HARRISBURG, Pa. – The FBI investigation into the failed July 13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has revived the argument over whether Big Tech firms should provide law enforcement with a backdoor method to break their own “unbreakable” encryption. Weeks before the attempt on Trump’s life, the Secret Service received intelligence warning of...
HARRISBURG, Pa. – The FBI has contracted the Israeli tech firm Cellebrite to help in its investigation into Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who tried to kill former President Trump at a rally on July 13 and mortally wounded a supporter in the crowd instead, according to a source with knowledge of the...
The Butler County, Pennsylvania, district attorney told Fox News on Wednesday that local snipers were not responsible for monitoring the rooftop where a gunman tried to assassinate former President Trump. Richard Goldinger is the latest official to dispute acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe’s testimony at a Senate hearing on the shooting in Butler,...
BUTLER, Pa. – Poor communication between local and federal law enforcement contributed to the mounting security failures that led to the assassination attempt on former President Trump, experts say. Nearly 90 minutes after law enforcement spotted the would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old managed to evade law enforcement and climb onto a rooftop with...
PITTSBURGH – The Butler Farm Show board of directors on Tuesday told Fox News that the fairgrounds where former President Trump hosted his July 13 rally in Western Pennsylvania is no longer an active crime scene. The upcoming show — one of the county’s largest and most anticipated events of the year — is scheduled...
BUTLER, Pa. – FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate revealed Tuesday that federal investigators do not have complete access to emails that former President Trump’s shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, sent. “I think we’ve experienced a range of returns because some of the applications that he was using online were encrypted in nature,” Abbate said while testifying...
PITTSBURGH – Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Tuesday asked the Secret Service’s new acting director why the “public has lost trust” in the agency’s “mission to protect” after a July 13 assassination attempt against former President Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “This agency needs to change, and if not now, when? The...
Questions about whether the parents of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks could face charges resulting from their son’s shooting crimes have arisen as officials release more information about his secluded personality and lack of a social life. “You’d have to prove in some way beyond a reasonable doubt that [Crooks’ parents] aided and abetted his...
Ever since Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump on July 13, a picture has emerged of his social behaviors and possible mental state. Some residents of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania — the small Pittsburgh suburb where Crooks lived with his parents — have described the shooter, 20, as a “loner” when speaking...
BUTLER, Pa. – The deputy director of the U.S. Secret Service, Ronald Rowe Jr., has been appointed as the acting director of the embattled agency after Kimberly Cheatle announced her resignation. Rowe testified on Tuesday, just over a week after Cheatle’s testimony that ultimately led her to step down. Rowe has assumed the helm of...
