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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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1 posted on 07/17/2024 9:35:59 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 07/17/2024 9:36:13 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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The sh*t show continues as the story keeps changing.


3 posted on 07/17/2024 9:38:23 AM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: bitt

Hard to know what to believe.

I am leaning toward believing this report.


4 posted on 07/17/2024 9:39:08 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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Look, we can give you one shot at him but that’s it. Our credibility is on the line.


5 posted on 07/17/2024 9:40:19 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me)
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To: bitt

DEI at its finest!!!

I read this in an analysis someone did;

“When someone posted a bio of Cheatle, detailing her previous tenure as Senior Director in Global Security at PepsiCo, responsible for security protocols in PepsiCo’s facilities in North America, Elon Musk came out with a zinger-

It forgets that Cheatle had a career of about 23 years at the Secret Service prior to her work with PepsiCo, the last 2 of which as Assistant Deputy Director. Dan Bongino points out that her tenure was anything but perfect, and that she has no place at the Secret Service. She was appointed as Director in 2022 by Biden, and the next year 45% of the agents resigned.”


6 posted on 07/17/2024 9:41:12 AM PDT by God luvs America (6young 3.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Cheatle’s changing story looks more and more like she’s trying to coverup a conspiracy


7 posted on 07/17/2024 9:42:06 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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Odds are better at finding Bigfoot than this Fedshow.


8 posted on 07/17/2024 9:42:22 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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“””Secret Service changes story on....”””


The next SS story change I am expecting is for the SS Director to say: “The SS failed to protect Trump on Saturday because the SS is far behind its goal to be a 100% DEI organization.”


9 posted on 07/17/2024 9:42:29 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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10 posted on 07/17/2024 9:42:34 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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The contradiction is certain to increase already sharp questions about whether the Secret Service acted appropriately in arranging security for the rally,

The fact that their protectee nearly had his head blown off, there is no doubt or question as to the inappropriateness of their actions, or lack thereof.

11 posted on 07/17/2024 9:43:52 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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12 posted on 07/17/2024 9:44:32 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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“I am leaning toward believing this report.“

Yes.. how does a special ops team NOT hear a guy climbing up and crawling across a metal building that they are inside of?..


13 posted on 07/17/2024 9:45:21 AM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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Ok. Now I'm beginning to suspect this was an inside job insomuch along the lines of "let's make security lax enough so that one of our nutcases is successful".

What have the mockingbirds used? Stochastic terrorism?

14 posted on 07/17/2024 9:46:24 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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The sloping roof explanation is transparent BS. A CYA excuse manufactured after the fact. That’s obvious.


15 posted on 07/17/2024 9:46:53 AM PDT by circlecity
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Did the sniper know the shooter was going to be on that roof?


16 posted on 07/17/2024 9:47:24 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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That’s gold, Jerry!
17 posted on 07/17/2024 9:47:33 AM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: bitt

this tiktok of poor african kids doing the trump rally is interesting. Homemade guns and kid says fight fight fight all the way. the kids are even swiveling their heads back and forth like SS

https://x.com/NobodymrRobert/status/1813597888100069844


18 posted on 07/17/2024 9:48:24 AM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: bitt

Sleeeeeeep America...you’re getting very sleeeeeeepy.


19 posted on 07/17/2024 9:48:33 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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Building, building, who’s got the building. Seems very confusing over who was assigned where, when and by whom? Almost as if by design… 🧐


20 posted on 07/17/2024 9:49:08 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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