Neighbor explains what she knew about political views of Trump shooter’s family
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Two neighbors of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks dismissed the attention drawn to his political affiliation, saying the family appeared to never have campaign signs of any stripe in their Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, yard.
Amy, who spoke to reporters alongside Holly – a local GOP captain – attested that the media would be hard-pressed to find a neighbor who could vouch for any signs having been seen in the Crooks’ yard.
“I give out the signs, and I’ve never given to that house, I’ll tell you that,” said Holly, who alluded to the fact Crooks was a registered Republican.
The shooting suspect also donated $15 to a progressive political action committee on the day of President Biden’s inauguration.
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“I walk by here all the time, other neighbors do,” Amy added. “You will not find one neighbor that will confirm or ever say they saw those signs in the yard.”
I’m on a Republican committee here in Bethel Park,” Holly said. “I’m a committee woman, and I door-knock everywhere: for [2022 U.S. Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet] Oz, for [2022 gubernatorial nominee State Sen. Doug] Mastriano, for Trump, for all of them,” she said.
Holly said she had never door-knocked at the Crooks’ home; campaigns and activists often have access to voter rolls with likely voters of respective parties.
“I know who the Republicans are. I mean, he’s not on the list,” she said.
Crooks’ mother, Mary, is registered as a Democrat, while his father is registered as a libertarian.
Amy also said she rarely saw Crooks or his family out and about.
“I drive up and down this street all the time because it’s the way we get out to go to the main road,” she said, “and I never saw him out.”
However, Amy offered one recollection of encountering Crooks while working in her yard.
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“I think it was about a month and a half ago,” she said. “He was just like this; he was just walking with his head down … and at one point he turned his head, and he just kept his head down.”
Amy said she and her husband originally planned to attend Trump’s rally in Butler, about an hour and a half north of their neighborhood.
“I set my alarm for 5 a.m., and I had my clothes out, ready to go. I was just going to throw them on, not even to do makeup, nothing, put my hat on, and I was going to drive up and meet up with friends,” she said.
However, Amy recounted that something “didn’t feel right,” and she ended up watching the rally on television with her husband.
She recalled hearing the reports from Crooks’ rifle and immediately recognized them as gunshots.
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“So, it was just complete shock at that point because then when [Trump] dropped and then when he stood up, it was like, ‘Great,’” she said.
As other experts and observers previously said, Amy added that she and her husband knew that if Trump had not turned his head, the shots could have been much more injurious or fatal.
But when he was quickly surrounded by Secret Service agents, and he gave the now-iconic fist pumps and appeared to mouth “Fight, fight,” Amy said she knew what the former president truly meant.
“As a Trump supporter, when he said, ‘Fight, fight, fight,’ this is how I took it … it was like, he’s going to keep fighting for us, and he wants us to keep fighting for our freedom,” she said, adding it was clear that Trump was not encouraging further violence.
Classmate recalls conversation he had with Trump shooter that involved the former president
EXCLUSIVE: BETHEL PARK, Pa. – A former classmate of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks says the 20-year-old gunman once mocked him over his support of former President Donald Trump and had a general disdain for mainstream politicians across the political aisle.
“I brought up the fact that I’m Hispanic and, you know, I’m for Trump. And he said, ‘Well, you’re Hispanic, so shouldn’t you hate Trump?'” Vincent Taormina told Fox News Digital Tuesday. “No. He’s great. He was a great president. He called me stupid – or insinuated that I was stupid.”
It happened during a discussion in an English class at Bethel Park High School during the 2016 campaign, he said. Trump, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders were all still in the race.
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“He just did not like politicians, especially with the choices that we had,” Taormina said. “He did not like our politicians.”
Taormina that Crooks was usually quiet, except on certain topics that he seemed passionate about, including math and politics. And on those issues, he could be “smug [and] arrogant,” he added.
“He did not like our politicians.”
“He would just talk, talk and act like he knew everything, especially politics related, and he would say it in a tone that was like, ‘I’m better than you,’ in a type of way,” he said.
He also pushed back on reporting that Crooks was a complete loner. He had a friend group, he said, although it was both small and concerning.
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“They were definitely the type, and they did, make threats to shoot up our school,” he said.
