Thomas Matthew Crooks: 20-year-old who tried to kill Trump ‘was terribly smart’ and ‘leaned to the right’

Authorities have identified the dead would-be assassin of Donald Trump as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, a young man who lives about an hour away from the site of the attack. The 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate the former US president at the rally in Pennsylvania, lived in a relatively affluent suburb in the hills south of Pittsburgh, about an hour’s drive from the rally site. The neighborhood where the shooter grew up is “middle class, maybe even upper middle class,” says Dan Grzybek, a local official. The 20-year-old was registered as a supporter of the Republican party, his mother is a Democrat and his father is a Liberal, a common mix for the area. Crooks worked as a nutritionist at Bethel Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, said Center Administrator Marci Grimm, who also noted that the agency was shocked to learn of the 20-year-old’s involvement in the assassination attempt on the former president. “He did his job and his track record […]
Source: News Beast

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