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Police K9 unit led cops to Thomas Crooks's explosive-laden van as video footage shows them searching and then towing would-be Trump assassin's vehicle away
Daily Mail UK ^ | 18 Jul 2024 | LAURA COLLINS, CHIEF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER

Posted on 07/18/2024 12:53:54 AM PDT by blueplum

This is the moment police descended on Donald Trump shooter Thomas Crooks’s van which he had abandoned on a side road near the Butler, Pennsylvania, fairground on which the former president’s rally was held Saturday.

Obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com the footage clearly shows officers searching the battered white vehicle from which they removed explosives after they were led across fields to its location by their K9 unit.

Local resident Cheyenne Thoma whose husband Billy recorded the scenes told DailyMail.com, ‘We could hear the dogs barking across the fields. They picked up his scent apparently and that’s what led them to the van.’...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: assassination; bombmakingmaterials; bombs; crooks; dogs; explosives; k9; ladder; prepositioned; prepositionedvan; terrorism; thomascrooks; trump; whitevan
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the white van reappears. Amazing how the shooter could drive two vehicles by himself, given he lived 40 miles away.
1 posted on 07/18/2024 12:53:54 AM PDT by blueplum
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So often various shooters abandon (park) vehicles that are said to be full of explosives. I wonder if it’s part of some operational scenario to paint a picture of killers as very violent persons who intended to return to a vehicle and cause mayhem by blowing it up some place?

Don’t these killers ever think of perhaps blowing up their vehicle first and then shooting later?

Or is it all just a fabrication? No explosives, but a need to over-sell a narrative?

Anyway, when you park a vehicle, lock it and walk away, you abandon it until you return. You only abandon it for good if you forget where it was, or die while on your errand.


2 posted on 07/18/2024 1:01:05 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (A conspiracy theory is usually a fact that a leftist cannot endorse)
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To: Peter ODonnell

All what you are hearing from the news is BS narrative; they intended to kill Trump...you know fight club “Kill two birds with one stone” this is it, ban guns say it is right winger; plausible deniability etc...only luck or God saved Trump he was supposed to die before picking vice-president and GOP convention would have picked some RINO with no apparent successor..and business as usual goes on Ukraine, immigration etc.

There are no coincidences.


3 posted on 07/18/2024 1:26:25 AM PDT by bte
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To: blueplum

We’ll there is a connection to Timothy Mcveigh.

20 year old has some skills to rig a car with explosives.


4 posted on 07/18/2024 1:43:28 AM PDT by Bayard
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That purchase of fifty rounds of ammunition the day of his attempted murder was a feint. Someone who puts together a van of explosives will not wait until the last day to get the
more crucial ammo.

This assassin was given a clear path to his sniping perch by the controlling authorities.


5 posted on 07/18/2024 2:24:03 AM PDT by odawg
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Like a really bad movie - now the white van appears, explosives, believe us kid was a lone wolf . . .deep state screwed up and is burying things deep. The Marxists overlords will try again. Trump will not have a second term. Now, back to bed everyone. Thanks for playing.
6 posted on 07/18/2024 2:34:05 AM PDT by Badboo (A fascist is the one who wants to take your guns. That's how it always starts.)
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They were leaking he drove a Hyundai Sonata like 24 hours ago.

People videotaped them towing a large American Van.

The media also isn’t interested in a schoolmate of Crooks who says Crooks was smug and arrogant and didn’t like to be around people that supported Trump.


7 posted on 07/18/2024 2:36:15 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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It makes zero sense that he bought ammo that very day.

I bet the Van was acquired just for this Operation.


8 posted on 07/18/2024 2:38:19 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: odawg

those were my thoughts exactly.

Buying a ladder and buying ammo the day of the rally were just distractions to make it look like this guy was some sort of a last minute, spur of the moment lone wolf killer.

This was a planned hit. The shooter had help, possibly from the inside, and was not alone in this.


9 posted on 07/18/2024 2:48:13 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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Crooks also had a Bullet Proof vest.

It was in the Van or his backpack.


10 posted on 07/18/2024 2:52:40 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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“Boss, Paramount picked up the rights. But they say we have to sketch a white van into the script”.

Ahh Ha!! The Iran connection!

“We start bombing in five minutes” RR

“Oh, George, not the livestock”
(Okay, I just threw that in, but it's best if he turns out to be cat killer, pigeon stomper . . We'll have PETA”

11 posted on 07/18/2024 3:06:47 AM PDT by Badboo (A fascist is the one who wants to take your guns. That's how it always starts.)
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It’s The Bureau . . . Instead of MAGA we have MSUA (making shit up again).

“But first, you have to believe”


12 posted on 07/18/2024 3:12:00 AM PDT by Badboo (A fascist is the one who wants to take your guns. That's how it always starts.)
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I think we all noticed that in situations like this there almost always is a white van involved. There must be some occult meaning for this.


13 posted on 07/18/2024 3:16:54 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: Badboo
The last line is from”Escanaba in da Moonlight”, which, if you haven't seen, you have wasted your life. I pity you.
14 posted on 07/18/2024 3:17:23 AM PDT by Badboo (A fascist is the one who wants to take your guns. That's how it always starts.)
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To: blueplum

Saw a news video clip of the van and said it had Arizona plates.


15 posted on 07/18/2024 3:22:40 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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Seems like every shooter nowadays has an explosive laden van


16 posted on 07/18/2024 3:52:55 AM PDT by struggle
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didn't hear about the vest. Apparently the DHS/fibbers released a joint briefing which Reuters reviewed stating that multiple packages possibly marked hazardous materials were sent to the house and that two bombs were in the car and one at home (I'm assuming the car means the Sonata (?) not the van, which was not mentioned). Which brings another question - if multiple pkgs marked hazmat were received for delivery in a short period of time isn't the PO supposed to alert someone up the chain regarding suspicious packages?
17 posted on 07/18/2024 3:57:12 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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the white van reappears. Amazing how the shooter could drive two vehicles by himself, given he lived 40 miles away.

Anybody seen that thirty-something antifa guy that was supposedly "mistakenly" identified as the shooter on the first day since the shooting?

18 posted on 07/18/2024 3:57:16 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump Triumphant !)
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To: Badboo

My boss from Escanaba shared it with me as we’re both from Michigan. Buckless Yooper callout.


19 posted on 07/18/2024 4:03:06 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Or maybe was intended to be detonated to kill first responders.


20 posted on 07/18/2024 4:07:17 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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