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Newly unearthed footage from Trump rally shows eerie figure on roof seconds before gunfire

A deep dive into the recently released bodycam footage of the attempted assassination of former President Trump appears to show the shooting suspect walking on top of a roof just minutes before he managed to fire off his deadly rounds at the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last month.

The newly unearthed footage sheds further light on the assassination attempt and the seconds leading up to the July 13 shooting.

When stabilized and zoomed in, one of the bodycam clips released by Butler Township Police Department shows a shadowy figure emerging on top of the American Glass Research (AGR) complex building at 6:08 p.m. 

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The police officer whose bodycam captures the figure is walking in a green area on the east side of the AGR complex, near the water tower, when his body camera captures who is believed to be Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, roof-hopping and making his way to the southernmost structure of the complex.

Another figure, likely a police officer, can be seen walking on the ground in the opposite direction of Crooks and appears unaware that the shooter is on the roof, the footage shows. 

In the intervening minutes, the police officer can be seen communicating with other officers and then patrolling the adjoining car park. His bodycam does not have sound. 

As the figure on the roof disappears again, the officer’s bodycam footage strikes 6:09 p.m., meaning Crooks took about two and a half minutes to set himself up and shoot at Trump and the other attendees, based on timestamps from other police bodycam footage.

The FBI has previously stated that Crooks accessed the roof of a building by climbing up HVAC equipment and piping. Crooks then traversed multiple rooftops before he found his shooting position on top of a building about 150 yards from where the former president spoke at his rally.

Investigators have determined that Crooks purchased a ladder hours prior to the assassination attempt, but he left it at his residence in Bethel Park and did not use the ladder at the rally. No ladder was found at the scene. 

The newly uncovered video corroborates Crooks’ timeline in a video by James Copenhaver, one of the victims shot. That video also shows a figure maneuvering on the rooftop. 

Crooks got off eight shots while trying to take out Trump, according to a preliminary report released by Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., last week.

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One bullet grazed Trump’s right ear, while firefighter Corey Comperatore was fatally struck. Rally-goers James Copenhaver and David Dutch were also shot and injured.

Another shot was fired by a Butler SWAT operator from the ground, about 100 yards away from the AGR building. The shot hit Crooks’ rifle stock and fragged his face and shoulder area due to the stock breaking up, Higgins said.

Another shot was fired by the southern Secret Service counter-sniper team, which entered Crooks’ left mouth area and exited the right ear area.

Chilling new video has also just been released showing Crooks casually walking through a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly two hours before the shooting.

The short clip, released by the clothing company Iron Clad USA, shows Crooks at 4:26 p.m. dressed in shorts and a “Demolitia” T-shirt walking past a line of vendors selling Trump merchandise ahead of the July 13 rally, not carrying anything. He was wearing the same T-shirt when he opened fire on Trump.

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Text messages sent by local law enforcement responsible for monitoring former President Trump’s Pennsylvania flagged Crooks to colleagues as suspicious at least 90 minutes before he opened fire. 

The messages, obtained by Fox News Digital via Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who obtained them from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit, showed that officers flagged Crooks after he was spotted using a range finder – but did not approach him.

Voters in Obama’s stomping grounds weigh in on race, ‘dangerous’ VP Harris

CHICAGO — Voters in former President Barack Obama’s old backyard gave varying opinions on the 2024 presidential race, with several Black voters giving a vehement defense of former President Trump and suggesting that his recent uptick in Black support in the polls is legitimate. 

“I’m a Trump fan,” Lavar Williams told Fox News Digital outside a Walmart on Doty Avenue on Chicago’s South Side as Democrats gathered for their convention at the nearby United Center.

“Everybody else I feel like they have a leash on them. Trump don’t have no leash on him.”

When asked if life was better under Trump’s presidency, Williams said, “I love Trump. I loved when he was in office. A lot of people say ‘Why do you say that?’ because I’m Black. But still, I loved when Trump was in office.”

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Williams, who has lived in Chicago his entire life, also told Fox News Digital that Harris will have a hard time separating herself from Biden’s unpopular policies.

