Agents have not identified a motive for the assassination attempt on the former president at a campaign rally

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the “subject involved” in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, it said in a statement on Sunday.

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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.

  • @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    16•4 months ago

    History tells us some political assassinations, Rabin, Ghandi to name two were committed by their more extreme unhinged followers.

    • @Mirshe@lemmy.world
      7•4 months ago

      And considering that most of the other presumptive candidates for the GOP are even more unhinged than Trump, it’s hard to not see this as someone attempting to seat, say, Nikki Haley.

      • @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
        4•4 months ago

        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 Pelosi’s 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 can’t garner support for any downballot candidates.