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Three snipers were stationed inside building used in Trump assassination attempt
CBS News ^ | 7/15/24 | Anna Shecter

Posted on 07/16/2024 6:14:05 AM PDT by hardspunned

There were three snipers stationed inside the building the shooter used during Saturday's shooting of former President Donald Trump, a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the incident tells CBS News.

The operations plan had them stationed inside the building looking out windows toward the Trump rally. The information about the three snipers being inside the building was first reported by BeaverCountian.com.

One of the snipers inside saw Thomas Matthew Crooks outside and looking up at the roof, observing the building and disappearing, a local law enforcement officer tells CBS News.

Crooks came back, sat down and looked at his phone. At that point, one of the snipers took a picture of him. Crooks took out a rangefinder and the sniper radioed to the command post. Crooks disappeared again and then came back a third time with a backpack. The snipers called in with information that he had a backpack and said he was walking towards the back of the building.

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To: FamiliarFace

See post 11, there is a picture at link that might be the one.

Same shirt, same length hair.


41 posted on 07/16/2024 7:13:18 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: hardspunned

It’s one thing for the snipers to set up inside the building.

It’s quite another for them to let the strange guy with the rangefinder and the backpack walk around the building freely.

Why not stop him BEFORE he climbed onto the roof, and ask him: “What are you doing with the rangefinder? What’s in the backpack?”


42 posted on 07/16/2024 7:15:14 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Celtic Conservative

If there were cops in the building, they likely figured “who would DARE shoot from OUR location.”

Another “Failure of imagination.”

I wonder who was in the building? Locals? Staties? SS.

And I wonder how Crooks knew the roof would be clear? I am sure there is video of him casing the place last week.


43 posted on 07/16/2024 7:17:20 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: joethedrummer

He never went “into” the event.


44 posted on 07/16/2024 7:18:23 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: hardspunned

The head of SS said that the roof was slanted and therefore much too dangerous to station someone up there. Putting aside how weak & ridiculous that sounds, but if that’s the case then the counter snipers should have had orders to shoot and kill the moment they spotted someone up there since he won’t be one of their guys. And of course they should have had eyes on and around that building regardless.

SS is supposed be best of the best. Even if that is not the case, they should at least be competent. So how could they not have gamed out every possibility and how to react instantaneously to any threat? It boggles the mind. Either the SS is completely incompetent or the higher ups intentionally allowed vulnerabilities to creep into Trump’s protective shield, hoping some useful idiot (inspired by “threat to democracy” propaganda) would take advantage of these vulnerabilities at some point.

Lawfare failed (or at least didn’t deliver the kill shot to Trump’s candidacy that they were hoping for) and so this was their next move? For if you are willing to imprison your opponent for the rest of his life, then what else would you be willing to do if that didn’t work?


45 posted on 07/16/2024 7:25:23 AM PDT by Humbug
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To: Vermont Lt

(If there were cops in the building, they likely figured “who would DARE shoot from OUR location.”)

That’s exactly what they thought. They’re overconfidence failed them.


46 posted on 07/16/2024 7:33:19 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two wen't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: Humbug

(The head of SS said that the roof was slanted and therefore much too dangerous to station someone up there.)

I say bull. The roof the counter-snipers were on had a much steeper angle compared to the roof the shooter was on.


47 posted on 07/16/2024 7:36:36 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two wen't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Yeah. I have a sneaking suspicion that if Joe or Jill had been giving a speech there that day, that they’d have had someone up on the roof at least have had armed guards watching the building from all sides (not to mention a drone or helicopter in the air as well).


48 posted on 07/16/2024 7:56:30 AM PDT by Humbug
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To: hardspunned

I saw on TV this morning, the head of the Secret Service was asked why the roof the shooter used was not made a secret service location. She said: “The roof of the building is sloped, not flat, and for reasons of safety for our personnel it was determined to secure the building inside and not use the roof”; in spite of that roof having clear site lines to the podium at the rally!!!!

That sounds exactly what you’d expect from a DEI choice for head of the Secret Service.


49 posted on 07/16/2024 8:01:19 AM PDT by Wuli ( r)
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To: Dave911
A Presidential assassin on the roof of the Secret Service security building?

We would laugh at Hollywood for producing a movie with that plot.

50 posted on 07/16/2024 8:02:37 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: Vendome

The Secret Service blamed “Hate” in the City of Dallas as the reason that JFK was assassinated. The failed to mention that they were drunk the night before in Fort Worth. It is easier to blame loose targets rather than themselves. This muff diver Director will not be fired, and will not be blamed. They will pin it on MAGA and Trump.


51 posted on 07/16/2024 8:02:49 AM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: Vendome

Many are talking about this. But, the commie trash controls the MSM — so, it is hushed up.

This is a situation in which accusations need to be made so THEY are forced to respond:
? how much did WHouse pay for a bargain basement murderer? What, no CIA guy available?
? Who in WHouse commissioned this?
? was the “shoot order” given before or after BeijingBiden told his supporters that a bulleyes needed to be on DJTrump?

We all know that the Russia collusion crappola was from the HilaryHag team; and the FBI covered up Hunter’s pedo laptop. Accusations need to be voiced EVERYWHERE.


52 posted on 07/16/2024 8:04:44 AM PDT by bobbo666 (baizuo)
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To: central_va

did you hear that? think someone is on the roof??

Nope, probably a bird, deal the cards.

(that’s probably how it went down)


53 posted on 07/16/2024 8:06:33 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: cableguymn

Intentional. Planned. Coverup is in full swing.


54 posted on 07/16/2024 8:37:54 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: heartwood

Thanks.


55 posted on 07/16/2024 8:46:47 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: hal ogen

I just can’t see any other possibility.

They can’t be that stupid that it happened without them knowing.


56 posted on 07/16/2024 8:55:12 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Wuli

The shooter kid had no problem. The stupid woman posted two snipers on a more sloped roof behind Trump. She doesn’t even try to make up a decent lie.


57 posted on 07/16/2024 10:52:45 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

Boy, good thing Crooks didn’t go INSIDE that building!


58 posted on 07/16/2024 11:21:19 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: joethedrummer
 
 
That's easy - they would just assume that it was one of their own guys getting into position up there. The thought that an attack like that would be mounted from their own position would not occur to them.
 
 

59 posted on 07/16/2024 1:25:48 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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