https://www.dailydot.com/debug/trump-gunman-gab-thomas-matthew-crooks/Gab founder claims Trump gunman had account on platform—and replied to CatturdThe claim could not be immediately verified.Photo of Marlon Ettinger Marlon Ettinger Tech Posted on Jul 24, 2024 Updated on Jul 24, 2024, 5:01 pm CDTListen to the article now1.0xAudio by CarbonatixAndrew Torba, the founder of alt-social media site Gab, claimed on Wednesday that the site “learned” that the attempted Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks posted on his site.Where’d they find him? In Catturd’s mentions, of course.The Daily Dot couldn’t immediately confirm if the posts Torba shared in a post on X actually are Crooks.However, an account the Daily Dot found that matches up with the images shared by Torba appears to have been removed from the site.Torba later confirmed the account’s name matched the one the Daily Dot identified as @epicmicrowave. It’s since been put back up.Torba said in a statement on X that Gab saved the account data and are ready to turn it over pending a search warrant.It is unclear if Gab found the account itself or if it was informed by authorities.“Approximately 30 minutes ago, Gab learned that Thomas Crooks, the deranged Joe Biden supporter who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump, may have had an account on our platform. We are unable to confirm that the account in question actually belonged to him,” Torba wrote at 2:34pm on Wednesday. “The account was last active on the site in 2021. As far as we are aware, the account did not use the site to send any direct messages. He posted on the site nine (9) times total.”Torba shared two screenshots of pro-Biden comments, with the handle blacked out.
Approximately 30 minutes ago, Gab learned that Thomas Crooks, the deranged Joe Biden supporter who attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump, may have had an account on our platform. We are unable to confirm that the account in question actually belonged to him.The… pic.twitter.com/BcJrZJ4Yhk— Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba)July 24, 2024“While the account made very few posts on the site, the majority of them were in support of President Biden,” Torba claimed. “A number of posts in particular expressed support for President Biden’s COVID lockdowns, border policies and executive orders.”In one, the poster replied to Catturd, mocking his election forecasting skills.“Didn’t you also think Biden would lose in a landslide yeah I would not be very confident in your election predictions,” the account wrote on Feb 4, 2021.In the other post, the poster defends Biden’s border policy by pointing to a study comparing crime stats for undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens in Texas.“Biden executive orders don’t incentivize human trafficking as human traffickers aren’t interested in citizenships (sic), likewise the majority of illegal immigrants are not criminals and in fact some studies (such as the one linked below) show lower rates of crime committed by these individuals,” the poster wrote. “It is also unclear if the extensive path to citizenship is in fact effective at routing out potential bad actors hence why there is a review of that system.”
In a follow-up post Torba shared additional screenshots of the account replying to former Inforwars correspondent Paul Joseph Watson and Bill Mitchell.The account also appeared to respond to Torba once.pic.twitter.com/8ID7GuuWMa— Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba)July 24, 2024Not everybody was buying that the poster was Crooks though.“He wrote ‘’hence’????? Oh, c’mon. How many 20 year-olds use the word HENCE?” asked @IllinoisMomm.He wrote ''hence''????? Oh, c'mon. How many 20 year-olds use the word HENCE?— Now a WV Mom (@IllinoisMomm)July 24, 2024Crooks, who was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper after firing into the crowd at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, was 20 years old when he died.If he is the Gab poster, he would have been 17 at the time the posts were made. Initial reports claim that while Crooks registered as a Republican, he made one donation to Democrats.An email to Gab bounced back.In a follow-up post, Torba said that he was disclosing the information “at significant personal and business risk. If the past is any guide, defying the D.C. consensus by publishing the first definitive evidence that the shooter was a Biden supporter” would lead to government harassment against the site, which Torba said it faced after the Jan. 6 2021 Capitol riot.This post has been updated.Internet culture is chaotic—but we’ll break it down for you in one daily email. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter here. You’ll get the best (and worst) of the internet straight into your inbox.
so some guy winged a guy and supported another guy who isn't running anymore?>news
>>1320655>democrat trooncel, stoked by years of non-stop terrorist rhetoric, attempts to assassinate the lead opposition candidate >"so what? last weeks news, yawn, get over it!"Youre not burying this one. Ever.
>>1320660Why are you angry?
>>1320662Who hurt you?
>>1320660>Youre not burying this one. Ever.Don't need to. Your party already did.
>>1320660Ok glowie
>>1320660lol they didnt like this one
>We are unable to confirm that the account in question actually belonged to him,Schizo fag is shitting himself pretending this means something. A political hack releasing screenshots with any identifying information blacked out means nothing.Meanwhile, the fact remains the shooter was a Republican
>>1320673Samefag
>>1320676Put down the crackpipe and take your schizo meds. Its getting pathetic.
>reaction to all its threads removed Put down the crackpipe and take your meds, schizo. Its getting pathetic.Keep crying that all your spam got deleted.
>>1320655>jewish democrat tries to murder guy who will be president >not news>>1320662because you are a propaganda faggot
>>1320674keep seeething, tranny. the shooter was ridin with biden
>>1320676>post made at 1:47 pm new delhi time, 11:15 am tel aviv timeinteresting>>1320725>anything that wasn't made by the DNC is spam, reeeeeeee
>>1320743calm down schizo, there are plenty of rightwing posts that aren't labeled spam. Only yours, because you keep spamming shitposts because reddit told you that 4chan is for shitposting.
>>1320972I agree!
>>1321065Good post.
why would literally anybody who wasn't racist use gab
>>1320972nah, you are just mad because you are a dickless tranny and you can't get your dick back
>>1320972True!
>source is Andrew TorbaYeah no, this guy is invested in getting Trump reelected because JD Vance is in his network:https://www.wired.com/story/jd-vance-venmo/>“What you guys need to realize is that Vance is influenceable,” wrote Andrew Torba on X. Torba is the founder of Gab, a social network popular with conspiracy theorists and Christian nationalists. He has long promoted antisemitic content on his social media accounts. “We have plenty of people in his orbit. Plenty of our guys can be put into positions of power because he’s there.”Any proof it's him other than this guy's word?
