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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He dropped off the radar immediately because he was dead.

There is a fair bit of info with links to sources at the wiki page on him https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Matthew_Crooks

It says the FBI is still investigating, but in general it sounds like he was very right wing and also mentally ill. [/quote]

Authorities have said that Crooks' political views are unknown, and they have not determined whether his assassination attempt was politically motivated.[8] Public records do not indicate his views.[49]
On January 20, 2021, when Crooks was 17, he donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic Party donation platform ActBlue.[13][50][19][51] His donation was made on the same day that President Biden was sworn into office.[12] According to the Progressive Turnout Project, he made the donation in response to an email about "tuning into" the inauguration. He unsubscribed from the group's mailing list in 2022.[52][49]
Crooks had been registered to vote since September 2021, when he turned 18.[3] He registered as a Republican,[3][4][50][53] and he voted only once (in the 2022 midterm elections).[49] In 2022, Crooks wrote about George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant", calling it "a powerful allegory warning against adopting imperialistic policies".[54]
In April 2023, Crooks showed his frustration with American politics in a school essay about ranked-choice voting, where he claimed "divisive and incendiary campaigns are pulling the country apart". In another essay, Crooks criticized how NASA handled the 1986 Challenger disaster. He blamed NASA's administrators for the incident, claiming they were "trying to live up to the lofty promises they made to Congress which they were never going to be able to fulfill".[14]
After the shooting, the FBI uncovered a social media account "believed to be associated with the shooter" with about 700 comments from 2019 to 2020. A public statement from FBI deputy director Paul Abbate described Crooks' activity on social networking services as including comments that "appear to reflect antisemitic and anti-immigration themes" and "espouse political violence".[55] Abbate noted that the findings were preliminary and that the comments were still in the process of being authenticated.[56]

Why haven’t the comments been authenticated?

Why did he donate to Act Blue on the day of Biden’s inauguration?[/quote]

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