Then showing back up at your post with a dead kid right outside the window.
Then finding out that the kid got off a headshot on Trump right outside your post.
Because that's what the facts suggest happened here.
The videos we've seen so far go crazy as soon as he starts shooting flipping all over the place.Stat Monitor Repairman said:
Seems like there should be some video of the guy firing. By the time he fired people on the ground had been filming for a couple minutes it looks like.
Somebody slips on a grape in walmart and phones come out and start recording. The had to be some video of this guy shooting from his firing position and final resting place.
Maybe you got people with other video angles trying to make deals to sell that video and it hasn't been posted by whoever has it. New angles of 9-11 trickled out for years after.
BREAKING.🚨
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 24, 2024
*NEW* video of the Trump assassination attempt shows Thomas Matthew Crooks on the rooftop pointing his gun at the crowd and someone shouting "He's got a gun on the roof!" pic.twitter.com/YRRW1cRKL9
The interesting snippet was that the "receivers" for the explosives were in the "off" position. Meaning they were not turned on. Even if Crooks tried to detonate them, they would not have activated.... 🤔Very interesting https://t.co/3ULtV3pK7o
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) July 24, 2024
Foreverconservative said:BREAKING.🚨
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 24, 2024
*NEW* video of the Trump assassination attempt shows Thomas Matthew Crooks on the rooftop pointing his gun at the crowd and someone shouting "He's got a gun on the roof!" pic.twitter.com/YRRW1cRKL9
🚨Spidey Senses on Full Alert. FBI Director Wray implies "U.S-based Iranian threats" may be connected to the Trump assassination.... AND those specific threats were communicated to the Secret Service.
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) July 24, 2024
Reading between the lines. FBI leadership told USSS leadership that… pic.twitter.com/ocDuutygco
This here is something I have trouble reconciling. Most LEO's I know are macho type guys. If they see the other counter-sniper teams on rooftops they would not want to be the ******* who chose to be indoors because of the heat. My guess is they were told to be inside that room.Guitarsoup said:
The big thing that stands out about the local snipers to me:
1. Why were they inside looking out windows. They have a much smaller field of view than being on the roof.
2. They said they told the USSS they couldn't supply snipers to cover it, but apparently had them, they were just inside the building?
Did they just want to stay inside because the tin roof would be hot AF?
511 makes some pretty big backpacks.Foreverconservative said:
The DMPS had a "collapsible stock" so it could have been reduced down six inches max is it was a true collapsible.
Now the probability of Wray knowing the difference in a collapsible and a folder is likely high.
Had it been a folder it could fit in a backpack. Collapsible not so much. There would have been eight to ten inches protruding from the back.
WOW. @chiproytx just asked FBI Director Chris Wray if any FBI agents have expressed displeasure over the fact that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 24, 2024
Wray said there have been at least 2 instances…and said one of those agents has been “referred”… whatever that…
Texmid said:This here is something I have trouble reconciling. Most LEO's I know are macho type guys. If they see the other counter-sniper teams on rooftops they would not want to be the ******* who chose to be indoors because of the heat. My guess is they were told to be inside that room.Guitarsoup said:
The big thing that stands out about the local snipers to me:
1. Why were they inside looking out windows. They have a much smaller field of view than being on the roof.
2. They said they told the USSS they couldn't supply snipers to cover it, but apparently had them, they were just inside the building?
Did they just want to stay inside because the tin roof would be hot AF?
Since the building they were in was fairly high ground, why were they not on the roof of that building instead of inside it?
The people that ran Crossfire Hurricane?drcrinum said:WOW. @chiproytx just asked FBI Director Chris Wray if any FBI agents have expressed displeasure over the fact that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 24, 2024
Wray said there have been at least 2 instances…and said one of those agents has been “referred”… whatever that…
And we have confidence in the FBI?
Further, had they been on the roof, they could have seen a shooter on the watertower. And vice versa.Stat Monitor Repairman said:
Rooftop video shows the guys on the roof in all black full battle rattle, helmets and about 30lbs of gear strapped to their body like a character from COD modern warfare. So it remains to be seen whether them setting up out in the heat played any factor in this. But people lugging around all that are typically looking shade.
All the DHS grant funded tacticool gear in the world won't save you if you can't stand a post.
Based on the evidence we've heard to date this was a failure of fundamentals.
Two guys abandoned their coverage and some kid snuck up and popped 'em.
Also from today's testimony it seems like the USSS wanted full command and control but then failed to deliver Mailed it in, sounds like.
But back to the point of why they weren't on the roof in plain view is inexplicable. The sight of a sniper team on the roof acts as a visual deterrent under the basic and fundamental concept of "officer presence." Nobody is climbing the gd roof with someone stationed on the roof.
So why weren't they on the roof? Who knows but it makes no logical sense.
.@mattgaetz asked if Crooks was on FBI radar prior to shooting or if any FBI agents/informants appeared in any comms in any chat rooms.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) July 24, 2024
Wray says FBI ran a search and Crooks was not in any of the agency's "holdings."
I still find this very hard to believe.
Other option is DHS…
New vernacular alert.Quote:
Crooks was not in any of the agency's "holdings."
