Still shaken by the shocking attempt made on his father’s life, Eric Trump is demanding answers. “The director of the Secret Service needs to be asked some really pointed, really hard questions, because that cannot happen again,” Eric Trump toldFox News Digital. “Whether it’s that local assets dropped the ball or an oversight, I don’t...
Thomas Matthew Crooks’ parents contacted law enforcement Saturday hours before he opened fire on former President Trump at a Pennsylvania campaignrally, a source told Fox News. The aspiring assassin’s mother and father told local police that Crooks was missing and that they were concerned about his welfare, the source said. It remained unclear if they...
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky, subpoenaed the director of the Secret Service to testify about the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was subpoenaed by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee chair in connection to an open investigation that was launched into the assassination attempt on the former president. Trump was...
We are learning more about President Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks. The former high school guidance counselor of the 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, told Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 that Crooks was “not a menace to society” and “not an issue at all.” Jim Knapp told the local TV station that Crooks never caused...
EXCLUSIVE: BETHEL PARK, Pa. – A former classmate of would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks says the 20-year-old gunman once mocked him over his support of former President Donald Trump and had a general disdain for mainstream politicians across the political aisle. “I brought up the fact that I’m Hispanic and, you know, I’m for Trump....
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle appeared to backpedal Tuesday as her agency and local law enforcement pointed fingers over the security lapse at former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally. Cheatle said in an interview with CNN the Secret Service was “solely responsible” for security at Trump’s rally, where 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks managed to climb on...
BUTLER, Pa. – The Butler Township manager, Thomas Knights, defended local police officers’ response to the assassination attempt against former President Trump at his rally on Saturday. Knights’ comments come amid some sparring between the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and the Fraternal Order of Police as both federal and local law enforcement take criticism from...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – Two neighbors of would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks dismissed the attention drawn to his political affiliation, saying the family appeared to never have campaign signs of any stripe in their Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, yard. Amy, who spoke to reporters alongside Holly – a local GOP captain – attested that the...
PITTSBURGH – James “Jim” Copenhaver, one of the two victims who were critically wounded during the assassination attempt against former President Trump on Saturday, sustained “life-altering injuries,” his family said in a statement. Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, is still hospitalized but in stable condition as of Tuesday afternoon after he was wounded by...
PITTSBURGH – David “Jake” Dutch, one of the two victims critically wounded by gunshots at the Trump rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, walked down the bleachers with a T-shirt bunched up against his wounds before getting help, friends told Fox News Digital. Dutch, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm in 1991,...
