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They Lied To You About The Trump Shooter · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: The picture is an icon of the twenty first century
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  Speaker 1: to many, the forty seventh President of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America being swept away by the Secret Service as
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  Speaker 1: he raised a fist, blood cascading across the right side
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  Speaker 1: of his face. Captured by Evan Vucci, a photojournalist for
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  Speaker 1: the Associated Press, The attempted of Donald Trump came as
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  Speaker 1: a surprise to many in July of twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: On July thirteenth of last year, Donald Trump, then a
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  Speaker 1: former president of the US and presumptive nominee of the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party in the upcoming twenty twenty four presidential election,
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  Speaker 1: survived in an attempt while speaking at an open air
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  Speaker 1: campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania, as eight rounds were fired
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  Speaker 1: from twenty year old Thomas Matthew Crooks's AR fifteen style
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  Speaker 1: rifle from the roof of a nearby building. Trump clasped
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  Speaker 1: his ear and took cover behind the lectern, where Secret
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  Speaker 1: Service agents shielded him until Crooks was seconds later by
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  Speaker 1: the counter sniper team of the US Secret Service, while
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  Speaker 1: Trump was then taken to Butler Memorial Hospital to be treated,
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  Speaker 1: and news outlets every every where began reporting on the incident,
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  Speaker 1: the world was left wondering who.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly was his kid.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly Thomas Crooks was not a Special Operations sniper.
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  Speaker 2: But who was he?
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do this video because I realized that
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  Speaker 1: nobody ever really talked about Thomas Crooks. Now, there have
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  Speaker 1: been scattered reports and some small pieces of journalism that
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  Speaker 1: have taken the dive into Thomas's background, but this wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really something that I ever saw discussed widely. There were
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  Speaker 1: no documentaries about the alleged shooter, there were no continued
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  Speaker 1: news articles diving into his background. I mean, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like a year later, we've completely moved on and we've
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  Speaker 1: forgotten this guy and never really never really looked at
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  Speaker 1: who he was, what he allegedly stood for, and what
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  Speaker 1: could have led him to allegedly carry this out.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I have my own opinions about this event. We are
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about those today. But once you start
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  Speaker 1: looking at the Trumpet story and you start noticing the
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  Speaker 1: weird inconsistencies and the patterns in the official story, and
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  Speaker 1: the things that Thomas Crooks was doing before be shooting,
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  Speaker 1: the strange behavior of officials and those that were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be protecting Donald Trump that afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a ball of yarn or string.
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  Speaker 1: You start pulling on that string and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing begins to unravel. So that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: examining today here on The Conspiracy Files. All parties are
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  Speaker 1: presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to check out where I got the
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  Speaker 1: information for today's show, look at the resources document in
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  Speaker 1: the comment section. These are solely my opinions. Colin Brown
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  Speaker 1: the host and producer of The Conspiracy Files, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't plan on going anywhere or doing anything to myself
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  Speaker 1: in the near future.
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  Speaker 2: With all that said, let's do a deep dive.
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  Speaker 1: want to know your guys' thoughts and theories when dealing
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  Speaker 1: with this story, because there's a lot that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about today, and I love hearing from y'all.
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  Speaker 1: But Anyways, let's get back to it. So, who was
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Matthew Crooks.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Matthew Crooks was born on September twentieth, two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and three, in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to parents who were
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  Speaker 1: licensed professional counselors. Thomas Crooks grew up with high honors
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  Speaker 1: in both math and science and had perfect scores on
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  Speaker 1: three Advanced Placement exams, with a score of fifteen thirty
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  Speaker 1: out of sixteen hundred on the SAT. Classmates and school
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  Speaker 1: officials characterized Crooks as being quiet and odorous, both of
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  Speaker 1: which he was often bullied for. Thomas Crooks's high school
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  Speaker 1: friends knew very little about his home life and his
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  Speaker 1: tight knit family. They were rarely invited over to the
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  Speaker 1: Crooks's home to play or, as they got older, hang out,
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  Speaker 1: have a sleepover, do normal young kid things. Crooks eventually
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  Speaker 1: earned an associate degree in engineering science from the Community
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  Speaker 1: College of Alleghany County in Pittsburgh just two months before
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  Speaker 1: the shooting. He was employed as a dietary aid in
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  Speaker 1: a nursing home at the time of the shooting, and
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  Speaker 1: according to the nursing home, which is actually less than
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  Speaker 1: a mile away from where Crooks lived, he had passed
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  Speaker 1: a background check in performed his job without concern.
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  Speaker 2: It's a quote from them.
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  Speaker 1: Crooks had been accepted into both the University of Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: and Robert Morris University in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, northwest of Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: and planned to attend the latter, but obviously he never
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  Speaker 1: made it now.
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  Speaker 2: According to the official.
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  Speaker 1: Story, Thomas Crooks's father noticed his mental health declining in
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  Speaker 1: the year before the shooting, and particularly in the months
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  Speaker 1: after graduation. His father later told investigators that he had
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  Speaker 1: seen his son Thomas Crooks talking to himself and dancing
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  Speaker 1: around his bedroom late at night, and that the family
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  Speaker 1: had a history of mental health and addiction issues. Interviews
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  Speaker 1: with Crooks's teachers, friends, and co workers suggest that many
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  Speaker 1: people who interacted with him regularly didn't know that he
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  Speaker 1: was troubled.
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  Speaker 2: They had no idea that.
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  Speaker 1: He was facing these mental demons. To them, Thomas Crooks
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  Speaker 1: seemed like your average normal young guy. There were no
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  Speaker 1: red flags, nothing that they noticed in his day to
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  Speaker 1: day life. In Thomas Crooks's person search history on the Internet, though,
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  Speaker 1: it was found that he had recently been looking up
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  Speaker 1: symptoms of major depressive disorder a mood disorder that causes
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  Speaker 1: a persistent feeling of sadness and a loss of interest,
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  Speaker 1: citing loved ones and x classmates. The FBI later stated
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  Speaker 1: that Crook's quote would routinely sway back and forth while
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  Speaker 1: standing at the bus stop end quote. The agency said
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  Speaker 1: that despite his at times odd behavior, Crooks was never
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  Speaker 1: officially diagnosed with any disorders. A New York Post article
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  Speaker 1: stated that Crooks fit the profile of a loner or
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  Speaker 1: outcast whose life had been characterized by isolation or rejection,
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  Speaker 1: with obsessive compulsive tendencies. In an act for the Mechanical
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  Speaker 1: or Technical, which included guns quote, one thing I thought
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  Speaker 1: was interesting. They said he didn't have friends. Nance said
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  Speaker 1: why that wasn't a red flag for them from the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning is a question.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a parent.
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  Speaker 1: Any parent can tell you that if your child does
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  Speaker 1: not have friends, that's going to be a big concern.
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that his parents were both certified counselors
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  Speaker 1: raises questions about the level of their engagement. In a
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  Speaker 1: Newsweek article, author Paul Jianfritdo, former CEO and president of
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  Speaker 1: Mental Health America, discusses the fact that he wrote a
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  Speaker 1: book in twenty fourteen, in which he discussed the lack
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  Speaker 1: of effective tools when it comes to identifying predictors of violence.
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  Speaker 1: Johanfritdo in particular, notes that the health and education systems
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  Speaker 1: in America failed his son, who had schizophrenia. He also
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  Speaker 1: went on the record and said that quote, there are
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  Speaker 1: kinds of conditions that arise out of being bullied out
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  Speaker 1: of homes where there has been a violent kind of
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  Speaker 1: living in communities where there's been a great deal of violence.
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  Speaker 1: These tend to create problems for people and are more
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  Speaker 1: likely to be predictors of the kind of violence we
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  Speaker 1: saw on Saturday end quote. Janfriddo also suggested a critical
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  Speaker 1: note of opening a dialogue with the child's teachers, who
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  Speaker 1: may observe behaviors in the classroom that may not be
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  Speaker 1: obvious at home. In July twenty twenty four at a
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  Speaker 1: news conference, FBI officials announced that they had not found
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  Speaker 1: any evidence related to health treatment for Thomas Crooks, any
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  Speaker 1: prior history of institutionalization or medications that he had been prescribed.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks's His own father went on to say that
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  Speaker 1: he quote didn't know anything end quote about his own son,
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  Speaker 1: indicating that Thomas's spiral into violence allegedly went largely unnoticed.
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  Speaker 2: So right here a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit of a classic story. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: say that it's false. I'm not going to say it's true.
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  Speaker 1: This is all up to you guys to decide. But
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  Speaker 1: we do have the classic lone wolf mental health narrative
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  Speaker 1: here of people that didn't notice the warning signs and
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  Speaker 1: the red flags. Now I on my podcast with my wife,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about mass shootings in America and the violence
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  Speaker 1: that comes with those shootings all the time, and it
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  Speaker 1: is oftentimes just a societal failure, a failure of parents
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  Speaker 1: to recognize changes, a failure of officials or even teachers
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  Speaker 1: in school to notice anything weird, failure of friends to
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  Speaker 1: report alarming things.
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  Speaker 2: That kids are doing.
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  Speaker 1: But also you do have these cases where people seem
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  Speaker 1: really normal and they don't necessarily give these red flags.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like, you know, these mass shooters are walking around.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes they are, but it's not like they're
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  Speaker 1: saying normally, I'm gonna go tomorrow and thirty eight people.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like they're saying those sorts of things, these
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  Speaker 1: sorts of criminals, and these minds, these murderous minds are
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  Speaker 1: typically very good at hiding their plans, but also they're
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  Speaker 1: good at deceiving people, So I don't know. It's weird, though,
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  Speaker 1: it's very strange that he had no friends. There was
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  Speaker 1: no prior history, recorded history of mental health issues other
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  Speaker 1: than what people verbally said that Thomas Crooks did. Make
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  Speaker 1: of that what you will, but we're going to continue.
