BUTLER, Pa. – An analysis of bird’s-eye footage of the Butler Farm Show, the venue where Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at former President Trump and killed a bystander, lays bare the apparent tactical shortcomings of the U.S. Secret Service’s counter sniper strategy on July 13, according to an expert. Crooks, 20, killed local firefighter Corey...
A top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee dismissed suggestions from U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle that the “sloped roof” of attempted assassin Thomas Crooks’ sniper nest precluded it from being properly secured. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., was part of a bipartisan delegation of committee members who toured the Butler Farm Show Grounds...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – A pair of plainclothes investigators, who appeared to be federal agents, visited the Pennsylvania home of former President Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks on Sunday – more than one week after the 20-year-old opened fire at a campaign rally. The men, one carrying a large bag, were greeted at the door...
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, appeared to imply that racial bias may have been why the Secret Service was slow to deem Thomas Crooks a threat on the day he shot at Trump. Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle testified on Monday before the House Oversight Committee, less than 10 days after would-be assassin Thomas Crooks nearly...
A political scientist and expert on political assassinations pointed out major similarities between the attempted killing of former President Trump and the infamous presidential assassinations of the 20th century, focusing in particular on the fact that major security failures led to each of the traumatic incidents. Dr. Larry Sabato, the author of “The Kennedy Half...
Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn slammed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle for prioritizing a cocktail party over an investigation into the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Cheatle duckeda fuming group of senators who wanted to discuss security lapses that nearly cost Trump his life, but Blackburn and several other lawmakers confronted the embattled securityboss Wednesday...
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle expressed her support for an independent security review of last week’s assassination plot against former President Donald Trump. “We are eager to cooperate with the independent security review of the U.S. Secret Service’s action related to the July 13 assassination attempt of former President Trump in Butler,” Cheatle wrote...
Thomas Matthew Crooks tested his shooting prowess at a western Pennsylvania gun range just weeks before last Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Trump, according to a report. Bill Jenkins said he practiced his firearmsskills immediately next to Crooks at the Keystone Shooting Center in Cranberry on June 22 – mere weeks before the July...
HBO host Bill Maher doesn’t believe that God’s hand saved former President Donald Trump from being killed by an assassin’s bullet last week and thinks those that do are getting close to making him a “demigod.” In the closing monologue of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the host mocked Trump supporters who have claimed that...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – A criminal profiler said Thomas Matthew Crooks’ assassination attempt on former President Trump in western Pennsylvania last week was likely not politically motivated and not a random act of violence. Keith Howard, the chief deputy of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia and a criminal profiler, shared with Fox News...
