Rep. Michael Waltz told Fox News tonight that the attempted assassin Thomas Crooks had three encrypted overseas accounts. The FBI is trying to get into them. Foreign companies don’t have to release the information.
Steve Scalise shared the same report on Watter’s World.
Waltz says he’ll learn more on Monday. He expressed concerns that Iran has ordered an assassination at the same time.
We also know that Secret Service Chief Kim Cheatle met with Donald Trump at the RNC convention.
Jesse Watters doesn’t completely trust the source.
Watch:
Prof. Kerr at Berkeley transcribed:
Hard to know exactly what’s happening given the source, but sounds like DOJ is working with foreign law enforcement to access Crooks’s online accounts. (U.S. warrants will cover accounts with U.S. companies even if foreign stored, but generally won’t cover foreign companies… pic.twitter.com/FBJbt5ue1d
— Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr) July 19, 2024
DISCORD
The 20-year-old loner who attempted to assassinate former President Trump on Saturday had an account on the encrypted Discord app, a sign that he preferred anonymous interactions to real-world relationships, experts told Fox News Digital.
A spokesperson for the platform confirmed that Thomas Matthew Crooks had an account and that Discord had deactivated it after the assassination attempt that wounded Trump and killed a rally attendee.
“It was rarely utilized, has not been used in months, and we have found no evidence that it was used to plan this incident, promote violence or discuss his political views,” the spokesperson said. “Discord strongly condemns violence of any kind, including political violence, and we will continue to coordinate closely with law enforcement.”
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Sorry without specific names, that’s no proof. Common assassination practice for the alphabet agencies within the intelligence community is to have 1 real shooter and 1 “patsy” shooter to be eliminated in order to close up any loose ends and to provide plausible deniability for any involvement. Think Kennedy, Oswalt and the grassy knoll.
It is getting worse everyday.
Everyday more evidence comes out confirming they set things up to make sure the shooter would not be stopped
and to make sure Trump would not be well protected.
That was not negligence that was intent, it was part of the plan to assassinate Trump.
from Gateway,
” … Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday demanding answers on the attempted assassination attack on President Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania last weekend.
Senator Hawley wrote that whistleblowers have notified him that a majority of the security officials working the rally last weekend were not even Secret Service personnel but were with the Homeland Security Investigations team!
They were not even trained Secret Service personnel! … “
Just STOP already.
Given the act of WAR it would be
Iran is NOT going to reach out to some 20 something pimple faced freak to carry out an assassination on a president.
The FBI would, someone with a brain like the leader of an enemy country? not so much.
Iran is just as capable of contracting with the FBI as anyone else.
Sort of early for conclusions.