FBI reveals new details about Trump shooter

(No motive and no one other than the Secret Service helped him. Can you say 'patsy'? And the so-called 'pipe bombs' in his trunk for no reason turned out to be the fakest looking IEDs I've ever seen.)

from RT

The Pennsylvania man who tried to kill Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump most likely worked alone, the FBI has said, adding that his motive remains a mystery.

Thomas Crooks fired eight shots at Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last month, nicking the candidate’s ear, killing one member of the audience, and injuring two more before he was fatally shot by the Secret Service.

“I want to be clear, we have not seen any indication to suggest Crooks was directed by a foreign entity to conduct the attack,” Robert Wells, executive assistant director of the FBI’s national security branch, told reporters on Wednesday...

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Secret Service Director Resigns After Trump Assassination Attempt

from the NYT

The director of the Secret Service, Kimberly A. Cheatle, resigned on Tuesday, after security failures surrounding the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump and calls for her to step down from lawmakers in both parties.

In an email to Secret Service employees on Tuesday, Ms. Cheatle said that one of the agency’s foremost duties is to protect the nation’s leaders and that it “fell short of that mission” in failing to secure a campaign rally from a gunman on July 13.

“I do not want my calls for resignation to be a distraction from the great work each and every one of you do towards our vital mission,” Ms. Cheatle said in the email, which was reviewed by The New York Times.

She said she was deeply committed to the agency but added that “in light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your director.”...

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Police warned Secret Service of a suspicious person at Trump rally before gunman opened fire, source says

 (Yesterday the Secret Service (SS) said it was all the local cops' fault. Today they returned the favor claiming they informed the SS there was a guy running around with a rifle. And according to the local cops, they did it long before that SS sniper had the shooter in his sites for about 40 seconds before letting him shoot Trump)

from NBC

Before a would-be assassin took aim at Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, local police officers notified the former president’s Secret Service detail that they were looking for a suspicious person in the area, a U.S. official told NBC News.

The suspicious person, later identified as Thomas Crooks, 20, was first flagged to local police officers by rallygoers on their way into the event. The attendees reported they saw Crooks pacing and behaving strangely near the magnetometers, four officials told NBC News.

Local police officers began pursuing Crooks on foot, the officials said. During the pursuit, the U.S. official said, local police told the Secret Service they were looking for a suspicious person near the event.

It is not clear what time the Secret Service was notified and whether it was before Trump took the stage on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show, a venue roughly 36 miles north of Pittsburgh. The U.S. official said the Secret Service was told of a suspicious person before local police discovered Crooks on the roof of a nearby glass research company’s building. That discovery occurred shortly before Crooks opened fire, according to two law enforcement sources.

The timing raises questions about whether other measures could have been taken to stop Crooks...

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