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To: Bill who wrote (1469624)	7/15/2024 11:29:08 PM
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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. The Secret Service has blamed local cops, insisting that the rooftop was “outside the perimeter the federal agency was tasked with protecting.” 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

To: Bill who wrote (1469624)	7/15/2024 11:37:32 PM
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File under UFB. Looks like the local news hounds are breaking stories right and left. Local counter-sniper team was inside building where Trump shooter climbed on the roof and opened fire: sources By Published July 15, 2024, 6:41 p.m. ET A local police counter-sniper team was stationed inside the building where attempted assassin Thomas Crooks climbed on the roof and fired on Donald Trump, law enforcement sources told The Post. The building — the AGR International Inc. factory in Butler, Pennsylvania — was being used by local police as a “watch post” for snipers to scan for threats as the former president spoke onstage only 130 yards away, according to sources. Cops were inside, but not on the roof during the shooting, sources said. Crooks was able to scale the building unchallenged before firing off eight shots with an AR-style assault rifle, grazing Trump in the ear, killing one Trump supporter and wounding two others. 6 The local police counter-sniper team was inside the building when Thomas Matthew Crooks fired at Trump. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid 6 The AGR International Inc. factor building was being used by local police as a “watch post” to look for threats. Getty Images Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle landed job after push by Jill Biden's office, sources say The revelation comes as local outlet WPXI reported the Crooks was spotted on the building 26 minutes before he opened fire — with one cop from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit even taking a photo of the gunman before the shooting. Law enforcement sources said it was not clear as of Monday night whether any of the local officers — who were tasked with securing the perimeter outside the Butler County Farm Show grounds — were able to warn Secret Service agents about the gunman. 6 The building Crooks fired from was just 130 yards from where Trump spoke and had a clear view of the stage NY Post An officer from the Butler Township Police climbed on a fellow officer’s shoulders to check out the roof of the building moments before the shooting — but backed away after Crooks pointed his rifle at him. A Butler City police dispatcher told The Post that the Pennsylvania State Police were charged with securing the AGR grounds. The state police did not respond to a request for comment on Monday. 6 Crooks was able to scale the building undetected by police. AFP via Getty Images 6 Secret Service snipers killed Crooks moments after he opened fire on the crowd, striking Trump and killing a bystander Obtained by NY Post A variety of local police agencies were tasked with securing the area outside of the Butler Farm Show grounds where Trump spoke — with the Secret Service representative Anthony Gugliemi pointing out that local agencies were responsible for the area where the shooter opened fire. Law enforcement sources said the building was swept by cops before the event and that the local sniper team used the large manufacturing site as a staging and lookout post — but did not climb on the roof for the event — possibly over concerns that it would interfere with the Secret Service snipers. Neighbors next to the farm show grounds previously told The Post they were never contacted by law enforcement to set up security in days preceding the event, and photos from the area showed gates into the facility where the shooter sneaked in merely zip-tied shut. 6 Investigators at the scene of the assassination attempt on Trump. G.N.Miller/NYPost “Nobody contacted me. Nobody. Nobody called me, nobody stopped here,” said Valerie Fennell, whose property abuts both the farm grounds and the AGR factory. The state police previously said even though they are regularly called in to assist when politicians come to town, the Secret Service is ultimately in charge. “Secret Service always has the lead on securing something like this,” State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens told reporters. Footage from the rally appeared to show the Secret Service counter-sniper team who shot Crooks dead training their rifles on him well before he fired at the former president, though it is unclear if they had seen him. Neither the Butler Township Police, Pennsylvania State Police, nor the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit responded to request for comment on Monday. The Butler City Police said the AGR grounds were no under their jurisdiction.