screenshot credit Thomas Crooks Iron-Clad-USA.com via Storyful. Trump Sniper Thomas Crooks motive or terror connections still unknown, it’s clear from congressional hearings — and the details that have emerged from FBI briefings with lawmakers — that investigators still have no satisfying answers for why Crooks targeted Trump. NYP writes; “I would love to know what really happened and what Thomas’ motivation was,” neighbor Kelly Little, 39, told The Post. “Domestic terrorism is very real. We deserve to know what happened, but I don’t know if we’re ever going to get a straight answer.” She agreed it was bizarre that more was not known about Crooks at this point, which has led her to believe there’s more to the story than we already know. “I don’t think he acted alone, that would be my best guess,” she said. That claim contradicts statements from the FBI and Secret Service that they’ve found no accomplices. However, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Florida) last week said he’s not satisfied with federal investigators’ assertions. “How did he learn to build those IEDs? How did he learn to install remote detonators? How did he conduct those searches and not get popped?” Waltz, who sits on a House task force charged with investigating the July 13 attempt on Trump’s life, told The Post. Shooter Thomas Crooks was armed with a cheap knock off of the AR-15, he used a DPMS DR-15 rifle with a 15 7.5" barrel length and with 5.56mm ammo and a 4" tube handguard, suggested retail price $679.99
Rep Waltz’s stark question comes on the heels of the FBI edging closer to understanding the mystery of Crooks’ enigmatic cyber-footprint, which includes encrypted messaging apps on platforms hosted abroad, suspected accounts on foreign-based communication platforms. Donald Trump rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks used encrypted messaging accounts on various platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany, according to Rep Mike Waltz a member of a congressional task force investigating his assassination attempt against the former president. The online media platforms of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) blend graphic audiovisual content with ideological religious writings to sanction and justify violent terrorist tactics throughout the world. ISIS has utilized Internet propaganda on encrypted messaging accounts on various platforms located in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany to its advantage, not only to bolster its expansion in Iraq and Syria, but for recruitment and dissemination of their ideology worldwide. Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), one of 13 lawmakers tapped to serve on the House bipartisan task force, told reporters at a Wednesday press conference at the Trump Hotel Chicago that the “overseas accounts” piqued his suspicion immediately regarding the shooter’s motives. “Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aide need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad — where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?” asked Waltz. Florida Congressman Mike Waltz is a Colonel (Ret.) in the National Guard, a combat-decorated Green Beret, former White House and Pentagon policy advisor, a small business owner, an author, and a proud father. He is the first Green Beret to be elected to Congress.
Sniper Thomas Crooks wanted to kill Pres Donald Trump JFK style. History buff and sniper Thomas Crooks shot off the top of Pres Trump's right ear. Apparently Thomas Crooks was a history buff and had studied the Kennedy assassination, he was "very passionate about history" "anything on government and history he seemed to know about it". Max Smith, who took an American history course with Crooks, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that his former classmate "definitely was conservative". Sniper Thomas Crooks was aiming for Trump's face but he moved. So who trained Thomas Crooks how to be a sniper in the last 6 months? Trump said he was "shot with a 5.56 mm bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear" and said he felt the bullet "ripping through the skin". The 5.56mm bullet fired from Crooks DPMS DR-15 rifle could have blown out the back of Trump's head, JFK style, if he was hit in the face. Was this assassination plot to be a carbon copy of the JFK shooting. Shooters fired from a high place and the grassy knoll, JFK hit initially in the face knocking him back and to the left in his motorcade vehicle, his brains were blown out the back of his head by the sniper.
