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Jeff Ostroff Analyzed more of the Police Bodycam video BWC2-122111 released by Butler, PA police, which shows the Trump shooter running from north to south along the roof of the AGR building, and how this narrows down the spot where the Trump shooter May have entered and climbed up to the roof before firing at the Trump Rally..

Text messages, obtained exclusively by The Times, indicate that some law enforcement officers were aware of Thomas Crooks earlier than previously known. And he was aware of them. Nearly 100 minutes before former President Donald J. Trump took the stage in Butler, Pa., a local countersniper who was part of the broader security detail let his colleagues know his shift was ending. “Guys I am out. Be safe,” he texted to a group of colleagues at 4:19 p.m. on July 13. He exited the second floor of a warehouse that overlooked the campaign rally site, leaving two other countersnipers behind....

A viral video that one of the attendees of former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, filmed shows an individual running across a roof — the same roof Thomas Matthew Crooks shot Trump from — minutes before the tragedy, which claimed the life of one attendee and injured three others, including Trump. Fox News first obtained the video — which James Copenhaver, one of the victims injured at the July 13 rally, filmed. In the video, an individual can be seen scurrying across the roof where Crooks later took the shots. According to Fox News, the video was taken...

Dave Stewart of Butler, PA, released video footage showing the sniper’s nest. Stewart's cell phone was initially confiscated by the FBI and recently returned, allowing the video's release. (7 minute and 35 seconds in link below) https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1817958729389924389

The CIA has actually taken time to issue a denial that would be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was part of an infamous agency mind control program.In the wake of a lack of information on Crooks’ background, and an empty social media footprint, along with a plethora of unanswered questions regarding his whereabouts and activities on the day of the shooting, speculation is now rife that he was some sort of patsy to the forces that want Trump out of the picture.Many have suggested that Crooks may have been ‘MKUltra‘d’, referring to a mind control experiment conducted by the CIA...

In this video we cover new bullet trajectory evidence that no one is looking at. Includes excerpts from Mike Bell Bullet Trajectory Video: • Trump Shooting | Audio Analysis all right so new information is coming 0:02 out every single day but I think this 0:04 information this evidence that we're 0:05 going to go over in just a few minutes 0:06 is going to change your mind on a lot of 0:08 different things let's get into 0:23 it hey folks Gary here with Paramount 0:25 and you know I think uh like many of you 0:27 out there...

A series of bombshell text messages from countersnipers who were supposed to protect Donald Trump at the Pennsylvania rally where an assassin's bullet nearly killed the president showed them a step behind the gunman. Now, it appears a group chat of those meant to protect Trump were aware that gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was in their midst over 90 minutes before Trump was shot at, rather than an hour as the FBI had previously claimed. When one of the three countersnipers was about to call off at the end of their shift at around 4:26pm, they noticed a man...

John Cullen 🐓 @I_Am_JohnCullen Looks like we've got ourselves another shooter

A gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump was able to fly a drone and get aerial footage of the western Pennsylvania fairgrounds shortly before the former president was set to speak there, law-enforcement officials briefed on the matter said, further underscoring the stunning security lapses ahead of Trump’s near assassination.

Donald Trump's would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was flying a drone above the rally site two hours before the shooting and just 200 yards away from the stage, FBI Director Christopher Wray has revealed. Wray made the bombshell revelation to Congress on Wednesday during a grilling by lawmakers on the investigation into the assassination attempt on the former president and the massive security failures. Crooks shot Trump in the ear just 400 feet away from the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 from the roof of a nearby building just outside the security perimeter of the event. Wray revealed that...

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,...

The shot that killed the man who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last Saturday was a "one-in-a-million shot," according to a source familiar with the investigation into the shooting. Fox News learned from the source the kill shot was a single shot taken by a Secret Service counter sniper whose view was obscured. A local tactical team also took a shot at the would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, but missed.

Trump shooter Thomas Crooks had “3 encrypted overseas accounts” — Rep. Michael Waltz (R–FL) ... Rep. Waltz did not comment further and said more will be learned Monday during House hearing.

NEWS: Fox has learned that Senators were told in the all-member briefing today that Thomas Crooks wrote on a gaming platform called ‘Steam’, “July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds” When investigators reviewed the laptop, they found a few searches in July of: Trump, Biden, when is DNC convention, and July 13 Trump rally Investigators have found no evidence of a particular ideology, which the FBI believes is notable, and nobody in interviews reported Crooks discussing politics. Suspect has two cell phones, primary phone was recovered from the scene along with a remote transmitter (detonator). Secondary cell...

Channel 11 News exclusively confirmed Tuesday that Thomas Crooks was spotted by police hanging around the American Glass Research complex more than an hour before the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. Multiple law enforcement sources described the security operation in detail Tuesday, directly contradicting public statements from the U.S. Secret Service Director. According to law enforcement sources in multiple counties in western Pennsylvania, there were two sniper teams set up near the building where Thomas Crooks fired from Saturday evening. However, in direct contrast to comments made by Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle, there were no local police...

The shooter's parents called the police on the day of former President Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, shortly before he attempted to assassinate him

A team of police snipers team saw Thomas Crooks scouting their command post three times in the minutes before he climbed on top of it and shot Donald Trump from just inches above their heads, it has emerged. Three police marksmen from Beaver County were using the single-story AGR International building as their watch-post when the would-be assassin chose it as his place to shoot from, CBS reported. And he may have been in place on the roof for up to 30 minutes before he unleashed his volley of shots that killed one man and nearly took the life of...

Maxwell Yearick, who was sentenced to prison over an altercation with police officers at a Donald Trump rally in 2016, has been misidentified online as the shooter in the assassination attempt of the former president in July 2024. Shots were fired during Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, injuring his upper right ear. One rally attendee was killed and two others were wounded. Reuters Fact Check logo Maxwell Yearick, who was sentenced to prison over an altercation with police officers at a Donald Trump rally in 2016, has been misidentified online as the shooter in the assassination attempt...

July 16 (UPI) -- The FBI said it gained access to the phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks as it searches for a motive for his attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The agency said its technical specialists gained access to Crooks' phone and continued to analyze his electronic devices for clues. The FBI said it will continue to conduct interviews and will follow up on digital media tips. The FBI and DHS said in a joint bulletin late Monday that Crooks had received "several packages, including some marked as possibly containing hazardous material," in the past several months based...

In the 48 hours before he opened fire on former President Donald Trump, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks made a series of stops in and around his suburban Pittsburgh hometown. On Friday, he went to a shooting range where he was a member, and practiced firing, a law enforcement official told CNN. The next morning, Crooks went to a Home Depot, where he bought a five-foot ladder, and a gun store, where he purchased 50 rounds of ammunition, the official said. Then, Crooks drove his Hyundai Sonata about an hour north, joining thousands of people from around the region who flocked...