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Thomas Matthew Crooks hid rifle in advance of Trump rally sniper attack, Secret Service source says
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Posted on 07/18/2024 11:31:28 AM PDT by TigerClaws

BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who opened fire on former President Donald Trump's Pennsylvania campaign rally Saturday, hid the weapon in advance, according to a Secret Service source.

It was not immediately clear where he hid it, however. By the time agents spotted him on the roof, he was already holding it.

"We went from golf range finder to AR-15, and now we have to fill in the gap," the source told Fox News

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 556; banglist; crooks; crookstimeline; hiddengun; secretservice; thomascrooks; thomasmatthewcrooks; whohelpedhim
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To: CivilWarBrewing

ok, so the official FR positon was the assination attempt on Donald the Great was an inside job? Look, I am almost there but we need to digest it a little more.


81 posted on 07/18/2024 1:24:55 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: right way right

I think he brought it in days before the rally and hid in the woods.


82 posted on 07/18/2024 1:26:19 PM PDT by Engedi
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To: TigerClaws

They know so much now but knew nothing on the day of the shooting.🤔


83 posted on 07/18/2024 1:27:09 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: TigerClaws
Probably the snipers carried it in for him, otherwise how do you account for all the incompetentence.
84 posted on 07/18/2024 1:32:16 PM PDT by Ronald77
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To: butterdezillion

He didn’t go through the metal detectors.

He was seen near the checkpoint, but never tried to go through it.

He didn’t need to go through the checkpoint to access the roof.


85 posted on 07/18/2024 1:36:10 PM PDT by jdege
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Mayorkas knows it was an inside job and he takes his orders from Obama. The SS lady is just a pawn. She’s been elected to take the heat. Notice Obama doesn’t demand the puppet step down until the assassination plot did not kill Trump.
There are now layers of invented dirt now covering the assassination plot. Subpoena Mayorkas. If he doesn’t comply. Throw him in jail. The shooter obviously had help—the Regime is stonewalling.


86 posted on 07/18/2024 1:37:46 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: AnthonySoprano

You forgot the “PUSH” sign.


87 posted on 07/18/2024 1:38:30 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: central_va
Trump has gone his ENTIRE LIFE without taking a bullet, to INCLUDE being president for four years.. THEN, TWO DAYS BEFORE HIS OFFICIAL NOMINATION AT THE RNC CONVENTION he gets shot...

C'mon, man !!!

88 posted on 07/18/2024 1:46:31 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: TigerClaws

The father gave him the gun that day to go to the shooting range (abcnews). He was expected back by 1pm. Assuming 2 hours for travel and target practice, it is plausible he had the gun by 11am, drove north for just over and hour (maybe 12 noon at the earliest), and had time to hide it without anybody seeing this happen? Where did he hide it, on the roof? Was that between noon and 3pm? Yes, 3pm matters because he has apparently trying to get through security and that is when they found the rangefinder.

If local police had responsibility only for traffic, who was managing the gate the shooter went through which set off the rangefinder incident? Was that gate an outer perimeter or inner perimeter gate? There are so so many questions.


89 posted on 07/18/2024 1:47:24 PM PDT by tarpit
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To: jdege

How could he get in without going through the checkpoint? And when was he caught with the distance finder and labeled as suspicious?


90 posted on 07/18/2024 1:50:50 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: gloryblaze

I think I remember it was 3 days prior. The event was announced on July 4th.


91 posted on 07/18/2024 1:52:48 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Vendome

I want to hear Senator Kennedy from Louisiana grill these people.


92 posted on 07/18/2024 2:05:29 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: Vendome

I want to hear Senator Kennedy from Louisiana grill these people.


93 posted on 07/18/2024 2:05:30 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: right way right

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1813633089454911622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1813633089454911622%7Ctwgr%5Ed51dafc531c563db050102fdcd83eee48106505d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Frantingly.com%2F

You might want to check this interview out....lots of questions answered about the ladder and the officer who saw him on the roof.


94 posted on 07/18/2024 2:23:49 PM PDT by hecticskeptic ( )
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To: TigerClaws
Thomas Matthew Crooks hid rifle in advance of Trump rally sniper attack, Secret Service source says

Most likely ANOTHER LIE manufactured by the DEEP STATE so as to match the BULL$HIT story they've ALREADY concocted!

95 posted on 07/18/2024 2:39:58 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: VideoDoctor

Planned...intentional...blown. The coverup is in full swing.


96 posted on 07/18/2024 3:50:37 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Texan5

Except that the curtain rod story was fake.


97 posted on 07/18/2024 5:30:24 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: right way right
So did he hide the gun near the building he used? I would assume so. Walking around with an AR-15 at a political rally is dangerous.

So he knew where to hide the gun. Gee, I wonder how?

98 posted on 07/18/2024 5:52:25 PM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: fishtank

I have no idea whether that is proven true or fake since I was 13 at the time-but I read and heard from my parents that story was told by the neighbor who gave Oswald a ride to work that day. And if you wrap a long gun in paper and tape it up neatly, it would look like a package containing curtain rods or some other household accessory of similar length...


99 posted on 07/18/2024 5:58:41 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Texan5

The Oswald Enigma: Curtain Rods and Conspiracies #shorts

https://youtube.com/shorts/VFglKyzZvws?si=f91T2S6pbUdc05CC


100 posted on 07/18/2024 6:08:56 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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