There is an update here from The Washington Post claiming the police did not ignore witnesses who told them a man with a rifle climbed a nearby building at the Trump rally.
This is in the seconds before the shooting. They appear to be watching the shooter, and for some reason, they don’t shoot him after he gets five shots off. They probably couldn’t see him.
Can anyone explain this sniper’s reaction? It looked like he couldn’t believe what he was seeing…….pic.twitter.com/mHvc4Ib2GB
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Shooter via Reuters: Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20:
Footage of Donald Trump’s shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks opening fire and then getting killed seconds later surfaces pic.twitter.com/2ctMtIkwUs
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The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump Saturday was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, sources told The Post.
Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pa., squeezed off shots — one of which grazed Trump in the ear — at an outdoor rally in Butler, just outside Pittsburgh.
Sources said Crooks was planted on the roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage at Butler Farm Show grounds.
The cameraman, Michael Difrischia, panned back to the gunman after the retaliating rounds could be heard.
Difrischia told TMZ he and his wife, Amber, were watching the Trump rally from outside the main grounds … standing near some trees with about 30 to 40 other people when Amber noticed the dude climbing up onto a nearby building there.
Crooks shimmied up, then army crawled to his final position on the roof — all with a rifle in hand, mind you — and then he lined up his shot, despite people clearly noticing him down below and attempting to flag cops or whoever else would listen, TMZ was told.
The NY Times report:
The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday was identified by the F.B.I. as Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pa., but officials released no additional information about him.
“This remains an active and ongoing investigation,” the F.B.I. said in a statement early Sunday.
The gunman did not have a criminal history reflected in Pennsylvania’s public court records, and officials said they had not identified a motive. A voter-registration record showed that Mr. Crooks was registered as a Republican, though federal campaign-finance records show he donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform ActBlue in January 2021.
Early on Sunday morning, law-enforcement officers had closed down all roads leading toward the home of the suspect’s family in Bethel Park, south of Pittsburgh and about an hour’s drive from the site of the rally in Butler. Numerous relatives did not respond to messages seeking comment.
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Mr. Crooks appears to have graduated in 2022 from Bethel Park High School, which has about 1,400 students, and received a $500 “star award” that year from the National Math and Science Initiative, according to The Tribune-Review in western Pennsylvania.
Video by Townhall reporter Mia Cathell:
NYP has ID’ed the Trump shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, who graduated from Bethel Park High School in 2022. Here’s footage of him accepting his diploma at commencement. Crooks received the National Math & Science Initiative Star Award for academic achievement. pic.twitter.com/VcZnSV2upb
— Mia Cathell (@MiaCathell) July 14, 2024
SUPPORT FOR THE BUTLER, PA VICTIMS ON THIS LINK.
Gerald Ford. Ronald Regan. Donald Trump. Anyone else see the connection?
Who is the SS agent. Identify and arrest him for dereliction of duty now and probably more later.
The SS has gone over to the other side. Shocked?No. They joined the FBI, the DOJ, more than half the government (although republicans pretend to be conservative), the White House and most of the court system. We are a third world country where the opposition is allowed to be killed off or eliminated.
…or dragged through the ‘kangaroo courts’ on bogus ‘trumped up’ charges…
There will be conspiracy talk for the next 100 years, he was in plain sight to people below while climbing the building then on a flat roof with witnesses that claim from 130yds to 200-300 yds (should be easy to check) while counter snipers (more than one) watched. After he shot Trump he was shot and laying in plain sight out in the middle of that roof so He would have had to be in sight all the time OR had enough time to raise up and run out to the middle of the roof.
Trump was very lucky, as a deer hunter looking at this , Trump should have been hit several times not a graze to the ear, This does not add up
1) His parents were a registered Democrat and Libertarian.
2) His parents were both professional psychiatrists.
3) The assassin registered as a Republican.
4) The assassin DONATED TO ACTBLUE. ActBlue helps Democratic candidates, committees, parties, organizations, and c4s
Lots of people registered with the opposite party to vote AGAINST the party’s leader.
BUT NOBODY and I mean NOBODY GIVES MONEY to any party other than the one they want to WIN.
“…Mr. Crooks was registered as a Republican…”
That is an old trick; you register as one of the people you hate so they will trust you and let you have access to events, they will lower their guard and then you can go on with your evil plan.
Registering as Republican was like a disguise, a decoy, a ruse.
“So we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” – Joe Biden
Maybe the sniper is an illegal alien, minority raced, US Army rainbow clown wig wearing General, person a penis named Deloris, point-forward from the WBNA, pronouns It, Those, and Mustn’t.
The whole thing is unbelievable. It “appears” that the agent let him take three shots/ WTF?
I agree. We don’t need some junk media to interpret this for us, you made the correct observation. This places the agent as part of the conspiracy. They positioned an assassin close enough to get the job done, while outside the so-called perimeter. Then they kill the assassin and call him a lone nut. It has to be a Mayorkas operation.
If that man were climbing a wall with a rifle with Biden at the podium, he would never make it up there alive. Now wait for the cover up of the assassin identity. Those agents are under orders to take out any such target immediately, especially when there is not a chance of collateral damage.
Definitely, the sniper’s behavior is highly suspicious.
And I think the fact the shooter was registered as a republican was a sort of trojan horse; it hides who you really are, it makes people lower their guard and let you be near a Trump event.
Whom ever planned this, FBI, CIA or some other members of the deep state, it is probably them who decided to register him as a republican so that we on the right would not be able to say; “SEE? it is liberals who are dangerous !!”
and registering him as a republican has now made the evil Main Stream Media able to repeat for the next 20 years that a REPUBLICAN tried to kill Trump and thus ALL republicans are dangerous and the second amendment should be taken away.
and it gave Democrats ammunition ( no pun intended) so now in their speeches and lectures they will use this as ” proof” white republicans are a threat and no one should own a firearm
Who ordered it? I would think Biden since he has been a criminal all his life and is the head of a crime family, but other democrats like Garland who is a hair from being arrested also may be behind this…
Had the shooter succeeded in killing Trump, this would have been used to get rid of the second amendment and impose all sorts of anti conservative crazy things.
The machiavellian people who plan those things think of almost everything.
The rush to comment is disconcerting.
There are many factors for a sniper to consider before firing.
There is too little information to make insinuations.
Keep t the facts: Trump survived and acted like a true leader.
Nonsense! THe agent should have taken him out before he was able to shoot!!!
It looked like he had the assassin in his sights the whole time, after he was allowed to take 3 shots than he took the shooter out.
It sure does, and that is consistent with a witness on Newsmax, who was shocked the SS let the man shoot, as they were warned 2 minutes ahead of time of a man climbing the wall with a rifle. The idea was the let the murder happen, then kill the assassin.
Yea but this time they learned from their mistakes and we don’t need anyone to takeout the shooter like we needed with JFK.
My first thought exactly.
SS has some splainin’ to do. Did you see the video of the guy saying he saw the gunman crawling across the roof and he tried to point it out to the SS and police and they ignored him?
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