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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 everywhere began reporting on the incident, the
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Speaker 1: world was left wondering.
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Speaker 2: Who exactly was this kid.
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Speaker 1: Certainly Thomas Crooks was not a Special Operation sniper, but
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Speaker 1: who was he? I wanted to do this video because
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Speaker 1: I realized that nobody ever really talked about Thomas Crooks. Now,
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Speaker 1: there have been scattered reports and some small pieces of
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Speaker 1: journalism that have taken the dive into Thomas's background, but
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Speaker 1: this wasn't really something that I ever saw discussed widely.
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Speaker 1: There were no documentaries about the alleged shooter, there were
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Speaker 1: no continued news articles diving into his background. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's almost like a year later, we've completely moved on
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Speaker 1: and we've forgotten this guy and never really never really
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Speaker 1: looked at who he was, what he allegedly stood for,
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Speaker 1: and what could have led him.
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Speaker 2: To allegedly carry this out.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: I have my own.
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Speaker 1: Opinions about this event. We are going to talk about
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Speaker 1: those today. But once you start looking at the Trumpet
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Speaker 1: story and you start noticing the weird inconsistencies and the
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Speaker 1: patterns in the official story, and the things that Thomas
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Speaker 1: Crooks was doing before be shooting, the strange behavior of
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Speaker 1: officials and those that were supposed to be protecting Donald
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Speaker 1: 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.
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Speaker 2: 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's thoughts and theories with this story,
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Speaker 1: because there's a lot that we're going to talk about today,
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Speaker 1: and I love hearing from y'all. But anyways, let's get
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Speaker 1: back to it. So who was Thomas Matthew Crooks 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. According
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Speaker 1: to the nursing home, which is actually less than a
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Speaker 1: mile away from where Crooks lived, he had passed a
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Speaker 1: 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. They had no idea that he was facing
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Speaker 1: these mental demons. To them, Thomas Crooks seemed like your average,
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Speaker 1: normal young guy. There were no red flags, nothing that
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Speaker 1: they noticed in his day to day life. In Thomas
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Speaker 1: Crooks's person personal search history on the internet, though, it
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Speaker 1: was found that he had recently been looking up symptoms
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Speaker 1: of major depressive disorder, a mood disorder that causes a
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Speaker 1: persistent feeling of sadness and a loss of interest, citing
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Speaker 1: loved ones and x classmates. The FBI later stated that
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Speaker 1: Crook's quote would routinely sway back and forth while standing
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Speaker 1: at the bus stop end quote. The agency said that
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Speaker 1: despite his at times odd behavior, Crooks was never officially
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Speaker 1: diagnosed with any disorders. A New York Post article stated
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Speaker 1: that Crooks fit the profile of a loner or outcast
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Speaker 1: whose life had been characterized by isolation or rejection, with
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Speaker 1: obsessive compulsive tendencies. In a nact for the Mechanical or Technical,
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Speaker 1: which included guns quote, one thing I thought was interesting.
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Speaker 1: They said he didn't have friends. Nance said, why that
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Speaker 1: wasn't a red flag for them from the very beginning
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Speaker 1: 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 Jianfrido, 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: Johan Friddo in particular, notes that the health and education
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Speaker 1: systems in America failed his son, who had schizophrenia. He
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Speaker 1: also went on the record and said that quote, there
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Speaker 1: are kinds of conditions that arise out of being bullied
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Speaker 1: out of homes where there has been a violent kind
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Speaker 1: of living in communities where there's been a great deal
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Speaker 1: of violence. These tend to create problems for people and
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Speaker 1: are more likely to be predictors of the kind of
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Speaker 1: violence we saw on Saturday end quote. Janfriddo also suggested
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Speaker 1: a critical note of opening a dialogue with the child's teachers,
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Speaker 1: who may observe behaviors in the classroom that may not
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Speaker 1: be obvious at home. In July twenty twenty four, at
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Speaker 1: a news conference, FBI officials announced that they had not
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Speaker 1: found any evidence related to health treatment for Thomas Crooks,
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Speaker 1: any prior history of institutionalization or medications that he had
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Speaker 1: been prescribed. Thomas Crooks, his own father went on to
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Speaker 1: say that he quote didn't know anything end quote about
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Speaker 1: his own son, indicating that Thomas's spiral into violence allegedly
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Speaker 1: 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.
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Speaker 2: 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: Steelers 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 twenty three.
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Speaker 1: In particular, two days stand out, December sixth of that
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Speaker 1: year and January twenty fourth, twenty twenty four. On December sixth,
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Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks checked various news sites and the White House
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Speaker 1: websites archives from Donald Trump's first administration, followed by visits
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Speaker 1: to firearm websites. Then, on January twenty fourth, twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks showed the single largest number of Internet requests
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Speaker 1: in the logs, at one thousand, three hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: four requests in one day. Particularly in the last few
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Speaker 1: months of his life, Thomas became increasingly rigid about secrecy,
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Speaker 1: shrouting his activities through encrypted services and tried to hide
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Speaker 1: what he was doing online. After January twenty fourth, you
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Speaker 1: see there are twenty five days of activity, but nearly
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Speaker 1: all of them have just a few requests, all to
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Speaker 1: the molvod VPN that he started using consistently in order
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Speaker 1: to attempt to mask his online activity and hide who
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Speaker 1: he may have been talking to or what he may
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Speaker 1: have been researching and doing on the Internet. Because you see,
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Speaker 1: due to this VPN software, whatever Thomas Crooks was viewing
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Speaker 1: on those days was not in his logs. However, on
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Speaker 1: four of those days he did not use a VPN,
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Speaker 1: and we can see that there were dozens or even
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Speaker 1: hundreds of requests and searches made on February twenty six,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, for example, When not using a VPN,
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Speaker 1: Crooks visited various websites such as ar fifteen dot com,
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Speaker 1: Hornetty dot com, a manufacturer of ammunition and reloading components,
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Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump dot com, and various news sites. In
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Speaker 1: the month before July thirteenth, so June of twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks turned all of his attention to the presidential campaign,
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Speaker 1: researching the candidates online more than sixty times, including searches
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Speaker 1: on July fifth for DNC convention and when is the
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Speaker 1: RNC In twenty twenty four, According to the FBI, he
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Speaker 1: visited the Butler Farm show Grounds website in person on
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Speaker 1: July seventh and searched for Butler Farm Show photos, according
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Speaker 1: to investigators, the location where Trump would go on to
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Speaker 1: hold that rally. He also seemingly researched AGR International, a
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Speaker 1: company with buildings adjacent to the fairgrounds, and on July twelfth,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, he visited the rifle range in Town
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Speaker 1: one last time to fire off some final shots, according
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Speaker 1: to many, in preparation for what was to come the
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Speaker 1: next day. On the morning of the attack, Thomas Crooks
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Speaker 1: drove to the Butler Farm show grounds and stayed for
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Speaker 1: a little more than an hour before driving home. Investigators
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Speaker 1: said that at about one point thirty pm, Thomas Crooks
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Speaker 1: retrieved his rifle from his home. It was the gun
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Speaker 1: he had purchased from his dad the year before. Thomas
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Speaker 1: Crooks's father told investigators he believed his son was going
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Speaker 1: to the range. Now, I do want to point something
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Speaker 1: out here that I'm noticing right now as I'm reading
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Speaker 1: my script that we researched and put together. It is
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Speaker 1: strange with the Charlie Kirk shooting, you had a familial
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Speaker 1: weapon as well. Obviously there is high strangeness with the
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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk affair. That is indeed a cover up in action,
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Speaker 1: and we're not getting the truth on that anytime soon.
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Speaker 2: 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 receive their way weapons from
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Speaker 1: a 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.
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Speaker 2: In his bedroom.
