The head of the Secret Service has revealed that the shooter who tried to kill former President Trumpwas identified as a “potential person of suspicion,” but by the time units were able to track him down, he had managed to open fire at the rally in Pennsylvania. United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle made...
Although investigators have not yet determined his motive, a picture of the 20-year-old man who attempted to assassinate former President Trump is becoming more clear as his former classmates come forward with their impressions. Few people clapped when slender, bespectacled Thomas Matthew Crooks was handed his diploma at his graduation from Bethel Park High School...
The volunteer firefighter who died while shielding his family from the sniper who tried to kill former President Trump over the weekend at a rally in Pennsylvania said “get down!” as his final words, his wife has revealed. Helen Comperatore told the New York Post that she and her husband Corey were close to celebrating...
BETHEL PARK, Pa. – The Pennsylvania gun shop where would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks bought ammunition before a deadly attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life at a rally in nearby Butler County has vowed to fully support law enforcement as investigators seek answers in Saturday’s attack. “As a responsible member of our community, it...
A veteran Nevada law enforcement officer, who served in the elite FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, said he was left “blown away” after a barrage of gunfire broke out at former President Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. Ashton Packe, a retired Las Vegas detective, shared an inside look into the investigation of the assassination attempt in...
The New York Times on Monday published a scathing guest essay on former President Trump just two days after an attempted assassination of the Republican nominee. “This is not an election with a wrongheaded but well-meaning Republican. It’s an all-out war with an illiberal megalomaniac who will happily destroy American democracy if it buys him...
The director of the Secret Service is facing blistering criticism Tuesday after claiming during an interview that personnel were not positioned on top of the building where the Trump rally shooter opened fire because of a “sloped roof,” despite images showing snipers set up on a sloped roof behind the former president’s podium. U.S. Secret...
ROCHESTER, Pa. – A speaker at President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally where he was injured by an attempted assassin’s bullet spoke out Monday after treating the attendee who was fatally shot in the head. Rico Elmore, a hydraulic mechanic with the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 171st Air Refueling Wing, said he was seated in the VIP...
Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks purchased 50 rounds of ammunition just hours before the incident, according to reports. Crooks, 20, bought the bullets from local gun shop Allegheny Arms before opening fire at former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. FBI officials had not yet confirmed the report...
A GoFundMe initiative has raised over $1 million for the family of Corey Comperatore, the firefighter who died shielding his family from bullets meant for former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Jason Bubb, who owns the Three Fit Six gym in Cabot, organized the fundraiser for Comperatore’s daughter Allyson, who...
