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.
[Trump Shooter Had Encrypted Accounts In Multiple Countries:]
He must have made a lot of money being a cook in that senior citizen living facility! /s
Americans want to know why that
it is absolutely clear that the CIA, FIB and the SS
again have attempted to murder a beloved elected PRESIDENT,
and then have covered it up.
Every single one of them, and the Congress which has
allowed it for YEARS, therefore is guilty of treason.
Or were these cryptocurrency accounts, with small amounts of money?
The latter isn't unusual for young men, especially those with a conspiratorial mindset.
I think I've known that for a long time.
How does one prove that Crooks, and not Yearick, was cremated. The Crooks family doesn't seem too distraught.
Also, is there any proof that the Crooks family actually lives in the house that the FBI searched?
“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.“
This in itself is part of the cover-up. It assumes that there’s some doubt as to any of this.
As far as I know not one person has been fired or suspended. 😤
You're right - kid crypto or 'off shore' big payoffs... it matters.
There was nothing to search at his house. The whole place was wiped down. It was also empty.
Crooks sure looks like the cutout, walking around drawing attention to himself, and Yearick the doppelgänger/patsy who actually received the sniper fire.
Does anyone else see the facial features typical of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in this shooter’s face?
“They may also show certain facial malformations, such as small eye sockets, smooth skin between the nose and upper lip rather than a crease, and flattened cheekbones. All these signs are still apparent in adulthood. FAS adults may also show signs of their condition as their facial features change with age.”
I can’t read the article, but I don’t see where it says they were anything like bank accounts. Originally they reported multiple encrypted Messaging Accounts. Lots of people use those.
Not just our Deep State.
Betcha...
The Deep State is global.
I THINK Bongino said today that one person has been suspended, from the Pittsburgh office. The big guys are throwing the little people under the bus.
More accurately the phone, which government agents said was found with Thomas Crooks body, had encrypted accounts in multiple countries on it.
Define “account.” Cryptocurrency account? Instant messaging accounts? VPN accounts?
A young man with a conspiratorial mindset would have an air-gapped crypto wallet.
Why does the press keep showing a picture of Crooks from 6years ago?
He obviously didn’t look like that on the day he shot Trump and 3 other people.
Did Crooks burn all the recent pictures of himself? Or does the DHS and FBI have them?
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