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- globalnews@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the āsubject involvedā in the attempted assassination of former PresidentĀ Donald Trump, it said in a statement on Sunday.
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The political leanings of Crooks, who was shot dead by the Secret Service after the attempted assassination, were not immediately clear. Records show Crooks was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on 20 January 2021, the day President Joe Biden was sworn in to office. Officials have not publicly disclosed a possible motive.
That āvivid firsthand accountā is a dude making a pretty strong insinuation that the police and secret service were ignoring their attempts to point out the shooter and only acted after the shots were fired. This is gonna be a shit show.
Odds are, assuming itās at all true, the cops all assumed the guy with the rifle was Secret Service since thereās now way Secret Service could miss such and obvious position to secure.
Someone asked, āif he saw them for that long, why did he never whip out his phone and start recording?ā
To be fair, itās a Trump rally not a tiktok convention. Like it or not these people genuinely love Trump and itās no surprise theyād be focusing on signaling police before anyone gets shot.
That doesnāt mean he isnāt playing things up but thereās no evidence of that so far.
Lots of phones were recording Trumpās bloody right side get hustled off stage, you can see a dozen of them from the footage of him getting shot.