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Sniper killed would-be Trump assassin with 'one-in-a-million shot': source
Fox News ^ | 7/19/24 | Greg Wehner

Posted on 07/19/2024 8:36:30 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassin; assassination; assassinationattempt; banglist; coverup; rally; secretservice; secretservicesniper; sniper; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump; trumpshooter; zecretservicesniper
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1 posted on 07/19/2024 8:36:30 PM PDT by LisaFab
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To: LisaFab

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


2 posted on 07/19/2024 8:38:13 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: LisaFab

THEY HAVE EARNED THE TITLE SNIPER FOR A REASON-—

THEY CAN MAKE THOSE KINDS OF SHOTS.

NOT buying the one in a million status


3 posted on 07/19/2024 8:38:14 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: LisaFab

They (are supposed to) have ONE job.


4 posted on 07/19/2024 8:38:34 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: LisaFab

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


5 posted on 07/19/2024 8:38:38 PM PDT by LisaFab
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To: ridesthemiles

NOT buying the one in a million status


Ditto.


6 posted on 07/19/2024 8:39:05 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: LisaFab

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


7 posted on 07/19/2024 8:39:34 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: nwrep

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


8 posted on 07/19/2024 8:39:59 PM PDT by LisaFab
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To: LisaFab
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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.


9 posted on 07/19/2024 8:41:12 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: ridesthemiles
Agree.
10 posted on 07/19/2024 8:42:14 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: nwrep
>>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,

11 posted on 07/19/2024 8:42:28 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: LisaFab

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)


12 posted on 07/19/2024 8:42:38 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: LisaFab
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?

13 posted on 07/19/2024 8:42:50 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: LisaFab
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?

14 posted on 07/19/2024 8:43:03 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: HIDEK6
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.

16 posted on 07/19/2024 8:46:10 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: LisaFab

An attempt atdistraction. The man did his job.


17 posted on 07/19/2024 8:49:30 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: LisaFab

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.”


18 posted on 07/19/2024 8:50:31 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: chaosagent

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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


19 posted on 07/19/2024 8:51:30 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: LisaFab

“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.


20 posted on 07/19/2024 8:51:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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