Wednesday July 24, 2024, NYP Writes: Trump gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks searched for details about Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy before he opened fire on the former president at a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month, the FBI director revealed Wednesday. “We’ve just in the last couple of days found that from our review … analysis of a laptop that the investigation ties to the shooter reveals that on July 6, he did a Google search for ‘How far away was Oswald from Kennedy?'” Christopher Wray told a congressional hearing
Who is in charge of CIA black ops in 2024, any link to Trump shooter Thomas Crooks, is Crooks just a patsy? Bill Burns was sworn in as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in March 2021, making him the first career diplomat to serve as Director. He was promoted to Cabinet rank by President Joe Biden in June 2023. Kimberly Cheatle was appointed to the role as head of the Secret Service by President Joe Biden in 2022, had previously been the senior director in global security at PepsiCo. Kimberly Cheatle is under pressure to resign for mishandling of security at Big Butler Fair Grounds rally where Trump was shot.
“There’s no way to slice this any other way than a failure,” said Michael Harrigan, former chief of the FBI’s Firearm Training unit who’s now with Pax Group LLC. “The rooftop should have been covered. The roof was the fail point. They left an elevated platform unsecured within reasonable rifle shot of the president.” He added that the investigation into the incident will be thorough — and likely embarrassing for the Secret Service. “It’s going to be a lot of ‘who knew what when’ and why the op people didn’t consider that rooftop. The FBI are going to get every cellphone photo and video of Thomas Crooks. We don’t want another JFK [being shot from the] grassy knoll.” You'll almost did! Who has the most to gain if former Pres Donald Trump is assassinated in the run up to the 2024 general elections?
An official cause and manner of death has been released for former President Trump's would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks died of a gunshot wound to the head, the Butler County Coroner's Office told Fox News Digital Saturday. His manner of death was ruled a homicide. The 20-year-old was pronounced dead in Butler County, where he fired five rounds at a Trump rally July 13 and nicked the former president in the ear before he was "neutralized" 26 seconds later. BETHEL PARK, Pa. – July 22, 2024 A pair of plainclothes investigators (FBI), who appeared to be federal agents, visited the Pennsylvania home of former President Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks on Sunday – more than one week after the 20-year-old opened fire at a campaign rally. The men (FBI), one carrying a large bag, were greeted at the door by a man who invited them in around 2 p.m. They remained inside the modest Milford Drive house in the quiet Bethel Park suburb for 85 minutes before returning to their black SUV (FBI) and driving off.
JFK ASSASSINATION: The JFK limo would have had to slow down to make the sharp left hand turn onto Elm Street and JFK was sitting in the right rear passenger seat fully exposed, that was where the rifle shots could have been fired, not as the JFK limo moved away from the Texas School Book Depository building, any hunter or sniper or shooter of any kind would have taken the rifle shot on Houston Street. TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT: President Donald Trump shot in right ear at Butler County Pennsylvania Rally, Shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks has been terminated. This was an assassination attempt on President Donald Trump, JFK style. Shooter Thomas Crooks fired with an DPMS DR-15 rifle, using 5.56 ammunition, from left side on the stage, as you face stage, appears shooter was aiming for Mr Trump's right eye or a shot between his eyes, but definitely a head shot. The cheap DPMS DR-15 rifle firearm was legally purchased by the suspect's father, ABC and the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources. Crooks was “a loner” who “would sit alone at lunch,” classmate Jason Kohler told ABC News. He would regularly wear camouflage outfits and was “bullied” for the way he dressed, Kohler told NBC News.
Sniper Thomas Crooks has shoulder length brown hair on the day he shot Mr Trump, he looks entirely different from the middle school photo the media is showing of him. Speaking on condition of anonymity, two officers told AP that Crooks' father bought a weapon at least six months ago. Bomb-making materials were found in the suspect's car, U.S. media outlets reported, citing sources. The secret service anti sniper team returned fire and shot Thomas Crooks in the head, photos indicate Crooks had very long hair as he laid dead on his rooftop perch. Jameson Murphy, another former classmate, told the New York Post that Crooks “was such a comically bad shot he was unable to make the high school rifle team and left after the first day.” Another classmate also told the Post that the rifle team coach had concerns about Crooks based on “some crass jokes” Crooks made and how he interacted with others. “Our old coach was a stickler, he trained Navy marksmen, so he knew people. He knew when someone’s not the greatest person,” the classmate said.
