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There’s a myth that often goes around about serial killers and mass shooters that they were very nice and no one noticed anything wrong. That myth is usually fed by a narrative promoted by reporters who want to make the story seem shocking. They do this by talking early on to the most casual acquaintances who have nothing to say except “he seemed nice, but I never saw him much or actually talked to him.”
Usually though there are almost always people who do nothing that something is wrong.
The media’s initial narrative was that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Trump assassin, was very nice, kept to himself and he was a Republican. FOX News has a new interview that demolishes all those claims.
A former classmate of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks says the 20-year-old gunman once mocked him over his support of former President Donald Trump and had a general disdain for mainstream politicians across the political aisle.
“I brought up the fact that I’m Hispanic and, you know, I’m for Trump. And he said, ‘Well, you’re Hispanic, so shouldn’t you hate Trump?'” Vincent Taormina told Fox News Digital Tuesday. “No. He’s great. He was a great president. He called me stupid – or insinuated that I was stupid.”
“He would just talk, talk and act like he knew everything, especially politics related, and he would say it in a tone that was like, ‘I’m better than you,’ in a type of way,” he said.
He also pushed back on reporting that Crooks was a complete loner. He had a friend group, he said, although it was both small and concerning.
“They were definitely the type, and they did, make threats to shoot up our school,” he said.
Although he and other classmates suspected Crooks himself was behind a threat, he said he had no firm proof. But after the threat came in, the future would-be assassin didn’t return to school for a few days.
Not hugely surprising. When people first saw pictures of Crooks, they assumed Antifa, whereas I read him as a typical school shooter. Crooks aged out of being a school shooter (which hasn’t stopped some school shooters anyway) and decided to go for bigger game.
But it wasn’t a surprise. He had already been suspected of a school shooting threat. That means law enforcement likely knew about it and the way things work these days, the FBI might have also known.
Give it time and that will likely come out.
Previous school shooters often have a record of getting a pass and I think we will find that happened here too, which will make assorted school administrators and law enforcement people look bad.
But this wasn’t a bolt out of the blue. Crooks allegedly had a history of violent threats and finally carried one of them out.
I haven’t seen any reports that Crooks’ high school had shooting threats. I’m surprised that we haven’t heard about that before. As to the allegation that someone in Crooks’ group made a threat, this sounds like a second or third hand rumor. I don’t doubt that Crooks is the type who would shoot up a school, but the evidence here for any evident threat is lacking.
These shooters live in their own dark world just below the surface of what is the acceptable norm .
They have alway been out there and always shall . I do not want to blame home life yet feel that it is important that parents of a child living at home be aware of out of the norm signs and address them .
Obviously we can not go back to the days of the witch trials but today there are lists of possible dangers in particular areas and wonder if this young man was on one .
He needed help and if this is so evident now why was it not recognized with a detox type scenario when observed in the past ? Much better than an I told you so after the fact .
My fear is that there will be many coming from that dark world where they exist and surface with hate and desire to destroy that which they have declared evil .
As for the media . It is a joke upon the American people who are taking it serious . Nothing new however . Was it not a media king who was involved with the blowing up of the Maine and started a war all in the name of selling news print ?
We are in trouble
I wonder if this spawn of Legba was another of a long line of Adderall/Ritalin junkies. I have read for some time that even back to the Columbine shooters, a vast majority, if not all, school shooters are consumers of SSRI pharmaceuticals.
Daily Mail ran grade and middle school pictures, both yearbook and group photos.
One of the group 0photos show him standing by himself, where he is age 10 give or take 2 years. The spacing seems 1 or 2 standards deviation off. I am going to train an AUI to get stats of such photos.,
If this were any other measurement you typical with statistics, it is clear his distance from others was an outlier.
In my opinion he was being “lost” 10 years ago. I do not know the exact circumstances, but we lost him. Then we lost 3 more ( 1 dead plus 2 severely wounded ) and almost lost Trump,
Crooks probably resented one face to his parents and another to his peers. His parents might have heard some of it but not all of it.
His parents could fool themselves with, he is progressing to the next grade level,. he graduated high school, he is holding down a job.. I say this knowing the parents politics and not agreeing with them
His parents were counselors, so people are questioning that. Well what about the teachers and highs school counselors? They have psych courses as part of the teaching degree curriculum. They missed a lot or were AWOL.
Sure he was awkward and kind of goofy but he was disturbed! I would guess a background of Ritalin and some other medications along with a big dose of liberalism. As far as his Teachers seeing something? Today’s Teachers are as messed up as their students so they’re not good judges of “troubled” kids! Now that’s not ALL Teachers but we know MANY are!!
Based on the shooter’s facial structure (from a neuroscientist’s perspective), it is highly likely he was on the autistic spectrum. Maybe he had been tapped other bad actors for exploitation. Perhaps also drugged like the Hamas terrorists prior to their barbaric raids on Israeli towns – to enhance their ability to commit the worst attrocities without feeling remorse. Perhaps he was gven shooting practice tips by a mentor who just happened to be working for the Biden regime? We’ll never know as the FBI and DHS investigating, we’ll never know what was really pulled from his internet accounts / residence, or what was really on his phone.
Now that his Assassination attempt failed and he id dead he wont be shooting up a School of Innocents and cause the Demon-Tats and Liberals to push through useless Gun Control nothing for the Ambulance Chasers or Hogg and his band of idiots from March for Our Lives so Go Home and Cry me a River, Hogg