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I have just obtained a photo that was taken by individual at rally in PA of Crooks with the gun used to shoot at President Trump walking around building prior to assassination attempt. This photo was submitted to LEO in PA. To my knowledge this photo has not been released until now.
"Crooks was cremated" LOL! Why didn't they bury him at sea like fake bin Laden?
I guess we'll have to wait 30 to 50 years as usual until the real scenario is clarified.
https://x.com/beinlibertarian/status/1824128993873838580
https://x.com/beinlibertarian/status/1824128993873838580
My effort to examine Crooks' body on Monday, August 5, caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact… the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13. On J23, Crooks was gone. Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc. Yes, Butler County Coroner technically had legal authority over the body, but I spoke with the Coroner, and he would have never released Crooks' body to the family for cremation or burial without specific permission from the FBI.
Media may have forgotten, but we haven’t, that President Trump was recently shot in Butler County and narrowly escaped death by miraculously avoiding an assassin’s eight bullets. Many questions have arisen, and few answers. But last week we got a few answers and a few new questions.
Louisiana Representative Clay Higgins (R-La.) is a former law enforcement officer and a member of the House Freedom Caucus. ...
Higgins serves on the House Bi-Partisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump. The Task Force assigned Higgins to visit the scene in Butler and provide a preliminary report, which he did last week on August 12th. You can read Congressman Higgins’ full report here:
https://clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Preliminary-Investigative-Report-8.12.24.pdf
Rather than summarize the six-page report, let’s look at a few issues of great public interest. Read the whole thing for a full briefing.
The Water Tower. Many people have suspected a second shooter on top of the nearby water tower, which is a natural sniper perch and enjoys a clear line of sight to both Trump and Crooks’ positions.
But after visiting the site and inspecting the tower, Higgins has cooled to the idea of a tower sniper. He noticed the water tower had a retractable safety ladder that, on the day of the shooting, was raised 25 feet off the ground. Higgins opined that, if a sniper did get up on the tower, it must have been some next-level work “beyond anything I’ve ever actually seen.”
A geared sniper would have had to somehow scale the first 25 feet without a ladder, scurry up the next 75 feet on the ladder, and then clamber up a tiny and precarious dome ladder to the tippy top. Higgins was doubtful.
Still, Higgins plans to return and climb the water tower himself (it wasn’t possible on the day he was there) to make sure.
Signs of FBI Cover Up. Higgins is very suspicious about the way the FBI handled the investigation.
Representative Higgins identified several way the FBI deviated from normal procedure, not to mention the procedures they should have followed in a top-level case that would surely receive microscopic scrutiny.
Yet, for still unexplained reasons, the FBI made some inexplicable and unexplained decisions seemingly designed to shut down the investigation:
— On the night of the shooting, the FBI released all the first responders (EMS, cops, and so forth) without taking their statements.
— The FBI released the entire crime scene after only three days. Higgins reported that local law enforcement expressed “everything from surprise to dismay to suspicion” at how quickly the feds cleared the crime scene. This meant the evidence was not preserved to allow agencies to do their work.
— On-scene FBI agents “cleaned up biological evidence” from the crime scene, instead of following normal protocol and letting a specialized evidence unit handle the cleanup. Higgins said this was unheard of.
— The FBI released Crooks’ body for cremation just ten days after the shooting, surprising all the locals, and even though legally, Butler County had jurisdiction over the body. Now, we are stuck with the initial examination report, whatever it is, which still hadn’t been published as of the date of Higgin’s report.
Higgins described the FBI’s “pattern of investigative scorched earth” as reasonably calculated to be “an obstruction to any following investigative effort.” So.
Secret Service Questions. Higgins found even more questions about how the Secret Service responded at the event, including one huge, previously unknown problem.
Representative Higgins found that:
— Butler County had provided radios for the Secret Service, so they could stay connected with local security efforts. But for some reason, Secret Service never picked up the radios.
— It appears the Butler event was the first time Secret Service counter-sniper teams were ever assigned to Trump’s detail. Why?
— Most astonishingly, the Secret Service’s sniper was not the first to shoot back. Crooks was shot twice. A Butler County SWAT officer took the first shot. It was a very difficult shot, taken on the move while clearing cover and putting the officer into the line of fire. He hit and disabled Crooks’ gun, injuring Crooks with shrapnel. Only then, only after Crooks’ weapon was disabled, did the southern Secret Service sniper shoot and kill Crooks (a headshot).
