How come it is always so difficult for official government organs and media to figure out what has happened in cases like this, when it is pretty obvious that almost any layperson can figure out key sequences of an event afar via the internet in a couple of minutes? We already have a body of evidence that paints a pretty clear picture. You don't have to be a rocket scientist. So here is my rough summary of what we have so far:
- Trump was speaking at a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania at 5 p.m. ET (US/Eastern).
- Only a couple of minutes into his speech, gun shots are being heard (reports vary that this happened a couple of minutes to up to 10 minutes into the speech).
- First, 3 gun shots are heard then a pause and then a more rapid shooting of up to 6 shots can be heard.
- Trump appears to have been hit by the first shot, hitting his upper right ear just millimeters away from his skull.
- The direction from where the shots were fired can be triangulated pretty easily/closely given the evidence on Trumps head, where he stood and the reaction of the crowd.
- One video shows two Secret Service agents (I presume?) being positioned on a rooftop at the moment of the shooting. Both likely looking at the general direction from where the shots on Trump were fired. Both have what appears to be sniper type rifles. Both are looking through their rifles in that general direction from where the shots have been fired, before the shooting starts. The guy on the left has his rifle on a tripod, while the guy on the right is laying down with his rifle. The guy with the tripod looks through his scope, then looks up to see without the scope with his bare eyes into the general direction where the shooter is, then the shooting starts. The guy with the tripod startles up right after the first shot. From what we can see, it at first might appear unclear if that guy with the tripod fired the first shot toward the assassin or if then the assassin fired the first shot at Trump. But given that the first shot that is being heard hit Trump, we can rule out that the tripod guy (or the other guy besides him) fired the first audibly shot toward the assassin.
- A Video shows a report of an eyewitness who has seen the shooter climb up a white roof nearby (approximately 150 yards away from Trump) with a rifle. The eyewitness reports that he alerted officials, but they didn't seem to react at all. He also rightly reports that it is strange for the Secret Service to not have secured all roofs and/or the area before the rally. The witness also says that the assassin was shot dead in the head (shortly after the first shots, presumably).
- A video and several pictures of the rooftop with the dead assassin appear. Including a picture of his dead, bloody head.
- A video appears showing the assassin shortly before he is firing his first shot. Shortly after, he is being killed by a bullet (from the tripod guy and/or the guy next to him?). And a picture from the same video showing the assassin aiming with his gun, when he was still alive. Another video shows two persons screaming "he has got a gun!" and after that another person screaming, "he is on the roof, he has got a gun!" and then shots are being heard.
- The FBI identifies 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the assassin.
- A video appears where Crooks apparently says "you got the wrong guy"
- The picture of the dead assassin appears to show a pretty distinctive outline of his right outer ear, which doesn't seem to match the ear we see in the last point above. Unless, for example, the ear was damaged and/or changed after that video was published, maybe even by the bullets that killed him and/or when he was falling dead on the roof.
- An emergency room doctor reports a person having been shot in the head at the rally, probably fatally. He tried to patch him up himself. A picture probably shows the bloody bench where that person was shot. A video probably shows that person being dragged off the bench by police after being shot.
- Two pictures are making the rounds, apparently showing the assassin Matthew Crooks alive, while some unverified claims are being spread that one picture shows Crooks shortly before the assassination attempt, captured by a drone above him. Both pictures don't show his right ear.
- A picture of (what looks like) another guy can be seen on a random X post holding a gun. Identified as "Mark Violet". Likely a fake association, though. See next point.
- Early on rumors were being spread on social media, that a man named "Mark Violet" who allegedly belongs to Antifa was the assassin. That "Mark Violet" doesn't look like the other "Mark Violet" in the last point above at all and his is fat. He doesn't look how the assassin on the rooftop looks at all, either. Most likely, all the rumors about "Mark Violet" were a hoax from the beginning.
- Trump was speaking at a rally on July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania at 5 p.m. ET (US/Eastern).
- Only a couple of minutes into his speech, gun shots are being heard (reports vary that this happened a couple of minutes to up to 10 minutes into the speech).
- First, 3 gun shots are heard then a pause and then a more rapid shooting of up to 6 shots can be heard.
- Trump appears to have been hit by the first shot, hitting his upper right ear just millimeters away from his skull.
- The direction from where the shots were fired can be triangulated pretty easily/closely given the evidence on Trumps head, where he stood and the reaction of the crowd.
- One video shows two Secret Service agents (I presume?) being positioned on a rooftop at the moment of the shooting. Both likely looking at the general direction from where the shots on Trump were fired. Both have what appears to be sniper type rifles. Both are looking through their rifles in that general direction from where the shots have been fired, before the shooting starts. The guy on the left has his rifle on a tripod, while the guy on the right is laying down with his rifle. The guy with the tripod looks through his scope, then looks up to see without the scope with his bare eyes into the general direction where the shooter is, then the shooting starts. The guy with the tripod startles up right after the first shot. From what we can see, it at first might appear unclear if that guy with the tripod fired the first shot toward the assassin or if then the assassin fired the first shot at Trump. But given that the first shot that is being heard hit Trump, we can rule out that the tripod guy (or the other guy besides him) fired the first audibly shot toward the assassin.
- A Video shows a report of an eyewitness who has seen the shooter climb up a white roof nearby (approximately 150 yards away from Trump) with a rifle. The eyewitness reports that he alerted officials, but they didn't seem to react at all. He also rightly reports that it is strange for the Secret Service to not have secured all roofs and/or the area before the rally. The witness also says that the assassin was shot dead in the head (shortly after the first shots, presumably).
- A video and several pictures of the rooftop with the dead assassin appear. Including a picture of his dead, bloody head.
- A video appears showing the assassin shortly before he is firing his first shot. Shortly after, he is being killed by a bullet (from the tripod guy and/or the guy next to him?). And a picture from the same video showing the assassin aiming with his gun, when he was still alive. Another video shows two persons screaming "he has got a gun!" and after that another person screaming, "he is on the roof, he has got a gun!" and then shots are being heard.
- The FBI identifies 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks as the assassin.
- A video appears where Crooks apparently says "you got the wrong guy"
- The picture of the dead assassin appears to show a pretty distinctive outline of his right outer ear, which doesn't seem to match the ear we see in the last point above. Unless, for example, the ear was damaged and/or changed after that video was published, maybe even by the bullets that killed him and/or when he was falling dead on the roof.
- An emergency room doctor reports a person having been shot in the head at the rally, probably fatally. He tried to patch him up himself. A picture probably shows the bloody bench where that person was shot. A video probably shows that person being dragged off the bench by police after being shot.
- Two pictures are making the rounds, apparently showing the assassin Matthew Crooks alive, while some unverified claims are being spread that one picture shows Crooks shortly before the assassination attempt, captured by a drone above him. Both pictures don't show his right ear.
- A picture of (what looks like) another guy can be seen on a random X post holding a gun. Identified as "Mark Violet". Likely a fake association, though. See next point.
- Early on rumors were being spread on social media, that a man named "Mark Violet" who allegedly belongs to Antifa was the assassin. That "Mark Violet" doesn't look like the other "Mark Violet" in the last point above at all and his is fat. He doesn't look how the assassin on the rooftop looks at all, either. Most likely, all the rumors about "Mark Violet" were a hoax from the beginning.
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