Although he and other classmates suspected Crooks himself was behind a threat, he said he had no firm proof. But after the threat came in, the future would-be assassin didn’t return to school for a few days.
Crooks, 20, killed a 50-year-old father of two named Corey Comperatore, critically wounded David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, according to authorities. He struck the former president in his right ear.
Secret Service counter-snipers “neutralized” Crooks at the scene, authorities said. Images show him lying dead on a rooftop less than 150 yards from where Trump had been speaking.
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After the rumors began swirling, Crooks’ demeanor changed, Taormina said. He got quieter and stopped confronting people about politics.
But he had enough friends, Taormina argued, that someone must’ve seen a red flag along the line.
“Everybody, anybody who knew him-knew him, should have seen something,” he said. “They should have known something was up, and I know it’s kind of easy to hide, but people are going to get their affairs in order before they do something that’s bold and this drastic, and nobody saw it? And why?”
Authorities have said Crooks had no criminal history and no documented mental illnesses. The murder weapon was purchased legally by his father in 2013.
A federal investigation into his motives and potential help is continuing, with the FBI analyzing his laptop, cellphone and rifle as well as interviewing dozens of witnesses.
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Searches of the suspect’s house and vehicle wrapped up Sunday night. The bureau also said the FBI had interviewed nearly 100 witnesses, including members of law enforcement, as of Monday afternoon.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to submit tips at http://tips.fbi.gov or 1-800-CALL-FBI.
VP Harris says JD Vance won’t be loyal to ‘our country’ in video after Trump announcement
Vice President Kamala Harris said in a newly released video that former President Trump selected Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his running mate to be a “rubber stamp” for the Republican White House hopeful’s “extreme agenda.”
This comes ahead of Vance’s acceptance speech on Wednesday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Trump, now formally the Republican nominee for president, announced Vance as his pick for vice president on Monday.
“Trump looked for someone he knew would be a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda,” Harris said in the video.
“Make no mistake: JD Vance will be loyal only to Trump, not to our country,” she continued.
Harris and Vance spoke by phone after Vance’s nomination in a brief and respectful conversation, Fox News’ Alexis McAdams reports, after Harris left a congratulatory voicemail.
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Harris also criticized Vance for saying in an interview with ABC News earlier this year that he would not have certified the 2020 election until states submitted pro-Trump electors if he were vice president at the time, noting in the interview that he believes unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the 2020 election.
“Unlike Mike Pence, Vance said he would have carried out Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 election,” Harris said.
The vice president further pointed to comments Vance made during his 2022 Senate campaign, when he said he supported a national abortion ban at 15 weeks, with some exceptions such as protecting the life of the mother. Harris also cited in her video Vance’s vote last month against a Democrat-led bill to protect access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF. The bill was blocked by Republicans in the Senate.
“He supports a national abortion ban and voted against protecting IVF,” Harris said of Vance.
Harris also referenced Project 2025, a controversial initiative organized by conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation and that was authored by a number of conservatives, including some former Trump administration officials.
Project 2025 offers right-wing policy recommendations for Trump should he win the presidency, including replacing civil service employees with Trump loyalists, abolishing the Department of Education, criminalizing pornography, eliminating DEI programs, cutting funding for Medicaid and Medicare, rejecting abortion as health care and infusing the government with Christian values.
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Trump has sought to distance himself from the initiative, which has been criticized as an authoritarian and Christian nationalist plan that would undermine civil liberties, saying he knows nothing about it and that parts of it are “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”
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“And if elected, [Vance] will help implement the extreme Project 2025 plan for a second Trump term, which would target critical programs like Head Start and Medicare,” Harris said. “But we are not going to let that happen.”
Donald Trump Jr has surprising reaction to Iranian plot against his father
Donald Trump Jr. had a surprising reaction Tuesday to reports that Iran plotted to have his father, former President Trump, assassinated, calling it “maybe the great political endorsement ever.”
The eldest Trump son, who is a vocal surrogate for his father’s campaign, made the comment in an interview on “Hannity” live from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee just as the former president arrived donning a visible bandage on his right ear for the second night in a row.
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“I think it’s sort of a great endorsement. When people like Iran want to take you out, that probably means it’s good for America, bad for Iran,” Trump Jr. said. “That may be the greatest political endorsement ever. But when that happens, their capabilities are much more than a kid with a rifle.”
