Shots fired at Trump rally

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Trump needs to get his own security. Democrats are trying to remove his right to USSS protection, Myorkas is denying increases for protection, and now there's been an assassination attempt from a rooftop 150 yards from his podium. The Penn state police said that rooftop wasn't part of the perimeter-- what? It's USSS and Law Enforcement's job to CREATE an adequate perimeter. The max effective range on an AR-15 is 600 meters, and they allowed an unsecured rooftop at 150 meters? This cannot be a simple mistake. There needs to be a full investigation and prosecutions for these people who are attempting to clear the path for assassins.

That’s not how protection of former presidents has ever worked. Ever.

Listen to the reports. The oversight was clearly on the part of the local law enforcement who attendees described were untrained and inadequate to neutralize the threat, not with the SS.

The USSS doesn't just show up and accept whatever the keystone cops tell them. You are completely wrong. They are supposed to create a perimeter-- this is not hard. All security is about creating a defensible perimeter, and improving security is often about moving that perimeter out even further, either literally or conceptually.

It doesn't matter whether you're protecting presidents or widgets. Security concepts are the same. Guns, gates, guards.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sad day for all of us…and thank God he survived.

Sad day, indeed!
His victory has now been sealed!

People are fed up with the hate. They see Trump never giving up on the American people. When did any President fight for America like this?

Is this a joke? He is the one who has brought the hate. Already forgotten Jan 6th, have you? Leaving office and refusing to welcome your successor. He does nothing but spew hate. Now he’ll be a national hero for reaping what he sowed.

Fight for America..ha. His America is not one I recognize or want to live in.

You just don’t know when the stop, do you?

[Anonymous]

Here's what we know about Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspected Trump rally shooter
By Aaron Josefczyk , Jasper Ward and Kanishka Singh
July 14, 20244:48 AM EDTUpdated 2 hours ago

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/heres-what-we-know-about-thomas-matthew-crooks-suspected-trump-rally-shooter-2024-07-14/

BETHEL PARK, Pennsylvania, July 14 (Reuters) - The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the suspect in Saturday's attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally. The suspect was shot and killed by the Secret Service seconds after he allegedly fired shots toward a stage where Trump and was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania. The FBI said it was working to determine a motive for the attack, in which one rally attendee died and two other spectators were critically injured. Trump was shot in the ear.

State voter records show that Crooks was a registered Republican. The upcoming Nov. 5 election would have been the first time Crooks had been old enough to vote in a presidential race.
Crooks lived about an hour away from where the shooting took place in Butler. The Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday that it closed the airspace over Bethel Park for "special security reasons."
When Crooks was 17 he made a $15 donation to ActBlue, a political action committee that raises money for left-leaning and Democratic politicians, according to a 2021 Federal Election Commission filing. The donation was earmarked for the Progressive Turnout Project, a national group that rallies Democrats to vote. The groups did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Crooks' father, Matthew Crooks, 53, told CNN that he was trying to figure out what happened and would wait until he spoke to law enforcement before speaking about his son.

Thomas Crooks graduated in 2022 from Bethel Park High School, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He received a $500 "star award" from the National Math and Science Initiative, according to the newspaper.
A 2022 graduation ceremony video cited by the New York Times shows Crooks receiving his high school diploma to some applause. Video from that ceremony posted online shows Crooks with glasses in a black graduation gown and posing with a school official. Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the video. Law enforcement officials said on Saturday that Crooks carried no identification to the site of the shooting and had to be identified using other methods.


"We're looking at photographs right now and we're trying to run his DNA and get biometric confirmation," Kevin Rojek, FBI special agent in charge, said during a press briefing.
USA Today reported that dozens of law enforcement vehicles were stationed outside a residence listed at the address on Crooks' voter registration record. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on the scene and a bomb squad was at the residence, USA Today reported. The perimeter of the residence of the suspect was guarded on Sunday by yellow police caution tape. An Alleghany County Police vehicle was parked outside.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/heres-what-we-know-about-thomas-matthew-crooks-suspected-trump-rally-shooter-2024-07-14/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just saw a different video and the audience was chanting “USA” and Trump was pumping his fists while attendees were dying in the stands. Classy.

Trump had no way of knowing that others had been hit. Or, that someone died.
He was letting the crowd know that he was ok.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sad day for all of us…and thank God he survived.

Sad day, indeed!
His victory has now been sealed!

People are fed up with the hate. They see Trump never giving up on the American people. When did any President fight for America like this?

Is this a joke? He is the one who has brought the hate. Already forgotten Jan 6th, have you? Leaving office and refusing to welcome your successor. He does nothing but spew hate. Now he’ll be a national hero for reaping what he sowed.

Fight for America..ha. His America is not one I recognize or want to live in.

Then leave! Why is this so hard? Go to another country. The US will never be what you want it to be, and it has never been what you want. You are wasting your only life in a state of existential agnst.

[Anonymous]

Crooks was a registered Republican, according to voting records, but had only participated in the Nov. 8, 2022, state election due to his age.

[Anonymous]

All I know is that I tell my kids who are teens and only a little younger repeatedly that when you disagree with a candidate, you can talk about it, you can vote, you can even encourage your friends to vote but be careful with that so you don’t lose your friends, but that’s it. That’s all you can do.

