How Come We Know So Much About Luigi Mangione, but Next to Nothing About Trump's Would-Be Assassin?

[mystery-ak]

How Come We Know So Much About Luigi Mangione, but Next to Nothing About Trump's Would-Be Assassin?
Bob Hoge


One of my kids was the first to bring it to my attention. “How come we know so much about this CEO-killing guy in just a few hours than we do about that guy who tried to kill Trump?” she remarked. Then, some of my colleagues pointed out the same thing. And then it went viral on social media.

There are some legitimate reasons for this—the suspected killer of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, 26-year-old Ivy-leaguer Luigi Mangione—has a social media trail, reportedly wrote a manifesto, and has relatives and past acquaintances speaking out. Thomas Matthew Crooks, however, the would-be assassin whose rifle shot came within inches of ending then-presidential candidate Donald Trump’s life at a Pennsylvania rally in July, was more of a cipher and left less of a footprint.

But is that all that is at play here? People are asking questions:

    And even as the Congressional task force on Crooks' assassination attempt wrapped up its work last week, chairman Rep. Mike Kelly admitted to Meet the Press: 'There’s so many missing pieces on this one … How could there be so many missing pieces?'

    The unanswered questions and mysterious factors led some to draw comparisons between Crooks and Mangione.

    Conservative commentator Greg Price led the charge, saying on X just hours after Mangione's arrest: 'We now know more about Luigi in five hours than we have learned about Thomas Crooks in 3 months.'

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[rangerrebew]

Had Mangione outsmarted the Secret Service to shoot at Trump, you wouldn't know anything about him either.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Luigi Mangione was a competent assassin whose target had no security.

The Butler PA assassin got kicked off his school's shooting team for bad aim, and thanks to the Secret Service's ineptitude he came within centimeters of completing his mission.  How embarrassing.

The Butler PA assassination attempt is reminiscent of the Boston Brinks' Job of 1950.  Brinks touted itself as impenetrable, but was defeated by 2nd-rate and 3rd-rate petty criminals.  Also, embarassing.

[Smokin Joe]

Hey!

Luigi wasn't on the payroll.

[PeteS in CA]

How Come We Know ... Next to Nothing About Trump's Would-Be Assassin?

In real life, from Thomas Matthew Crooks - Wikipedia :

Thomas Matthew Crooks was born on September 20, 2003,[2] and grew up in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh.[4] Both of Crooks's parents are licensed professional counselors.[5] Recollections about him, including information about his life and personality, vary considerably.[6]

He attended Bethel Park High School.[7] He attempted to join the school's rifle club, participating in "preseason", but was such a bad shot he was considered "dangerous", being rejected from the team and asked not to come back.[8][9] He joined the National Technical Honor Society in 2021 while a junior in high school.[10] In 2022, he graduated with high honors and won a $500 "star award" from the National Math and Science Initiative.[11][12][13]

Classmates and school officials characterized him as being quiet; classmates said that he was often bullied for various reasons[2][3][12] including his quiet demeanor, body odor, as well as for wearing camouflage hunting outfits and surgical masks to school.[2][14][15]

He earned an associate degree in engineering science from the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, graduating two months before the shooting. He was employed as a dietary aide in a nursing home at the time of the shooting.[16][17][18][19] According to the nursing home, which is less than a mile away from where he lived, he had passed a background check and "performed his job without concern".[20] He had been accepted into both the University of Pittsburgh and Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Pennsylvania northwest of Pittsburgh and planned to attend the latter.[20][21]

He had a membership at a local shooting club for at least a year.[18]
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Prior to the shooting, Crooks searched for images and public appearances of Trump, President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, and Catherine, Princess of Wales,[22][23][24] as well as for information regarding the Republican National Convention[25] and the Democratic National Convention.[26] He also searched the Internet for information on major depressive disorder and the Oxford High School shooting, with authorities finding an arrest photograph of Oxford shooter Ethan Crumbley on his phone.[26][27][28]

On July 6, the same day he registered for the rally, Crooks searched "how far was Oswald from Kennedy" in reference to former president John F. Kennedy and the gunman who assassinated him.[29] Crooks also searched for information on power plants and the attempted assassination of Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico. He used a number of aliases and encrypted communication accounts to buy firearm supplies and bomb-making material.[30] On July 12, 2024, Crooks went to a shooting range where he was a member to practice firing.[31]

In real life, part 2, Ryan Wesley Routh - Wikipedia :

Ryan Wesley Routh was born on February 18, 1966,[11] in Guilford County, North Carolina.[12] For most of his life, he was a resident of Greensboro,[2] where he attended North Carolina A&T State University for two semesters in 1995.[13] He later ran a roofing business. In January 1989, Routh was married to Lora Wilson Routh[2][14] and had at least two sons and a daughter.[15][16][17][18][19] Routh divorced Lora on January 22, 2003.[20]
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On December 15–16, 2002, Routh was convicted of possessing a firearm; resisting, delaying and obstructing a law enforcement officer and driving with license revoked after a three-hour stand-off with police. He was pulled over while driving, and during the traffic stop he put his hand on a gun and then drove to a nearby roofing business, where he barricaded himself inside.[19][23][24] In 2003, he was sentenced for driving without a license, carrying a concealed weapon and hit-and-run. On February 10, 2010, he was convicted of possessing stolen goods. For each of these charges he was given probation.[25]

Prior to his alleged attempt to assassinate Trump, Routh had over a hundred criminal charges filed against him throughout his life.[26]

In 2018, he moved to Kaʻaʻawa, Hawaii. There he started a shed-building business with his son, Adam Routh.[19] He and his son, Oran Alexander Routh, had a falling out and had not talked prior to the assassination attempt, although following the attempt he said that Routh was "a loving and caring father, and honest, hardworking man" and that "it doesn’t sound like the man I know to do anything crazy, much less violent."[27]

Kim Mungo, a local neighbor who knew Routh for 18 years before he moved to Hawaii, claimed she saw him and his family as "weird", and claimed that the amount of guns he owned made the neighborhood feel uncomfortable around him. ...
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A former volunteer for Ukraine's International Legion, Evelyn Aschenbrenner, branded Routh as "delusional" and a "liar" over his claims that he recruited for the Ukrainian organization, saying Routh was "not, and never has been, associated with the International Legion or the Ukrainian Armed Forces at all". Aschenbrenner said of Routh "He was combative. He was argumentative. He refused repeatedly to understand basic army policy", further adding "There was delusions of grandeur and [he was] very disconnected from reality". The International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine said in a statement that Routh had "never been part of, associated with, or linked" to it "in any capacity."[35][36][37]
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On September 12, merely three days before the assassination attempt, Routh exchanged messages with British-trained commandos from Afghanistan about recruitment to the Russo-Ukrainian War over the instant messaging app WhatsApp. Routh's WhatsApp account consisted of several discussions with special forces from Afghanistan about how to get to Ukraine to fight in the war. As of November 2024, all of the chat logs on Routh's WhatsApp account are being investigated by The Independent and investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports.[41]

Need it be pointed out that the many footnote numbers represent online sources with even more information about Crooks and Routh?