FBI has accessed Trump rally shooter’s phone but investigators are struck by lack of leads | CNN Politics
FBI has accessed Trump rally shooter’s phone but investigators are struck by lack of leads | CNN Politics
Nearly 48 hours after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, investigators are struck by the lack of leads they’re finding about Thomas Matthew Crooks’ mindset and possible motives for his attack.
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perhaps he was planning on trying to get away with afterwards and so erased everything so he could disappear easier?
come Feds, at least make up a motive. say he was mad about buying a donald trump steak and it tasted bad. something.
I honestly feel like based on dude's... skull... and being a 20yo registered republican, they probably went to his house and his room was just a window into absolute madness induced by 16 hours a day gooning, posting about Jewish conspiracies on 4chan, and growing up in conservative-ass "no future" bumfuck western PA (alternatively known as Eastern Ohio or Northern Kentucky). The FBI was like "yeah, so... who wants to make the fake dono? Take care of that, say "motive unknown" and we can move on."
In seriousness though, I feel like if we learned all this guy's browsing habits, especially over the last year or so, it would be so fucking bleak that you just gotta go "any reason he may have tried to articulate is irrelevant. The reason was the same as any school shooter. Hopelessness and despair turned into nihilism and a chance at being remembered for anything at all."
searching his room, finding it plastered with punisher skull/bald eagle/anti-woke/gun-crazy crap: "Nothing to see here, everything looks perfectly normal"It's like that lady who said she wasn't involved in politics while being front and center at a Trump rally.
I think we are underappreciating how many dipshits in this country don't consider their beliefs politicial because "it's what I think so it's the normal position, all the other positions are the political ones"
Like in video games how there's two races, white and political. I think there really are a lot of mouth breathing chuds out there who that is unironically their entire worldview.
The wife of the chud who got shot said she was non-political as well, despite refusing to take a phone call from the sitting president to honor her husband's memory
Look we've got two sides in this country, Republicans and The Political
Yea that's who I was talking about in her statement she said she doesn't get involved in politics then a sentence later said she was voting for Trump.
So many people, libs especially, fail to understand that the colloquial meaning of "political" especially to reactionaries, doesn't mean involving politics, it means involving heterodox politics.
Kneeling at a football game during the Anthem is "political" yet having players stand for the Anthem, which is recent and part of a military recruitment campaign (not joking) somehow isn't.
I live in a liberal enclave inside a larger red area and I've found that "no politics allowed" never actually means that, it just means toe the line or GTFOH, which can be initially confusing being that there's two very different clashing ideologies common in the area, separated by some very fuzzy boundaries, both of which I disagree with.Yea noticed the same thing. "No politics" means chuds are allowed to say gay people are pedophiles and should be rounded up but also means you can't call them a dumbshit bigot for saying that, that would be political.
suicide by cop taken to the funniest extreme
Don’t those guys pretty much always have some kind of manifesto though? It seems strange to give your life over to a political act, and then make sure no-one knows what your politics are
I have a theory that he meant to make Trump a martyr and rile up the right in some way, Helter Skelter kind of thing, in which case it would make sense not to explain what he's doing.
It would have been really funny to read a right winger pretend to be a dem shooter in their manifesto though.
Wasn’t
like, “I don’t like the guy, his weirdo cultists friends fucked up my mom”That's actually a really clear and well articulated motive. "He stole my money so I killed him." Is as reasonable as it gets.
Yeah, but I don’t get the feeling that the dude saw his struggle and ultimate decision to assassinate Abe as political. Our analysis ties up what happened to him with American imperialism and the use of far right religious extremists to exert control over East Asia. His reading was “Fuck that guy”
Donation to actblue was a different guy with same name
That was unconfirmed last I heard.
Do you have a source that says one way or another?
Pretty sure the name and address of the donation matched the shooter
hasan said yesterday that turned out to be wrong, but I don't have the receipts
Either that or his motive was "he's really obviously a viscous pedophile, he's been close personal friends with espstein for decades" and all the movers and shakers agreed they don't wanna put that pretty reasonable explanation out
perhaps he was planning on trying to get away
I think he was because he had improvised explosives in his car and at his house. No reason to make those unless you plan to be alive to use them.
didn't the cops say "bomb-making materials" which could easily be a lie about something mundane
Shoes and a larger-than-travel-size container of toothpaste
This is what I found. They don’t go into specifics tho.
Police found explosives in Thomas Matthew Crooks' car after he shot at Donald Trump.
Edit: other sources saying bombs too, but AP says “bomb making materials” so idk
yeah I was thinking that too