Questions mount over shooter's ability to access roof despite security presence
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Lawmakers express shock at apparent security lapses, while House speaker says chamber will conduct ‘full investigation’

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the “subject involved” in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, it said in a statement on Sunday.

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The political leanings of Crooks, who was shot dead by the Secret Service after the attempted assassination, were not immediately clear. Records show Crooks was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on 20 January 2021, the day President Joe Biden was sworn in to office. Officials have not publicly disclosed a possible motive.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    That “vivid firsthand account” is a dude making a pretty strong insinuation that the police and secret service were ignoring their attempts to point out the shooter and only acted after the shots were fired. This is gonna be a shit show.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 months ago

      Odds are, assuming it’s at all true, the cops all assumed the guy with the rifle was Secret Service since there’s now way Secret Service could miss such and obvious position to secure.

      • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 months ago

        To be fair, it’s a Trump rally not a tiktok convention. Like it or not these people genuinely love Trump and it’s no surprise they’d be focusing on signaling police before anyone gets shot.

        That doesn’t mean he isn’t playing things up but there’s no evidence of that so far.

        • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
          1·
          2 months ago

          Lots of phones were recording Trump’s bloody right side get hustled off stage, you can see a dozen of them from the footage of him getting shot.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 months ago

    History tells us some political assassinations, Rabin, Ghandi to name two were committed by their more extreme unhinged followers.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      81·
      2 months ago

      And considering that most of the other presumptive candidates for the GOP are even more unhinged than Trump, it’s hard to not see this as someone attempting to seat, say, Nikki Haley.

      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
        4·
        2 months ago

        I think the only politician we can truly rule out is ted cruz since absolutely nobody likes him enough to do anything for him.

        But yeah. republicans have increasingly been calling for the lynching and execution of their political opponents and took glee in the brutal assault of Nancy Pelosi’s husband. It is not at all a stretch that one flavor of republican would realize a different republican is their political opponent. Especially since it has been made abundantly clear that nobody in the party can run against trump but also that trump can’t garner support for any downballot candidates.

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
    4·
    2 months ago

    Police have his home street blocked off, I feel bad that his parents have to suffer the fallout of all this.