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The shooter was reported to have 3 overseas bank accounts.

The shooter was reported to have 3 overseas bank accounts.

On July 6, Crooks did a Google search for ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?'” (Christopher Wray told a congressional hearing on July 24).<ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/us-news/fbi-director-confirms-thomas-matthew-crooks-flew-drone-that-livestreamed-footage-hours-before-rally/ Trump gunman Thomas Crooks searched ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?’ before assassination attempt], Josh Christenson, ''The New York Post'', July 24, 2024</ref>

On July 6, Crooks did a Google search for ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?'” ([[Christopher Wray]] told a congressional hearing on July 24).<ref>[https://nypost.com/2024/07/24/us-news/fbi-director-confirms-thomas-matthew-crooks-flew-drone-that-livestreamed-footage-hours-before-rally/ Trump gunman Thomas Crooks searched ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?’ before assassination attempt], Josh Christenson, ''The New York Post'', July 24, 2024</ref>

He was a 20-year-old male from the Bethel Park, PA, a nursing-home employee,<ref>[https://apnews.com/article/trump-assassination-attempt-thomas-matthew-crooks-shooter-881581c46c07025898027143fc9132e5 What we know about the 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump], ''AP'', July 14, 2024</ref> was socially awkward with no political profile, according to his classmates;<ref name=wsj14jul2024>[https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/who-was-thomas-matthew-crooks--lrMt72pIYPaqiqCoDta2 Portrait of Trump Shooting Suspect Emerges], WSJ July 14, 2024</ref> Crooks starred in a [[Blackrock]] commercial filmed at Bethel Park High School, from which he graduated in 2022.<ref>[https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/trump-shooter-appeared-in-2022-blackrock-ad-investment-firm-pulls-it-down-2566973-2024-07-15 Trump shooter appeared in 2022 BlackRock ad, investment firm pulls it down], ''[[Reuters]]'', UPDATED: Jul 15, 2024. indiatoday.in</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/r6PWmi4y5pw Trump shooter tied to Blackrock], The Jimmy Dore Show, Jul 14, 2024. [[YouTube]].</ref> BlackRock, which donated a record amount to Democrats in the [[2022 Midterm elections]],<ref>[https://www.pionline.com/washington/blackrock-donates-record-amount-us-political-campaigns-esg-fight-heats BlackRock donates record amount to U.S. political campaigns as ESG fight heats up], ''[[Bloomberg News]]'', November 07, 2022. pionline.com</ref> stands to lose "the billions of dollars it has invested in [[Ukraine]]" if President Trump wins reelection in 2024.<ref>[https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/prezident-proviv-zustrich-iz-kerivnictvom-najbilshoyi-u-svit-82725 President holds meeting with world's largest investment company on creation of fund for rebuilding Ukraine], PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE [[Volodymyr Zelensky|VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY]] Official website, 5 May 2023. president.gov.ua</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported about [[oligarch]] activities over the [[4th of July]] just days before the assassination attempt, " As more leading Democrats say privately that [[Joe Biden|President Biden]] should withdraw from the presidential race, some of the party’s most prominent backers on [[Wall Street]] spent the holiday weekend debating what to do next...The group — including [[Larry Fink]] of BlackRock; [[Robert Rubin]], the former [[Treasury secretary]]; Jon Gray of Blackstone; [[Peter Orszag]] of Lazard; Blair Effron of Centerview Partners; and Robert Wolf, a former [[UBS]] executive close to [[Barack Obama]] — talked to friends, colleagues and in some cases each other about whether to stick with Biden."<ref>[https://archive.is/x7Nms Biden’s Wall Street Donors Are Increasingly ‘Concerned’], By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni, Vivienne Walt and Benjamin Mullin, ''[[New York Times]], July 8, 2024. nytimes.com</ref>

He was a 20-year-old male from the Bethel Park, PA, a nursing-home employee,<ref>[https://apnews.com/article/trump-assassination-attempt-thomas-matthew-crooks-shooter-881581c46c07025898027143fc9132e5 What we know about the 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump], ''AP'', July 14, 2024</ref> was socially awkward with no political profile, according to his classmates;<ref name=wsj14jul2024>[https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-rally-incident/card/who-was-thomas-matthew-crooks--lrMt72pIYPaqiqCoDta2 Portrait of Trump Shooting Suspect Emerges], WSJ July 14, 2024</ref> Crooks starred in a [[Blackrock]] commercial filmed at Bethel Park High School, from which he graduated in 2022.<ref>[https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/trump-shooter-appeared-in-2022-blackrock-ad-investment-firm-pulls-it-down-2566973-2024-07-15 Trump shooter appeared in 2022 BlackRock ad, investment firm pulls it down], ''[[Reuters]]'', UPDATED: Jul 15, 2024. indiatoday.in</ref><ref>[https://youtu.be/r6PWmi4y5pw Trump shooter tied to Blackrock], The Jimmy Dore Show, Jul 14, 2024. [[YouTube]].</ref> BlackRock, which donated a record amount to Democrats in the [[2022 Midterm elections]],<ref>[https://www.pionline.com/washington/blackrock-donates-record-amount-us-political-campaigns-esg-fight-heats BlackRock donates record amount to U.S. political campaigns as ESG fight heats up], ''[[Bloomberg News]]'', November 07, 2022. pionline.com</ref> stands to lose "the billions of dollars it has invested in [[Ukraine]]" if President Trump wins reelection in 2024.<ref>[https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/prezident-proviv-zustrich-iz-kerivnictvom-najbilshoyi-u-svit-82725 President holds meeting with world's largest investment company on creation of fund for rebuilding Ukraine], PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE [[Volodymyr Zelensky|VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY]] Official website, 5 May 2023. president.gov.ua</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported about [[oligarch]] activities over the [[4th of July]] just days before the assassination attempt, " As more leading Democrats say privately that [[Joe Biden|President Biden]] should withdraw from the presidential race, some of the party’s most prominent backers on [[Wall Street]] spent the holiday weekend debating what to do next...The group — including [[Larry Fink]] of BlackRock; [[Robert Rubin]], the former [[Treasury secretary]]; Jon Gray of Blackstone; [[Peter Orszag]] of Lazard; Blair Effron of Centerview Partners; and Robert Wolf, a former [[UBS]] executive close to [[Barack Obama]] — talked to friends, colleagues and in some cases each other about whether to stick with Biden."<ref>[https://archive.is/x7Nms Biden’s Wall Street Donors Are Increasingly ‘Concerned’], By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni, Vivienne Walt and Benjamin Mullin, ''[[New York Times]], July 8, 2024. nytimes.com</ref>