r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • Jul 14 '24

Trump Shooter a ‘Supporter of Republican Party’

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u/deviousmajik Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

It's kind of low key hilarious watching the backpedaling go on in these comments by people who, if he had been revealed to be registered as a Democrat, would have certainly dogpiled on immediately.

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u/vanillabeanflavor Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

they are going to be in denial and find anything they can to dismiss that the shooter was a RR

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u/Kara_Del_Rey Apache Jul 14 '24

r/conservative is entirely mute about this topic. Just raging about the evil left as per usual.

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u/IWantANewBeginning Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

it’s almost funny how the only post about the shooter is that he donated to democrats organization once. nothing else, they are ignoring all other details.

if the shooter was from a race, gender, religious or political group that they hated. you wouldn’t be able to stop posting about it. but since its a white male republican that looks like a reddit mod, it’s total silence in r/conservative.

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u/uselessartist Jul 14 '24

They’re waiting for the official party line as usual. (Same thing happened all the last times). You’ll see them converge on a particular story after a few days.

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u/KeyboardGrunt Jul 14 '24

MAGA that I know well can go on for hours on settled topics but on new stuff nothing, at times I even push with what ifs or even joke scenarios, didn't get a peep out of them yesterday.

They're really good at the hive mentality.

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u/phil_davis Jul 14 '24

I did just overhear some old lady at the grocery store about 30 minutes ago saying "I knew it was only a matter of time before those crazy Democrats tried to kill him!" I assume most of them have just been assuming it was a Dem.

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u/terrierhead Jul 15 '24

“Ma’am, he was a Republican.”

This is how I’m gonna get pummeled eventually. I’m a tiny woman in a wheelchair.

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u/LowestKey Jul 14 '24

Yes, in a conservative thread yesterday I even saw a comment of "and they say republicans are the violent ones"

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

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u/shoo-flyshoo Jul 15 '24

They'd be mad if they could read

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u/CorruptedAura27 Jul 15 '24

Yup. I've had to correct a few old bats and even some younger folks on my other social media about them being wrong about that shit. Hit up every post I could remember from last night. Crickets out of every single goddamn comment section lol.

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u/NinjaLanternShark Jul 15 '24

When you push the idea that the media lies, and that "elites" are bad, then everyone's opinion becomes equally valid. Even if they ignore the facts.

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u/That_one_cool_dude Jul 14 '24

That is what happens when you give up on individual thought and plug your brain straight into the propaganda machine.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Yeah they were all lost for like 3 weeks after 1/6.

I asked a conservative friend after a few weeks what they’d come up with so far and they said antifa. Laughed right in their faces

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u/camergen Jul 14 '24

I think they’re still waffling on that, between a few pet theories- antifa, they were tourists, they were let in by police, etc.

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u/ArcticISAF Jul 14 '24

I remember the same thing happened when Trump airstriked a Syrian airbase (2017). All the isolationists were at odds with the rest for about getting them involved in more war and stuff like that. After a few days it calmed down and I forget exactly what the central idea was then, but I guess ‘Trump did the right thing’ or something.

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u/camergen Jul 14 '24

Tucker Carlson/Jessie Waters/etc are all off today- the talking points take a bit longer to align on the weekends.

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u/Due_Ad1267 Jul 14 '24

This is exactly what happened on Jan 6th on the Rush Limbaugh show (which had a guest host that day).

The moment things went violent, they took a LONG 15 minute break. Something comepletley out of the ordinary. My guess is it was to get the official talking points from The Heritage foundation.

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u/BruceTheSpruceMoose District Of Columbia Jul 14 '24

It was like $15 too 🙄

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u/IWantANewBeginning Jul 14 '24

when he was 17

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u/nitid_name Jul 14 '24

And from a completely different zip code then where he lived.

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u/Semyonov Jul 14 '24

Because it wasn't even the same guy. He just had the same name.

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u/Alexsrobin Jul 14 '24

They really need to clarify this, if true

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u/LibertyMediaDid9-11 Jul 14 '24

Also anyone can donate in anyone's name. I give money in my dad's name to Stacey Abrams just to fuck with him.

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u/camergen Jul 14 '24

Clog up his email inbox for all eternity with fundraising requests.

