Posted on 07/14/2024 6:36:12 PM PDT by Morgana
Donald Trump's would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks had explosives in the car he drove to the Pennsylvania rally and used a firearm purchased by his father.
Authorities found the 'explosive devices' in the 20-year-old's vehicle and home after Secret Service agents shot and killed him seconds after he opened fire on the former president, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Matthew Crooks, 53, legally purchased the AR-15 that his son used to attempt to assassinate Trump on Saturday.
Thomas Crooks killed one rally goer, now revealed to be Corey Comperatore, and critically injured two others who are being treated at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh while attempting to take out Trump.
A bullet struck the former president in his right ear but his campaign says he is otherwise 'fine.'
Crooks, who graduated high school just two years ago, parked his vehicle near the rally site in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday before scaling to the roof of a nearby industrial manufacturing building and targeting Trump.
Authorities claim that after police received multiple reports of suspicious packages near where the shooter parked his car it prompted them to dispatch bomb technicians.
Investigators worked well into the night to make sure the scene was clear, which included searching Crooks' home and speaking with his family.
The FBI search led to the discovery of more bombs in the family's Bethel Park home, according to reports.
Members of the community where Crooks is believed to have lived with his parents were swarmed by police and Secret Service on Sunday morning.
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Gee, Just like January 6, 2021. How convenient.
Sounds fake. What exactly would thenpurpose of the bombs be when he was a “lone shooter”. Donlone shooters usually have a bomb making side hustle? Dear FBI, no one is going to give you the benefit of the doubt. Your story better make sense beginning to end.
Dude had a Full size (9 mpg) Van with Arizona plates, and it was filled with Explosives, and the FBi wants you to know - they can’t get into his phone.
Things aren’t adding up. No matter how hard people work to make them fit.
Thank goodness he didn’t carry out the bomb plan.
Today’s cell phone detonation devices could be hidden anywhere if the Secret Service couldn’t even detect a man climbing onto a roof with a rifle on his back, setting up out in the open and aiming and shooting at a former President while people shrieked: ‘He’s got a gun.” “He’s right up there. He has a gun.” To passive law enforcement people.
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They lied about the Scalise shooting - and said there was No political motive.
There are bombs, and there are bombs. The fact that this idiot had hands tells me he hadn’t tried to jump the fuse to timer gap.
Who else is from Arizona?
Kari Lake... Gabby Giffords... Mark Kelly... Whatshiname... Ray Epps, yeah that’s the ticket. Ray is from Arizona too... although it seems that he’s laying low somewhere else’s these days...
It’s probably nothing though.
that pic is missing
“explosive devices”
When dealing with the FBI, question everything they say. What type of explosive device? Wasn’t there a bogus FBI claim of explosive devices in the white van with the Trump bumper stickers last election?
And of course they’ve gotten into his phone. They just don’t want anyone to know it.
we need to make an example out of this retard’s parents, they are complicit
And the media keeps calling it a car when it’s a van. Media are evil idiots.
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You’re 100% right.
Why should anyone believe this?
Sparklers from July 4?
Have they broke into Hunter’s laptop or Hillary’s phone yet?
How come we haven’t heard anything from his parents?
Uh-huh...sure he did. /s
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