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Shocking New Details Reveal How Trump Shooter Evaded Secret Service And Cops THREE Times - With One Agent Even Taking A Photo Of Him
The Daily Mail ^ | 07/16/24

Posted on 07/16/2024 7:38:03 AM PDT by Enlightened1

A team of police snipers team saw Thomas Crooks scouting their command post three times in the minutes before he climbed on top of it and shot Donald Trump from just inches above their heads, it has emerged.

Three police marksmen from Beaver County were using the single-story AGR International building as their watch-post when the would-be assassin chose it as his place to shoot from, CBS reported.

And he may have been in place on the roof for up to 30 minutes before he unleashed his volley of shots that killed one man and nearly took the life of the 45th president on Saturday evening.

A law enforcement official told the channel said that no action was taken after one of the snipers first spotted Crooks looking up at the roof of the building in Butler, Pennsylvania, just 130 yards from where the president would speak.

The 20-year-old disappeared around a corner before he was seen a second time, sitting down and looking at his phone, prompting one of the snipers to take his picture.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: assassinationplots; butlertrumprally; photo; police; secretservice; shooter; thomascrooks; trumpshooter
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To: 1Old Pro

Crooks told them “I am not the sniper you are looking for.”


21 posted on 07/16/2024 7:50:47 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Or if he wants a sammich. Maybe a Yoo-Hoo to go with it.


22 posted on 07/16/2024 7:51:28 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SteelPSUGOP
Does this mean the Beaver Police are pussies.

23 Officers. https://beaverpolice.us/offdir/ This is why small towns should not have police departments, hire it out to the state or other highly trained LEOs.

23 posted on 07/16/2024 7:53:13 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Plus how many multiple millions of dollars are allocated to the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies? Yet some murderous misfit climbed upon a roof and fires some shots off within a 2 minute warning.


24 posted on 07/16/2024 7:53:17 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Maybe if an OSHA inspector had been there and saw the ladder was unsafe none of this would have happened.


25 posted on 07/16/2024 7:53:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Enlightened1
"Watchpost"? What was the purpose of this "watchpost"? Because it doesn't seem like they were watching out for any suspicious activity.

Also, NBC (I think) has a report out that the shooter brought a 5 foot ladder with him. From the height of that building, how do you use a 5 foot ladder to get to the roof?

The media's and the SS and police stories are not making sense. Maybe they're not supposed to: distraction/fog of war.

26 posted on 07/16/2024 7:53:30 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: yldstrk

Take a look at the photo, behind the small kid, you can see an ac unit that is on the side of the building joining corridor that looks like it could be climbed on to gain roof access. It is on the opposite side of the building from the where the ladder in all the photos is. The story that crooks used the ac plausible from this picture(not 100% since you can’t see how close the ac unit is to the building connecting corridor.


27 posted on 07/16/2024 7:53:49 AM PDT by aklurker
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To: Tom Tetroxide

[Both the Secret Service and the local constabulary are looking more and more to either be in on this or just a bunch of Keystone Kops.]


Since Obama, quotas have driven hiring and promotion. If we insisted that NFL teams be 50% female, games would look very different.


28 posted on 07/16/2024 7:54:12 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: SteelPSUGOP
—-Name them, check their phones, then look for them at Walmart——

That may be too tough an assignment given their lack of proper oversight of the area.

29 posted on 07/16/2024 7:55:55 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: eastexsteve

How come there are only HS pics of Crooks? Why aren’t we seeing his 20 yr old self other that the rooftop pics?


30 posted on 07/16/2024 7:55:58 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Enlightened1; All

“Come on, we practiced this, it’s THAT roof”


31 posted on 07/16/2024 7:56:50 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Rumor has it the rooftop was deemed a fall hazard and they were not allowed up there.


32 posted on 07/16/2024 7:58:10 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Enlightened1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5fO3_ZIATo

PBD and Eric Prince on the SS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5fO3_ZIATo


33 posted on 07/16/2024 7:58:16 AM PDT by dforest
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To: eastexsteve

https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/pictured-thomas-matthew-crooks-who-shot-trump/#

Photo here, this might be the one


34 posted on 07/16/2024 7:58:22 AM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: Enlightened1

So, a big public area, countless witnesses, everyone and their grandma has a camera these days. Like, for as clever as the Deep State is, they are idiots.

You’d think: Ok, we need Trump dead, controlled area, limited witnesses, limited footage. Trump being transferred from one vehicle to another, entering a building, that sort of stuff. Doesn’t that make more sense? You get: Trump is dead, the pasty is dead, and we have majority control over the footage and narrative about it.

But I guess they are too damn arrogant to worry about this playing out as it did and were prepared to not care what anyone thinks.

No one has resigned or been fired as of yet involved in this.


35 posted on 07/16/2024 8:00:09 AM PDT by goodolemr
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To: Enlightened1

Prolly asking for a Selfie


36 posted on 07/16/2024 8:00:55 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: Enlightened1

Water tower 90ft tall, 100yrds East of assassin.

No over watch?

That vantage point easily covers the area

Why is no one talking about this?

“Crooks” seems to be an apt name for the “Croaked” assassin....


37 posted on 07/16/2024 8:03:18 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: tflabo

He was reported to be seen with that rifle 30 minutes before he took the shots.


38 posted on 07/16/2024 8:05:19 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: xoxox
"Once is 'random;' Twice is a coincidence; Three times is pattern," isn't that what they say?

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”

Ian Fleming "Goldfinger"

39 posted on 07/16/2024 8:06:53 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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To: Samurai_Jack

If that is crooks, he was scoping it out. I am starting to believe he did use the ac unit to gain access. He scoped everything out before getting his AR-15 out of his car and making his move to get on the building. This photo shows the ac unit I now believe he used to climb up.


40 posted on 07/16/2024 8:07:06 AM PDT by aklurker
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