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Thomas Matthew Crooks — the shooter who tried and didn’t take out Donald Trump — clearly had a raunchy, sophomoric humorousness … as seen in new video obtained by TMZ.
Within the clip we acquired from a former pal of Crooks, you possibly can see him joking about being endowed with 10 inches, and likewise claiming he is a 6’4″ pupil at Stanford. In actuality, Crooks was only a tenth grader when this was shot, and we’re instructed he was making humorous movies with classmates whereas they had been all in a pc tech class.
His buddy tells us the video was shot in Feb. 2020 at Metal Middle Profession and Technical Training in Jefferson Hills, PA — which offers profession and technical schooling to college students attending a number of public college districts in PA. We’ve got reached out to the college to verify Crooks’ enrollment … however have not heard again.
The previous classmate says Crooks was quiet at first, however regularly opened up. He was cool, pleasant, and acquired alongside together with his classmates.
Crooks was additionally described to us as a savant when it got here to laptop tech. He was probably the most gifted college students at school — having the ability to take computer systems aside and reassemble them and not using a hitch.
He was into video video games, too, particularly “Fortnite” and “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.” For what it is value, these are each first-person shooter video games.
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The previous classmate tells us Crooks didn’t deliver up politics or weapons whereas within the classroom. Evidently, he was completely floored to search out out Thomas tried to assassinate Trump.
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TMZ acquired footage of Crooks capturing with an AR-15 fashion rifle, 130 yards away from Trump after positioning himself on a constructing simply exterior the Pennsylvania rally.
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In addition to wounding the ex-Prez, Crooks killed one individual within the crowd and injured 2 others … earlier than Secret Service snipers killed him lower than a minute later.
Crooks was a registered Republican, and the FBI’s nonetheless attempting to determine his motive.