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Speaker 1: Afterwards, he went to a store near his home and
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Speaker 1: bought ammunition, according to investigators, and then returned to the
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Speaker 1: Butler Farm show grounds as Trump supporters lined up to
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Speaker 1: enter the highly publicized rally in the height of Trump's
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Speaker 1: presidential campaign. Thomas Crooks took a drone out of his
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Speaker 1: car and flew it over the rally site for nearly
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Speaker 1: twelve minutes, beginning at three point fifty one pm, potentially
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Speaker 1: using the drones cameras to view the ponium where mister
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Speaker 1: Trump would soon speak. Now, I do want to note
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Speaker 1: 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.
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Speaker 2: 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. There are
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Speaker 1: also areas where you can't fly a drone super high
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Speaker 1: because of safety reasons. There are also places like prisons
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Speaker 1: active prisons that you can't fly drones over 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. And you'd imagine someone would place
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Speaker 1: a call and say, hey, are you flying a drone
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Speaker 1: as your team? Oh no, this is a random drone
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Speaker 1: like that. Drone could be anyone. It could have been
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Speaker 1: a normal person trying to capture some drone shots. It
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Speaker 1: could have been I don't know, some sort of person
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Speaker 1: that obviously wanted to wish Trump harm, which it was,
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Speaker 1: but it's like they didn't care.
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Speaker 2: It's so strange.
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Speaker 1: However, it gets even weirder so Three local police officers
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Speaker 1: from the area in Pennsylvania first noticed Thomas Crooks at
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Speaker 1: around five o'clock PM that afternoon. One officer, who was
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Speaker 1: performing the duties of a sniper that day, said that
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Speaker 1: Thomas Crook's quote stood out as he was alone and
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Speaker 1: he wasn't paying attention to the campaign festivities. He was
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Speaker 1: walking around the grassy area between AGR and the secondary
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Speaker 1: fence line, kept looking up looking at the building. One
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Speaker 1: point that is what raised my suspicion is he was
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Speaker 1: looking directly at the window I was positioned at end
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Speaker 1: quote the ADR building that Crooks was allegedly staring at
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Speaker 1: was approximately one hundred and fifty yards from where Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump was speaking. Now, local officers immediately began keeping tabs
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Speaker 1: on Crooks. One saw him using a rangefinder and even
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Speaker 1: snapped photos of him using this tool. At five point
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Speaker 1: thirty nine PM forty or so minutes later, another officer
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Speaker 1: suggested notifying the.
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Speaker 2: Secret Service that there was a suspicious.
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Speaker 1: Young man acting suspiciously at the rally. A Pennsylvania State
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Speaker 1: Police sergeant later told investigators that he actually alerted Secret
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Speaker 1: Service personnel to the suspicious person.
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Speaker 4: So you have.
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Speaker 1: Multiple police officers alerting the Secret Service, telling them that
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Speaker 1: there's a suspicious man scoping out essentially the stage where
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Speaker 1: the former US president and presumably next presidential nominee for
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Speaker 1: the Republican Party is about to be speaking in the
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Speaker 1: open air, and they are telling the Secret Service this.
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Speaker 1: The police are talking amongst themselves, they're documenting Crooks with photos,
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Speaker 1: They're seeing him acting really bizarre, but nothing, nothing happens.
18:54
Speaker 1: Later on, Congressional Task Force investigators claimed that there was
18:57
Speaker 1: no indication that that message reached Secret Service personnel on
19:02
Speaker 1: the stage or those who were in charge of security.
19:04
Speaker 1: So you have a suspicious man wandering around, scolping the stage,
19:07
Speaker 1: looking at potential shooting locations. You have a phantom drone
19:11
Speaker 1: flying in the air, and nobody on Donald Trump's security
19:14
Speaker 1: team cared. They didn't care, or they willfully blew it
19:17
Speaker 1: off obviously, or it was all pre planned.
19:19
Speaker 4: I don't know.
19:20
Speaker 2: 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 allow this
20:47
Speaker 1: to go on. I mean, it's so bizarre, like it's
20:51
Speaker 1: just so weird. Secret Service Deputy Director Matt Quinn said
20:55
Speaker 1: that the agency tasked with protecting Donald Trump bears full
20:59
Speaker 1: responsibility for what happened next, and later said, quote, I
21:02
Speaker 1: would ask Americans to understand that it was an organizational
21:05
Speaker 1: failure within the Secret Service, and we are laser focused
21:09
Speaker 1: on making sure that it never happens again.
21:11
Speaker 2: 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 point 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
21:59
Speaker 1: five five panic bystanders then began calling the police. Then
22:05
Speaker 1: at six eleven pm, just a few moments before Thomas
22:08
Speaker 1: Crooks opened fire, a detective from the Butler Police Department
22:12
Speaker 1: actually decided to pursue Thomas Crooks on the rooftop itself.
22:17
Speaker 1: He later described to congressional investigators the look on Thomas
22:21
Speaker 1: Crooks's face as the detective began to pull himself up, saying, quote,
22:25
Speaker 1: I see Crooks facing downrange towards the stage. But his
22:28
Speaker 1: eyes are back at me as I'm coming up, and
22:30
Speaker 1: I would say like his facial expression was surprised.
22:34
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 2: Reaches the Secret Service.
23:00
Speaker 1: A few seconds later, Thomas Crooks fired eight shots, which
23:04
Speaker 1: sadly would end up killing firefighter Corey Comparatore and allegedly
23:08
Speaker 1: injuring Donald Trump while also injuring to others. A Secret
23:12
Speaker 1: Service sniper immediately returned fire at Crooks, hitting him in
23:16
Speaker 1: 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.
23:21
Speaker 1: That's weird enough, this is a deep, deep dark rabbit
23:24
Speaker 1: hole that just keeps going. So afterwards, few details emerged
23:28
Speaker 1: about 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. So what
23:58
Speaker 1: was the deal? Was he actually committed to Trump? What
24:01
Speaker 1: was the plan for those bombs? Did he plan to
24:04
Speaker 1: cause mass violence at the rally that day? Or was
24:06
Speaker 1: there something even darker? Was Crooks potentially put up to
24:10
Speaker 1: the task or was he convinced to do it by
24:12
Speaker 1: some sort of darker, more malignant force or agency. Well,
24:18
Speaker 1: many question the credibility of evidence and the circumstances that
24:22
Speaker 1: surrounded Thomas Crooks, with some even going so far as
24:25
Speaker 1: to think he was a cover story for the real
24:28
Speaker 1: alleged assassin. And now we're going to discuss the strange
24:31
Speaker 1: things relating to Crooks's background, the details of the event,
24:34
Speaker 1: and we're going to try to establish a more confident
24:37
Speaker 1: angle and maybe even a hint of a potential motive.
24:40
Speaker 2: So one of the.
