Posted on 07/15/2024 2:36:59 PM PDT by hardspunned
BUTLER, Pa. — Channel 11 news uncovered dramatic new details Monday in the moments leading up to the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump. According to multiple law enforcement sources, Thomas Crooks was spotted by law enforcement on a roof nearly 30 minutes before shots were fired that injured Trump, killed a former fire chief, and injured two others in the crowd.
This is an outrage!
The Republican leadership and party bosses need to demand accountability - now, not next week.
They all should be up on their hind legs by now.
A Butler officer did make it up to the edge of the roof roof - the guy had his rifle in his face so he dropped down....worse the cop was NOT armed,,,,,
With all the Ieds and bomb material in his dads house I expect the parents are in trouble.
Look at the far right of the building by the tree, there is a short and wide landing that sticks out with a small parapet around it. I saw it on footage from the other direction on various videos.
Have no fear, they will with truck loads of whitewash.
The firefighter who was killed, a fund in his name has raised over $600,000 when i read about it this morning. Glad to see those gimme money funds going to a family that deserves it!
The weapon belonged to the father. He did not secure the weapon. Bingo.
I read they pulled some SS agents to cover Jill Bidens event
I don’t think the fire chief who died protecting his family bout the weapon the assassin used? You mean the victim and the killer knew each other? Are you sure?
The excuse was some small gathering Jill Biden had at the same time in PA. There must have been ten or twelve people who showed up to hear her talk.
Handy excuse to pull away real protection and to slip in assassins.
Looking at other photos, I guess the shooter couldn’t have been in that spot when he took his shots. It faces the wrong way and may be blocked by the treeline. But he could have hid up there for a while and then “bear crawled” across to to the other side. In that image it shows a ladder that leads up to buildings; it’s behind the stage and well hidden. I am not sure if the ladder is part of the structure or part of maintenance. The ladder is well hidden by trees too.
Still no excuses that these rooftops were not covered by police; that the grounds were not secured in advance; no drones scanning etc. Regular townsfolk saw him and called it out but no LEO seemed interested. There is a story one went on the roof and then got scared off by the rifle. But that should have been called in!
“And yet, the FBI said this guy acted alone.”
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Does anyone have a graphic showing where the Trump supporters who were shot were sitting? Were they in the stands behind Trump?
Waiting for the part where his family was close to one of the local police.
Think from the perspective of the shooter. Would you bring a rifle to the event, just hoping you’d be lucky enough to stumble upon the only unguarded high vantage point on a president since November, 1963?
Even if you correctly guessed they would leave a roof unguarded, how would you expect to get up there?
And even when — surprise! — you saw a ladder against the building, wouldn’t you expect it was in use by LEOs (probably snipers) for roof access? Wouldn’t you expect to meet one of them when you got to the top of the ladder?
An FR commenter suggested the shooter burned his elbows on the hot roof when he set up for the shot, reducing his accuracy. (He was wearing a t-shirt.) Maybe he went up the night before to check the shot and didn’t realize how hot it would be during the day.
No doubt about it.
We know their personal security is the best available.
Eventually two cops investigated, one boosting the other up to the roof. When the cop started to climb onto the roof, the sniper turned and pointed the rifle at the cop. The cop ducked back down and the shooter started firing at Trump. That cop hurried the shot and saved DJT’s life.
Tell them hi for me when you see them. Bwaaahahahaaa!
“Let’s not occupy the high ground”, said no military commander ever.
Three families need to sue the local government out of business.
That might be. But we have no confirmation of that incident yet, no name or even gender for the supposed officer, and no explanation for why that officer didn’t radio in the threat.
We also hear that the sharpshooters had seen the shooter on the roof but couldn’t shoot until he shot first. But if just seconds before he was pointing a gun at a police person, they could surely have shot him. So in this supposed scenario the sharpshooters just happened to see the gunman 30 minutes after he got onto the roof and less than 3 seconds before he started shooting. Chances are 1 in 1,000.
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