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Thomas Matthew Crooks hid rifle in advance of Trump rally sniper attack, Secret Service source says
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Posted on 07/18/2024 11:31:28 AM PDT by TigerClaws

BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who opened fire on former President Donald Trump's Pennsylvania campaign rally Saturday, hid the weapon in advance, according to a Secret Service source.

It was not immediately clear where he hid it, however. By the time agents spotted him on the roof, he was already holding it.

"We went from golf range finder to AR-15, and now we have to fill in the gap," the source told Fox News

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 556; banglist; crooks; crookstimeline; hiddengun; secretservice; thomascrooks; thomasmatthewcrooks; whohelpedhim
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To: Paladin2

They’ve reported it’s a U-Haul van?

White van leaves a lot of open interpretation like white box trucks did in DC Metro area awhile back


61 posted on 07/18/2024 12:26:46 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: Biblebelter

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Republicans always surrender after talking big initially.

The Investigations are always timed to expire after the Perps retire, age out, or move on.

People died before Durham got around to saying nothing to see here.

It’s a Scam from start to finish.


62 posted on 07/18/2024 12:27:20 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: delchiante


The Van had significant areas of Primer.

I doubt it was rented from any place reputable.


63 posted on 07/18/2024 12:28:49 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: TigerClaws

Hid it up his ass?


64 posted on 07/18/2024 12:31:14 PM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: All
IMG-1993


They haven’t got around to doing anything about it.

It’s only been seven years.


65 posted on 07/18/2024 12:31:18 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: TigerClaws

He was probably camping out for a week gathering firewood hunting fishing and hiding guns before they noticed him


66 posted on 07/18/2024 12:32:02 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: PMAS

He knew he could not get the rifle through the metal detector and bag search. So he may have visited the fairgrounds a couple of days in advance and hid the rifle under some leaves in the surrounding woods a few hundred yards from the stage. FBI should have done a sweep but I don’t know if sniffer dogs would detect a rifle.


67 posted on 07/18/2024 12:33:07 PM PDT by phil00071
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To: delchiante

If it were a U-Haul, it would likely be all lettered up.

The video of it getting hauled off didn’t show any logos.

It was white, like many commercial trucks and could be part of another rental fleet.

Other rental companies could have lots of AZ plates, like U-Haul does.

Didn’t the FIB has a number of white vans hauling in its assets to the Capitol on J6?


68 posted on 07/18/2024 12:37:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: phil00071

He asked his dad for the rifle that morning thus he couldn’t have stashed it in advance.


69 posted on 07/18/2024 12:37:54 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop ( ~~ TRUMP is right about EVERYTHING ! ~~ )
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To: TigerClaws

He had the rifle wrapped up in paper like a package and told anyone who asked that it was just curtain rods for his apartment, of course-that worked for another presidential assassin...


70 posted on 07/18/2024 12:38:46 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
Isn’t it curious that there has been no picture of the actual gun? Those always show up early so the anti-gun nazis can start yelling about it.

Rather.

71 posted on 07/18/2024 12:47:11 PM PDT by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: maro

Answer 1: Individuals say he was scoping the building out 3 hours before and 30 minutes before shooting.

Answer 2: Arizona?


72 posted on 07/18/2024 12:49:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Gender dysphoria is now a federally protected mental illness.)
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To: markman46

Probably not. An AR style carbine is still about 24” long even if you take it apart at the pushpins.


73 posted on 07/18/2024 12:52:16 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Gender dysphoria is now a federally protected mental illness.)
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To: TigerClaws
The following experts are professionals and they all say the roof slope is very, VERY dangerous. They advise that these maneuvers should NOT be attempted by any USSS personnel.


74 posted on 07/18/2024 12:57:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: TigerClaws

This has all the hallmarks of something James Clapper and John O. Brennan concocted up.... 😒😑🙄


75 posted on 07/18/2024 12:57:50 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (.FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: JewishRighter

“It was behind a pile of boxes in the book depository.”

I’ve been there, it’s creepy.


76 posted on 07/18/2024 12:58:30 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: TigerClaws
Anyone see the obvious flaw here?

hid the weapon in advance, according to a Secret Service source.

It was not immediately clear where he hid it

77 posted on 07/18/2024 1:00:37 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: wardamneagle

Don’t think there were dogs- safety hazard with The Slope- be inhumane.


78 posted on 07/18/2024 1:01:33 PM PDT by SE Mom (ScreamingEagleMom)
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To: TigerClaws

Was Hillary’s receipt for the gun found on his body?


79 posted on 07/18/2024 1:18:23 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: central_va

Trump was ALLOWED to go on stage amidst an UNRESOLVED, KNOWN and ACTIVE security threat, and you ask “inside job”?


80 posted on 07/18/2024 1:21:06 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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