On July 13, it will be exactly a year since Thomas Matthew Crooks took aim at then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a Butler, Pennsylvania campaign rally in a scene that shocked the world. You probably know where you were the moment you found out (or watched live on TV) that Trump missed death by mere millimeters and was struck in the ear. Tragically, firefighter Corey Comperatore was killed in the barrage of bullets.
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But why did Crooks do it? Were there signs, did he leave a manifesto, was he posting enraged missives on social media?
No—mostly he just left behind unanswered questions. As Breitbart reported Friday, CBS News recently conducted an investigation into the would-be assassin’s motive, but came up with very little:
[The] mystery prevailed even in an extensive CBS’s report this week, which the network described as the “most comprehensive portrait” of Crooks to date — based