by Don Via Jr, The Free Thought Project:

It’s been three weeks since 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks allegedly took several shots at former president Donald Trump from atop an American Glass Research building roughly 150 meters away from Trumps podium at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Grazing Trump’s right ear, killing one bystander, and wounding two others before being neutralized by the Secret Service. In that time since the dust has begun to settle, an official narrative has started to take shape, the head of the secret service has resigned in disgrace, and yet for the most part still no one really knows what happened.

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How was a 20 year old just barely out of high school able to outsmart the most sophisticated security team on the planet and come within mere inches of ending the life of a former president as he campaigns for reelection?

As we dig further into this story and new evidence comes to light it only serves to further complicate an already complex web of contradiction.

While we don’t purport to have all the answers, the purpose of this article is to outline information and events as we know them in order to best discern the truth.

WHO WAS THOMAS MATTHEW CROOKS?

The facts surrounding the background of Trump’s would-be assassin are just as convoluted as the rest of this story, but a good place to start nonetheless. So who is Thomas Matthew Crooks? The truth of the answer is, we don’t really know much. At least not in the sense of a consistent profile is concerned, no thanks to the contradictory media reports surrounding him and is ideology.

What little information we do know about Crooks is that he was a 20 year old former student of Bethel Park high school, a straight A student with a clean disciplinary history graduating with honors in 2022 and going on to the Community College of Allegheny County where he recently graduated with an associate’s degree in engineering science. At the time of the shooting he was employed by the Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center as a dietary aide.

As far as an official motive is concerned as of the time of this writing it is still under investigation by the FBI with no clear reasons for the shooting yet given.

One may believe, despite the toxicity that identity politics has ingrained into society, that considering assassinations of politicians are always rooted in a political incentive that we may be able to discern some of Crooks’ motive by analyzing his political identity.

However that has proven to be one of the earliest areas of contention in this whole saga, with a series of media contradictions further muddying the waters amid a slew of misinformation spreading online, including falsely identifying Italian sports journalist Marco Violi as the would-be assassin in the immediate aftermath of the shooting prior to Crooks’ identity being officially confirmed by the FBI. As well as afterward debunked images circulating on social media falsely claiming Thomas Crooks was transgender.

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