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  Speaker 1: In late twenty twenty three, Thomas Crooks pivoted and began
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  Speaker 1: keeping a new set of secrets, building homemade improvised explosive
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  Speaker 1: devices in his bedroom. At one point, Thomas ordered more
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  Speaker 1: than two gallons of nitromethane from an online specialty fuel
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  Speaker 1: retailer using an encrypted account. Documents obtained by CBS News
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  Speaker 1: show twelve days later, Thomas Crooks's purchase hadn't been shipped,
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  Speaker 1: and via his community college email and operational mishap, he
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  Speaker 1: sent a message and inquired when those substances would be arriving. So,
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  Speaker 1: using an encrypted account, he's buying explosive materials. And then
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  Speaker 1: in the summer of twenty twenty three, Thomas Crooks bought
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  Speaker 1: a rifle from his own father for five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: and signed up for a membership at a local shooting range.
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  Speaker 1: He then became a regular at Clareton Sportsman's Club, about
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  Speaker 1: nine miles from his home, signing in to use the
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  Speaker 1: rifle range more than forty times in the last eleven
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  Speaker 1: months of his life, records now show. In addition, his
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  Speaker 1: Internet searches showed an increased interest in the news, explosives, Ammo,
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  Speaker 1: and even secrecy, including hundreds of visits to websites ranging
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  Speaker 1: from his academic email account and discussion boards to his
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  Speaker 1: bank news sites, gaming platforms, social media, weapons blogs, and
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  Speaker 1: stealers fan sites. Some notable searches that Thomas Crooks allegedly
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  Speaker 1: performed included searches for websites like Defense Mechanisms dot com,
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  Speaker 1: an online retailer of tactical apparel, and ammoseek dot com,
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  Speaker 1: a website that compares AMMO prices. It was also reported
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  Speaker 1: that Thomas conducted a Google search for how far away
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  Speaker 1: assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was from JFK in nineteen sixty three.
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  Speaker 1: This all increased tenfold though after Thanksgiving break twenty and
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. In particular, two days stand out December sixth
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  Speaker 1: of that year and January twenty fourth, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: On December sixth Thomas Crooks checked various news sites and
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  Speaker 1: the White House websites archives from Donald Trump's first administration,
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  Speaker 1: followed by visits to firearm websites. Then, on January twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, Thomas Crooks showed the single largest number
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  Speaker 1: of Internet requests in the logs, at one thousand, three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four requests in one day. Particularly in
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  Speaker 1: the last few months of his life, Thomas became increasingly
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  Speaker 1: rigid about secrecy, shrouting his activities through encrypted services and trying.
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  Speaker 2: To hide what he was doing online.
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  Speaker 1: After January twenty fourth, you see there are twenty five
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  Speaker 1: days of activity, but nearly all of them have just
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  Speaker 1: a few requests all time. The moulvad VPN that he
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  Speaker 1: started using consistently in order to attempt to mask his
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  Speaker 1: online activity and hide who he may have been talking
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  Speaker 1: to or what he may have been researching and doing
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  Speaker 1: on the Internet. Because you see, due to this VPN software,
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  Speaker 1: whatever Thomas Crooks was viewing on those days was not
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  Speaker 1: in his logs. However, on four of those days he
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  Speaker 1: did not use a VPN, and we can see that
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  Speaker 1: there were dozens or even hundreds of requests and searches
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  Speaker 1: made on February twenty six, twenty twenty four, for example,
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  Speaker 1: when not using a VPN, Crooks visited various websites such
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  Speaker 1: as ar fifteen dot com, Hornetty dot com, a manufacturer
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  Speaker 1: of ammunition and reloading components, Donald J. Trump dot com,
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  Speaker 1: and various news sites. In the month before July thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: so June of twenty twenty four, Thomas Crooks turned all
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  Speaker 1: of his attention to the presidential campaign, researching the candidates
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  Speaker 1: online more than sixty times, including searches on July fifth
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  Speaker 1: for DNC Convention and when is the RNC In twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, According to the FBI, he visited the Butler
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  Speaker 1: Farm show Grounds website in person on July seventh and
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  Speaker 1: searched for Butler Farm Show photos, according to investigators, the
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  Speaker 1: location where Trump would go on to hold that rally.
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  Speaker 1: He also seemingly researched AGR International, a company with buildings
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  Speaker 1: adjacent to the fairgrounds, and on July twelfth, twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: he visited the rifle range in Town one last time
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  Speaker 1: to fire off some final shots, according to many, in
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  Speaker 1: preparation for what was to come the next day. On
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  Speaker 1: the morning of the attack, Thomas Crooks drove to the
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  Speaker 1: Butler Farm show grounds and stayed for a little more
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  Speaker 1: than an hour before driving home. Investigators said that at
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  Speaker 1: about one point thirty pm, Thomas Crooks retrieved his rifle
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  Speaker 1: from his home. It was the gun he had purchased
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  Speaker 1: from his dad the year before. Thomas Crooks's father told
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  Speaker 1: investigators he believed his son was going to the range. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I do want to point something out here that I'm
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  Speaker 1: noticing right now as I'm reading my script that we
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  Speaker 1: researched and put together. It is strange with the Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Kirk shooting, you had a familial weapon as well. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: there is high strangeness with the Charlie Kirk affair. That
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  Speaker 1: is indeed a cover up in action, and we're not
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  Speaker 1: getting the truth.
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  Speaker 2: On that anytime soon. I don't believe.
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  Speaker 1: But you had the shooter in the Charlie Kirk saying
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  Speaker 1: that he had gotten that rifle from his own family.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was his grandfather's thirty odd six. And
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  Speaker 1: then here once again you have Thomas Crooks not getting
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  Speaker 1: his gun from a gun store, not getting his gun
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  Speaker 1: like normal people would if they had to go purchase
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  Speaker 1: a weapon, He's receiving it from a family member. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of an interesting little tidbit and a tie between the
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  Speaker 1: two that is kind of strange. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: to really make of that. But oftentimes with these mass
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  Speaker 1: shooter stories, you know, we see that someone goes into
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  Speaker 1: a store and it's just allowed to buy whatever they want.
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  Speaker 1: But in both of these high profile, highly politicized shootings,
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  Speaker 1: both of the alleged assailants received their weapons from a
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  Speaker 1: loved one or family member.
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  Speaker 2: Strange.
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  Speaker 1: So anyways, back to the day of the shooting, Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Crooks goes and grabs his rifle from the house. Crooks's
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  Speaker 1: father told investigators that he believed his son was just
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  Speaker 1: going to the range to practice shooting, and in addition
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  Speaker 1: to the rifle, that day, Thomas Crooks put a drone
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  Speaker 1: and two homemade bombs in his trunk, along with remote
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  Speaker 1: transmitters capable of detonating from more than one thousand feet away.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks then left a partially assembled explosive device in
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  Speaker 1: his bedroom. Afterwards, he went to a store near his
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  Speaker 1: home and bought ammunition, according to investigators, and then returned
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  Speaker 1: to the Butler Farm show grounds as Trump supporters lined
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  Speaker 1: up to enter the highly publicized rally in the height
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  Speaker 1: of Trump's presidential campaign, Thomas Crooks took a drone out
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  Speaker 1: of his car and flew it over the rally site
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  Speaker 1: for nearly twelve minutes, beginning at three point fifty one PM,
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  Speaker 1: potentially using the drone's cameras to view the ponium where
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  Speaker 1: mister Trump would soon speak. Now, I do want to
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  Speaker 1: note that that's incredibly bizarre. I have flown many, many drones,
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  Speaker 1: many many times, and drones aren't They're not only loud,
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  Speaker 1: but they're not invisible. You can clearly see a drone.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear a drone, So when there is a
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  Speaker 1: drone in the air, it's extremely noticeable. And I've tried
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  Speaker 1: to fly drones, and I've flown drones all over. But
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  Speaker 1: for example, like you can't fly drone near an airport,
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  Speaker 1: they have geo fencing. I think that's the proper term,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, essentially a large invisible gait that you
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  Speaker 1: can't fly the drone into for safety reasons.
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  Speaker 2: There are also areas where.
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  Speaker 1: You can't fly a drone super high because of safety reasons.
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  Speaker 1: There are also places like prisons, active prisons that you
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  Speaker 1: can't fly drones over.
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  Speaker 2: They have those.
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  Speaker 1: I think this technology uses GPS to create virtual boundaries
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  Speaker 1: in the air, preventing drones from entering restricted areas like
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  Speaker 1: airports or sensitive locations. So people are very aware of
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  Speaker 1: drones and what drones can do. And I think it's
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  Speaker 1: incredibly bizarre that all of the people that were there
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  Speaker 1: to attend this rally where really they were there, They
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  Speaker 1: were getting there, there were large crowds at this time.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously there were members of Trump's team that were there.
