Nearly ten weeks have passed since Thomas Matthew Crooks came within inches of killing Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
JULY 13: ATTEMPT ONE Day before ex-President was shot, Iran-linked man was held for trying to hire hitmen to assassinate U.S. politicians — and FBI HASN’T ruled out linkBy Freddy Gray
Last week, Melania Trump released a video demanding clarity. 'The attempt to end my husband's life was a horrible, distressing experience,' she said. 'Now the silence around it feels heavy... There is definitely more to this story. And we need to uncover the truth.'Members of a Congressional inquiry into the shooting also expressed their frustration at the reluctance of the FBI and other official agencies to be more forthcoming about Crooks's story.
Last, but not least, nobody has yet adequately explained why the Secret Service sniper team, which had their guns trained on Crooks, waited for him to start shooting before firing back and killing him. He had donated money to the Democrats but was also registered as a Republican. The FBI claims to have discovered an online account linked to Crooks that shared anti-Semitic material.
There is no available evidence connecting Crooks to Merchant or any international plot – but why hasn't the FBI explicitly ruled out any link? The agency has form when it comes to not disclosing politically explosive information. In 2020 it put pressure on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others to suppress a story about sensational material discovered on a computer belonging to Joe Biden's son Hunter on the ground that it was 'misinformation'.
There is no indication that Crooks's parents assisted him in his crime. Yet they have been keeping quiet since the shooting. In Pittsburgh in late July, when reporters asked if he would be willing to make a statement, Matthew simply stopped, paused and said, rather oddly, 'I gotta pee.'The FBI insists that standard procedures were followed.
Another seemed to think her most urgent task was to make sure her sunglasses were on. And a third kept trying and failing to re-holster her pistol. In the aftermath of the shooting, some claimed that the Service's obsession with diversity quotas meant that applicants were appointed because of sex rather than ability – and the disastrous results were all too evident on July 13.
It's the mystery gripping America. How has Donald Trump escaped a second attempt on his life just two months after he was almost assassinated at an election rally in Pennsylvania? Following the Pennsylvania shooting by Thomas Crooks, Trump's security detail was thought to have been intensified. So how could this sinister character have ended up anywhere near him?
He'd also made outspoken pro-Palestinian, pro-Taiwan and anti-China posts, and his social media musings reveal how he became increasingly militant about the geopolitical forces he railed against. In a 2023 self-published e-book, Ukraine's Unwinnable War, he described Trump as a 'buffoon' and said Iranian leaders should feel 'free to assassinate' him.
Routh has also been prosecuted for over a dozen other offences, ranging from issuing bad cheques and handling stolen goods to a hit-and-run and resisting arrest. As former FBI Director Chris Swecker said: 'There are only three possible answers. He guessed and got very lucky; he conducted surveillance on Trump and followed him to the golf course; or he had inside information about Trump's schedule.However, the club is only a 10-minute drive from Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago and Trump is a creature of habit.
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