Ep. 1841 - FBI Dumps BIZARRE New Details About Trump Assassination Attempt. What Else Are They Hiding?

The Matt Walsh Show

Matt Walsh dissects new FBI revelations about the Trump assassination attempt at the Butler rally, questioning official narratives and sugge

Key takeaways

• The Secret Service failed to secure a sloped rooftop despite clear line-of-sight threats, raising questions about negligence or intentional omission.
• Critical drone detection systems were undermanned and malfunctioning, with no response to urgent requests for an experienced operator.

Main topics

• Secret Service security failures
• Drone detection system malfunction

Notable quotes

"The Secret Service, as an agency, should have been disbanded immediately."

Conclusion

Walsh calls for full government transparency on Thomas Crooks and the

Transcript preview

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The first option was that the Secret Service was so utterly incompetent and so... unbelievably lackadaisical with its security measures that they somehow failed to secure a slightly sloped roof just 150 yards away with direct line of sight to the podium. They just never got around to it, even though they obviously noticed the rooftop during the walkthroughs before the rally. And not only that, the Secret Service didn't bother looking at the roof at any point during the rally, which is how Thomas Crooks was able to get into position without being detected as a significant threat. As one Butler police officer put it in a conversation captured on Bodycam, quote, I told them, post-effing guys over there, why were we not on the roof? Now, if you take this version of events at face value, then you would agree that, unironically, the Secret Service, as an agency, should have been disbanded immediately. Replace them with a random Boy Scout troop, if you need to. Give every kid a walkie-talkie and station them on the rooftops, and instantly... for a lot less money, presumably, Donald Trump would have much better protection than he was receiving from his Secret Service detail. The Boy Scouts wouldn't have the cool earpieces or the suits, but in all likelihood, they'd be able to spot an assassin visibly running on the roof in plain view of everybody in the crowd. And we know this because the crowd did notice Thomas Crooks long before he opened fire. The Secret Service supposedly didn't. Now, the other option that's been on the table, of course, is that the Secret Service, for some reason, allowed Thomas Crooks to open fire. And if you start thinking that through, it starts to explain a lot of things. It would explain, for example, why the Secret Service couldn't detect Crooks' drone, even though they had drone detection equipment that conveniently went down while Crooks' drone was in the air. This is one of the elements of the assassination attempt that's rarely discussed, but it should be discussed. The Secret Service actually had a counter drone system at the rally. But according to the inspector general of DHS, it was, quote, manned by a single under-trained operator who did not test the system prior to the morning of the event. When the system malfunctioned, the operator spent several hours attempting to. Resolved the issue during which time Thomas Crooks completed his almost nine-minute drone flight undetected That's the part of the story you may have heard what's less well-known Is that three days before the rally the Secret Service agents assigned to protect Trump sent an email to the Secret Service's Technical Security Division Requesting an experienced drone operator now the email reads quote Good afternoon. Candidate Trump is expected to be exposed for the entirety of his remarks and will be vulnerable to drone threats. Trump's details requesting the Technical Security Division provide an operator for the day of the event. That was sent on Wednesday, July 10th at 10.23 a.m. And according to the inspector general, quote, we found no evidence that Technical Security Division members who received these requests responded to the email. So, yes, you heard that correctly. They simply didn't respond to the email. And there was a second request, which was actually denied by a member of the Technical Security Division, supposedly because the counter drone operators were busy at the RNC, which was going to take place a couple of days later. And when the inspector general interviewed the leader of the counter drone program at the Technical Security Division, he said that he tries to cover all outdoor venues and said he would have probably done that trip in Butler, but he was never made aware of the request. Now, none of these excuses make any sense. There's no reason to ignore the email from July 10th, obviously. There's also no reason to cite the RNC as an excuse since it was taking place two days later. You would think that if the priority was to protect Trump, who they assessed was vulnerable to drone attacks, they would have found a way to send the experienced anti-drone team. But they didn't do that. Apparently, they didn't even tell the higher-ups about it. Again, complicity makes sense of this, makes more sense really than the official narrative. Additionally, if the Secret Service was complicit, it would also potentially explain why the Secret Service managed to deploy highly trained countersnipers for this rally when they hadn't used countersnipers at any of Trump's previous rallies during the entire campaign. They couldn't send the anti-drone team, but they were able to send the countersnipers. And that could make sense, theoretically, on this version of events, if they wanted to get rid of the assassin after the fact, so he couldn't talk. Now, if the Secret Service was complicit, it would also help explain why the Secret Service director claimed that the agency had suddenly