Some setting the record straight about Thomas Matthew #Crooks, the attempted #assassin of convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender Donald John #Trump. This is as much for my own reference as anything, but I'll be happy if it's useful to anyone else.
The following are verifiable facts:
1. He donated money to the Progressive Turnout Project, a #Democratic #PAC. Early reports that the donor was another Thomas Crooks, living in another part of Pennsylvania, appear to be false. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-shooter-donation/
2. He was a registered #Republican. He donated to PTP on January 20th, 2021, the day Biden was inaugurated, when he was 17. He registered as a Republican in September 2021, shortly after he turned 18. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-shooter-republican/
There is really no contradiction here.
It’s hard to remember now, but #President Joe #Biden took office with very high approval ratings. My guess is that like a lot of other people, Crooks was feeling pretty good about President Biden in January 2021, but soured on him by fall of that year. There was no good reason for this; people didn’t give President Biden *nearly* enough time to clean up the mess convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender Donald John Trump left behind. But the rapid change in the national mood is undeniable.
Many people are pretty aimless in their late teens and early twenties, searching for an adult identity. Crooks was an extreme and tragic example.
There is a very long conversation to be had about why members of a certain demographic to which he belonged are much more prone than others to turning their search for identity into grotesque violence—but that's not what this post is about. Just trying to make sure the facts are clear. Supporters of convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender Donald John Trump don't care about facts at all, as they've shown over and over. We can and should do better.
So now that the facts are clear, let's get back to making sure convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender Donald John Trump never gets within a mile of the White House again, by legitimate means if at all possible.
