Sniper killed would-be Trump assassin with 'one-in-a-million shot': source

Fox News ^ | 7/19/24 | Greg Wehner

[LisaFab]

The shot that killed the man who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last Saturday was a "one-in-a-million shot," according to a source familiar with the investigation into the shooting.

Fox News learned from the source the kill shot was a single shot taken by a Secret Service counter sniper whose view was obscured.

A local tactical team also took a shot at the would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, but missed.

[nwrep]

How can that be? Was it because he was crouching down on the roof?

[ridesthemiles]

THEY HAVE EARNED THE TITLE SNIPER FOR A REASON-—

THEY CAN MAKE THOSE KINDS OF SHOTS.

NOT buying the one in a million status

[Jane Long]

They (are supposed to) have ONE job.

[LisaFab]

Saying it was not the two snipers who were videoed taking shots.

[Jane Long]

NOT buying the one in a million status

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Ditto.

[HIDEK6]

This is a distraction, folks. Don’t get caught up in something that doesn’t matter.

[LisaFab]

Fox News is saying that the sniper who fired the killing shot was obscured by trees and could only see the shooters face.

[AnthonySoprano]

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Yeah, good luck sifting the Lies.


No Drones, No Canines, and a All day VIP pass for the Shooter,

They say he knew what to do because he flew a drone, but that wouldn’t have told him no one would be on that Roof before Trump walked out.

[Widget Jr]

Agree.

[Deaf Smith]

>>How can that be?

It was a steep roof the counter sniper was on.

*Not the guy on the tripod, he panicked and shot high into the air,

[janetjanet998]

Bongino reported this 2-3 days ago on his Rumble channel

Said the possible target area was only like 6 by 6 inches (or something)

[chaosagent]

The Secret Service sniper who killed Crooks could only see Crooks’ gun scope and the top of his eye and forehead

So now they're saying the kid had a scope on his AR-15?

[EnderWiggin1970]

If they could see his face that's all that matters given his prone position.

We've all been hearing the last few days that the 140 or so meters the shooter had to Trump made his shot only middling difficulty, so why should it be 1-in-a-million for the countersniper firing only slightly farther?

[VideoDoctor]

This is a distraction, folks. Don’t get caught up in something that doesn’t matter.

You just spoke a MOUTHFUL of TRUTH with that statement.

[Sequoyah101]

An attempt atdistraction. The man did his job.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So they stationed a Counter Sniper Team in a spot without a clear view of the most likely place a sniper would position himself?

Yet another more thing that makes you go “hmmmm.”

[AnthonySoprano]

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Either on him or in his Van, dude had a ground pad, AR-15 with Scope, Range Finder, transmitter, phone, Drone, many rounds of ammo, and a bullet proof Vest.

It was reported that he asked his father to use that AR that day. If true, he placed it there that day.

The Multiple Trips were allowed on his All-day VIP Pass, evidently

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“could only see the shooters face.”

So? That’s the best target to put a bullet in the brain pan. I heard today one photo of the dead Crooks shows a nice entry hole right above his left eye.