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Video Shows Individual Scurrying on Roof Minutes Before Donald Trump Assassination Attempt
Breitbart ^ | 7-31-24 | Hannah Knudsen

Posted on 07/31/2024 2:24:40 PM PDT by bimboeruption

A viral video that one of the attendees of former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, filmed shows an individual running across a roof — the same roof Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump from — minutes before the tragedy, which claimed the life of one attendee and injured three others, including Trump.

Fox News first obtained the video — which James Copenhaver, one of the victims injured at the July 13 rally, filmed. In the video, an individual can be seen scurrying across the roof where Crooks later took the shots. According to Fox News, the video was taken at 6:08 p.m. If that is accurate, this occurred about three minutes before Crooks opened fire on Trump.

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Copenhaver was critically wounded after being shot twice and is currently in a rehabilitation center, according to attorney Joseph Feldman at the Law Offices of Max C. Feldman. The lawyer told the outlet that Copenhaver “had almost seen or heard something whiz past him, which we’re assuming was a bullet.”

“He felt it on his arm, and he looked down at his arm…and felt pain initially, but he hadn’t even realized he had been shot a second time at that point. It could have been shock,” he added.

This unearthed video comes as the U.S. Secret Service continues to face congressional grillings after being unable to provide adequate answers to obvious questions about how Crooks was able to get a clear line of sight to the former president that day.

Adding to the unanswered questions is the fact that Crooks was somehow able to fly a drone in the area about two hours before the rally without raising any red flags. It also raises questions about how Secret Service counter-snipers were, supposedly, unable to see Crooks on the other roof.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assassination; crooks; jamescopenhaver; secretservice; slopedroof; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump; trumpshooter; video
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James Copenhaver, one of the guys who was shot filmed this clip.

Everyone saw the roof runner except the Secret Service.

1 posted on 07/31/2024 2:24:40 PM PDT by bimboeruption
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To: bimboeruption

“an individual”?

oh, I’m sorry was there a dance party up there?


2 posted on 07/31/2024 2:27:22 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: bimboeruption

How could someone “scurry” on such a steep roof?/S
That roof has just a bit more slope than a flat roof!
Lies, lies, and more lies from the commie DemonRats.


3 posted on 07/31/2024 2:29:14 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: bimboeruption
Everyone saw the roof runner except the Secret Service.

Oh, they saw him. They saw him the whole time. Just waiting for him to do his thing.

4 posted on 07/31/2024 2:29:28 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It will be Michelle.)
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To: bimboeruption

hmmm...well, that much, at least, makes sense.


5 posted on 07/31/2024 2:37:49 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: 9422WMR
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6 posted on 07/31/2024 2:38:03 PM PDT by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: bimboeruption
They got away with the JFK, RFK, MLK assassinations and the Ronald Reagan near-assassination because:

These clowns made a hash of it because:


7 posted on 07/31/2024 2:38:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: bimboeruption

Never confuse incompetence with complicity.

one, maybe two bonehead moves would be incompetence,

20-30 bonehead moves stacked on top of each other is downright COMPLICITY


8 posted on 07/31/2024 2:43:35 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: bimboeruption
No effin way.

Everyone there knew something was up and all the way back to DC.

If I had been there I would think it odd a building, particularly this one, didn’t have anyone on it or the buildings with higher elevation 20 feet behind and it would be stranger not to see anyone on the water tower.

Further, there were cops in the buildings behind him and they couldn’t see him?

 

Were they preparing powdered donuts for the crime scene?

 


9 posted on 07/31/2024 2:52:17 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: bimboeruption
META (Facebook) AI says the assassination attempt is a "fictional"


10 posted on 07/31/2024 2:53:11 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: bimboeruption

I’ve seen this video from several sources and I continue to think the key screen grab would be when the shooter is walking upright. Everyone but the SS could see him not bear crawling but fully visible upright. I don’t have a twitter account or know how to get a video screen grab, but I think that would be the one rather than after he takes cover from the roof peak.


11 posted on 07/31/2024 2:54:49 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (GO LIONS)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Now that passes me off.


12 posted on 07/31/2024 2:58:14 PM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: bimboeruption

Someone had to bring him water... After all. It was wam and Crooks was on a sloped roof.


13 posted on 07/31/2024 3:07:31 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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Does Butler County PA have a County Attorney? If so, based on Trump choosing to have a rally there, I’m guessing he’s at least nominally a Republican. There’s been a murder committed in his jurisdiction of a well beloved local citizen, two more locals have been seriously injured. And an attempted assassination. The latter may have some preemptive jurisdiction concerns, but the former three? Can’t he/she impanel a local grand jury and investigate the possibility of negligent homicide or some kind of charges based on how poorly SS management intentionally or unintentionally botched this. I’m not an attorney, but there must be some kind of charges possible in that jurisdiction, from which DC powers can’t protect the coverup. We can’t count on Federal, nor PA state, level authorities, but maybe there is a level of government on our side.


14 posted on 07/31/2024 3:15:12 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (They don't care. We don't scare!)
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To: bimboeruption

There is a helluva lot more to this story. I just watched a below linked video where George Webb is interviewed by Peter Duke. George believes that Crooks was told he would be the spotting team member for a roof sniper. That’s why the rifle was 10 feet from Crooks. Was the guy running on the roof the sniper running to assume a position with Crooks. Or was Crooks already dead? Separately, I believe the general silence from the FBI is that they are monitoring the Internet journalists who are investigating and reporting on the shooting in an effort to try and stay ahead of the traffic and come up with an “official” story they can then peddle to the public. The problem is there are so many unknown cell phone cameras out there that the story keeps changing every day. The Bureau is caught in real conundrum on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/live/KKI5L_lmIF0


15 posted on 07/31/2024 3:18:55 PM PDT by iontheball
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To: bimboeruption

This was news this morning.


16 posted on 07/31/2024 3:20:39 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: iontheball

Why are you posting disinformation detracting from the gross failure of the SS?


17 posted on 07/31/2024 3:23:16 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: iontheball

“The first action by the first first responder is to move the weapon out of reach of the shooter ...


18 posted on 07/31/2024 3:24:52 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: bimboeruption

Crooks might as well have been doing jumping jacks up there he was so obvious.


19 posted on 07/31/2024 3:24:55 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: JohnBovenmyer

Does Butler County PA have a County Attorney?
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Of course there is a DA or county attorney and he ought to be mad as hell. However, George Webb thinks the county sheriff is on on the plot. Webb also suggests Crooks was holding up down on the main floor in the 2 story building until he went onto the roof. It also appears the locals may have been using the lower floor as a CP.


20 posted on 07/31/2024 3:40:13 PM PDT by iontheball
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