Posted on 08/22/2024 1:00:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The man who fired shots at former President Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania had encrypted accounts in multiple countries, according to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives task force investigating the attempted assassination.
“We haven’t learned much about those overseas accounts,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) told a press conference in Chicago on Aug. 21. “We do know they were in ... Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany.”
Waltz is on the “Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump.”
FBI officials previously disclosed that Crooks used encrypted messaging applications.
“Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aide need encrypted platforms, not even based in the United States, but based abroad, where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?” Waltz asked.
He said that the question had not yet been answered.
Waltz and other members were preparing later Wednesday to receive a briefing from FBI officials on the agency’s probe into the attempted assassination of Trump on July 13.
He said that task force members have been discussing how authorities should be sharing information as they uncover it, not waiting until final reports on the investigations are ready.
“They need to be releasing information as they come across it because this wasn’t an isolated incident. The threats are continuing,” Waltz said.
The FBI and U.S. Secret Service did not respond to early morning requests for comment.
Waltz highlighted the recent charges against a Pakistani national. That man, Asif Merchant, has been charged in connection with a foiled plot to assassinate public officials in the United States. Authorities alleged he gave $5,000 as an advance payment to individuals he thought were hitmen, but were undercover FBI agents.
Waltz also said he was disturbed that the officials who constructed the security plan for Trump’s July rally have not been disciplined.
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. told Congress in July that discipline may follow out once the agency finishes its internal probe into the situation.
“That roof should have had better coverage, and we will get to the bottom of if there were any policy violations,” he said at one point.
Rowe added later that he would not provide real-time updates on disciplinary measures but would “at a high level provide at least some type of statement that people are being held accountable.”
Kimberly Cheatle, who was the Secret Service’s director before stepping down after Trump was nearly assassinated, said on July 22 that the Secret Service’s initial report about rally security would be ready in 60 days.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general is also conducting an investigation.
I wonder if Asif Merchant recruited Crooks and pushed Crooks to set up the encrypted messaging accounts.
Anyone hear Trumo’s conference?
Did that sound like a man with “a voice like a leaf blower”????!!!!
Thanks - well some had commented on how he had enough money for his gear
If he lived with his parents I don’t think it would have been all that difficult
But I’ll ask for that to be removed
I have just about everything encrypted. This is not unusual to keep your privacy online.
Yes, they were messaging accounts. A lot of boomers who don’t know what encrypted messaging accounts are seems to just see “accounts” and assume “bank accounts”.
They were encrypted messaging accounts, like Telegram accounts, for example.
Well, the gun was either his fathers’ or purchased by his father, I would assume stuff like the rangefinder was as well.
[is global]
It’s what I would expect to see in the Last Days - no doubt there are some very smart people organizing a lot of things - notice I didn’t say “good people”
Daniel 7:23
King James Version
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon Earth,
which shall be diverse from all kingdoms,
and shall devour the whole Earth,
and shall tread it down,
and break it in pieces.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+7%3A23&version=KJV
Daniel 7:24 King James Version
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom
are ten kings that shall arise:
and another shall rise after them;
and he shall be diverse from the first,
and he shall subdue three kings.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+7%3A24&version=KJV
10 kings - likely directing 10 divisions (IMHO)
The little horn shall subdue 3 of the kings
BS
yeah
When I saw he had encrypted "accounts" I thought they were referring media accounts like Face Book, FR or Meta in a foreign country.
I did not equate it with financial accounts. Wow his changes everything.
More FBI-CIA Deep State fake background and narrative.
Why would they stop mow?
It worked for the Kennedy assassination, it whorked for the TWA flight 800 shoot down, it worked for the Oklahoma city bombing,
it worked in Las Vegas, it worked to get Obama elected and it worked on the January 6 fake insurrection....
“Why does the press keep showing a picture of Crooks from 6years ago?”
Probably more recent pictures wouldn’t support the narrative that this was a “registered Republican” shooter who the Democrats had nothing to do with radicalizing.
I figured they were encrypted messaging. Your’re the first person to define what “encrypted accounts” means.
Our political geniuses toss around “encrypted accounts,” while having little idea on what they’re bloviating about.
15. Where Kamala sat....
It’s typical for US assets to have multiple accounts. As for the cremation? Just suppose the FBI had long had him under surveillance as a possible Trump hater. Suppose the CIA helped the FBI move it along with a little drug therapy like MKUltra. Would you want those kinds of chemicals laying around in a body that could be found in an independent autopsy?
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