« First « Previous Comments 714 - 753 of 793 Next » Last » Search these comments
Yesterday, Fox ran a story headlined, “Fuming police officer says he told Secret Service to secure Trump shooter building days before rally: bodycam.” Once again showing a level of transparency the Secret Service could only dream of, assuming it could get to sleep in the first place, Butler County’s Police Department released its July 13th bodycam footage. Once again, the story changed. Once again, things got murkier.
The first new fact revealed in the story is that they still don’t know how Crooks got onto the roof. The bodycam shows officers wondering whether Crooks used a thin wooden pallet leaning against the warehouse wall to scale the side of the building (carrying a rifle). But more than that, it became clear they only have theories for how Crooks got up there without help.
The footage also shows the officer arriving on the scene at around 18:12 p.m., about a minute after Crooks was shot
dead by a countersniper. The officer is desperately looking to scale the building and asks a fellow officer if there was
a ladder he could climb.
"No, he used that board right there probably," the other officer says, with the video showing a stack of wooden pallets
resting against the side of the building. It's not clear if Crooks used those pallets to climb on top of the building.
Previous reports revealed that Crooks had purchased a ladder at a local Home Depot, but no ladder was found at the
scene.
In other words, the officers: (1) could not get onto the roof without help. So how did Crooks do it without help? (2) They still don’t know how Crooks got up there, it’s all guesses. (3) The ladder Crooks bought at Home Depot is still missing. Could it have been removed by someone?
The officer manages to hoist two countersnipers onto the roof by helping them onto a large storage shed, and they
then use a pallet on the roof of the shed to access the roof. The pallet had initially been resting against the building
next to the storage shed and could also have been used by Crooks.
The second major development was that one of the officers at the scene can be heard repeatedly and angrily telling others that days before, he’d warned the Secret Service to put someone on the roof. “I told the Secret Service, post a f---ing guy over here. I told them that f---ing at the meeting on Tuesday,” he said.
Several minutes of the bodycam video are available at the article’s link, starting at the top and then scattered through the article. See what you think.
Trump supporter who has been to 22 Trump rallies told an interviewer that this was the ONLY rally he had been to where they were not vetting, searching or giving background checks for anyone getting near the stage the night before. Another says that he could drive straight through and he had to walk around just to find anyone. How does anyone explain this other than the fact that it looks like a complete set up from the very beginning?
"I was here Friday night for the volunteer set up. I was able to drive my vehicle right and park five feet from the stage. I was never searched or nothing. I've never saw that before I mean volunteered at plenty of (Trump) events and this is the first time I was able to drive right up to the stage. So you've covered other Trump events before? Yeah twenty two of them. So they're typically locked down thirty-six hours prior to the rally. This was still completely unlocked twelve hours prior to the rally. Usually, your search, vetted, background checks to even get anywhere near that place Friday night. None of that happened.
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.
« First « Previous Comments 714 - 753 of 793 Next » Last » Search these comments
Verifying and getting more info
WOUNDED: