NEW: Gun range classmate of Thomas Crooks says Crooks made an evil smirk when a political conversation came up.
62-year-old Air Force veteran Bill Jenkins says he wonders if he may have accidentally inspired Crooks to pull off the sho*ting.
“It turns out the instructor and I… pic.twitter.com/kaE5NInaZT
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 21, 2024
So the shooting range Thomas Crooks was a member of is Clairton Sportsmen’s Club.
Apparently, Clairton Sportsmen’s Club “is not just a bunch of shooting ranges,” but “regional police and sheriff departments train there, plus officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
— Haley Jane (@ms_haleyjane) July 21, 2024
DHS Live Exercise range is where Crooks trained. pic.twitter.com/QWCRIhvgmE
— George Webb – Investigative Journalist (@RealGeorgeWebb1) July 19, 2024
These people are crisis actors.
Would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks had a good aim, but was “pure evil” according to a man who took a shooting course alongside him.
Air Force veteran Bill Jenkins, 62, was on the range at Keystone Shooting Centre in Cranberry, Pennsylvania, with Crooks less than a month before he managed to get off eight shots at the Republican presidential nominee as he spoke at a rally, grazing his ear.
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Jenkins, who has been questioned by the FBI over his eerie encounter with Crooks, recalled how they took an intermediate handgun course together at the range in Cranberry, Pa. — about a 30-minute drive from Butler, where the shooting took place on July 13.
The course claims to help “improve accuracy and distance through stance, grip and follow through,” according to its website and, alongside the instructor, Jenkins and Crooks were the only two taking it that day.
Crooks was dressed in casual attire and brought his own 9mm handgun to the class, according to Jenkins.
“The course went on for three hours and I could see this kid was confident with guns. When we went to the range he started shooting straight away,” Jenkins told the outlet. “It seemed like he had experience with weapons.”
His first impression was that Crooks seemed like a “nice kid,” but noted he was quiet.
High school classmates of the would-be assassin have since publicly discussed how Crooks was interested in politics, describing him as “smug and arrogant” about it.
Others described how he had been bullied as well as his bad hygiene. Another former classmate, Jameson Myers, who went to elementary and high school with Crooks, claimed he had been cut from the rifle club because he was a terrible shot.
However, Bethel Park High School said in a statement that it has no record of him attempting to join the rifle team and officials have disputed the allegations that he was bullied.
Jenkins also painted a different picture of Crooks’ shooting skills during their time in the June 22 course.
“I noticed on his target at ten yards he blew a big hole right through the centerpiece,” Jenkins recounted to The Sun. “I congratulated him on how good he’d done and he just laughed.”
Actually, who knows if they’re crisis actors.
I mean, at this point, they could be AI generated fake people.
The shooter had no social media and no identity, according to the US federal government.
“The Official Story of a Lone Gunman Is COMPLETE BUNK”
Dr. Chris Martenson presents “rock solid audio proof that there were at least two shooters targeting Trump and the crowd.”
Even CNN has acknowledged the presence of gunfire from three distinct weapons: Three shots from… pic.twitter.com/xyuxNwzRX1
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) July 19, 2024
A new video obtained by Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 appears to show 20-year-old Thomas Crooks lurking in the area an hour before he opened fire.
Was he looking for his handler? pic.twitter.com/VZb8g7JTq3
— Freddie Ponton 🇫🇷 (@LFCNewsMedia) July 18, 2024