A team of police snipers team saw Thomas Crooks scouting their command post three times in the minutes before he climbed on top of it and shot Donald Trump from just inches above their heads, it has emerged.
Three police marksmen from Beaver County were using the single-story AGR International building as their watch-post when the would-be assassin chose it as his place to shoot from, CBS reported.
And he may have been in place on the roof for up to 30 minutes before he unleashed his volley of shots that killed one man and nearly took the life of the 45th president on Saturday evening.
A law enforcement official told the channel said that no action was taken after one of the snipers first spotted Crooks looking up at the roof of the building in Butler, Pennsylvania, just 130 yards from where the president would speak.
The 20-year-old disappeared around a corner before he was seen a second time, sitting down and looking at his phone, prompting one of the snipers to take his picture.
The sniper then radioed to a command post after seeing Crooks take out a rangefinder.
But no further action was taken before Crooks reappeared a third time, this time wearing a backpack and disappearing from sight as he walked to the back of the building.
A further radio report relaying the information was submitted by the sniper team who did not realize that Crooks was now scaling their building.
The article goes on to report that "Pittsburgh's WPXI reported that a Beaver officer took a photo after seeing Crooks on the roof at 5.45pm, by which time he had already been photographed on the ground by a colleague." Trump was shot at 6:11 pm, meaning that the police had been aware of Crooks as a suspicious person for almost a half hour before Trump was shot; and Crooks took his shot from the roof of the building that the police sniper team were using, from probably the very spot the sniper team were supposed to be set up.
- "Why Was Trump’s Dedicated Secret Service Detail On Break During PA Rally?"--American Greatness. Because of their long work without breaks in the days and weeks preceding this rally, Trump's regular Secret Service detail were given a break and replaced by an ad-hoc detail comprised of agents from various field offices. Also, approval of a counter-sniper team was only provided the day before the rally which, according to sources in the article, was not long enough for the 2-man team to do a thorough preparation.
- "Sniper team was inside building where Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire from the roof... and cops spotted him 26 minutes before the assassination attempt"--Daily Mail
Among other things, more examples of the massive, and endemic, incompetence that has permeated nearly all components of society; tolerance for the ignorant and incapable will wind up killing us all.
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