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Trump rally shooter was designing bomb while applying for college, emails show

The 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump at a July 2024 rally in Pennsylvania ordered materials to make a bomb, documents show. However, emails show Thomas Matthew Crooks was still working on applications to transfer out of community college. CBS News investigative reporter Graham Kates has the details.
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