24:40
Speaker 1: Strangest things to me in this entire affair is the
24:44
Speaker 1: quote Blackrock connection. So in twenty twenty two, Thomas Crooks
24:49
Speaker 1: himself appeared in a video advertisement for the investment firm
24:53
Speaker 1: and conspiracy lightning Rod Blackrock. Blackrock stated that quote, we
24:58
Speaker 1: ran an ad featuring a ten teacher from Bethel Park
25:01
Speaker 1: High School in which several unpaid students briefly appeared in
25:04
Speaker 1: the background, including Thomas Crooks end quote. For those of
25:08
Speaker 1: you who don't know, Blackrock is a major investor in
25:11
Speaker 1: gun companies including Stern Ruger and American Outdoor Brand, the
25:16
Speaker 1: owner of Smith and Wesson. Blackrock is also one of
25:19
Speaker 1: the largest investment firms in the world. Blackrock is a
25:23
Speaker 1: company has a net worth of around one hundred and
25:25
Speaker 1: eighty billion dollars. Now that is, I mean, obviously a
25:30
Speaker 1: very very large amount of money, but that's not where
25:35
Speaker 1: a lot of these conspiracies really spring from. A lot
25:38
Speaker 1: of these theories come from the fact that as of
25:40
Speaker 1: October twenty twenty five, the total monetary value of the
25:44
Speaker 1: assets under management or AUM of Blackrock as a company
25:49
Speaker 1: totals a little over thirteen point five trillion dollars. This
25:54
Speaker 1: one company controls over thirteen point five trillion dollars worth
26:00
Speaker 1: of assets. I want you to think about that. Think
26:02
Speaker 1: of how much money that is. Think of how much
26:06
Speaker 1: a billion dollars is. 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 law largely 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 kell Loog,
27:19
Speaker 1: who owns ke Loog, 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 of American life, Blackrock
27:46
Speaker 1: is invested in it. I can guarantee you and we
27:48
Speaker 1: can do a whole video about them and how evil
27:51
Speaker 1: of a company Blackrock is. And additionally, on the surface,
27:55
Speaker 1: Blackrock regularly stresses the value of ESG and conscious capitalism,
27:59
Speaker 1: include making specific comments in the past about how gun
28:02
Speaker 1: manufacturers should do more to prevent their products from being misused.
28:06
Speaker 1: For example, after the Parkland High School shooting, Blackrock released
28:09
Speaker 1: a statement in part saying, quote the recent tragedy in
28:12
Speaker 1: Florida has driven home for Blackrock the terrible toll from
28:15
Speaker 1: gun violence in America. We believe that this event requires
28:18
Speaker 1: response and action from a wide range of entities across
28:21
Speaker 1: both the public and 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.
28:51
Speaker 2: Combat gun violence.
28:53
Speaker 1: And obviously they have now played a part in the
28:55
Speaker 1: Trump alleged attempt. So remember, black is a lightning rod
29:01
Speaker 1: of conspiracy. It's been brought up by politicians that are
29:04
Speaker 1: in the White House right now. It's been brought up
29:06
Speaker 1: by Democrats, it's been brought up by Republicans. They're just
29:09
Speaker 1: kind of an evil supervillain sort of company. And now
29:13
Speaker 1: you got Thomas Crooks, the alleged Trump in a black
29:17
Speaker 1: Rock video. Yeah, it's very very strange that you have
29:20
Speaker 1: that connection there, Blackrock being, according to many, a you know,
29:24
Speaker 1: an evil overlord type company that is pulling the strings,
29:27
Speaker 1: one of the companies pulling the streams. They have the
29:29
Speaker 1: largest asset management firm on our thirteen and a half
29:32
Speaker 1: trillion dollars worth of assets, with their fingers and tendrils
29:36
Speaker 1: in almost every sort of industry in America. Now you
29:39
Speaker 1: have the alleged Trump in a promotional video for Blackrock
29:43
Speaker 1: a few years before this all happened. It's very, very
29:46
Speaker 1: very strange, but.
29:48
Speaker 2: We need to move on.
29:48
Speaker 5: So.
29:49
Speaker 1: According to a CNN Politics article by journalists Maggie Depui
29:53
Speaker 1: Camp and Sharif Paget, Thomas Crooks was seen casually walking
29:57
Speaker 1: 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
30:43
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 4: What's on top of the roof. There he is right there,
31:08
Speaker 4: right there. See him.
31:09
Speaker 2: He's laying down.
31:10
Speaker 6: He's laying down.
31:15
Speaker 7: What's happening?
31:16
Speaker 2: And 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 1: He's right on the roof. Then the video ends. Also
32:02
Speaker 1: in the video, you can see three police officers walking
32:05
Speaker 1: off toward the opposite direction of the building that Crooks
32:08
Speaker 1: was on. Another video by witnessing Mike Defrisia and his
32:11
Speaker 1: wife captured Thomas Crooks laying on the roof, very clear
32:15
Speaker 1: and very up close as he aimed his rifle into
32:18
Speaker 1: the crowd. He spoke to local station WBFF Baltimore regarding
32:22
Speaker 1: the incident.
32:23
Speaker 2: Take a look his.
32:24
Speaker 6: Thoughts as he describes to me what he saw that day.
32:28
Speaker 6: They are images that won't soon be forgotten. Twenty year
32:32
Speaker 6: old Thomas Crooks on the roof of a building taking aim.
32:35
Speaker 5: When I seen him holding the gun like he was
32:38
Speaker 5: taking aim, I thought, oh my god, this guy's about
32:41
Speaker 5: to shoot into the crowd or something.
32:43
Speaker 4: So I turned my phone on.
32:47
Speaker 6: Mike Defrishap said he started recording on his cell phone
32:50
Speaker 6: the still photo grabbed from that video.
32:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, we had just got there a little bit late.
32:54
Speaker 6: And his wife Amber live in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. They
32:58
Speaker 6: were at the Trump rally and Butler Saturday. They arrived late,
33:02
Speaker 6: so they sat outside of the secured area near the
33:04
Speaker 6: building where Crooks waited.
33:07
Speaker 5: We were there maybe ten minutes waiting for mister Trump
33:10
Speaker 5: to come on. And then after he came on and
33:13
Speaker 5: started to speak my wife. Shortly after he started nudging
33:17
Speaker 5: me and said, hey, what's going on behind us?
33:20
Speaker 4: And that's when we noticed some commotion.
33:24
Speaker 6: The friendship said he noticed crooks climbing the roof, then
33:27
Speaker 6: noticed he had a gun. They tried a learning police,
33:30
Speaker 6: then took cover.
33:31
Speaker 5: I kind of felt I could see the guy with
33:34
Speaker 5: my eyes. I knew where he was at. I got
33:36
Speaker 5: me and my wife behind a big tree, and I
33:39
Speaker 5: felt that we were saved. And you see the gun,
33:41
Speaker 5: You're like, oh my god, we have to hide, but
33:43
Speaker 5: there's nowhere to hide.
33:44
Speaker 3: There was a couple trees to hide behind, so you
33:47
Speaker 3: didn't know whether to hit the deck.
33:49
Speaker 4: Or run or just stand still. It was. It's very chaotic.
33:54
Speaker 4: And then split.
33:55
Speaker 1: Second they also wanted accountability.
33:58
Speaker 6: Who besides the shooter should they held accounts up.
34:01
Speaker 5: People are trying to say the local cops and this
34:04
Speaker 5: and that might not have done their job in my opinion.
34:07
Speaker 5: And I haven't put this out anywhere else besides now
34:10
Speaker 5: now that it's been a.
34:11
Speaker 4: Couple of days, we're processing some of this.
34:13
Speaker 5: You know, it's Secret Services job to keep terror of
34:17
Speaker 5: 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 a police running around. We're
34:29
Speaker 1: telling 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
34:45
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: dumbass cops and Secret Service agents of all time, which
34:55
Speaker 1: I have a hard time believing. Because they're stationed with
34:58
Speaker 1: the assumed publican 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 location at the time was highly variable, However,
36:03
Speaker 1: FBI Deputy Director Paul Abate said before Congress that the
36:07
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
36:14
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 take the stage.
36:25
Speaker 2: 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 to twenty six PM. This footage from this video
36:41
Speaker 1: places Thomas Crooks in a completely different location, around half
36:45
Speaker 1: a mile away from the AGR building at that time.
36:48
Speaker 1: He claimed he quote saw Crooks sitting to the direct
36:51
Speaker 1: right 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 as a suspicious person. I mean,
37:20
Speaker 1: so you have a guy like twenty minutes before Trump
37:22
Speaker 1: is on a rooftop, a suspicious person. An officer takes
37:27
Speaker 1: a picture of it, sends it in says, Hey, we
37:30
Speaker 1: know that the ex US president is going to be
37:33
Speaker 1: 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 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.
