Posted on 07/17/2024 4:39:34 PM PDT by conservative98
Law enforcement officials investigating the assassination attempt on Donald Trump told lawmakers Wednesday that 20 minutes passed between the time U.S. Secret Service snipers first spotted the gunman on a rooftop and the time shots were fired at the former president, according to several law enforcement officials and lawmakers briefed on the matter.
Officials said the snipers spotted the suspect, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, on the roof of a building outside the security zone at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, at 5:52 p.m. ET. The shooting happened at 6:12 p.m. ET, 20 minutes later, the sources said. In the days since the shooting, the Secret Service has come under scrutiny for its response to the assassination attempt and there have been calls for the director, Kim Cheatle, to resign.
The revelation of the timeline came as sources told ABC News that Crooks searched on his phone for images of President Joe Biden and former President Trump and searched for the dates of Trump’s rally in Butler and for dates of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Planned. Intentional. Blown. Cover-upp in progress.
Planned. Intentional. Blown. Cover-upp in progress.
That is exactly what it looks like now.
Incredible. And Cheatle still has a job. At least this will further hilight the dems total incompetence...They’re in charge.
It’s not incompetence. It was planned.
Lincoln, JFK, and Trump being taken out by the govt. Get rid of the Secret Gastapo.
It’s amazing she isn’t in jail for an assassination attempt.
UNACCEPTABLE
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Unfortunately you’re most likely right. That means they’ll try again . Like I read elsewhere: he wasn’t supposed to make the RNC.
They wanted him to be shot.
They got their wish.
He just didn’t get killed.
Head of SS needs prison for life. She’ll squeal like a fat pig to name names. Just like the other fat pig ducked behind Trump.
Maybe it’s time some pressure was put on the local district attorney. I’m sure criminal negligence is a local crime.
This article is confusing. Was it the SS rooftop snipers who spotted him 20 minutes before shots were fired or was it a ground member? I must have watched a different video. 26 seconds from time gunman opened fire til he was killed????
And it took snipers 11 seconds to acquire target then another 15 to snuff him out?
dems total incompetence.“
Just stop, it was not incompetence. They were allowing Trump to get killed. It was always the final solution. They absolutely let him take the shot before they took him out. I hope the Fireman’s family takes action. Maybe then it will actually
get looked at when are millions in comp damage is on the line. Too late to affect the election but some truth could get out.
It wasn’t Incompetence, it was a murder attempt by the Biden Regime.
5:52 p.m. Crooks was spotted on the roof by Secret Service
Eleven seconds after the first shot, Secret Service counter snipers acquired their target — and 15 seconds after that, Crooks was shot dead.
How does it take 11 seconds to put your sights on him when you’ve been looking at him for 20 minutes?
After putting their sights on him, having just apparently killed President Trump, why 15 additional seconds to put a bullet in his head?
I haven’t made my mind up yet whether it was an orchestrated deep state operation or, which I’m more inclined to believe at this point, just pure DEI incompetence and blame between the SS and the local police.
The Biden administration made a political decision not to provide adequate resources to Trump just like they did RFK.
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