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How Crooks Did It. By Gene W. Edwards. Posted 7/26/2024.
Thomas Michael Crooks was an oddball, albeit fairly intelligent, who researched a wide range of political and social celebrities to find an opportunistic target. An introverted loner, a classic Virgo, Crooks was bullied almost every day in school for not fitting in. He often wore hunting clothes to school, was lost in his headphones and smartphone, and wore a face mask during and AFTER Covid-19. I “joke” that his shot neatly removed the only portion of Trump’s anatomy that is truthful, which should be collected and preserved in the Smithsonian. It was a “miracle” that Trump turned his head but a milli-second before the shot hit him, only nicking his ear, not penetrating his alleged brain. That shot may have elected him.
No, there were not two or three shooters at Trump. My intuition informs me of that. A second shooter, one who was either Secret Service or law enforcement, was the sniper who shot the wannabe assassin within 15 seconds of the assassin’s volley. Thus, multiple shots from more than one location were heard and recorded. We weren’t told where his sniper was or how that person was prepared to respond during an emergency with gear, position, and alacrity! That’s the only thing the Secret Service and company got right in Butler, PA. Yeah, just like in a mystery novel: a Butler did it.
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Actually, Crooks was from an affluent Pittsburgh suburb an hour away. He had moved a ladder to nearby, and then to, his glass factory’s site, along with his…