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  Speaker 1: They had set this whole thing up. Everything was already
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  Speaker 1: in place, like the podium was set up, the stage
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  Speaker 1: was set up, and yet nobody from the Secret Service
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  Speaker 1: or from any any local police, and nobody noticed this
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  Speaker 1: phantom drone flying in the air for twelve minutes over
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  Speaker 1: the area. And I mean, that's just really crazy to
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  Speaker 1: me that that drone would be able not only to
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  Speaker 1: fly in that area without being shot down by somebody,
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  Speaker 1: but also that it would fly for a whole twelve
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  Speaker 1: minutes and nobody would notice it or even say a thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's really bizarre, and that, as someone who has flown
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  Speaker 1: drones for years, that makes absolutely no sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: Because people definitely would have noticed it. They would have
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  Speaker 1: heard it. They would have seen it. Police officers would
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  Speaker 1: have seen it. Secret service I'm sure would have seen
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  Speaker 1: it or heard it.
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  Speaker 2: And you'd imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Someone would place a call and say, hey, are you
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  Speaker 1: flying a drone as your team? Oh no, this is
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  Speaker 1: a random drone like that. Drone could be anyone. It
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  Speaker 1: could have been a normal person trying to capture some
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  Speaker 1: drone shots. It could have been I don't know, some
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: sort of person that obviously wanted to wish Trump harm,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: which it was, but it's like they didn't care.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: It's so strange.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: However, it gets even weirder so three local police officers
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: from the area in Pennsylvania first noticed Thomas Crooks at
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: around five o'clock PM that afternoon. One officer, who was
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: performing the duties of a sniper that day, said that
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crook's quote stood out as he was alone and
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: he wasn't paying attention to the campaign festivities. He was
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: walking around the grassy area between AGR and the secondary
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: fence line, kept looking up looking at the building. One
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: point that is what raised my suspicion is he was
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: looking directly at the window. I was positioned at end quote.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: The AGR building that Crooks was allegedly staring at was
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: approximately one hundred and fifty yards from where Donald Trump
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: was speaking. Now, local officers immediately began keeping tabs on Crooks.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: One saw him using a rangefinder and even snapped photos
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: of him using this tool. At five point thirty nine
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: PM forty or so minutes later, another officer suggested notifying
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the Secret Service that there was a suspicious young man
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: acting suspiciously at the rally. A Pennsylvania State Police sergeant
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: later told investigators that he actually alerted Secret Service personnel
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: to the suspicious person. So you have multiple police officers
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: alerting the Secret Service, telling them that there's a suspicious
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: man scoping out essentially the stage where the former US
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: president and presumably next presidential nominee for the Republican Party
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: is about to be speaking in the open air, and
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: they are telling the Secret Service this. The police are
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: talking amongst themselves, they're documenting Crooks with photos, They're seeing
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: him acting really bizarre, but nothing, nothing happens. Later on,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Congressional Task Force investigators claimed that there was no indication
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: that that message reached Secret Service personnel on the stage
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: or those who were in charge of security. So you
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: have a suspicious man wandering around, scoping the stage, looking
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: at potential shooting locations. You have a phantom drone flying
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: in the air, and nobody on Donald Trump's security team cared,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: They didn't care, or they willfully blew it off obviously,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: or it was all pre planned.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just saying, but.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Anyways, just after six o'clock PM, another police officer saw
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks near a picnic table on the grounds and
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: watched him grab a backpack before he quote took off
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: running end quote, one local officer told investigators. Officers then
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: began to leave their posts to look for Thomas Crooks,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: who had seemingly disappeared between two buildings. Butler County District
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Attorney Richard Goldinger said in an interview with CBS News
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: that poor planning and communication gave Thomas Crooks the opportunity
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: he had been seeking.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: He claimed that quote.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Local police weren't apprized of the Secret Services security plan
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: until the afternoon of the shooting. It was never specified
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to local law enforcement that they were assigned to secure
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the area where Crooks was able to climb onto the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: building end quote. But I just find that so incredibly
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: bizarre and hard to believe. So for hours, you've got
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: the drone, you've got the officers taking pictures of crooks.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: You've got one officer seeing him scoping out a shooting spot.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: You've got one officer seeing him checking out the podium
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: area with the rangefinder. These police officers watched Thomas Crooks
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: grab a backpack and take off running, which is the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: most suspicious thing you can possibly imagine. And they actually
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: dispatch some of the officers from their posts to go
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: find this guy because he's acting so suspiciously, and yet
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: that somehow never reaches the Secret Service, and they don't
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: say we should postpone this event or not.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Allow this to go on. I mean, it's so bizarre,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Like it's just so weird.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn said that the agency
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: tasked with protecting Donald Trump bears full responsibility for what
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: happened next, and later said, quote, I would ask Americans
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to understand that it was an organizational failure within the
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Secret Service, and we are laser focused.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: On making sure that it never happens again. End quote.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Quinn said, but it's just really bizarre. There have been
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: so many, so many attempts on presidents and their lives
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: over the years that the Secret Service has successfully squashed
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: with way less information available. But you have here an
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: actual suspect who's been noticed by multiple police officers fleeing
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the police at the fair grounds where the president is
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: about to be standing, or the former president, i should say,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: is about to be standing in an open air, not amphitheater,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: but just on a stage, like a perfect target for
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: someone to shoot at. And they think, they say nothing
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of it, no one, no one takes any definitive action. Well,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: at six oh two pm that evening, Donald Trump took
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the stage and at that point Thomas Crooks ascended to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the rooftop. Just three minutes later at about six oh five,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: panic bystanders then began calling the police. Then at six
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: eleven PM, just a few moments before Thomas Crooks opened fire,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: a detective from the Butler Police Department actually decided to
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: pursue Thomas Crooks on the rooftop itself. He later described
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to congressional investigators the look on Thomas Crooks's face as
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the detective began to pull himself up, saying, quote, I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: see Crooks facing downrange towards the stage. But his eyes
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: are back at me as I'm coming up, and I
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: would say like his facial expression was surprised.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: His eyes were very big, like what are you doing
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: up here? End quote.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks turned his gun toward the detective, who fell backwards,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: and immediately radioed that.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: The suspect was armed.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: However, that message never made it to the security detail
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: for mister Trump. So now you have another massive red
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: flag being raised that there is an armed shooter on
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the rooftop aiming at Donald Trump, and that message never
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: reaches a secret Service. A few seconds later, Thomas Crooks
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: fired eight shots, which sadly would end up killing firefighter
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Corey Comparatore and allegedly injuring Donald Trump while also injuring
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to others. A Secret Service sniper immediately returned fire at
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Crook's hitting him in the face and killing him.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: So those are the events of that day. And if
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: you think that that's.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Weird enough, this is a deep, deep dark rabbit hole
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: that just keeps going. So afterwards, few details emerged about
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks's planning and motive. He left no written explanation,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and his political leanings remained unclear. Investigators visited the gun
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: club where Crooks frequented, the store where Crooks had purchased AMMO,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and another store where he had purchased a ladder that day.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Authorities questioned and interviewed Crooks's parents and anyone who had
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: ever interacted with him. They even checked the local library,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and the judge subpoenaed his online activity and coursework from college,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: much of which we already talked about earlier.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: So what was the deal?
