evidence: - US. Who was Thomas Crooks, the shooter who shot Donald Trump and was a registered Republican? [...] In the photograph the alleged perpetrator of the attack could be seen a man of white complexion, thick build, with a beard, wearing dark glasses and a black cap who answered to the name of Marco Violi. A possible perpetrator who was soon dismissed as his alibi was infallible: it was not him. [...] "I woke up in the middle of the night (2 am Italian time to be precise) because of the numerous notifications I received on Instagram and X". A beginning of the story that suddenly was to take a script twist that would completely rule him out as the author of the shooting of Donald Trump: "I'm in Italy, I'm in Rome and I had no idea what happened except to watch Sky TG 24 in Italy that I still follow," he says.