Failed Trump Assassination Attempt

I haven't seen this thread posted here yet (sorry if I missed it). The information provides some data for further digging. This Oversight Project seems to be a segment of or associated with the Heritage Foundation based on the web address. They claim to have used mobile advertising data to track device location and looked back 1 year. They have apparently geofenced Crooks home and work locations to gather the data and then followed the devices. I don't claim to understand how these data services work, but thought others here might find something to go on.
 
I’m double posting, sorry, but I think this detail belongs here also:

From the Carlson interview with Posobiec I learned that on the same day as Trump’s rally, Jill Biden had some kind of event in the same state/area. Jack said that for this reason the SS was spread out thin and thus less security resources were available for Trump’s event. How convenient…
Naomi Wolf mentioned this in a recent article on her Substack:
 
Wow, she could not take the heat!
The arrogance of this woman was STAGGERING. I hope she is now prosecuted for her negligence/complicity in the death of Cory and serious injury to others.

These hearings never get anywhere, they dont answer questions, they deflect, delay, obfuscate with the dexterity of gold medal winning typists. What really bothers me is the difference republicans face vs the democrats....if it wasnt so ridiculously obvious how incompetent this "woman" was...the democrats would have protected her.

As of right now Steve Bannon is in JAIL...Peter Navarro was recently released after 4 months in jail...just for being in contempt of congress. But there are many democrats in contempt of congress and they never even sniff a jail cell.

I still want this investigated by a serious and unbiased group of patriotic Americans who refuse to let this country become a Banana Republic.
 
Using this image previously posted by @Approaching Infinity, and amended by me, it seems to me that the shooter that took the shot(s) at Trump was in one of the windows shown by the white lines.

This would be almost directly under Crooks' position. The first three shots were likely from this shooter. The first missed Trump, so did the other two. Any of these three could have hit Kopenhaver and Dutch in the bleacher. Two seconds later Crooks fired off 5 wild shots, one of them hitting Compatore as he reacted to the first three shots.

One second later Crooks was taken out by the sniper team (the sixth shot), who were alerted to the fire location right below Crooks (as seen in the video) but immediately eyeballed Crooks, who had also by that time fired off his shots.

We're talking about 2-3 seconds between the last of the first three shots and the 5 shot sequence, and then one second between that five shot sequence and the shot that killed Crooks. A later shot may have been an extra shot to ensure he was dead or fired by the reported local gunman or police officer.
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In this video below you can just about still see Crooks as the first of the first 3 shots are fired. He seems completely motionless, no recoil, as mentioned by @Cosmos previously. This lends credence to the idea that he did not shoot first.


In this video, it seems clear that the first three shots are muffled, i.e. coming from inside and in the front of the building from this vantage point. While the 2nd burst of 5 are much clearer and out in the open, i.e. from Crooks.


I've done a bit more cross-referencing and comparing angles also with my previous analysis of Trumps ear shot. Without going into any details, my analyses also strongly suggests that either of the two windows you marked above could have been where the real sniper was (or close to that angle somewhere). At this point, I don't think the shot that hit Trumps ear (and possibly the other two) could have come much further to the left or right (so, NOT the higher building that is left and behind Crooks building). Which means for me that either of the two videos above are also my prime suspicion for the location of the real sniper (or some kind of opening within that building near those windows). The only other place that seems possible for me is the one Niall mentioned, which is at about the same line of sight; The building in the background:

Another possibility: back-right of the farthest AGR building, which is also the tallest. Line-of-sight takes you right over Crooks' position, circled in red.

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I noted during that congressional hearing that Cheater deflected a looot of question about what happened. Even when asked "Was mister Crooks acting alone?" she wouldn't provide an answer. One of the only few times she answered some question definitely was when Sen Greene asked: "Was there a conspiracy to kill president Trump?" her rapid answer was "Absolutely not."

I wonder how she can claim to know so little about what was going on, but at the same time state that she knows for sure there was no conspiracy going on. Didn't she have to wait for that FBI report for that information too? How would she know?
 
I realize that there's less than a second to work with on this but in that fraction of a second Crooks is in focus when the first gunshot can be heard and I'm not seeing any recoil of the gun, muzzle flash, smoke, or anything.

The muzzle flash and smoke could've been obscured by the angle of the roof as the end of the gun barrel cannot be seen. At the same time, his gun might be more square to his chest than in the pocket of his shoulder which would cut back on recoil. Also, I don't know what modifications were on the gun that might reduce recoil. The video also wasn't the best quality because it was a zoomed in phone.

In other words, I'm not convinced I can trust what I think I'm seeing.

