An FBI deputy director testified before Congress about the Secret Service’s egregious security failures on the day Donald Trump was shot, adding that there is now evidence of the shooter’s hatred of Jews and immigrants.
Deputy Director Paul Abbate presented the timeline of Thomas Crooks’ activities leading up to the July 13 assassination attempt. On June 3, the rally was announced. On July 6, the shooter registered to attend the rally and searched “How far was Oswald from Kennedy.”
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On July 7, the shooter traveled from his home to the farm where the rally was held and stayed there for 30 minutes. On July 12, the shooter went to the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club, where he practiced shooting.
So on July 13th, the day of the shooting, he spent 70 minutes in the morning at the farm. At 1:30 p.m., his father gave him a rifle…his father thought he was going back to the shooting range. He then left the house and bought ammunition before showing up at the farm.
At 3:51 p.m., Crooks flew a drone over the farm for 11 minutes… presumably to assess the scene.
He entered the location and at 4:26 PM, more than 90 minutes before the shooting, Crooks was spotted by police. At 5:10 PM, he was identified by police as a “suspicious person.”
At 5:14 PM, a SWAT team member snapped a photo of the shooter. At 5:32 PM, police spotted Crooks near the building where he fired the shots, navigating news locations with a rangefinder visible. Then, at 5:38, police circulated Crooks’ photo.
Police lost sight of Crooks 25 minutes before the shooting, but at 6:06 PM, a video shows the gunman getting up to the roof of the building where he fired. This is 5 minutes before the shooting.
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At 6:08 p.m., police spotted Crooks on the roof. In fact, several bystanders also shouted to the police that Crooks was on the roof.
At 6:11 p.m., a police officer was hoisted to the roof, where Crooks confronted him with a rifle and the officer fell to the ground, but Crooks radioed that he was armed with “a long gun.”
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Now, here’s the thing… no one tried to neutralize Crooks at that point, and no one took any action to remove Trump from the podium where he was speaking. They had 30 seconds from the time the officer called to take Trump down, but the Secret Service did nothing.
The bandits fired 8 shots, injuring Trump and two rally participants, in addition to killing another.
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The deputy director also testified that in 2019 and 2020, Crooks wrote 700 comments on his account, many of which reflected his disdain for Jews and immigrants.
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TMZ delved deeper into the failures of that day in a new documentary, “TMZ Presents: Under Fire: The Trump Assassination Attempt.”