I’d love to know who paid for the gun or what the 20 year old did for a living. Who did he live with?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crooks was a registered Republican, according to voting records, but had only participated in the Nov. 8, 2022, state election due to his age.

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Anonymous wrote:Audio from right after the shooting shows Trump arguing with Secret Service, which is apparently why there was a delay. He was heard on audio complaining about wanting to put his shoe back on after it came off when he went to the ground, completely oblivious to the security situation. And you could see Secret Service literally trying to pull him to keep moving when they approached the steps but instead he was posing for photos like an idiot.

Trump has lost his marbles.

You are blaming a man for his actions right after taking a bullet to the head?

The bullet barely grazed him. He has had Secret Service for nearly 8 years and damn well should know by now that they are there to do a job and that when a crisis hits you do not argue with them over dumb things like shoes or a photo op. If there was a protocol failure in getting Trump off of that stage, it was 100% because Trump was keeping them from doing their job.

Trump likely has hearing loss and a concussion. Allow your neighbor to graze your ear with the round from a rifle before you judge Trump. Report back how you felt after being grazed.

I doubt it. The shooter shot from many yards away. Hearing loss and concussion could happen if the shooting was close to his ear. It wasn't.
But, he definitely has a wound on his ear. Fortunately, that is all. It could have been much, much worse.
Divine intervention. Or, really really lucky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sad day for all of us…and thank God he survived.

Sad day, indeed!
His victory has now been sealed!

People are fed up with the hate. They see Trump never giving up on the American people. When did any President fight for America like this?

Is this a joke? He is the one who has brought the hate. Already forgotten Jan 6th, have you? Leaving office and refusing to welcome your successor. He does nothing but spew hate. Now he’ll be a national hero for reaping what he sowed.

Fight for America..ha. His America is not one I recognize or want to live in.

You just don’t know when the stop, do you?

Got it, someone tried to kill him so now he is a saint and a good person.

Thoughts and prayers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sad day for all of us…and thank God he survived.

Sad day, indeed!
His victory has now been sealed!

People are fed up with the hate. They see Trump never giving up on the American people. When did any President fight for America like this?

Is this a joke? He is the one who has brought the hate. Already forgotten Jan 6th, have you? Leaving office and refusing to welcome your successor. He does nothing but spew hate. Now he’ll be a national hero for reaping what he sowed.

Fight for America..ha. His America is not one I recognize or want to live in.

Then leave! Why is this so hard? Go to another country. The US will never be what you want it to be, and it has never been what you want. You are wasting your only life in a state of existential agnst.

Not wanting violent, vengeful fascist who tried to overthrow an election (again, with violence) to be president is patriotic and it is American. Glad Trump was not killed - political violence is not acceptable. Now if only Trump knew that. Maybe the events of yesterday will change his tune.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Audio from right after the shooting shows Trump arguing with Secret Service, which is apparently why there was a delay. He was heard on audio complaining about wanting to put his shoe back on after it came off when he went to the ground, completely oblivious to the security situation. And you could see Secret Service literally trying to pull him to keep moving when they approached the steps but instead he was posing for photos like an idiot.

Trump has lost his marbles.

You are blaming a man for his actions right after taking a bullet to the head?

The bullet barely grazed him. He has had Secret Service for nearly 8 years and damn well should know by now that they are there to do a job and that when a crisis hits you do not argue with them over dumb things like shoes or a photo op. If there was a protocol failure in getting Trump off of that stage, it was 100% because Trump was keeping them from doing their job.

Trump likely has hearing loss and a concussion. Allow your neighbor to graze your ear with the round from a rifle before you judge Trump. Report back how you felt after being grazed.

I doubt it. The shooter shot from many yards away. Hearing loss and concussion could happen if the shooting was close to his ear. It wasn't.
But, he definitely has a wound on his ear. Fortunately, that is all. It could have been much, much worse.
Divine intervention. Or, really really lucky.

He was hit by glass not a bullet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Audio from right after the shooting shows Trump arguing with Secret Service, which is apparently why there was a delay. He was heard on audio complaining about wanting to put his shoe back on after it came off when he went to the ground, completely oblivious to the security situation. And you could see Secret Service literally trying to pull him to keep moving when they approached the steps but instead he was posing for photos like an idiot.

Trump has lost his marbles.

You are blaming a man for his actions right after taking a bullet to the head?

The bullet barely grazed him. He has had Secret Service for nearly 8 years and damn well should know by now that they are there to do a job and that when a crisis hits you do not argue with them over dumb things like shoes or a photo op. If there was a protocol failure in getting Trump off of that stage, it was 100% because Trump was keeping them from doing their job.

Trump likely has hearing loss and a concussion. Allow your neighbor to graze your ear with the round from a rifle before you judge Trump. Report back how you felt after being grazed.

I doubt it. The shooter shot from many yards away. Hearing loss and concussion could happen if the shooting was close to his ear. It wasn't.
But, he definitely has a wound on his ear. Fortunately, that is all. It could have been much, much worse.
Divine intervention. Or, really really lucky.

He was hit by glass not a bullet

Cite?