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Was he actually committed to Trump? What was the plan
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: for those bombs? Did he plan to cause mass violence
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: at the rally that day? Or was there something even darker?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Was Crooks potentially put up to the task or was
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: he convinced to do it by some sort of darker,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: more malignant force or agency. Well, many question the credibility
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: of evidence and the circumstances that surrounded Thomas Crooks, with
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: some even going so far as to think he was
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: a cover story for the real alleged assassin. And now
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: we're going to discuss the strange things relating to Crooks's background,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the details of the event, and we're going to try
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: to establish a more confident angle and maybe even a hint.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Of a potential motive.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: So one of the strangest things to me in this
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: entire affair is the quote Blackrock connection. So in twenty
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: twenty two, Thomas Crooks himself appeared in a video advertisement
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: for the investment firm and conspiracy lightning Rod Blackrock. Blackrock
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: stated that quote, we ran an ad featuring a t
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: mature from Bethel Park High School in which several unpaid
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: students briefly appeared in the background, including Thomas Crooks end quote.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know, Blackrock is a
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: major investor in gun companies including Stern Ruger and American
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Outdoor Brand, the owner of Smith and Wesson. Blackrock is
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: also one of the largest investment firms in the world.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Blackrock is a company has a net worth of around
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty billion dollars. Now that is, I mean,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: obviously a very very large amount of money, but that's
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: not where a lot of these conspiracies really spring from.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: A lot of these theories come from the fact that
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: as of October twenty twenty five, the total monetary value
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: of the assets under management or AUM of Blackrock as
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: a company totals a little over thirteen point five trillion dollars.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: This one company controls over thirteen point five trillion dollars
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: worth of assets. I want you to think about that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Think of how much money that is. Think of how
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: much a billion dollars is.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: A billion being a thousand millions.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Then you have a trillion, which is a thousand billions.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Then you have a thirteen point five trillion, which is
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: thirteen thousand, five hundred billions, which is just insane. Blackrock
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: is actually the world's largest asset management firm, and there
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: are a lot of different, sketchy, disturbing things that they're
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: doing to our country. We can make a whole video
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: about them. One of the things that Blackrock is notorious
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: for doing is buying up houses and properties and trying
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to purchase loads of US single family homes in order
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: to price out essentially average house buyers or home buyers,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: people that are looking to purchase homes. And this theory
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: posits that Blackrock, along with others, are essentially attempting to
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: turn America into a country that large argely and exclusively
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: rents property and doesn't actually own anything. Black Rock holds
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: stakes in roughly ninety five percent of s and p
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: five hundred companies. They are invested in almost every single
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: company imaginable. It's like those things where you go, you
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: know who owns Lucky Charms, Well, I don't know ke
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Log who owns kell Log, I don't know Golden Cereal Brands?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Who owns Golden Cereal?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Smith and Co? Who owns Smith and Co? Blackrock.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: It's one of those things where like you trail back
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the money on so many of these companies, and in
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of these cases they all push back to Blackrock.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: They're invested in pharma, They're invested in real estate, defense, tech,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: they even have investments in Fox News, dominion voting systems,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: all sorts, pretty much every facet.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Of American life. Blackrock is invested in it.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I can guarantee you and we can do a whole
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: video about them and how evil of a company Blackrock is.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: And additionally, on the surface, Blackrock regularly stresses the value
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: of ESG and conscious capitalism, including making specific comments in
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the past about how gun manufacturers should do more to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: prevent their products from being misused. For example, after the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Parkland High School shooting, black Rock released a statement in
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: part saying, quote the recent tragedy in Florida has driven
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: home for Blackrock the terrible toll from gun violence in America.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: We believe that this event requires response and action from
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: a wide range of entities across both the public and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: private sectors.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: End quote.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: That's a statement that on its face I can agree with.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I think that there definitely is a problem. We don't
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: need to get into that here, but it sounds like
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: they're recognizing that there's a problem in there in a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: way contributing to it. But they've actually done next to nothing.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: And there's absolutely zero evidence that indicates that any of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the companies in part controlled by black Rock or controlled
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: by Blackrock, or that Blackrock has invested in made any
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: policy or product changes in order to try to combat
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: gun violence. And obviously they have now played a part
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: in the Trump alleged attempt. So remember, black Rock is
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: a lightning rod of conspiracy. It's been brought up by
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: politicians that are in the White House right now, It's
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: been brought up by Democrats, it's been brought up by Republicans.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: They're just kind of an evil supervillain.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Sort of company.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: And now you got Thomas Crooks, the alleged Trump in
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a black Rock video. Yeah, it's very very strange that
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: you have that connection there, Blackrock being, according to many,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: a you know, an evil overlord type company that is
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: pulling the strings, one of the companies pulling the streams.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: They have the largest asset management firm on our thirteen
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and a half trillion dollars worth of assets, with their
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: fingers and tendrils in almost every sort of industry in America.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Now you have the alleged Trump in a promotional video
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: for Blackrock a few years before this all happened. It's very,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: very very strange, but.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: We need to move on. So.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: According to a CNN Politics article by journalists Maggie de
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Pui Camp and Sharif Paget, Thomas Crooks was seen casually
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: walking around the Trump rally nearly ninety minutes before the attempt.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: The video, taken at four to twenty six pm by
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Joe Tomco, a merchandise vendor, showed Thomas Crooks and other
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: rally attendees walking by booths that were selling Trump memorabilia
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: cross the field from the American Glass Research Complex. In
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the video, Crooks does it appear to be suspicious and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: is seen unarmed. This was taken less than an hour
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: before law enforcement first photographed Crooks. Additionally, like I said before,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: several others spotted Thomas Crooks on the rooftop shortly before
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the attempt on Trump's life. Now videos posted to social
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: media and attendees interviews with journalists show the mounting panic
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: people felt as they understood the potential threat. For example,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: one fifty two second video shows a group of rally
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: goers outside the perimeter of the open air venue loudly
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: announcing the gunman's presence.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Take a look.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: On the top of the roof. Look, Garry is right there,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: right there. See him. He's laying down.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: He's laying down.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: What's happening? Look because.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: There he is right there, The man who apparently recorded
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: the video says on camera as he points upwards a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: blurry finger briefly covering the lens.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Right there. See him, He's laying down. See him.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Seconds later, someone off camera can be heard shouting what
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: sounds like a warning to the police officer. Trump can
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: be heard on loud speakers talking about dangerous people and
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: criminals coming through the southern US border. As a woman yells,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: he's on the roof. The woman keeps yelling, he's right there.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: He's right on the roof.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Then the video ends. Also in the video, you can
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: see three police officers walking off toward the opposite direction
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: of the building that Crooks was on. Another video by
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: witness Mike Defrisia and his wife captured Thomas Crooks laying
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: on the roof, very clear and very up close as
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: he aimed his rifle into the crowd. He spoke to
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: local station WBFF Baltimore regarding the incident.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Take a look his thoughts as he describes to me
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: what he saw that day. They are images that won't
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: soon be forgotten. Twenty year old Thomas Crooks on the
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: roof of a building taking aim.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: When I seen him holding the gun like he was
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: taking aim, I thought, oh my god, this guy's about
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: to shoot into the crowd or something.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: So I turned my phone on.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Mike Defrishap said he started recording on his cell phone
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: the still photo grabbed from that video.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had just got there a little bit late.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: And his wife Amber live in Crawford County, Pennsylvania.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: They were at the.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: Trump rally and Butler Saturday. They arrived late, so they
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: sat outside of the secured area near the building where
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Crooks waited We were there.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Maybe ten minutes waiting for mister Trump to come on.
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: And then after he came on and started to speak,
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: my wife shortly after he started nudged me.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: And said, hey, what's going on behind us? And that's
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: when we noticed some commotion.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: The friendship said he noticed crooks climbing the roof, then
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: noticed he had a gun.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: They tried a learning police, then took cover.
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: I kind of felt I could see the guy with
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: my eyes. I knew where he was at. I got
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: me and my wife behind a big tree, and I
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: felt that we were saved. And you see the gun,
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: You're like, oh my god, we have to hide, but
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: there's nowhere to hide.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: There was a couple trees to hide behind, so you.
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: Didn't know whether to hit the deck or run or
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: just stand still.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: It was It's very chaotic. And then split second.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: They also wanted accountability.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Who besides the shooter they held accounts able.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: People are trying to say the local cops and this
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: and that might not have done their job in my opinion.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: And I haven't put this out anywhere else besides now
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: now that it's been a couple of days, we're processing.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Some of this.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: You know, it's Secret Services job to keep terror of
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: the president.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Another attendee told the BBC that he had seen a
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: man believed to have been Crooks with a rifle on
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: the roof of a building before Trump was shot. Greg
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Smith said, quote, there are police running around. We're telling
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: them there's a guy on the roof with a rifle.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: The Secret Service is looking at us through binoculars, and
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I pointed right at the roof end quote. There have
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: been lots of accounts from people online saying that they
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: were trying to raise the alarm, saying that the police
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and Secret Service agents were actually looking at them as
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: they were pointing at Thomas Crooks, so they clearly knew
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: that something was amiss. Unless these are actually the most
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: dumb ass cops and Secret Service agents of all time,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: which I have a hard time believing because they're stationed
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: with the assumed Republican nominee and a former United States president.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: These Secret Service agents and police officers are watching people
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: point out that there's a shooter there. They're hearing them
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: say that there's a shooter there, and they're just brushing
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: it off. It's just, I mean, it's really weird. A
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: local swat officer stationed in an AGR building adjacent to
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the building that Thomas Crooks would fire shots from, first
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: noticed Thomas Crooks at five fourteen PM, sitting below the
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: window where the officer had set up his rifle. In
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: an interview with CNN, the Beaver County sniper Greg Nichol
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: said that something seemed off about Crooks, which prompted him
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to take a photo. Just over fifteen minutes later, Nichol
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: saw Crooks holding a rangefinder pointed at the stage where
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Trump would speak, setting off that frantic, thirty nine minute
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: long search for Thomas Crooks that exposed allegedly a dramatic
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: breakdown in communication between law enforcement agencies, resulting in what
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: is widely seen as the worst secret service failure in decades.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Information regarding crook His location at the time was highly variable, However,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: FBI Deputy Director Paul Abate said before Congress that the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: first reported sighting of Thomas Crook's by law enforcement was
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: at approximately four twenty six PM, so they had seen
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: him almost two full hours before the shooting, and before
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the shooting itself, there had already been thirty nine minutes
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: of frantic searching for a suspect, but Trump was still
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: allowed to.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Take the stage. Oh, make it makes sense.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Text messages released eventually by Iowa State Senator Chuck Grassley
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: showed a local counter sniper had texted his colleagues about