However, I think it's still worth noting I don't see any movement at all from Crooks or his shoulder at the time of the first gunshot.
I was curious about this so I found a video of a guy lying prone and firing an AR-15. I took the 1 second from the Butler clip, repeated it 3 times in slow motion, and overlaid the three shots taken by this guy. I reduced the size of the overlaid video to better match the size of Crooks, but even then you can see how much higher-resolution that video is. (To better approximate the amount of compression on the figure of Crooks, manually change the resolution in YouTube to 360p.)


Main points:

1) The AR-15 has very little recoil, even in high-def. (For a hilarious video in response to a hysterical journalist, see this vid.) And very little smoke/muzzle flash (the puff you see in the initial video is dirt.)

2) The Crooks video is zoomed in and highly compressed. You can't make out any distinct features that are greater than probably 1 inch. Due to the nature of video compression, such a small movement as produced by the AR-15's minimal recoil probably wouldn't even register. (Cool video on video compression and how it basically interpolates frames to account for motion, and can ignore tiny changes as a result, in addition to all kinds of other information. I don't know enough about it, but it seems to me that if a blurry figure makes a tiny change for a frame or two, the compression would just "smooth" that out and show what appears to be a static figure.)

We've seen the opposite problem with video compression a couple days ago. In that one, what looked like a fast and violent movement of perhaps a purse (as if it got shot) turned out, in higher definition, to be a woman moving her arm. In reality, she had moved her elbow back, and then jerked it forward when she heard the shot. In the compressed video, it looks like her arm snaps backward.

Basically, there isn't enough visual information in this video to say for sure one way or the other whether there was any recoil. If there was recoil, we probably wouldn't be able to see it, and the video would look the same as if there was no recoil. We need more video!
 
I was curious about this so I found a video of a guy lying prone and firing an AR-15. I took the 1 second from the Butler clip, repeated it 3 times in slow motion, and overlaid the three shots taken by this guy. I reduced the size of the overlaid video to better match the size of Crooks, but even then you can see how much higher-resolution that video is. (To better approximate the amount of compression on the figure of Crooks, manually change the resolution in YouTube to 360p.)


Main points:

1) The AR-15 has very little recoil, even in high-def. (For a hilarious video in response to a hysterical journalist, see this vid.) And very little smoke/muzzle flash (the puff you see in the initial video is dirt.)

2) The Crooks video is zoomed in and highly compressed. You can't make out any distinct features that are greater than probably 1 inch. Due to the nature of video compression, such a small movement as produced by the AR-15's minimal recoil probably wouldn't even register. (Cool video on video compression and how it basically interpolates frames to account for motion, and can ignore tiny changes as a result, in addition to all kinds of other information. I don't know enough about it, but it seems to me that if a blurry figure makes a tiny change for a frame or two, the compression would just "smooth" that out and show what appears to be a static figure.)

We've seen the opposite problem with video compression a couple days ago. In that one, what looked like a fast and violent movement of perhaps a purse (as if it got shot) turned out, in higher definition, to be a woman moving her arm. In reality, she had moved her elbow back, and then jerked it forward when she heard the shot. In the compressed video, it looks like her arm snaps backward.

Basically, there isn't enough visual information in this video to say for sure one way or the other whether there was any recoil. If there was recoil, we probably wouldn't be able to see it, and the video would look the same as if there was no recoil. We need more video!

Yeah, was afraid this was the case. Great work and good finds!

Anybody got a high-res video of Crooks lying around? 😅
 
The arrogance of this woman was STAGGERING. I hope she is now prosecuted for her negligence/complicity in the death of Cory and serious injury to others.

No chance. She's running interference for the FBI, who are running the show, as usual, and ran the assassination attempt, as usual. She'll get a major kickback for her 'service' to them when the dust settles.
 
Full tinfoil mode.

TDARM in the real shooter (undergrounder) and TDARM out. Time travel and keep repeating the cycle over and over until a bullet hits Trump's ear just right so that Trump is otherwise fine to continue campaigning.

Are there any reports of Crooks breathing fire or multiple Crooks, a la Oswald?
Something, some instinct, something running at the back of my mind regarding Crooks as a primary suspect and the instigator of the first shots fired stinks, to my mind, is does not pass a smell test...So many anomalies regarding Crooks himself and the little information that has been supplied to the media.

For one, he has no social media presence, that in this day and age is striking, for a 20 year old, did he even have a cell phone, other than a maybe flip phone, that would enable him to have/contact with his parents. There has been intimations, that a system developed with the 8200 Israeli intelligence had to be used to access his cell phone ...Really?

