While seeking evidence last night of the motivations and ideology of President Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, I came across his Instagram page.
It has now been deleted (of course!), but I took a screen shot, which is presented below the next few paragraphs. Aside from his identifying himself as an “Anti-fascist” (Antifa sympathies), his introduction page included this odd statement:
It says: “@skvmlord made me do it.”
Well, I did a web search and found little relating to “skvmlord” — that is, aside from this X account for it.
Here is what’s weird, too: At 8:22pm on Saturday, a couple of hours after the assassination attempt, @skvmlord tweeted the following:
"You can’t send an Antifa p***y to do the CIA’s job."
Here’s a screen shot of Crooks’ Instagram page:
And here’s a screen shot of @skvmlord’s Saturday tweet:
(Note that I posted this information on social media during Sunday morning’s wee hours.)
Skvmlord also has an Instagram page, here.
Though @skvmlord’s accounts are still active, I’ll present screen shots of them (below) just in case they go the way of the dodo. Note that X respondents, reacting to his tweet, have been telling him he should expect a “knock” on his door from the authorities.
Note also that @skvmlord has a penchant for posing with firearms and that he writes in his X bio, “DO BAD S**T.”
To be clear, I’m not implying that @skvmlord was complicit in Saturday’s assassination attempt in any way; I’ve no idea and only mention the above because it’s fairly bizarre.
What’s more, @skvmlord is apparently reveling in the attention he’s getting and posted the following tweet Sunday afternoon:
“POV: Thousands of internet detective R3TARDS have been fooled again by my followers (I was also the Idaho murderers accomplice & Maxwell Azzarello’s inspiration).”
The above is accompanied, too, by a video in which he’s laughing about the whole affair.
In addition, @skvmlord posted about how he was contacted by journalist Michael Shellenberger and a Los Angeles Times reporter, and finds that a hoot as well. He’s obviously a very childish individual with a perhaps woefully empty life.
The bottom line, however, is that unless Crooks was referring to a different @skvmlord (exceedingly unlikely), he had knowledge of this man. For whatever reason, too, Crooks cited him as his inspiration for something.
So was Crooks at least partially motivated by @skvmlord’s content? Did the two interact? If so, did @skvmlord encourage Crooks to “do bad s**t”? Or does @skvmlord simply find elaborate ways to “punk” people?
Make of it what you will.
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