The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the āsubject involvedā in the attempted assassination of former PresidentĀ Donald Trump, it said in a statement on Sunday.
ā¦
The political leanings of Crooks, who was shot dead by the Secret Service after the attempted assassination, were not immediately clear. Records show Crooks was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on 20 January 2021, the day President Joe Biden was sworn in to office. Officials have not publicly disclosed a possible motive.
History tells us some political assassinations, Rabin, Ghandi to name two were committed by their more extreme unhinged followers.
And considering that most of the other presumptive candidates for the GOP are even more unhinged than Trump, itās hard to not see this as someone attempting to seat, say, Nikki Haley.
I think the only politician we can truly rule out is ted cruz since absolutely nobody likes him enough to do anything for him.
But yeah. republicans have increasingly been calling for the lynching and execution of their political opponents and took glee in the brutal assault of Nancy Pelosiās husband. It is not at all a stretch that one flavor of republican would realize a different republican is their political opponent. Especially since it has been made abundantly clear that nobody in the party can run against trump but also that trump canāt garner support for any downballot candidates.