16001 Anti Fascist

He also would fit in well with antifa based on his looks.

Kate

Take a look at the photo in this X post, by PA politician Sean Parnell. The negligence of the security arrangements is egregious.

Yes, indeed. The first example I saw of the unprotected roof was from a BBC interview on-the-spot on Saturday. An ordinary man in the street caught this. Doesn’t say much about the Secret Service. Or maybe it means that their Service to the country is a Secret.

Art Deco

He’s a professional class youth described as ‘smart’ by classmates, but no indication he was enrolled in any of Pennsylvania’s state colleges.

I also wondered about that. Twenty years old, apparently bright, working at a nursing home but no college attendance in his life?
Turns out he went to a community college, and did quite well. Pittsburgh Post Gazette:More details emerge about Thomas Crooks, the Bethel Park man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump

After high school, Crooks received an associate degree in engineering science from the Community College of Allegheny County, graduating in May with high honors, Dena Rose Buzila, CCAC’s public relations director, said in a statement Monday. CCAC has no records relating to any disciplinary, student conduct or security-related incidents involving Crooks.
At the community college’s south campus in West Mifflin on Monday, a faculty member who wanted only to be identified by his first name, Carlos, said he had limited interactions with Crooks. But during those few interactions, Crooks had been “nice and kind.” “He was a good student,” Carlos said.
He never had Crooks in class, but helped him 3D-print one of his class projects.

More information about the recluse family he belonged to:

Sandy Kovalik lives just two doors up the road from the Crooks family house. “I always go for walks and never see anyone outside,” she said.
Another neighbor, who only wanted to be identified by her first name Amy, said the only time she saw someone at the Crooks’ house was when someone was cutting the grass.

The Kovalik surname rang a bell. Dan Kovalik, who has also published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is an attorney cum “human rights investigator” who has written some far-left crazy type of books.
Such as one defending Maduro’s dictatorship in Venezuela. Or defending Russia in the Ukraine war. That to me is far-left crazy.

As both Daniel Kovalik and Sandy Kovalik are in the Pittsburgh area, it is quite possible that they are related. The Kovalik surname isn’t very common.
Given that Crooks had little interaction with his neighbors, such as Sandy Kovalik, it is not likely that there was any contact between Thomas Crooks and Daniel Kovalik, a presumed relative of Crooks’s neighbor Sandy Kovalik.
Just one of those interesting coincidences.

Take a look at the photo in this X post, by PA politician Sean Parnell. The negligence of the security arrangements is egregious.

https://twitter.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1813240829919539633

Great article snag!

Am I losing my google-fu? I’ve been looking for info on Crooks and not finding nearly as much as I want.

My god. He actually purchased a ladder at Home Depot, brought it to the site and climbed up a wall to the closest roof (aside from those occupied by SS counter-snipers) with line of sight to Trump?

But I can believe it.

I think you nailed motive too.