BlackRock Says Gunman From Trump Rally Appeared in Firm’s Ad

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-14/blackrock-says-gunman-from-trump-rally-appeared-in-firm-s-ad

26 comments

  1. *From Bloomberg News’s Victoria Cavaliere:*

    Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who shot and injured former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, briefly appeared in an advertisement for BlackRock, the company said on Sunday.

    Crooks was one of several students who appeared in the background of the 2022 ad and was unpaid, BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager, said in a statement. The ad was filmed at Bethel Park High School, where Crooks graduated in 2022, and featured a teacher, the company said.

    The company did not describe the content of the ad but said footage will be made available to the authorities and that it will be removed from circulation. It also condemned the attack on Saturday that left one attendee dead and two others critically wounded.

  2. Of fucking course somehow BlackRock is involved in this narrative

  3. The ad’s been floating around on social media for a while now lol.

  4. Come on.

    This shit just keeps getting weird.

    Are the illuminati real?

  5. The Jethro’s are going to have a field day with this.

  7. Interesting, but it’s just a super generic ad about pensions and Crooks only shows up for like a split second.

    BlackRock has its fingers in lots of things, so it’s not as unusual for a student to get wrapped up in something associated with them in some way.

  9. When the conspiracy theory isn’t a theory after all. /s

  10. Why would they announce this? Figured they would want to keep it quiet…

  12. * Libertarian father
    * Went through high school during the Trump presidency.
    * Classmate considered him conservative as a sophomore.
    * Was in a BlackRock commercial.
    * Registered Republican a week after he turned 18.
    * Has an AR-style assault rifle and enough experience to think he could make a 150 yd shot (or borrowed from Libertarian father).

    Hmmmm…

  13. What if we called him the Black Rock Shooter? Is that anything?

  14. Pretty safe to say he wasn’t a Biden fan then. Guessing Trump did/said something to push him off the deep end or the shooter may have thought Trump wasn’t extreme enough

  15. BlackRock, like as in the PMC that did all of the war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or is this a different BlackRock?

    Edit: ohhh no it’s the BlackRock that’s destroying any chances of any of us owning a house in our life time’s. I was thinking Black Water.

    Edit 2: it’s Larry fucking Fink not the other ones. Fucking hell you’d think being one of the largest financial orgs in the world they could come up with a creative name

  17. Non news. Kid was unpaid background at his highschool, where they filmed a small spot. No connection to Blackrock at all.

  20. According to conservatives, that would mean BlackRock is involved.

  21. This is starting to sound like a zoolander scene

  24. Can I get a little context? I tried to search up BlackRock to get a better idea of the firm but came up short of understanding how this all relates to everything.

  25. This won’t in any way lead to even more BlackRock Illuminati conspiracy theories. /S

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