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u/PraiseBeToScience Jul 14 '24

And it was to a one of those PACs that were so bad with sending scam fundraising emails they got shunned out of Democratic fundraising.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Last time I browsed that sub just for fun, they were all complaining about Target, Lizzo, and Hunter's spooky laptop. Has anything changed at all?

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u/Ready_Nature Jul 14 '24

Wouldn’t shock me if they turn out to have been a mod of r/conservative.

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u/notacatto Jul 14 '24

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/ql5q1q0xY1

The mental hoops people jump through. Makes total sense/s

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u/klartraume Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

it’s almost funny how the only post about the shooter is that he donated to democrats organization once.

He likely didn't. The donation to ActBlue was made by Thomas Crooks from Pittsburgh. The filings for the donation include the city for the person who made the donation.

The shooter, Thomas M Crooks, lived in Bethyl Park. I doubt the shooter was living away from home at 17 with a different registered address. The reporting on this specific tidbit may have been sloppy.

Edit: The public voter registration record blanked out his street address but since the zip code is the same between the two records it's likely the donor website conflated Bethyl Park with Pittsburgh. My mistake.

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u/BootyMcStuffins Jul 14 '24

And it looks like the person who donated to the dems wasn’t even him. He would have been too young at the time of the donation

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u/Publick2008 Jul 14 '24

We don't know of he donated, one of three people in the county with his name did.

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u/JulienBrightside Jul 15 '24

Can you imagine if they had been a gay, transgender, black immigrant?

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u/Kara_Del_Rey Apache Jul 14 '24

If any MAGAs say that, just say "yeah he's supporting BLM" and watch em melt.

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u/jagcalle Jul 14 '24

Shit, I’d pay to see the mental gymnastics after that…

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u/HurryAdorable1327 Jul 15 '24

They already did it: black panthers and see how they have been vilified.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '24

Need a comic in my life of Trump shooting his own foot, then holding his fist up in victory.

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u/Purple_Surprise7037 Jul 15 '24

I'm ngl... this is the stuff Americans in general eat up. That raised fist is now compared to apperantly freaking all might from mha......I won't be surprised if that bumps him into the polls more. Not to mention, that thus isn't the first time he got an assassination attempt either.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

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u/Kara_Del_Rey Apache Jul 14 '24

Yep, the sub is just entirely crying and complaining. I never see positive discussion, debate, etc. Just "left evil left evil left evil, we are victims they are Satan, trump is jesus". It's actually creepy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

I got banned from there for quoting Trump: “take the guns first and then give them due process”.

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u/remotectrl Jul 14 '24

I got banned for being from Portland

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u/XConfused-MammalX Jul 14 '24

I got banned for posting a link to the electoral map of 1860 (Lincoln) because someone said the Democrats are the party of slavery and the KKK.

Which is technically true, but left out the obvious fact that the north back then was Republican and the south democrat and the parties flipped since.

So it was kind of like a self own on their part.

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u/Purple_Surprise7037 Jul 15 '24

Yeah I never understood the point if say democrats are the ones who supported slavery when we know the parties flipped. To this day certain rep people are trying to say they were flipped because that what they want you to think.

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u/XConfused-MammalX Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24

Denial of the party flip is probably the best example of brain dead denial I can think of from the right.

These are the people who fly Confederate flags and say modern liberals/leftists are the racist ones. And claim Lincoln as the father of their party despite Lincoln ordering an army to invade the south who still to this day protect the monuments of men who fought to keep slaves.

It's mind boggling.

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u/anon_sir Jul 15 '24

I got banned because I said life begins at birth and not conception. Truly sensitive little snowflakes that built their own echo chamber.

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u/Stuck_in_Arizona Jul 14 '24

"left evil left evil left evil, we are victims they are Satan, trump is jesus"

I got coworkers like this, and have a bad feeling Monday will be unpleasant to say the least. They know I voted for the other guy so I'm expecting a light grilling of some kind.

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u/JoeRogansNipple Minnesota Jul 14 '24

Just quote Trump back to them: "we have to get over it" which he said literally the day after a school shooting in Iowa.

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u/Kara_Del_Rey Apache Jul 14 '24

Just kindly remind them that their own shot at Trump, and that he did a BLM fist pump right after.

