Did The Trump PA Shooter Have Help?

A new wrinkle in the saga that was apparently 1.5 centimeters from changing America.

I have written twice about the Trump Butler shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks — once right after to figure out anything I could as I mostly process information through writing about it, and then once after a neighbor asked me, “Why do we know so much about Luigi Mangione and so little about this guy?”

The case still moderately fascinates me. I think the easiest explanation is that he was a misguided kid and he got into shooting, quite possibly to impress a girl — he apparently went to a local shooting club 43 times in the 11 months prior to the shooting, which is basically weekly — and he thought America was kind of a mess, so he figured he’d become famous by taking down a big fish. I have seen stories that he looked up Biden rallies too. It was more a “crime of opportunity” than anything else.

Recently guys like Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, and Bill Ackman have started a new conspiracy theory regarding “Why did CNN live-stream that rally when they didn’t live-stream other rallies?” That has just the right cadence of a right-wing conspiracy talking point, so people gravitate towards it, but it does feel like a little bit of a nothing-burger in the grand scheme of things. Maybe I am naive.

However, overall you can say this Crooks thing feels a little bit off, but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly why it’s off. You just think, “We don’t know everything here, and when someone shoots at a former President/candidate, shouldn’t we know more?”

Short answer is we shouldn’t, and the government covers up lots of stuff, and is currently doing that again with whatever the DOGE Bros are up to.

But if something is off here, maybe this video from The New York Post, based on supposedly seven months of reporting from PA, can help: