A bombshell congressional report claims would-be Trump murderer Thomas Crooks was incapacitated by a neighborhood cop earlier than he was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
Two months after Crooks shot the previous president’s ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a preliminary report from Rep. Clay Higgins provided a differing narrative to the official one pushed by the FBI.
Whereas it was initially claimed that Crooks was shot within the head inside seconds by a Secret Service sniper, Higgins’ report claimed it was truly a neighborhood SWAT operator who stopped the gunman’s hail of bullets.
The congressman stated the native cop’s shot ‘hit Crooks’ rifle and fragged his face/ neck/ proper shoulder space from the (gun) inventory breaking apart’, which meant Crooks was unable to maintain firing earlier than he was killed.
It comes amid mounting scrutiny on the FBI and Secret Service’s investigations into the capturing, weeks after Higgins additionally revealed Crooks’ physique was mysteriously cremated with approval from the FBI after simply 10 days.
A bombshell report claims would-be Donald Trump murderer Thomas Crooks was initially incapacitated by a neighborhood SWAT operator earlier than he was killed by a Secret Service sniper
Trump was hit within the ear and an attendee at his fateful Butler, Pennsylvania rally was killed by Crooks’ hail of bullets, which was stated to have been ended by a heroic officer capturing from the bottom
Newly launched photos of Crooks’ AR-style rifle present the inventory finish of the firearm with a big gap the place the bullet struck close to the shooter’s shoulder
The revelations from Higgins’ bombshell report had been raised final night time by Fox Information pundit Jesse Watters, who shared his shock over the response to the assassination try with Missouri Senator Josh Hawley.
Watters stated the FBI and Secret Service have been providing solely a irritating ‘drip drip, drip’ of knowledge from their investigations, and famous that ‘the actual investigative work is being completed by Congress.’
He drew parallels between the companies’ official narrative of the capturing – that Crooks was shortly killed by a Secret Service sniper – and Higgins’ declare {that a} native SWAT operator truly hit the gunman first.
‘I did not know that,’ Watters stated, pointing to Congressional testimony from appearing Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe that made ‘no point out’ of the native cop’s heroics.
‘He gave his company complete credit score for bringing down Crooks,’ he stated.
Newly launched photos of Crooks’ AR-style rifle present the inventory finish of the firearm with a big gap the place the bullet purportedly struck close to the shooter’s shoulder.
Higgins revealed {that a} ‘complete badass’ native SWAT operator shot out Crooks’ gun seconds after he opened fireplace, which heroically put him into the gunman’s line of fireplace
Secret Service snipers killed Crooks with a bullet to his head, with some noting that FBI and Secret Service officers failed to say reviews of a neighborhood cop hitting the gunman first
Based on Higgins’ report, the rally may have been worse had it not been for the actions of native officers.
After Crooks fired eight bullets on the crowd, putting Trump’s ear and hitting three rally attendees, one fatally, officers had been scrambling to find the supply of the bullets and fireplace again.
Higgins stated the SWAT operator – who he described as a ‘complete badass’ in his report – fired at Crooks from the bottom round 100 yards from the AGR constructing the place he had been perched.
‘When he had sighted the shooter Crooks as a largely obscured by foliage shifting goal on the AGR rooftop, he instantly left his assigned submit and ran in direction of the menace,’ Higgins wrote.
The congressman famous that the officer bumped into Crooks’ doable line of fireplace and took a ‘very arduous shot’ that struck the tip of Crooks’ rifle and destroyed the gun’s performance.
‘Which means that if his AR buffer tube was broken, Crooks’ rifle wouldn’t fireplace after his eighth shot,’ Higgins wrote.
Seconds later, a Secret Service sniper killed Crooks on the rooftop perch, which ‘entered someplace across the left mouth space and exited the best ear space.’
Consultant Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana who was appointed to the bipartisan activity drive reviewing the assassination try, carried out his personal ‘boots on the bottom’ investigation
The revelations got here as Higgins additionally staggeringly claimed that Crooks’ physique was cremated simply 10 days after the rally capturing regardless of investigations nonetheless ongoing.
The Louisiana congressman, a former police captain, compiled the report from his personal ‘boots on the bottom’ journey to Butler in early August, which was submitted to a 13-member Congressional bipartisan activity drive investigating the capturing that he’s a member of.
Within the report, Higgins stated that when he visited the city for his personal investigation, his request to view the physique ‘precipitated fairly a stir and revealed a disturbing reality.’
Higgins says ‘no one knew’ that the physique had been returned to the household, together with the county coroner and native enforcement. He writes that the coroner nonetheless had ‘authorized authority over the physique’ when the FBI made this choice and accuses the company of ‘obstruction’.
‘The issue with me not with the ability to study the precise physique is that I will not know 100% if the coroner’s report and the post-mortem report are correct. We are going to truly by no means know,’ Higgins claimed.
The physique of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who tried to assassinate former President Trump, was returned to his household for cremation solely ten days after the capturing
‘Sure, we’ll get the reviews and footage, however I can’t ever be capable to say with certainty that these reviews and footage are correct based on my very own examination of the physique.
‘Once more, much like releasing the crime scene and scrubbing crime scene organic proof… this motion by the FBI can solely be described by any cheap man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort.’
Higgins states that on July 23, the day that Crooks was cremated, each the Homeland Safety Committee and the Oversight Committee had opened investigations into the assassination try, whereas Speaker Mike Johnson had acknowledged he was forming a congressional investigative physique.
‘Why, then, by what measure, would the FBI launch his physique to the household for cremation? This sample of investigative scorched earth by the FBI is sort of troubling,’ Higgins writes.
His ‘preliminary examine report’ was submitted to Process Power Chairman Mike Kelly (R-PA) on August 12 and launched to the general public on Higgins’ web site on August 15.
On July 29, the Louisiana congressman was named as considered one of seven Republican members of a bipartisan group tasked with investigating the tried assassination of Trump.
The duty drive consists of 13 members – seven Republicans and 6 Democrats. Its mission is to find out what went flawed on the day of the tried assassination and it’ll make suggestions to stop future safety lapses.
The duty drive will problem a ultimate report earlier than December 13.
