@prem_thakker

Note: Crooks registered as a Republican in September 2021 — which means he made his $15 donation to the liberal PAC on January 20, 2021, and then 8 months later registered as a Republican.

@prem_thakker

FBI officially identifies shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20 of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.

Voter records show Crooks was a registered Republican who made one singular $15 donation to a liberal PAC on January 20, 2021 — Biden’s Inauguration Day.

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    4 months ago

    OK … so a 20 yo with some sort of issue didn’t know who he was at age 17?

    I bet we’ll see this blown out of proportion in the next days.

    TBH I can’t remember if I thought I was a conservative, social liberal, or communist at that age.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 months ago

    PA has closed primaries. If you want to vote against trump, or pro trump legislators in the primary, you have to register as a republican. I don’t think a future assassin, would be above strategically registering for a party they don’t vote for. This alone is enough evidence to make conclusions about their political beliefs.

    Donating to a pac on inauguration day makes little sense. That’s the time they need money the least. Donating just before, or during the height of the campaign season would meaningful, this is just odd.