37:59
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
38:10
Speaker 1: an arrange finder and he's looking at the stage like
38:13
Speaker 1: he's 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
38:21
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. Now ABC Newslater reported that at
38:30
Speaker 1: five point fifty six pm, about ten or so minutes
38:33
Speaker 1: before the shooting, Thomas Crooks was seen walking near the
38:36
Speaker 1: AGR building again shortly before Donald Trump walked on stage,
38:41
Speaker 1: and between six h two and six zho seven pm,
38:44
Speaker 1: officers allegedly lost sight of Thomas Crooks. They continued communicating
38:48
Speaker 1: with each other and attempting to locate the suspect, but
38:51
Speaker 1: he wasn't seen again until a police dashcam video captured
38:55
Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks on the roof at six h eight. At
38:58
Speaker 1: around six ten pm and twenty five six seconds, police
39:01
Speaker 1: were actually staring at Thomas Crooks as a bystander in
39:05
Speaker 1: white shorts pointed toward the building, and he started shooting
39:08
Speaker 1: about thirty seconds later. Now ABC News allegedly obtained a
39:13
Speaker 1: license to a video in which this.
39:15
Speaker 2: Was actually seen.
39:16
Speaker 1: You could see this guy pointing out the shooter to
39:19
Speaker 1: a police officer with his weapon on the roof, pointing
39:23
Speaker 1: towards Trump just at about six eleven and in this video,
39:27
Speaker 1: according to ABC, bystanders, I've then seen fleeing the area
39:30
Speaker 1: and the first gunshots are heard. All of this you
39:32
Speaker 1: have to really consider. So you have a president doesn't
39:35
Speaker 1: travel light. An ex president doesn't travel light, especially the
39:38
Speaker 1: last president before the current president. So not only do
39:43
Speaker 1: they have a huge Secret Service detail, these people are
39:46
Speaker 1: highly trained individuals. They are extremely astute. Their entire purpose
39:51
Speaker 1: is to protect one person. And there's like ten twenty
39:55
Speaker 1: I don't know how many were working that day. Usually
39:57
Speaker 1: it's like ten dozens. However, many people that try Trump
40:00
Speaker 1: and they know the warning signs and they know the
40:02
Speaker 1: red flags to look out for to keep one person safe.
40:06
Speaker 1: So you have an entire team with like a head
40:09
Speaker 1: of the team, head of security. You have all these
40:11
Speaker 1: different agents that are there. People are raising the alarm
40:14
Speaker 1: for like an hour before the shooting. They're chasing a suspect,
40:17
Speaker 1: people are seeing him. Then there are people seeing him
40:19
Speaker 1: on the roof and alerting the police. They are a
40:21
Speaker 1: police on video looking at him, so that's weird. Then
40:23
Speaker 1: on top of that, they had snipers that day. I
40:27
Speaker 1: can't remember if they were Secret Service snipers or local
40:29
Speaker 1: police whoever, they actually had snipers there to protect Trump.
40:34
Speaker 1: They always have those sorts of people at these sorts
40:37
Speaker 1: of events, And when you know a former US president
40:40
Speaker 1: is going to be out in the open, they have
40:42
Speaker 1: individuals that are snipers primed and positioned to take a
40:46
Speaker 1: dangerous individual down. So you might think that thirty seconds
40:49
Speaker 1: is a pretty short time between when something would happen,
40:53
Speaker 1: between when someone saw something and action could realistically have
40:57
Speaker 1: been taken. But when you really can think you're a sniper,
41:01
Speaker 1: you're sitting there with your sniper rifle primed, ready to
41:04
Speaker 1: defend the former president of America, someone says, AGR rooftop
41:09
Speaker 1: to the left, there's a shooter, shooter, shooter. You turn,
41:11
Speaker 1: you get your shot, and you shoot. Whether it's in
41:13
Speaker 1: the leg, you shoot them in the foot, you shoot
41:15
Speaker 1: them in the head. I don't know what their training
41:17
Speaker 1: would tell them to do, but it's as simple as that.
41:20
Speaker 1: It comes in your ear shooter, shooter on the left, rooftop,
41:22
Speaker 1: AGR building shooter, shooter, all units. Everyone turns on him.
41:25
Speaker 1: You swivel a little bit, 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 take them out immediately.
41:39
Speaker 2: 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
41:56
Speaker 1: covering it, which is also what the Butler County DA said,
41:59
Speaker 1: quoting the commit and of the Emergency Response team. So
42:02
Speaker 1: third hand, the first statement is from the SS Secret
42:05
Speaker 1: Service spokesman. There were several barriers to this though. You see,
42:08
Speaker 1: after hearing about the shooter, a number of police officers
42:11
Speaker 1: went inside of the building that Thomas Crooks had crawled
42:13
Speaker 1: on top of to fire the shots, but they discovered
42:16
Speaker 1: that there was no roof access. The one cop who
42:18
Speaker 1: climbed 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
42:43
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: You had people raising the alarm about this. It was
42:51
Speaker 1: ultimately the Secret Service's responsibility to make sure everyone understood
42:55
Speaker 1: what was going on that day and that they were
42:57
Speaker 1: doing their jobs right. But it seems like they got
42:59
Speaker 1: complacent and just agreed that local law enforcement were doing
43:02
Speaker 1: their 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 5: Quote.
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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.
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Speaker 5: Quote.
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Speaker 1: They are just too many ways that you can improve
44:19
Speaker 1: that situation.
44:20
Speaker 2: That said, the.
44:20
Speaker 1: Secret Service has to be right every single time, every
44:24
Speaker 1: single rally, of every single candidate, of every single month,
44:27
Speaker 1: every single year. They've got to be perfect. The bad
44:30
Speaker 1: guys only have to be lucky or write one time.
44:32
Speaker 1: So it's going to happen. You just want to eliminate
44:35
Speaker 1: as many means that it could happen as possible end quote.
44:39
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
44:47
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 obviously disagree with.
45:01
Speaker 1: Trump is obviously the deep state at this point. If
45:04
Speaker 1: you believe in the deep state, just look at the
45:06
Speaker 1: Epstein cover up. Don't even have to mention that. But
45:09
Speaker 1: there's also the flip side of the coin. Could Trump
45:12
Speaker 1: and his team have potentially wanted something like this to
45:15
Speaker 1: happen to Trump to improve votes and garner sympathy before
45:21
Speaker 1: 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.
46:03
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.
46:12
Speaker 2: But some have.
46:13
Speaker 1: Also suggested that, due to the fact that the local
46:15
Speaker 1: police department and Secret Service were not performing well that day,
46:19
Speaker 1: that Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania governor, could.
46:22
Speaker 2: Have been involved.
46:22
Speaker 1: Now I'm not endorsing any theory. I'm just reporting on
46:26
Speaker 1: what people have said online, because allegedly, according to many,
46:30
Speaker 1: there was another person present that day, a person on
46:33
Speaker 1: the nearby water tower at the rally that also would
46:36
Speaker 1: have had direct access to see Thomas Crooks across the buildings,
46:40
Speaker 1: So a water tower higher than the buildings who would
46:44
Speaker 1: have any clear vantage point and would have definitely seen
46:48
Speaker 1: a guy crawling on the roof in order to carry
46:51
Speaker 1: out an attempt, but nothing was done. Others believe that
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 we had just seen
47:00
Speaker 1: another sniper or police officer lying on the roof. It
47:03
Speaker 1: was nothing to worry about. It was just another officer.
47:06
Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks apparently got up on top of the roof
47:09
Speaker 1: via a ladder that the local police had left behind
47:12
Speaker 1: as 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 1: just like this one and.
