According to national security experts, the motivations of Thomas Matthew Crooks — the 20-year-old gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13 — remain unclear. Crooks was a registered Republican but gave a small donation to a progressive group, and he didn’t have a strong online presence. Some national security experts have speculated that Crooks, who was killed by U.S. Secret Service agents, may be comparable to John Hinckley Jr. In March 1981, Hinckley’s attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan was …
