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A former classmate of the suspected shooter of former President Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks, told ABC News Monday that he was rejected from his high school's rifle team because he was a terrible marksman.

Jameson Myers, who said he attended elementary and high school with Crooks, said Crooks tried to join the high school's rifle team but was rejected and asked not to return after a "preseason session."

Several prominent billionaires—including the richest man on Earth—took to social media over the weekend to endorse presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump shortly after a 20-year-old gunman attempted to assassinate the former president at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday.

One of the billionaires was Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who took to the social media platform that he owns to declare, "I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery." The endorsement came days after reports that Musk donated to a pro-Trump super PAC and just ahead of the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller's team, tore apart Judge Aileen Cannon's recent ruling to dismiss Donald Trump's documents case on Monday.

Speaking about the matter on MSNBC, Weissmann explained that Cannon is restricting the executive branch's power, and it isn't within her scope as a Florida district judge to do something like that.

Former President Donald Trump connected a recent attempt on his life to the criminal and civil court cases filed against him Monday in a new Truth Social post responding to the dismissal of his classified documents case.

Trump claimed he wanted to move forward with "Uniting our Nation" before accusing prosecutors of an elaborate political witch hunt against him and E. Jean Carroll, the writer he has been found liable of sexually abusing and repeatedly defaming, of lying.

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out Sunday night against an unnamed "senior House Democrat" who said party leadership had already come to terms with the idea, following the weekend assassination attempt against Donald Trump, of the far-right former Republican president winning back the White House in November.

Responding to Axiosreporting in which the lawmaker, provided anonymity by the outlet, was quoted as saying, "We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency," Ocasio-Cortez said, "If you're a 'senior Democrat' that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism."

Reacting to a stunning decision on Monday by Judge Aileen Cannon to summarily dismiss charges against Donald Trump for the theft of government documents after he was busted for hoarding them at his Mar-a-Lago resort, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin focused on the last page of her ruling that should raise alarms.

During her appearance with host José Díaz-Balart, he read the controversial Cannon's concluding remarks at the end of the 93-page ruling where she wrote:

Donald Trump Jr., son of the former president and convicted felon, celebrated the future of American Democracy Monday when a judge his father appointed tossed a case involving classified documents stored in a Florida social club bathroom.

His MAGA followers responded with calls for retribution.

Former President Donald Trump is gleeful at the ruling that dismissed the classified documents case, Fox News' Bret Baier reported on Monday morning.

The case was dismissed by District Judge Aileen Cannon, a far-right jurist herself appointed by Trump, who has generated controversy for months over a series of decisions that appear calculated to tilt the trial in her favor.

Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Donald Trump's documents case on Monday morning ahead of the Republican convention, declaring that special counsel Jack Smith was not constitutionally appointed.

Legal analysts were quick to explain that no judge had ever done what Cannon had done and that the case had been litigated extensively, with considerable case law from Richard Nixon to, most recently, Hunter Biden's special counsel.

Former President Donald Trump should be given a psychological evaluation after surviving an assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally over the weekend, national security lawyer and political commentator Bradley Moss suggested.

The issue, he wrote on X, is that situations like this can cause severe trauma that might affect their mental health.

An explosive ruling early Monday morning by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon to toss the stolen government documents case against Donald Trump just hours before the Republican National Convention convened was greeted with outrage and disgust on social media.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, "Judge Cannon has dismissed the Trump documents case, citing violation of appointments clause," later adding, "Cannon says Jack Smith's appointment usurps legislative power.."

Republicans casting blame on Democrats for the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump are playing with bright red political fire, a new Vox editorial contends.

An outraged Zack Beauchamp pointed the finger at Republicans such as Sen. J.D. Vance, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for casting blame on President Joe Biden after Thomas Matthew Crooks decided to fire a semi-automatic at the presumptive Republican nominee.