PITTSBURGH — Local law enforcement repeatedly offered to provide drone coverage in the sky above former President Trump’s July 13 campaign rally — where he survived a failed assassination attempt — but was rebuffed by the U.S. Secret Service (USSS), according to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., citing a new whistleblower. “According to one whistleblower, the...
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...
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...
Dayton, Ohio police officer Byron Branch is headed to Paris to compete in the 2024 Paralympic Games in wheelchair fencing. Branch was severely injured in 2016 when responding to an accident that resulted in the loss of his leg. “I was responding to an accident on the highway,” Branch told “Fox & Friends.” “There was...
The U.S. Secret Service (USSS) should have “one set of standards,” according to Republican Oklahoma Rep. Josh Brecheen. Brecheen introduced a bill on Tuesday called the Secret Service Readiness Act that aims to create “a uniform fitness standard for Secret Service special agents and uniformed division officers” after the assassination attempt that wounded former President...
A Michigan man was found dead after allegedly telling police that he would confess to ATV crimes targeting supporters of former President Trump and law enforcement. One incident involved a four-wheeler that a driver used to plow down an 80-year-old man who was placing Trump signs in his yard. The elderly victim was hospitalized Sunday...
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...
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,...
Police are investigating after a 13-year-old basketball player allegedly stomped on an opponent’s head on the court at a Bay Area game. Things turned ugly in a game between Tumakbo United, a Filipino-American youth basketball team, and Payton’s Place, another Bay Area team, Sunday at the College of Alameda. On an inbound pass, the son...
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday in the wake of mounting pressure following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Fox News confirmed. Fox News reviewed the letter Cheatle sent to the U.S. Secret Service Tuesday morning, just a day after taking bipartisan heat during testimony before the House Oversight Committee Monday and...
