Donald Trump and JD Vance shake hands at RNC convention as attendees offer their reactions.
It seems staggering that it could happen in 2024 — a would-be assassin’s bullet coming so close to Donald Trump’s head that it took off part of his right ear.
Trump stands with Senator J.D. Vance at the Republican National Convention, with a bandaged ear, two days after the assassination attempt WHAT WAS THE GUNMAN’S MOTIVE?Investigators say they are still struggling to understand why Thomas Crooks would want to kill the former president. Politics is the obvious answer and yet Crooks’ precise political views seem difficult to gauge.
Fellow pupils and teachers have said they definitely saw him as politically conservative but only moderately so. While it’s no secret that many traditional and more moderate Republicans loathe Trump, Crooks hardly fits the picture of the political zealot ready to embrace violence. Thomas Crooks opened fire right under the noses of trained snipers peering out of the building’s windows looking for threats.
The officer watched him outside as Crooks looked up at the roof and then left, news network CBS reported. He then returned, sat down and looked at his phone, at which point one of the snipers even took a photo of him. Experts were dumbfounded that none of the three officers was stationed on the roof, which would have offered a far better vantage point to observe the rally. The trio reportedly hadn’t been given a spotter, which is standard procedure, due to a manpower shortage.
The shooter, circled, was spotted on a roof by bystanders several minutes before he opened fire on the former president One post on X asking people to ‘pay close attention to the woman in the black hat’ has been viewed some 20 million times. These sceptics have insisted her behaviour is more a sad reflection of the modern compulsion to film violence than evidence of any prior knowledge of the shooting.
Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director of the FBI, told the Mail earlier this week that they might have assumed the assassin was a police sniper, part of their security team. Some of the evidence that’s been produced to suggest the incident was staged is itself fake. An image rapidly circulated on social media showed a picture of two agents who ran to guard Trump with smiles on their faces.
According to research group Institute for Strategic Dialogue, references to false assassination narratives amassed more than 100 million views on X in just 24 hours.
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