Shooter was a Republican voter.
The FBI identified the shooter, who is dead, as Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. A motive wasn't clear.
www.nbcnews.com
Where's the original dated video of this though?
Man , old Irish Joe almost pulled it off. Got to hand it to him Paddy. He's been on a roll since Afghanistan. I mean I recall people out here ridiculing Irish Joe , the US & it's 51st state & then bang - Feb 24 th 2022 happened - a day which will go down in Paddy history as Redemption Day.
There was my hero Irish Joe knocking off 3 or 4 birds in 1 stone - Russia , the EU , Le Francais & ze Germans . All this without firing a single shot !! Every time he played the fool in public attracting everybody's mirth & ridicule you could bet he'd come out with a huge surprise / con in the weeks to come .
I can think of a dozen such incidents Paddy . Like he pretended to locate Germany on a map depicting Asia & a week later Nord Steam was at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Next was Irish Joe mumbling something resembling French & a week later Macron on a visit to the US found he'd been had when Irish Joe announced huge subsidies for industries shifting mfg to the US.
It gets better . He got TSMC to commit billions of USD in investment & move into Arizona promising them huge subsidies & 2 years on , TSMC is on the verge of commissioning their super fab plant & my hero Irish Joe hasn't disbursed a single cent of them subsidies.
2 weeks ago Carrot Top got the better of him in a nationally televised debate & the world went LMFAO ing at Irish Joe . Uh Oh ! Wrong move ....2 weeks later Carrot Top almost had his brains on the audience behind.
It was a perfect plan . You had a gunman on the roof just 200 mtrs from Carrot Top with the secret service looking one way & the local police snipers looking the other way & what does Thomas Matthew Crooks - The Republican do ? He misses. At 200 mtrs with a telescopic sight on . I'm beginning to think Thomas Matthew Crooks has Paddy ancestry. Only a Paddy could miss at 200 mtrs with a telescopic sight & crosshair.
Now tell me , who in his right mind would suspect Irish Joe of such a cowardly act ? The man's genius is unrecognised which I think is a monumental tragedy. The most devilishly intelligent Paddy in 3 millenia & look how unappreciated his political genius is ?! Man this guy makes Machiavelli look like an amateur.
You haven't heard the last of my hero Irish Joe ! Come January 16th 2025 & he'd be sworn in as the President of the US in spite of forgetting the oath reading it as he does on the tele prompter. That's my hero for you - the one & only Irish Joe !!