Texts Reveal Officers Saw Crooks 90 Minutes Before He Tried to Kill Trump
“I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him.”
Again, more questions instead of answers.
Texts reveal a local countersniper saw Thomas Michael Crooks 90 minutes before he shot former President Donald Trump, killed Corey Comperatore, and injured James Copenhaver and David Dutch.
The New York Times first published the text messages from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
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- 4:19 PM: Countersniper told colleagues his shift ended, leaving the warehouse. He “noticed a young man with long stringy hair” at a picnic table near the warehuse.
- 4:26 PM: Texted colleagues, alerting them to the man. He said the man knows he left the warehouse with a rifle and “knows you guys are up there.”
- 5:10 PM: The man left the table and appeared below the counter snipers in the AGR International warehouse. One of them took a picture of him.
- 5:38 PM: Photos went to the group. One officer said they should tell the Secret Service: “Kid learning around building we are in. AGR I believe it is. I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him.”
- 6:11 PM: The man is dead on the roof after shooting Trump, killing one rally attendee, and injuring two others.
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You have to know how common false alarms are before you can conclude anything. They KNEW, vs they know three or four times per rally, every rally.
Every false alarm for the USSS is treated as real. They don’t get to play the odds, they have to address it as if it is real, always.
If that means there are delays to a speech because of false alarms, that speech gets delayed. It that means a protectee is taken off stage in the middle of a speech because of a false alarm, they get taken off the stage in the middle of a speech.
Hecklers’ veto, that’s called. “There’s a guy outside who wants to kill the President” is not what they protect against. It’s physical protection, not airy threat protection.
The difference is who is making the assertion. Someone in the crowd versus security. Vastly different.
On top of that…. the crowd was yelling and pointing to the kid on the roof. No one should have been there except UNIFORMED law enforcement. In any such issue, only accept a uniformed official… no body in plain clothes…even if they say SS until proved otherwise. Even a uniform can be faked. Be wary….
Larry Johnson had a discussion with Larry Cunningham about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL-DJI4wEUg
Larry Cunningham is a retired Secret Service Agent and is very familiar with the subject matter.
It is supposed to be treated as real. By the book if security forces detect a threat, they are to treat it as real. But it seems that following the book is so uncommon as to be noteworthy.
Subotai Bahadur
Apparently, they have to wait to until the protectee is actually killed before assessing a threat as a threat. This can’t be real.
only if the protected is Trump or a republican …
This was just one of a multitude of failures.
How many other people were they texting suspicions about? I would bet that the answer is ZERO. But we really need to see all the texts to know. The general assumption is that all possible threats like this are tagged and followed to see what they are.
Of course, if they had had one or more drones up this would all have been very simple to do … at a cost of about “nothing” … maybe two operators for the day.
You are also ignoring the amount of time this possible threat was around. There is no excuse for not having had followed up on it. None, at all.
I h8 to think it was a purposely opening, but if no one can come up with something else what could it be?
Watched a professional shooter on YouTube and he couldn’t believe Crooks was in sight the whole time
The sloped-roof counter snipers behind Trump were screened by trees from the shooter.
And that problem should have been something that figured prominently in the counter-sniper plan when they were setting the whole thing up. That is like … a major issue.
almost as if it were planned that way … hmmmmm
All the more reason why security should have been on top of that roof.
After all that we’ve heard in the last couple of weeks about this this doesn’t even come as any sort of a surprise that the people we overpaid to protect our politicians and nominees are just so utterly incompetent. And if it’s not incompetence, then it’s malice
I toss out the question, and y’all can answer as you will. When there are both common sense and procedures that say to check out/prevent threats with a high degree of urgency in a certain way and it seems that on a regular basis for at least one event that is not done; at what point can you reasonably conclude that at least for that event the procedures have been changed either officially or otherwise? Bonus question: How can you know what if any procedures will be followed at later events?
Subotai Bahadur
I am very suspicious of this whole thing, to be honest. I am a gamer, and ANY gamer can tell you that you don’t leave a roof that close to the protectee completely open and unguarded. And that is essentially what happened here. The BEST spot to take out President Trump was completely unguarded. HOW does that happen?
This was a series of failures… one on top of the other. Each one may not look like much but the whole is entirely catastrophic. No one broke the chain of errors. Everyone can see a big error… it is the smaller ones that are deadly. The only break in the chain was Trump turning his head and that was random. Oh… and CNN decided for the first time to cover a Trump rally in person…. what did they know? Who suggested to change in coverage?
Air quotes around “failures.”
No one broke the chain of errors.
Which is why you pay attention to the details, so you’re not in the chain of causation.
(Lessons learned from dealing with aircraft mishaps.)
“The BEST spot to take out President Trump was completely unguarded. HOW does that happen?”
Bingo.
The answer is: not by accident.
and ashlie babbit was murdered and that cop was protected by both the gop and dems
The glaring and indefensible nature of the multiple security “failures” — so contrary to long-established protocols, to say nothing of common sense — are what make it extremely difficult to accept an innocent explanation/rationale for what transpired, here.
Add in the Deep State’s/Dhimmi-crats’ obsessive, unhinged and histrionic loathing of President Trump, and, it’s not hard to believe that this incident involved willful and malicious inaction and dereliction of duty on the part of multiple federal actors, in order to facilitate an assassination.
https://vimeo.com/991503017
Sniper’s Nest Video Released By Dave Stewart Of Butler, PA From 7.13.24 Shooter Video
Watch the keystone cops running around like chickens with their heads cut off looking up at the roof without seeing a thing as crooks gets into shooting position.
USSS joins FIB, DHS and DOJ in the Law Enforcement Hall of Shame!
Yes, I know USSS is part of DHS. Alphabet soup, anyone?
I’m not sure which is worse, that the USSS is so utterly incompetent that the shooter was seen roaming around for quite some time before the actual shooting, with multiple attendees seeing him on the rooftop with a rifle or contemplating that this was an inside job by the deep state to remove the most formidable threat to their power since George Washington.
Regardless, a second-term Trump has my support if he wishes to go all Javier Milei on Washington, firing thousands and closing offices wholesale,
Just as Musk dispatched most of Twitter’s staff without ill effect, we could dispatch 90% of what the federal government does without ever noticing. Those critical services that the federal government does provide can be handled by the states.