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TRUMP ASSASSINATION UPDATE: Crooks’ Impossible Path to the Roof at Butler, PA Rally (Analysis)
Gateway Pundit ^ | July 17, 2024 | Benjamin Wetmore

Posted on 07/17/2024 10:54:03 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Trump, federal law enforcement can’t figure out a motive for the shooter, and they can’t get into all the details of his phone, but they’re 100% sure that he acted alone.

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Another part of the story that makes no sense is that 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, who lived an hour away before he went to the rally, knew that he would need a ladder in order to scale the walls and take a shot at President Trump. According to federal authorities, Crooks stopped at Home Depot on his way to the rally in his hometown of Bethel Park and bought a 5-foot ladder.

Initially, the pictures leaking out from the rally’s aftermath showed a ladder that was in place near where Crooks’ body was found, on top of the American Glass Research manufacturing company warehouse near the Butler Farm Show Airport.

But pictured above is a ten-foot ladder, and one that large would not fit in Crooks’ car, so there would be no way for him to get it from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to Butler, Pennsylvania.

It also makes no sense how Crooks would have been able to do enough advance research and investigation beforehand to know the security protocols of the Trump rally, and know the details of which building to get on top of, to take sniper shots at Trump.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: assassination; coverup; thomascrooks; trump
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This is the best article yet. No way the Craftsman tool shed roof would have supported his weight with what he was carrying.
1 posted on 07/17/2024 10:54:03 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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More here:

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2 posted on 07/17/2024 10:56:24 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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This is looking sicker and sicker


3 posted on 07/17/2024 11:01:36 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim (C)
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Maybe a picture of after he was shot and police set up the ladder to get up on the roof. And people said they had been going out days before the rally and nobody even cared. Maybe he hid things day before.


4 posted on 07/17/2024 11:01:58 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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Building sale stuff and blackrock and all that is not convincing me of any type of conspiracy. I think this whole thing is going to be chalked up to DEI hires, not giving a damn about Trump, very sloppy and careless people doing their government jobs and non-communication. Also, people calling Trump Hitler everyday and all day inspired some lunatic to take action.

The next debate, if it happens, should be very interesting.

5 posted on 07/17/2024 11:11:00 AM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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and they can’t get into all the details of his phone,
but they’re 100% sure that he acted alone

Good thing this is copyrighted; otherwise some rapper could include that rhyme in his next big hit.

6 posted on 07/17/2024 11:12:44 AM PDT by Migraine ( )
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It certainly is beginning to look conspiratorial. Almost can not be any other way to have gotten it done. Imagine if he had succeeded what the controversy would be with Donald Trump dead, his vision for the U.S. dead, and all of us powerless to pin FBI, etc. guys to the wall and make them talk.


8 posted on 07/17/2024 11:19:44 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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Although the Secret Service was clumsy in their planning, it looks like their main mission was to get Trump assassinated and let the questionable details take care of themselves. They figured they might have to chop off heads all up and down the chain of command, but that would be a small price to pay for the ghouls to get Trump.


9 posted on 07/17/2024 11:28:41 AM PDT by odawg
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The constant drum beat of "Trump is Hitler" and the other wildly dangerous rhetoric the left has used over the last ten years most certainly pushed this delusional, ANTIFA subversive into action.

My question is, what did the Biden Administration know about it and when? Every other shooter in recent history was "known to the police". I'm sure this one was as well. The fact that there was no one on that roof and no one stopped this guy beforehand, and all the nonsense stories they keep coming up with all indicate that the administration likely knew something was going to happen, and planned the actions of SS and local law enforcement to facilitate the event.

According to reports, they found an IED in his car and a transmitter and cell phone next to his body. I believe he had planned on an explosion as a distraction, but when he found he could get to the roof and no one was there, he just went with it. I don't know anything, so that's pure speculation on my part.

10 posted on 07/17/2024 11:30:48 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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Hyundai? Why did they take away a white van?


11 posted on 07/17/2024 11:43:57 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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I don't know anything, so that's pure speculation on my part.

Neither does the Secret Service, so you are not alone.

12 posted on 07/17/2024 11:49:38 AM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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If Trump gets assassinated, every deep stater and bureaucrat keeps his job, benefits, pension, and all their other stuff.

If Trump makes it, they know he’s gonna go Elon Musk on em...clear house.

Big stakes.....like Tony Montana told Mel the Cop after Mel the Cop showed him how much he expected from Tony each month.......”Big Numba”.......”yeah”

Lots at stake.


13 posted on 07/17/2024 11:50:05 AM PDT by vespa300
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bump


14 posted on 07/17/2024 11:57:28 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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Because the FBI is obsessed with white vans? Remember the DC shooter?


15 posted on 07/17/2024 12:12:25 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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Now “they” are saying that local snipers were NOT stationed in the building.
What about the white van and the bicycle?
Word is that the optic on the AR is an Eotech red dot, which has a 4 moa reticle.
A 4 moa reticle would cover PDJT’s entire upper body at 140 yds.
A red dot sight is not designed for precision accuracy at distance.
Was Crooks just lucky, with his shot or was there another shooter?
The Demonrats / Deep State are quaking in fear of a possible PDJT victory in November and will do ANYTHING to prevent it.
We are supposed to believe that, though the DS / Demonrats are directly and solely responsible for PDJT’s security, that the series of “mistakes”, “missteps” and “miscommunications” leading to PDJT nearly being killed, were completely innocent.
Yeah, right!


16 posted on 07/17/2024 12:16:10 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual. )
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The building held the shooters. INSIDE. That is why the snipers shot after the kid supposedly shot. Because he didn’t. There was a sniper in the three windows, who screwed up. Maybe the kid shot after the first govt shooter missed by divine intervention…and he sucked at shooting, killing the firefighter. THEN the snipers shot the kid dead.
17 posted on 07/17/2024 12:22:59 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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According to federal authorities, Crooks stopped at Home Depot on his way to the rally in his hometown of Bethel Park and bought a 5-foot ladder.

Does HD actually sell 5' ladders? Maybe a step ladder, but I have an 8' ladder I bought at HD that extends to 16'. Why can't these writers be clear whether he actually had a 5' step ladder, or a 5' ladder that perhaps extended to 10'?

18 posted on 07/17/2024 12:37:30 PM PDT by Will88 ((The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.))
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Just looked at Eotech’s catalog.
They do have a reticle with a 1 moa dot, which would be precise enough for the shot.


19 posted on 07/17/2024 12:59:54 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual. )
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as usual in the deep state, an inside job.
They thought before Crook that he would need a rather long ladder to climb the wall.


20 posted on 07/17/2024 1:10:29 PM PDT by californian by choice
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