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Trump gunman had Michigan school shooter's photo, foreign encrypted apps, FBI tells Congress
https://justthenews.com ^ | 7/22/2024 | JOHN SOLOMON

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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1 posted on 07/22/2024 6:16:35 PM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 07/22/2024 6:16:49 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Gee, what a coincidence since the alphabet agencies chose him to take the fall/s


3 posted on 07/22/2024 6:18:13 PM PDT by patriot torch (..)
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To: bitt

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.


4 posted on 07/22/2024 6:20:20 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: toddausauras

With ...please excuse the typo.


5 posted on 07/22/2024 6:20:45 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2024)
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To: bitt

Crooks was trained by BlackRock, from high school. He was trained by the best. And he was smarter than 90% of our population.


6 posted on 07/22/2024 6:25:01 PM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: toddausauras

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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.


7 posted on 07/22/2024 6:26:00 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: toddausauras

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!!


8 posted on 07/22/2024 6:26:32 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: bitt

This was an inside job, it is evident with the NON answers law makers where getting from this jill biden appointee


9 posted on 07/22/2024 6:26:53 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: RideForever

“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.


10 posted on 07/22/2024 6:29:26 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: toddausauras
Today on that audio woyh harris biden the pos called 45 a “danger to the country”

Sounds like Kamalya is trying to inflame another left wing crazy to take Trump out. She is a vile woman.

11 posted on 07/22/2024 6:30:43 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: bitt

Here’s the deal kid, we’ll give you a phone and an off shore back account if you do this.


12 posted on 07/22/2024 6:35:02 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Indy Pendance
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.

13 posted on 07/22/2024 6:41:47 PM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: bitt

Not a would be assassin. He killed a brave firefighter.


14 posted on 07/22/2024 6:52:09 PM PDT by Vaquero (In Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: patriot torch

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?


15 posted on 07/22/2024 6:54:19 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: bitt

Do we know if he even got a shot off yet?


16 posted on 07/22/2024 7:03:55 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: bitt

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.


17 posted on 07/22/2024 7:06:38 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et. al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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To: RideForever
He was trained by the best. And he was smarter than 90% of our population.

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.

18 posted on 07/22/2024 7:08:52 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Vaquero

EXACTLY!


19 posted on 07/22/2024 7:10:39 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: bitt

How can anyone believe anything the FBI says?

The same agency who criminally undermined, compromised and attempted to overthrow Trump. Gezzz..


20 posted on 07/22/2024 7:11:37 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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