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.
FBI Asset
Next thing we find out is he trained in Russia and worked in a book depository.
The Deep State and democrat media use that cutesy-pie high school yearbook photo of Thomas Crooks
but this is what he really looked like around the time of the Trump shooting.
Belgium = Nato
And the 2020 steal
“Here’s another question — Who gave the decision to CREMATE Thomas Matthew Crooks? Were his parents consulted on this?”
What are they supposed to do with the body?
Leave it on the rooftop for the buzzards?
Or embalm it and stick it in a glass case like they did with lenin?
Why don’t they show the picture of stupid boy in glory day appearance just pre snuff out.
The nuz finds the sweetest mammas boy pictures even zit pathetic ones.
The obvious answer is to hide connections between the shooter and those behind this attempted assassination.
I am reminded of the Steele Report and of the “5 Eyes” foreign intelligence agencies that set up some close to Trump so they could “turn them” and gain moles within Trumps inner circle.
The only surprise is that Italy is not involved.
Whatever Congress wants to know, NSA probably has the answers.........they just don't want to divulge them as Democrats are in firm control of the Deep State.
The most interesting factual bit that came out is that Iran was hoping to harm Trump and his candidacy. Now remind me, who sent the plane loads of gold, silver and foreign currencies to Iran a few years ago...........that is right it was the Big Zero (Obama). I wonder why no one is talking about the Iran involvement in our elections. I mean back in the day it was “Russia, Russia, Russia is trying to influence the election in favor of Trump.”
Just because these “accounts” were based overseas, does not mean his handlers necessarily were foreign. Anyone can set up a foreign account. Don’t be mislead.
Follow the money?
Foreign-based encrypted accounts are not mysterious or sinister. If you have an account with a bank in Canada, it’s foreign and it’s encrypted.
We will never know the full truth about this guy
Like about Seth Rich - like about Las Vegas
had encrypted accounts in multiple countries,
I think I’ve known that for a long time.
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They can decrypt the email accounts of every grandmother who entered the Capitol, but don’t have a clue how to derypt the account of Crooks? Not buying this.......
Lots of folks have messaging (email) accounts with foreign companies. It's not illegal and it's not unusual. Remember, it's the world-wide web.
Well, I’m a Boomer, and I have an ‘encrypted foreign account’, so...
I think it’s more likely that we just have some folks here who are anxious to make a ‘conspiracy’ out of any detail they can hang one on.
“He must have made a lot of money being a cook in that senior citizen living facility! /s”
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It doesn’t appear like money was a motivator. Prolly driven by something else.
Someone needs to look into the frequency and timing of when he used those types of communications. And soon, because he may well have been communicating with confederates.
This in itself is part of the cover-up. It assumes that there’s some doubt as to any of this.
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Deciding not to provide adequate security to a Presidental candidate and former President is a "policy violation"?
Sounds like as serious as a "parking ticket".
You cannot be serious!
This is ridiculous. I use encrypted accounts. I also use a vpn. A lot of normal people use them. WhatsApp is an encrypted account.
I replied later in the thread
There was already video of him ranting years ago - hardcore Democrat
I have just about everything encrypted. This is not unusual to keep your privacy online.
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Does that means no one can decrypt your account?
keeper
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