Trump Assassination Attempt(s)

[jmacvols1]

I'm not seeing this black dot.

I think they are referring to the little knob protrusion sticking up at the very top of tank. There is a black object appears to right of it.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

SEC FORM 13-F Information Table

www.sec.gov

Common for them to have large put option positions hedging long equity positions...

12,000,000 DJT “shares” were shorted last week per the post a few pages back. So 120,000 contracts. I don’t see a huge concentration of open interest in any one expiration/strike this side of the election. A few in the lowish thousands. A $30 strike expires this week with 11,000 contracts (and a $0.01/$0.2 bid/ask). So either they have the contracts scattered all over the place (which they’d probably have to do with that many), there are a bunch with post election expirations, or my broker’s quotes are slow to update. Or maybe they’ve already sold a bunch of the put contracts back and closed the positions this week.

DJT isn’t a stock that I’d want to hold. Seems like an awfully risky, highly volatile security. But ripe for doing a lot of trading around a position using options. However I’m not a hedge fund and I have no idea what their strategy or motivation is to be long the shares. Losing $3/share on very little revenue supporting a $7 billion market cap. I understand buying puts. Being long the shares seems kind of crazy - but who knows how they’d react with a Trump win. I guess there is the potential to have a hundred million plus users, but I don’t know if they can get big budget advertisers that hundreds of millions of users would normally draw by a media company. No doubt the pillow guy will be there along with Huckabee’s sleep potions. But after Bud Light’s misstep I doubt that the big advertisers show much interest.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Trump Shooting Victim Corey Comperatore's Casket escorted by firefighters preparing for Hero's Wake​

Firefighters and a procession of law enforcement vehicles accompanied the casket of Corey Comperatore, the Trump supporter killed at the former president's Pennsylvania rally, ahead of the slain firefighter's wake on Thursday.

Comperatore, a 50-year-old Sarver resident and volunteer firefighter, died on Saturday shielding his family from gunfire meant for the former president at his rally in Butler.

Uniformed military personnel were seen securing a perimeter around Laube Hall in Freeport on Thursday morning, checking the roof and surroundings of the building ahead of a vigil for Comperatore.




On Wednesday, hundreds gathered to remember the former fire chief and were urged to find "unity" as the rural area in Pennsylvania recovers from the jarring assassination attempt, ABC 7 reported.

Trump shooting victim Corey Comperatore's casket escorted by firefighters preparing for hero's wake

A procession of firetrucks draped in black accompanied the casket of Trump rally shooting victim Corey Comperatore to a vigil in Freeport, Pennsylvania, on Thursday.

www.foxnews.com

 

[lawgator1]

Trump Shooting Victim Corey Comperatore's Casket escorted by firefighters preparing for Hero's Wake​

Firefighters and a procession of law enforcement vehicles accompanied the casket of Corey Comperatore, the Trump supporter killed at the former president's Pennsylvania rally, ahead of the slain firefighter's wake on Thursday.

Comperatore, a 50-year-old Sarver resident and volunteer firefighter, died on Saturday shielding his family from gunfire meant for the former president at his rally in Butler.

Uniformed military personnel were seen securing a perimeter around Laube Hall in Freeport on Thursday morning, checking the roof and surroundings of the building ahead of a vigil for Comperatore.


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On Wednesday, hundreds gathered to remember the former fire chief and were urged to find "unity" as the rural area in Pennsylvania recovers from the jarring assassination attempt, ABC 7 reported.

Trump shooting victim Corey Comperatore's casket escorted by firefighters preparing for hero's wake

A procession of firetrucks draped in black accompanied the casket of Trump rally shooting victim Corey Comperatore to a vigil in Freeport, Pennsylvania, on Thursday.

www.foxnews.com

Very sad. As Biden says, he died going to support the candidate he chose to support, which is everyone's right and should not lead to such tragedy.

 

[TheDeeble]

If the red line is supposedly from the water tower, then that dude has awful aim. That's nowhere near Trump.

Maybe they're pulling a Jack Reacher movie plot. We'll fire some shots at the pres, but the real target is this person in the stands behind him.

 

[EasternVol]

The key difference between a democracy and a republic lies in the limits placed on government by the law, which has implications for minority rights. Both forms of government tend to use a representational system — i.e., citizens vote to elect politicians to represent their interests and form the government. In a republic, a constitution or charter of rights protects certain inalienable rights that cannot be taken away by the government, even if it has been elected by a majority of voters. In a "pure democracy," the majority is not restrained in this way and can impose its will on the minority.

