UPDATED 9:40 PM

Three snipers were stationed inside building used in Trump assassination attempt

There were three snipers stationed inside the building the shooter used during Saturday's shooting of former President Donald Trump, a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the incident tells CBS News.

The operations plan had them stationed inside the building looking out windows toward the Trump rally. The information about the three snipers being inside the building was first reported by BeaverCountian.com.

One of the snipers inside saw Thomas Matthew Crooks outside and looking up at the roof, observing the building and disappearing, a local law enforcement officer tells CBS News.

Crooks came back, sat down and looked at his phone.At that point, one of the snipers took a picture of him. Crooks took out a rangefinder and the sniper radioed to the command post. Crooks disappeared again and then came back a third time with a backpack. The snipers called in with information that he had a backpack and said he was walking towards the back of the building. (This is fucking ridiculous, the police didn’t do their jobs, NO ONE stopped him! Why didn't anyone take action? Couldn't the snipers do something?== Did the police intentionally fuck this up?)

Officers believe that Crooks might have used an air conditioning unit to get on top of the roof.

By the time other officers came for backup, he had climbed on top of the building and was positioned above and behind the snipers inside the building, the officer said.

Two other officers who heard the sniper's call tried to get onto the roof. State police started rushing to the scene, but by that time, a Secret Service sniper had already killed Crooks, the officer said.

–CBS News' Anna Schecter

BY JOE RUIZ

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-shooting-statement-joe-biden-updates/#post-update-c0d7a356

BY NICOLE SGANGA

9:21 PM

FBI continues looking into Trump shooter's background

The man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump purchased 50 rounds of ammunition from a gun store in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, before arriving at the rally site, according to a law enforcement bulletin from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI obtained by CBS News.

The FBI is investigating whether the shooter "was motivated by a violent extremist ideology or had any association with additional plotters or co-conspirators."(They use that term on conservatives)

Investigators found three suspected improvised explosive devices after the shooting, including two in the shooter's vehicle parked near the rally site, the bulletin reads.

Both agencies advised law enforcement about thepotential for retaliatory acts of violencefollowing Saturday's shooting given the online threats of violence after the attempt on Trump's life. (They are insinuating Trump supporters could get violent, once again, blame the victim, not the criminal)

"Some individuals' reactions to politically and socially divisive topics have prompted violence … and some individuals — including some (Domestic Violent Extremists) — potentially will view political and social tensions as an opportunity to use or promote violence to further their ideological goals,"the bulletin reads. (STFU BIF maybe you should put Antifa and BLM in check, because they are the most likely suspects?)

BY JOE RUIZ

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-shooting-statement-joe-biden-updates/#post-update-c0d7a356

Trump rally shooter's motive still unclear as Biden urges calm

Updated on: July 15, 2024 / 11:43 PM EDT / CBS News

Federal investigators are continuing to investigate the motive of the gunmanwho opened fire during former President Donald Trump's rally Saturday, grazing the former president's ear, killing one bystander and critically wounding two others. (The motive is he wanted to kill the President and conservatives because he’s listened to the horrid rhetoric of the left for 8 years, and he had a broken mind? How’s that? God these people are intentionally covering this, like it’s unknown, what his motive was.)

In an address from the Oval Office on Sunday night, President Biden said the shooter's motivations were still unclear, andurged Americans to reject politically motivated violence. (WTF??? That’s why the media the next day said, “we’ve got to tone it down, dampen the anger and response.” They are trying to keep anyone and everyone from telling the truth.)

"There is no place in America for this kind of violence, for any violence, ever.

Period. No exceptions. (So stop stoking it!!!) We can't allow this violence to become normalized," Mr. Biden said. "The political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated. It's time to cool it down. We all have a responsibility to do that." (It’s kind of hard to take advice from this guy because everything he described, no one should do, came out of his mouth for 6 years and probably longer)

More details emerged Sunday about the shooter, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, who was killed after he opened fire. Rudimentary bomb-making material was found at the gunman's home and in his vehicle. He was a member of a local gun club, and a former classmate said that he had tried out for the high school rifle team but didn't make it.