47:42
Speaker 6: Look what happened to our country probably.
47:55
Speaker 5: Now.
47:55
Speaker 1: Allegedly, Thomas Crooks himself was a registered Republican, however, in
47:59
Speaker 1: two thousand. In twenty one, he was found to have
48:01
Speaker 1: made a small donation to a Democrat aligned group called
48:05
Speaker 1: Progressive Turnout Project. At a Butler news conference, the FBI
48:08
Speaker 1: agent Kevin Rojick announced that Trump's team had not requested
48:12
Speaker 1: additional security despite what was previously said. Therefore, the FBI
48:16
Speaker 1: had no request to actually deny. According to The New
48:19
Speaker 1: York Post, the FBI had allegedly obstructed the investigation into
48:24
Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks's background. Some thought that it was possible that
48:27
Speaker 1: Crooks had some medication or toxicology results in his system
48:30
Speaker 1: when the autopsy was performed, but apparently neither were included
48:34
Speaker 1: in the autopsy report, and the FBI released the body
48:37
Speaker 1: to his parents just eight days after the shooting without
48:40
Speaker 1: many officials being notified, and he was promptly cremated. So
48:44
Speaker 1: FBI officials who served under President Joe Biden accessed Thomas
48:47
Speaker 1: Crooks's phone, computer, and his devices, and what they found
48:51
Speaker 1: was pretty troubling. So this is one of the really
48:54
Speaker 1: big things that I find to be inconsistent and bizarre
48:57
Speaker 1: about all of this. So, on Thomas Crooks's phone, he
49:00
Speaker 1: actually used three different fully end to end encrypted messaging
49:05
Speaker 1: apps for messaging for sending messages. These apps are based
49:09
Speaker 1: in Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany. Now this is according
49:12
Speaker 1: to current National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, a former GOP congressman,
49:17
Speaker 1: and this is proven information. So Thomas crooks had these
49:21
Speaker 1: secret messaging apps that were based in different countries, and
49:25
Speaker 1: to this day, it is unknown who he was talking
49:27
Speaker 1: to on those apps, what the messages were, and why
49:31
Speaker 1: he had three different secret messaging apps installed on his
49:35
Speaker 1: phone prior to the shooting. The contents of those messages
49:38
Speaker 1: and any contacts that he may have had through those
49:41
Speaker 1: messages have never been revealed. But it is really bizarre.
49:45
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know why you would have three
49:47
Speaker 1: different secret messaging apps, specifically based in three foreign countries
49:53
Speaker 1: with different laws and legislations. And to this day, according
49:56
Speaker 1: to the official narrative, some of those accounts and those
50:00
Speaker 1: messages remain fully inaccessible due to the encryption, the end
50:04
Speaker 1: to end encryption that is inherent with those kind of
50:06
Speaker 1: secret messaging apps. So according to the authorities, they still
50:10
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any reports clarifying any of this. They
50:13
Speaker 1: still don't know who he was talking to, what the
50:15
Speaker 1: messages may have said in Belgium, New Zealand and Germany
50:19
Speaker 1: or you know, that doesn't even necessarily mean that he
50:22
Speaker 1: would have had to have had an overseas contact. You know,
50:25
Speaker 1: someone else here in America could have also installed one
50:29
Speaker 1: of those apps with that extreme security on it, and
50:32
Speaker 1: they could have been chatting to him in the United
50:34
Speaker 1: States using this app secretly, so both users on the
50:38
Speaker 1: same secret encrypted app. It's just it's really bizarre stuff.
50:41
Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks also had two cell phones. He had a
50:44
Speaker 1: cell phone on him at the time of the shooting,
50:46
Speaker 1: but he had another cell phone at home, which allegedly
50:48
Speaker 1: had twenty seven different contacts on it, but according to authorities,
50:52
Speaker 1: there was nothing of value that was found on that phone.
50:55
Speaker 1: They did, though, on his laptop, find that he had
50:58
Speaker 1: also once again been using encrypti messaging services to secretly
51:02
Speaker 1: talk to god knows who.
51:05
Speaker 2: They still don't know.
51:06
Speaker 1: He had three of these on one phone, these secret
51:08
Speaker 1: messaging apps, one secret messaging app.
51:10
Speaker 2: On his laptop.
51:11
Speaker 1: But according to everybody, you know, all the investigators, he
51:15
Speaker 1: wasn't talking to anybody, even though they I don't know.
51:18
Speaker 2: It's just really, really sketchy. You have this guy.
51:21
Speaker 1: Who, according to many, just seems to kind of snap. Yeah,
51:24
Speaker 1: he was training at the gun range according to them,
51:27
Speaker 1: But he wasn't necessarily weird, He wasn't necessarily really outspoken
51:31
Speaker 1: about politics. He was in a black rock ad. He
51:34
Speaker 1: had no real crazy history, just some bizarre behavior. But
51:39
Speaker 1: this guy then tries to the former United States President,
51:43
Speaker 1: one of the most high profile targets on planet Earth,
51:47
Speaker 1: which is a pretty extreme action. And then you see
51:49
Speaker 1: that on his devices he has secret messaging apps where
51:53
Speaker 1: he is more than likely messaging people overseas or even
51:57
Speaker 1: here in America prior to the shooting, and that data
52:00
Speaker 1: and information is officially unknown. But could that have been accounts?
52:04
Speaker 1: Could those have been accounts held by Thomas Crooks's handlers.
52:08
Speaker 1: Could those have been intelligence connected accounts or messaging apps
52:12
Speaker 1: or 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 know, convinced him somehow
52:23
Speaker 1: to carry this out. Was he talking to people that
52:25
Speaker 1: were helping him plan this.
52:27
Speaker 2: It's still unknown.
52:28
Speaker 1: But the uncanniness of the Crooks story doesn't just stop there.
52:31
Speaker 1: In fact, it was recently reignited by the of Charlie
52:35
Speaker 1: Kirk and the eerie similarities that Charlie Kirk's assassin holds
52:38
Speaker 1: with Thomas Crooks. So obviously, in September, Charlie Kirk, an
52:42
Speaker 1: American right wing political activist, was while addressing an audience
52:47
Speaker 1: on the campus of Utah Valley University in Utah. After
52:50
Speaker 1: a thirty three hour manhunt, officials were able to capture
52:54
Speaker 1: the twenty two year old alleged shooter, Tyler James Robinson,
52:57
Speaker 1: who was found at his parents' residence in Washington, Utah.
53:00
Speaker 1: His own parents helped arrange his surrender, and he was
53:03
Speaker 1: arrested late on September eleventh, twenty twenty five. Well, the
53:07
Speaker 1: motive is still being determined. Over a month and a
53:10
Speaker 1: half later, interesting parallels have come to light showing several
53:13
Speaker 1: similarities between Robinson and the alleged Trump assassin Thomas Crooks.
53:18
Speaker 1: Now Robinson light Crooks was extremely smart. He had a
53:22
Speaker 1: four point zero GPA, scored high on standardized tests.
53:25
Speaker 2: 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. Both of
53:47
Speaker 1: these young men grew up with friendly and loving parents.
53:49
Speaker 1: Thomas Crooks's parents were social workers, and the Robinsons were
53:53
Speaker 1: known to the neighbors as being very friendly and helpful.