become afraid of slightly sloped roofs, even though there are plenty of pictures of Secret Service agents being stationed on sloped roofs, including the counter-sniper team at this very rally. You can see the good slope, bad slope distinction there. It's kind of incredible to look at because the roof with the countersnipers is actually more sloped than the one that Thomas Crooks was on. And on top of that, when they were hosing down the roof after the shooting, FBI agents had no problem standing on it. But the Secret Service director insisted, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that slightly sloped roofs are just too dangerous for Secret Service agents. This is now former Secret Service director Kimberly Cheadle. Speaker 4 (6:26) Should that roof have been secure, period? Speaker 5 (6:28) That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building from inside. Speaker 1 (6:45) Yes, they secured the building from the inside. But apparently not, because in practical terms, it means they didn't secure the building at all. They allowed the sniper to climb on top of a building full of cops simply because a slightly sloped roof was too dangerous. That's not remotely coherent, but again, it all makes sense if someone inside the Secret Service wanted to allow Thomas Crooks to take the shot. And while we're at it, if the Secret Service deliberately allowed crooks to get into position, it would also explain why they didn't have any meaningful radio contact with the local police who saw crooks with a rifle on the rooftop early enough that Trump could have been removed from the stage. It would explain why Trump's detail included women who weren't tall enough to shield him from gunfire or draw their weapons properly. It would help explain why the Secret Service ignored local police that crooks. who the police photographed was roaming around the rally site with a range finder and on and on and on. All this to say, the so-called conspiracy theory that the Secret Service were involved somehow or that they took orders from somebody in the Biden administration who wanted them to leave Trump exposed is a... is a valid theory. It makes sense of the events that transpired. It just is. It just does. It's a conspiracy theory that makes the massive security failures at Butler more comprehensible and more logical than the theory, the official narrative. And therefore, it's incumbent on our government, especially now that Donald Trump's administration has been in office for a long time, to provide as much transparency as possible. They need to disclose all the information they have about the assassination attempt in Butler. And in particular, they need to answer every outstanding question about Thomas Crooks himself. And there are many questions along those lines. But instead, what's happening is that we're getting kind of drip fed a small number of disclosures that taken together make it more likely that the assassination was the result of a wide ranging conspiracy within Joe Biden's government. So we're going to go through all of the new revelations. We're also going to point out all the holes that remain in the official narrative, because no matter how much you've read about this case, odds are you're not aware of most of them. And that's by design. That's why they're dripping it out slowly, letting it all get kind of lost in the shuffle. Maybe the most important new information, which comes from a recent FBI document dump. is that on the afternoon before the assassination attempt, Crooks went to Clareton Sportsman's Club Rifle Range in Pennsylvania to fire two guns, his AR and a, quote, older military-style rifle. Crooks was specifically practicing a 100-yard shot. Now, by itself, that's not unusual. Crooks became a member of the club in August of 2023, less than a year before the shooting, and he visited the range more than 40 times. spent a variety of holidays at the range, including Christmas Day, Valentine's Day, Halloween. And as far as everyone knew, he was doing all this alone. After all, it's usually pretty difficult to find someone to go shooting with you on every single major holiday. But according to the FBI's investigation, on the day before the assassination attempt, camera footage at the range, quote, shows Crooks talking with another unknown club member on the range. This member was the only other person on the rifle range. Now, what's so strange about this is that by all accounts, Crooks was a loner. He didn't have any friends. He wasn't known to strike up conversations with strangers. His colleagues at a nursing home called him an odd young man, and he rarely showed emotion or interacted with anyone else, according to his father. So who exactly was he talking with at the range? Was it a random stranger? Was it someone he knew? What were they talking about? Now, it's clear the FBI thought this conversation at the gun range could... be significant. So according to this document, the FBI retrieved two images of the unknown individual and images of the unknown individual's vehicle. But we have no idea what, if anything, the FBI found. The FBI isn't telling us whether or not they've determined the identity of this individual or any involvement he might have or not have. That's a big problem because there's additional information to suggest that Crooks, despite being a creepy loner, had several other connections who were interested in helping him acquire firearms for some reason. On his sub stack, Tom Elliott has been going through the FBI's latest document dump, and he came across this piece of information, which the mainstream press is basically ignoring. And it turns out that on May 25th, 2024, a person of interest who resembles the shooter. was at the Keystone Armory in Edinburgh, which is in Pennsylvania, and was there for about an hour. And he was,