Only ONE of the two was "referred"?drcrinum said:WOW. @chiproytx just asked FBI Director Chris Wray if any FBI agents have expressed displeasure over the fact that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 24, 2024
Wray said there have been at least 2 instances…and said one of those agents has been “referred”… whatever that…
And we have confidence in the FBI?
Wdrcrinum said:WOW. @chiproytx just asked FBI Director Chris Wray if any FBI agents have expressed displeasure over the fact that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 24, 2024
Wray said there have been at least 2 instances…and said one of those agents has been “referred”… whatever that…
And we have confidence in the FBI?
drcrinum said:WOW. @chiproytx just asked FBI Director Chris Wray if any FBI agents have expressed displeasure over the fact that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 24, 2024
Wray said there have been at least 2 instances…and said one of those agents has been “referred”… whatever that…
And we have confidence in the FBI?
Stat Monitor Repairman said:New vernacular alert.Quote:
Crooks was not in any of the agency's "holdings."
First time we've ever heard this term used in this manner. Can't recall a time where a suspect was referred to like this.
Q: Did you know about the guy?
A: No he was not within our holdings.
If this was some dialogue in a movie it would be struck from the script as confusing and ambiguous. Bizarre.
Touchetxags92 said:
Hard for Wray to refer himself for disciplinary action…
Foreverconservative said:🚨 JUST IN: Bodycam footage from the rooftop after the Trump shooting has been released
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 23, 2024
In the video, an officer can be heard saying a Secret Service sniper took MULTIPLE photos of Thomas Crooks before Crooks opened fire on Trump
WHAT THE HELL? pic.twitter.com/wPbxQVh8gI
Quote:
SS guy says "i'm trying to get clear information relayed back to DC." Which seemed to be the priority. Typically you want to get the situation stabilized then send an update.
Seemed like an exigent priority by the way it sounded though. Also off that you got the people in command and control that had been watching the guy for an hour according to the timeline and testimony. But here you got the SS guy trying to lead with questions scrambling to figure out what's going on like he just showed up. No leadership the whole time until after a couple people are shot, and only then do we demonstrate our authority and confidence in dealing with the local cops while standing on a roof.GAC06 said:Trump was long gone, and they're standing around the shooter who was approaching room temperature. Seems pretty stable.Quote:
SS guy says "i'm trying to get clear information relayed back to DC." Which seemed to be the priority. Typically you want to get the situation stabilized then send an update.
from Loomer Tweetdrcrinum said:WOW. @chiproytx just asked FBI Director Chris Wray if any FBI agents have expressed displeasure over the fact that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 24, 2024
Wray said there have been at least 2 instances…and said one of those agents has been “referred”… whatever that…
And we have confidence in the FBI?
I believe the Congressman asked if anyone at the FBI expressed disappointment that Trump survived, not specifically about agents at the FBI.Ag with kids said:Only ONE of the two was "referred"?drcrinum said:WOW. @chiproytx just asked FBI Director Chris Wray if any FBI agents have expressed displeasure over the fact that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 24, 2024
Wray said there have been at least 2 instances…and said one of those agents has been “referred”… whatever that…
And we have confidence in the FBI?
And the other one? A stern talking to?
Seems like he was forced to acknowledge that because someone has likely got evidence of it.Horn_in_Aggieland said:I believe the Congressman asked if anyone at the FBI expressed disappointment that Trump survived, not specifically about agents at the FBI.Ag with kids said:Only ONE of the two was "referred"?drcrinum said:WOW. @chiproytx just asked FBI Director Chris Wray if any FBI agents have expressed displeasure over the fact that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt.
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) July 24, 2024
Wray said there have been at least 2 instances…and said one of those agents has been “referred”… whatever that…
And we have confidence in the FBI?
And the other one? A stern talking to?
Wray replied by saying that there were a couple of incidents in which one person said something Wray thought was inappropriate and that person was referred to "internal affairs."
Regarding the local sniper team, if you will watch that video at about the 1:19 mark, you will see the 2 story portion of the building where the local snipers were situated in the background. It would have been better if they had been on the roof of that 2 story building, but they could see the roof of the rest of that building looking out those windows. Unfortunately, they left their post to go look for Crooks when their local compadres reported a suspicious person walking the grounds. It does seem that the "too hot" excuse is why they opted to stay inside, but everything would have worked out had they stayed where they were. However, I'm not sure that the Secret Service made it clear that they needed to be responsible for that roof (if that is what the advance planner thought was going to happen). In the end, it probably all comes back to poor advance work done by the agent out of Pittsburgh assigned to this task (who I believe was pretty new to the job).JFABNRGR said:Foreverconservative said:🚨 JUST IN: Bodycam footage from the rooftop after the Trump shooting has been released
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 23, 2024
In the video, an officer can be heard saying a Secret Service sniper took MULTIPLE photos of Thomas Crooks before Crooks opened fire on Trump
WHAT THE HELL? pic.twitter.com/wPbxQVh8gI
Couple observations from this body cam.
There are two backpacks at Michelles feet and I am assuming the larger is her medical bag, which should make the smaller one which appeared early in aerial photos to be the shooters. Again its my professional opinion a typical AR is not fitting in the bag wo standing out.
Since this is body cam did the other TAC officer also have body cam?
And most importantly where is the footage of the officers moving the weapon, assuming they moved it away from body?