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BREAKING UPDATE: FBI Updates Media on Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks and Motives
Gateway Pundit ^ | July 29, 2024 | Benjamin Wetmore

Posted on 07/29/2024 12:51:26 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is leading the federal government’s investigation into the attempted assassination of President Trump from July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania that took the life of one, and seriously injured Trump and two others, confirmed certain key details about the case to media outlets in a private call today.

The FBI formally said today, on the record, that the 5 1/2 foot ladder purchased by Thomas Crooks was not used at the rally shooting. The FBI confirmed that the ladder was left behind at the home on the day of the shooting. It had previously been reported that Crooks used a 5.5 ladder to get access to the American Glass Research building, from whose roof Crooks took several shots at the President.

The Gateway Pundit had exclusively, previously, debunked the federal ladder narrative as implausible and otherwise impossible.

The FBI said today that Crooks scaled HVAC equipment outside the AGR compound to get access to the AGR roof.

The FBI claims it is no further along in developing a coherent motive for the attack. They were clear that their goal, in their investigation, “was not to determine fault” for the shooting but merely to detail and document the evidence, and also investigate the motive of the shooter. Even though the Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned last Tuesday for what she termed before Congress as a ‘colossal failure’, the FBI said they are not looking into assessing multiple major security failures with the Trump rally.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: assassinationattempt; fbi; fbiakastasi; lonegunmanhoax; secretservice; thomascrooks; trumpgunman
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Interesting! From the article:

(The FBI said they are not looking into assessing multiple major security failures with the Trump rally.)

Gee, could it be because it would implicate the Secret Service conspiring with the Deep State to assassinate Trump?

1 posted on 07/29/2024 12:51:26 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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2 posted on 07/29/2024 12:52:58 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

From the same FBI that the political Director was intimating that Trump wasn’t even shot. O.K. sure.


3 posted on 07/29/2024 12:53:50 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Macho MAGA Man

We knew this a week and a half go . . . . he used the AC unit.


4 posted on 07/29/2024 12:56:32 PM PDT by knarf
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5 posted on 07/29/2024 12:57:05 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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6 posted on 07/29/2024 12:58:26 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Let me guess.
“A confused, mentally ill Republican...case closed”


7 posted on 07/29/2024 1:00:48 PM PDT by Zathras
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The FBI only investigating the shooting and not the massive security failure that allowed the shooting to happen.....Fox News.


8 posted on 07/29/2024 1:07:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I don’t know about everyone else, but I will NEVER believe a single word uttered by anyone in the FBI. They are a Criminal Organization.

Funny thing is, I would put my faith in the average gang banger to keep his word before I believed most police.


9 posted on 07/29/2024 1:09:12 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Bookmark


10 posted on 07/29/2024 1:10:37 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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“BREAKING UPDATE: FBI Updates Media on Trump’s Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks and Motives...”

Okay, but when do we get the real story?


11 posted on 07/29/2024 1:16:10 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

Chris Wray chuckles


12 posted on 07/29/2024 1:22:07 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: knarf
Not so sure that's correct. There is an access ladder between two buildings...It is pretty well hidden from the public by a really large arborvitae. Maybe some DNA on the bars or whatever... as he climbed.

I think it would be terribly noisy to climb the AC unit and he would have had the gun slung over his shoulder at that point.

13 posted on 07/29/2024 1:22:57 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Coverup?


14 posted on 07/29/2024 1:27:52 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The motive was he wanted to kill Trump.


15 posted on 07/29/2024 1:36:01 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

The FBI cannot ever “investigate” itself without a strong bias. We are fooling ourselves to believe otherwise.
But then, who else could do it? What other branch of federal organizations could take this on? Certainly not the CIA.


16 posted on 07/29/2024 1:37:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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(The motive was he wanted to kill Trump.)

For what purpose? Be specific!


17 posted on 07/29/2024 1:53:46 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two wen't balloons. One was a cylindrical objecwhots Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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The FBI claims it is no further along in developing a coherent motive for the attack.

Well I suppose Trump Derangement Syndrome is not exactly a "coherent" motive--but it does seem the most plausible one.

18 posted on 07/29/2024 1:53:50 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

What was the motive of the guy firing the first 3 shots from inside the building?


19 posted on 07/29/2024 2:02:07 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

That line just jumps out at you, doesn’t it?

So who IS looking into the security failures? Anybody? Or are they going to just leave it as “Whoopsie! Heh, heh, we sure goofed up, there didn’t we?”


20 posted on 07/29/2024 2:02:29 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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