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Witness says he saw gunman on roof near Trump rally
BBC ^ | July 13, 2024 | Gary O'Donoghue

Posted on 07/13/2024 6:13:47 PM PDT by McGruff

A man with a rifle could be seen on a rooftop minutes before shots were fired at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania, a witness has told the BBC.

Greg, the witness, said the man was armed with a rifle and had crawled on top of a building just outside the event in Butler County on Friday evening.

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"We noticed the guy bear-crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50ft away from us," he said.

"He had a rifle, we could clearly see a rifle.

"We're pointing at him, the police are down there running around on the ground, we're like 'Hey man, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle'... and the police did not know what was going on."

Greg said he pointed at the gunman for three to four minutes to try to alert the authorities.

"We were telling the police, we were pointing at him for the Secret Service who were looking at us from the top of the barn."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assasination; butler; pennsylvania; trump; trumprally; trumpshotbutokay
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To: McGruff

Blew his head off. no loose ends. Don’t know who he is.


21 posted on 07/13/2024 6:23:03 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: McGruff

How many democrats are passed Trump still stands tall?


22 posted on 07/13/2024 6:24:17 PM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: All
According to Sean Davis (The Federalist):
The Trump team has been asking for beefed up security: A source familiar with Trump’s security detail tells @FDRLST that the former and future president’s detail has been asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks, but has been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS.

Was Biden’s regime behind the attack, or did it deliberately do everything it could to allow it to happen?
23 posted on 07/13/2024 6:25:22 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

I don’t know nearly enough to make a good guess but I just saw Goodfellas again last night. The scenes of federal authorities constantly running a helicopter overhead to keep watch would have been a good idea to look for rooftop snipers.


24 posted on 07/13/2024 6:26:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Calvin Cooledge

Chafetz is right on target with this. The Secret Service is either incompetent or complicit...


25 posted on 07/13/2024 6:29:11 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

RE: rebuffed by Biden’s guys on calls for more protection.


That one is gonna hurt.
I hope.

We have to keep Trump safe. And, by the way, RFK Jr who is not at all my candidate is danger with the Biden withholding of protection.

Outrageous.


26 posted on 07/13/2024 6:29:14 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: McGruff

Here are the Secret Service snipers. They had a line of sight on him BEFORE and after the attempt. The Secret Service knew he was there for two minutes before the attempt.

https://x.com/coladoggxxx/status/1812285847921910241?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA


27 posted on 07/13/2024 6:30:27 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: McGruff

I’d like to offer that guy a job. As Director of the Secret Service, no matter what his qualifications he would do better than whoever is running it today.


28 posted on 07/13/2024 6:30:42 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Telepathic Intruder

No way! The Secret Service was assisting!


29 posted on 07/13/2024 6:31:09 PM PDT by madison10
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To: McGruff

Does no one find it odd that the shooter was taken out by a sharpshooter within seconds? That means the shooter was in the sharspshooters line of sight? He didnt see him?


30 posted on 07/13/2024 6:31:32 PM PDT by iluvschnitzle
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To: PGR88

“Chinese national” is all I’ve heard.


31 posted on 07/13/2024 6:31:51 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

True statement.


32 posted on 07/13/2024 6:32:42 PM PDT by OKSooner (Oh, the mad fools!)
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To: hardspunned
I just saw that tweet.

Somebody has some explaining to do.

33 posted on 07/13/2024 6:33:30 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: nutmeg

That is what I think. (Or a tranny) I wonder what the witness saw. Probably just the back.


34 posted on 07/13/2024 6:33:32 PM PDT by madison10
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To: frank ballenger

Classic passive agressive. Just stand down and let the leftist lunatics act naturally.


35 posted on 07/13/2024 6:33:37 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Darksheare

He should’ve been in jail already for his threat to the justices, amongst his other crimes


36 posted on 07/13/2024 6:33:54 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: bigbob

“I’d like to offer that guy a job.”

You’d better hurry. MTG said he’ll be called to testify at hearings at the Department of Homeland Security Committee. If the Feds haven’t taken this guy out by next week, I’ll be surprised.


37 posted on 07/13/2024 6:34:16 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's not as if Biden has the nuclear codes or anything. 😳)
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To: hardspunned

Shooter was on roof of AGR Building. It appears the Stage was setup near the Concession Road area near where you see 3 buildings in a row. The guy who saw he shooter was from the Brenckles Greenhouse who had walk up to the field just to hear the rally speech.

Map of area..

https://tinyurl.com/44sa3ymj


38 posted on 07/13/2024 6:34:43 PM PDT by chuck allen
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

Understaffed. DHS refused a request for more agents.


39 posted on 07/13/2024 6:36:08 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (It's funny that the harder I work, the luckier I get.)
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To: bigbob
“Chinese national” is all I’ve heard.

That was from an earlier New York Post report. Don't see it on their website anymore. Probably BS and likely a major black eye to their journalist credibility.

40 posted on 07/13/2024 6:36:21 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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