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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I feel bad for the yard-neighbor, bet it hurt to get impaled with those signs.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


A neighbor of the 20-year-old who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump said there have been pro-Trump signs on display in the yard of his family's home.

Authorities identified Thomas Matthew Crooks as the gunman who opened fired from a rooftop as the former president spoke at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.

He was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but records show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on January 20, 2021—the day President Joe Biden was sworn into office.

A neighbor in Bethel Park, the Pittsburgh suburb where Crooks lived, said they saw pro-Trump signs in the family's yard as recently as a few months ago.

Crooks graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022 and worked as a dietary aide at a nursing home less than a mile from his family's house.

His father Matthew Crooks told CNN late on Saturday that he was trying to figure out "what the hell is going on" and would not speak publicly about his son until after he talked to law enforcement.


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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They found themselves a useful idiot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (13 children)

False flag is a possibility but the US has enough crazy for something like this to just happen.

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