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[Trump Shooting] Suspect was registered as Republican voter, state records show (abcnews.go.com)

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Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspectin Saturday’s shooting, was registered as a Republican voter, according to Pennsylvania records.

Already the republicans are dismissing his voter registration as meaningless. Here comes the “mental illness” angle.

Edit: apparently it’s not uncommon to register with the party you oppose in PA. This is going to be a fun ride.

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[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago

Apprently that was a differnet person in Philly that shares his first and last name.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The donation? Source on that? Not doubting you

Edit: I am now doubting you. Found the FEC filing and it lists a Bethel Park, PA zip code.

Edit 2: I was asked for my source: https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/fe91e6ba36695009/ac182c3a-full.pdf

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Can you share that source?

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

NYTimes, so there’s a paywall. It links to the FEC (wouldn’t load on mobile for me but the FEC page did fully load on my desktop).

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/us/politics/trump-gunman-thomas-crooks.html

Edit: actually, the article has been updated since I read it. It no longer links to the FEC, just a NYT screenshot:

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/fe91e6ba36695009/ac182c3a-full.pdf

Though it says Pitt, the zip is a Bethel Park zip

A voter-registration record showed Mr. Crooks’s Republican registration, though federal campaign-finance records show he donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform ActBlue in January 2021.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

The street address is registered to his father.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

He lives there too. Without doxing anyone or putting their info on here, you can read in the news that they all live together (dad, mom, son. Sister moved out a couple years ago)

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yes, I know.

So in the house you had the mother, the father Matthew, and the son Thomas.

Then the ActBlue donation is to a Thomas Crooks with the street address registered to Matthew Crooks.

So the idea that the donation was from some other Thomas Crooks seems unlikely, no?

Unless there's some unmentioned Thomas Crooks that was living in the house Jan 2021.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Lots of noise right now. Dont have a source past a random comment, so doubt is warranted.

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