The FBI is investigatingwhether the shooter was a politically motivated homegrown domestic violent extremist, and investigators are still combing through his background. Justice Department officials told reporters that investigators have the shooter's phone and were examining it at the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia.

Law enforcement sources said bystanders spotted the shooter with a rifle on a roof about 400 feet from where Trump was speaking in Butler, Pennsylvania, and reported his presence to authorities. The sheriff of Butler County said a local police officer was hoisted by another officer to look onto the roof. The shooter pointed his rifle toward the officer, who let go and fell off.

The shooter then turned toward the rally and fired six to eight rounds using an AR-style weapon. A Secret Service sniper soon shot and killed him. Trump was quickly whisked from the stage by armed agents, blood running down the side of his face.

Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social on Sunday morning, saying it "was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening."

Mr. Biden has ordered an independent review of the security at the rally to assess what took place, and said he directed the Secret Service to examine security measures for this week's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump was formally named as the party's nominee Monday. Trump landed in the city Sunday evening.

Trump and Mr. Biden spoke Saturday night in what a White House official characterized as a "good, short and respectful" call.

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-shooting-statement-joe-biden-updates/

No matter how much you hate the government and media, it is never enoughthis is not a call for violence, this is an expression of emotions.

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Teamsters President Sean O'Brien loves JD Vance.

When will the Teamsters union finally quit the democrat party.

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Trump needs hood protection instead of Secret Service.

From Rob

11:37 AM · Jul 15, 2024

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>>21220002

I love this, true that, get HOOD Protection President Trump!

If Jack Smith appeals decision by Judge Cannon, it goes to 11th Circuit, where Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas presides.

https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1812866073223467484

>>21220035

you don't belong here. You obviously have emotional problems and lack of clarity on communication.

It's the thought and offer that counts.

There seems like quite a few of you negative nancys around here recently. What did you lose your gas station job?

Is the same Bezos that has funded 8+ years of dripping hatred and lies about PDJT? Maybe you apologize first and then give a complement.

https://x.com/JeffBezos/status/1812315786507088370

>>21220075

that wasn't the point, whether they are good with weapons or not, there's no way they would get close enough to protect him.

I took that the black population is coming out in massive numbers to vote for PDJT

And it was a sincere offer on his part. They don't want him dead

Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson

Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left

1/2

If we were leftists and we were to use leftist tropes to editorialize the recent attempt on Trump’s life, then we would frame the assassination attempt in the following way:

We have witnessed for years blatant exceptions to the once common custom that we don’t normalize the imagined killing of any president or presidential candidate and thus lower the bar of violence.

But the Left constantly makes Trump an exception. Now, it’s as if the imagined killing of Trump had been mainstreamed and become acceptable in a way inconceivable of other presidents.

(Do we remember the rodeo clown who merely wore an Obama mask during a bull riding contest and was punished by being permanently banned by the Missouri State Fair authorities?)

So since at least 2016 there has been a parlor game among Leftist celebrities and entertainers joking (one hopes), dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various and graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump:

• By slugging his face (Robert De Niro),

• by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson),

• by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park),

• by clubbing (Mickey Rourke),

• by shooting ( Snoop Dogg),

• by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain),

• by bounty killing (George Lopez),

• by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), by suffocating (Larry Whilmore),

• by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby),

• by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell),

• just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean),

• or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”).

Or should we deplore the use of telescopic scope imagery, given that the Left blamed Sarah Palin for once using bullseye spots on an election map of opposition congressional districts, claiming that such usage had incited the mass shooting by Jared Lee Loughner?

Yet, recently POTUS Joe Biden was a little bit more graphic and a lot more literal.

In a widely reported call to hundreds of donors last week, Biden boasted, “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”

"In a bullseye?”

At least, Biden did not go back to the full Biden beat-up porn of the past (e.g., “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him"/ “The press always asks me, ‘Don’t I wish I were debating him?’ No, I wish we were in high school – I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish.”).