53:56
Speaker 1: Both of them also had a heavy online presence. Thomas
53:59
Speaker 1: Crooks concealed him online search requests using VPNs despite news
54:03
Speaker 1: media outlets sharing the subject of some of those searches,
54:06
Speaker 1: and Robinson also had a big online gaming presence on
54:09
Speaker 1: Reddit and x, even going so far as to sketch
54:11
Speaker 1: those online memes slash phrases into the bullet casings found
54:16
Speaker 1: on the scene of Charlie Kirk's murder. Both were young,
54:19
Speaker 1: white males in their early twenties, a theme that has
54:21
Speaker 1: been noticed throughout time in regards to mass shooters. Data
54:24
Speaker 1: suggests that over fifty percent of mass shooters are white
54:27
Speaker 1: and nearly ninety eight percent are male. Additionally, the Violence
54:31
Speaker 1: Project database as of twenty twenty four identifies the most
54:34
Speaker 1: common age range for mass shooters as being twenty one
54:37
Speaker 1: to thirty years old. Initial police reports and FBI statements
54:41
Speaker 1: after Kirk's alleged that Robinson had also climbed up to
54:45
Speaker 1: a rooftop and took a concealed elevated position similar to
54:48
Speaker 1: that of Thomas Crooks. According to reports, of the The
54:52
Speaker 1: officials reported that Robinson arrived on campus at around eight
54:55
Speaker 1: twenty nine that day. However, he disappeared and reappeared back
54:58
Speaker 1: on video later that morning at around eleven to fifty am.
55:01
Speaker 1: It's possible he was also coming to scout the area
55:04
Speaker 1: out for a good position, just like Thomas Cook's head.
55:07
Speaker 1: At eleven fifty three am, he stopped at the top
55:09
Speaker 1: of some stairs and pulled out his phone before proceeding
55:12
Speaker 1: down into a pedestrian tunnel. Still images released by the
55:15
Speaker 1: FBI show him ascending a stairwell in a parking garage
55:18
Speaker 1: adjacent to the tunnel. That event began at noon with
55:21
Speaker 1: about three thousand people in attendance. Authority said that the
55:23
Speaker 1: suspected gunman was seen at twelve oh two pm walking
55:27
Speaker 1: on the north side of the Lost Sye Center, where
55:29
Speaker 1: they said he would later Charlie Kirk from the roof.
55:31
Speaker 1: Kirk appeared at the event at around twelve oho nine
55:34
Speaker 1: pm and started throwing hats into the crowd. Then at
55:36
Speaker 1: twelve eleven pm he began speaking. According to an affidavit,
55:40
Speaker 1: the suspect entered the Lossie Center from the southeast side
55:43
Speaker 1: and was seen ascending the stairs next to the building.
55:45
Speaker 1: Thirteen minutes later, the stairs connected with the public walkway
55:48
Speaker 1: adjacent to the roof, and surveillance video showed the suspect
55:51
Speaker 1: crossing a railing from the walkway on to the roof
55:54
Speaker 1: at around twelve to fifteen pm. He disappeared from view
55:56
Speaker 1: for a short time before running across the roof, then
55:59
Speaker 1: crawling into the suspected shooting position. Investigators said that by
56:02
Speaker 1: twelve twenty two PM, the suspected shooter was in position
56:05
Speaker 1: on the roof, lying on his stomach facing the location
56:08
Speaker 1: where Kirk was speaking, about four hundred and thirty feet away,
56:11
Speaker 1: sitting under a tent displaying the tour title. Charlie Kirk
56:14
Speaker 1: engaged in a back and forth exchange with UVU student
56:17
Speaker 1: Hunter Kozak about mass shootings in the United States, and
56:20
Speaker 1: at around twelve twenty three thirty pm, Charlie Kirk was
56:23
Speaker 1: hit in the neck with a single shot, which investigators
56:26
Speaker 1: believed came from the roof of the Lossy Center.
56:29
Speaker 4: 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: him 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
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Speaker 1: other officers, some even disguised in civilian clothing, but both
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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
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Speaker 1: free from security, just like the one that Crook's ascended
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Speaker 1: in Butler, Pennsylvania. That was a major flaw in security plans.
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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
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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 five pm,
58:00
Speaker 1: the officer added maybe the CS building before describing the
58:03
Speaker 1: shooter as wearing jeans, black shirt, black mask, long rifle.
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Speaker 1: A minute later, the officer elaborated quote on top of
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Speaker 1: the building on the far north side, just east of
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Speaker 1: the library end quote. A UVU police officer was the
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Speaker 1: first to investigate the suspected shooting position on the roof
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Speaker 1: of the Lossy Center. At twelve thirty nine PM, FBI
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Speaker 1: agents and chiefs of police arrived at the location of
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Speaker 1: the event, but by that time Robinson was already gone. Now,
58:27
Speaker 1: Tyler Robinson's motive, just like Thomas Crooks's motive, was never
58:31
Speaker 1: truly determined. We still don't really know what it was.
58:34
Speaker 1: There were rumors that Robinson's motive remained with LGBTQI and
58:38
Speaker 1: plus rights, or his distaste with conservative opinions on the matter,
58:41
Speaker 1: particularly Charlie Kirks. Thomas Crooks's motive was also thought to
58:45
Speaker 1: have had something to do with his political views. It
58:47
Speaker 1: was alleged that he was strongly anti Trump, so much
58:50
Speaker 1: so that he didn't want his parents to put signs
58:52
Speaker 1: in the yard, but his fierce support of the Second
58:54
Speaker 1: Amendment throws that kind of through a loophole. As a result,
58:57
Speaker 1: you have two very mysterious but uncre handily similar shooters.
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Speaker 2: Could this be a coincidence? Was Crooks of Patsy?
59:04
Speaker 1: Was Robinson and Patsy? Another question that many have found
59:07
Speaker 1: themselves asking regarding not only Tyler Robinson, but especially Thomas
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Speaker 1: Crooks in particular, as he's been the main focus of
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Speaker 1: ours today, is the question of was he just the
59:17
Speaker 1: fall guy? Now, there is a lot of evidence that
59:20
Speaker 1: suggests that Thomas Crooks is definitely the one who attempted
59:24
Speaker 1: the on Donald Trump, but many also believed that he
59:27
Speaker 1: was a Patsy and just a little part of an
59:29
Speaker 1: even bigger picture.
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Speaker 2: You see.
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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.
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Speaker 2: They want us to have access to.
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Speaker 1: NBC News reported that some believe that there was a
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Speaker 1: second shooter on the water tower to silence Crooks after
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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 parksman. In fact,
1:00:01
Speaker 1: Senator Ron Johnson said on Fox News that he had
1:00:04
Speaker 1: quote seen some pretty interesting videos on the internet by
1:00:07
Speaker 1: experts that certainly called into question what the FBI was
1:00:10
Speaker 1: telling us about a single shooter end quote. He went
1:00:12
Speaker 1: on to say, quote, I don't know, but we can't
1:00:14
Speaker 1: trust the FBI and the Secret Service to do an
1:00:17
Speaker 1: honest and open, transparent investigation. That's just a very sad fact.
1:00:21
Speaker 1: So we have got to rely on other sources independent
1:00:24
Speaker 1: to really find out what the truth of the matter was.
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Speaker 2: End quote.
1:00:27
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
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Speaker 1: network end quote was operating with him at the time
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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 had 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
1:01:38
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 user
1:02:22
Speaker 1: name Maga Juice, shows a black, fuzzy spot at the
1:02:24
Speaker 1: top of the tower. Text on the video claims the
1:02:27
Speaker 1: spot is a crouching agent. However, Cullen did not immediately
1:02:30
Speaker 1: respond to a request for comment. This is the video here.
1:02:38
Speaker 1: There were also several witness videos who claimed similar things.
1:02:42
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 5: It's the sniper, and you aspiring down forard the wart power.
1:02:49
Speaker 3: Yeah.
1:02:50
Speaker 4: And then in that same exact moment, there was a
1:02:53
Speaker 4: spray from.
1:02:54
Speaker 5: The right side of the stage that I thought was
1:02:56
Speaker 5: some type of gas, like or not gas. But sure
1:03:01
Speaker 5: you wind up front, he said it was coming. A
1:03:10
Speaker 5: few minutes later, there was a couple more shots plopping
1:03:13
Speaker 5: down the hills.
