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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. 

Or he changed politics. 

It's extremely common for people of that age to have more drastic changes in politics. I had the opposite change. I was much more conservative when I was 17. 

There is very little evidence to suggest that he recently was a Democrat or progressive. 

If a 3.5 year old donation from someone who would have been 17 is your leading piece of evidence, you need more information. 

I personally think the more recent information says far more (registered Republican and wearing a pro gun shirt). But overall, more information is needed. 

Maybe you are correct that he is a Democrat who registered Republican to vote against Trump in the primaries. But that is speculation, and acting like it's more than that is just dishonest. 

Or maybe he's just a disturbed individual with no actual consistent politics. 

Sometimes people do these things for attention and not politics. There was one guy who went after Democrat Carter and Republican Reagan because he thought it'd get him attention. 

There's probably 4 different stories that fit the 3 different pieces of evidence. 

Ryuu96 said:

Sarah D'Angelo, a former classmate of Trump shooting suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks at Bethel Park High in Pennsylvania, said Crooks had not broadcast any strong political views in school.

"He never outwardly spoke about his political views or how much he hated Trump or anything," she said in an interview Sunday morning. D'Angelo, who graduated from the same high school as Crooks in 2022 said he had "a few friends," but "didn't have a whole friend group." She recalled him playing games on his laptop during homeroom before the school day began.

The shooter from former President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday had explosive material inside his car and residence, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

CNN Politics

This is starting to sound like your typical American mass shooter...Donated to Democrats then registered as Republican, wears the shirt of a pro-gun/right-leaning YouTube channel, no obvious political leanings in High School...Has explosives and shot more than one person...Just looks like he wanted to do a mass shooting and the Trump rally was the "perfect" target for his mind.

Fits the profile of most mass shooters in America.

Maybe they'll find a motive, if it's the case that he's just your typical nutjob mass shooter, I suspect America will once again ignore the issue.