“You was the vice president, so everything this man did, you was approving of, everything that’s going on now, you was approving of, so why am I going to vote for you?” Williams said. “I’m not going to vote for her. I’m just letting you know where I’m at. I’m a Trump fan. Trump 2024.”

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Harris rose to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket last month, when President Biden dropped out of the race amid mounting concerns over his mental acuity and age. Harris is in Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention, where she will deliver a speech Thursday evening accepting her nomination. 

Fox News Digital spoke with locals on the South Side of Chicago, where Obama worked as a community organizer before launching his political career, about their thoughts on the election, and if the last three and a half years under the Biden-Harris administration has benefited them and the Windy City at large. 

“Me personally, I’m still up in the air,” disabled Navy veteran and Englewood neighborhood property owner Billy Johnson told Fox Digital. “I’m trying to see how all of this is going to play out. You know, I’m waiting to hear what the new candidate’s policies are in relationship to – compared to – Biden’s. I disagreed with a lot of things.” 

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Though Johnson has not yet landed on who he will vote for come Nov. 5, he praised Trump as an economic “genius,” while saying Harris is “dangerous.” 

“That lady is dangerous. I mean, [Kamala] Harris can pull up information on you that most presidents can’t. You know, she can pull things, documents and stuff. It’s scary. Her access to Secret Service, CIA and all of that makes her one of the most dangerous presidents we might ever have. I wouldn’t worry about her foreign affairs policy, I would just fear for whoever comes up against her,” Johnson said. 

He offered more favorable comments on Trump, while stopping short of endorsing him for a return to the Oval Office. 

“Trump was a good president. He was inexperienced because he wasn’t a politician. The reason we elected him is because he’s a businessman, and we felt like that’s what we needed.… We need someone who is going to reignite our industrial prowess.”

“Trump, he’s a genius when it comes down to finance, I gotta tell you. You can say anything you want. He was the first president who ever gave his opinion while sitting on the toilet through Twitter. That really won him a big favor with the American public, because you got a president that communicates openly with the public,” he added. 

Immigration is a top concern in the city of Chicago, alongside the nation overall, with Johnson arguing that the U.S. accepting millions of illegal immigrants and providing them with “privileges” is “crazy.” 

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“Now you see why Trump kept the borders closed. Now that the border is open, we see an indifference in the privileges that are given to people that are noncitizens, which that’s not fair. Those opportunities were supposed to be given to citizens first – not immigrants. And the millions of dollars that’s being given to them, it makes the Black community feel like, ‘Wow, really? So us asking for reparations was too much.’ But yet, still, you provide housing, you giving these people stipends… that’s crazy.”

Another Chicagoan, Nas, the owner of Z-Best catering who was selling meals outside of a far South Side Walmart, told Fox News Digital he hasn’t decided who he is voting for but was not a fan of some of Harris’ policies.

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“I ain’t goin’ to lie to you, I know her background, what she has done, I know she’s locked up a lot of people off of just weed cases and stuff like that, just sending people away, so I really don’t care for her to be honest with you.”

Nas added that crime over the last four years under the Biden administration has gotten much worse and said life under Trump was better than now.

“I feel like he has done a better job than Biden has for sure.”

Johnny Williams, who spoke to Fox News Digital at a bus stop just steps from Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam house, said, “I plan on voting for Mr. Trump.”

“He’s about the money… when he was in the election we was eating.”

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Williams added that it is “rough for jobs” in his neighborhood compared to when Trump was president and “jobs was very easy going and I could get a job” when Trump was in office.

Fox News Digital also encountered several voters who either supported Harris or were open to her candidacy. 

“I’ve decided I’m going to vote for Kamala Harris,” Betty Thompson, from the South Side’s Bronzeville neighborhood, told Fox News Digital.

“I feel the campaign is going great,” Thompson said. “I think that she’s wonderful with speaking out. And truly, she is the only one that I have seen, and I’ve been voting for a long time, that is truly qualified to be president of the United States.”

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Fox News Digital caught up with a man in the parking lot of the Doty Avenue Walmart who said he is supporting Harris and referred to Trump as “crooked.”