I guess the Pledge of Allegiance did have a purpose…”and in the Republic for which it stands.”. Civics really needs to be required in schools; I see things like “why doesn’t President put in a new Supreme Court to support his agenda”; “why doesn’t the President pass a law”.

Executive, Legislative, Judicial. Congress makes the laws - legislates. The President sees to implementation of the laws Congress passes - executes them (and NOT in the definition of killing them‍). The Supreme Court verifies the laws are constitutional when questioned - adjudicates. No the Supreme Court does NOT make law - the times I have seen that claimed, anymore than Congress or the President, gets to make the ultimate decision of a law’s constitutionality.

Somehow, I may be wrong, but I think you already know all of the above. May be wrong, maybe you don’t. I’ve been surprised and disappointed before now.

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A representative democracy is still a democracy.
The definition of republic isn't so precise. It's a form of government where power lies with the people and where representatives of the people exercise that power.

 

[jp1]

I think he is saying the yellow line is the bullet that nicked Trump that came from Crooks who was positioned on the sloped roof.

It's the angle of the red line that hit spectators that does not match up with the bullet fired by Crooks


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I was thinking the person that was actually killed, was more to Trump's right in another set of bleachers? Am I wrong on this?

 

[EasternVol]

the cellphone vid of the usss hbic running away from repub senators is bizarro

Marsha tries so hard to be famous, bless her heart.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

I think he is saying the yellow line is the bullet that nicked Trump that came from Crooks who was positioned on the sloped roof.

It's the angle of the red line that hit spectators that does not match up with the bullet fired by Crooks


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I'm having a hard time buying the water tower shooter.

Crooks fired multiple shots and was in a rush to do so. I believe he was adjusting his position while shooting (not completely motionless). I think that's could explain why they spectators away from Trump were hit.

Also, I don't think he fired the 2nd volley, but if he did, then those several bullets probably sprayed the spectators. Again, I think this because he was rushed. He probably saw his first shots miss, and just tried to fire a few rounds in desperation, hoping one of them would kill Trump.

I wouldn't find it hard to believe that he sprayed the audience on purpose and in desperation, trying to hit Trump supporters. . . or a combination of those things. . . he instantly saw he missed and decided to squeeze of a few more to maybe get a lucky shot on Trump or knowingly spray the crowd and hit a Trump supporter.

 

[Volbucky]

Very sad. As Biden says, he died going to support the candidate he chose to support, which is everyone's right and should not lead to such tragedy.

Just leave it as “very sad.” Nobody needs explaining from a guy that can’t even speak coherently.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

I think he is saying the yellow line is the bullet that nicked Trump that came from Crooks who was positioned on the sloped roof.

It's the angle of the red line that hit spectators that does not match up with the bullet fired by Crooks


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No, he is not saying that. He is saying something violates basic physics, gravity, and geometry

 

[Enki_Amenra]

That's the theory being put out there for Crooks bullet could not have killed the blue figure.

Eyewitnesses have said shots fired from the tower and video has emerged. Note that a black object appears at top of tower as shooting begins. Maybe a shadow, hard to tell.

I have topaz video ai. It can upscale to 4k. I wonder if there is enough data in that video to get an accurate upscale? I may upscale it in a few hours and see how it looks.

 

[Zues1]

Staged????Tell that to the dead guy in the morgue!

Crisis actor, everyone on the bleachers was in on the act.

 

[Vol423]

So the shooter in the tower was there to kill someone in the back row of the bleachers?

...or the true "hired gun" makes the patsy look like a world champion marksman?

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

 

[LouderVol]

No, he is not saying that. He is saying something violates basic physics, gravity, and geometry

1. its impossible to tell what direction Trump was actually facing when he was actually hit. he was turning his head back and forth, and he clearly didn't know what happened as it immediately happened, who would? Very possible he was looking one direction and moving his head as he got shot, and then completed the movement to seem like he had been looking farther than he had at the exact moment he was shot.
2. in all the conspiracies no one thinks that the guy filming it isn't in on it? Guy is filming, right before Trump is shot, he pans to himself giving a symbol, Trump gets shot, and he seems to be the first to drop into cover before the people next to him do.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

1. its impossible to tell what direction Trump was actually facing when he was actually hit. he was turning his head back and forth, and he clearly didn't know what happened as it immediately happened, who would? Very possible he was looking one direction and moving his head as he got shot, and then completed the movement to seem like he had been looking farther than he had at the exact moment he was shot.
2. in all the conspiracies no one thinks that the guy filming it isn't in on it? Guy is filming, right before Trump is shot, he pans to himself giving a symbol, Trump gets shot, and he seems to be the first to drop into cover before the people next to him do.

