Posted on 07/22/2024 6:16:35 PM PDT by bitt
Contents of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks' primary cell phone has become a key focus of the probe.
While Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle frustrated lawmakers Monday with sparse details about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the FBI has disclosed to Congress that the shooter used three encrypted communications apps ostensibly tied to Germany, Brussels and New Zealand and also possessed an arrest photo of an earlier Michigan school shooter, Just the News has confirmed.
In multiple briefings, FBI leaders told lawmakers that the 20-year-old would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ primary cell phone has become an important focal point of the probe, including some 14,000 images that were found on it, according to multiple sources familiar with the briefings. The FBI has not issued an update on their findings to the public since July 14.
That phone included an arrest photo and other information related to Ethan Crumbley, who was convicted in the deadly 2021 shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan, as well as information about Crumbley’s parents, the sources said, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
The phone also included stock images of firearms and guns, articles regarding U.S. government figures as well as a screenshot of online live coverage of July 13 rally saved at 6:01pm, about 10 minutes before Crooks began shooting from a rooftop near the Butler, Pa., venue where Trump was speaking.
One of the most tantalizing pieces of evidence from the phone, according to the sources, was three foreign encrypted platforms used by Crooks that were apparently based in Germany, New Zealand, and Belgium. The encryption on the apps “poses a significant challenge,” according to one source.
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Gee, what a coincidence since the alphabet agencies chose him to take the fall/s
Today on that audio woyh harris biden the pos called 45 a “danger to the country”. The guy who almost got assassinated is the danger? The democrats are plumbing new depths and it’s horrible.
With ...please excuse the typo.
Crooks was trained by BlackRock, from high school. He was trained by the best. And he was smarter than 90% of our population.
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There is no evidence they wanted to get Trump killed except every piece of evidence from that very day.
Everything points in one direction.
People want to be evidence driven, well, all the evidence says the same thing.
Biden is plainly telegraphing to whomever that Trump is a threat and needs to be taken out. This dementia riddled man needs to be arrested!
But...I forgot that we can’t arrest sitting presidents.
There will another attempt to cancel President Trump, mark my words.
Lord, keep him safe!!
This was an inside job, it is evident with the NON answers law makers where getting from this jill biden appointee
“Crooks was trained by BlackRock, from high school. He was trained by the best. And he was smarter than 90% of our population.”
Ann Barnhardt calls him Lee Harvey Asperger. Kid will never tell his story.
Sounds like Kamalya is trying to inflame another left wing crazy to take Trump out. She is a vile woman.
Here’s the deal kid, we’ll give you a phone and an off shore back account if you do this.
More likely he was calling back to the Middle East to claim the multi-million $$$ reward for killing Trump.
Not a would be assassin. He killed a brave firefighter.
What sort of dipship puts that stuff on his own phone?
Are we sure that the late unlamented would-be assassin put it there? Are we sure that the feebs did NOT put it there?
Hmmmmm?
Do we know if he even got a shot off yet?
But they can’t say who left the building unguarded and why because they’re guilty.
Enough of this fake eyelashes bs.
From the top, who order this assassination, who managed it and who participated?
Otherwise stfu.
Yet somehow they neglected to teach him windage, and this 'smart kid' couldn't figure it out on his own and/or never heard of a ballistic calculator app during his time at the gun club.
C'mon, man.
EXACTLY!
How can anyone believe anything the FBI says?
The same agency who criminally undermined, compromised and attempted to overthrow Trump. Gezzz..
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