“That’s just the bottom line,” the man said. “I don’t want no crooked person in office. He’s not even qualified for it. He’s a felon. 34 times. Why would somebody want that type of person?”

Another Chicago resident who spoke to Fox Digital from a bus terminal north of the South Side in the city’s Jefferson Park neighborhood, Candy Shane, said she’s all in for Trump come Election Day. 

“I am supportive of Trump for the simple [reason] he has helped a lot, a lot of the communities and different areas and aspects, and he really is fighting for us. And the thing is, it’s not so much putting a damper on one specific area. He goes all out. And he’s 100% honest. And I like that. He is himself, and I think he means well, and he’s done a lot of justice for this country. Versus a few other people, outside of Obama and… Obama did a lot of good stuff, too. However, I don’t really care for the dishonesty from Biden,” Shane said. 

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As the DNC prepares for Harris’ speech on Thursday evening, the vice president has received an outpouring of support from high-profile Democrats, including former President Obama, former first lady Michelle Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as Biden. 

Simultaneously, left-wing protesters associated with feminist, anti-Israel, environmental, and communist or socialist organizations have flooded the city to denounce the DNC and party leadership over its handling of the war in Israel. Dozens of protesters have been arrested this week as they clashed on the streets of Chicago, while activists slammed Harris as “Killer Kamala” as war continues in the Middle East. 

Biden official who blamed Trump for jobs report confronted with harsh truth

Social media users trashed President Biden’s Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo for admitting to ABC News on Wednesday that she wasn’t “familiar” with the day’s major revision to the jobs numbers.

ABC News correspondent Kayna Whitworth asked Raimondo what she thought of the jobs numbers revision by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

“I am curious as to your thoughts on today the Bureau of Labor saying that more than 800,000 fewer jobs were actually created than initially reported,” Whitworth said. 

The reporter played a clip of former President Trump talking about the report at his rally in North Carolina on Wednesday. “The administration padded the numbers with an extra – listen to this one – 818,000 jobs that don’t exist. So they said they existed and they never did exist. They built ‘em up so they could say what a wonderful job they’re doing,” Trump said. 

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Raimondo appeared to dismiss the news as Trump spreading misinformation and when asked if the revision could be a liability for Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Harris, she said no. 

“No. When I hear that, first of all, I don’t believe it because I’ve never heard Donald Trump say anything truthful,” Raimondo said. 

“It is from the Bureau of Labor,” Whitworth responded.

“I’m not familiar with that,” Raimondo said, despite the report having been released several hours earlier. 

Raimondo moved on to tout optimism around Harris’ “pro-business” economic vision for the country. Meanwhile, the presidential candidate has been dinged in recent days for proposing what critics, including from the left, described as government price controls on businesses.

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Social media users couldn’t believe that one of the government’s top economic officials wasn’t familiar with the news of the jobs report. 

National Review senior writer Charles Cooke commented, “This is the Secretary of Commerce.”

Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich wrote, “There’s only so much you can fake or hide before things come crashing down. Biden’s decline, cooking the books on the economy, redefining ‘recession,’ etc.”

“Holy hell. We are governed by idiots,” conservative commentator Ned Ryun declared.

Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik wrote, “This is the Secretary of Commerce btw.”

Comedian Tim Young stated, “They think you’re stupid.”

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Pioneer Woman’s daughter ditches corporate job to work on family ranch

Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond’s daughter Paige Drummond has returned to her roots on her family’s ranch.

Ree, 55, who shares five children with her husband Ladd, previously revealed that Paige became the first of the Drummond kids to come back to her hometown of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and work alongside her father as a full-time cattle rancher. 

In a story that was first published in the fall 2024 issue of The Pioneer Woman Magazine and later shared on Ree’s blog, Paige elaborated on her decision to quit her corporate job in Dallas and embrace the cowgirl lifestyle.

According to the magazine, Paige found working in an office all day to be too stifling after growing up on the sprawling Drummond Ranch.

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“When I was younger, I never really thought that I would be back here working on the ranch. I kinda had it written off,” Paige explained in a video within the blog post. “I didn’t enjoy it as much when I was younger, but then as I got older and I went away to college and then started working a full-time job, I just really realized how much I missed it and that I just wanted to come back here and try it out.”

