CNN has reported that the person suspected of attempting to assassinate Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks, is a registered Republican and that he made a $15 donation to a Democratic-affiliated group.
Thomas Matthew Crooks lived in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park, about 35 miles south of the Trump rally where authorities say he shot the former president.
He graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022, according to local media reports and a commencement video.
Crooks was registered to vote as a Republican, according to a Pennsylvania voter list that matched the suspect’s name, age and address.
This year’s presidential election would be the first in which he was old enough to vote.
Federal Election Commission records show that a donor listed as Thomas Crooks with the same address gave $15 to a Democratic political action committee called the Progressive Participation Project in January 2021.
When contacted by CNN Saturday night, Crooks’ father, Matthew Crooks, said he was trying to figure out “what the hell is going on” but would “wait until I talk to law enforcement” before speaking about his son.
