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🗓️ 30 July 2024
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5 Secrets of Thomas Matthew Crooks: Forensic Psychologist Analyzes Trump Assassination Attempt
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Videos Used In This Episode:
Former classmate of Trump rally gunman says he was ‘bullied almost every day’
Trump Shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks Video Shows Him Joking About Penis | TMZ
Thomas Matthew Crooks' former guidance counselor says "it didn't register" at first
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/us/thomas-crooks-trump-rally-shooting-invs/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/19/politics/trump-rally-shooter-searches/index.html
TIME
https://time.com/6998557/thomas-matthew-crooks-trump-rally-shooter-fbi-motive/
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New York Times
Trump Rally Gunman ‘Didn’t Want Attention’ in School, Classmates Said - The New York Times
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0:00.0 | Hello, Hidden Gems, |
0:05.0 | Hidden Gems. Thank you for joining with us with Dr. John Matthias, |
0:09.0 | forensic and clinical psychologist, and me me a journalist and |
0:13.4 | investigative journalist TV reporter and now your better half or I |
0:17.1 | just I should say your equal half your co-host partner in crime |
0:21.6 | uh... your spouse. |
0:23.6 | Dr. John, where do you want to start |
0:27.6 | because this is a very heavy topic, |
0:31.5 | to say the least. |
0:40.0 | I want to begin with the title of our show, which is The Five Secrets of Thomas Matthew Crooks. And I think by examining what I'm calling secrets, I also might refer to them as motives. |
0:46.7 | They're not necessarily obvious motives. |
0:49.2 | And motive, by the way, is something that so far nobody's really been able to assess with Thomas Matthew Crooks or at least not disclose openly. |
0:58.2 | I think the FBI is trying to gather a lot more information and I'm sure they're going to have a much more comprehensive assessment once they gather the information and hand it over to their behavioral analysis unit. |
1:10.0 | In the meantime, I thought, you know, I think there's enough facts here to start making some assumptions or conjectures. |
1:16.1 | I know sometimes that makes people nervous because this will be somewhat speculative. |
1:22.0 | Some of these facts are not speculative. |
1:24.4 | These are accurate. |
1:25.6 | So my analysis will. |
1:27.2 | We have evidence tonight. |
1:28.4 | We have been studying, but some of your conclusions |
1:31.9 | or some of the things we might speculate on when it comes to the evidence. |
1:35.8 | So I think the key in my analysis will be taking some of the evidence we know to be accurate and combine it with some of the research on mass shooters school shooters |
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