Crooks Registered Republican

[Ana the Ist]

Relatively recently before the assassination attempt.

Text messages show SWAT officers flagged Trump rally shooter long before the attack

Just as a Beaver County SWAT sniper was finishing his shift at the Butler County Trump rally, he spotted the man who later turned out to be the 20-year-old...

www.post-gazette.com

I saw the thread on motives was shut down so please keep this thread to discussion of motives and evidence for motives as it's released/found.


In the months leading up to the assassination, Crooks’ purchases of gun parts and chemicals might not have seemed strange to his parents, Mr. Rojek said. He was a gun enthusiast and had a longtime interest in science.
The Trump campaign didn’t announce the Butler rally until July 3, 10 days before it was to take place. Crooks' planning started soon after.
On July 6, Crooks, a registered Republican, signed up to attend. That same day, he looked up the distance that Lee Harvey Oswald had to fire when he killed President John F. Kennedy.
This article contains some odd details that I haven't found in other articles. Apparently, Crooks registered Republican the same day he signed up to attend the rally....and that suggests it was simply done to throw investigators and the internet off his motives and genuine political beliefs.
Other odd details include the time-line for his acquisition of bomb-making materials.
Something else a coworker pointed out to me but I haven't been able to confirm as true is the possibility that this was the first Trump rally of this presidential campaign CNN decided to live stream. Something more obvious but no less odd is the speed at which the media has stopped talking about this story. They spent months discussing Trump's case regarding classified documents and Mar-a-lago despite all evidence essentially being available after the first week. Months of analysis and speculation. Now we have an extremely rare attempt on the life of a candidate that barely failed and it's being scrubbed from public discussion faster than you can say abracadabra.
Thoughts?

Edit- ugh...my mistake. I misread the "on the same day" part....the article doesn't mention when he registered Republican. I'm leaving it up for the other odd details like the bomb making time-line, etc.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Relatively recently before the assassination attempt.

Text messages show SWAT officers flagged Trump rally shooter long before the attack

Just as a Beaver County SWAT sniper was finishing his shift at the Butler County Trump rally, he spotted the man who later turned out to be the 20-year-old...

www.post-gazette.com

I saw the thread on motives was shut down so please keep this thread to discussion of motives and evidence for motives as it's released/found.


In the months leading up to the assassination, Crooks’ purchases of gun parts and chemicals might not have seemed strange to his parents, Mr. Rojek said. He was a gun enthusiast and had a longtime interest in science.
The Trump campaign didn’t announce the Butler rally until July 3, 10 days before it was to take place. Crooks' planning started soon after.
On July 6, Crooks, a registered Republican, signed up to attend. That same day, he looked up the distance that Lee Harvey Oswald had to fire when he killed President John F. Kennedy.
This article contains some odd details that I haven't found in other articles. Apparently, Crooks registered Republican the same day he signed up to attend the rally....and that suggests it was simply done to throw investigators and the internet off his motives and genuine political beliefs.
Other odd details include the time-line for his acquisition of bomb-making materials.
Something else a coworker pointed out to me but I haven't been able to confirm as true is the possibility that this was the first Trump rally of this presidential campaign CNN decided to live stream. Something more obvious but no less odd is the speed at which the media has stopped talking about this story. They spent months discussing Trump's case regarding classified documents and Mar-a-lago despite all evidence essentially being available after the first week. Months of analysis and speculation. Now we have an extremely rare attempt on the life of a candidate that barely failed and it's being scrubbed from public discussion faster than you can say abracadabra.
Thoughts?

Edit- ugh...my mistake. I misread the "on the same day" part....the article doesn't mention when he registered Republican. I'm leaving it up for the other odd details like the bomb making time-line, etc.

Crossover voting is a common enough practice even in states where you have to register affiliation. So what you are officially registered as doesn’t always reflect political beliefs. Some do register in opposition to their beliefs to vote in damaging ways for the other party.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Crossover voting is a common enough practice even in states where you have to register affiliation. So what you are officially registered as doesn’t always reflect political beliefs. Some do register in opposition to their beliefs to vote in damaging ways for the other party.

There's been a couple of weird inconsistencies regarding his politics.

First, all we were given was his ActBlue political donation...and his registration as a Republican.

You're correct that the Democratic Party will get voters to vote for fringe or weak Republican candidates for Republican primaries. The Democratic Party will also fully donate to those candidates' campaigns....just to improve their chances of winning a Republican primary for a weak candidate who they can defeat in an election lol. I don't actually have any problem with that tactic....the problem I have us when they color or frame one of these candidates they've supported or voted for as a "fascist" or a "threat to democracy". If they genuinely believe those things then supporting those candidates is wildly hypocritical and they are threats to democracy themselves.

 

[chevyontheriver]

There's been a couple of weird inconsistencies regarding his politics.

First, all we were given was his ActBlue political donation...and his registration as a Republican.

You're correct that the Democratic Party will get voters to vote for fringe or weak Republican candidates for Republican primaries. The Democratic Party will also fully donate to those candidates' campaigns....just to improve their chances of winning a Republican primary for a weak candidate who they can defeat in an election lol. I don't actually have any problem with that tactic....the problem I have us when they color or frame one of these candidates they've supported or voted for as a "fascist" or a "threat to democracy". If they genuinely believe those things then supporting those candidates is wildly hypocritical and they are threats to democracy themselves.

It’s not just people allied to the Democratic Party that vote in Republican primaries to be subversive. Those allied with the Republicans have been known to vote in Democratic Party primaries. So there’s that.

In the 2016 party it is my opinion that forces on the Left engineered the Trump nomination so Hillary could have an easy victory. She was so bad she lost anyway. As evidence I give the generally positive media support for Trump that turned on a dime as soon as he had clinched the nomination. The other evidence is how few party activists wanted Trump and how poorly he did in caucus states, winning big in primary states. The Democrats got Trump for us. Thanks guys.