This from the Gateway Pundit article:

Ablechild: Important Questions Still Unanswered Related to Identification and Custody of Body of Would-be Assassin​



Snips:

Contrary to several news articles, including FOX News and TMZ, the Coroner’s office did not publicly provide information about where the shooter, Thomas Mathew Crooks, was shot…that is where on his body. According to Fox, TMZ and other news organizations, “Crooks died from a gunshot wound to the head.” The coroner’s office only provided the following information: the cause of death is gunshot and manner of death is homicide. The coroner’s office did not make public where on the shooter’s body the gunshot occurred.

It is unclear when the FBI will make publicly available the complete autopsy information, including where on the body the shooter was hit and any toxicology reports, but there are other pressing issues to consider regarding the on-going investigation.

For example, there are several news reports about the efforts taken by the FBI to identify the would-be assassin, including DNA. CNN reported on Sunday, July 14th that agents had “to run his DNA and get biometric confirmation.” However, there is conflicting information about when and where the shooter was confirmed dead and even when law enforcement learned of the shooter’s identity.

Why should the FBI have to conduct DNA analysis when the shooter’s identity had already been established within 30 minutes of the shooting. According to a July 17th article by CNN, “within 30 minutes of the shooting…federal law enforcement used a byzantine paper records system to track down decades-old gun sales records to help identify the 20-year-old would-be assassin.” The article continues, “results were provided to the FBI and Secret Service in less than 30 minutes.”

Based on the above information, it would appear that the FBI knew of the shooter’s identity literally within thirty minutes of the attack. But it is the whereabouts of the shooter’s body that is troublesome. According to the local Butler Eagle Newspaper, “The coroner and another Deputy later returned after 6a.m. to the American Glass Research (AGR) International building, where he climbed on to its roof to confirm the death of Thomas Matthew Crooks…”

Are you kidding? Twelve hours after the shooting, the coroner is on the roof of the AGR building confirming the shooters death? Was the body lying on top of that building for twelve hours? This is bizarre. What is the chain of custody on this body? Where is the video/photos of this body lying on this roof at 6 a.m.? It’s time for law enforcement to explain the chain of custody of this body and, if the Butler Eagle account is correct, why was this body still on the roof twelve hours after the shooting? Not sure of the validity of the last statement. I thing during all the mayhem that ensued, after the failed shot toward trump. It would be easy to manipulate the crime scene of Crooke. as real ...note the supposed trail, of what I assume as a blood trail, and one officer, possibly dragging the body into place and of course the evidence, the rifle and what some have described in some posts as a remote garage opener used to ignite explosives in the trunk of a car. yjr backpack. It looks staged. And also the image of him crawling along o roof looks to me like som
AI created image...

And there is the analysis from and ER doctor (several posts back (it was posted on the Gateway pundit earlier today along with an analysis, that the body had been moved, and also that the head shot, was not what one would in her experience, result in a direct had shot to the head....No blood pooling from the head area. In fact, maybe the head shot was from the back of the head, in another location .Just wondering, before Trump started his presentation. And all those rifle shots, indicate multip0le shooters to ultimately, one would secure the head shot, after all they despise and hate him so much, one shooter would be not enough, they had to get rid of the guy once and for all.

Also posted on Gateway pundit posted earlier today:


I wonder regarding the intellectual ability of Mathew Crook, was he intellectually challenged in some way, easily manipulated. Hence his parents oncern for his wellbeing, afer all it is nothing new for parents of a 20 yeard old to be a gone from the home all day and into the evening, so long as they keep in touch via cell phone.

Also another thing that struck during the testimony of the now discredited and resigned head of the SS, Cheadtle, the mention that SS officers refused to hold position on the roofs because the roof was too Hot...

I also wonder about that, I don't know the temperature of the area during the day, but given Trump was slotted around at 5 pm or so, it would have been unbearable for anybody lying on a hot tin roof at a maximum temperature of the day. So a 20 year old would patiently wait on a hot tin roof, for the ultimate prize, the assassination of Trump...no ideology known.

And that is my Tin Foil Hat Theory...
 
Something, some instinct, something running at the back of my mind regarding Crooks as a primary suspect and the instigator of the first shots fired stinks, to my mind, is does not pass a smell test...So many anomalies regarding Crooks himself and the little information that has been supplied to the media.

For one, he has no social media presence, that in this day and age is striking, for a 20 year old, did he even have a cell phone, other than a maybe flip phone, that would enable him to have/contact with his parents. There has been intimations, that a system developed with the 8200 Israeli intelligence had to be used to access his cell phone ...Really?

