Trump, speaking to Fox News this morning, said he had never been allowed to rise to the level at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News that members of a bipartisan force investigating the shooting at Trump’s rally would be named later Thursday.
The Secret Service director will testify on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, July 30.
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Former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. , told “America’s Newsroom” on Thursday that “some of the radicalization” involving Trump’s shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, had occurred.
“They have to start when this guy graduates from the best school. Something happened between that moment and the day of the shooting,” Rogers said of the deceased 20-year-old gunman.
“Either he became self-radicalized or suffered intellectual misery or other external things or forces,” Rogers added.
“They want to at least have the option of having someone else help that guy get on the roof and do some laps,” Rogers said as well.
Two FBI investigators scan the roof of AGR International Inc, the building adjacent to the Butler fairgrounds from where Matthew Thomas Crooks shot former President Trump. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
Hawley told Mayorkas that the “new whistleblower allegations” “play a role in his department’s preparations. ”
“This raises an apparent question: why doesn’t the USSS use its own drones?” he continued.
“According to a whistleblower, the day before the rally, the United States Secret Service continually rejected offers from a local law enforcement officer to use drone generation to secure the rally,” Hawley said. “This meant that the generation was necessary for the USSS and could be deployed to protect the site. The secret facilities said no. The additional whistleblower claims that after the shooting, the USSS changed course and asked the local wife to deploy drones to monitor the site after the attack.
Former President Trump’s new book. (Courtesy)
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, detailed his new book, “SAVE AMERICA,” in an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday.
The e-book offers a look at Trump’s first term and “a vision for his next term,” according to the description. Each photograph in the new e-book was decided through Trump, along with his words, offering a glimpse into what will happen to shape any conceivable moment of the Trump administration.
The cover features the iconic photograph, taken by New York Times photographer Doug Mills, of Trump standing triumphantly in front of an American flag, moments after the assassination earlier this month at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“Now we are facing a radical left-wing lunatic,” Trump said. “We beat Biden. That’s why he resigned. He resigned because of the debate. He resigned because he got beat up. He’s so far away in the polls that they kicked him out. ”
Senator Josh Hawley introduced the Trump Assassination Attempts Transparency Act to declassify government data about the Trump assassination plot. On the right, marksman Thomas Matthew Crooks. (Kevin Dietsch/Bethel Park School District)
FOX FIRST: As details about the assassination attempt on former President Trump slowly emerge, a Republican lawmaker is introducing a bill to force the government to declassify all information related to the event.
“We want to know the fact about the attempted assassination of President Trump,” Hawley told Fox News Digital in a statement. “We can’t allow the federal government to hide the ‘classified’ label. “
The bill would require the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI and the Secretary of Homeland Security to declassify any critical data about the shooter’s killing and motive, as well as Trump’s repeated requests for resources. The legislation, if passed, would also require intelligence. that agencies report to Congress on their findings.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Wray’s comments came as the agency’s director testified under oath Wednesday about the shooting at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the upcoming investigation into the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Wray said he was not aware of any officials expressing misplaced rhetoric, but there was one case “of an individual who posted something that I found outrageous, completely out of place and unacceptable. “
The agency’s director said they had been referred to the FBI’s inspection department for an internal investigation.
Drone footage taken by Fox News shows the sight of Trump’s gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, when he opened fire on July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The footage shows Crooks largely hiding in the trees as he began shooting the former president.
Fox News’ CB Cotton contributed to this report.
Former President Trump reacts after being shot in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP/Evan Vucci)
“In “SAVE AMERICA,” President Donald J. Trump offers an unprecedented look at his 4 years as the 45th president of the United States, and a vision for his next term!”SAVE AMERICA is full of iconic moments from the first Trump administration,” reads the book’s description.
“From historic summits with world leaders to candid scenes from the White House, the photographs have been decided by President Trump, along with his words, that offer a glimpse of what will shape his next four years in office,” the description adds.
President Biden speaks from the Oval Office Wednesday night (AP/Evan Vucci).
President Biden delivered a roughly 11-minute address to the country from the Oval Office on Wednesday.
Sitting at the Resolute desk, surrounded by portraits of American presidents, Biden discussed his resolution to pause his re-election crusade and outlined his plan for the rest of his term.
Trump survived a July 13 assassination at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, sparking a unifying shockwave through the Republican Party, which officially nominated him the following week.
