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I've lost count of snipers all wondering how this was allowed to happen.
Veteran sniper from team with longest confirmed kill says roof used by would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was ‘the most f–king obvious’ risk
By Social Links for Isabel Keane
Published July 15, 2024, 11:05 a.m. ET
A veteran of the sniper team with the world’s longest confirmed kill refuses to believe untrained gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was so easily able to shoot former President Donald Trump — saying even “a seventh-grader” would know the rooftop he climbed onto was “the most f–king obvious” place to check.
“I’m very familiar with the layout of these types of things and what the job should be,” retired sniper Dallas Alexander said in an Instagram post Sunday of the previous day’s attempted assassination at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa.
“And yesterday what happened, I have no doubts in my mind that the shooter had help from somewhere within an agency, an organization, or the government,” Alexander stated firmly.
4 Retired sniper Dallas Alexander said in a new Instagram video that the gunman should not have been able to get anywhere near the former president during his rally. Instagram / @iamdallasalexander “The second I saw that aerial photo of what they say happened, it immediately made no sense to me,” he said of the rooftop Crooks climbed onto, within direct sight of where Trump was speaking roughly 400 feet away.
Alexander — a 14-year veteran of the Canadian unit with the world’s longest confirmed kill — said it would be one of the most obvious points to check for specialists sweeping the area long before Trump arrived.
“You don’t even need to be a sniper — it’s the most f–king obvious thing. The most obvious place in the whole world,” he said.
“You could be like a seventh-grader — like ‘What do we have to do for security?’ Well, let’s look at these rooftops that are almost within zeroing range of a rifle,” he said incredulously.
Alexander continued: “Something happened. I’m not pointing fingers at anyone, it’s just too obvious that this guy had help getting there. Whether someone turned a blind eye or it was strategically planned. Events like that, security like that … it’s not a small thing and that is the most obvious place to be.”
Matthew Murphy, a retired Green Beret and a sniper trained to the most elite level, also dismissed the suggestion that “some 20-year-old kid that looks like he played Dungeons and Dragons in his mom’s basement” was able to put Trump in his sights.
4 Snipers immediately took out the gunman after he fired at Trump. Glen Van Tryfle/TMX via REUTERS 4 Officers stand over the body of shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Obtained by NY Post “You’re gonna tell me that that kid went through all those levels of security, somehow got into the closest building to the president and accessed the rooftop, then had the time to unpack his rifle, lay down and then take five to eight well-aimed shots at the president before he was decisively engaged?” he asked.
“There’s absolutely no way possible that kid was able to get up there and take those shots at the president without a lot of internal help,” he said.
4 Dallas Alexander spent 14 years in a sniper team for the Canadian military. Instagram / @iamdallasalexander
Still, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — who oversees the Secret Service — conceded on “Good Morning America” Monday that “a direct line of sight like that to the former president” should never have been possible.
“That’s why President Biden directed an independent review of the incident,” he said
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