Then there is the question of the Secret Service and one’s political opponents. Given the tragic history of the Kennedys,why in the world did the Biden administration not insist that third-party candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. be accorded Secret Service protection?Because his candidacy was felt to be disadvantageous to Biden?

And why just this April would the former head of the January 6th Committee and 2004 election obstructionist Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) introduce legislation ridiculously entitled, “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act” to strip away Secret Service protection for former President Trump and by this April current leading presidential candidate?

Had Thompson’s bill passed, would that not have been confirmation for a potential shooter to feel his task was just made much easier?

https://x.com/VDHanson/status/1812434677312983429

>>21220204

2/2

But in a wider sense, ifthe common referent day after day on the Left is that Trump is another Hitler(cf. a recent The New Republic cover where Trump is literally photoshopped as Hitler),then it seems reckless not to imagine an unhinged or young shootist believing thatby taking out somewhat identical to one of the greatest mass murderers in history, he would be applauded for his violence?

So is their logic, shoot Trump and save six million from the gas chambers?

After all, The New Republic defiantly explained their Hitler-Trump cover photo this way, "Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, “He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”

Well, New Republic, recently someone took you up on your argument that Trump was “damn close enough” to Hitler and so he likewise chose to “fight”— albeit with a semi-automatic rifle.

If ad nauseam, a Joy Reid is screaming about Trump as a Hitlerian dictator ("Then let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out of the White House”) or Rachel Maddow is bloviating about studying Hitler to understand Trump, then finally the message sinks in that a mass murderer is about to take power—unless….

Finally, the idea, if true, that bystanders spotted a 20-year-old on a nearby roof with a gun, a mere 130 yards from Trump, and in vain warned police of his presence, is surreal.

Is it all that hard for the Secret Service to post a few agents on the tops of a few surrounding buildings closest to the dais, or at least coordinate with local law enforcement to do the same?

That is a no brainer. Whoever made the decisions concerning the proper secret service security details for presidential events should be immediately fired.

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(God Bless Victor Davis Hanson. My two cents: So don’t pretend lefties, that you are feeling any sorrow for the almost assassination of PDJT, it’s all lies you to try to make people believe, you are not human nor have a heart or soul.)

>>21220215

They trotted that out the next day, to blame conservatives for being upset, and to shut them down, "we should calm the rhetoric down". This by the President threatened to fight an elderly man asking a sane question when he was "supposedly" running for president. Or him sticking his finger in people's faces if they don't support him, or calling someone a "pony soldier" or some inane thing, or designating all of us with the FBI Domestic Extremists, or J6 peaceful protestors, Insurrectionists. All of these people will do anything or say anything they want, because they can. Bidan has been crude and disgusting all his life, and he never cools his jets.It's only when he knows and they would be blamed for what they actually do. "So calm down the rhetoric" applies to MAGA not lefties.

You have no idea how many articles came out yesterday (I read 5 before 10 a.m) with how violent conservatives are with speech, including the lying disgusting Olive Darcy, the Muslim that hates America and Americans. It was obvious the Bidan admin put out the word the night before when Trump was almost assassinated, one man killed and two critically injured, not to count the others harmed either physically or emotionally with that situation.

If anyone tells me to calm down, I'll use my typical response to idiots: FUCK OFF

From July 14th, 2024

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New video from the Trump assassination attempt.

0:21 / 0:47

From Yashar Ali 🐘

10:27 PM ·Jul 14, 2024

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>>21219722

remember some say there were three shooters, so where any of them involved. I doubt it, because they would have certainly hit him, but interesting question.

>>21219702

also look back to the woman at her left, are those two their together? The both seem to have similar features and look. really strange, how many were planted in there?

Did they have a plan to take others out too? How would they end outside Rallies forever?

We need to get every film out there, and go frame by frame, if we can.

>>21220482

what is that? there's a lot on their heads and helmets. You are telling me NONE of them could have stopped this. Honestly, that is such a fucking lie