She continued, “My dad was like, you know, you don’t have to be here forever if you don’t want to, but you’ll never know if you like it unless you like, give it a shot. So that’s kind of what I’m doing right now. And it’s been great so far.”

Though Paige is the only female among the Drummond cattle ranchers, Ree said that her youngest daughter’s upbringing laid the groundwork for her to take on the role.

“She can really hold her own with the cowboys,” Ree said in the post. “She’s not learning it for the first time. She grew up doing this.”

In the video, which featured scenes of Paige rounding up cattle and working in the pens, Ree and Ladd’s youngest daughter admitted that ranch life was challenging.

“It’s a hands-on job,” she said. “It’s physical. It’s tiring. You get kicked by cattle. I have bruises all over my legs. It’s definitely something where you kind of feel and see the physical toll of it.”

“Thankfully, no one really treats me any differently than the next person,” Paige continued. “They don’t expect me to take it any easier, so I have to work just as hard as everyone else.”

Paige said that waking up in the early hours to start her work days was the “hardest part of the job.”

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“For this job, it’s like multiple 4 a.m. mornings every day doing that and then working like 12-13 hour days, it gets to be pretty exhausting,” Paige said.

However, she said that she was “thankful” and loves being “out on the land.”

Per the blog post, a normal work day for Paige starts with rising at 3:30 a.m. to feed the horses before saddling her own horse and driving over an hour to work on land in Kansas, where she wrangles, vaccinates and brands calves.

Paige said that she wanted to clarify that ranch life is not as idyllic as it has been portrayed on television.

“I don’t think a lot of people understand what it’s really like,” she noted. “Ranch life is glamorized on TV.” 

“You see people riding horses, and it looks wonderful,” Paige added. “If you could ride your horse all day, every day, everyone would want this job.” 

“But 90% of the time it’s just hard, hard work. You’re getting kicked, you’re getting crap on you, you’re fixing fence, you’re doctoring cattle…it’s a time-consuming, exhausting — yet rewarding —profession.”

Paige explained that her father had enlisted all of his children to help out on the ranch since they were children.

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“He definitely wanted us to work,” she said in the video. “When we were kids, we would work quite a bit. We were also homeschooled, so it kind of gave us a lot more opportunity for him to take us out there and work.”

“But I’m learning new things that I didn’t do as a kid, like taking care of things myself that I don’t have the responsibility of when I was younger. So it definitely is a lot different.”

While Paige said she was “proud” to be the first of the Drummond siblings to come back to work on the family ranch full-time, she believed that her brothers would follow suit.

Along with Paige, Ree and Ladd share daughter Alex, 27, and sons Bryce, 21, Jamar, 21, and Todd, 20. 

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“They’ll definitely come back,” she said of her brothers. “So I’m excited for whenever they get older and graduate college and they’re back here too. So it’s just a cool thing to be able to do this with your family.”

In a June interview with People magazine, Ree explained that though Paige, who recently got engaged to her boyfriend David Andersen, had returned to work on the ranch, she was not living with her parents.

“She is actually living in town, in the house that was my in-laws’ house,” the Food Network star said. “So it’s kind of nice that we still have that house, hadn’t sold it, and so she’s moved in and made it her own.”

Ladd’s mother Nan died in 2018 after a battle with cancer, and his father Chuck, who was also known as Pa-Pa, passed away in 2021.

“In terms of how long she’ll stay or whether it’ll be a period of her life or forever, we’re not really trying to predict or think about it too far in advance,” Ree told the outlet.

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In the video, Paige explained that she was uncertain if cattle ranching would ultimately become her permanent job.

“I definitely could see myself staying here,” she shared. “I don’t know, I’m not sure, but for right now, this is great.”

Betting markets for Trump, VP Harris take surprising turn during Democratic Convention

Former President Trump has surged ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in at least one betting market after receiving a surprise boost as the Democratic National Convention (DNC) continues in Chicago.

Trump, who was surpassed by Harris in the prediction markets a week ago, has regained his position as the frontrunner on PolyMarket, where traders on Wednesday gave him a 52% chance of winning the 2024 presidential election.