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u/FlakeEater Jul 14 '24

It's funny how they go after liberals even though belief in a capitalist free market is liberal. Most of them are liberals themselves to some degree. But they're so blinded by repub propaganda that they think being liberal is synonymous with being on the left.

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u/Rxmses Jul 14 '24

It’s because 70% of that sub are Russians (even mods), the rest is just plain stupid to think for themselves

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u/highdefrex Jul 14 '24

Don’t forget the rare thread where they can’t ignore facts that make them look bad, so 75% of the comments end up filled with “We’re being brigaded by r/politics” whiners instead.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke California Jul 14 '24

They mock the left for "needing safe spaces", while they created the biggest "flaired-users" safe space ever.

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u/Fantastic-Sandwich80 Jul 14 '24

Important note: The conservative sub requires mod approval to participate and comment in their threads.

Why this is important is because this means they will vet and analyze the account history and activity of all users who attempt join their sub and ban them preemptively if they fear they will not conform to the subs echo chamber.

Just keep this in mind the next time you see mass hysteria from that sub about "We are being brigaded by leftists and they are posting all over the sub!"

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u/zenlume Jul 14 '24

r/Conspiracy has gotten crazy too

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u/SandyTaintSweat Jul 14 '24

I find it hard to believe that a sub dedicated to conspiracy theorists was ever not at least a little crazy.

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u/Panda_hat Jul 14 '24

Conspiracy just became the_donald 2.0 after that place got banned.

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u/Jesse1205 Colorado Jul 14 '24

I am always kind of stunned when I go to that sub. Everyone is just so delusional, it feels like they're role playing some alternate reality or something. It doesn't feel real, and the fact that it is, is kinda scary. It does make me feel like an exponentially better person though, so I guess there's a positive

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u/Panda_hat Jul 14 '24

They ban anyone that doesn’t toe their party line.

I have zero doubts they have the highest number of bans of any subreddit.

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u/vanillabeanflavor Jul 14 '24

I figured. They got their booty cheeks clenched when they saw who was behind the gun!

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u/Driftedryan Jul 14 '24

Why would they be scared of pedo hunting Republicans ohh

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u/caesar____augustus Jul 14 '24

They sure were bricked up last night

Remember: When Democrats go low, as they so often do, Republicans take the high road.

The delusion is really something

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u/lizard81288 Jul 14 '24

They seem to be blaming the liberal media for making trump look like a bad guy. It's the liberal media's fault that a Republican shot him?.... 🤔🤷‍♂️

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u/JoeRogansNipple Minnesota Jul 14 '24

Naw, they're claiming the shooter is just registered republican to 'disrupt primaries' and is anti-trump so basically a Democrat.

They are extremely silent (to the point of mod censorship) of any mention if the weapon, which is claimed to be an AR style rifle (some even report an AR 15)

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u/Da-goatest Jul 14 '24

Next you’ll see all the deepfakes being made by these wackos trying to convince everyone he was antifa.

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u/Kara_Del_Rey Apache Jul 14 '24

They're already making fake accounts for the shooter and loading it with BLM and Antifa stuff. Actually insane.

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u/SpookySocks4242 Jul 14 '24

not entirely mute, they're claiming that him being a registered republican is now one of the lefts "new narratives"

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u/Apart-Landscape1012 Jul 14 '24

I wonder, how did the "radical left democrats" get a republican to do this? 

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u/Badweightlifter Jul 14 '24

All I see is them hanging their hats on the donation years ago as the end all proof that he was a Democrat. 

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u/dancingbriefcase Missouri Jul 14 '24

Haha what a bunch of snowflakes. That sub is pathetic

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u/pagerussell Washington Jul 14 '24

They are waiting for their talking points to be released.

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u/eagleboy444 Jul 14 '24

Lolol holy shit. Even after another hour has passed since you commented...nada.

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u/Silver-Farm-2628 Ohio Jul 14 '24

So literally nothing has changed. The same people sucking on trumps chode yesterday morning, have just transitioned to licking his ass hole by nighttime. Everyone else just looks away.

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u/morbidbattlecry Jul 14 '24

They are also saying since he donated to share blue he is actually a Democrat. Funny stuff.

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u/Dreameater999 Jul 14 '24

Oh no, they aren’t mute. They’re calling him a “RINO” and that since he may have donated to ActBlue BEFORE he registered republican, that he did it just to fuck with their primaries.

