What the Trump rally gunman did before the attack

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Published 2024-07-16
As investigators continue to search for a motive behind the attempted assassination, they are scrutinizing Thomas Matthew Crooks' movements before the attack and trying to piece together a timeline of his actions leading up to it. CNN’s Danny Freeman reports. #CNN #News

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  • @user-uv8tn6tm2m
    That an untrained 20 year-old was able to climb on a roof, crawl on it in clear view of yelling witnesses in an area supposedly surrounded by secret services and municipal police, get into position with his weapon and fire at a presidential candidate before being taken down is extraordinary. It's not like Trump was speaking on a city street surrounded by dozens of tall buildings and multiple balconies. No, it was in an isolated area, with just a couple of roofs close to the rally and in plain view of security services. I find myself dumbfounded.
  • @scottfirman
    CNN needs to focus on why agents even allowed that roof to be unsecured. The very fact the building was FULL of police officers standing around doing NOTHING while an assian climbed on the very roof top of the building they were in. Talk about incompetence!
  • @user-cn7np8fj7c
    They had a picture of the guy on the ladder 15 minutes before.Come on CNN don't minimize.
  • @PaloDuro1021
    They took a damn video of the guy crawling around like a snake on the roof. Some Secret Service we have...
  • @Liquid_Mike
    Bro was born in 2004, and the government thinks we'll believe he had no social media accounts ANYWHERE???
  • @NPC13377
    You want me to believe that an untrained 20 year old got past the secret service and local law enforcement all while walking through a field with a ladder and a rifle?
  • @Krispy1011
    How can a 20year old walk around a Presidential Rally with a rifle and not be stopped?
  • @nicktaylor1613
    Are you kidding me! He was able to bring a ladder to the building the day of the rally? What the F!
  • @user-hh6zo1xn5v
    Letting the F.B.I. investigate this is like letting the fox guard the hen house
  • @davebentz5287
    I live in Milwaukee. Last Saturday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel headline reported that 4,000 additional law enforcement officers from all over the U.S. were being sent in to the city to provide extra security to the RNC … at local, state, and federal taxpayer expense. Security is, and has been for several weeks, tight downtown. Yet, later that day … for some reason, a young man on a mission can out-fox secret service agents and gain access to a roof-top vantage point and come within an inch of taking out T. WTF.
  • @NexusDL12
    Major security failure by the secret service. Shame on them !
  • So he purchased a ladder? So why are some saying the ladder was part of that building he climbed up on? So did he drag that ladder there? What is the actual truth to this story? No one noticed him carrying a firearm and ladder?
  • @brettt141
    Crazy that the Secret Service tried to allow an assassination
  • @888strummer
    CNN makes the point that he was noticed acting suspiciously by the local police, but CNN does not tell their viewers that he was noticed acting suspiciously a full 26 minutes before the shooting. 26 minutes is a lot longer than this bs 1 minute and 57 second time frame. It was 26 minutes when the local police notified the Secret Service of his odd behavior. What isn't clear yet is if the Secret Service made any attempts to monitor him after they were notified. Also, an eyewitness said he alerted police about him at least 4 minutes before the shooting and that's why a policeman climbed the outside building and saw the gunman before he shot. CNN's 1 minute 57 timeline is not accurate and really provides some cover for the Secret Service's failure by making it sound like they had no time to prevent this. They were tipped off about him 26 minutes before the shooting
  • @robzone9822
    why would I believe anything that clown news network has to say.