The Department of Homeland Security received intelligence from a human source on an Iranian plot to assassinate former President Trump, Fox News has been told by two federal law enforcement sources. CNN first reported that there has been an increase in Secret Service protection for Trump in recent weeks because of this intelligence. DHS and Secret Service have increasingly been concerned about Trump holding outdoor events, Fox News is told.
The plot doesn’t appear to be connected to Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, the gunman who shot Trump during his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, over the weekend, the sources said. Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations denied the allegations, calling them “unsubstantiated and malicious” in a statement to Fox News Digital. Trump directed the January 2020 strike that killed Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Forces.
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Trump Jr.’s defiant tone Tuesday comes a day after he was seen tearfully welcoming his father to the GOP convention in his first public appearance following the attempt on his life. As former President Trump walked through a packed convention floor roaring with applause, his eldest son became visibly emotional.
“It was allergies,” he quipped when Sean Hannity asked how Saturday’s assassination attempt against his father affected him personally.
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“Not a lot of crying in the Trump family, but that moment, it was so heavy. 48 hours later…just the emotion…but also the love that we felt here,” he said. “What I saw over the last couple days here in Milwaukee was just incredible.”
Trump could effectively end the 2024 race this week — this is how it could happen
Former President Donald Trump has a chance to effectively end the 2024 presidential race on Thursday, with a speech underscoring a theme he has already said he would prioritize: unity.
Not unity for unity’s sake, but the notion that the American experiment and Americans’ basic sense of freedom, free speech – indeed, our core values – need to be respected and appreciated by all.
This does not preclude Trump from articulating the “MAGA” agenda of reducing inflation, closing the border, cutting taxes, and reducing foreign involvement. Rather, Trump would do himself – and the country – a great service if his agenda is put in the context of uniting the nation.
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To be sure, Trump has been engaging in polarizing and divisive rhetoric to his political success for most of his career, so this will be a considerable shift for the former president. I say that in no way suggesting that he is responsible for anything other than an approval rating that has been lower than most presidential frontrunners.
At this point, given the tragedy of what happened last Saturday, and Trump’s admittedly heroic response, he has a chance to, in a lasting way, make clear where he stands in terms of American democracy and the interests of the broad mass of the American people of all races, genders and nationalities.
Indeed, in different ways and in different times, prior Republican presidents, from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan, and both Bushes, were able to unify the country in the wake of crises that required leadership above and beyond attack ads and snide reposts about their opponents.
Donald Trump now has a singular, and arguably unique, opportunity to accomplish an equivalent goal in the coming days.
This may sound like a set of homilies, but it is clear, given the polarization and division that has existed, as well as President Biden’s Oval Office address on Sunday, that Trump, commanding the attention of virtually the entire country during his RNC speech on Thursday night can wipe the slate clean.
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Moreover, Trump can build a new narrative about himself in a way that was virtually impossible before the assassination attempt.
As a Democrat who has not been one of his supporters, I very much hope Trump embraces this approach fully and wholeheartedly. It is in his own interests and those of the country and our democracy that he does so.
A unity message provides the additional benefit of helping him electorally with swing voters, suburban women and independents.
In that same vein, emphasizing unity is more important than ever in the wake of Trump’s pick for vice president, JD Vance, who singled out President Biden after the assassination attempt on Trump.
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But most important, Trump can fundamentally alter his image and improve the stature of the U.S. throughout the world with a ringing endorsement of our values, our culture, and the urgency of unity in the face of horrific division and a horrifying incident last weekend.
For his part, President Joe Biden remained conciliatory in his interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on Monday night, stressing how grateful he is that Trump is OK and reminding Americans of the need to lower the temperature, while condemning any political violence.
That being said, while Biden expressed regret for his comment that it was “time to put Trump in the bulls-eye” just days before the shooting, the president’s credibility in terms of toning down the temperature himself is, frankly, not all that high.
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However, the fact that Biden embraced Trump, called him last Saturday, and suspended parts of his own campaign while eschewing the kind of rhetoric he has used previously is a step in the right direction.
Yet, given that this is Trump’s week at the RNC, and Trump has proven himself to be, in many ways, heroic, the onus is on the former president to prove that he can once again rise to the occasion.
