Architect of Obama victory delivers harsh take on VP Harris’ town hall performance
CNN commentators were critical of Vice President Kamala Harris’ town hall on Wednesday, suggesting the vice president gave “word salad” answers when she didn’t want to answer a question.
“The thing that would concern me is when she doesn’t want to answer a question,” commentator David Axelrod said. “Her habit is to kind of go to word salad city, and she did that on a couple of answers. One was on Israel. Anderson asked a direct question, ‘Would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?’ And there was a seven-minute answer, but none of it related to the question he was asking.”
Harris spoke to undecided voters at a town hall on Wednesday in Pennsylvania, which was moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“On certain questions like that, on immigration, I thought she missed an opportunity because she would acknowledge no concerns about any of the administration’s policies. And that’s a mistake. Sometimes you have to concede things and she didn‘t concede much,” Axelrod said.
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CNN’s Dana Bash argued that people she’s spoken to don’t think Harris sealed the deal.
“What I‘m hearing from people who I have been talking to, and that is that if her goal was to close the deal, they‘re not sure she did that. And, you know, some people have asked, is she being held to a different standard? Maybe. But that‘s maybe the world that she‘s living in. And on the question of who she is, people are understanding that a little bit more,” she said.
Bash highlighted a few questions where Harris didn’t have answers.
“But what she will do? The question about her legislative priorities, name one, there wasn‘t one. You know, some more of her personality and her sort of character questions about your weaknesses or what mistakes did you make, not necessarily the answers there,” she said.
However, Bash said that Harris being in front of voters and talking to them directly was a “win” for the vice president.
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Jake Tapper said the vice president focused more on her opponent than her own policies.
“She focused a lot more on Donald Trump, I think it’s fair to say, than she did on many specifics in terms of what she would do as president,” he said, noting Harris discussed some plans regarding small businesses.
“I think after eight years of Donald Trump, people are aware of Donald Trump’s persona, his proclivity for controversy, his potential to offend and the like. And I wonder if you think maybe she did too much,” Tapper added.
John King suggested that Harris did need to make attacking Trump a priority and praised her for her answers where she talked about herself and her faith. However, he suggested that the VP fell short in trying to connect it to her policies.
“Where I think she fails sometimes is to connect it more to her policies,” he said, suggesting Harris should embody some of former President Bill Clinton’s persona. “He had a brand where he could look people in the eye and say, ‘I‘m on your side. I‘m fighting for the middle class,’ right? Putting people first. That’s the connection she has to make.”
He said that the “personal part” was sometimes missing from Harris’ remarks.
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Abby Phillip suggested Harris avoided specifics when pressed by some of the undecided voters present.
“The thing I think that kind of got her tripped up at certain times was when certain voters were asking to drill down, actually, on some policy, and she didn‘t want to go there, didn‘t want to get into some specifics,” Phillip said. “But it’s tough for her because I think that that comes across as evasive to some voters … They just want to know are my taxes going to go up if I make $500,000 a year or not? It‘s very tricky for her.”
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Mayor threatens opponents as landlord breaks silence on her alleged unpaid rent
Tiffany Henyard, the scandal-plagued Democratic mayor of Dolton, Illinois, has suggested she’ll seek to arrest political opponents, many of whom have raised concerns about her lavish spending on the taxpayers’ dime.
The embattled mayor, who is also facing eviction from her rented home, has made national headlines due to her alleged misuse of taxpayer funds, with former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot previously investigating her extravagant spending habits.
“I will be seeking arrests for individuals involved,” Henyard said, during a rambling 90-minute video she posted on Facebook Tuesday.
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“I will be pressing charges. It’s a lot. And that’s just me telling you a little bit because all this pointing the finger at Tiffany – or lying on me – I’m over it. Now it’s time for me to speak, as I say, truth speaks.”
Henyard, who introduces herself as “super mayor” in the video, did not say what crimes her opponents may have committed.
