's True.

I just wanted to verify it.

You're not the only one who said it was "false" on this thread.

TY for responding

[LizBeth]

28. We heard it could be another man but I heard earlier an address verifies the donation

came from his home address. The only other way that I see if he is a strong Republican and someone donated in his name. I do not know if that is possible or not, but before I own he did give 15 on inaugration night which is ahrd for me to believe a 17 yr old would do, then I would like that cleared up.

[chowder66]

14. There is a form posted somewhere on here that I saw earlier

of the donation.
It shows the address which apparently is the same address as the shooters family home.

Here is the form they posted. I can't find the original post but it also has his Republican voter registration.
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202102049425405473


Have you seen a verified source about the donation being from a 69 year old? I wasn't able to find anything.

I also found this;

Aric Toler
@AricToler
No.
If you search the filing on http://fec.gov, the address for this Thomas Crooks is the Bethel Park address and ZIP code he lived in. For some reason it's incorrectly listed as Pittsburgh in the filing (his address doesn't exist in Pittsburgh).
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Alex Cole
@acnewsitics
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3h
Another MAGA talking point down the drain.

Thomas Crooks, who donated 15 bucks to Act Blue, is a 69-year-old Democrat who lives in Pittsburgh and just happens to have the same name as the Republican who shot Trump.

Link to tweet

About Aric Toler (he seems very respected for his investigative work on tracking)
@nytimes
Visual Investigations,
Previously
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[karynnj]

73. If you put the address on the donation to google maps with Pittsburgh as city it goes to his address

As this post notes earlier, there is no such address in Pittsburgh proper. It is odd that he would write the address as he did.

[Celerity]

24. this is false, you should self-delete

the receipts showing you are posting misinformation:

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




https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202102049425405473




https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/thomas-crooks_id_G-6003147808585669947

[Hermit-The-Prog]

35. Your post confirms: shooter in Bethel Park is not donor in Pittsburgh.

[LeftInTX]

38. The address and zip code are the same.

Put both the shooters address and the donor's address in google and it takes to the same house!




I work with voter files and cities and zip codes are "fluid". I have a friend who lives in San Antonio, whose zip code is in another town. The home is legally in "Bethel Park", but via the mail it's in the Pittsburgh metro area. There is only one ]b]"2506 Milford Dr" in Allegheny County.

Generally counties only have one address assigned per street name and number. That is because counties are the property appraising districts.
Bethel Park is a suburb of Pittsburgh. Both Pittsburgh and Bethel Park are in Allegheny County.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

39. Thanks. Not totally convinced, but willing to entertain the idea. :)

[LeftInTX]

40. Put the addresses in google and see what happens.

I can repeat it over and over, but unless someone researches it themselves, they won't believe it.

[The Grand Illuminist]

44. Gonna side with you on this.

Many major cities have town like boroughs but still can get and send mail post marked addressed from the major city.

[debm55]

48. True, at one time , we lived in South Park. However , mail to our home address would be Patrick Place, Pittsburgh.PA or

or Patrick Place, South Park, PA. The Zip code was the same for both. As long as the zip code was correct we would get our mail ---not the name of the city. At least that is how it is done in Allegheny County.

[karynnj]

74. Thanks for the very clear explanation.

[Celerity]

41. Now it does not, the address is the same, with same zip code, the kid just wrote Pittsburgh instead of Bethel Park

like people do often when they live in suburbs of a big city. Example: people often say they live in or are from Los Angeles and do not give the exact area or suburb inside Los Angeles County.








Allegheny County
County in Pennsylvania



Google the donation address

it yields the same address as if you had typed in Bethel Park




Case closed, it is the shooter on both forms.

[Quixote1818]

2. This video pretty much nails it and hopefully this will be the ending narrative coming out of all of this. K and R

[Crowman2009]

6. You would think, but this is MAGA world we are dealing with.

Which means that ANTIFA, Biden, Soros, you, me, etc. are going to get the blame.

[Quixote1818]

10. I can tell you who is going to get connected with this in the conspiracy world. Blackrock LOL

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Crooks was in a Blackrock commercial at his school they did for Teacher Appreciation. Blackrock is right up there with Soros for conspiracy folks. Still, that is like 15% of people out there. The moderate independents in the middle who will decide this election won't pay any attention to that.

Link to tweet

/video/1

[chowder66]

16. I have no idea what this is but I went to twitter and the replies are fucking whacko on steroids.

[58Sunliner]

31. He went to school where they did a commercial? Coincidence.

[Crowman2009]

4. I thought everyone with an AR-15 was a good guy with a gun.

[FBaggins]

5. The profile of a school shooter perhaps

I wish the race-to-spin crowd (on both sides) would just hold fire (pun intended) until much more information was in.

He donated some spare change to Act Blue right after Jan 7th you say? Was that because he was liberal? Or maybe they just told him they were a get-out-the-vote org (true) and he didn’t know what he was donating to? Or maybe the fundraiser was a cute college student? In short - it tells us next to nothing.