There was a picture of the bullet that passed by/through Trump. As shown on the photograph, it was traveling at an angle you'd expect from the sniper on the roof 140 yards away.

If it was shot from a vantage point several hundred feet in the air, it would have traveled at a far steeper angle...

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

I know the far right wants it to be a conspiracy but completly ignoring publicly traded financial information and basic laws of geometry and physics aint gonna get you there....

 

[LSU-SIU]

I know the far right wants it to be a conspiracy but completly ignoring publicly traded financial information and basic laws of geometry and physics aint gonna get you there....

Nobody ever goes to jail and it doesn't matter what you have. What do you think is available on Russia Gate and Hillary? Everything.

Really the only loose end on RG/Hillary is whether or not Seth Rich had the DNC emails and who he was killed by. Which the government is withholding and the reasons for their withholding are telling.

Everything else is more or less known.

Iran Contra they basically had tons.... nobody went to jail, not really. Heck, Papa Bush made sure he was as far away as he could get, didn't stop the rest of the family.

 

[StarRaider]

when all yall Jim Garrison wannabes get this figured out... do that tag me thing that yall do. Thank you and good nite.

 

[LSU-SIU]

when all yall Jim Garrison wannabes get this figured out... do that tag me thing that yall do. Thank you and good nite.

If someone is waiting to find out about all this.... maybe their great grand children will get a few worthless documents.

Most of the real evidence left that day, the rest was mostly destroyed the following days.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Nobody ever goes to jail and it doesn't matter what you have. What do you think is available on Russia Gate and Hillary? Everything.

Really the only loose end on RG/Hillary is whether or not Seth Rich had the DNC emails and who he was killed by. Which the government is withholding and the reasons for their withholding are telling.

Everything else is more or less known.

Iran Contra they basically had tons.... nobody went to jail, not really. Heck, Papa Bush made sure he was as far away as he could get, didn't stop the rest of the family.

Not sure what any of that has to do with actual pictures of the bullet traveling at an angle that you would expect of sniper perched a few feet off the ground on a low elevation roof vs a sniper several hundred feet in the air.....

Clearly slope is not just an issue for the SS...

 

[jmacvols1]

catturd2 is re-posting info on water tower now...

 

[LSU-SIU]

Not sure what any of that has to do with actual pictures of the bullet traveling at an angle that you would expect of sniper perched a few feet off the ground on a low elevation roof vs a sniper several hundred feet in the air.....

Clearly slope is not just an issue for the SS...

know the far right wants it to be a conspiracy

Whether its a conspiracy of any kind is probably immaterial at this point. Nobody cares. If the people in the forum want to discuss that is cool, but nobody is really going down... not really.

The crazy talk to me would be people being held accountable for whatever happened.... it just doesn't happen.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Timeline:

5:09pm suspect spotted by local cops. Identified as a person of interest.

5:30 spotted with a golf rangefinder

5:51 PA State cops tell Secret Service (S.S.) about suspicious person

5:52 Crooks spotted on roof by S.S.

5:53 S.S. notifies snipers

6:02 Trump on stage

6:09 people outside the secure area spot shooter on roof

6:11 Crooks takes his first shot - sniper kills Crooks 26 seconds after Crooks fires his first shot

Reports that Crooks posted a message on a gaming platform foreshadowing his shooting may turn out to be false. The FBI now believes the account on Steam in Crooks' name that posted "July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds," is fake.

Sheriff Michael Slupe, Butler County said "the deputies under my control did their job and went above and beyond after the shooting stopped and the chaos began."

Local police told the S.S. before the event they could not provide enough cops to cover all the buildings.

S.S. asked for a cop car to be stationed at the building. The request was denied.

Officers were stationed inside the complex of buildings that Crooks climbed onto, but the cops missed seeing him.

Crooks climbed onto the roof using the air conditioning units.

Police confirm the bike and backpack found after the shooting belong to Crooks.

Female Secret Service agents have been criticized for their actions right after the shooting. Some, including Donald Trump Jr. criticize one female agent for having difficulty putting her gun back in her holster. Fox News critics say the female agents looked panicked and not composed compared to the male agents. People have said the female agents were too short to shield Trump from bullets.