She took to the social media platform after a meeting of the Thornton Township, which she also leads as Supervisor, was canceled due to lack of quorum as trustees raised safety concerns about the meeting venue. It’s the second time in a row that the gathering has been canceled, according to the Chicago Tribune.
She also blasted the “fake news” for the media’s coverage of her time in office and bashed dissenting officials.
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“Why is it with me and my life… y’all don’t hear my side? Y’all judge off the one side of the narrative that’s out in the world, but never hear from me… I was always told… ‘if you want the tea get it from me,’ you have to get it from the horse’s mouth.”
Henyard has promised proof of her opponents’ misdeeds in the past, pitching a podcast and brief national media tour but failed to deliver, per WGNTV.
In her Facebook post, Henyard says that those bringing allegations against her are doing it as a distraction.
“Why do we have all this attention on Tiffany Henyard? What the hell [are] they doing that they don’t want us to know about, while they [are] distracting us over here,” she asks.”
Meanwhile, Henyard’s landlord tells Fox 32 Chicago that the mayor and her boyfriend Kamal Woods haven’t paid their rent since August and wants them out.
The pair are together pulling down well over $300,000 from taxpayers, according to Fox 32 Chicago, citing public payrolls.
Their landlord, Genetta Hull, said she was forced to raise the rent by $200 to $2,400 a month because her property taxes went up again and then Woods told her he couldn’t afford it, per the outlet.
Hull said Henyard and Woods refused to pay the extra rent in August, then stopped paying altogether, failing to deliver rent checks for September and October.
Hull said she is owed thousands of dollars off them while they also changed the locks and garage door code so she couldn’t get inside, per Fox 32. The landlord filed an eviction lawsuit against the pair, but Cook County sheriffs have tried and failed to serve the lawsuit both at the home and the village hall.
Hull tells Fox 32 she once considered Henyard a friend and did campaign work for her.
Henyard recently took to Facebook to announce she will run for a second term for mayor of Dolton.
She was first elected mayor of Dolton, a south suburb of Chicago, in 2021 after serving two terms as trustee on the village’s board. She won the election in a landslide – receiving more than 80% of the vote.
Dubbed by residents as “the worst mayor in America.” She earned the nickname after her term was plagued with controversy, including money mismanagement.
Her reelection announcement came as she’s heading a lawsuit against several village trustees, the Dolton Park District, the village clerk, and the village administrator.
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The legal dispute stems from a previous controversial village board meeting, which Henyard alleges violated procedures.
Meanwhile, Lightfoot’s investigation into the Village of Dolton’s financial situation revealed in a preliminary report that Dolton’s general fund balance was $5.61 million in 2022, but by May 2024 the balance had dropped to a deficit of $3.65 million.
Lightfoot also disclosed that Henyard used the village credit card to make purchases at Amazon, Target, Walgreens, Wayfair and other retailers. One jaw-dropping statement revealed that the embattled mayor had dropped $33,000 on Jan. 5, 2023, on Amazon.
Democrat chased away in AOC’s ‘Red Light’ district after supporting the law
QUEENS, N.Y. – Chaos erupted in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s New York City district on Tuesday when a Democrat politician was chased out of a public square because he backs a recent police crackdown on illegal sex work plaguing the area.
Hiram Monserrate, a former New York state Senator who is running for state Assembly, was giving interviews to the media praising the police when he was set upon by raging protesters who had been holding a rally calling for the NYPD and state troopers to stop shutting down brothels – as well as illegal street vendors who sell hot food and flog other merchandise without permits.
The Queens neighborhood is well known as a “Red Light” district, with some residents comparing the unsanitary and seedy conditions to a “Third World” country.
The demonstrators say residents need to accept prostitution and vendors as a way of life in the neighborhood.
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“More resources, no more raids,” the group chanted while surrounding Monserrate, who was speaking to press about 50 feet away from where the rally was simultaneously taking place at Corona Plaza.
As the chants grew louder, Monserrate stopped speaking, hoping the crowd would temper down, but Mateo Guerrero – who had been directing the rally for a local migrant nonprofit and later called for sex workers and residents to coexist – began getting in Monserrate’s face.
