Pennsylvania: Thomas Matthew Crooks, the twenty-year-old who attempted to assassinate former U.S. President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally, had hinted at the attack online days before the shooting. According to Fox News, Crooks posted a threatening message on the gaming platform Steam prior to the incident on July 13.
The message, cited by officials who briefed US senators on July 17, read, “July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds.” The chilling post has raised concerns about monitoring and preventing potential threats communicated through online platforms. Officials are now investigating Crooks’ online activity and any potential connections or motivations behind the attack.
Key Findings in Trump Assassination Attempt
During searches, authorities found photos of Donald Trump and President Joe Biden on Thomas Crooks’ mobile phone.Crooks also had the schedules for the Democratic National Convention and Trump’s Pennsylvania rally.Despite being a registered Republican, Crooks’ search history did not clarify his political stance.Crooks was shot dead, seconds after targeting Trump and was found with two cell phones:The primary phone was recovered near his body.The secondary phone, found at his home, contained only 27 contacts.Details revealed a 20-minute gap between when Secret Service snipers first spotted Crooks with a rifle and when he began firing:Identified as a person of interest at 5:10 pm.Seen by a rangefinder at 5:30 pm.Spotted on the roof by the Secret Service at 5:52 pm.Fired shots at 6:12 pm.
Meanwhile, the public is still in the dark over the extent of his injuries, what treatment the Republican presidential nominee received in the hospital, and whether there may be any long-term effects on his health. Trump’s campaign has refused to discuss his condition, release a medical report or records, or make the doctors who treated him available, leaving information to dribble out from Trump, his friends and family. The first word on Trump’s condition came about half an hour after shots rang out and Trump dropped to the ground after reaching for his ear and then pumped his fist defiantly to the crowd with blood streaming down his face. The campaign issued a statement saying he was “fine” and “being checked out at a local medical facility.” “More details will follow,” his spokesperson said.
It In a post on his social media network, Trump wrote that he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part” of his right ear. “I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin,” he wrote.
Presidents and major-party candidates have long had to balance their right to doctor-patient confidentiality with the public’s expectations that they demonstrate they are healthy enough to serve, particularly when questions arise about their readiness. Trump, for example, has long pressed President Joe Biden to take a cognitive test as the Democrat faces doubts after his stumbling performance in last month’s debate.
After a would-be assassin shot and gravely wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981, the Washington, D C, hospital where he was treated gave regular, detailed public updates about his condition and treatment.
Trump has appeared at the Republican National Convention the past three days with a bandage over his right ear. But there has been no further word since Saturday from Trump’s campaign or other officials on his condition or treatment.
Instead, it has been allies and family members sharing news.
Rep. Ronny Jackson who served as Trump’s White House doctor and travelled to be with him after the shooting, said in a podcast interview Monday that Trump was missing part of his ear — “a little bit at the top” — but that the wound would heal.
“He was lucky,” Jackson said on “The Benny Show,” a conservative podcast hosted by Benny Johnson. ”It was far enough away from his head that there was no concussive effects from the bullet. And it just took the top of his ear off, a little bit of the top of this ear off as it passed through.” He said that the area would need to be treated with care to avoid further bleeding — “It’s not like a clean laceration like you would have with a knife or a blade, it’s a bullet track going by,” he said — but that Trump is “not going to need anything to be done with it. It’s going to be fine.” The former president’s son Eric Trump said in an interview with CBS on Wednesday that his father had had “no stitches but certainly a nice flesh wound.”
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