Trump campaign secretly profiled Trump shooter's father in 2016 (video)

Not only was the shooter who tried to assassinate Donald Trump a registered Republican, but his father was labeled as "a strong Republican supporter, gun owner, and hunter" by the Trump campaign after they secretly profiled him in 2016.

"Thomas Crooks' father, the owner of the rifle that was used to shoot at Donald Trump, was held on a database and profiled by the former president's election campaign," reports Britain's Channel 4 News, adding that 53-year-old Matthew Crooks, who legally bought the AR-15 used in the assassination attempt, was "part of [the Trump campaign's] secret Republican project to gather data on millions of gun owners across America and use it to target pro-gun messages in the run-up to the 2016 election." — Read the rest

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