New Red Flags in Trump Butler Shooting as Shooter’s Emails Emerge
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What major red flags have emerged regarding the Trump assassination attempts?
Major red flags are surfacing regarding the purported assassination attempts relating to Donald Trump. Which assassination attempts, you ask? Well, all of them. Donald Trump alleges that there were four assassination attempts against him. in the past two years or so. Additionally, the New York Post recently reported that there are purported assassination plans against Ivanka Trump regarding the IRGC, and that was uncovered. And now they had to arrest an individual in Turkey who was an IRGC cell. And let's just break down all the red flags. The biggest red flag And you gotta give it up to Judicial Watch for making this FOIA request. Rarely will you hear me say, give it up to Judicial Watch. But here, Tom Fitton, by the way, is a MAGA guy.
He writes, Judicial Watch announced that it forced the release of 48 heavily redacted pages from the FBI through a FOIA lawsuit revealing that the Butler County Sheriff's deputy exchanged emails with the would-be Trump assassin, Thomas Crooks, prior to the July 13th, 2024 shooting. The records detail that a SWAT officer also recovered a, quote, gray remote device with an antenna from Crook's pocket after he was killed. And as Kalen Desi writes, new. Here's what the Judicial Watch found. These are records from July 17, 2024, FBI electronic communications indicating that the Butler Sheriff's Office exchanged two emails with crooks. the purported individual who was involved in the purported assassination attempt prior to July 13th Trump assassination attempt.
The nature of the emails is redacted. So Judicial Watch did a FOIA request to the FBI. The FBI responded by producing this heavily redacted document. why do you need all of these redactions right now what are you investigating that requires all of these redactions to take place and this references two email communications with crooks from the butler sheriff's office prior to the shooting why was crooks emailing the sheriff's department prior to the shooting why is the fbi redacting all of this And, I mean, I don't want to go down some path that you can go, oh, Ben, don't go and veer into conspiracy theory land. I hear you. Trust me. I hear you loud and clear. But this can be addressed so simply. Just remove the redactions.
Why is everything with this regime, everything's redacted? On Wednesday, July 17th, special agent redacted. An interviewed redacted. Telephone number. I get why you redact the telephone number. Blank advised, she redacted. Thomas Crookes in the redacted. It references something about a New York Times reporter emailed her asking questions. And it's all redacted, but two emails with Crooks and the sheriffs prior to the July 13th Trump assassination attempt. And remember, Crooks was a registered Republican. He was described as a loner. Here's Thomas Matthew Crooks right here. He graduated in 2022. You can see right there. Remember back in the day when this was going down, FBI probing motives background of Thomas Crooks, the gunman behind Donald Trump assassination attempt right here.
What details have been uncovered in the FOIA request regarding the shooter?
And you'll also remember Channel 4 News at the time can reveal that Thomas Crook, the shooter's father, the owner of the rifle that was used to shoot at Trump, was held on a database and profiled by Trump's election campaign. and identified as a strong republican supporter and this was someone who was identified by the trump campaign the father was selected as a top trump reporter in the area just to remind you of that report here let's play this clip right here
Channel 4 News can reveal that Thomas Crooks' father, the owner of the rifle that was used to shoot at Donald Trump, was held on a database and profiled by the former president's election campaign and identified by them as a strong Republican supporter, gun owner, and hunter. The information was compiled as part of a secret Republican project to gather data on millions of gun owners across America and use it to target pro-gun messages in the run-up to the 2016 election. And here's why they did it. The city of Pittsburgh is a key battleground in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania, so voters here are always heavily profiled and targeted by political parties, like the Trump campaign in 2016, which held voters' details on a database, including, as we've discovered, the shooter's family, Matthew Crooks and his wife Mary, who lived here at 2506 Milford Drive in Bethel Park.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What major red flags have emerged regarding the Trump assassination attempts?
0:00–3:48
2
What details have been uncovered in the FOIA request regarding the shooter?
3:48–6:37
3
How are the emails exchanged between the Sheriff’s office and the shooter significant?
6:37–15:45
4
What background information is available about Thomas Crooks, the shooter?
15:45–17:21
5
What connections exist between the shooter’s family and Trump's election campaign?
17:21–17:58