The ex-lawmaker then attempted to walk away but Guerrero and other members of the group chased after and heckled Monserrate, who at first walked to the front of a store and then turned around and made his way through the outskirts of the square.
Guerrero continued roaring while demonstrator Biney Garcia got in front of Monserrate holding a sign reading, “Do not decide for sex workers” while wearing a nonprofit’s T-shirt with “Here to stay” emblazoned on the back. Garcia and Guerrero say they are members of the trans community.
“You are against me, against my community and you have been doing that for many years,” said Garcia, who previously worked as a sex worker on Roosevelt Avenue, which has garnered the nickname “Avenue of the Sweethearts” due to the number of sex workers who line the streets there.
“You are never going to get our vote, never… You can leave now,” Garcia fumed, directing Monserrate away from the square. “You are not welcome here. Get out of here.”
Monserrate, accompanied by local activist Ramon Ramirez at that point, eventually fled the square.
As they crossed the road, the crowd shouted “sex work is work” while another fuming protester yelled, “God does not exist” in Spanish and English.
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Fox News Digital later caught up with Monserrate and Ramirez, who took cover on the next block out of sight from the angry crowd.
“There was actually more cameras than activists and the majority of the people there weren’t even from this community,” Monserrate said, playing down the heated exchange.
“What’s important here is that there’s obviously a lot of energy, there’s anger, but the fact of the matter is Roosevelt Avenue has been under a crime wave, it’s an urban crime zone. And these police officers that we got from the city and the state troopers are incredibly necessary to just get a handle on the crime in this community, which has been unprecedented.”
Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams launched “Operation Restore Roosevelt,” which aims to crack down on miscreant behavior over the next 90 days by deploying more than 200 extra police officers to the area, including state troopers.
Last month, Fox News Digital cameras recorded a line of at least 19 alleged sex workers scantily-clad on a sidewalk on one block along Roosevelt Avenue. Around the corner, there were at least seven more, and a woman on the next block was witnessed offering sex for $60.
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Fox News Digital even recorded an alleged sex worker and her client emerging from a well-known brothel that has been raided at least twice in recent weeks.
“We have more brothels than bodegas. We have brothels in front of schools, next to churches, 24-hour sex workers walking the streets freely at all hours of the day while parents are taking their kids to school. It’s unacceptable,” Monserrate told Fox News Digital.
“And so the community stood up… We called on the government and we called on the mayor and they responded. We are here to say we support our police. We want them here on Roosevelt Avenue.”
He called on residents to attend a rally on Sunday at 3 p.m. in support of the police who have been busy raiding brothels since the operation went into effect.
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The Roosevelt Avenue strip is represented by “Squad” member Ocasio-Cortez and fellow Democrat Rep. Grace Meng. Ocasio-Cortez has not responded to requests for comment on the situation in her district. Monserrate said neither Meng nor Ocasio-Cortez have responded to his requests to attend rallies to clean up the streets of Roosevelt Avenue.
The battle between sex workers and illegal vendors on one hand, and law and order proponents on the other, has been brewing in the neighborhood for years.
Many sex workers and illegal vendors who operate in the area are migrants. With limited English and difficulty accessing legitimate work, they say they are forced onto the streets to survive and maintain that what they do does not hurt anybody.
They are often drawn to the area since various migrant nonprofit groups, such as Make The Road New York, which organized the rally, provide resources and help them with immigration advice and obtaining work permits.
Law and order proponents like Monserrate say the illegal activity has transformed the two-mile strip of Roosevelt Avenue into a crime-ridden and dirt-infested neighborhood.
Meanwhile, Guerrero, who is originally from Colombia and is Make The Road New York’s trans justice and leadership program manager, according to the group’s website, returned to the rally and condemned the police crackdown, saying “State troopers in our streets are terrifying.”
Speaking to Fox News Digital afterward, Guerrero was unapologetic for confronting Monserrate and called for the raids to end.