1:03:13
Speaker 4: When they started, I'm pushing everybody.
1:03:15
Speaker 3: Out and then he put the fist bump up, stay strong,
1:03:18
Speaker 3: and they walked him off.
1:03:20
Speaker 2: Aaron, what was going through your mind?
1:03:21
Speaker 7: What did you think when you first heard those sounds?
1:03:24
Speaker 3: I thought the sit do but you just said I
1:03:25
Speaker 3: thought it was fireworks fourth of July. It's been pop
1:03:27
Speaker 3: pop pop, That's what it sounded like. Gentlemen behind me,
1:03:30
Speaker 3: we were I was one seat, he was to the
1:03:32
Speaker 3: right of me. He could see the sharp shooter on
1:03:34
Speaker 3: the behind Trump. He said, the sharp shooter shot to
1:03:37
Speaker 3: the left. He killed the gentleman in the water tower here. Now,
1:03:40
Speaker 3: when I called my husband at home, who's watching TV,
1:03:43
Speaker 3: he said, I thought Trump heard his ear when he
1:03:45
Speaker 3: went to the ground, but he said no. On TV
1:03:47
Speaker 3: they showed before Trump hit the ground, the ear was bleeding,
1:03:51
Speaker 3: so that sharpshooter went across. Trump turned his head. His
1:03:54
Speaker 3: ear must have been nipped, and it killed somebody in
1:03:57
Speaker 3: the stands over to the left.
1:03:59
Speaker 1: And so we are trying to go after them. Then
1:04:01
Speaker 1: when I find about hisself, and they had been.
1:04:04
Speaker 4: Right by the fence where the other shooter was. There
1:04:06
Speaker 4: was one I heard in WaterTower.
1:04:08
Speaker 5: 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
1:04:40
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. 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.
1:05:11
Speaker 1: Here's a brief news video showing him.
1:05:14
Speaker 5: This is one of the three people now facing charges
1:05:16
Speaker 5: accused of attacking police officers, and you hear we had to.
1:05:19
Speaker 4: Bleep that out some of that to a portion of
1:05:21
Speaker 4: that during the Donald Trump Brownley the convention Center last night.
1:05:24
Speaker 8: The man in that video is Kennan Hopper, and he
1:05:27
Speaker 8: and Maxwell Yerick and Lisa Kollier are all facing riot
1:05:31
Speaker 8: and assault charges.
1:05:32
Speaker 4: The two men also accused of resisting arrest.
1:05:35
Speaker 8: Chanel eleven news reporter Aaron Martin joins us line from
1:05:37
Speaker 8: the convention Center down sound erin.
1:05:39
Speaker 4: It looks a lot different than it did this time last.
1:05:42
Speaker 8: Night, There's no doubt about that, David. A very different
1:05:45
Speaker 8: scene right now. What we saw less than twenty four hours,
1:05:48
Speaker 8: going back just a few feet away from where I'm standing,
1:05:50
Speaker 8: what we saw was nothing but protesters, Trump supporters, and
1:05:54
Speaker 8: a lot of police in between them. As you can imagine,
1:05:56
Speaker 8: a lot of those verbal confrontations turned violent, and in
1:05:59
Speaker 8: the end people were arrested for assaulting police officers. This
1:06:04
Speaker 8: is Kennon Hooper being taken away in handcuffs, moments after
1:06:07
Speaker 8: police say he kicked two officers after they were pepper
1:06:10
Speaker 8: sprayed by protesters. Will handcuffing Hooper, Investigators say Lisa Kyler
1:06:14
Speaker 8: jumped on an officer's back. This is what they're doing
1:06:17
Speaker 8: with This video shows Maxwell Gurick being taken to jail.
1:06:20
Speaker 8: Investigators say he tried to fight an officer who had
1:06:23
Speaker 8: just been pepper spray. All three are charged with assaulting
1:06:26
Speaker 8: police officers and riding outside of Donald Trump's event at
1:06:29
Speaker 8: the Convention Center just after seven forty five last night.
1:06:32
Speaker 8: Hooper and Urick are also charged with resisting arrest.
1:06:35
Speaker 2: It all happened.
1:06:36
Speaker 8: Minutes after Trump's speech wrapped up, and all four officers
1:06:39
Speaker 8: were treated on scene.
1:06:40
Speaker 4: For minor injuries.
1:06:41
Speaker 7: I'm very proud of the effort that Pittsburgh Burial Police
1:06:43
Speaker 7: put forward.
1:06:44
Speaker 8: Mayor Bill Perduto says he's proud of how police handled
1:06:47
Speaker 8: a chaotic situation.
1:06:49
Speaker 7: There was a good game plan going in but just
1:06:51
Speaker 7: like in any team sport, a good game plan is
1:06:54
Speaker 7: only carried out if you have the men and the
1:06:56
Speaker 7: women that are professional and can also show the patients.
1:07:00
Speaker 8: Showing a strong police presence was key, Paduto says. The
1:07:02
Speaker 8: city also worked with officers to make sure no First
1:07:05
Speaker 8: 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
1:07:14
Speaker 1: current pictures of Crooks. 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
1:07:39
Speaker 1: target audiences, to achieve objectives.
1:07:41
Speaker 2: Users have suggested that it could.
1:07:43
Speaker 1: Have been part of an MK ultra operation, but the CIA,
1:07:46
Speaker 1: and that's why things got covered up. Maybe it was
1:07:48
Speaker 1: to build sympathy for Trump or to further divide the
1:07:51
Speaker 1: rest of the country. It's interesting I mean, there are
1:07:53
Speaker 1: things that make no sense, especially the fact that you
1:07:56
Speaker 1: have an active shooter who just killed somebody. You have
1:07:59
Speaker 1: an active shit who just fired multiple shots at Donald Trump.
1:08:02
Speaker 1: You don't know the situation at all. You have no
1:08:05
Speaker 1: idea if there's another shooter, if there's a bomb threat,
1:08:08
Speaker 1: if there's anything else that could happen, if this is
1:08:11
Speaker 1: a pre planned attack.
1:08:12
Speaker 2: And just moments.
1:08:14
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
1:08:33
Speaker 1: really really crazy that that's actually true. But the fact
1:08:36
Speaker 1: that Trump stood up and this secret service allowed him
1:08:40
Speaker 1: to stand up and present himself as a perfect target
1:08:43
Speaker 1: once again, just moments after the shooting, so that he
1:08:46
Speaker 1: could fight, fight, fight, chant that little thing, and that
1:08:49
Speaker 1: all the photographers could get that picture that blossomed into
1:08:52
Speaker 1: millions and millions of merchandise, dollars and posters and T
1:08:56
Speaker 1: shirts and an image that became emblematic of his campaign
1:09:01
Speaker 1: for president. It's interesting that they would allow Trump to
1:09:04
Speaker 1: do that when at that moment they didn't know if
1:09:06
Speaker 1: there was more than one shooter, they didn't know if
1:09:08
Speaker 1: there was anything else coming. They should have kept him
1:09:12
Speaker 1: low like in all other attempts, like the Ronald Reagan attempt,
1:09:16
Speaker 1: where they immediately jump on him and immediately are covering him,
1:09:19
Speaker 1: neutralizing threats, getting him out of there as quickly as possible.
1:09:22
Speaker 1: There's just no way that any of the training would
1:09:25
Speaker 1: allow these agents to allow Trump to stand up in
1:09:28
Speaker 1: front of everybody and chant with a fist. What if
1:09:31
Speaker 1: there was another shooter, What if there was multiple shooters,
1:09:34
Speaker 1: what if there.
1:09:34
Speaker 2: Was a bomb.