There was an FBI briefing on the evening of July 17.

Secret Service director was 'chased out' of Republican Nat. Convention by GOP members questioning her.

School guidance counselor says Crooks was a very good student who only missed one day of class during last year of high school.

Other students teased Crooks and called him a school shooter.

New video captures Crooks in the distance an hour before the shooting, walking all around the building he later climbed up on.

Crooks visited the site twice after the event was announced on July 3.

GOP senator Mike Lee says Crooks was identified as suspicious 19 minutes before the shooting.

It was a sniper from a local tactical team deployed to assist the U.S. Secret Service at the rally who saw Crooks looking through a rangefinder and took a picture of the gunman and immediately radioed to the command post
Feds identify Crooks as "an apparent lone attacker" who was a politically motivated homegrown domestic violent extremist.

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Dept. of Homeland Security's inspector general opens investigation into rally planning, and President Biden said he is directing an independent review to determine what went wrong.

Senator John Barrasso confronts Secret Service director at Republican National Convention, demands a "resignation or full explanation" from Cheatle.

Barrasso references phone briefing of senators by Cheatle earlier in the day. Later, senators expressed frustration that the call included no pertinent information and was cut off after only a few questions.

Barrasso: "We didn't get any of the responses that were necessary from you,"
Cheatle agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee hearing on July 22

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Crooks used 2 cell phones to search about Trump appearances and the dates of the Rep. National convention, and the Democratic National Convention. He searched for images of Trump and Biden. Crooks also searched FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland, members of the British Royal Family. He also had photos on his phone of Rudy Guliani, House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

He searched about major depression disorder and treatment. But he was not officially diagnosed with any disorder. (his parents are both social workers)

There still no indication of motive, ideology or political views.

FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress on Wednesday that more than 200 interviews have been done during the investigation so far, and over 14,000 images have been reviewed. Law enforcement still has not determined a motive for the shooting.

The two men who were wounded in the Trump shooting were upgraded on Wednesday from critical to serious condition. Both James Copenhaver, 74, and David Dutch, 57, are patients at Allegheny General Hospital.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell calls for "new leadership at the Secret Service" "the nation deserves answers and accountability" and a change in leadership at Secret Service would be "an important step in that direction."

House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to call for Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign. He plans to set the task force on Monday. It will work as a "precision strike," able to move quickly by avoiding some procedural hurdles that other investigatory avenues face in Congress. It would be a bipartisan task force, made up of both Republicans and Democrats.

Local police told the Secret Service in a preplanning meeting a week before the rally that they did not have the manpower to place a patrol car outside the building where Crooks shot from. Local police instead planned to secure the building with police personnel and tactical teams.

CBS news analysis of video and satellite imagery shows a tree may have prevented one of the sniper teams tasked with protecting Trump from seeing the gunman.



The tree, located between the gunman and the sniper team closest to him, may have impaired the team's line of sight as the gunman climbed onto the roof. That team was located on the other side of the former president and was initially directed in another way, so the snipers had to reorient themselves before taking down the gunman.

Cops recovered three fully loaded magazines from the rally Saturday. The magazines belonged to the gunman. It's not clear if the magazines were found on the gunman's body or in his vehicle.

It is still unclear why Crooks shot Trump. The FBI has cracked into his phone, scoured his computer, home and car, and interviewed more than 200 people as they search for answers.
The gunman appears to have been an intelligent loner with few friends, an apparently thin social media platform and no hints of strong political beliefs. He was described by former classmates from high school as smart but standoffish, often seen wearing headphones, sitting alone at lunch, looking at his phone. "He sat by himself, didn't talk to anyone, didn't even try to make conversation," "He was an odd kid,"

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On July 3, 2024, it was announced that Trump would hold a rally on July 13, near Butler Pennsylvania.

U.S. Representative Mike Kelly said he had contacted the Trump campaign to recommend holding the rally in an area that could handle a larger crowd than the Butler Farm Show Grounds, and their response was, "We appreciate your input but we've already made up our minds"

Attendees at Trump's rallies are screened for prohibited items, including weapons. The Secret Service routinely screens and monitors nearby buildings and businesses, including structures outside security perimeters. Four separate counter-sniper teams were assigned to the event, two from the Secret Service and two from local law enforcement.