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: a suspicious person close to the AGR building at around
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: four twenty six pm. This footage from this video places
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks in a completely different location, around half a
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: mile away from the AGR building at that time. He
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: claimed he quote saw Crooks sitting to the direct right
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: on a picnic table about fifty yards from the exit,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: and that Crooks saw him leave the area with a
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: rifle end quote. This indicates that Thomas Crooks possibly was
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: going to use this as the initial location to shoot from,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: but didn't want to have to deal with more SWAT officers. Then,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: on top of that, another officer allegedly took a photo
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: of Thomas Crooks at five point forty five PM, already
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: on the roof twenty five minutes before the shooting, and
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: just called it in.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: As a suspicious person.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, so you have a guy like twenty minutes
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: before Trump is on a rooftop, a suspicious person. An
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: officer takes a picture of it, sends it in says, hey,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: we know that the ex US president is going to
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: be speaking out in the complete open in a few minutes,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: and this guy is on the roof, clearly suspicious, clad
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: in black, looking like some sort of a shooter or
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: a sniper. Maybe we should check this out or tell
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump to not take the stage.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: But they don't do it.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: It's just like it's like these the photo goes to them,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: and it's like the Secret Service is like a brick wall.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: It's like this guy's for forty minutes, we've been chasing
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the suspect around.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: He might be dangerous. Brickwall.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Twenty five minutes before I see a guy on the
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: rooftop positioning, looking suspicious, pointing in the direction that Trump's
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: going to be in.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Brickwall.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, we saw this guy with a weapon earlier and
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: range finder and he's looking at the stage like he's
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: going to.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Shoot it up. Brickwall.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: There are people that see a potential shooter on the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: rooftop that are screaming at us. We can see people
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: in panic, freaking out. They're pointing at the shooter. Some
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: of us are looking at the shooter. This guy's going
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: to Donald Trump, brickwall.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: ABC News later reported that at five point fifty six pm,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: about ten or so minutes before the shooting, Thomas Crooks
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: was seen walking near the AGR building again shortly before
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump walked on stage, and between six h two
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and six zho seven pm, officers allegedly lost sight of
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks. They continued communicating with each other and attempting
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: to locate the suspect, but he wasn't seen again until
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: a police dashcam video captured Thomas Crooks on the roof
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: at six h eight At around six ten pm and
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: twenty sive six seconds, police were actually staring at Thomas
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Crooks as a bystander in white shorts pointed toward the building,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: and he started shooting about thirty seconds later. Now, ABC
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: News allegedly obtained a license to a video in which
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: this was actually seen. You could see this guy pointing
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: out the shooter to a police officer with his weapon
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: on the roof, pointing towards Trump just at about six
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: eleven and in this video, according to ABC, bystanders, I've
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: then seen fleeing the area and the first gunshots are heard.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: All of this you have to really consider, so you
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: have a president doesn't travel light, an ex president doesn't
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: travel light, especially the last president before the current president.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: So not only do they have a huge Secret Service detail,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: these people are highly trained individuals. They are extremely astute.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Their entire purpose is to protect one person. And there's
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: like ten twenty I don't know how many were working
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: that day. Usually it's like ten dozens. However, many people
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: that travel with Trump, and they know the warning signs
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: and they know the red flags to look out for
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: to keep one person safe.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: So you have an entire.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Team with like a head of the team, head of security.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: You have all these different agents that are there. People
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: are raising the alarm for like an hour before the shooting.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: They're chasing a suspect. People are seeing him. Then there
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: are people seeing him on the roof and alerting the police.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: There are a police on video looking at him, so
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: that's weird. Then on top of that, they had snipers
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: that day. I can't remember if they were Secret Service
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: snipers or local police whoever, they actually had snipers there
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: to protect Trump. They always have those sorts of people
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: at these sorts of events. And when you know a
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: former US president is going to be.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Out in the open.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: They have individuals that are snipers primed and positioned to
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: take a dangerous individual down. So you might think that
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: thirty seconds is a pretty short time between when something
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: would happen, between when someone saw something and action could
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: realistically have been taken. But when you really can see,
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: think you're a sniper. You're sitting there with your sniper
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: rifle primed, ready to defend the former president of America.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Someone says, AGR rooftop to the left, there's a shooter, shooter, shooter.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: You turn, you get your shot, and you shoot. Whether
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: it's in the leg, you shoot them in the foot,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: you shoot them in the head. I don't know what
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: their training would tell them to do, but it's as
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: simple as that.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: It comes in your ear.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Shooter, shooter on the left, rooftop, AGR building shooter, shooter,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: all units. Everyone turns on him. You swivel a little bit,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: you move positions.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Boom.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: You can neutralize the threat so quickly. If there's an
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: active shooter, for example, and a report comes in, guy
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: with a gun shooting shooting, they're all all these highly
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: trained snipers are going to train and.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Take them out immediately. So keep that in mind.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: So according to a Reddit thread that we found online,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: one user reported that apparently they told local police to
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: cover the perimeter building, which was typical for these events,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: and the police said that they thought Secret Service was
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: covering it, which is also what the Butler County DA said,
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: quoting the command of the Emergency Response Team. So third hand,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: the first statement is from the SS Secret Service spokesman.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: There were several barriers to this though. You see, after
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: hearing about the shooter, a number of police officers went
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: inside of the building that Thomas Crooks had crawled on
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: top of to fire the shots, but they discovered that
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: there was no roof access. The one cop who climbed
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: up dropped down when Crooks pointed his gun at him,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: as we mentioned earlier, and the Secret Service snipers at
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: the event are actually looking beyond the perimeter for threats,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: saying that that roof was outside the perimeter, but it
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: was less than one hundred and fifty yards from the stage,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: So that's another bizarre thing. They're claiming the roof is
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: outside the perimeter, but that's where someone's going to take
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: a shot from. They're going to take a shot from
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: a roof and elevated position. And one hundred and fifty
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: yards is not that far away. It's not outside the perimeter.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Need people raising the alarm about this. It was ultimately
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: the Secret services responsibility to make sure everyone understood what
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: was going on that day and that they were doing
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: their jobs right. But it seems like they got complacent
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and just agreed that local law enforcement were doing their
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: jobs right and that they had nothing to worry about.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Steve Moore, a retired FBI Supervisory special Agent who worked
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: as a counter sniper for two years, told CNN that
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: obviously the rooftop should have been heavily guarded. Another retired
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: FBI field agent, Bobby Chacone, also told CNN Sunday that
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: he was surprised no one was guarding the rooftop, which
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: he called quote the perfect perch end quote. Quote that
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: building is the closest building with a clear line of
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: sight to where the stage was. I'm shocked, but they
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: didn't have somebody on that roof end quote. Moore continued saying,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Quote the fact that somebody allowed that roof to be unmonitored,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: unguarded end quote could have been a flaw in planning
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: or execution.
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: Quote.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: They could have planned for that roof, and maybe something
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: happened in the planning or in the execution of the
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: plan where it was left unguarded. Well, secret Service agents
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: may have been alerted to the location of the shooter.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: They could have had a very obstructed view. You can't
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: just say, oh, there's somebody over there on a roof
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: and shoot them. What they're going to be doing is looking,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: waiting until they see a weapon. The problem is in
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: that area on the roof, there could have been a
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: slight wall covering him, hiding him end quote. More went
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: on to say he expects drastic changes in security procedures
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: as a result of the shooting, including extending perimeters and
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: securing rally venues more carefully.
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: Quote.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: They are just too many ways that you can improve
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: that situation. That said, the Secret Service has to be
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: right every single time, every single rally, of every single candidate,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: of every single month, every single year. They've got to
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: be perfect. The bad guys only have to be lucky
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: or write one time. So it's going to happen. You
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: just want to eliminate as many means that it could
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: happen as.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Possible end quote.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: And that's when you start getting into the weirdness of
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: was this potentially something that somebody wanted to happen? You
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: can look at the coin two sides. I've seen two
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: different things. I've obviously seen people suggest that, oh, this
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: is the deep State attempting to take out Trump because
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: he's a threat to them, which I I obviously disagree with.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Think Trump is obviously the deep state at this point.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: If you believe in the deep state, just look at
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: the Epstein cover up. Don't even have to mention that.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: But there's also the flip side of the coin. Could
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Trump and his team have potentially wanted something like this
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: to happen to Trump to improve votes and garner sympathy
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: before the upcoming election. Could they have allowed it to happen.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Could they have pre planned it themselves? Could there have
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: been something more insidious at play here?
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Allegedly some have reported that there actually were police officers
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: stationed inside the building Thomas Crooks was on that day. Now,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: comments on a threat on x suggest that, due to
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: this video and other factors, Thomas Crooks himself might have
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: been the fall guy for a more sophisticated attempt. This, apparently,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: according to them, was mainly because it was said that
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the Democrats wanted to remove Trump's Secret Service support at
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: that specific rally. Another person noted that the type of
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: roof that Crooks had occupied was known as a butler roof.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: It's slanted and is super noisy to anyone inside of
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: the building. The slant of the roof is believed to
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: have been what held Thomas Crooks's position as a secret
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: to everyone else. But some have also suggested that, due
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: to the fact that the local police department and Secret
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Service were not performing well that day, that Josh Shapiro,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania governor, could have been involved. Now I'm not
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: endorsing any theory. I'm just reporting on what people have
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: said online, because allegedly, according to many, there was another
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: person present that day, a person on the nearby water
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: tower at the rally that also would have had direct
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: access to see Thomas Crooks across the buildings, So a
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: water tower higher than the buildings who would have had
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: a clear vantage point and would have definitely seen a
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: guy crawling on the roof in order to carry out
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: in an attempt, but nothing was done. Others believe the
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: reasons why the Secret Service or policemen didn't act quick
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: enough that day was that the I'd just seen another
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: sniper or police officer lying on the roof. It was
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: nothing to worry about. It was just another officer. Thomas
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Crooks apparently got up on top of the roof via
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: a ladder that the local police had left behind as
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the building was being used for overlook of the crowd.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: ABC reported though, that this actually was not true and
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: said that Thomas Crooks had just gained access to the
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: roof without a ladder, but it was an officer staging area.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: There aren't actually a lot of high definition videos of
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the actual incident that happened. One comment on a Reddit
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: thread indicated that many of the videos were removed after
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: the shooting or taken down in order to be censored
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: from the general public, particularly the part where the shooting occurs.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Just like this one and look.
