FBI contacts former Pennsylvania classmate who said rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks confronted him over his support for former President Donald Trump.
– The FBI has reached out to a former classmate of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks after he publicly revealed that the killer had confronted him years ago over his support for former President Donald Trump and expressed a “smug” dislike for politicians, he says.
“They called me…honestly just asked me for names and if I could give [them] much else”, 20-year-old Vincent Taormina told Fox News Digital.
Agents asked questions about the Trump rally gunman’s social circle and his purported dislike for candidates like Trump, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, he said.
But he also referred to himself as a “dead end” for the bureau. He said he hadn’t talked to the gunman in years.
He didn’t hear much from Crooks after a school shooting threat that he believes originated from the killer’s group of close friends.
“They were definitely the type, and they did, make threats to shoot up our school”, he said.