“He’s not listening to our communities. What our communities are saying is we need housing, we need health care, we need employment, we need education, we don’t need more police.”
“I’ve lived in Roosevelt Avenue my entire life. This is the area where I grew up and this is a community space. This is where grandmothers and kids and street vendors and sex workers learn to live together.”
“Sex workers have always been in Roosevelt Avenue. This community has been here since the 70s. Sex workers are a part of the community,” Guerrero said.
After the rally had ended, Garcia and other Make The Road activists were seen a couple of blocks away handing out leaflets in support of Proposition 1. The measure would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. Critics say it will pave the way for illegal migrants voting in elections.
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“No work is illegal,” Garcia told Fox News Digital, adding that trans people find it harder to secure regular work because of who they are, which forces them into the sex industry. “If you are choosing to sell your body to do sex work, that is a way to survive, nobody is pushing you to do it because New York City is too expensive.”
That sentiment was echoed Cathy Lopez, a trans woman and current sex worker who’s been working the streets of Roosevelt Avenue for 10 years.
Lopez, who moved to New York from Colombia 25 years ago, worked previously in a beauty salon but went into prostitution to earn more money.
“Sex work is good because you are not doing nothing bad for nobody,” Lopez said.
New national poll shows which candidate has the edge less than 2 weeks from Election Day
A new national poll is the latest to indicate former President Trump with an edge over Vice President Harris in the race to succeed President Biden in the White House.
Trump grabs 47% support among likely voters nationwide, with Harris at 45%, according to a Wall Street Journal survey released on Wednesday evening – on a ballot that also includes third-party and independent candidates.
That’s a switch from the Journal’s previous national survey – conducted in late August – which indicated Harris with a two point edge.
The former president’s advantage is within the new survey’s margin-of-error, which means that either Trump or the vice president could potentially be leading the race.
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The Wall Street Journal poll – of 1,500 registered voters questioned Oct. 19-22 – also shows Trump holding a three-point margin (49%-46%) over Harris in a head-to-head match up.
The survey indicates views of Harris have turned more negative since August, with her favorable rating eight points underwater and her approval rating as vice president at 42%-54%. Meanwhile, views of Trump have improved, with voters approving of his past performance in the White House by a 52%-48% margin.
The new poll follows a Fox News national survey conducted Oct. 11-14 and released last week that indicated the Republican presidential nominee with a two-point edge over the Democratic Party standard-bearer.
Many other national surveys in the field the past two weeks, including polls from CBS News, Marist, and USA Today/Suffolk University, have indicated Harris with a slight advantage over Trump. But the polls are mostly within the margin of error.
Harris replaced a faltering President Biden atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket on July 21, and instantly experienced a surge in fundraising and a rise in her poll numbers.
Harris enjoyed the edge over Trump in most national polling amid the Democratic National Convention in late August and the first and only debate between the vice president and the former president, in early September.
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But many national surveys conducted in late September and October have pointed to Trump making gains at the expense of Harris.
The latest Fox News poll results [Trump with 50% support and Harris at 48%] were a reversal from last month, when the vice president had the edge.
“Overall, the movement toward Trump is subtle but potentially consequential, especially if he is making gains among college-educated voters,” said veteran Democratic pollster Chris Anderson, who conducts Fox News surveys with Republican Daron Shaw. “However, the race has been well within the margin of error for three months and the outcome will likely hinge on which side is more effective at getting their voters to the polls as opposed to persuasion.”
While national polls are helpful, the race for the White House is not based on the national popular vote, and instead is a battle for the states and their electoral votes.
And the latest surveys in the seven crucial battleground states whose razor-thin margins decided President Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine whether Harris or Trump wins the 2024 election are mostly within the margin-of-error.
The Fox News poll indicated Harris with a six-point advantage over Trump among respondents questioned in all seven battleground states.
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While polls point to a race within the margins, in the dash for campaign cash – another key metric in presidential politics – Harris is the clear front-runner.
