Neighbors of former President Donald J. Trump’s would-be assassin say that they never saw any political signs in Thomas Matthew Crooks’ yard that highlighted his political affiliation.
The 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who nearly ended Trump’s presidential bid with a bullet was reportedly a registered Republican but two neighbors told Fox News Digital that there was nothing about the Bethel Park house that would indicate an enthusiasm for the GOP or its candidate.
The women whose names are Amy and Holly told the outlet that “the media would be hard-pressed to find a neighbor who could vouch for any signs having been seen in the Crooks’ yard.”
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“I give out the signs, and I’ve never given to that house, I’ll tell you that,” said Holly who’s a local GOP captain, casting doubt on how fervent a Republican that Crooks might have been.
“I walk by here all the time, other neighbors do,” Amy said. “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 added. “I’m a committeewoman, and I door-knock everywhere: for [Dr. Mehmet] Oz, for [GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug] Mastriano, for Trump, for all of them.”
She told Fox News Digital she’d “never door-knocked at the Crooks’ home; campaigns and activists often have access to voter rolls with likely voters of respective parties,” according to the outlet.
“I know who the Republicans are. I mean, he’s not on the list,” Holly said.
Crooks donated money to a leftist PAC on the day of Biden’s inauguration, a small $15 amount but still, it’s an inconvenient detail to a media that’s working to construct a narrative that the failed assassin was an ardent Republican, if not a Trump supporter.
“Crooks’ mother, Mary, is registered as a Democrat, while his father is registered as a libertarian,” according to Fox News.
“I drive up and down this street all the time because it’s the way we get out to go to the main road,” Amy said, “and I never saw him out.”
“I think it was about a month and a half ago,” she said of the one recollection that she had of Crooks who walked by when she was working in her yard. “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.”
At least one other neighbor interviewed by another news outlet claimed that there were signs in the yard.
“There absolutely was MAGA-supporting signs for a while,” Kelly Little told WTAE.
One of Crooks’ former classmates recalls being mocked by the now-deceased shooter over his support for Trump because he’s Hispanic.
“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. “No. He’s great. He was a great president. He called me stupid – or insinuated that I was stupid.”
“He just did not like politicians, especially with the choices that we had,” 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,” Taormina said.
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