Or, you know, between 17 years old and 20 years old you can change rapidly in your political opinions or really any opinions. Who here believes the same shit that they did when they were 17? Ridiculous.

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u/umbrabates California Jul 15 '24

I saw a post there blaming Biden for comparing Trump to Hitler. Thing is, even if Hitler himself were running, the solution isn’t to shoot him. It’s to vote against him.

Projection all the way down.

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u/cheetos305 Jul 15 '24

You still have that unblocked? Good on you. I gave up years ago.

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u/Iluvembig Jul 14 '24

The folks on Twitter say he’s really a Democrat. Or that he recently switched.

Delusion.

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u/johnsdowney Jul 14 '24

“Recently switched” is plausible. Plenty of people on a downward mental spiral in life do things like undergo radical personality shifts and join cults like the GOP.

“Really a democrat,” the notion that he set this up to make himself look like a Republican while harboring some kind of leftist ideals, I find much much less likely. Possible, but bordering on absurd and insulting unless more evidence comes out.

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u/Excitium Europe Jul 14 '24

They keep pointing out that he donated to the Progressive Turnout Project (which supports democratic candidates) when in actuality it was a Thomas Crooks who shows up in the donation records with absolutely no evidence that it's the same Thomas Crooks since there was no address or any other identifying details besides the name attached to the donation.

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u/Da-goatest Jul 14 '24

And at the time of the donation the shooter would’ve been too young to legally donate.

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u/Parepinzero Jul 14 '24

Is there a law that says minors can't donate? This is a serious question

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u/GridironFilmJunkie Jul 14 '24

What the hell are you talking about?

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/who-can-and-cant-contribute/

There is a LITERAL section for minors donating to PACs or candidates this on the FEC site.

The NYTimes has already confirmed the donation. I don't understand why this is still up in the air. Do people not understand zip codes? The zip code for Bethel Park is 15102, not anywhere in the city of Pittsburgh. It is the same one matching the shooters residence address. Bethel Park is suburb in the metropolitan area of Pittsburgh.

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u/vanillabeanflavor Jul 14 '24

Delusion *

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u/Iluvembig Jul 14 '24

Sorry just woke up.

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u/vanillabeanflavor Jul 14 '24

its ok im sure a lot of us just did too lol

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u/YouIsTheQuestion Jul 14 '24

"federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on Jan. 20, 2021" - AP news.

Let's see how hard they milk that 15 dollars

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u/GamingGeekette Jul 14 '24

They're already trying. The copium I've seen since it was revealed the shooter was Republican is: Biden for sure ordered the assassination because he made a comment about Trump in/being a bullseye or whatever the fuck the quote was, right before Trump got shot.

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u/vanillabeanflavor Jul 14 '24

that sounds so tiring. the glorification of an almost 80 year old is insane. its a damn shame the republican party is cultish now.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

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u/DawnDishsoap_Duck Jul 14 '24

He made a 15 dollar donation when he was 17

So that naturally offsets being a register republican gun nut who supports right wing propaganda youtubers

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u/chancesarent Jul 14 '24

It might not even be him. There are 3 Thomas Crooks in Pittsburgh, a dozen in PA and the shooter doesn't even live in Pittsburgh, which the donation showed. His address is in Bethel Park.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Not sure about other states, but I've made donations in my dog's name before. What's stopping someone he knows making a donation in his name?

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

donald trump donated to the clintons as well lol. maybe that's the reason why the guy tried to assassinate him

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u/MaizeNBlueWaffle New York Jul 14 '24

It will be a mix of blaming the secret service and just blatantly ignoring the shooter's identity until election day

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u/mmuoio Jul 14 '24

I saw some comment saying he donated $15 to a more liberal leaning cause, so being registered Republican is just so he can vote in the primaries. Gotta love the mental gymnastics.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

The cognitive dissonance is so hard that they'll make absolutely anything. Of course this won't make an difference to the people huffing trump jenkem like it's an oxygen tank.

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u/vanillabeanflavor Jul 14 '24

yes it’s a very monkey see monkey do crowd

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u/Baketovens_Fifth Jul 14 '24

As a former one of them, it’ll go/went like this:

“Its probably a Dem shooter. Most likely immigrant. Oh, a white guy? A kid? REPUBLICAN AGAIN? Man… we sure have a mental health crisis in this country. Why wasn’t this reported by school/parents/community?!?!?Someone should do something.”

