{"id":2297295,"date":"2024-07-17T03:34:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T07:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thomas-matthew-crooks-walked-through-secret-service-security-with-gun-part-as-trump-shooting-looks-even-worse\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T03:35:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T07:35:28","slug":"thomas-matthew-crooks-breached-secret-service-security-with-a-gun-part-raising-concerns-about-trumps-safety-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thomas-matthew-crooks-breached-secret-service-security-with-a-gun-part-raising-concerns-about-trumps-safety-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Matthew Crooks breached Secret Service security with a gun part, raising concerns about Trump&#8217;s safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthomas-matthew-crooks-breached-secret-service-security-with-a-gun-part-raising-concerns-about-trumps-safety-26%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2297295&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u2064 summary \u2062is about Thomas Crooks, who \u2063was identified as a person of interest at former President Donald Trump&#8217;s rally \u200cbefore firing\u2063 a bullet that killed a spectator and wounded\u200d Trump and two others. Crooks went through Secret Service security with\u200b his\u2062 rangefinder, scoped out snipers, and had detonators for explosives in his car.\u2062 Security officials raised concerns \u2063about his suspicious behavior, \u2064including observing him carrying \u200ca rangefinder\u2064 and crawling up to the \u200droof with a rifle. Crooks had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oy-it-is-so-much-pain-suspected-palestinian-bombs-kill-canadian-boy-wound-20-as-terror-groups-cheer\/\" title=\"\u2018Oy, It Is So Much Pain\u2019: Suspected Palestinian Bombs Kill Canadian Boy, Wound 20 As Terror Groups Cheer\">remote-controlled bombs<\/a> in his car and was found with loaded magazines and a bulletproof vest. The Secret Service and\u200d local police\u2063 are debating responsibility \u2062for security at \u2064the event.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section>\n<p>Thomas Crooks was spotted by security as a person of interest at former President Donald Trump&rsquo;s rally long before Crooks fired the bullet that killed a spectator and wounded Trump and two others, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Earlier in the day, he went through Secret Service security WITH his rangefinder and scoped out the snipers, who spotted him and said they need to keep an eye on him,&rdquo; News Busters journalist Curtis Houck wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/curtishouck\/status\/1813345194986643794?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He went into work at a nursing home and asked off for Saturday, but told coworkers he&rsquo;d see them on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Detonators for the explosives in his car were found on him on the roof with three, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thomas-matthew-crooks-breached-secret-service-security-with-a-gun-part-raising-concerns-about-trumps-safety-2\/\" title=\"Thomas Matthew Crooks breached Secret Service security with a gun part, raising concerns about Trump&#039;s safety\">fully loaded magazines<\/a> of nearly 100 rounds and a bulletproof vest,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Houck posted a video of CNN&lsquo;s John Miller summing up what he learned about Crooks&rsquo; activities before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disgraced-secret-service-chief-kim-cheatle-announces-will-not-resign-jaw-dropping-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shots<\/a> were fired.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: CNN&rsquo;s John Miller reveals three new details on the gunman who tried to assassinate Donald Trump:<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; Earlier in the day, he went through Secret Service security WITH his rangefinder and scoped out the snipers, who spotted him and said they need to keep an eye on him.<\/p>\n<p>-&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KpIzAxDRBm\">pic.twitter.com\/KpIzAxDRBm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1813345194986643794?\">July 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When he got to the fairgrounds where this rally was being held for Donald Trump, the first thing that puts him on the radar of security people is &hellip; near the magnetometer area where they&rsquo;re screening people in, he&rsquo;s carrying in his hand a rangefinder, it&rsquo;s a device that looks like a small pair of binoculars, but it&rsquo;s used by shooters to measure the distance when they&rsquo;re setting up a long-distance shot,&rdquo; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because he didn&rsquo;t have a weapon, that would not have prevented him from going through security, but they did flag &lsquo;what does he have this in his hand for?&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At that point, they told people to keep an eye on this guy, but then he leaves the secure area, the staging area, and he doesn&rsquo;t turn up again for some time, until the crowd says there&rsquo;s a guy crawling up the roof, and it appears he has a rifle,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Miller said there was what he called an &ldquo;eerie moment&rsquo; where Crooks was &ldquo;taking the rangefinder and looking through it at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thomas-matthew-crooks-breached-secret-service-security-with-a-gun-part-raising-concerns-about-trumps-safety\/\" title=\"Thomas Matthew Crooks breached Secret Service security with a gun part, raising concerns about Trump&#039;s safety\">counter-sniper positions<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And one of the counter-sniper positions is looking at him through the scope. At this point, there&rsquo;s not a gun in the picture, as I understand it, but they&rsquo;re saying, &lsquo;He&rsquo;s looking at us looking at him,&rsquo;&rdquo; Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Miller also noted that Crooks&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jaw-dropping-security-trump-event-already-beefed-thanks-iran-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">car<\/a> contained &ldquo;two remote-controlled IEDs, remote-control bombs, in the car.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The remote control for those devices found on his person on the roof,&rdquo; he said, adding that authorities also found &ldquo;three fully loaded magazines with nearly 100 rounds [and] a bulletproof vest.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So it raises the question: Did he expect to escape from this? And if so, what was all that intended for?&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Saturday, Crooks bought a five-foot ladder and 50 rounds of ammunition, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/15\/us\/thomas-crooks-trump-rally-shooting-invs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, Crooks is believed to have used the ladder to reach the roof, where he would later fire at Trump, wounding the former president and several other rallygoers and killing one person.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">The Secret Service has been trying to say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/secret-service-scrambles-shift-blame-trump-shooting-backlash-hits-hard-nobody-contacted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">security<\/a> for Saturday was not its job alone, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/16\/politics\/iran-plot-assassinate-trump-secret-service\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/national-international\/butler-police-trump-rally-security-failure\/3666457\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local police<\/a> were inside the building from which shooter Thomas Crooks fired, and it was the job of local police to secure that building.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">&ldquo;There was local police in that building &ndash; there was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the building,&rdquo; Cheatle said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Crooks had gone through Secret Service security earlier in the day with a rangefinder and had scoped out the snipers, who noticed him and decided to keep an eye on him. He was found with detonators for explosives in his car, along with three fully loaded magazines, nearly 100 rounds of ammunition, and a bulletproof vest. Crooks had also purchased a ladder and ammunition before the shooting. The Secret Service has stated that security for the event was not solely their responsibility, as local police were also present at the building where the shooting occurred<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2297296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Shooting-investigation.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35270,35279,34722,34981,35274],"class_list":["post-2297295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gun-part","tag-secret-service-security-breach","tag-security-concerns","tag-thomas-matthew-crooks","tag-trumps-safety"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Shooting-investigation.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2297296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}