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.

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.

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Someone asked, “if he saw them for that long, why did he never whip out his phone and start recording?”

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To be fair, it’s a Trump rally not a tiktok convention. Like it or not these people genuinely love Trump and it’s no surprise they’d be focusing on signaling police before anyone gets shot.

That doesn’t mean he isn’t playing things up but there’s no evidence of that so far.

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Lots of phones were recording Trump’s bloody right side get hustled off stage, you can see a dozen of them from the footage of him getting shot.

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