He was a registered republican you say? Is that because he was conservative? Or maybe he rebelled against his (democrat) parents… or maybe he was a liberal who registered Republican so that he could vote Haley in the primary… or again - there might have been a cute girl republican next to him in line when he got his drivers license. Again - it tells us next to nothing.


What we do know was that he wanted to kill Trump. That’s it.

We’ll know more soon enough - not that it’s likely to change anything

[Crowman2009]

8. My guess is that he got fired for his MAGA views and was hoping for Trump to pay his legal fees, or offer him a job.

[Trueblue Texan]

67. Maybe he made the donation to make himself look like someone who wouldn't look guilty of...

...committing acts of violence against anyone on the left or right. I know...we needed more speculation.

[Cha]

11. I wonder When he Registered as a Repub? He donated

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15 bucks to Act Blue when he was 17.. So when did he decide to be a repub?

TY for this OP

[wishstar]

17. Maybe because his Dad is Repub and gun lover who bought the assault rifle

[Cha]

21. Oh wow... This is Important inormation

I did not know..

TY!

[womanofthehills]

50. Some reports say his father & mother are registered dems

Some say both parents are councilors- some say his father is a psychologist. Parents income claimed to be 310,000 - but live in a small house. WHO knows? Info is all over the place.

[kcr]

71. If that's true that might explain

why he donated to Act Blue when he was 17 but later switched. It's common for kids to hold the same political views as their parents until they get older. I thought I was a Republican because my parents were, and I was around his age when I switched.

[LeftInTX]

72. I read that his father is a Libertarian and his mother is a Dem

Crooks was a registered Republican, according to state registration records. City councilman Dan Grzybek, who represents the area where Crooks lived, said he met the family last year. Crooks’ father was a Libertarian, and his mother a Democrat, according to Grzybek, who told the Times this was “a fairly typical mix for the area.”

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-rally-shooter-bullied-loner-213348608.html?guccounter=1


I think this source is more reliable, since it comes from a local city councilman.

This might explain why his father purchased the AR 15

[crickets]

57. His parents are registered as Democrats. The gun did belong to his father.

Thomas Matthew Crooks parents: Who is the Trump shooter's family? What they do?
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/presidential-election/2024/07/14/6693d31a268e3e414c8b458f.html

His parents are both registered with the Democratic Party and are thought to come from a healthy financial home with an annual income in the region of approximately $310,000 per annum thanks to his dad's work and career as a reputable psychologist with published works.

His mother, Elena, works as a home wife but she has a background in education as a teacher at elementary school or middle school level before focusing on raising Thomas Crooks and his siblings. [snip]

The house was supposedly free of arguments and fighting and Thomas Crooks is said to have lived a very normal childhood up until the age of 18 when he moved out after falling out with his parents. He did not move back in with them.

The motive for the separation is unknown other than it's claimed he had a big fight with his dad, and he had lived with his grandparents for a time before moving on after they caught him using drugs and told him off for it.

FBI investigating Trump rally attack as potential act of domestic terrorism
https://www.kget.com/news/politics/ap-trump-is-injured-but-fine-after-apparent-assassination-attempt-leaves-rally-goer-and-gunman-dead/

The gunman had his father’s AR-style rifle and was perched atop a nearby roof when some rallygoers pointed him out to local law enforcement, said two law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal probe.

A local law enforcement officer climbed to the roof and found Crooks, who pointed the rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder, and the gunman quickly fired toward Trump, the officials said. That’s when U.S. Secret Service gunmen shot him, the officials said. [snip]

Bomb-making materials were found inside both Crooks’ vehicle and at his home, officials said. The FBI described the devices as “rudimentary.”

His motive remained unclear. Crooks wasn’t on the FBI’s radar, and he was believed to have acted alone. Investigators combed through his social media feeds and his home but found no immediate threatening writing or posts. His family was cooperating. Crooks’ relatives didn’t return messages seeking comment from the AP.

Authorities hunt for clues, but motive of man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump remains elusive
https://apnews.com/article/trump-assassination-attempt-thomas-matthew-crooks-shooter-881581c46c07025898027143fc9132e5

Crooks graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022. In a video of the school’s graduation ceremony posted online, Crooks can be seen crossing the stage to receive his diploma, appearing slight of build and wearing glasses. The school district said it will cooperate fully with investigators. His senior year, Crooks was among several students given an award for math and science, according to a Tribune-Review story at the time.

Crooks tried out for the school’s rifle team but was turned away because he was a bad shooter, said Frederick Mach, a current captain of the team who was a few years behind Crooks at the school.

Interesting.

Crooks used an AR-style rifle, which authorities said they believe was purchased by his father. Kevin Rojek, FBI special agent in charge in Pittsburgh, said that investigators do not yet know if he took the gun without his father’s permission.

[chowder66]

19. 8 months later he registered as a Republican

snip...

Incongruous actions that Crooks took late in his time as a student at Bethel Park high school offered virtually no hint at his political leanings. He was a junior at the school, and it was the first day of Joe Biden’s presidency, when Crooks donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a political action committee aligned with the president’s Democratic party

Yet eight months later, early in his senior year, Crooks registered to vote as a member of the Republican party, led by Trump since 2016. And he had left his affiliation unchanged when he voted in the November 2022 midterm elections, which took place months after he graduated from Bethel Park high, where he was among a group of students to receive a $500 National Math and Science Initiative “star award”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/14/trump-rally-suspected-gunman-what-we-know

[Cha]

22. Good to Know... Thanks Chowder!

Wonder who he voted for in 2022?

