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...
A comparison of polls taken before and after President Biden’s decision to end his re-election bid depicted the fledgling Vice President Kamala Harris campaign gaining momentum with one notable exception. Harris, who could be the first Black female president and first president of South Asian descent, lost ground to Biden among Black voters, according to...
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. – Scammers on social media are attempting to impersonate the grieving family of Corey Comperatore, the fallen firefighter who was killed at the former President Trump rally in Pennsylvania. A representative of the Comperatore family shared with Fox News Digital that the family is appalled after learning that someone was impersonating the family...
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...
BUTLER, Pa. – The 20-year-old who attempted to assassinate former President Trump at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, “carefully planned” and scoped out the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally-sight, the FBI revealed on Monday. “We believe the subject made significant efforts to conceal his activities,” FBI officials said during a conference call. The FBI said...
Officials from Beaver County, Pennsylvania, disputed several portions of acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr.’s testimony before a Senate panel Tuesday. Rowe was quick to deflect blame to local law enforcement for allowing a man to attempt to assassinate former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13. Rowe and FBI...
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...
A top FBI official revealed Tuesday that the agency is “not ruling anything out” when it comes to any potential connection between Iran and the former President Trump assassination attempt earlier this month during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Deputy Director Paul Abbate told a joint hearing of Senate committees on Capitol Hill that “we...
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...