This from the Gateway Pundit article:

Ablechild: Important Questions Still Unanswered Related to Identification and Custody of Body of Would-be Assassin​



Snips:

Contrary to several news articles, including FOX News and TMZ, the Coroner’s office did not publicly provide information about where the shooter, Thomas Mathew Crooks, was shot…that is where on his body. According to Fox, TMZ and other news organizations, “Crooks died from a gunshot wound to the head.” The coroner’s office only provided the following information: the cause of death is gunshot and manner of death is homicide. The coroner’s office did not make public where on the shooter’s body the gunshot occurred.

It is unclear when the FBI will make publicly available the complete autopsy information, including where on the body the shooter was hit and any toxicology reports, but there are other pressing issues to consider regarding the on-going investigation.

For example, there are several news reports about the efforts taken by the FBI to identify the would-be assassin, including DNA. CNN reported on Sunday, July 14th that agents had “to run his DNA and get biometric confirmation.” However, there is conflicting information about when and where the shooter was confirmed dead and even when law enforcement learned of the shooter’s identity.

Why should the FBI have to conduct DNA analysis when the shooter’s identity had already been established within 30 minutes of the shooting. According to a July 17th article by CNN, “within 30 minutes of the shooting…federal law enforcement used a byzantine paper records system to track down decades-old gun sales records to help identify the 20-year-old would-be assassin.” The article continues, “results were provided to the FBI and Secret Service in less than 30 minutes.”

Based on the above information, it would appear that the FBI knew of the shooter’s identity literally within thirty minutes of the attack. But it is the whereabouts of the shooter’s body that is troublesome. According to the local Butler Eagle Newspaper, “The coroner and another Deputy later returned after 6a.m. to the American Glass Research (AGR) International building, where he climbed on to its roof to confirm the death of Thomas Matthew Crooks…”

Are you kidding? Twelve hours after the shooting, the coroner is on the roof of the AGR building confirming the shooters death? Was the body lying on top of that building for twelve hours? This is bizarre. What is the chain of custody on this body? Where is the video/photos of this body lying on this roof at 6 a.m.? It’s time for law enforcement to explain the chain of custody of this body and, if the Butler Eagle account is correct, why was this body still on the roof twelve hours after the shooting? Not sure of the validity of the last statement. I thing during all the mayhem that ensued, after the failed shot toward trump. It would be easy to manipulate the crime scene of Crooke. as real ...note the supposed trail, of what I assume as a blood trail, and one officer, possibly dragging the body into place and of course the evidence, the rifle and what some have described in some posts as a remote garage opener used to ignite explosives in the trunk of a car. yjr backpack. It looks staged. And also the image of him crawling along o roof looks to me like som
AI created image...

And there is the analysis from and ER doctor (several posts back (it was posted on the Gateway pundit earlier today along with an analysis, that the body had been moved, and also that the head shot, was not what one would in her experience, result in a direct had shot to the head....No blood pooling from the head area. In fact, maybe the head shot was from the back of the head, in another location .Just wondering, before Trump started his presentation. And all those rifle shots, indicate multip0le shooters to ultimately, one would secure the head shot, after all they despise and hate him so much, one shooter would be not enough, they had to get rid of the guy once and for all.

Also posted on Gateway pundit posted earlier today:


I wonder regarding the intellectual ability of Mathew Crook, was he intellectually challenged in some way, easily manipulated. Hence his parents oncern for his wellbeing, afer all it is nothing new for parents of a 20 yeard old to be a gone from the home all day and into the evening, so long as they keep in touch via cell phone.

Also another thing that struck during the testimony of the now discredited and resigned head of the SS, Cheadtle, the mention that SS officers refused to hold position on the roofs because the roof was too Hot...

I also wonder about that, I don't know the temperature of the area during the day, but given Trump was slotted around at 5 pm or so, it would have been unbearable for anybody lying on a hot tin roof at a maximum temperature of the day. So a 20 year old would patiently wait on a hot tin roof, for the ultimate prize, the assassination of Trump...no ideology known.

And that is my Tin Foil Hat Theory...
Also, why would the parents of Thomas seek legal Council? Is this a first? Right off the bat in what some are considering as a change of the program...Most interesting times
 
Also, why would the parents of Thomas seek legal Council? Is this a first? Right off the bat in what some are considering as a change of the program...Most interesting times
Pretty standard in a case like this, AFAIK.
I wonder regarding the intellectual ability of Mathew Crook, was he intellectually challenged in some way, easily manipulated. Hence his parents oncern for his wellbeing, afer all it is nothing new for parents of a 20 yeard old to be a gone from the home all day and into the evening, so long as they keep in touch via cell phone.
By all reports so far he was intelligent but a loner. He had a small group of friends but was quiet, kept to himself for the most part, and was "odd" but personable. He was studying engineering, I believe. Typical schizo-autistic personality from the sound of it. This has some clips with a classmate:

 
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