A new video posted to X shows the would-be Trump assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, as he crawled up the roof in order to try to assassinate President Trump. The Secret Service has come up with a new excuse for not guarding the roof Crooks used for his attack. The slope was too steep, but it wasn’t too steep for Crooks, was it? A policeman encountered Crooks with his rifle a half hour before the shooting began.
So, either that policeman did not tell anyone or he did tell someone who chose to ignore that fact. If the policeman didn’t report it, he should be investigated and charged because he wanted the shooter to succeed, making him an accessory. If he did tell someone, that person must be investigated and put away in a maximum security prison. Someone dropped the ball, and they need to answer for it. It i inconceivable that it was a simple mistake.
Witnesses watched as Crooks climbed on the roof with his rifle, and they tried to get someone’s attention. But to no avail, or was it? I find this whole thing very suspicious and although I am not prepared to say this was intentional, I am unable to rule out the possibility.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL🚨Wild video shows the shooter crawling into position while folks point him out to law enforcement at Trump rally. pic.twitter.com/pYRvkSWZSb
— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) July 15, 2024
Video appears to show people in the crowd calling out to the sh**ter by name.
Secret Service was alerted that there was a suspicious person with a gun on the roof.
They didn’t do anything.
Unbelievable failure by Secret Service. https://t.co/tharQ5hlc2
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2024
One Trump rallygoer told CBS News, “I was just standing there like everyone else, just waiting for Trump. And as Trump started, I noticed two officers looking for something or somebody.”
The witness added, “So I was looking around myself and seen a guy on top of one of the buildings go in between one building to the next and went and told the officer he was up there.”
A witness to the shooting at Donald Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, says he saw the gunman on a roof and flagged the suspect to police right before shots rang out. https://t.co/nSwmWOaGFa pic.twitter.com/exD1ONtdih
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 14, 2024
Another witness who spoke to BBC News said the gunman was ‘bear crawling’ up the roof of the unsecured building. The witness said he was pointing at the gunman for two to three minutes and trying to alert police to the potential threat.
Police officers were running around clueless. Secret Service was looking in the direction of the shooter with their binoculars, according to the witness.
EYE WITNESS describes to BBC News reporter seeing man with rifle on roof of building firing shots at President Trump rally in Pennsylvania before being shot by Secret Service pic.twitter.com/8Dfk19FsgH
— Georgina (@gs_mick) July 13, 2024
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that after audience members pointed out to local law enforcement officers that Crooks was climbing a ladder onto the roof of a building, the officer followed and eventually confronted the would-be assassin.
Crooks responded by pointing his gun at the officer. The person in blue retreated down the ladder, and Crooks immediately fired a shot at Trump.
A new report by NBC News revealed the Secret Service identified the rooftop next to Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania event as a security vulnerability days before the rally.
The agents failed to secure the building so a man with a rifle was able to climb up to the roof, position his scope, and fire several shots at President Trump.
A bullet grazed Trump’s right ear. Two rally attendees were wounded. One Trump supporter was fatally shot.
