Report: Crooks Wrote Threatening Message on Gaming Platform

[Graybeard]

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/crooks-trump-assassination-attempt/2024/07/18/id/1173131/

By Solange Reyner    |   Thursday, 18 July 2024 04:06 PM EDT

Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to kill former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally last weekend, purportedly wrote a threatening message on a gaming platform ahead of the shooting, Fox News reported.

"July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds," Crooks wrote on Steam, a popular online platform where gamers communicate.

The information was relayed Wednesday to U.S. senators during an all-member briefing by law enforcement officials on Crooks.

Crooks also had searched the dates of the Democratic National Convention and Trump's Pennsylvania rally on his phone, according to the report.

Crooks, who was identified as a person of interest about an hour before the shooting, used a sniper rifle from a rooftop across a field from the rally to fire off two quick volleys of rounds at Trump.

The former president was hit in the ear and one spectator died. Two others were injured. Secret Service snipers took Crooks out just 26 seconds later.

Witnesses and law enforcement officials say Crooks walked around for at least a half-hour before climbing onto the roof of a building adjacent to the Butler Farm Show grounds, where Trump was speaking.

Solange Reyner ✉

[gypsyman]

 Been a week, and I have swung back and forth, conspiracy or complete screw up. Hoping that complete screw up would be the one I went with. Nope, everytime I read about what did happen, what should have happened, who did what and why. Looks to me this will go down as another JFK and 9/11. To many questions, and no answers.

[Ranger99]

Lots of things from several days ago have
been taken down/deleted
There were some photos that I tried to save
and send to my niece, and I never could save
them, then I tried to direct her to them and
she couldn't find them by that time.
Yoo floob has also edited a lot of content.
But they've been heavily censoring everything
for a good bit of this year

[gene_225]

Has anyone posted exactly what he said? All I've seen are summaries, not what he posted. Mostly everything is summaries about this incident no complete reports. Hmmm...

[Graybeard]

It's in my original post above, here it is again. This is what he posted:

"July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds," Crooks wrote on Steam, a popular online platform where gamers communicate.

[gene_225]

Short and not sweet. Thanks.