Jimbo1337 said:
You cited incomplete information. He is registered as a Republican but donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project according to the New York Times: Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/us/politics/trump-gunman-thomas-crooks.html "The gunman did not have a criminal history reflected in Pennsylvania’s public court records, and officials said they had not identified a motive. A voter-registration record showed Mr. Crooks’s Republican registration, though federal campaign-finance records show he donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform ActBlue in January 2021." Based on the presented evidence, he was a radical progressive Democrat signed up as a Republican to vote against Donald Trump during the 2024 primary. Please try to be more accurate and not intentionally leave out information in the future. I guess trying to assassinate the former president means you have "no political agenda" these days. |
Yeah...Except I already mentioned that in other posts.
He donated $15 to the PTP on Jan 20th, 2021. He was 17 years old at that time, then 8 months later he registered as a Republican on Sep 2021. Your theory is that he registered as a Republican to vote against Trump 3 years in advance, only to decide to throw it all away and get himself killed when there's 3 months left to vote? Not to mention, the shirt he was wearing is for a gun focused, right-leaning YouTube Channel.
Why I say it leans towards him not having a political motive is because he ticks all the boxes of your average American mass shooter, a loner who was heavily bullied in high school. His classmates also say he never spoke politics or criticised Trump, Discord has access to his account where they say he didn't speak politics or express hatred towards Trump, his socials offer nothing, there is no manifesto, yet. His political allegiance as a very young guy was shifting, yes, from the donation to Dems to registering as a Republican, the more likely explanation for that is the dude was 17 years old, young people are susceptible to changing their views quite easily, especially isolated ones like he is described as.
If you're angry at the world, want to go out in a blaze of glory and immortalise your name, what is a better way than killing a former President? I find this more plausible than "the dude registered as a Republican 3 years in advance in a masterful long-term plan to vote against Trump only to say fuck it, time to kill Trump with 3 months left on my masterful plan"
And Trump was registered Democrat once, people change.
I could easily say "He's a registered Republican, clearly it was a Republican trying to kill Trump, probably hates what Trump has done to the Republican Party or maybe he's a Nick Fuentes fanboy some of which have issues with Trump, etc." but I don't and instead find the "typical mass shooter" scenario to be the most plausible with the facts we have right now. You think he's a radical progressive Democrat because he donated $15 to them in 2021. Maybe I'm wrong but with the evidence we have right now, I'd argue that your scenario is far more implausible.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 14 July 2024
