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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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Old News that might have been missed:

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.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn6p67p0jo

Thursday, Fox News ran a story confirming a key fact we’ve heard before, headlined “Local officer's bullet stopped Trump shooter's gunfire before Secret Service shot, witness testifies.”

According to officers’ testimony in the Senate, a Butler County Emergency Services officer fired at Thomas Crooks less than six seconds after Crooks began shooting. The officer’s bullet made Crooks recoil and stop shooting—ending the threat. Only then did the Secret Service sniper fire at Crooks —about 15 seconds later.

Count out fifteen seconds to yourself to see how long it is.

There appears to be some dispute about whether Butler’s officer shot Crooks or not. The FBI says they missed. Butler thinks they wounded and disabled Crooks. We’ll never know, since the FBI quietly and inexplicably released Crooks’ body for cremation in the days following the incident. Maybe when they tested Crooks’ body, it came up positive for covid and they panicked.

On Thursday, the coroner testified saying the Secret Service bullet was the kill shot.

The fact Butler cops shot first is important, because it raises an ugly question. Why did the Secret Service wait to shoot Crook until after he’d already been shot at by the locals? Regardless whether or not the Butler people wounded Crooks, assassination time was over.

When Crooks was no longer a danger to anyone, was it then his time to exit the world’s stage? I wouldn’t even entertain a conspiratorial question like that if it weren’t for the equally unbelievable alternative explanation that the Secret Service catastrophically failed in about a dozen different ways.

After all, local cops were presumably less well-trained than the Secret Service snipers, and the cops occupied a less favorable position to take the shot since they were shooting at Crooks from the ground and not a sniper’s perch.

Why were local police more effective than trained Secret Service snipers?

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Trump described his return to Butler, where the July 2024 attempt occurred, as "historic."

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The silence surrounding the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump 90 days ago is deafening

Here we are, months later, and it's as if this seismic event never happened in the eyes of mainstream media. But let's not forget - this wasn't just any event, it was an assassination attempt caught live on television, a brutal moment where an innocent man was murdered

Imagine, for a moment, if this had ended differently. Trump miraculously escaped what could have been a fatal encounter. Yet, rather than a national reckoning on political violence, we're met with a media landscape that's seemingly moved on, as if the attempt on a former president's life was just another day's news.

This memory-holing isn't just about overlooking an event; it's about ignoring the implications:

- *Security Failures*: How did someone get so close with lethal intent? This should've sparked a nationwide review of protection for political figures, yet here we stand, without answers or improvements.

- *Political Discourse*: When a former president can be targeted openly, it's a stark reminder of how toxic our political rhetoric has become. Yet, instead of addressing this, we're fed trivialities, as if the attempt didn't scream for a deeper conversation on where our discourse is leading us.

- *Public Memory*: By not keeping this event in the public eye, are we not setting a dangerous precedent? If we can forget or ignore an assassination attempt, what else are we willing to overlook?

The miracle here isn't just that Trump survived; it's that this hasn't become a catalyst for change. The media, tasked with informing the public, has instead chosen to look away, perhaps out of discomfort with the narrative, or maybe due to fatigue from constant political drama.

But this isn't about Trump's political stance; it's about the sanctity of political life in our society. Ignoring this doesn't make it go away; it normalizes the unthinkable.

Wake up, America. This wasn't just an attempt on Trump; it was an attack on our collective security, on the idea that political figures, regardless of their views, should be safe to engage in public life. Let's not let this be just another forgotten headline. We owe it to ourselves to confront this head-on

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