BETHEL PARK, Pa. – In addition to would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, other suspicious people were noted by security at the Butler, Pennsylvania event, Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris told the House Committee on Homeland Security. “Was [Crooks] the only one determined to be suspicious that day?” Rep. Andrew Garbarino asked Pennsylvania State...
Body camera footage recorded during the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Trumpshowed law enforcement discussing how a sniper “lost sight” of gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks. Sen. Chuck Grassely, R-Iowa, posted the three-minute video on social media Tuesday. The footage shows authorities on the roof of a building in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Crooks...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Just over a week after Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, nearly assassinating former President Trump and killing firefighter Corey Comperatore, the 20-year-old’s neighbors are grappling with the reality of the “evil’ that lurked down the street. “That’s sheer fear. If [Trump] had his head turned,...
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is praising U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s decision to step down from her role. Kimberly Cheatle announced Tuesday she was resigning her role in the wake of the failed assassination attempt against former President Trump. “I’m glad she did the right thing. Look, our reaction, the immediate reaction to her...
Republican Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona visited Butler, Pennsylvania, on Monday with a bipartisan group of lawmakers and raised several questions about the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Crane, a former Navy SEAL sniper, filmed himself on the rooftop from which Thomas Crooks shot at Trump with a rifle, wounding the Republican candidate’s ear,...
BUTLER, Pa. – An Air Force veteran who attended former President Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 said she noticed glaring security issues before Thomas Crooks carried out an assassination attempt that left one dead and two others critically wounded. Sarah Taylor, an 18-year veteran who served in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait,...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Thomas Matthew Crooks’ father was spotted in public on Monday for the first time since the 20-year-old gunman opened fire at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to a local business employee and a neighbor who identified a picture of him. Snipers killed Crooks after the Bethel Park...
Pennsylvania State Police shut down concerns by now-resigned Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle that the “sloped roof” the shooter used to nearly assassinate former President Trump was too unsafe for law enforcement officers. Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris made the statement during his testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday. Paris oversaw...
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., told Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle on Mondaythat her response that she had “no idea” how her opening statement for today’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the Trump rally shooting got leaked to media agencies is “bulls—.” The fiery remark from the South Carolina lawmaker came after Cheatle was directed by...
The American people are more than a week out from the attempted assassination of President Donald Trumpin Butler, Pa.We have few – if any – answers as to why it was allowed to occur. As a former Secret Service agent, I have three crucial questions that we need answers to right away. 1. Who Was...
