BUTLER, Pa. — A lone bike cloaked by a tree’s shade near a Pennsylvania manufacturing facility is a haunting reminder of a gunman’s hail of gunfire that nearly assassinated a former president. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, rode the bicycle to Donald Trump’s rally in Butler and ditched it before he opened fire from a...
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Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle reacts to independent review of Trump assassination plot
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...
‘Erotica the Drag Queen’: Meet the Biden campaign staffer helping with comms strategy in key state
FIRST ON FOX: A Democrat staffer, who recently announced on social media that he has joined the Biden-Harris campaign as a deputy press secretary, works as a “drag queen” on weekends, according to his social media bio and social media posts reviewed by Fox News Digital Eric Lipka, who most recently worked in Sen. Elizabeth...
Trump shooter practiced at gun range weeks before rally: 'I was sitting next to evil,' witness says
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...
Philadelphia shooting at big block party leaves 3 dead, 6 injured
A mass shooting of nine people in West Philadelphia early Sunday morning has resulted in three deaths, police confirmed. The shooting, possibly at a block party with more than 100 people, happened just after 2 a.m. in the 1200 block of North Alden Street. Some of the shooting victims were taken by police to the...
Trump pokes fun at his own hair during Michigan rally: ‘It looks OK from the other side’
Former President Trump stopped his speech to make fun of his hair during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Saturday. “I have to just interject, if you would turn off those cameras… see the screen up there of me? That’s very severe, that comb over that’s a severe sucker,” Trump quipped while looking at a...
Sen. Blackburn blasts Secret Service director for prioritizing party over attempted-assassination probe
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...
Trump gunman Thomas Crooks' high school corrects 'misconceptions,' says he wasn't on rifle team
The school district where former President Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Crooks attended high school put out a statement in an attempt to quell “any common misconceptions.” Bethel Park School District updated its statement on Crooks Saturday, stating that he was never a member of the school’s rifle team and that there is no record of...
Secret Service explanation continues to evolve one week after attempted assassination
The Secret Service’s explanation for security lapses that allowed a 20-year-old gunman to take multiple shots at former President Trump has continued to evolve, most recently with the agency acknowledging it had denied some requests by Trump’s team for additional security. Revelations first reported by the Washington Post that the Secret Service denied repeated requests...
Senator points to 'mistake' Secret Service made in blame game over sweeping building where Trump shooter was
BETHAL PARK, Pa. – Senator James Lankford, R-OK, pushed back after the Secret Service blamed local law enforcement for not sweeping the roof where former President Trump’s shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was stationed. Lankford, the lead Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee, discussed with Fox News Digital the details of the...









