Trump, speaking to Fox News this morning, said he had never been allowed to speak at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told Fox News that members of a bipartisan force investigating the shooting at Trump’s rally will be named later Thursday.
The director of the Secret Service 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 kind of radicalization” involving Trump’s gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, had occurred.
“They want to start when this kid graduates from the best school. Something happened between then and the day of the shooting,” Rogers said of the deceased 20-year-old shooter.
“He had either been radicalized or suffered from 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” “call for his department’s preparations. ”
“This raises a question: why doesn’t the United States Secret Service (USSS) use its own drones?Continued.
“According to a whistleblower, the day before the rally, the US Secret Service continually rejected offers from a local law enforcement officer to use drone generation to protect the rally,” Hawley said. “This means that the generation was available to the USSS and could simply be deployed to protect the site. The Secret Service said no. The additional informant claims that after the shooting, the USSS changed course and asked the local couple to deploy drones to monitor the site after the attack.
Former President Trump’s new book. (Courtesy)
Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, detailed his new book, “SAVE AMERICA,” in an interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday.
The e-book will offer a review of Trump’s first term and “a vision for his next term,” according to the description. Each photograph in the new e-book was chosen by Trump, along with his words, which offer a glimpse of what will shape a potential future 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’re up against 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 was beaten. He is so far away in the polls that he was kicked 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)
FIRST ON FOX: As details slowly emerge about the attempted assassination of former President Trump, 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 killing and the shooter’s motive, as well as Trump’s repeated requests for resources. The legislation, if passed, would also require intelligence agencies to report to Congress on their findings.
FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. (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 out-of-character rhetoric, but there was one case “of an individual who posted something that I found outrageous, completely out of character 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 view of Trump gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks opening 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 and killed 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,” the book’s description reads.
“From historic summits with world leaders to candid scenes from the White House, each of the photographs taken by President Trump, along with his words, provide a glimpse of what will shape his next four years in office,” the description adds.
President Biden speaks from the Oval Office on Wednesday night (AP/Evan Vucci).
President Biden delivered a roughly 11-minute speech to the country from the Oval Office on Wednesday.
Sitting at the desk at Resolute, surrounded by portraits of U. S. presidents, Biden spoke about his resolve to stop his reelection crusade and laid out his plan for the rest of his term.
Trump survived an assassination on July 13 at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, sending 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 and complete report on what exactly happened, there will be daily work and we will make changes,” but then said a report on this issue would be complete until 60 days away.
“Sixty days is enough,” Johnson said Thursday, adding that Republicans and Democrats who will serve on the task force will be named later in the day.
“They will be working seriously, the deadline is early December for their final report, but we are expecting interim reports along the way,” Johnson said.
“I’m sure they’re moving forward with the investigation, and I sense a desire for this investigation to be done with a high degree of integrity, however, we’re in a scenario here — 12 days later now — where there’s a lot of data that has already come to light, there were a lot of eyewitnesses, a lot of mobile 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 clever painting done every day by the men and women of the Secret Service, we didn’t do very well on July 13th. But we have to keep passing out and do what we do as we enter 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 screaming “there’s a guy with a gun on the roof. “
“And you know, long before I got on stage. And then there was the local cop who, it looks like he went up there and saw the guy, and then he fell off the roof and what. Was it necessary?place for him?” Trump continued, “Why didn’t he start yelling that there was a gun?There were a lot of people, but communication was poor. “
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 rushed 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 housing 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 found at the scene. “
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told “Your World” after Christopher Wray’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee that he believes the FBI director is “pretty beleaguered right now. ”
“He asked the FBI director to hide the fact that he asked the DEI to soften its standards. The FBI director is trying to protect the president’s intellectual competence. Basically, the FBI director admitted that he couldn’t arrest this guy, who was a 20-year-old lone shooter who showed up 3 times before the occasion and had a drone flying overhead. Why didn’t they lock this down position?'” Roy continued. “Why didn’t they take their own assets up? What is the FBI doing?
Trump’s rally shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks. (AFP document)
BETHEL PARK, Pa. — FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed Wednesday that Thomas Matthew Crooks’ circle of relatives had more than a dozen firearms in his Pennsylvania home that his father, Matthew Crooks, had legally sold. to his son the weapon that the 20-year-old would use. his attempted assassination of former President Trump.
“The weapon he used for the attempted murder was a legally purchased AR-style rifle,” Wray said. “We believe, based on what we’ve seen, that his father, after buying 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 Violations That Led to the Assassination Attempt on 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 security leading up 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 passed 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; Trump himself was shot in the ear and evacuated from the scene via the Secret Service.
The bipartisan vote, as expected: The hours after the shooting sparked a wave of bipartisan condemnations of political violence, as well as scrutiny of the security situation that allowed a 20-year-old gunman to climb onto a roof just outside the meeting . perimeter.
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