The vice president entered the final full month of the campaign with a massive financial advantage over the former president, according to the latest federal fundraising filings.
The Harris campaign hauled in $221.8 million in September, according to the filings, more than triple the $63 million brought in by the Trump campaign last month.
Harris has vastly outraised and outspent Trump the past few months, and that trend continued in September. The largest expense by the Harris campaign was for paid media – mostly to run ads.
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But the vice president still enjoyed a large cash-on-hand advantage over Trump entering October.
The Harris campaign reported $187 million in its coffers at the end of September, compared to $119 million for the Trump campaign.
The fundraising totals reported by the two major party campaigns don’t include additional money raked in by the two national party committees, other affiliated organizations – both campaigns use a slew of affiliated fundraising committees to haul in cash – or aligned super-PACs supporting Harris and Trump.
Former NFL star says he was shocked when Trump asked him to speak on rally stage
Former NFL star Le’Veon Bell gushed about his time at former President Donald Trump’s rally over the weekend and then going with him to a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets.
Bell recalled his experience in a video posted to his social media on Wednesday.
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“I had fought, I had played in big football games – playoff, regular season, Super Bowls – I’ve never had a feeling I had two days ago at that rally when I was behind that mic in front of America. Maybe more than just America, bro. I was in front of millions of people, bro,” Bell said.
“Let me tell you how real Trump is. One, I didn’t know I was going to be called up on the stage. … When Trump went up there and talked bro, I had no idea, zero clue, he was going to call me on stage. Not only did he call me on stage, shook my hand, talked to me a little bit, but I was thinking that was going to be it. I’m cool with that! Got my little photo-op … I’m cool. Bro, he like literally looked me right in my face and just backed up (and said), ‘You got anything to say? Say it.’ Basically said, the mic yours. I got so nervous bro! I got shook.”
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Bell appeared to be impressed with his interaction with Trump and how he was able to speak at the rally along with his former Steelers teammate, Antonio Brown.
“Basically, what I’m trying to say is Trump a real one bro. He a real one. He didn’t tell me like he was gonna let me say anything or nothing, he didn’t tell me he was going to call me up. He just did that bro – off the love. I get it, he might wanna win the election or whatever, but I’m trying to tell y’all, he didn’t have to do that. I could’ve messed up everything … That’s why y’all don’t understand is that Trump is a real one.”
Bell explained he was going to the game with Trump and was still astonished it happened in the first place. He said it took the group about eight minutes to get from the airport to Acrisure Stadium.
“Y’all not hearing me. Where I came from, ain’t nobody where I came from doing that,” he said.
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Trump also led a “U-S-A” chant at the game as well.
Trump fires back at former chief of staff after he’s labeled ‘authoritarian,’ ‘fascist’
Former President Trump responded to his former White House chief of staff John Kelly — who in recent days said his ex-boss met the definition of a “fascist” and had an affinity for Adolf Hitler and dictators — saying he’s a “total degenerate.”
“Thank you for your support against a total degenerate named John Kelly, who made up a story out of pure Trump Derangement Syndrome Hatred!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social account Wednesday. “John Kelly is a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to MOVE ON!”
Kelly spoke with The New York Times earlier this week, voicing his concerns about Trump potentially returning to the White House.
He told the outlet he believed Trump met the definition of a “fascist” and would govern like a dictator if allowed.
“Certainly, the former president is in the far-right area, he’s certainly an authoritarian, admires people who are dictators — he has said that. So he certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure,” Kelly said. “He certainly prefers the dictator approach to government.”
Democratic strategist Leslie Marshall said Kelly is respected in military and political circles, and Trump’s reaction to the retired Marine general’s remarks shouldn’t come as a surprise.
“Anybody who says anything negative about him, even if they were within his inner circle, he comes back and insults them,” she said Wednesday on “Special Report.” “That seems to be his M.O., and sadly, his supporters are OK with that.”
Talk radio host Chris Ryan said whatever Kelly says has “validity,” “substance” and “gravity.”
