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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5:10 p.m. Crooks was first identified as a person of interest
5:30 p.m. Crooks was spotted with a rangefinder
5:52 p.m. Crooks was spotted on the roof by Secret Service
6:02 p.m. Trump takes the stage
6:12 p.m. Crooks fires first shots
If accurate there is no excuse for this. Trump never should have been allowed up on that stage.
The service they provide is so secret, that they dare not provide it.
Is clear without being seen as clear
Marshal pin pic came from a site that is, shall we say, not accurate.
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No matter how many hearings and reports over the years, they can never explain this 20 minutes while he was on the roof.
Lincoln, JFK, and Trump being taken out by the govt.
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Guess which one of the above was investigated as a conspiracy, and in which the conspirators were punished?
You will soon see, deny, deny, deny.
Problem is, after seeing that pic, I looked at the pins closer when Trump was coming into the convention.
And they do resemble the US Marshal pin.
At least the one recognizable man who was to Trump’s left with sunglasses at Butler and the same man in his personal detail when he was walking into the convention..
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