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FBI Announces They've Successfully Opened Would-Be Trump Assassin's Phone
Red State ^ | 7/15/24 | Bob Hoge

Posted on 07/15/2024 2:27:46 PM PDT by CFW

As the investigation into Saturday’s assassination attempt against former President and newly-minted GOP nominee Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally intensifies, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Monday that they have successfully gained access to the suspected shooter’s phone.

They have not revealed what information they’ve found on the device, but it is likely to contain a trove of information about the deceased suspect, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.

The FBI has not detailed any of the information contained in the phone. The agency began its investigation into Crooks and the shooting shortly after the Saturday attack. Agents went to Crooks' home and the home of his parents on Sunday and Monday. They are investigating the incident as an assassination attempt and possible domestic terrorism.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 5footladder; assassinationattempt; fakenews; fbi; fib; hunterslaptop; phone; shooter; thomascrooks; trump; unterbidenslaptop
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To: null and void
“We will know exactly what they want us to know as soon as they finish making it up.”

BINGO!!!

Yes ... they will fill it up with GOP stuff, MAGA 2024, and other Trump related political stuff. Then they'll update his Facebook/Twitter/or other Social media accounts with him saying something like “Trump doesn't go far enough with the illegals” and they will paint him as some “Right Wing Radical” disenchanted with Trump ... or some such nonsense.

Next step ... a flurry of Gun Control bills will be introduced.

121 posted on 07/15/2024 5:03:28 PM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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To: CFW

Right...being done by an organization none of us trust. There’s ZERO trust at this point.


122 posted on 07/15/2024 5:03:28 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: CFW

They will do like OKC, never close the investigation and deny all requests forever on grounds that the case in still under investigation.


123 posted on 07/15/2024 5:32:59 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Does so

Well, he’s dead.


124 posted on 07/15/2024 5:44:59 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Fledermaus
If Apple wouldn’t help they should be forced out of business. Trump should raise their tariffs to 5000 percent. See how many IPhones they sell at $15,000. (I know, math not correct

They've done their best to make sure they can'thelp in a case like this. Which is exactly as it should be.The government has no right to the data on your phone. I'd be interested in knowing how the feral government broke into it.

125 posted on 07/15/2024 5:54:17 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: CFW

Unless there’s a leak, I don’t expect we’ll find out what’s on that phone until after the election.


126 posted on 07/15/2024 6:20:07 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: CFW

Yeh, thank God they got into the phone so they could delete the texts from his FBI handler. 🙄


127 posted on 07/15/2024 8:23:53 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: OrioleFan

“12345”

Wow, that’s the same code I have on my luggage!

/spaceballs>

CC


128 posted on 07/15/2024 9:07:23 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: zeugma

I just think it depends on the circumstances and these are extreme.


129 posted on 07/15/2024 9:10:11 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: CFW
The reason citizens don't trust the FBI is because the FBI has become untrustworthy.

130 posted on 07/15/2024 9:15:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (Trump was NOT Hitler last time. He won't be a dictator this time. Democrats and the MSM lie. )
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To: CFW
...acting suspiciously by the magnetometers outside the event,...

HUH?

131 posted on 07/15/2024 11:34:16 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
AR style ???
132 posted on 07/15/2024 11:36:15 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: blackdog

Tagline: Eccles 10:20


133 posted on 07/15/2024 11:37:31 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: blackdog

We have to pass it to know what’s in it.


134 posted on 07/15/2024 11:41:13 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Hmmmm indeed!

my 556 come in rectangular boxes.


135 posted on 07/16/2024 12:12:21 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: rickomatic

136 posted on 07/16/2024 12:15:57 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Bookshelf

 



 
Eerily familiar...
 
 

Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.


 



16. Ministry Of Truth

.......

The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.

The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further.

The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary.

Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.

When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify.

In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.

As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.

In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs.

There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.

And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.

 
 


137 posted on 07/16/2024 12:17:43 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: V_TWIN

I saw the picture too. It has Secret Service standing over the shooter.

I read that the SS sniper that shot him was shooting a 300 Mag. Is that true? That usually does quite a bit of destruction.


138 posted on 07/16/2024 2:29:36 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tired&retired

I don’t know anything about the rifles used but I thought the snipers were local police? 🤷


139 posted on 07/16/2024 5:14:00 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Elsie

We sold a AR15 replica that fired a .22 LR caliber. Given the range and such a .22 LR could have been used. I initially thought he might have had a Henry AR 7 since it is compact and concealable.


140 posted on 07/16/2024 7:26:10 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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