There doesn't need to be a logical reason. He could've just wanted attention.
If you are making the argument that he is a right winger, it doesn't make sense for him to go after trump. You are trying to argue that he is a maga gun nut, while also trying to kill the guy you say he worships. If he was just looking for attention, why not try an assassinate a prominent Democrat? It would have same effect.
He didn't vote in 2024. This doesn't make sense.
He also didn't vote in 2020 because he was too young. It seems suspicious, so we probably shouldn't hang out hats on the registered republican thing.
More than people who actually talked to him? Not really. Especially when the donation doesn't have any context to it.
Just about all of them said that he was a loner that didn't have many friends. I'm not sure how well those classmates knew his political views. A donation doesn't need context, it's the ultimate form of support. Ever hear the phrase you vote with your wallet? If you really don't want to support something, don't give them your money. It's hard to believe that a staunch Republican would donate to a liberal cause, let alone as his only donation.
Not really. JFK was shot by a left winger.
The political landscape is a little different than it was 1963, so it's hard to compare. LHO was a Maxist, and communist, but he was strongly pro Russian. He even tried defecting. Today those would be considered conflicting ideologies. You aren't wrong, but I think his anti American allegiance to our cold war enemy weighed more heavily than a political affiliation.
Not necessarily. Just that it's more complicated than "angry leftist tried to kill Trump"
It could be, but requires us to speculate on information that we don't have.
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Narwhale37 (1237)
5 months ago
"If you are making the argument that he is a right winger, it doesn't make sense for him to go after trump."
Why does it need to "make sense"? The guy probably wasn't mentally sound to begin with.
"He also didn't vote in 2020 because he was too young. It seems suspicious, so we probably shouldn't hang out hats on the registered republican thing."
Maybe if it was JUST the Registered Republican news, but several classmates and a former teacher have all said he was a conservative. Are they all lying?
"I'm not sure how well those classmates knew his political views"
This is cope given their statements:
Max R. Smith, who said he took an American History course with Crooks as a sophomore, said that Crooks did make political statements, but they did not explain his actions on Saturday.
"He definitely was conservative," he told the Inquirer. "It makes me wonder why he would carry out an assassination attempt on the conservative candidate."
In a mock debate, Smith recalled, their teacher asked students to stand on one side of the classroom or the other to signal their support or opposition for different proposals.
"The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side," Smith said. "That’s still the picture I have of him. Just standing alone on one side while the rest of the class was on the other."
"Everybody is in shock," Smith said. "He was so quiet, I wouldn’t imagine him doing that. But I guess that was the same deal with Columbine."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-shooter-thomas-crooks-classmates-153100755.html
"A donation doesn't need context."
It does when everyone calls you a conservative.
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Burk48917 (11386)
5 months ago
"everyone" is 2 people that didn't know him very well?.....🤡🤣 You're going to hurt your arm reaching so much.
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Narwhale37 (1237)
5 months ago
“I would almost put money on the fact that I probably had seen him wear a Trump shirt or something along the lines of that beforehand, which is why this is so shocking to me,” Paige Updegraff told Pittsburgh public radio station WESA.
According to US media reports, Crooks was wearing a T-shirt from Demolition Ranch, a YouTube channel known for its guns and demolition content. The channel has millions of subscribers featuring videos on different guns and explosive devices.
Sorry that the facts aren't lining up for you.
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