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: What happened to our country, probably twenty million people.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Allegedly, Thomas Crooks himself was a registered Republican. However, in
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: two thousand twenty one, he was found to have made
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: a small donation to a Democrat aligned group called Progressive
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Turnout Project. At a Butler news conference, the FBI agent
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Kevin Rojick announced that Trump's team had not requested additional
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: security despite what was previously said. Therefore, the FBI had
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: no request to actually deny. According to The New York Post,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: the FBI had allegedly obstructed the investigation into Thomas Crooks's background.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Some thought that it was possible that Crooks had some
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: medication or toxicology results in his system when the autopsy
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: was performed, but apparently neither were included in the autopsy report,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: and the FBI released the body to his parents just
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: eight days after the shooting without many officials being notified,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: and he was promptly cremated. So FBI officials who served
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: under President Joe Biden accessed Thomas Crooks's phone, computer, and
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: his devices, and what they found was pretty troubling. So
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: this is one of the really big things that I
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: find to be inconsistent and bizarre about all of this.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: So on Thomas Crooks's see, he actually used three different
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: fully end to end encrypted messaging apps for messaging for
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: sending messages. These apps are based in Belgium, New Zealand
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: and Germany. Now, this is according to current National Security
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Advisor Mike Waltz, a former GOP congressman and this is
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: proven information. So Thomas Crooks had these secret messaging apps
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: that were based in different countries, and to this day,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: it is unknown who he was talking to on those apps,
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: what the messages were, and why he had three different
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: secret messaging apps installed on his phone prior to the shooting.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: The contents of those messages and any contacts that he
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: may have had through those messages have never been revealed.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: But it is really bizarre. I mean, I don't know
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: why you would have three different secret messaging apps, specifically
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: based in three foreign countries with different laws and legislations.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: And to this day, according to the official narrative, some
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: of those accounts and those messages remain fully inaccessible due
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: to the encryption, the end to end encryption that is
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: inherent with those kind of secret messaging apps. So according
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: to the authorities, they still I haven't seen any reports
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: clarifying any of this. They still don't know who he
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: was talking to, what the messages may have said in Belgium,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: New Zealand and Germany or you know, that doesn't even
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: necessarily mean that he.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Would have had to have had.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: An overseas contact. You know, someone else here in America
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: could have also installed one of those apps with that
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: extreme security on it, and they could have been chatting
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: to him in the United States using this app secretly,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: so both users on the same secret encrypted app. It's
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: just it's really bizarre stuff. Thomas Crooks also had two
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: cell phones. He had a cell phone on him at
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: the time of the shooting, but he had another cell
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: phone at home, which allegedly had twenty seven different contacts
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: on it, but according to authorities, there was nothing of
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: value that was found on that phone. They did, though,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: on his laptop, find that he had also once again
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: been using encrypted messaging services to secretly talk to god
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: knows who.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: They still don't know.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: He had three of these on one phone, these secret
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: messaging apps, one secret messaging app on his laptop. But
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: according to everybody, you know, all the investigators, he wasn't
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: talking to anybody, even though they I don't know. It's
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: just really, really sketchy. You have this guy who, according
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: to many, just seems to kind of snap. Yeah, he
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: was training at the gun range, according to them, but
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: he wasn't necessarily weird, He wasn't necessarily really outspoken about politics.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: He was in a black rock ad. He had no
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: real crazy history, just some bizarre behavior. But this guy
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: then tries to the former United States President, one of
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: the most high profile targets on planet Earth, which is
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: a pretty extreme action. And then you see that on
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: his devices he has secret messaging apps where he is
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: more than likely messaging people overseas or even here in
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: America prior to the shooting, and that data and information
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: is officially unknown. But could that have been accounts? Could
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: those have been accounts held by Thomas Crooks's handlers? Could
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: those have been intelligence connected accounts or messaging apps or
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: platforms that were encouraging.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: Him to do this?
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Could this have been an intelligence person that was on
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: this app that had essentially you convinced him somehow to
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: carry this out. Was he talking to people that were
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: helping him plan this. It's still unknown. But the uncanniness
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: of the Crooks story doesn't just stop there. In fact,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: it was recently reignited by the of Charlie Kirk and
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: the eerie similarities that Charlie Kirk's assassin holds with Thomas Crooks.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: So obviously, in September, Charlie Kirk, an American right wing
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: political activist, was while addressing an audience on the campus
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: of Utah Valley University in Utah. After a thirty three
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: hour manhunt, officials were able to capture the twenty two
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: year old alleged shooter, Tyler James Robinson, who was found
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: at his parents' residence in Washington, Utah. His own parents
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: helped arrange his surrender, and he was arrested late on
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: September eleventh, twenty twenty five. Well, the motive is still
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: being determined. Over a month and a half later, interesting
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: parallels have come to light showing several similarities between Robinson
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: and the alleged Trump assassin Thomas Crooks. Now Robinson light
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Crooks was extremely smart. He had a four point zero GPA,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: scored high on standardized tests. He came from a close
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: knit family, a full year merit scholarship to Utah State University,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: but after just a semester, Robinson left and never returned.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: Now Robinson was quiet and kept to himself, just like
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks. Those who knew him stated he wasn't super
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: political unless someone brought it up. His family was very conservative,
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: but he was registered as unaffiliated with anyone.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Both of these.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Young men grew up with friendly and loving parents. Thomas
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Crooks's parents were social workers, and the Robinsons were known
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: to the neighbors as being very friendly and helpful. Both
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: of them also had a heavy online presence. Thomas Crooks
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: concealed his online search requests using VPNs despite news media
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: outlets sharing the subject of some of those searches, and
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Robinson also had a big online gaming presence on Reddit
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: and x, even going so far as to sketch those
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: online memes slash phrases into the bullet casings found on
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: the scene of Charlie Kirk's murder. Both were young, white
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: males in their early twenties, a theme that has been
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: noticed throughout time in regards to mass shooters. Data suggests
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: that over fifty percent of mass shooters are white and
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: nearly ninety eight percent are male. Additionally, the Violence Project
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: database as of twenty twenty four identifies the most common
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: age range for mass shooters as being twenty one to
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: thirty years old. Initial police reports and FBI statements after
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Kirk's alleged that Robinson had also climbed up to a
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: rooftop and took a concealed, elevated position similar to that
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: of Thomas Crooks.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: According to reports.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Of the The officials reported that Robinson arrived on campus
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: at around.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Eight twenty nine that day.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: However, he disappeared and reappeared back on video later that
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: morning at around eleven to fifty am. It's possible he
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: was also coming to scout the area out for a
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: good position, just like Thomas Crook's head. At eleven fifty
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: three am, he stopped at the top of some stairs
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: and pulled out his phone before proceeding down into a
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: pedestrian tunnel. Still images released by the FBI show him
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: ascending a stairwell in a parking garage adjacent to the tunnel.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: That event began at noon with about three thousand people
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: in attendance. Authority said that the suspected gunman was seen
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: at twelve oh two pm walking on the north side
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: of the Lostye Center, where they said he would later
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk from the roof. Kirk appeared at the event
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: at around twelve oho nine pm and started throwing hats
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: into the crowd. Then at twelve eleven pm he began speaking.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: According to an affidavit, the suspect entered the Lossy Center
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: from the southeast side and was seen ascending the stairs
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: next to the building. Thirteen minutes later, the stairs connected
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: with the public walkway adjacent to the roof, and surveillance
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: video showed the suspect crossing a railing from the walkway
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: onto the roof at around twelve to fifteen pm. He
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: disappeared from view for a short time before running across
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: the roof, then crawling into the suspected shooting position. Investigators
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: said that by twelve twenty two PM, the suspected shooter
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: was in position on the roof, lying on his stomach
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: facing the location where Kirk was speaking, about four hundred
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: and thirty feet away, sitting under a tent displaying the
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: tour title. Charlie Kirk engaged in a back and forth
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: exchange with UVU student Hunter Kozak about mass shootings in
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: the United States, and at around twelve twenty three thirty pm,
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was hit in the neck with a single shot,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: which investigators believed came from the roof of the Lossy Center.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Both Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump were and are very
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: powerful conservative voices closely associated with each other, and they
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: were both attacked in public in front of large crowds
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Robinson and Crooks both shot at their victims in vital
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: and potentially lethal areas of the body. Trump, of course,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: survived as the bullet grazed his right ear, allegedly turning
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: his head seconds before to point at a billboard, and Kirk,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: shot in the neck, suffered a direct fatal hit. Charlie
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Kirk was widely regarded as a political supporter of Donald Trump.
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: He played a key role in mobilizing youth voters for
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: the Republican Party, worked closely with Trump's sons and campaign advisors,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: and was often seen as the voice of a generation
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: of conservative activism. Following Kirk's Trump publicly mourned him, described
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: them as being loved and admired by all, and ordered
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: flags to fly at half mass shortly afterwards. Now Trump
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: was being guarded by Secret Service personnel at the time,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: and Charlie Kirk had his own personal security and six
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: other officers, some even disguised in civilian clothing, but both
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Crooks and Robinson defied the heightened security present at the events.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: The building that Robinson shot Charlie Kirk from was also
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: free from security, just like the one that Crook's ascended in.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Butler Pennsylvania. That was a major flaw in security plans.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: Tyler Robinson, according to the official story, which I don't believe,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: easily got up there and got back down before anyone
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: had even spotted him. And according to police audio, the
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: first report of the shooting occurred at twelve twenty six PM.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: At twelve thirty one PM, an officer then reported gunshots
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: heard near the library. At twelve thirty five, the officer
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: added maybe the CS building, before describing the shooter as
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: wearing jeans, black shirt, black mask, long rifle. A minute later,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: the officer elaborated, quote on top of the building on
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: the far north side, just east of the library end quote.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: A UVU police officer was the first to investigate the
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: suspected shooting position on the roof of the Los Cie Center.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: At twelve thirty nine PM, FBI agents and chiefs of
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: police arrived at the location of the event, but by
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: that time Robinson was already gone. Now, Tyler Robinson's motive,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: just like Thomas Crooks's motive, was never truly determined. We
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: still don't really know what it was. There were rumors
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: that Robinson's motive remained with LGBTQI and plus rights, or
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: his distaste with conservative opinions on the matter, particularly Charlie Kirks.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks's motive was also thought to have had something
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: to do with his political views. It was alleged that
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: he was strongly anti Trump, so much so that he
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: didn't want his parents to put signs in the yard,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: but his fierce support of the Second Amendment throws that
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: kind of through a loophole. As a result, you have
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: two very mysterious but uncare handily similar shooters. Could this
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: be a coincidence? Was Crooks of Patsy? Was Robinson and Patsy?