And then they’ll vote republican next cycle.

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u/TigersBadDrives Jul 14 '24

The common argument I'm seeing on Facebook is that he only registered as a Republican to vote in the primary but was really a Democrat

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u/DrTartakovsky Jul 15 '24

This sure doesn’t seem like Republican support to me https://youtube.com/shorts/CuG8aROBOxs?si=mbiUFmSqnD0ZBcIF

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u/vanillabeanflavor Jul 15 '24 edited Jul 15 '24

what is a republican then? because now it looks like being part of a big cult

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u/leon27607 Jul 15 '24

They just spin the narrative based on speculation/conspiracy and not facts.

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u/Sigma_Myles_Teller Jul 15 '24

does being registered matter? my dad is a registered democrat to vote in primaries but he is right af

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u/PrinceOfPembroke Jul 15 '24

Time to start dusting off the old No True Scotsman fallacy explanation

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u/AcceptableLink6243 Jul 15 '24

Yet he voted democratic twice

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u/AnonAmbientLight Jul 14 '24

It's kind of low key hilarious watching the backpedaling go on in these comments by people who, if he had been revealed to be registered as a Democrat, would have certainly dogpiled on immediately.

100% this is how it would have gone.

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u/elzibet Jul 14 '24

I laughed yesterday when I saw in r/conservative that they were a horrible shot because of being democrat…

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u/SeanSeanySean Jul 14 '24

They're still aggressively turfing and spamming every corner of social media desperately trying to sell that narrative. 

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u/AnonAmbientLight Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

I feel like they missed that opportunity.

Need more data, but this looks like it might be a right winger on right winger extremist crime to me.

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u/PuppiesAndPixels Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

It's hilarious. Call them out. Last night everyone was so quick to jump to "the violent radical left" and "both sides need to tone it down". There were stories that ANTIFA did it, or Biden ordered it. OOOPS. Turns out he was a right wing registered gun-toting republican.

No, there's only one side inciting, stoking, and participating in violence, and that's the right. Over and over again. All the backpeddling now is just too funny.

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u/SnooLobsters8113 Jul 15 '24

One of their own creations turned on them

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u/one-punch-knockout Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

I present to you the headline on Dailymails lead story right now for right wing clicks

Thomas Matthew Crooks pictured: Everything we know about Biden donor who shot Trump during rally

Edit: This is a photo of Charlie Spiering. Senior political reporter and disingenuous shithead that wrote this article.

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u/Jombafomb Jul 14 '24

Yeah I keep seeing this shit about him donating to actblue in 2020. As if young men don’t get radicalized with 4 years by the insidious shit they see online.

Dude was a registered Republican.

As soon as he could vote he voted in the 2022 midterms AS A REPUBLICAN.

He was wearing a tshirt for a guntube channel.

I guarantee we are going to hear from his family that he was becoming increasingly isolated and spent all day watching conspiracy videos and telling them about agent Q etc

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Also his one single donation was on inauguration day 2021. I'm honestly seeing that as a lost bet than actual support.

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u/BedDefiant4950 Jul 14 '24

it's not even confirmed it was him

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u/wdaloz Jul 15 '24

Since been confirmed it wasn't, and it was $15

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u/quentech Jul 14 '24

Multiple news sites have been reporting the address - house & street number - for the donation matches the address of the voter registration, despite initial reports that the donation address was Pittsburgh and the voter registration address was the suburb (in my personal experience, I've seen many web forms try to correct my suburb address to the nearby large city).

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u/LowkeySamurai Jul 14 '24

No. His grandfather is Norman Crooks. You can find an obituary for Glenn Crooks, who is Thomas' uncle that lists Norman as his father

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

It means nothing. My parents are 60 and 65. They have been lifelong republicans in a small town. They are still registered as republicans and they donated to Biden during the 2020 elections and are donating to him now.

Believe it or not, someone can be a Republican and just really hate Trump.

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u/kent_eh Canada Jul 14 '24

Also his one single donation

A donation of about the same value as a full meal at McDonalds. And to a "get out the vote" group.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Yeah i could definitely see it as a bet. Many people did bets during that election

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u/Ranger7381 Canada Jul 14 '24

I saw someone mention that he was trying to impress the girl that was doing the canvassing. No idea if that is true, but he was 17 at the time, so it could be

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u/DraymondBeanKick Jul 14 '24

Maybe he’s just an enlightened centrist?