Jameson Myers, a former member of the Bethel Park High School varsity rifle team who graduated alongside Thomas Crooks in 2022, told CBS that he did not make the team. "He did not even make the junior varsity team after trying out," Mr Myers added. "He never returned to try-outs for the remainder of high school." "He got Maggie's drawers. You know what that means? Means he wasn't any good!" "That dog don't hunt!" But Crooks hit Mr Trump in the right ear from 400 feet without a scope on his DPMS DR-15 rifle rifle that he had for only 6 months? The Community College of Allegheny, or CCAC, has confirmed that Crooks attended the school between September 2021 and May 2024. He graduated with an associate degree in engineering science. In a statement sent to the BBC, the college noted that he graduated "with high honors" and that a review of his records turned up no disciplinary, student conduct or security-related incidents. Authorities also say that Crooks purchased a box of ammunition containing 50 rounds of 5.56 rifle ammo on the day of the rally July 13, 2024 reports CBS, the BBC's US news partner.
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Thomas Matthew Crooks, shooter (Fox News Digital law enforcement source)Pres Trump sniper identified as 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park PA. He fired multiple rifle shots from a surrounding roof top on the AGR building. Crooks was found with an DPMS DR-15 rifle semi-automatic assault rifle and was wearing a shirt for a popular gun YouTube channel, the extreme Demolition Ranch, which has over 11 million subscribers, with a filmed demo, Live 22LR Ammo in a Microwave, that's disturbing. The gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump Saturday was shot and killed by Secret Service, sources told The Post. Pres Trump sniper Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park PA was in a position two hundred yards away from Trump’s podium in Butler, Pa. as he spoke to a campaign crowd, sources said. Crooks had been registered as a Republican voter, according to Pennsylvania state records, he is a Gen-Z. Thomas Matthew Crooks graduated from Bethel Park High PA with the Class of 2022. Trump’s would-be killer, identified by the New York Post as Thomas Matthew Crooks, but it will come as no surprise if the assassin has links to “Antifa” groups. Antifa is a left-wing anti-fascist political movement in the United States known for various acts of violence. Matthew Crooks lived on Milford Drive in Bethel Park PA.
SNIPER TERMINATED: The sniper who shot Mr. Trump in the right ear today had some talent, he appears to have been on a distant rooftop. The sniper shot Mr. Trump in the right ear from well over two hundred yards, Trump was on a podium and moving around in front of a crowd of 60,000. Reports indicate the sniper was Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park PA. Thomas Crooks used a cheap knock off of the AR-15 he used a DPMS DR-15- with a 15 7.5" barrel length and with 5.56mm ammo and a 4" tube handguard with suggested retail price of $679.99.
The sniper Thomas Matthew Crooks was shot and killed by a member of a Secret Service counter-assault team stationed on another roof top, two law enforcement sources told CBS News. The sniper Thomas Matthew Crooks who shot Pres Donald Trump was outside of the cordoned-off rally area about 400 feet from the rally and was laying prone sniper style on the AGR elevated structure, the two sources said. The shooter was armed with a cheap knock off of the AR-15, he used a DPMS DR-15 with a 15 7.5" barrel length and with 5.56mm ammo and a 4" tube handguard, suggested retail price $679.99, sources said. Big Butler Fair Grounds 1127 New Castle Road Prospect, PA 16052.
Unknown: "What are we doing? What are we doing?"
[Inaudible comments as another possible shot is fired]
Agents: "Are you ready? Hold, hold! On You! Ready, move! Move! Go!"
Agents: "Hawkeye’s here! Hawkeye’s here! [Inaudible]"
Agents: "Are you ready? Are you ready?"
Agents: "Are we good? Shooter’s down!"
Agents: "Shooter’s down! Are we good to move?"
Agents: "We’re clear, we’re clear!"
Agents: "Come on sir, come on."
Trump: "Let me get my shoes. Let me get my shoes."
Agents: "I got you sir; I got you sir."
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