Who knows what to make of all this.
I’m just going to let Anglin make the calls there.
But this is what people are saying.
Demands for answers were mounting on Sunday as to how an armed man was able to get into position on a roof overlooking a rally and fire shots at Donald Trump – the 2024 presumptive Republican nominee – despite federal and local law enforcement presence and witnesses reportedly alerting police.
Trump supporter claims he and others saw the shooter before the assassination attempt, alerted police and secret service, and were ignored.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) July 13, 2024
Another person who saw the shooter on the roof beforehand and alerted the police. There is an almost magical slowness and sloppiness here. #Trump pic.twitter.com/cGZ6GEvfZW
— ODENRlND (@ODENRlND) July 14, 2024
The incident is being investigated as an attempted assassination and is the first time a president or leading party candidate for the White House has been shot since Ronald Reagan in 1981. It has triggered fears of political violence and more attacks as America endures one of the most contentious periods of its modern history among fears in some quarters of civil unrest.
Bomb-making materials were found in the vehicle and home of the suspect, the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press reported on Sunday, citing unnamed law enforcement officials.
Trump was bleeding from his right ear and later described a bullet whizzing by while he was speaking at the rally. An attendee was killed and Secret Service agents then shot dead the suspect, with eyewitness reports that someone outside the rally had told police they’d seen the armed suspect heading to the roof but it appeared that officers did not respond.
“How was it that someone could get [in position] on a roof … with a weapon and try to assassinate [Trump]?” Turner told CNN’s State of the Union show on Sunday morning, adding: “The fact that people knew there was a man with a rifle and were trying to get the police’s attention is a cause for concern.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from nearby Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the “subject involved” in the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump, it said in a statement on Sunday.
The former president was taken to a hospital for evaluation and then reportedly discharged at about 10.20pm local time. Aides to Trump’s election campaign said on Sunday morning that he was fine, in “great spirits and doing well”.
It’s not clear if he was Jewish.
Was it really him in the BlackRock video?
Presumably, he had to have been groomed by someone, and presumably, the SS had to let him take the shots.
But I’ll let Anglin do the details.
This thing is such a mess, I’m not touching it.
Footage of Donald Trump’s shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks opening fire and then getting killed seconds later surfaces pic.twitter.com/2ctMtIkwUs
— Kollege Kidd Media (@KKMediaTingz) July 14, 2024
42 SECONDS
.@SpeakerJohnson @elonmusk
The “counter snipers” didn’t take the shot at the shooter sniperThey were looking at him at least 42 seconds before the ear shot on Donald Trump and failed the President
Did The CIA do an inside job with Thomas Matthew Crooks w/ the AR-15 pic.twitter.com/w1ZPPvTQ1s
— J6 Videos (@J6Videos) July 14, 2024
🚨 TRUMP SHOOTER WAS IN A BLACKROCK AD?
A source just told me that they went to high school with Thomas Crooks.
Here is Thomas Crooks allegedly featured in a Blackrock Ad at Bethel High School in Pittsburgh (published 2023).
Crazy if true! pic.twitter.com/UsoQ7SEV8x
— Vince Dao (@VinceDaoTV) July 14, 2024
Is it a coincidence that Thomas Matthew Crooks who shot Donald Trump wore the exact same clothes as Tetsuya Yamagami who assassinated Shinzo Abe? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/5SlLw7mFIP
— 🇯🇵 Colonel Otaku Gatekeeper 🇯🇵 (@politicalawake) July 14, 2024