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: Another question that many have found themselves asking regarding not
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: only Tyler Robinson, but especially Thomas Crooks in particular, as
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: he's been the main focus of ours today, is the
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: question of was he just the fall guy? Now, there
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: is a lot of evidence that suggests that Thomas Crooks
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: is definitely the one who attempted the on Donald Trump,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: but many also believed that he was a Patsy and
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: just a little part of an even bigger picture.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: You see.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: In July twenty twenty four, the FBI confirmed that there
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: were no conspirators of the Trump attempt and that Crooks
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: acted alone, but as we know, the government and media
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: have very specific ways of reporting information to us as Americans,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: filtering what information they want us to have access to.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: NBC News reported that some believe that there was a
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: second shooter on the water tower to silence Crooks after
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: the attempt and sent him up to be a fall guy.
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: Many believed that the shot that grazed Trump's ear was
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: the result of a shot from an expert, Mark Worksman.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: In fact, Senator Ron Johnson said on Fox News that
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: he had quote seen some pretty interesting videos on the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: internet by experts that certainly called into question what the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: FBI was telling us about a.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: Single shooter end quote.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: He went on to say, quote, I don't know, but
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: we can't trust the FBI and the Secret Service to
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: do an honest and open, transparent investigation. That's just a
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: very sad fact. So we have got to rely on
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: other sources independent to really find out what the truth
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: of the matter was.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: End quote.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: This was later reiterated again when media asked for clarification
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: of this comment. Johnson's communications director Kirsten Pells said, quote,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: the Senator is simply demanding more evidence and more information
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: from these agencies so that we can have a thorough
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: and transparent investigation looking at all possibilities end quote. Additionally,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: The New York Post reported that a veteran private investigator
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: from Eerie, Pennsylvania, who was hired shortly after the fateful
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: July thirteenth attempted Trump was hired to look into Thomas
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: Crooks by a private client and believes a quote criminal
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: network end quote was operating with him at the time
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: of the attempt and still allegedly wants to President Trump.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Doug Hagman, whose team of six other investigators have been
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: working the case for months and have interviewed more than
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: one hundred people, said that they also conducted extensive geo
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: fencing analysis of cell phones and tablets not belonging to
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks that were found with him at his home,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: at the rifle range where he took target practice, at
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: the rally, and at Bethel Park High School, where he
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: graduated in twenty twenty two. In a semi recent statement,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: he said, quote, we don't think he acted alone. This
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: took a lot of coordination. In my view, Crooks was
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: handled by more than one individual, and he was used
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: for this and I wouldn't preclude the possibility that there
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: were people at the rally itself helping him end quote
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: you see Hagman. One of these investigators said that one
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: of the electronic devices geolocated with Thomas Crooks at several
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: different places at the time of the shooting is still
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: pinging today, but it's at Bethel Park High School. John Cullen,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: a self described researcher, also reiterated the second shooter theory.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Cullen's most popular proof is a shaky video of the
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: Blue Water Tower, a zoomed in segment from a live
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: stream of the rally from Right Side Broadcasting Network, a
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: conservative media company that streams Trump rallies. The low quality video,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: which Colin said came from an account with the username
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Maga Juice, shows a black, fuzzy.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Spot at the top of the tower.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Text on the video claims the spot is a crouching agent. However,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Cullen did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: This is the video here. There were also several witness
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: videos who claimed similar things.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: Just take a look.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: First crack of the gunfire and I just screamed, it's
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: a sniper.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: It's the sniper. And he was firing down for the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: water power.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then at that same.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: Exact moment, there was a spray from the right side
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: of the stage that I thought was some type of
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: gas m h like or not gas, but you find
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: up front, he said it was coming. A few minutes later,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: there was a couple more shots popping down the hill
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: and ass when they started, I'm pushing everybody.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 7: Out, and then he put the fist bump up, stay strong,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 7: and they walked him off.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 8: Aaron, what was going through your mind? What did you
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 8: think when you first heard those sounds?
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 7: I thought the sit do but you just said I
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 7: thought it was fireworks. Fourth of July. It's been pop
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 7: pop pop, That's what it sounded like. Gentlemen behind me,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 7: we were I was one seat, he was to the
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 7: right of me. He could see the sharp shooter on
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 7: the behind Trump. He said, the sharpshooter shot to the left.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 7: He killed the gentleman in the water tower here. Now,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 7: when I called my husband at home, who's watching TV,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 7: he said, I thought Trump hurt his ear when he
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 7: went to the ground, but he said no. On TV
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 7: they showed before Trump hit the ground the ear was bleeding,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 7: so that sharpshooter went across Trump turned his head. His
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 7: ear must have been nipped, and it killed somebody in
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 7: the stands over to the left.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: And so we trying to go act with them.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 7: Then when he find a lot of south and they
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 7: had been right by the.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: Fence where the other shooter was. There was one I
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: heard in the WaterTower. There was one by the men.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Kataline Grigoris, director of the National Center for Media Forensics
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: at the University of Colorado, Denver, said the video quality
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: was too low for a forensic analysis. Hanny for Reid,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: a professor who studies digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: agreed and said nothing could be discerned from the video
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: with any confidence. If you watch throughout the video, the
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: entire tower and surrounding area changes dramatically due to compression
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: and camera motion, and so there is no reliable or
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: consistent signal here.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: End quote.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: There are several other x and Reddit threads online debating
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: the position of crooks on the roof versus the water
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: tower theory, and how the angle in which the shot
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: was taken, how it hit Trump, and how it ultimately
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: also hit the victim behind him.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: Some believe it was.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: A man named Maxwell Yurick who was reported missing after
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: the shooting. And it's interesting there used to be accessible
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: websites with information on Maxwell Yurick that now if you
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: try to access those same websites are unavailable. They've been
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: taking offline with information about this guy who people claim
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: to have identified as allegedly potentially being a part of this.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: Here's a brief news video showing him.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 9: This is one of the three people now facing charges
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 9: accused of attacking police officers. And here we had to
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 9: bleep that out some of that portion of that during
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 9: the Donald Trump browley.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: The Convention Center last night.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 9: The man in that video is Kennan Hopper, and he
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 9: and Maxwell Yerick and Lisa Kollier are all facing riot
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 9: and assault charges. The two men also accused of resisting arrest.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 9: Chanel eleven news reporter Aaron Martin joins us line from
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 9: the convention Center down sound erin. It looks a lot
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 9: different than it did this time last night.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: There's no doubt about that, David.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 10: A very different scene right now, what we saw less
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 10: than twenty four hours, going back just a few feet
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 10: away from where I'm standing, what we saw was nothing
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 10: but protesters Trump supporters and a lot of police in
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 10: between them, and as you can imagine, a lot of
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 10: those verbal confrontations turned violent, and in the end, three
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 10: people were arrested for assaulting police officers. This is Kennan
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 10: Hooper being taken away in handcuffs, moments after police say
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 10: he kicked two officers after they were pepper sprayed by protesters.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 11: Will handcuffing Hooper, investigator say Lisa Kyler jumped on an
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 11: officer's back.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: This is what they do.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 11: This video shows Maxwell Gurick being taken to jail. Investigators
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 11: say he tried to fight an officer who had just
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 11: been pepper spray. All three are charged with assaulting police
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 11: officers and riding outside of Donald Trump's event at the
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 11: Convention Center just after seven forty five last night. Hooper
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 11: and Urick are also charged with resisting arrest. It all
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 11: happened minutes after Trump's speech wrapped up, and all four
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 11: officers were treated on scene for minor injuries.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 8: I'm very proud of the effort that Pittsburgh Burial Police
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 8: put forward.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 11: Mayor Bill Patuto says he's proud of how police handled
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 11: a chaotic situation there was.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 8: A good game plan going in, but just like in
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 8: any team sport, a good game plan is only carried
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 8: out if you have the men and the women that
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 8: are professional and can also show the patients in.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 11: A strong police presence was key.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: Padudo says.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 11: The city also worked with officers to make sure no
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 11: First Amendment rights were violated.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: It even went so far as to compare Crooks and
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: Yerick's ears and how the image of the shooter dead
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: on the roof showed a different ear lobe than the
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: current pictures of Crooks. Now, I can't show you those photos,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: but I will say that there are some strange looking
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: inconsistencies just from a bird's eye perspective of just looking
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: at Crooks and his body. Now, some think that Crooks
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: was an AI persona or part of some sort of
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: psychological operation in which the military and politicians used information
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: to influence people's emotions, attitudes, and behaviors, especially those of
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: target audiences, to achieve objectives. Users have suggested that it
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: could have been part of an MK ultra operation, but
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: the CIA and that's why things got covered up. Maybe
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: it was to build sympathy for Trump or to further
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: divide the rest of the country. It's interesting. I mean,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: there are things that make no sense, especially the fact
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: that you have an active shooter who just killed somebody.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: You have an active shoot who just fired multiple shots
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: at Donald Trump. You don't know the situation at all.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: You have no idea if there's another shooter, if there's
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: a bomb threat, if there's anything else that could happen,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: if this is a pre planned attack. And just moments
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: after his ear is shot, which has also miraculously healed itself,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: which I think is really interesting that his ear looks
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: completely normal nowadays. It's very very fortuitous that the bullet
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: just simply grazed Trump's ear in a way that it
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: left no permanent scarring or visible damage. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: really really crazy that that's actually true. But the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Trump stood up and this secret service allowed him
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  Speaker 1: to stand up and present himself as a perfect target
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  Speaker 1: once again, just moments after the shooting, so that he
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  Speaker 1: could fight, fight, fight, champ that little thing, and that
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  Speaker 1: all the photographers could get that picture that blossomed into
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  Speaker 1: millions and millions of merchandise dollars and posters and T shirts,
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  Speaker 1: and an image that became emblematic of his campaign for president.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting that they would allow Trump to do that
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  Speaker 1: when at that moment they didn't know if there was
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  Speaker 1: more than one shooter, they didn't know if there was
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  Speaker 1: anything else coming. They should have kept him low like
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  Speaker 1: in all other attempts, like the Ronald Reagan attempt, where
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: they immediately jump on him and immediately are covering him,
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  Speaker 1: neutralizing threats, getting him out of there as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 1: There's just no way that any of the training would
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  Speaker 1: allow these agents to allow Trump to stand up in
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  Speaker 1: front of everybody and chant with a fist. What if
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  Speaker 1: there was another shooter, What if there was multiple shooters,
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  Speaker 1: what if there was a bomb. It just makes no
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  Speaker 1: sense to me at all unless they knew that there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't another shooter and there wasn't anything else that was
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. I mean, also on top of that,
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  Speaker 1: then you have photographers being rushed to the podium to.