The Secret Service had increased the size of Trump's security detail several weeks ago because of intelligence indicating that Iran was plotting to assassinate Trump.

On the day of the assassination attempt, Thomas Matthew Crooks borrowed his father's rifle—a DPMS Panther Arms-produced AR-15–style rifle with a 16" barrel (32" total length), chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO, effective at the range of the shooting (148 yards). Crooks told his father he was going to the range to practice shooting.

Crooks purchased a five-foot (1.5-meter) ladder and 50 more rounds of ammo before driving to the site of the rally with two remotely operated explosive devices in the trunk of his car. He still had the receipt for the ladder in his pocket when he was killed.

He climbed onto the roof of a building around 400 feet (120 meters) north of the venue stage through an air conditioning unit. Crooks did not undergo security screening, as his rooftop location was outside the Secret Service's security perimeter for the rally.

Local cops were assigned responsibility for securing the building from where Crooks shot Trump. (The local PD says they were not responsible for securing this location)

Crooks was first noticed by police 3 hours before the shooting. He passed through the magnetometers with a rangefinder (used by hunters to determine the distance to prey), causing the cops to determine he was suspcious. A police officer saw Crooks and reported him, and took his photograph. This is the first photo everybody started sharing of Crooks, hours after the shooting, taken from above and behind, in the grey shirt, with his head turned to the left side.

The police officer saw him 'scoping out' the roof and carrying a range finder. A cop approached Crooks, but he backed up into the crowd, out of sight.

An officer searched for Crooks but did not find him. Multiple local law enforcement officers identified Crooks and believed that he might have been acting suspiciously near the event's magnetometers; they expressed their suspicions over the radio, and their radio communications were available to the Secret Service.

People attending the rally noticed Crooks pacing and acting strangely. The counter snipers noticed him looking at them through this rangefinder, but he had no gun with him at that time. But then he left the area. He went outside the outer perimiter, and it's believed he got the gun from his car at that time.

How did he carry the gun without it being very visible? Police found a bicycle and a backpack left after the shooting, that they believe belonged to Crooks.

At 5:45 p.m., a member of the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit tactical team saw Crooks on a roof, notified other security services, and photographed Crooks.

Several bystanders also witnessed a man carrying a rifle on the rooftop and alerted the police about him nearly a minute and a half before shots were fired at Trump.

A Butler Township police officer attempted to climb to the roof of the building in search of Crooks, hoisted by another officer. Crooks spotted the officer while the officer's hands were clinging to the edge of the roof and aimed his rifle at the officer, at which point the officer let go, falling 8 feet (2.4 m) to the ground and severely injuring his ankle. The cops then contacted the Secret Service. 86 seconds later, Crooks fired his first of 8 shots.

Trump arrived onstage at the rally at about 6:03 p.m. Eight minutes into his speech, at approximately 6:11 p.m., Crooks fired eight shots. He was then shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper.

At about 11 pm, 5 hours after the shooting, Crooks father phoned police and told them his son hadn't come home, and had a rifle with him. That call, and tracing the rifle, preliminarily identified him to the FBI.

The building that Crooks shot from was a staging area for local police. Three police snipers were inside the building, but none were present on the roof or able to cover it. This was attributed to "extremely poor planning" and manpower shortages.

The Secret Security director said the decision was made to not put police on the roof because it was sloped. But the Secret Service snipers that shot Crooks were on another roof that was more steeply sloped than the roof that Crooks was on.

Dep. of Homeland Securty secretary admitted "mistakes were made."

The Secret Service disputed claims that it did not provide requested extra protection for Trump.

President Biden ordered an independent review on the federal security provided by the Secret Service in order to comprehend how the gunman got so close to assassinating Trump. The findings of this review will be made public.
House speaker Mike Johnson says congress will investigate: he says "Pretty clearly there was a security lapse. ... Why were drones not used in the area?"

The shooting has also set off a wave of finger-pointing across multiple law enforcement agencies as to who was responsible for securing the building the gunman used. The Secret Service has blamed local authorities, without naming specific agencies.

The Secret Service has said it was responsible for securing an inner perimeter. But the building was part of the outer perimeter and therefore left to local authorities to protect.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was approved to receive Secret Service protection two days after the Trump shooting. Kennedy had previously sought protection from the Secret Service but was denied.

He worked in the kitchen of an old age home, preparing food.

He passed a background check to get his job.

He told his boss at work and said he needed Saturday off.