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said Monday that “when I have a full report on exactly what happened, there will be day-to-day work and we will make changes,” but later said a report on this issue would not be complete until 60 days from distance.
“Sixty days is enough,” Johnson said Thursday, adding that the Republicans and Democrats who will serve on the task force will be named later in the day.
“They will be working in earnest, the deadline is early December for their final report, but we are waiting for interim reports along the way,” Johnson said.
“I’m sure they’re moving forward with the investigation and I sense a desire to do it with a high level of integrity, but we’re in a situation here (12 days later) where there’s a lot of data that’s already available. “When we came out, there were a lot of eyewitnesses, a lot of cell phone videos, a lot of other people who saw exactly what was going on, and a lot of witness statements,” McDonald said.
“A lot of smart paintings done every day through the men and women of the secret services, we were not very smart on July 13. But we have to keep passing out and doing what we are doing as we move to the home stretch. . of the electoral period,” he added.
Former President Trump told “Fox
“There was someone on the roof. When you look at it now, it’s clear,” he said.
“Different teams of people knew there was a weirdo on the roof, and he was up there,” Trump added, noting that one woman was yelling “there’s a guy with a gun on the roof. “
“And it was, you know, a while before he went on stage. And then there was the local police officer who, it seems like he went up there and saw the guy, and then he fell off the roof and what happened to him? Trump continued: ” Why didn’t he start yelling that there was a gun? “There were a lot of other people there, but communication was bad. “
Former President Trump, speaking to “Fox
Trump made the comment after being asked for his opinion on FBI Director Christopher Wray, revealing on Wednesday that gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks had investigated the JFK assassination in the days before the July 13 Butler event.
Trump, speaking of the Secret Service agents who ran toward him that day, called them “very brave. ”
“But they made a mistake by not being on the roof. And the communication with the local police was terrible,” he added.
Thomas Matthew Crooks shot from the roof of this apartment complex and wounded Trump on July 13 in an assassination attempt. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)
Although a “bloody receipt” discovered on Crooks’ body included the purchase of a 5-foot ladder, Wray told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, his firm believes “the subject has taken mechanical equipment to the roof, on land and vertically”. pipes on the side of the AGR building” on July 13.
“In other words, we don’t believe he used a ladder to get up there,” he said in Washington.
“We did not locate the ladder at the location,” Wray told Rep. Steve Cohen. “He bought a ladder, but the ladder was not discovered at the location. “
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told “Your World” after Christopher Wray’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee that he thought the FBI director was “pretty embattled right now. ”
“You asked the FBI director to hide the fact that you had asked DEI to soften its standards. The FBI director is trying to hide the president’s intellectual competence. The FBI director essentially stated that he couldn’t prosecute this guy who “He was 20 years old. A two-year-old lone gunman who appeared three times before the occasion and had a drone flying over, why didn’t they block that place?” Roy continued. Why didn’t they send their own resources to the top? What does the FBI do?
Trump Rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks. (AFP document)
BETHEL PARK, Pa. (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed Wednesday that Thomas Matthew Crooks’ circle of relatives owned more than a dozen guns in his Pennsylvania home and that his father, Matthew Crooks, legally sold his son the gun the 20-year-old would use. attack on former President Trump.
“The weapon he used in the attempted murder was a legally purchased AR-style rifle,” Wray said. “We believe, based on what we have seen, that his father, after purchasing the gun, legally sold it to his son. ” a rifle on a roof just outside the perimeter of the demonstration.
The hearing, which will also feature testimony from FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate, is titled “Examining the Security Breaches That Led to the Attempted Assassination of Former President Trump. “
This is a joint meeting between the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.
The testimony comes after several days of hearings at the Capitol this week about the security breaches that led to the July 13 shooting.
Fox News’ Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
No legislators voted “no” or “present” and 416 voted “yes. ” Ten Democrats and six Republicans voted.
The task force will be made up of seven Republicans and six Democrats, with members likely to be announced this week.
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives approved the bill after the fatal shooting at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, just two weeks ago. One player was killed and two others were injured, and Trump himself was shot in the ear and evacuated from the scene via the Secret Service.
The vote was bipartisan, as expected: The hours after the shooting sparked a wave of bipartisan condemnation of political violence, as well as scrutiny of the security situation that allowed a 20-year-old gunman to climb onto a rooftop right next to the demonstration. . perimeter.
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