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  Speaker 2: Get that shot.
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  Speaker 1: You could see the videos of the photographers reporters being
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  Speaker 1: essentially caddled and rushed up to the podium so that
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  Speaker 1: they can get that shot of Trump saying fight. It's
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  Speaker 1: really really bizarre, and I mean it's just weird, like
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: they didn't know who the shooter was, what had happened.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem to be really any like urgency to
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  Speaker 1: protecting Donald Trump. There seems to be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: photo opping, rushing the photo journalists up so that they
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  Speaker 1: can get that perfect photo. So then Trump gets the photo.
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  Speaker 1: Millions and millions of dollars worth of merch is sold
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  Speaker 1: with that photo on it, and it obviously heavily influences
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: his campaign for president. But with all of this, with
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: how influential this event was in American politics, really in
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: American history at this point, why does no one talk
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: about Thomas Crooks? Based on all this information we've heard
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: today about him, Thomas Crooks's similarities to other shooters, and
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: his potential set up, we have to ask the question,
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: why don't we hear about him anymore?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Some believe that officials swept the entire case quietly under
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: the rug, and that it was allegedly covered up in
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: part due to the fact that there were conspiracies surrounding
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: it being a setup. This could have also been because
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: of the whole security ordeal, how the Secret Service completely
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: bought the purpose of their entire job that day and
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: felt embarrassed out of shame, and potentially the perspective that
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  Speaker 1: those hired for the Secret Service are poorly trained or
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  Speaker 1: incompetent for their jobs.
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  Speaker 2: It may have been quieted.
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  Speaker 1: There's also the vantage point that the media manipulated the
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  Speaker 1: information after the shooting to portray Thomas Crooks mainly as
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  Speaker 1: a left wing liberal, despite countless evidence that exists that
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks was actually very conservative. Crooks's classmates said that
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: he was one of the most conservative people in their
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  Speaker 1: entire school and that he always took hard right positions
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  Speaker 1: when doing political debates. The media, though, kept this facade
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  Speaker 1: of him being a liberal, and this would continue to
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  Speaker 1: support the Trump teams given narrative that this was a
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: liberal attack on Donald Trump, who had survived the attempt
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: thanks to God himself. That's what Trump has publicly stated,
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  Speaker 1: that God saved him from that attempt, which is its
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: own thing that obviously I disagree with. But the fact
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: that Thomas Crooks was a documented conservative would have gone
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: against that narrative, and so they really didn't talk about
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: him that much. This is highly debated, though many believe
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: that because Thomas Crooks donated to a Democrat led project,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: he was actually a liberal, but some say this was
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: actually another man who had the same name as Thomas Crooks,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: who lived in the same state, who had made that donation.
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  Speaker 1: There's no photo attached to that donation, no real identification,
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  Speaker 1: just a name and a donation. Now, conspiracies also surround
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: President Trump and the whole ordeal. You see, as I
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: was just saying. Afterwards, Trump emerged from the hospital and
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: even now to this day, his ear looks perfectly fine. Obviously,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: while this could have been due to some sort of
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: reconstructive surgery that was performed to fix the ear, it
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: is suspicious that the whole attempt was made completely quiet
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: after Trump was elected. Trump used the attempt for sure,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: for media and supporter attention. He wanted sympathy, and he
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: used this entire thing to gain power and control over
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: people's minds and emotion. But eventually, just like everything else,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: when it was no longer useful to Donald Trump, the
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: story faded away without any real research or disclosures about
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: what actually happened. On more obvious notes, Thomas Crooks hasn't
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: talked about anymore because he's well, he's dead. His family
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: didn't make statements after the incident and his motive is
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: still unclear to this very day. Some people believe that
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: he was also going to target President Biden, and that
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: Trump just happened to be the one he went for
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: that afternoon. As for the security nightmare that happened that day,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: on December fifth, twenty twenty four, Acting Secret Service Director
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: wrote testified before Congress, taking responsibility for the agency's failures
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  Speaker 1: and outlining corrective measures. He announced initiatives including enhanced technical assets,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: expanded staffing, improved retention efforts, and a new Chief Wellness
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: officer to support mental health already isolated before the shooting.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: Crooks's parents are now rarely seen outside during daylight hours.
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  Speaker 1: A neighbors said there are only a few clues to
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: suggest that the family even still lives at their home.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: Another neighbor described the crooks family presence on their street
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: as ghost life. Some media reported that the family has
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: to grocery shop at three am to avoid any public sightings.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: Krook's parents did not respond to interview requests, and their
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: attorney declined to speak on their behalf. A postal employee
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: said that the Crooks's mailbox is always empty when he
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: delivers each day's mail. He and the neighbors speculated that
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: the couple left their home under the cover of darkness.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: Their house, which now has multiple security cameras, is fully
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: blurred on Google Maps and option. Homeowners concerned about privacy
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: can request from the search giant. Mary Crooks submitted her
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: resignation from the job she's held for nearly three decades
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  Speaker 1: last December. The resignation letter, first reported on by The
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: New York Times, alludes to the shooting as the reason
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  Speaker 1: for her departure. Quote, certain circumstances have left me with
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: no other option than to vacate a position I've been
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: proud to hold for the past twenty seven years.
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  Speaker 2: End quote.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: She and her husband let their social work licenses expire
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: in February. Then there's a bunch of unanswered questions. Was
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: the Butler rally just a convenient option for a young
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: man planning mass violence? Or was he committed to Donald Trump?
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: Did he have a plan for his bombs? The bombs
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: are never talked about. We have no idea what he
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: was going to use those bombs for. He had to
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: have known that he would have been after trying to
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So then what's the deal with those bombs?
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: Did he understand that he was on a suicide mission
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: or did someone set him up and then take him
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: out so he could never talk about the plan? Those
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: are all questions to which we will never have answers. Anyways, guys,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: I'm eager to know what you guys think about this
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: whole thing, So please, if you're watching on YouTube, be
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: sure to let me know in the comment section your
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: thoughts on this entire affair. I think this thing reeks,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: and I think we have another very very eerily similar
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: situation that played out with Charlie Kirk, and there's just
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: there's so many unanswered questions. One of the biggest things
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: that I think is a major red flag with the
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks thing. Are those secret messaging apps? Who was
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: he talking to? Were they encouraging him to do this?
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Were these his handlers? Was he involved in some sort
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: of organization? How does a guy that tries to the
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: president end up in a black Rock, one of the
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: most conspiracy laden companies, a black Rock promo video? Why
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: were there bombs, What was the plan for the bombs?
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: Why did nobody act? Why did nobody try to stop
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: this until after the shots were fired? When they had
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: plenty of time to do something. Why did this play
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: out like it did? And why does nobody ask these
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: questions and talk about it? It happened, It was used
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: as a political au pawn in a political chess game
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: to get Trump ahead in the polls and to gain
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: him some sympathy and support from his followers, being a
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: survivor of mass violence, being a survivor of an an attempt.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: But this thing, just this reeks to me. This reeks
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: to me of some sort of cover up. I'm always
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: hesitant to say I know what it would be, but
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: I have my own opinions, and I don't generally like
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: to share those on the show.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: I do want to say my.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: Thoughts are with the man who lost his life, the
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: family of the man who did lose his life in
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: this shooting, Corey comparatour Obviously, it was absolutely horrific thing
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: to lose a loved one like that. My thoughts are
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: also with those who were injured in the shooting. That's how,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, you know that this actually happened, and
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: something happened that day. But until we get the real
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: answers in full disclosure, we'll never really know the truth. Anyways, y'all,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: if you're listening to the show on Spotify or Apple Podcasts,
• 1:17:18
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• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna get out of here. Thank you guys
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: for listening this week. I will be back next week.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: Keep that tinfoil hat on always, stay suspicious, question everything,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: and I'll see you next Wednesday.