Bethel Park, Pennsylvania – Two neighbors of attempted Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks denied drawing attention to his political affiliation and said his family never appeared to have any election posters of any kind in the yard of their Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, home.
Amy, who spoke to reporters alongside Holly, the local Republican captain, said the media would have a hard time finding neighbors who could say they saw any signs in the Crooks’ yard.
“I hand out signs, but I’ve never handed one out to that house,” Holley said, alluding to Crooks being a Republican..
The suspected shooter also donated $15 to a progressive political action committee on the day of President Biden’s inauguration.
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Thomas Crooks’ neighbors spoke out Monday night. (Fox News composite)
“I walk past it all the time and so do the other neighbors,” Amy added. “None of them would swear they’ve ever seen or even acknowledged having the sign in their yard.”
““I’m on the Republican Committee here in Bethel Park,” Holly says, “I’m the committee woman and I go door to door all over the place. [2022 U.S. Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet] Oz, [2022 gubernatorial nominee State Sen. Doug] For Mastriano, for Trump, for all of them,” she said.
Holly said she had not visited the Crooks’ house door-to-door. Canvassers and activists often have access to voter rolls for each party’s voters.
“I know who the Republican is, because he’s not on the list,” she said.
Crooks’ mother, Mary, is a registered Democrat, while his father is a registered Libertarian.
Amy also said she rarely saw Crooks or his family out and about.
“I drive up and down this street all the time because it’s the road I take to get to the main road, but I’ve never seen him out there,” she said.
However, Amy did share one memory of running into Crooks whilst working in the garden.
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Amy spoke to reporters outside Crooks’ home. (Fox News)
“I think it was about a month and a half ago,” she said, “and he was just walking around like this, with his head down… and at some point he turned his head and just kept it down.”
Amy said she and her husband had originally planned to attend a Trump rally in Butler, about an hour and a half north of their neighborhood.
“I set my alarm for 5 a.m. and I was ready to go. I just put it on, no make-up, put on a hat and I was going to drive out and meet up with friends,” she said.
But Amy said “something just didn’t feel right” and ended up watching the rally on TV with her husband.
She recalled hearing the sound of a shot from Crooks’ rifle and immediately recognised it as a gunshot.
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Holly spoke to reporters outside Crooks’ home. (Fox News)
“So it was a complete shock at the time. [Trump] “He fell, but when he got up he was like, ‘Thank goodness,'” she said.
As other experts and observers have previously said, Amy added that she and her husband knew that the shot could have been more severe, or even fatal, if Trump had not turned his head.
But when he was soon surrounded by Secret Service agents, gave his now-iconic fist pump and appeared to mouth “fight, fight,” Amy said she realized what the former president really meant.
“As a Trump supporter, when he said ‘Fight, fight, fight,’ that’s what I took it as – that he will keep fighting for us and that he wants us to keep fighting for our freedom,” she said, adding that it was clear Trump is not encouraging further violence.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Lewis and Sarah Rumpf Whitten contributed to this report.
