The man officially suspected of trying to assassinate President Trump last month practiced at the same gun range used by the DHS for training less than 24 hours after his visit to the club. The revelation comes amid the leftist mainstream media’s efforts to kill the story.
It’s been over a month since the assassination attempt on President Trump was carried out at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the establishment media seems to be actively assassinating the story. But some popular conservative news sources are still pursuing developments in the investigation, particularly the activities of the alleged would-be assassin Thomas Crooks.
On Monday (August 12), the New York Post reported that two months before the assassination attempt targeting President Trump in Pennsylvania, Thomas Crooks went to target practice at his preferred gun range where the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) conducted a training the day after Crook’s visit. The paper cited a club logbook obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley’s office showing that Crooks visited the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club – which is about 45 miles south of Butler, Pennsylvania – on May 22 at 3:10 p.m.
The story included a screenshot of the relevant page from the logbook which shows three persons from the DHS visited the range at noon on May 23 for police training. As the story noted, Crooks was a member and frequent visitor at the range but there was no information on whether the DHS held other trainings there:
It is unclear whether DHS regularly held trainings there, or if the May 23 visit was an uncommon occurrence.
The logbook also shows that Crooks last visited the range on July 12, just a day before he would go to the Butler rally site and shoot at Trump before getting shot down by a Secret Service sniper.
The New York Post wrote that they reached the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club for a comment but the club declined to comment on either Crooks or DHS’ use of the facility, citing the ongoing investigation into the assassination attempt.
Conservatives, meanwhile, are critically vocal about the mainstream media’s collective effort to move on and take people’s attention off the shocking attempt on Trump’s life. Clint Russell, host of Liberty Lockdown, posted on Sunday (August 11) on his X (Twitter) page that Google has buried the stories about the assassination attempt on Trump, expressing outrage that people seem not to be asking for answers anymore.
Conservative commentator Benny Johnson discussed the report from the New York Post about Crooks’ practice at the gun range and the DHS training at the same place. Here is a video clip Johnson posted to his X page wherein he talks about the suspicion that Crooks likely had contact with federal agents and the assassination attempt on President Trump implicates the DHS as a suspect.
Conservatives have also been suspicious of the federal government’s investigation into the assassination attempt since day one. Thus concerned citizens have started a petition on petitionpa.org asking the President Judge, the Honorable S. Michael Yeager of Butler County, Pennsylvania, for summoning a grand jury to investigate the assassination attempt on President Trump. The petition reads:
Federal agencies investigating federal agencies present possible conflicts of interest, and eyewitnesses with actual evidence may fear sharing with federal agencies due to the agencies’ possible perceived corruption, as seen in recent Congressional hearings. Butler County and PA State law enforcement have been called into question. The full truth needs to be disclosed to vindicate those wrongfully accused.
The petition for the grand jury can be signed by people outside Butler, PA.