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Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks' parents
registered Pennsylvania professional counselors: Records

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Posted By: Moritz55, 7/16/2024 9:33:27 AM

The parents of the 20-year-old who unleashed a barrage of gunfire toward former President Trump are licensed professional counselors through the Pennsylvania social work board. Mary Elizabeth Crooks and Matthew Brian Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, are licensed as professional counselors, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State Licensing System Verification service. The 20-year-old attempted assassin's parents both have active licenses, the service said. Both Mary and Matthew's licenses expire in February 2025, and they have been professional counselors since 2002, the records showed.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: jdano 7/16/2024 9:41:18 AM (No. 1758089)
Did they counsel their son? Maybe everyone they counseled needs to be investigated.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 7/16/2024 9:50:48 AM (No. 1758097)
Yeah, it appears that they ignored their own kid who got some bad stuff pumped into his head. No way to fix it now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Newtsche 7/16/2024 9:52:37 AM (No. 1758099)
Physician, heal thyself.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: formerNYer 7/16/2024 10:05:04 AM (No. 1758111)
Social Work??? yeah NOT Republicans
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Reply 5 - Posted by: padiva 7/16/2024 10:25:00 AM (No. 1758129)
Did the kid use dad's rifle? Somehow, the parents will be blamed for letting the kid near the rifle.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 7/16/2024 10:26:50 AM (No. 1758132)
"The cobbler's children go barefoot."
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Italiano 7/16/2024 10:36:26 AM (No. 1758143)
Not necessarily blaming them, but are they "professional counselors" in the same sense that the execrable Jill Biden is a "doctor?"
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Reply 8 - Posted by: WillyP 7/16/2024 11:06:33 AM (No. 1758170)
Product of Home environment ?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 7/16/2024 11:25:21 AM (No. 1758197)
Maybe they should have councseled their nutcase son.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Bogasso 7/16/2024 11:43:38 AM (No. 1758224)
Counselors know very well how to manipulate too.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: wilarrbie 7/16/2024 11:57:52 AM (No. 1758234)
Public exposes on family/home life should be standard for crime reporting.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: daisey 7/16/2024 12:16:25 PM (No. 1758264)
There goes their clientele. I certainly would question their counseling expertise.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Marthinius57 7/16/2024 12:32:18 PM (No. 1758281)
Their name is Mudd.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Wetenschapper 7/16/2024 1:58:55 PM (No. 1758355)
There is something quite odd about that man-in-the-door photograph. He person inside the door looks much larger than the two gentlemen standing on the porch, closer to the camera, who should therefore appear larger. On my computer screen, the person standing inside shows a chin-to-crown distance of 49mm. For the two standing closer, this distance is only 43mm for both. That's a discrepancy of at least 14%. Bad photoshop?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Venturer 7/16/2024 2:25:48 PM (No. 1758401)
Professional Counselors that are complete failures as parents.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: rochow 7/16/2024 3:26:20 PM (No. 1758475)
No wonder their name is Crooks.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: danu 7/16/2024 5:11:35 PM (No. 1758598)
years ago, we were offered an expensive pedigreed puppy- for free- from a breed rescue group. the lady said the parents bought the puppy for their child. we went to rescue the puppy. why? bacause the puppy was meant to help the depressed child. but the parents were both mental health professionals--and--apparently--barking mad. they were driving the child, and now the puppy, down the same road.
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