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Thomas Crooks pictured almost an hour before he shot Trump: Sniper identified gunman acting suspiciously checking his cell phone and a rangefinder at rally when they took photo
daily mail ^ | 7/17/2024 | farrell

Posted on 07/17/2024 6:24:29 AM PDT by RummyChick

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To: griswold3

Thought Cheat-le denied him SS.


41 posted on 07/17/2024 8:19:09 AM PDT by bgill
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To: vortigern

Foreign news always has more info but we can do without all the little kid pictures. Even on FR, people refer to him as a kid just like they did with Johnny Jihad.


42 posted on 07/17/2024 8:21:59 AM PDT by bgill
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To: telescope115

He wasn’t a kid.

Easy to order anything online. Easy to have a fake ID.


43 posted on 07/17/2024 8:24:12 AM PDT by bgill
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To: piasa

Has anyone seen a pic of either of them or the older sister? Not that they matter much but weird there is pretty much nothing on them. Other cases, there’d already be a complete bio.


44 posted on 07/17/2024 8:27:08 AM PDT by bgill
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To: ClearCase_guy

It misses the point. The FIB said that got into his phone and in less than a day proclaimed there was nothing there. Even that story has all but disappeared. That is the point


45 posted on 07/17/2024 8:28:10 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: saleman

Depends on the tower. I’ve been on one with a walkway 6 feet wide. The railing or fencing would interfere with pivoting a rifle on a tripod, but you could at least use it as a lookout spit.


46 posted on 07/17/2024 8:36:30 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: bgill

Was Crooks on the rally grounds at anytime on the day this happened. Or, did he come from behind the building ..climb ac unit with his riffle and bookbag. Which could be done.


47 posted on 07/17/2024 8:37:42 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: Labyrinthos
If he had a car, why did he need a bicycle?

I don't know if 'rhetorical pile-on' otherwise known as baffle 'em with BS is recognized as a propaganda tactic identified and shared as such with the citizens but it sure does leave a lot of dead end trails that complicates investigations and eats up the time it takes to complete such investigations before the results are released to the public, through the controlled media.

And for lesser events like school shootings it helps the story just fade away.

Indeed, it's a powerful tool of the controllers.

48 posted on 07/17/2024 8:37:56 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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To: Labyrinthos

There’s a car and a van and a bicycle.

Or so they say.

You could plan on using the bicycle as a quick escape to the car.


49 posted on 07/17/2024 8:38:21 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: gibsonguy

The FBI is not investigating.. they are scrubbing and creating as many misleading statements as possible.


50 posted on 07/17/2024 8:40:34 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: RummyChick

Bookmark


51 posted on 07/17/2024 8:41:15 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Yes an internet search of Thomas Vallee and Lee Harvey Oswald brings up some pretty interesting stuff!


52 posted on 07/17/2024 8:45:24 AM PDT by Languager
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To: Leep

Right. They have the fog machines running at capacity.


53 posted on 07/17/2024 8:45:48 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: TexasFreeper2009
I love how many news outlets call him the “suspected shooter” even though he was caught in the act and killed with the murder weapon in his hand

Trust, but verify.

54 posted on 07/17/2024 8:53:52 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: saleman

You know what else is not a good place to set up?

On a sloped roof.

Good grief.

Make a platform.


55 posted on 07/17/2024 8:53:54 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Leep

They claim he bought a ladder the morning of the shooting. How was he able to get it into position?

This story claims he climbed up an air conditioner, but I’ve seen pictures of a ladder leaning against the roof.

He brought a van, bike, and ladder along with a rifle and he was able to get the ladder and rifle onto the property while tons of people are milling about. The rifle could potentially be hidden, but the ladder? Plus, is it reasonable to think he brought the ladder, rifle, and bike in one trip? Nobody noticed some kid with a ladder heading to the factory?


56 posted on 07/17/2024 9:34:09 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: telescope115

It appears to all be improvised. The “transmitter” is a garage door opener. Garage door opener transmitter/receivers are a common component in IEDs, including those in Iraq and Afghanistan. I’ll bet there are plenty of instructions online showing how to use them.


57 posted on 07/17/2024 9:42:02 AM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: BlueMondaySkipper

I have a hard time believing he had a ladder with him. but then again i am amazed their were supposedly cops in the building. A cop saw him and did nothing for several minutes?

I can believe he rode his bike the the back of the building and climb a ac unit with his riffle and bookbag.

Can also believe cops supposedly doing next to nothing. Cops question Jeffery Dahmer ..who had a young teen asian boy with him ...and they let him go... later Dahmer killed the kid.


58 posted on 07/17/2024 10:06:12 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in )
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To: RummyChick

Where is the bottom half of that photo showing the dead shooter in a pool of his own blood? I posted it on FR’s FB page and FB covered it as “against community standards”
Also posted it on FR’s GAB page. Still there and not covered. I just checked.
Now you faint hearts run along. This photo is for grown ups. If you were raised in the 1950s as I was with the crime tabloids at the grocery counter this should look familiar.
https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=852,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/163/702/651/original/35795921d649e1ea.jpg


59 posted on 07/17/2024 10:35:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

would a shot right between the eyes knock out his teeth?


60 posted on 07/17/2024 10:40:55 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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