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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1003/
- Published: 2024-07-15T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-15T05:35:14.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-20 04:39

> Thomas Matthew Crooks, [who tried to assassinate former US President Donald Trump](https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350342219/live-trump-rolls-president-biden-addresses-america-after-shooting?ref=goodoil.news), was rejected by his high school rifle club for being a bad shooter.  
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> Crooks opened fire at the former President at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Sunday (NZ time) killing one spectator and injuring two others. A bullet narrowly missed Trump, who was whisked off the stage.  
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> Jameson Myers, a former classmate of Crooks [told ABC News](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-rally-shooting-suspect-fbi-names-pennsylvania-man/story?id=111921870&ref=goodoil.news) that the 22-year-old was rejected and asked not to return after a “pre-season” session with the rifle team at Bethel Park High School.  
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> “He didn’t just not make the team, he was asked not to come back because how bad of a shot he was, it was considered like, dangerous,” said Myers.  
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> Former classmate Jameson Murphy also [told the New York Post](https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/would-be-trump-assassin-tried-to-join-high-school-shooting-club-was-rejected-for-being-comically-bad-shot/?ref=goodoil.news) that Crooks missed his target by close to 6-metres during the try-outs.  
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> “He tried out…and was such a comically bad shot he was unable to make the team and left after the first day,” Murphy said.  
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