BUTLER, Pa. – Whistleblowers have told Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley that a law enforcement officer who was assigned to monitor the roof of a building that would-be former President Trump assassin Thomas Crooks fired from on July 13 left their post because it was “too hot.” Crooks, 20, fired multiple rounds from the roof...
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...
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...
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...
The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on establishing a bipartisan commission to study the attempted assassination of former President Trump during a campaign rally earlier this month. House GOP leaders noticed a bill late Sunday that would create the investigative panel, which would be comprised of five Democrats and six Republicans....
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – An expert in extremism and terrorism said that Thomas Matthew Crooks’ assassination attempt on former President Trump was likely not politically motivated – instead, the 20-year-old was likely “acting out a fantasy,” and seeking a target that would bring him “attention and fame.” Jytte Klausen, a political science professor at Brandeis...
