Fox Information Digital
Stunning new video filmed by one of many victims on the Donald Trump rally capturing exhibits simply how shut Thomas Matthew Crooks was to Trump … and it is unbelievable the Secret Service missed him.
The footage, obtained by Fox Information, shot from the bleachers behind Trump, exhibits Crooks shifting shortly alongside the roof of the American Glass Analysis Constructing, disappearing after which popping again up … minutes earlier than squeezing off 8 photographs.
It is the primary video displaying Crooks and Trump in the identical body … and this new vantage level illustrates simply how shut the rooftop was to the place Trump was on stage.
This video was reportedly recorded at 6:08 PM … a full 3 minutes earlier than Crooks opened hearth along with his AR-15-style rifle. You see Trump talking on the podium, plus the massive crowd and the constructing within the background, with Crooks shuffling alongside the highest of the constructing.
How did legislation enforcement not discover Crooks, and take steps to guard Trump?!?
James Copenhaver filmed the video, and he is one of many two victims who have been struck by gunfire and critically wounded in the course of the July 13 Trump marketing campaign rally in Butler, PA.
Crooks hit Trump within the ear with one shot, however fired the remainder of his photographs into the group … killing Corey Comperatore and injuring Copenhaver and David Dutch.
Different movies from rallygoers present Crooks hanging out alongside the bottom of the constructing in the course of the rally … and the FBI says he flew a drone over the farm grounds earlier within the day, earlier than legislation enforcement flagged him as a “suspicious person.”
Keep in mind … video exhibits Crooks pulling himself onto the roof at 6:06 PM and he was then noticed by legislation enforcement and spectators two minutes later, when this new video was shot.
The FBI says a cop was hoisted onto the roof at 6:11 PM … Crooks confronted him with a rifle and the cop dropped to the bottom and radioed in that Crooks was strapped with a “long gun.”
7/13/24
TMZ.com
Extremely, the Secret Service nonetheless allowed Trump to proceed talking … and Crooks was capable of hearth off 8 rounds.
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