Harris’ odds dropped to 47%. Last week, the site had Harris beating Trump, 51% to 46%.

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Trump also saw a boost in his odds on BetUS on Wednesday, though the former president was still barely trailing Harris on the platform as of early afternoon with an implied probability of 52.38% to 54.55%, and Trump was gaining ground. Harris continues, as she has for weeks, to lead Trump on PredictIt, though her odds fell one point Wednesday to 55%, while Trump sat at 48% on the site.

BetUS director of public relations Tim Williams told FOX Business the market move Wednesday occurred as a fresh wave of betting action came in on Trump. 

“My pure speculation might be that the betting public believes that having to revise down payroll growth by 818,000 jobs — that’s 818,000 fewer jobs than reported earlier — could hurt Harris,” Williams said. 

He suggested the increasing betting volume on Trump could also be a result of the chatter that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is considering endorsing or joining forces with Trump.

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Rutgers University statistics professor Harry Crane, an expert on prediction markets, told FOX Business that Trump’s surge on PolyMarket in recent days is “pretty significant movement,” especially because there is nothing definitive that he could point to suggesting the reason behind the rise besides the speculation that RFK might drop out and endorse Trump. 

“I’m not aware of anything new that’s happened on Trump’s front in the past week that would warrant him coming back in any kind of drastic fashion,” Crane said.  

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Acknowledging that he was commenting anecdotally, the professor said, “I think that the most obvious things that I see is that Harris has released some economic proposals, and she’s answered a few questions more than before. And maybe those haven’t been so great for her.”

Jack Daniel’s renounces woke policies as radical agenda proves toxic for US brands

Jack Daniel’s has taken a stiff shot of “sanity,” warrior-against-woke Robby Starbuck claimed on Wednesday night – after telling Fox News Digital he had his sights set on another iconic American brand. 

“Big news,” the movie-making activist posted on X. “The next company we were set to expose was @JackDaniels.”

Brown-Forman, the parent company of the Tennessee distiller, “preemptively announced,” Starbuck wrote, that it was renouncing a series of diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and left-leaning initiatives.

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Among them, he wrote, are these: “Ending participation in the (Human Rights Campaign’s) Corporate Equality Index social credit system; Executive + employee bonuses/goals are tied to business performance not DEI; An end to ‘quantitative workforce and supplier diversity ambitions’; Cutting woke trainings.”

Jack Daniel’s is the latest in a growing list of iconic US brands to rid itself of what have proven to be toxic “woke” programs.

Influencer Starbuck has made international headlines in recent weeks, highlighting the radical and far-left social agenda at Harley-Davidson that caused a seismic schism between its leadership and the everyday Americans loyal to the motorcycle maker for decades. 

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Jack Daniel’s “must have been tipped off by us going through employee LinkedIn pages,” Starbuck wrote, taking credit for the announcement. 

With his eye on corporate America, Starbuck was the force behind exposing the social agendas at both John Deere and Tractor Supply Co., as well as at Harley-Davidson, forcing all three landmark American brands to renounce their leftist initiatives.

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Starbuck, of Tennessee, recently told Fox News Digital that he’d compiled evidence of the unpopular leftist polices at another iconic U.S. brand. 

“What they [Brown-Forman] were doing went pretty deep,” he said. 

“We’re talking company drag shows and promoting every single possible conceivable sexual identity. Things that totally did not align with their customer base,” according to Starbuck.

He added, “It was an incredibly smart move for them to get ahead on this before it was in the media for three weeks.”

“We launched our diversity and inclusion strategy in 2019,” Brown Forman’s executive leadership team wrote in its Wednesday letter to employees. 

“Since then, the world has evolved, our business has changed and the legal and external landscape has shifted dramatically, particularly within the United States.”

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Starbuck wrote on X: “We’re now forcing multibillion dollar organizations to change their policies without even posting just from fear they have of being the next company that we expose. We are winning and one by one we will bring sanity back to corporate America.”

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Fox News Digital requested comment from Brown-Forman but did not immediately receive a response.