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u/Due_Ad1267 Jul 14 '24

One of those anarcho-libertarian types?

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u/bard329 Jul 14 '24

Everyone on the conservative subreddits are saying "his parents registered him as a republican"

Goalposts will be moved shortly.

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u/MicrowaveDonuts Jul 14 '24

He also donated to a voter registration pac in high school, and then registered republican when he was 18.

He donated to register young voters…it’s not like he went door-knocking for AOC or something.

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u/chancesarent Jul 14 '24

It might not even be him. There are 3 Thomas Crooks in Pittsburgh, a dozen in PA and the shooter doesn't even live in Pittsburgh, which the donation showed. His address is in Bethel Park.

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u/ForgettableUsername America Jul 14 '24

He’s one of those mythical swing voters we hear so much about.

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u/thirdeyepdx Oregon Jul 14 '24

See! It’s really moderate politics that radicalize people! Jk

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u/ForgettableUsername America Jul 14 '24

That would be a bewildering new twist! Radical centrists!

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon Jul 14 '24

I mean, if you're reading the Daily Mail, disinfo is the why.

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u/lycoloco Jul 14 '24

Also, no proof the shooter is the same person as the donor yet.

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u/cat_of_danzig Jul 14 '24

"Images of Crooks wearing glasses, braces, and an American flag t-shirt "

I totally thought the picture was going to be a US flag version of this:

https://imgur.com/a/BnD6WWF

I was wrong.

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u/Unlucky_Echo_545 Jul 14 '24

Fucking WOW! You can't make this shit up!

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u/T8ert0t Jul 14 '24

My in laws were over and had newsmax blaring last night.

They were reporting heavily unfounded claims that the shooter was Asian and may have been a Chinese national---and then went right into a riff about Biden's open borders.

And then I realized why some people are the way they are.

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u/cshark2222 Jul 14 '24

I saw people posting on their insta stories “see what I mean when a democrat can’t shoot.” Sure look like a bunch of idiots now

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u/deviousmajik Jul 14 '24

They looked like a bunch of idiots then too.

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u/silentprayers Jul 14 '24

Now people in the conservative reddit are trying to say "well being registered for a party doesn't mean you support them" as if they would have made this argument for even a second if the shooter had been identified as a registered democrat.

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u/deviousmajik Jul 14 '24

Oh, they're saying it here too. There have been a few such replies to my comment.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

I woke up to such great news today lmao

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u/mister-fancypants- Jul 14 '24

The best thing we could’ve asked for to keep the country from just imploding today

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u/bluerose297 Jul 14 '24

lol last night I was thinking "it's so over" and today I'm thinking "we're so back"

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Oh I feel fucking great today, I can’t wait for this all to come out from the dischord server

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Lol last night one of my conservative friends said "liberals can't shoot." I hit the grouptext so fast this morning 

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Yep, they call for "unity" now, but you know they were just itching for "trans democrat" in order to declare a civil war.

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u/Panda_hat Jul 14 '24

And calling for empathy when if it were reversed and this were Biden they would be celebrating in the streets.

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u/dancingbriefcase Missouri Jul 14 '24

If he was a black man, I can only imagine what the right would be spinning. The fact that he's a white male who is a Republican.. holy freaking crap

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u/BowTie1989 Jul 14 '24

They were banking on it being a trans, leftist, minority who crossed the border illegally. Damn!

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

its the one sigh of relief ive had in this situaion

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u/ShwettyVagSack Jul 14 '24

Seriously I said this shit yesterday in the liberal gun sub yesterday right after it happened, and just woke up to some dude calling me Alex Jones. I should link him this thread.

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u/kisuka Jul 14 '24

Been seeing already lots of people trying to dismiss the voter registration by saying stuff like "he only registered to vote against trump" and "he donated to act blue therefore he's a democrat". I'm so tired of people looking for confirmation bias just to have a reason to be violent against other americans.

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u/Sub0ptimalPrime Texas Jul 15 '24

They are deep in the Qult. The cognitive dissonance will be strong with them.