Crooks was not on any list of people threatening the ex-president.

Both of his parents worked as licensed professional counselors. They are social workers.

The day before the shooting, Crooks went to a shooting range near where he lived where he was a member to practice.

He had 3 full magazines with nearly 100 rounds.

He was wearing a bulletproof vest.

A review of Crooks' shipping history has also raised some eyebrows. In recent months, some packages delivered to Crooks were marked for possibly containing hazardous material.

Two remote control bombs were found in his car and a simlar device in his home. These had wires coming out of a box with a receiver, and Crooks had a transmitter/controller with him.

Did Crooks plan to detonate a remote control bomb to distract police, if he decided he needed to? Was he going to blow up the bombs in his car after the shooting to cause chaos to help him get away?

There were pro-Trump signs in front of Crooks house.

Over 12 firearms were in the Crooks home, legally owned.

FBI has how searched Crooks cell phone and laptop computer, and found VERY little. Practically nothing.

He had almost no social media presence. There is still no clue about his motive.

Public records have not given any good indication of his views; his political activities have seemingly showcased diverging and internally contradicting beliefs, with no known posts on social media websites or writings indicating his ideology.

Commentators say we may never know his motives.

Crooks was bullied at school and sat alone at lunch time. Other students mocked him for the clothes he wore, which included hunting outfits and because he wore face masks. He was a quiet loner. He was bullied almost every day. He was just a outcast.

Students didn't recall Crooks having friends, playing sports or being involved in any student groups while attending high school.

He had no known criminal record, and the FBI say there was no indication he had mental health problems.

His voter registration was active since September 2021, the month he turned 18, and his party registration was Republican. He had only voted in the 2022 midterm elections.

On January 20, 2021, at the age of 17, he donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic Party donation platform ActBlue. His donation was made the same day President Joe Biden was sworn into office. According to the Progressive Turnout Project, he made the donation in response to an e-mail about "tuning into" the inauguration and was unsubscribed from the group's mailing list in 2022.

He briefly appeared in a 2022 advertisement for the investment firm BlackRock that was filmed at his high school; BlackRock pulled the ad from circulation after the attempted assassination.
FBI/DHS security bulletin has warned about retaliatory violence.

The man in the audience who died was said to be trying to shield his family from the shots when he was shot and killed.

He was a firefighter. Flags in Pennsylvania have been lowered to half staff to honor him.
Biden phoned Trump the night of the shooting to offer his condolences.

Biden asked the Secret Service to review all security measures for the Republican National Convention.

Security has been stepped up around Trump properties, like Trump Tower, with more visible police presence.

Multiple security professionals are 'shocked,' 'astounded' that the shooter got so close to Trump.

FBI says Crooks acted alone.

His school records showed no disciplinary, student conduct or security-related incidents.

He graduated high school in 2022.

He graduated college in May 2024 with an associate degree in engineering science. He was accepted into the U. of Pittsburgh for fall 2024, but decided not to attend.

He had a membership for at least a year at a local shooting club.

Crooks did not make the Bethel Park High School varsity rifle team. A classmate said he was a terrible shot. He was laughed at because of his terrible shooting.

Max Smith, who took an American history course with Crooks, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that his former classmate "definitely was conservative".

Mr Smith recalled a mock debate in which they both took part, saying: "The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side."

Crooks' family is cooperating with investigators, according to the FBI. His father bought the gun around 6 months ago.

Police have conducted hundreds of interviews.

Crooks motive is still a mystery.

After police discovered two remote control bombs in Crooks car, they evacuated neighbors around midnight Saturday night from the homes around the Crook house. Police found another bomb in the house.

The two critically wounded people in the audience are now stable. They've been identified.

The shooting is being investigated by the FBI as an act of domestic terrorism.

The shooter was not in any FBI database.

Nobody is suspected of helping him, and nobody is known to have known what he was going to do.

After days of pressure from several Asian American organizations, the New York Post has apologized for initially misidentifying the Trump shooter as a "Chinese man."

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A Joint Intelligence Bulletin put out Monday by the FBI and the Department Homeland Security warning that extremists may carry out attacks they perceive to be in retaliation for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

"The FBI and DHS remain concerned about the potential for follow-on or retaliatory acts of violence following this attack, particularly given that individuals in some online communities have threatened, encouraged, or referenced acts of violence in response to the attempted assassination. FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told reporters Sunday the FBI is seeing increased violence rhetoric online.