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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Trump directs Secret Service to give him ‘every bit of information' about his attempted assassins: report

2025-02-10

[FoxNews] President Donald Trump said he has directed the Secret Service to give him "every bit of information" known about his two attempted assassins last summer during the presidential campaign, according to a report.

"I want to find out about the two assassins," the president told the New York Post Friday. "Why did the one guy have six cellphones, and why did the other guy have [foreign] apps?"

Trump told the Post the Secret Service had been holding back information because of President Biden.

"I’m entitled to know. And they held it back long enough," he added. "No more excuses."

Trump was shot in the ear July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, while speaking at an outdoor campaign rally by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was killed by the Secret Service after shooting at Trump, killing a rally attendee and injuring two others.

Two months later, Ryan Routh, 59, allegedly waited for over 12 hours in brush with a rifle on the perimeter of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach as Trump was golfing Sept. 15.

A Secret Service agent saw Routh allegedly pointing a rifle through a fence and fired at him. Routh fled and was arrested that day.

He has pleaded not guilty to several counts, including attempted assassination of a presidential candidate and assault on a federal officer, and remains in federal custody. His trial is scheduled for Sept. 8, 2025.

Six cellphones were reportedly found in Routh’s car after his arrest.

Crooks had encrypted messaging accounts on multiple platforms based in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany, according to Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., who was appointed to a congressional task force investigating the assassination attempt.

The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Top Secret Service agent in Pittsburgh says he was kept in dark on 'credible' threat ahead of Butler rally

[FoxNews] The Secret Service special agent in charge (SAIC) of the Pittsburgh field office was not informed of credible threats to former President Trump ahead of his July 13 outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and detailed in handwritten notes that they didn't learn about the threats until after the assassination attempt when they saw it on television.

In a preliminary report on the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump released on Wednesday by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, top senators listed several key failures of the Secret Service.

"Why am I hearing that there were threats to the site on TV," the SAIC of the Pittsburgh office wrote in a handwritten note after the attempt.

"How can the SAIC of our [field office] not know about any threats and why did they feel that only one part of [Special Operations Divisions] was sufficient to cover it instead of the entire package," the note continued.

According to the report, Secret Service counter snipers had been approved and sent to the Butler event due to "credible intelligence" of a threat. However, many of the Secret Service personnel interviewed by the committee, which they said included the intelligence advance agent and the SAIC of the field office, said they were not made aware of the threat.

In fact, "only two of the [Secret Service] personnel the Committee has interviewed were made aware that there was a credible threat related to former President Trump prior to July 13," the report reads. Only one of those personnel members was then made privy to the underlying classified information about the threat.

Per the committee, the lead advance agent was informed by the second supervisor of Trump's detail that "credible intel" was the reason for the addition of counter snipers to the event's security. The SAIC said the information was not relayed to them, despite the advance agent asking the second supervisor to call the SAIC about the "credible intel."

Even after learning of the counter sniper assignment and "credible intel," the lead advance agent ultimately wrote in a preliminary survey document that "[a]t this time, no adverse intelligence has been developed concerning this visit. Any adverse intelligence that may arise will be passed on to all working supervisors."

Posted by:Skidmark

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Why stop with the SS?
What about several other Federal, State and Local agencies that should have spotted issues.

Besides. How much is left to turn over?

The Guy was seen climbing and on roof for a good 10+ mins and people were screaming about it to police.

Police were on the scene about 5+ mins later after the shooter was 1st spotted, and long BEFORE the 1st shot was fired towards Trump.

The Biden Fed's claim no communications with local & state police about the person on the roof?

We have been given various stories of how Local police engaged him, and had to back off.

The Biden Federal counter-snipers FAILED to spot a figure on the roof within +/- 200 yards. Or they WAITED until shots were fired before acting?

We had High School 16 y/o teenager pics within hours. But then media avoided showing the shooters, current 20+ y/o Long Hair young adult pictures for many days?

The shooter's Social Media / Email and etc were scrubbed unusually quick, even for FB and etc.

Then we learn of a large sum of $$$$$, said to be in foreign banks accounts, which quickly became hush-hush.

The whole area was shutdown, not just the crime scene, as the Biden Fed's washed the roof down of any DNA traces. Then they burned the body, before the investigation was completed?

Hell, the whole process reeks of a pre-planned Patsy planted assassin.

Posted by: NN2N1 2025-02-10 05:14

"Why am I hearing that there were threats to the site on TV," the SAIC of the Pittsburgh office wrote in a handwritten note after the attempt.

"How can the SAIC of our [field office] not know about any threats and why did they feel that only one part of [Special Operations Divisions] was sufficient to cover it instead of the entire package," the note continued.

Posted by: Besoeker 2025-02-10 01:37

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