“But I also don’t think that it’s going to change anything in regard to this race other than this — Kamala Harris wants to shift the race back onto Donald Trump. She does not really have a closing argument other than the fact that she is, in her view, not Donald Trump, and provides more stability than Donald Trump, and her close has to be a focus on him,” Ryan added.
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Ret. Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata questioned the timing of Kelly’s remarks just weeks before Election Day, arguing it “smacks of personal revenge.”
Kelly also told the Times that Trump spoke positively of Hitler.
“He commented more than once that, ‘You know, Hitler did some good things, too,’” Kelly said.
The Atlantic also released a story earlier this week using two unnamed people who claimed Trump said he needed “the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
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Trump campaign adviser Alex Pfeiffer pushed back against the claims, telling the outlet, “This is absolutely false.” “President Trump never said this.”
Mike Pence’s former chief of staff Nick Ayers wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Kelly’s commentary is “patently false.”
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“I’ve avoided commenting on intra-staff leaks or rumors or even lies as it relates to my time at the White House but General Kelly’s comments regarding President Trump are too egregious to ignore,” Ayers wrote.
911 calls in first Trump assassination attempt released: ‘Better get over here quick’
More than four months after a 20-year-old gunman attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, Butler County officials have released 911 calls from that day.
One redacted call came from the wife of a 74-year-old shooting victim from Moon Township, telling police her husband was shot at the rally, but she does not know what hospital he was transported to. James Copenhaver, a 74-year-old man from Moon Township, was shot and critically wounded at the rally.
“Paramedics serviced him. I called Butler Hospital. He’s not there. They told me to call 911,” the woman can be heard telling a dispatcher.
The dispatcher tells her to stay on the line and not hang up.
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“I won’t,” she says.
Other 911 calls released by Butler County give more insight into the moment gunman Thomas Crooks fired approximately eight times, nicking Trump in the ear, killing Corey Comperatore, and injuring Copenhaver and another man named David Dutch.
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“Gunshots. Gunshots at the Trump rally,” one caller can be heard saying. “You better get over here quick.”
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“We’re at the Butler Farm Show. We need assistance now,” says another.
“We’re at the Trump assembly, and there’s a guy shooting,” another caller can be heard telling dispatchers.
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One woman called 911 to check in on her mother, who had been at the rally. She notified dispatchers that there had been a shooting, and dispatchers respond that police are on the way.
“What am I supposed to do?” she asks.
Another caller tells dispatch that a paramedic is needed in the “green section” of the rally after “somebody passed out.”
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The calls reveal a chaotic scene after shots rang out at the rally, with attendees unaware whether the shooter was an active threat to those attending the event.
Further investigation revealed that Crooks had accessed the roof of a nearby building by climbing HVAC equipment and piping on the side of the building, which was outside the official perimeters of the rally but less than 200 yards from where Trump was speaking on stage.
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About an hour before shots were fired, a Beaver County sniper took a photo of a suspicious male near the AGR building using a range finder pointing toward the stage. That suspicious male was later identified as Crooks.
The sniper reported that information to the Pennsylvania State Police. The FBI previously said this sighting occurred around 5:10 p.m. on July 13, one hour and one minute before Crooks fired his first bullet at 6:11.
A local officer with Butler County identified where the shots were coming from, located the shooter, and fired one round at Crooks with his rifle, “which caused the shooter to recoil and briefly fall out of sight,” Adams Township Police Department Sgt. Edward Lenz testified in September.
A Secret Service counter sniper then fired the fatal shot that neutralized Crooks on the roof of the AGR building, where he was perched with a direct line of sight to Trump.
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On the day of the rally, Crooks parked his vehicle and flew a drone between approximately 3:50 p.m. and 4 p.m. about 200 yards from where the former president would be speaking.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified during a July 17 congressional hearing that Crooks had been at the rally site for about 70 minutes the morning of the assassination attempt.
Investigators located eight casings on the roof where Crooks fired from.