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Eric Trump furious on behalf of Secret Service agents in line of fire, demands answers
Still shaken by the shocking attempt made on his father’s life, Eric Trump is demanding answers.
“The director of the Secret Service needs to be asked some really pointed, really hard questions, because that cannot happen again,” Eric Trump told Fox News Digital. “Whether it’s that local assets dropped the ball or an oversight, I don’t know. They need to get to the bottom of it, because we’re better than this as a country.”
The Trump Organization executive, who first heard of the shooting while sitting on the couch with his wife and kids, questioned how shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to position himself so closely to his father.
“It’s unthinkable,” he said. “It can never, ever, ever happen again: somebody within 130 yards of the former president and likely the current president with a rifle.”
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U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle came under blistering criticism Tuesday after telling ABC News that law enforcement officers weren’t stationed on top of the building where the shooter took up position because a “sloped roof” posed a safety risk to the agents. She said the assassination attempt was “unacceptable” but has refused to resign.
Eric Trump, who is an experienced marksman, said Crooks had a direct line of sight to his father and could have easily killed him.
“I will say that the people on that stage, I’m infuriated for them as well. I mean, they could have all taken bullets. Every single one of those agents could have been dead as well. You had somebody 130 yards away, who was on an elevated position with a rifle. I’m pissed off for them as well.”
“That’s the easiest shot you could ever make,” he said. “I’m a competitive shooter. I’ve done that my entire life. That’s like Tiger Woods making a 3-inch putt, and it’s unthinkable that could have happened, and it’s by the grace of God that he’s alive.”
Trump, who is slated to speak before his father on Thursday at the Republican National Convention, said his ire is focused on the lack of perimeter security at the Pennsylvania event rather than the Secret Service personnel flanking the former president.
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“The people on that stage were remarkable,” he said. “I know them personally, I know them as friends. They are amazing people, and they would have taken a bullet for him. What happened on the perimeter, that’s not their fault.”
Trump said agents on the dais are focused on crowd members rushing the stage or scanning for people in the immediate vicinity with weapons. Distant threats, Trump said, are not under their purview.
“I will say that the people on that stage, I’m infuriated for them as well,” he said. “I mean, they could have all taken bullets. Every single one of those agents could have been dead as well. You had somebody 130 yards away, who was on an elevated position with a rifle. I’m pissed off for them as well.”
If the assassination attempt had been successful, it would have rocked the country to its core, he added.
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“It would have been the greatest stain on America,” he said. “There was divine intervention.”
While he is thankful his father survived, Trump mourned the loss of Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief who died after being hit during Crooks’ fusillade.
“Devastating, beyond devastating,” he said. “There’s a guy who loved Trump, whose life is lost. We’ve never, ever had a problem at one of the rallies. They are the safest places.”
Having survived Saturday’s assault, Trump said momentum has shifted dramatically in his father’s direction and that his return to the White House is now an inevitability.
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“The mood is incredible,” he said. “We are on the winning side of everything. You can just feel the pendulum has swung in such a large way. We’re going to win this on Nov. 5. There’s no question about that.”
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Trump celebrated his father’s quick return to public appearances so soon after the shooting, lauding his attendance at the Republican National Convention on Monday.
“I’m incredibly proud of him. He’s the toughest person I’ve ever met in my life,” he said. “He is a remarkable man, and I think the entire country saw that this week.”
Marine vet walked from Trump shooting with gunshot wounds, friends say
PITTSBURGH – David “Jake” Dutch, one of the two victims critically wounded by gunshots at the Trump rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, walked down the bleachers with a T-shirt bunched up against his wounds before getting help, friends told Fox News Digital.
Dutch, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, was struck twice at the Trump rally — once in the stomach and once in the liver, according to those who know him at the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars lodges in Lower Burrell.
“He’s been a tremendous help to this club,” VFW commander Lee Johnson told Fox News Digital. “He’s involved with a couple different things we have here at the club. And I just feel so bad for David, his wife … great people. They’ve been members here for a long, long time.”
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Johnson added that all the members are wishing Dutch a speedy recovery.
