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2024-07-29 -Lurid Crime Tales-
For 25 Minutes, Secret Service In Command Center Never Notified Trump's Detail
[ZERO] While members of the Secret Service in a Butler, Pennsylvania command center were notified that an individual later identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks was acting suspiciously before he tried to assassinate Donald Trump, members of the former president's secret service detail were not informed of the threat, according to the Washington Post.
Members of former president Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail and his top advisers have privately questioned why they were not informed that local police were tracking a suspicious person before that person opened fire on Trump at his July 13 rally in western Pennsylvania, according to people with direct knowledge of the concerns.

Approximately 20 to 25 minutes before Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at the former president, local countersnipers noticed him behaving strangely and sent his photograph to a command center staffed by state troopers and Secret Service agents, the head of Pennsylvania State Police told a congressional committee Tuesday.
According to three sources, members of Trump's Secret Service detail have complained to confidants and others inside the agency that they were never made aware of the warning, and they had no idea that local countersnipers eventually lost track of Crooks - or that a local police officer who was hoisted onto the roof of the building saw Crooks perched there with a gun.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-07-29 04:16|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 
Guess that's why many are kicking around the idea.
That the certain SS knew and were told to wait until TMC fired. Then eliminate him and any possible linkage to others and funders.
Posted by NN2N1 2024-07-29 05:25||   2024-07-29 05:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The event may hold some controversy for 50-60 years or so.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-07-29 06:45||   2024-07-29 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ And it will be tougher and tougher to discover...

Google feature omits search results for failed Trump assassination; Big Tech accused of election manipulation
Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-29 09:18||   2024-07-29 09:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Keep asking: who was in charge of SS at the rally?
Posted by Shineper Flong6793 2024-07-29 09:22||   2024-07-29 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 Keep asking: who was in charge of SS at the rally?

Himmler?
Posted by badanov 2024-07-29 09:51||   2024-07-29 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Snark of the day?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-07-29 10:28||   2024-07-29 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Trump countersnipers' chilling text messages before assassination attempt reveal shocking truth: 'He knows you guys are up there'

"...one of the three countersnipers was about to call off at the end of their shift..."

The guy had to rush home to water his pansies?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-07-29 11:00||   2024-07-29 11:00|| Front Page Top

#8 At first, just like the JFK assassination, the Trump event appeared cut and dried. But then, because the Government has lost all credibility -- from health, the economy, military activity, space, etc., -- the conspiracies have begun to proliferate.
Posted by IS  2024-07-29 11:25||   2024-07-29 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 ...heh.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-07-29 18:23||   2024-07-29 18:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Sundance today asks two very pertinent questions:

(1) Not a single, not one – ever, joint press conference by investigative authorities of the Secret Service, DHS, FBI, Local SWAT and State Police. Not a single press conference, to update and reassure the American public. WHY NOT?

(2) Not a single interview with the family of Thomas Matthew Crooks (20). No media satellite trucks camped outside the residence. No man-on-street efforts, nothing. WHY NOT?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-07-29 19:25||   2024-07-29 19:25|| Front Page Top

#11 TMC had help with his phone encryption
Posted by crazyhorse 2024-07-29 20:01||   2024-07-29 20:01|| Front Page Top

#12 When split seconds and millimeters count the USSS is only 25 minutes away.

Is this a Dilbert scenario or more like "Lexington Hotel Room 1432" ?
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-07-29 22:16||   2024-07-29 22:16|| Front Page Top

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