Maybe the oddest fact of all was that, until now, neither the FBI nor the Secret Service ever mentioned the heroic Butler SWAT officer who disabled Crooks, allowing the assassin to be terminated by the Secret Service sniper. Weirdly, local SWAT guys ended the threat before the Secret Service snipers did.
There were several other fascinating and unanswered questions in Higgins’ report. Read the whole thing.
https://clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Preliminary-Investigative-Report-8.12.24.pdf
There were several other fascinating and unanswered questions in Higgins’ report. Read the whole thing.
Trump shooter Thomas Crooks had encrypted messaging accounts in Belgium, Germany, New Zealand
By Josh Christenson
Published Aug. 21, 2024, 4:26 p.m. ET
CHICAGO — Trump rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks used encrypted messaging accounts on various platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany, according to a member of a congressional task force investigating his assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), one of 13 lawmakers tapped to serve on the House bipartisan task force, told reporters at a Wednesday press conference at the Trump Hotel Chicago that the “overseas accounts” piqued his suspicion immediately regarding the shooter’s motives.”
“Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aid need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad – where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?” asked Waltz.
Why would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks remains an infuriating enigma weeks after shooting
Why would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks remains an infuriating enigma weeks after shooting
“So what are the odds that I’m looking to the right?” Trump said. “The poster is never used early, and it’s never on the right it’s always on the left. If you take the odds of this whole thing it’s like 10 million to one and you only have an eighth of a second.”
As Trump said this, he started moving his head to various angles and pointing out he’d be dead in all but one angle in which he’s alive which he thankfully is today.
“I’m turning, and I’m dead here, I’m dead here, I’m dead here, dead, dead, alive, dead,” Trump said. “So, think, you only have this exact spot right here. This is an amazing phenomena. It’s millions to nothing. There’s about an eighth of a second where I’m good. The rest of the time you’re dead.” ...
After Trump was shot and he went down, Trump told Breitbart News the Secret Service personnel around him wanted to take him out on a stretcher. But he said he insisted he could and would get up and walk to the waiting vehicle to take him to the hospital under his own strength.
“I wanted to get up because I thought it would look terrible for me to not get up,” Trump said. “They wanted me to go on a stretcher and I said ‘no I don’t want to go on a stretcher. I was hit in the ear. I was only hit in the ear.’ They said ‘no, no you were hit—‘ and I said ‘I’m telling you folks, I want to get up now. I want to get up.’ And they wanted me on a stretcher for obvious reasons because if I was hit somewhere else bad things can happen and you know if they don’t take the person out. I was really actually angry because I didn’t want to go on a stretcher. I wanted to get up and I felt I could get up. I said ‘the only place I’m telling you I was hit was in the ear.’”
Trump stood up, and held his fist in the air yelling “fight, fight, fight!” Then agents hurried him off to the vehicle where they took him to the hospital to treat the bullet wound to his ear.
Josh Howley: Whistleblower tells me most of the agents at the Trump rally the day of the assassination attempt were Homeland Security NOT Secret Service — and the only training they received was a 2-hour online “webinar”!
Trump revealed his youngest son Barron’s reaction to the shocking attempt on the 45th president’s life.
In an interview with Mark Levin, Trump said his son was having a tennis lesson when he discovered his father had been shot.
“Barron was outside having a tennis lesson,” Trump told Levin.
“He’s a good tennis player.
“And somebody ran up and said, ‘Barron! Barron! Your father’s been shot!’”
Barron ran to his mother, Melania Trump, who had been watching Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on live TV.
“He loves his father,” Trump said.
“He’s a good kid, good student, good athlete actually.
“He ran, ‘Mom! What’s going on? What’s going on?’”
“She couldn’t believe it,” Trump said of Melania’s reaction.
“She was actually watching it live, can you imagine?
“And then I get up, and I let people know I was OK,” he said, recalling his iconic moment of defiance, in which he raised one fist and shouted, “Fight! fight! fight!”
Trump said, “I let people know I was OK.
“But it was a hit, it was a big hit.”
Trump said his wife is still too traumatized to bring up the attack. ...
In a separate interview with Monica Crowley, Trump said he is beginning to question if he was set up.
“I wasn’t thinking this way three weeks ago, but the more you see it, the more you start to say there could be something else and that’s really dangerous for the country,” he said.
At least five US Secret Service agents have been placed on administrative leave following the attempt on Donald Trump's life in Pennsylvania, US media reports.
They include the head of the the Pittsburgh field office that coordinated security with local police, three other agents in the same office and a member of Trump's personal detail, according to the BBC's US news partner CBS.
Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, was injured in the right ear by a bullet fired from a roof by Thomas Crooks, 20, at a rally in Butler on 13 July.
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