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Yep this is not normal at all. How is something as major as this slowly getting sweeped under the rug
Trump Got Shot At: Official Attempted Assassination Thread
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trump is being supported by over 60 billionaires, billionaires who own the mainstream news and don't want the shooters motivations to make it to prime-time news. the shooter background and possible motivations doesn't help their candidates narrative.
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FBI director questions whether Trump was hit by bullet or shrapnel in shooting — Guardian US
Ronny Jackson, former White House doctor who examined Trump after shooting, pushes back: ‘It was a bullet’
apple.news
Trump gunman Thomas Crooks likely had a Gab account that he used to ‘support’ President Biden, site’s CEO says
“While the account made very few posts on the site, the majority of them were in support of President Biden,” Gab CEO Andrew Torba said Wednesday.
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Gunman at Trump Rally Was Often a Step Ahead of the Secret Service
Text messages, obtained exclusively by The Times, indicate that some law enforcement officers were aware of Thomas Crooks earlier than previously known. And he was aware of them.
Very cool read
This really is some bullshyt
Nobody is questioning this on CNN or MSNBC or the World News
Unbelievable
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Precise and cold hearted
Trump is going to do a victim sit down interview with the FBI.
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Gunman at Trump Rally Was Often a Step Ahead of the Secret Service
Text messages, obtained exclusively by The Times, indicate that some law enforcement officers were aware of Thomas Crooks earlier than previously known. And he was aware of them.www.nytimes.com
Very cool read
Wish I could read it
I hate Trump, but it really doesn't matter if he got shot by a bullet or shrapnel. We have pictures of a bullet going by his head. If he got shot by a bullet or it was a fragment, it doesn't matter. Trump was going to milk it either way. To be honest he has the right to. All these questions around that don't matter. Somebody tried to kill him. I'll give Trump that. If somebody shot at me, I'd milk it too. We need to just move past this. The guy was a republican. It wasn't the left that did this. It's time to move on. I'm glad Biden stepping down erased the momentum Trump was having. Trump had that possibly iconic picture. It doesn't matter anymore. Harris has taken his momentum away. I love to see it
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Secret Service’s Tech Flaws Helped Gunman Evade Detection at Trump Rally
Technologies that might have protected the former president failed because they were improperly deployed or because the Secret Service chose not to use them.
Maybe they should not be leaking this
Can someone point out how his ear is completely back to normal??
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4 Republicans tasked with investigating the Trump assassination attempt didn't show up for a site visit
Just 3 GOP representatives were in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Monday for a visit to the site of the Trump assassination attempt, according to a report.
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4 Republicans tasked with investigating the Trump assassination attempt didn't show up for a site visit
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Five Democratic Party and three GOP representatives showed up on Monday to tour the site of the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, PA. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images
- Four Republicans on a task force looking into the Trump assassination attempt skipped a site visit.
- The bipartisan group was formed to investigate potential failings on the day.
- It's unclear why some of the GOP members of the task force skipped the visit to Butler, PA.
Four Republicans on the task force investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump were no-shows for a site visit on Monday, according to The Washington Post.
The bipartisan task force was set up by a unanimous House vote in late July, two weeks after a would-be assassin fired at Trump during an outdoor rally, grazing his ear.
The 12-strong task force consists of seven Republicans and five Democrats and has full House investigatory powers, including subpoena powers.
But just three GOP representatives were in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Monday for the group's first visit to the site of the shooting, the Post reported.
Aside from Rep. Mark Kelly, the task force's ranking member, the only other Republicans present were David Joyce (Ohio) and Laurel Lee (Fla).
Reps. Mark Green (Tenn), Michael Waltz (Fla), Clay Higgins (La), and Pat Fallon (Tex) were absent from the group of lawmakers visiting the site, according to the Post. The reason for their absence was not explained at the press conference, the newspaper added.
Kelly said there was no substitute for being there.
"It's the difference between day and night," he said, according to The New York Times. "When you're actually here on this surface, when you're actually walking these grounds, when you're actually going to the building, when you're actually up on the roof."
The attempt on Trump's life led to a major public outcry and intense scrutiny of the Secret Service and its potential failings in allowing the shooter to get so close.
It was the closest assassination attempt of a US president or presidential candidate since President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.
The motives of the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper, remain unknown.
A video on Waltz's Facebook page suggested that, instead of attending the site visit, the congressman joined Trump at Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate the deaths of 13 servicemembers killed during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
A spokesperson for Waltz told Business Insider that the Congressman had "already committed" to the ceremony, which "meant a great deal" to him, ahead of the site visit.
"He hopes to receive all relevant briefings soon," the spokesperson added.
Waltz has previously expressed frustration at the pace of the task force's progress, telling the New York Post just last week that he is "frustrated at how slow and how little we've learned."
He has also questioned, without providing evidence, whether the shooter acted alone, the NY Post reported.
From their social media posts, it's unclear how Green, Higgins, and Fallon spent Monday. The lawmakers did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
Higgins already visited Butler on August 8 in an effort to devise a detailed "preliminary investigative report," which he presented to Kelly on August 12.
He is among 16 Republican figures who have been criticized for amplifying conspiracy theories alleging the FBI's involvement in the January 6 insurrection.
Alongside the bipartisan effort, MAGA-leaning GOP lawmakers have held their own hearing about the attempted assassination, inviting figures including Dan Bongino, a former Secret Servicemember, and Erik Prince, a businessman and former SEAL, to weigh in on the Secret Service's performance.
Speaking to the War Room podcast last week, Rep. Eli Crane, who is not on the task force, said that the bipartisan committee couldn't be trusted not to be "political" with its inquiry.
"We don't trust the federal government to actually do the job necessary," he added, according to the Times.