1:09:35
Speaker 1: It just makes no sense to me at all unless
1:09:38
Speaker 1: they knew that there wasn't another shooter and there wasn't
1:09:41
Speaker 1: anything else that was going to happen. I mean, also
1:09:44
Speaker 1: on top of that, then you have photographers being rushed
1:09:47
Speaker 1: to the podium to get that shot.
1:09:49
Speaker 2: You could see the videos of the.
1:09:51
Speaker 1: Photographers reporters being essentially caddled and rushed up to the
1:09:56
Speaker 1: podium so that they can get that shot of Trump
1:09:59
Speaker 1: saying fight. It's really really bizarre, and I mean it's
1:10:03
Speaker 1: just weird, like they didn't know who the shooter was
1:10:06
Speaker 1: what had happened, It doesn't seem to be really any
1:10:09
Speaker 1: like urgency to protecting Donald Trump. There seems to be
1:10:12
Speaker 1: a lot of photo opping, rushing the photo journalists up
1:10:16
Speaker 1: so that they can get that perfect photo. So then
1:10:18
Speaker 1: Trump gets the photo. Millions and millions of dollars worth
1:10:21
Speaker 1: of merch is sold with that photo on it, and
1:10:23
Speaker 1: it obviously heavily influences his campaign for president. But with
1:10:27
Speaker 1: all of this, with how influential this event was in
1:10:31
Speaker 1: American politics, really in American history at this point, why
1:10:34
Speaker 1: does no one talk about Thomas Crooks?
1:10:36
Speaker 2: Based on all this information.
1:10:37
Speaker 1: We've heard today about him, Thomas Crooks's similarities to other shooters,
1:10:40
Speaker 1: and his potential set up, we have to ask the question,
1:10:43
Speaker 1: why don't we hear about him anymore? Well, some believe
1:10:45
Speaker 1: that officials swept the entire case quietly under the rug,
1:10:48
Speaker 1: and that it was allegedly covered up in part due
1:10:51
Speaker 1: to the fact that there were conspiracies surrounding it being
1:10:54
Speaker 1: a setup.
1:10:54
Speaker 2: This could have also.
1:10:55
Speaker 1: Been because of the whole security ordeal, how the Secret
1:10:58
Speaker 1: Service completely bought the purpose of their entire job that
1:11:02
Speaker 1: day and felt embarrassed, out of shame and potentially the
1:11:05
Speaker 1: perspective that those hired for the Secret Service are poorly
1:11:08
Speaker 1: trained or incompetent for their jobs, it may have been quieted.
1:11:11
Speaker 1: There's also the vantage point that the media manipulated the
1:11:13
Speaker 1: information after the shooting to portray Thomas Crooks mainly as
1:11:17
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
1:11:27
Speaker 1: entire school and that he always took hard right positions
1:11:30
Speaker 1: when doing political debates. The media, though, kept this facade
1:11:33
Speaker 1: of him being a liberal, and this would continue to
1:11:36
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,
1:11:48
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.
1:12:01
Speaker 2: This is highly debated though.
1:12:02
Speaker 1: Many believe that because Thomas Crooks donated to a Democrat
1:12:06
Speaker 1: led project, he was actually a liberal, but some say
1:12:09
Speaker 1: this was actually another man who had the same name
1:12:12
Speaker 1: as Thomas Crooks, who lived in the same state, who
1:12:14
Speaker 1: had made that donation. There's no photo attached to that donation,
1:12:17
Speaker 1: no real identification, just a name and a donation. Now,
1:12:21
Speaker 1: conspiracies also surround President Trump and the whole ordeal. You see,
1:12:25
Speaker 1: as I was just saying. Afterwards, Trump emerged from the
1:12:28
Speaker 1: hospital and even now to this day, his ear looks
1:12:31
Speaker 1: perfectly fine. Obviously, while this could have been due to
1:12:34
Speaker 1: some sort of reconstructive surgery that was performed to fix
1:12:37
Speaker 1: the ear, it is suspicious that the whole attempt was
1:12:40
Speaker 1: made completely quiet after Trump was elected. Trump used the
1:12:45
Speaker 1: attempt for sure, for media and supporter attention. He wanted sympathy,
1:12:49
Speaker 1: and he used this entire thing to gain power and
1:12:52
Speaker 1: control over people's minds and emotion. But eventually, just like
1:12:56
Speaker 1: everything else, when it was no longer useful to Donald Trump,
1:13:00
Speaker 1: the story faded away without any real research or disclosures
1:13:04
Speaker 1: about what actually happened. On more obvious notes, Thomas Crooks
1:13:07
Speaker 1: hasn't talked about anymore because he's well, he's dead, his
1:13:11
Speaker 1: family didn't make statements after the incident, and his motive
1:13:14
Speaker 1: is still unclear to this very day. Some people believe
1:13:17
Speaker 1: that he was also going to target President Biden, and
1:13:20
Speaker 1: that Trump just happened to be the one he went
1:13:22
Speaker 1: for that afternoon. As for the security nightmare that happened
1:13:25
Speaker 1: that day, on December fifth, twenty twenty four, Acting Secret
1:13:28
Speaker 1: Service Director wrote testified before Congress, taking responsibility for the
1:13:33
Speaker 1: agency's failures and outlining corrective measures. He announced initiatives including
1:13:37
Speaker 1: enhanced technical assets, expanded staffing, improved retention efforts, and a
1:13:42
Speaker 1: new Chief Wellness Officer to support mental health already isolated
1:13:46
Speaker 1: before the shooting, Crooks's parents are now rarely seen outside
1:13:49
Speaker 1: during daylight hours. A neighbors said there are only a
1:13:52
Speaker 1: few clues to suggest that the family even still lives
1:13:55
Speaker 1: at their home. Another neighbor described the crooks family presence
1:13:58
Speaker 1: on their street.
1:13:59
Speaker 2: As ghost life.
1:14:00
Speaker 1: Some media reported that the family has to grocery shop
1:14:03
Speaker 1: at three am to avoid any public sightings. Krook's parents
1:14:06
Speaker 1: did not respond to interview requests, and their attorney declined
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Speaker 1: to speak on their behalf. A postal employee said that
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Speaker 1: the Crooks's mailbox is always empty when he delivers each
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Speaker 1: day's mail. He and the neighbors speculated that the couple
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Speaker 1: left their home.
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Speaker 2: Under the cover of darkness.
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Speaker 1: Their house, which now has multiple security cameras, is fully
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Speaker 1: blurred on Google Maps and option. Homeowners concerned about privacy
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Speaker 1: can request from the search giant. Mary Crooks submitted her
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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
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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
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Speaker 1: no other option than to vacate a position I've been
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Speaker 1: proud to hold for the past twenty seven years.
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Speaker 2: End quote.
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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
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Speaker 1: the Butler rally just a convenient option for a young
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Speaker 1: man planning mass violence? Or was he commit to Donald Trump?
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Speaker 1: Did he have a plan for his bombs? The bombs
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Speaker 1: are never talked about. We have no idea what he
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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
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. So then what's to deal with those bombs?
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Speaker 1: Did he understand that he was on a suicide mission
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Speaker 1: or did someone set him up and then take him
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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
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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
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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
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Speaker 1: of organization? How does a guy that tries to the
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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
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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
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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
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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 upawn in a political chess game to
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Speaker 1: get Trump ahead in the polls and to gain him
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Speaker 1: some sympathy and support from his followers, being a survivor
1:16:32
Speaker 1: 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
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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
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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.
1:17:02
Speaker 2: My thoughts are also.
1:17:03
Speaker 1: With those who were injured in the shooting. That's how,
1:17:06
Speaker 1: in my opinion, you know that this actually happened, and
1:17:09
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
Speaker 1: Please be sure to leave me a five star review,
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.