A former SWAT commander balked at the “audacity” of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle blaming the “sloped roof” for not positioning snipers on the building where Thomas Crooks opened fire at Saturday’s rally for former President Trump. Gene Petrino, who served as the SWAT commander for Florida’s Plantation Police Department for 26 years and is...
In his spiritual autobiography “Confessions,” St. Augustine of Hippo wrote that “evilis nothing but the removal of good until finally no good remains.” In his later work “The Enchiridion,” he observed that God, who is supremely good, can bring good even out of evil. I recalled these timeless thoughts on the nature of evil and...
If the Trump assassination attempt last Saturday wasn’t shocking enough, the revelation that the Department of Homeland Security had learned of an Iranian plot to kill Trump weeks earlier is even more startling. According to a U.S. national security official, in June 2024, the Trump campaign was notified of this assassination plot by the Iranian...
Firefighters and a procession of law enforcement vehicles accompanied the casket of Corey Comperatore, the Trump supporter killed at the former president’s Pennsylvania rally, ahead of the slain firefighter’s wake on Thursday. Comperatore, a 50-year-old Sarver resident and volunteer firefighter, died on Saturday shielding his family from gunfire meant for the former president at his...
The 20-year-old loner who attempted to assassinate former President Trump on Saturday had an account on the encrypted Discord app, a sign that he preferred anonymous interactions to real-world relationships, experts told Fox News Digital. A spokesperson for the platform confirmed that Thomas Matthew Crooks had an account and that it had been deactivated by...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who opened fire on former President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania campaign rally Saturday, hid the weapon in advance, according to a Secret Service source. It was not immediately clear where he hid it, however. By the time agents spotted him on the roof, he was...
An executive security expert ripped Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle for failing to protect former President Trump on Saturday, saying the agency needs to clean house, especially after her “sloped roof” excuse. Bill Stanton, who has worked in the field for four decades, took aim at Cheatle’s assertionthat agents passed on manning a nearby roof...
Former President Trump’s would-be assassin would have been at work on Saturday, but told his boss that he needed the day off because he had “something to do,” according to reports. Thomas Matthew Crooks was shot dead by Secret Service agents after firing five rounds, grazing Trump’s ear, killing firefighter Corey Comperatore and injuring two...
Thomas Matthew Crooks’ parents contacted law enforcement Saturday hours before he opened fire on former President Trump at a Pennsylvania campaignrally, a source told Fox News. The aspiring assassin’s mother and father told local police that Crooks was missing and that they were concerned about his welfare, the source said. It remained unclear if they...
The sister of the man who opened fire on former President Trump on Saturday is a “hardworking” woman with two jobs, according to a report. A neighbor of Katie Crooks said she moved out of her family home three years ago into an apartment – and that her now notorious brother helped her transfer her...