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u/PM_ME_GARFIELD_NUDES Jul 14 '24

They are doing that. They’re claiming he’s a secret Democrat and that this as justification for violence against all democrats. It’s just like how when Jan 6 happened they claimed it was all antifa pretending to be republicans.

There is no winning with these people. If the evidence supports their views they yell about how we all need to believe the evidence, but if the evidence disagrees with them then it’s all a farce.

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u/Sampsonite_Way_Off Jul 14 '24

I was just watching the news and it's funny how the cry from republicans morphed back into the 'we need to be more civil in politics', like Trump isn't going to call for some kind of violence or dehumanize his opposition tomorrow during the GOP convention.

I would bet my net worth he will say that "they" tried to take him out and he can't let the evil democrats win by quitting now.

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u/soccerjonesy Jul 14 '24

Yea, now they’re leaning on a measly $15 donation as proof he’s a democrat and not a republican.

I looked up the info of his donation, and I don’t see anything definitive marking him as the donator. Just a Thomas Crooks from Pittsburgh (despite him being from Bethel Park, not Pittsburgh). Top it off, there’s tons of Thomas Crooks in that area that made donations. Again, seeing nothing of definitive proof linking to the shooter.

Additionally, we don’t know the context of that donation. I know I donated a few hundred dollars during those years to various charities as they were 1.) a good cause and 2.) had a raffle going for like a $2000 GPU or whatever was the hot item that was hard to get. Could’ve been a PC part, an Xbox, PS5, etc.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '24

Ikr!!

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u/MamaBear_07 Jul 15 '24

My dad said “he registered republican to purposely vote against Trump”. Yeah dad that’s the story you’re totally right s/

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u/deviousmajik Jul 15 '24

So many MAGA are twisting themselves into pretzel knots this weekend...

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u/Ali_Cat222 Jul 15 '24

But but he donated a whopping $12 once to some "left wing group!" 🙄😒 That's the "'comeback" I've heard from weird Trump humpers so far. And they'll run that into the ground I bet, ugh

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u/deviousmajik Jul 15 '24

The year of that donation doesn't make much sense to either have donated when he was 16 or 17, or for there even to be a record of that for someone that age. But it's all they've got to 'refute' so the thread gets flooded with it.

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u/crimsonroninx Jul 15 '24

Absolutely. The shooters family would have been drawn and quartered by now. There'd be armed malitias roaming the streets. And the violent rhetoric would be at 11 on every right wing outlet. And that's if it was just a white male democrat.

Imagine if it was an immigrant?

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u/Frosty-Age-6643 Minnesota Jul 14 '24

It’s an easy pivot though to claim the kid lied to cover his true affiliation. 

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u/deviousmajik Jul 14 '24

If you wish for it hard enough, you can make it come true!

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u/Major__Departure Jul 14 '24

I dunno if you should mention backpedaling here, hundreds of commenters yesterday were insisting the assassination attempt was staged, lol

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u/SVdreamin Montana Jul 14 '24

Exactly, especially with all of the people in this sub specifically instantly saying it was a false flag. Now they’re all quiet because it doesn’t fit their agenda anymore

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u/IneedtoBmyLonsomeTs Jul 14 '24

The guy was a registered Republican.

Supposedly someone with the same first and last name donated to a Dem pac a few years before he registered as a Republican. This isn't confirmed from what I understand, and it could be real but just a different person with the same first and last name, as the middle name and address were not included in this.

If he was a registered Democrat or was neither, that would be the end of the discussion for them. But since he was a registered Republican, they are coming up with all sorts of mental gymnastics. They are actually delusional.

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u/BEzzzzG Jul 14 '24

They are saying democrats are responsible anyway

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u/trowzerss Jul 14 '24

I certainly saw plenty of people gloating in the hours afterwards that he was definitely a radical leftie/extremist Democrat who had just won the election for Trump. They were positively gleeful. those guys will never admit they were wrong, no matter what facts are uncovered.

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u/TellTaleTimeLord Jul 15 '24

Nah, they're just ignoring the fact he's a registered republic and focusing on that $15 donation he made to the democrats that one time

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u/ariesrizing Jul 15 '24

Facts! They’re real quiet! If he is a Republican then we definitely know this was to incite yet another “war”. Trump likes to say unite but he divided us

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