Republican Congressman Reveals DISTURBING New Theory about Trump Assassination Attempt
Republican Congressman Mike Waltz (R-FL) said that would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks may not have been the only threat present that day at the former president’s rally last month.
Crooks’ former classmates say he was deeply skeptical about the American political system, according to probes from the FBI and the Secret Service.
Crooks most recently donated to a progressive group supporting President Joe Biden’s then-campaign despite being registered Republican.
Rep. Waltz is one of 2 lawmakers on the House committee receiving classified briefings as the search for a motive continues.
Waltz believes Crooks didn’t act alone.
“I don’t understand, and I don’t have any answers yet to help me understand how the [Secret] Service and DHS came out so quickly and said – and I think the FBI as well, but I’ll have to check that – and said, he operated alone,” Waltz said when speaking with the Daily Mail.
“How do you know that mere days into your investigation? You can’t tell us his motive, but you could tell us he operated alone? You can’t get into these encrypted overseas accounts, but you can tell us he acted alone? So, I don’t buy that yet.”
Crooks was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper after missing a kill shot fired at Donald Trump from his high-powered AR-15 scoped rifle.
Investigators later found an explosives-laced vehicle near the site of the rally and a remote detonator on Crooks’s body, leading authorities to believe he planned to detonate his vehicle.
They were also led to believe that a last-second encounter with a local officer led Crooks to rush his plan for a perfect shot.
“I don’t know of many 19-year-old kids who could make multiple IEDs with a remote detonator on their own,” Waltz continued.
“Why didn’t that get picked up if he’s searching that online or buying literature on how to do that? The more we get into it, the more questions I have.”
Waltz added that he would soon partake in another classified briefing with the FBI but expressed skepticism that it would lead to further answers about how Crooks was able to act alone.
Not long after the shooting, reports surfaced that Iran was plotting an assassination attempt against Trump, which may not be unrelated to Crooks.
“It’s really what’s coming out around it that is so disturbing,” Waltz said.
“And for me, the thing that’s most disturbing is that we have ongoing plots from Iran to take out a former president, leading candidate, and that a Pakistani national was just arrested after making a down payment for hitmen, and it’s barely even being covered in the news.”
Over the last year, the Secret Service rebuffed requests to enhance Trump’s security measures by compromising social media pictures or walking away from posts unannounced.
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