Suspect was registered as Republican voter, state records show
abcnews.go.com

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspectin Saturday’s shooting, was registered as a Republican voter, according to Pennsylvania records.

Already the republicans are dismissing his voter registration as meaningless. Here comes the “mental illness” angle.

Edit: apparently it’s not uncommon to register with the party you oppose in PA. This is going to be a fun ride.

      • MagicShel@programming.dev
        37·
        5 months ago

        He was 20. He could have voted only in a single election. Someone said he donated to democrats 3 years ago. This math is confusing the fuck out of me.

          • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
            16·
            5 months ago

            With just the same first and last name, where as the Republican party registration had other corroborating data, such as middle initial, address, and date of birth.

            So the donation is nowhere near as solid as the Republican party registration.

        • Asafum@feddit.nl
          141·
          5 months ago

          Unfortunately I think what we’re going to learn is that he’s one of those people that register Republican to vote in their primaries to choose the weakest candidate giving Democrats a better chance.

          Either way I unfortunately think this is going to give Trump yet another boost… God knows that’s what we needed…

          • MagicShel@programming.dev
            13·
            5 months ago

            That’s possible. Because we damn sure aren’t going to learn that people are more complicated than a simple black & white label.

            If this comes across as argumentative, I don’t mean it that way. It’s just pure cynicism.

          • Gerudo@lemm.ee
            3·
            5 months ago

            I read a snippit that in PA, it’s not uncommon to register for the other party. More than likely, he really was a dem/non repub.

          • MagicShel@programming.dev
            5·
            5 months ago

            17 year olds, supposedly. (I can’t verify the three years ago, so grain of salt.)

            This doesn’t really make sense and we might just have to wait for actual details from the investigation.

            • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              51·
              5 months ago

              Some people are saying $10, which is a lot more to a kid than to an adult. But kids can afford $10.

              EDIT: $15 to more reliable sources. Still in the rough ballpark tho

      • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
        171·
        5 months ago

        Apprently that was a differnet person in Philly that shares his first and last name.

            • jeffw@lemmy.world
              31·
              5 months ago

              NYTimes, so there’s a paywall. It links to the FEC (wouldn’t load on mobile for me but the FEC page did fully load on my desktop).

              https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/us/politics/trump-gunman-thomas-crooks.html

              Edit: actually, the article has been updated since I read it. It no longer links to the FEC, just a NYT screenshot:

              https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/fe91e6ba36695009/ac182c3a-full.pdf

              Though it says Pitt, the zip is a Bethel Park zip

              A voter-registration record showed Mr. Crooks’s Republican registration, though federal campaign-finance records show he donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform ActBlue in January 2021.

              • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
                51·
                5 months ago

                Where as the Republican party registration has other corroborating information listed, the donation doesn’t have anything other than the same first and last name. So it’s not confirmed to be the same guy yet.

                • jeffw@lemmy.world
                  12·
                  5 months ago

                  Name, job, and zip code. Find me another guy living in Bethel Park with the same name who was unemployed in 2021 (edit: Bethel Park has 4 zip codes, so not even all of Bethel Park. People really think there’s another guy with such a unique name in town? None of his relatives share the same name, so an unrelated guy?)

                  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
                    11·
                    5 months ago

                    I think you’re misreading me.

                    I’m saying the Republican party registration has those things, but the donation doesn’t, so could be from someone with the same first and last name from anywhere.

                    So the Republican party registration is this more corroborated by having the extra information. Whereas the donation isn’t, due to not having that extra information with it.

                • jeffw@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  5 months ago

                  He lives there too. Without doxing anyone or putting their info on here, you can read in the news that they all live together (dad, mom, son. Sister moved out a couple years ago)

          • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
            3·
            5 months ago

            Lots of noise right now. Dont have a source past a random comment, so doubt is warranted.