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'CRACK SHOT' I sat next to ‘evil’ Donald Trump shooter as he honed his ‘dead-eye’ gun skills on shooting range days before the attack
The Sun US Edition ^ | 20 Jul 2024 | Ryan ParryAlex Diaz

Posted on 07/20/2024 10:37:16 PM PDT by blueplum

THE gunman who came within inches of assassinating Donald Trump honed his shooting skills on a range just days before the attack....Bill Jenkins, who has spoken to the FBI, told The Sun on Sunday: “I was sitting next to evil. I haven’t been able to sleep thinking about it.”

Crooks, who brought his own 9mm handgun, was such a crack shot on the elite training course that he blew a large hole in a shooting target with a volley of precision rounds....

...Bill and Crooks had signed up to the intermediate handgun-pistol 2 class at Keystone ­Shooting Centre in Cranberry, Pennsylvania, on June 22.

The range is a 50-minute drive from Crooks’ home in Bethel Park.

Keystone’s website says the course is the next level of handgun training...

(Excerpt) Read more at the-sun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 202406; 20240622; 20240713; assassin; billjenkins; crooks; failedassassination; incel; keystone; rallyshooting; thomascrooks; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump; trumpshooter
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To: Fai Mao

Remember the movie Day of the Jackal? The experienced assassin takes aim at DeGaulle and fires off, just as DeGaulle unexpectedly leans forward and kisses the recipient of a medal on both cheeks. Trump is not dead because he unexpectedly moved his head. His ear was clipped and down he went. Then the shooter sprays the crowd. It was just luck that Trump (and DeGaulle) survived. The question of the capability of the shooter is not in question.


61 posted on 07/21/2024 5:21:56 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Paladin2

My dad was born 1.1 miles from where Annie was, in Darke Co Ohio.


62 posted on 07/21/2024 5:23:23 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: BobL
"I can't help but wonder that if the SS wanted to be in on the shooting, the SMARTEST thing they could do is act in a way that looked totally inept. By looking that way, it gave them their best chance of avoid criminal charges."

I'm still thinking, If incompetence causes injury or death it becomes a prosecutable crime.. (?)

Actually, I believe it was conspiracy to commit murder. Lots of people at that rally need to go to jail...

63 posted on 07/21/2024 5:24:54 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m so tired of this poor marksman crap and that he couldn’t make the gun team. Almost all shooting is self taught. I’m sure with as much training as this cretin had he could easily have assassinated Trump. Even a poorly trained person with a few instructions can put a 5.56 round in a 2” group at a hundred yards. This was the hand of God or quirk of nature (if you are an atheist) that saved President Trump


64 posted on 07/21/2024 5:29:10 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: Bookshelf
Yeah, no doubt. Aiming for the head was for the most visual statement, if went more center mass it would have been over.

Real life DeGaulle survived 31 attempts on his life, and was almost shot in the head numerous times.

65 posted on 07/21/2024 5:31:08 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: Bookshelf
It was just luck that Trump (and DeGaulle) survived.

Fortunately, it was much more than luck!

Maybe, just maybe, God had a little to do with this.

66 posted on 07/21/2024 5:47:13 AM PDT by icclearly ( )
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To: Fai Mao

Check out this analysis based on audio at the event.

https://rumble.com/v57hp8j-audio-analysis-is-100-clear-trump-and-crowd-were-shot-at-by-two-separate-pe.html.

The Dr. who created it and narrates the event is very convincing there were 2 shooters and 9 shots fired.


67 posted on 07/21/2024 5:48:18 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: mlo

Nope.


68 posted on 07/21/2024 5:49:25 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Fai Mao
"He was not a good shot or PDJT would be dead."

He may have been a very good shot, but not a good shooter. He lacked the patients to be certain, and his target is alive and well.

As an assassin, he sucked. They spotted him almost from the very moment he interred the rally. But, just maybe, they knew he was going to be there.. :(

69 posted on 07/21/2024 5:50:41 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: blueplum
The little bastard could not have made the shot with the gun and red dot sight he had on it especially at the distance he was.

I trust Brandon Herrera to give accurate information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsvJzfXZI18&ab_channel=BrandonHerrera

70 posted on 07/21/2024 5:57:55 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: vpintheak

That amount of practice eats up a lot of ammo and ammo ain’t cheap. So where did the funding come from.

Oh yeah, practice tales a lot of time too. People at gun ranges notice such things.


71 posted on 07/21/2024 6:04:07 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Jonty30

The agents wanted to carry Trump off but he insisted on standing up. I think that had they carried him off that ear wound would have been fatal.


72 posted on 07/21/2024 6:08:13 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: redfreedom

You might find this interesting. From Brandon Herrera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsvJzfXZI18&t=61s&ab_channel=BrandonHerrera


73 posted on 07/21/2024 6:08:46 AM PDT by Dartoid
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To: blueplum

There’s a picture in the article, of a target that’s been shot many times at 10 yards. If that’s Crooks’ target, I’d say that he’s not all that good of a shot unless he was shooting in some awkward position or there was a time limit on his shooting. Not exceptional, though it would put an intruder down at 10 yards, which would be a more common distance for a home intrusion type of situation.

How did he shoot with a rifle? By all rights, had Trump not turned his head, a clean head shot would have taken place.

Now, was Crooks the actual shooter or just the patsy? The deep state agencies have their fingerprints all over this one IMHO. I don’t trust a word they say.


74 posted on 07/21/2024 6:33:03 AM PDT by meyer ("When, in the course of human events,....")
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To: blueplum

Yeah, yeah. Just like in the movie Executive Action(1973)(sarc)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0070046/mediaviewer/rm3065981184


75 posted on 07/21/2024 6:34:49 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: meyer

(the article says he shot out the target center in rapid fire so that pix is just an example )


76 posted on 07/21/2024 6:43:20 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: DownInFlames
I’ve watched several of these videos. None of them even mention the possibility that the “second shooter” could have been a sniper shooting at Crooks.

Why is that they don’t acknowledge that as a possibility? Hype to stir people up? Misinformation? Click bait? Too stupid to think that through?

77 posted on 07/21/2024 6:44:28 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: blueplum

Shot out the center in rapid fire? That is good shooting. Also demonstrates that, at least with a handgun, Crooks had a lot of practice.

I’m sure that some other people that have seen him at a range a time or two may have commentary in the future. Hopefully, not through mainstream media, whom I don’t trust.


78 posted on 07/21/2024 6:46:16 AM PDT by meyer ("When, in the course of human events,....")
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To: meyer

It’s not THE target. The caption plainly says A target.


79 posted on 07/21/2024 6:46:50 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Jonty30

What about that SS guy behind ghe stage ?


80 posted on 07/21/2024 6:51:00 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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