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BlackRock yanks 2022 ad featuring Trump
shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks

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Posted By: mc squared, 7/15/2024 10:59:30 AM

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager, has pulled an ad that briefly featured Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old who shot and wounded former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. The company said Crooks was a student at Bethel Park High School and appeared in the 2022 ad with other unpaid teens. “In 2022, we ran an ad featuring a teacher from Bethel Park High School, in which several unpaid students briefly appeared in the background, including Thomas Matthew Crooks,” the company said in a statement to Reuters Sunday, adding that the ad has been pulled.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: vrb8m 7/15/2024 11:09:32 AM (No. 1757144)
Things that make you go hmmm...
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Reply 2 - Posted by: mobyclik 7/15/2024 11:24:11 AM (No. 1757166)
You have GOT to ask yourself...What are the odds of that?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Vaquero45 7/15/2024 11:32:13 AM (No. 1757185)
The irony here is so thick you could cut it with a knife!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Jethro bo 7/15/2024 11:42:06 AM (No. 1757197)
Dead assassin that can't be questions. FBI can't open his cell phone but claims 'he acted alone'. BlackRock, the most Anti-American investment organization in history has the killer in their ads. Ok, move along, nothing to see here! One wonders with that kinda money, covers up or usual imcompetence of the FBI and a dead killer has anything in common with an attempted assassination of Trump.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: dwa 7/15/2024 11:48:41 AM (No. 1757209)
Makes one wonder. Why did Blackrock do an ad in a podunk town. Why was Crooks, who two year later tried to assassinate Trump, featured in that ad. Was there more to the relationship between Crooks and Blackrock than just the photo? How did a 20 year old learn to shoot when he didn't have a rifle and was thrown out of the school rifle team because he was such a poor shot? Lots of questions that I doubt we will ever have answers to considering it is the corrupt FBI that is investigating the assassination attempt.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Socio 7/15/2024 11:56:03 AM (No. 1757220)
He just happen to be an actor in the BlackRock commercial, BlackRock is heavily invested in Ukraine and stands to loose 100's of billions if Trump gets elected, brokers a peace deal and stops the money flow to Ukraine. Quite the coincidence.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: formerNYer 7/15/2024 1:43:36 PM (No. 1757327)
This whole story is getting smellier and smellier - as a matter of fact it STINKS!
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