Posted on 07/15/2024 2:11:06 PM PDT by Morgana
Extraordinary new pictures and video obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com show just how breathtakingly close Trump shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, got to his target.
Crooks, 20, came within inches of killing President Trump Saturday, as the former president addressed supporters during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Chillingly some images show a ladder, hidden by dense shrubbery, propped against the side of the AGR building, leading directly to the rooftop across which witnesses later told law enforcement they saw Crooks scramble.
The images of the strategically placed ladder have emerged as Secret Service admit they did not sweep the building where the shooter took his position, but instead entrusted that role to local law enforcement officers.
In the days since, Secret Service has come under intense scrutiny for what has been described as its most stunning security failure in decades.
Now, these compelling images hammer home the handful of yards – barely 150 - that stood between the former president and his would-be assassin.
Crooks had parked his vehicle near the rally site in Butler on Saturday before he scaled the roof of a nearby industrial manufacturing building.
Federal agents could be seen inspecting the ladder which, from the ground, would be all but invisible.
From his elevated vantage point, almost as close to the president as the secret service snipers there to protect him, Crooks had a clear and unimpaired line of fire and, armed with his father’s AR-15 rifle, he took his shot.
A chance turn of Trump’s head, not the swift response of those snipers, is what made the difference between a grazing glance of the bullet Crooks fired and a fatal shot.
Yesterday the debris of the abandoned rally was clearly visible in Butler’s fairgrounds.
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So how in pray tell did that step ladder get there? The SS did not notice it?
Did Blackrock, or the SS, place the
ladder which they TOLD the shooter it was there,
and without anyone on the roof, and with his
position protected by a tree?
WHY IS NO ONE ARRESTED YET?
Seems as though EVERYONE on that detail should be FIRED now!
They said the SS never even checked out that building or surrounding property
They all need their asses handed to them.
BKMK
They did not had had they done so they would have seen the ladder.
They should have had their asses on top of that building.
Get the last week of security camera footage for the rally venue and you will know who planned and orchestrated this assassination attempt.
nice false flag where our president came withing millimeters of being killed and where others got injured and one died....
it was allowed to happen....the cabal enabled it....
Why is it that the UK DAILY MAIL seems to always be the first to report?
Here is the video taken by a drone of the buildings and rally grounds as they appeared either yesterday or today.
Why weren’t FOX, CNN, ABC, NBC. etc the first to get a drone in the air and do what DAILY MAIL just did?
Both the ladder and the gun could have been hidden in or behind the bushes the night before.
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BREAKING: Trump’s attempted assassin was spotted 30 MINUTES before on the roof, and was reported as suspicious
tell me again this was not an ordered HIT..try to convince me it wasnt
I scanned photos of that exact spot using a variety of imagery tools and Sat tools.
There was no ladder there in the last year.
The images of the strategically placed ladder have emerged as Secret Service admit they did not sweep the building where the shooter took his position, but instead entrusted that role to local law enforcement officers.
Yeah?
How in the kcuF do you all feel now?
“Oh, I missed that one? sorry”
How did he get on the grounds with a weapon?
How did he get on the grounds with Ladder?
How did he know to go the exact building that would be the ideal location to perch?
How did he know to crawl from the NE corner of the building to the SW corner of the building for the optimum sighting and angle?
How come no one was stationed on that building, which was the only with it’s unique and nearly perfect profile to shoot the President?
How come no one was performing overwatch from the water tower some 90 feet in the air and a mere 100yrds to the east, from which there is zero obstructed views to every building to the west and north?
Alejandro Mayorkas should be immediately terminated without and severance and/or retirement pay. Additionally, he needs to be imprisoned for his many lies to Congress. He has pulled America’s pants to the ground as we await another security lapse and/or intentional assassination.
I’m tired of hearing people call this incompetence. It was allowed to happen. There’s no way this clown was able to outwit the security that is supposed to protect the president. The one building that needed to be covered was left wide open for the dead loser. How did he know that building would be left unguarded? It doesn’t add up.
Either way we are left with only 2 possible answers. Incompetence or purposeful.
Google Earth shows that this was quite literally the closest vantage point the perp had available. Probably couldn’t believe his dumb luck... unless...
Seems as though EVERYONE on that detail should be FIRED now!
Deep state already knows how to place pallets of bricks at antifa riots.
There was one guy at the presser yesterday says the perp was outside the perimiter????
Outside the perimeter? That perimeter is is anything within eyesight of The President and a bit beyond.
How in the Ho Lee Phuk is that possible?
I’ve been to Trump rallies and snipers are everywhere, including in the hills surrounding.
Security is actually visible for miles before you even get to a rally venue.
I felt safe, as well, unconcerned for The President’s safety
Moreover, there was a helicopter circling the event
The building 20 feet behind the dead dude is actually one story higher and begs the question “Why wasn’t a team on top of those buildings?” We know the answer.
Moreover, there is a 90 foot water directly to the east and overlooking all the buildings where dead was and he would have been easily seen if a team was on that water tower.
It is only 100yrds to the east. https://www.google.com/maps/place/615+Whitestown+Rd,+Meridian,+PA+16001/@40.8585856,-79.9698802,577m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x88337d9ebe29308f:0x1b4bca6251cd761e!8m2!3d40.8585186!4d-79.9699773!16s%2Fg%2F11ckqj_ky9?entry=ttu
No one on building to secure it.
No one overlooking to secure it.
So… a guy just decides to show up at a rally and take a potshot at PDJT… and he looks around for a spot that wasn’t covered by USSS and… well whadaya know! He’s in luck. A handy barn roof with no-one on it. And his rifle happens to be sighted in for the distance to the stage.
Now, let’s just see if he can get up there with a rifle without being spotted. Well whaddaya know! Another lucky break! Wait… he was spotted and pointed out to security, Well whaddaya know! Three times lucky! Security blew it off.
Oops. His luck ran out. He was shot deader’n a doornail. Tsk, tsk. Too bad. Can’t question him now.
Gonna be lots of stuff out there
Fact is “it should have never happened “
That it did is inexplicable and no answer will be acceptable
Snipers have an Area of Operation
In that AO are Squares that they are responsible for scanning hostiles and intelligence
Each Square also has math notes for distance, elevation, declination, etc
This was not a slipup
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