The 57-year-old was apparently showing signs of responsiveness Tuesday, Johnson said, though he did not know the full extent of the Marine vet’s recovery or condition.
“He’s a tremendous, tremendous guy.”
Another VFW member described Dutch as a “wonderful man” who loved his country and loved former President Trump; it had been a dream of his for a long time to attend a rally, she said.
Other friends at the American Legion described Dutch, who works at Siemens Innomotics in the Pittsburgh area, as a quiet guy who was humble about his military service.
“If you didn’t already know he was a Marine, you’d never know it,” Roger Milliron Jr., who said he’s known Dutch for 20 years, told Fox News Digital. “He isn’t a loud or boisterous person. He keeps to himself. He is a hard worker. He’s a friend.”
The morning after the rally, when the legion opened, Milliron and his friends were chatting at the bar when he shared the news about Dutch.
“And then we told everybody that was here what happened, and it went from jovial conversation to you could hear a pin drop,” Milliron said.
Steven Penn said Dutch would give anyone the shirt off his back, and he loves his country.
“He’ll talk to anybody. He’s an all-around good guy,” Penn said, adding that it was “a shock” to everyone at the American Legion lodge to find out Dutch was one of the victims wounded at the rally.
Both lodges are collecting donations for Dutch.
“Our post is 100% behind him in supporting his family through everything,” Penn said.
Pennsylvania State Police identified the other victim wounded at the rally as 74-year-old James Copenhaver of Moon Township, Pennsylvania.
State Police also identified 50-year-old Corey Comperatore, a volunteer firefighter from Buffalo Township, as the victim who died Saturday after he was shot while protecting his wife and daughters from gunfire.
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Federal authorities are still working to determine the motive behind shooter Thomas Crooks’ assassination attempt on Trump.
Federal authorities are asking anyone with information about the incident to send tips to FBI.gov/butler or call 1-800-CALL-FBI.
Trump VP pick JD Vance is staunch critic of controversial Biden handout campaign
Former President Trump’s pick to serve as his running mate on the Republican ticket this year, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, has been a staunch critic of the Biden administration’s student loan handout as part of the White House’s repeated efforts to cancel borrowers’ debt.
President Biden campaigned on forgiving student loan debt derived from undergraduate tuition at two- and four-year public universities for borrowers earning up to $125,000 a year. His administration developed the handout plan in the first year and a half of his time in office, and he announced in August 2022 that he would move to cancel $10,000 per borrower and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients.
Biden’s plan encountered stiff resistance from Republicans, with several states filing legal challenges and Vance joining the ranks of its vocal opponents in his 2022 U.S. Senate race against Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan in Ohio.
“Forgiving student debt is a massive windfall to the rich, to the college educated, and most of all to the corrupt university administrators of America,” Vance wrote in a post on X in April 2022. “No bailouts for a corrupt system. Republicans must fight this with every ounce of our energy and power.”
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“Thanks to Tim Ryan and Joe Biden, Ohio workers are paying off the loans of Harvard Law students. If this seems unfair and illegal, it’s because it is,” he added in an X post that August.
After his victory in the 2022 Senate race, Vance cosponsored a bill in the Senate that would have rejected the Biden administration’s regulation for implementing the student loan handout using the Congressional Review Act. Although an identical bill passed both the House and Senate, it failed to override President Biden’s veto.
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The various legal challenges to the Biden administration’s proposal eventually led to the handout plan being blocked by the Supreme Court in June 2023. However, the White House has continued its pursuit of a plan that will pass legal muster and has since issued more narrowly tailored proposals.
Vance has also looked to advance other reforms to other aspects of federal student loans, and to that end he sponsored a bill known as Domenic and Ed’s Law in May.
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The bill, backed by original cosponsors Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Mike Braun, R-Ind., would address an inconsistency in federal law by letting the Department of Education discharge parents’ Federal Family Education Loans (FFEL) if their child becomes totally and permanently disabled.
Under current law, parents are permitted to discharge federal student loans if their child dies, not if their child develops a total and permanent disability.
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“No parent should be forced to shoulder the burden of FFEL loans while caring for their disabled child,” Vance said in a statement announcing the bill’s introduction. “Domenic Carducci, a fellow Buckeye from Steubenville, and his family deserve the relief this bipartisan legislation would provide.”