Crooks was smart in Science.

And ".. he was Bullied So Much" like TSF Bullies every person who's his self appointed Enemy.

[chowder66]

23. You're welcome.

[Trueblue Texan]

68. Maybe that's why he targeted Trump?

Trump was perhaps representative of all the bullies that had brought him so much misery?

[ecstatic]

25. Interesting. nt

[Celerity]

27. he registered as Republican 8 months and 8 days after the 15 dollar ActBlue donation

ActBlue donation: 1/20/21
Republican voter registration: 9/28/21

[LizBeth]

29. I heard a couple three months after the donation

[Celerity]

43. 8 months, 8 days after, see post 27

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219155308#post27

[LizBeth]

49. That is even better thanks. Still having a tough time with a 17 yr old

doing a donation after election on inauguration when most have put that to bed. But 8 months is different than 3....

[Celerity]

52. the ActBlue donation was 2 weeks after January 6th, perhaps that was the motivation

and then maybe he registered as a Rethug to vote in primaries or maybe his family was Rethug and it just carried over via osmosis

all that is pure conjecture from me

we simply do not know atm

[LeftInTX]

53. Bernie raked in decent funds that day. Due to his mittens.

The donation was to Progressive Turnout PAC and maybe there was an online ad.

[LizBeth]

69. See left, now that makes perfect sense for a 17 yr old to do. Ty

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Now my brain can rest, lol

[FakeNoose]

46. How many unemployed 17 year old boys get a credit card?

How could he have donated to ActBlue without a credit card? Seems to me that someone else - either Mom or Dad - made that donation and used his name.

Just sayin'

[Cha]

47. Yeah, there's Super Confusion about

this and the "Bullet or Glass" Questions.

Hopefully all will be Revealed.. As WE Need to Know!

TY FN: candle:

[LeftInTX]

51. Whiskey Grinder said you could use a debit or bank card. (I don't have one, so I don't what they call them)

[fishwax]

56. you can also donate to actblue with a debit card (which plenty of teens have) or with paypal, ftr

[delisen]

13. Great summary of why we must not be bullied

and why we need to keep pointing out the bullies.

The record of Djt’s history of bullying is out there for all to see.and hear.

Who are these people who cheer on the bullies,, defend them, and party with them?

[Nimble_Idea]

20. they are called maga

seen any rally or disturbance of theirs? spewing their bile

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

26. He will be identified by all three names.

e.g., Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman, James Earl Ray, John Wilkes Boothe.

And now, Thomas Matthew Crooks.

[JoseBalow]

33. Maybe more like Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme

since, unlike your examples, he was unsuccessful and drumpf didn't die

[The Grand Illuminist]

37. What about Leon Csolgoez?

Nt

[LeftInTX]

63. This guy is more like a typical mass shooter.

It just so happens that one of his targets was Trump. Having the SS on hand saved dozens of lives.

[LizBeth]

30. So with donation like this, can someone else do it in anothers name, give and address of the

person? I have heard over time a lot of people say as a prank donate in someones name that opposes whatever the money goes to. Not conspiracy just want to cross it off my list if not possible.

[LeftInTX]

34. Why? I wouldn't worry about this donation. It's $15.

He didn't donate to Republicans. He didn't vote in the 2024 primary. He registered as a Republican on his 18th birthday. He last voted in Nov 2022.

He wore a "demolitian" shirt. We're getting anecdotal reports about him being a loner and being bullied. (They are likely true). His father purchased the weapon.

There will be more info released as it becomes available.

Why would someone create a spoof with the intention of embarrassing a HS student, when no one looks at campaign donations unless something like this happens?

He probably saw something that interested him when he was 17 years, 4 months old and decided to donate. 8 months later, he probably didn't hold the same viewpoints, so he registered as a Republican.

[LizBeth]

42. Probably but I hear all the time people making the suggestion to do this.

Like in the name of anti choice send donation to PP.

[58Sunliner]

32. He did not donate. Stop spreading this lie.

[LeftInTX]

36. Without exposing everyone and their dog's private information. His name and address match the donation.

https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202102049425405473

[58Sunliner]

54. There is another form posted with same name different guy.

Link to tweet

/photo/1

[LeftInTX]

55. That guy is at a different address!! He's not on Milford.

The guy with the donation is at 2506 Milford and so is the the shooter.

That guy lives on Fayette

[58Sunliner]

59. One set of data is definitely not complete.

Looks inconclusive.

[Rocknation]

45. He was on a holy crusade with a side order of martyrdom

I don't think his motives were rooted in hatred of Biden or the left -- even before public publication of the Project 2025 manifesto, I think Crooks was a Republican who saw Trump as so unfit, he took a vow to leave his mark on the world by doing to Trump what St. Michael did to Satan.


Rocknation

[Autumn]

70. He was a mentally ill young man. With very bad aim.