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Trump shooting: Secret Service changes story on local SWAT team position
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/ ^ | 7/17/2024 | By Dan Mangan

Posted on 07/17/2024 9:35:59 AM PDT by bitt

A U.S. Secret Service official said a Pennsylvania police SWAT team was in another building than the one whose roof was used Saturday by Thomas Crooks to shoot at former President Donald Trump. The new account contradicts a prior claim by Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle that Crooks was on top of the building containing the SWAT team near Trump's campaign rally in Butler. The disclosure follows news that the Secret Service had increased security for Trump after being told of a plot by Iran to kill him. A U.S. Secret Service official on Wednesday said that a local Pennsylvania police SWAT team was actually in another building than the one whose roof was used by a would-be assassin to shoot at former President Donald Trump on Saturday.

The Secret Service official's new account contradicts a prior claim by Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle that the 20-year-old gunman, Thomas Crooks, was on top of the building containing the SWAT team near Trump's campaign rally in the town of Butler.

The contradiction is certain to increase already sharp questions about whether the Secret Service acted appropriately in arranging security for the rally, which ended when Crooks fatally shot one attendee and wounded two others as he narrowly missed killing the Republican presidential nominee Trump.

The disclosure comes a day after news that the Secret Service before Saturday's shooting boosted security for Trump when it was told of a plot to kill him by Iran's government.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrestcheatle; arrestmayorkas; butler; secretservice; swatteam; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump
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To: RummyChick

Oh my goodness, those kids are adorable.


21 posted on 07/17/2024 9:51:00 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: bitt
"The disclosure comes a day after news that the Secret Service before Saturday's shooting boosted security for Trump when it was told of a plot to kill him by Iran's government."

It certainly seems form the security at the event was changed alright, It seems to have been significantly REDUCED. How could it have been any worse in e arlier events?

22 posted on 07/17/2024 9:51:08 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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To: Tench_Coxe

It was a total inside job! Deep-state groomed the nutcase. They do it all the time. Used to just be overseas, until they decided that MAGA, not China, is the threat to THEIR gravy train.


23 posted on 07/17/2024 9:53:09 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: bitt

Feds going to keep changing their stories because too many experts are digging their dirt.

Former US Army sniper on Trump assassination attempt: ‘One of the easiest shots’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aKIMiaYjis

Emergency Episode: Special Forces Sniper Explains Trump Shooting - Tim Kennedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9boJpqiZTQ

“... a raw, unfiltered conversation with Special Forces Sniper and Green Beret Tim Kennedy.”

BOMBSHELL! Veteran Sniper SHOCKED By Donald Trump Assassination: “Shooter Had INSIDE HELP”!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbRy-0aS1KA&t=167s


24 posted on 07/17/2024 9:53:34 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: RummyChick

25 posted on 07/17/2024 9:53:57 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: God luvs America

” ... and the next year 45% of the agents resigned.”

Source?


26 posted on 07/17/2024 9:54:28 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: bitt

It’s now 5 days since the attempted assassination...
No one has been disciplined...
No one has been suspended...
No one has been fired...
No one has resigned in disgrace...
This is the state of our country.


27 posted on 07/17/2024 9:54:50 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: bitt

If they keep changing their story enough, they’ll finally settle into a lie that the media will accept and promote.


28 posted on 07/17/2024 9:56:00 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: joe fonebone

Under DEI, incompetent management can’t discipline incometent workers and their incompetent decisions. It is the way it rolls.


29 posted on 07/17/2024 9:57:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

30 posted on 07/17/2024 9:57:46 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: bitt

Ah, good! Another story! I was having such fun with the roof slope story, too. The bottom line is still that people weren’t where they were supposed to be and that nobody on the Secret Service bothered to check. However stretched their assets are, nobody was assigned to check?


31 posted on 07/17/2024 9:58:19 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: bitt

Oh, I’m Meester Nussbaum.


32 posted on 07/17/2024 9:58:32 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: bitt

33 posted on 07/17/2024 9:59:06 AM PDT by McGruff (We're done talking about the debate. It's time to put Trump in the bullseye - Joe Biden)
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To: RummyChick

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
BREAKING: Dan Bongino says there was supposed to be a tactical team on the roof where Thomas Crooks shot from but they chose to post up in a 2nd-floor window instead.

Bongino accused the USSS of “bullsh*tting” and lying to the American people.

Bongino suggested that the sn*per team may have been confused when they initially saw Crooks on the roof because it was supposed to be manned by a tactical team.

“They never showed up on that roof... nobody checked,”
@dbongino
said.


34 posted on 07/17/2024 9:59:07 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: RummyChick
A little smaller:


35 posted on 07/17/2024 9:59:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RummyChick

Saddam Hussein !!! LOL!!!


36 posted on 07/17/2024 10:00:11 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: jroehl

Did the sniper know the shooter was going to be on that roof?

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Who knows. But SS snipers know the locations of all the other friendlies and if he saw someone not supposed to be in a certain location he should have acted.


37 posted on 07/17/2024 10:00:15 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: RummyChick

That is incredible. Trump is a legend now worldwide


38 posted on 07/17/2024 10:00:42 AM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore…)
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To: bitt
Steep roof?


39 posted on 07/17/2024 10:01:54 AM PDT by McGruff (We're done talking about the debate. It's time to put Trump in the bullseye - Joe Biden)
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To: bitt

Somehow this doesn’t make it any better.....


40 posted on 07/17/2024 10:02:07 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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