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Bethel Park High School officials have contradicted reports that Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was bullied, threatening, and a member of the school’s rifle team.
In updated statements posted Saturday, officials said they have “no record” of Crooks ever trying out or being dismissed from the rifle team due to character or performance concerns, as previously reported.

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[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

Why does the guy have to have been bullied? Maybe he just really hated a convicted criminal, rapist, draft dodger, supected pedophile, treasonous, and otherwise all-around garbage human being and thought the world didn't need as many of those as it has.

Just because someone made an attempt on that orange clown's life doesn't give the horse's ass a pass at being an all-around shit heel.

Fuck that fat piece of shit.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

All the evidence points to him just doing it for the sake of committing a shooting though. He was looking up random political events, seemingly to find the closest one, regardless of party.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

So you're saying we nearly managed to get rid of Trump accidentally?

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

No, he definitely wanted to kill Trump. But if Biden were holding a rally that day, it just as easily could’ve been him. At least that’s what the initial evidence seems to be saying

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

So he wanted to shoot someone for the sake of shooting them but definitely wanted to kill Trump. Does it say anywhere that he definitely wanted to kill Biden? Him shooting Bidene is just speculation on your part.

If he wanted to just shoot someone he could have chosen someone not as high profile and survived.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

He was looking up the closest political rally. Turns out it was Trump.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

Careful. Statements like that could break up your band.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I feel like if he did that to a democrat, people would have reacted very differently instead of the mental health angle.

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