The clip from the indispensable Aaron Rupar is too short to bother with plucking and putting up in a video, but on Sunday night Fox News dipshit Jesse Waters told fans not to “read too much into the political affiliation” of Thomas Crooks “because James Comey, also a registered Republican,” as if the former FBI Director famously fired in 2017 for not dropping the Russia investigation is even the most salient or recent example of an “anti-Trump Republican” compared to say, Mitt Romney, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, or the entire writing staff at the Bulwark, just to name a few.
Separately in a Sunday report in the Philadelphia Inquirer quotes Max Smith, a former high school classmate of Crooks’s, as saying the would-be Trumpslayer “definitely was conservative… It makes me wonder why he would carry out an assassination attempt on the conservative candidate,” adding that in one mock debate in their history class a few years ago “the majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side.”