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Trump assassination attempt: Fraternal Order of Police blasts Secret Service 'failure'

BUTLER, Pa. – The Fraternal Order of Police is taking issue with the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) response to the attempted assassination against former President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday evening. “All of us want answers to our questions. There was, as Secretary Mayorkas said earlier, a security failure—one that nearly...

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Building Trump shooter used to fire shots at president was responsibility of local police: source

Local law enforcement had responsibility for the building where Thomas Matthew Crooks fired several shots atformer PresidentTrumpon Saturday, Fox News has learned. The building Crooks fired from was a “rally point” for one of the local counter sniper teams, according to a federal law enforcement official familiar with the security plans. The source also said...

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Officer reported man at Trump rally with range-finder 30 mins before assassination attempt: source

BETHEL PARK, Pa. – A local law enforcement officer spotted a suspicious man carrying a range-finder “in or just-outside” the venue before former President Donald Trump took the stage at his rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania on Saturday night, according to a law enforcement source. The officer reported the sighting to state police, the source...

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Pennsylvania gun club where would-be Trump assassin was member visited by FBI

CLAIRTON, Pa. – The Pennsylvania gun club where would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks practiced his aim was open Monday after visits from the FBI amid a probe into the deadly security breach that let an armed madman within 130 yards of the former president. It was not immediately clear whether investigators found anything of...

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Second suspect arrested in deadly ambush attack on Texas deputy: sheriff

A second suspect has been arrested in Texas in connection with the ambush killing of a Houston-area deputy last week, according to officials. Dremone Francis, 26, was charged with capital murder in the death of Harris County Deputy Fernando Esqueda and has been booked in the Harris County Jail, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez wrote on social...

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Breaking into Trump shooter’s cellphone complicated by modern technology: expert

BETHEL PARK, Pa. – A retired Nevada law enforcement expert who served on the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force said modern technology can complicate the effort to discover the killer’s motive for the shooting at former President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally. Ashton Packe, a former Las Vegas police detective, shared the roadblock that investigators may be...

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Melania Trump calls for country to 'reunite' following near-assassination

Former first lady Melania Trump has released a statement following the assassination attempt on her husband, former President Trump, at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, blasting the shooter as a “monster” and calling for the country to “reunite.” She said the gunman was “a monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine”...