Thomas Matthew Crooks paused shooting at former president Donald Trump after a local law enforcement officer assigned to a SWAT team returned fire, and Crooks did not shoot again before he was killed by a Secret Service countersniper, according to two officials familiar with the investigation into the assassination attempt.
The shot from the local officer caused the would-be assassin to temporarily recoil from his perch on a rooftop, according to the two officials and a Washington Post analysis of video evidence. Crooks’s retreat coincided with a 10-second pause in shooting, according to audio experts who examined the gunshots, a critical period that ended when the Secret Service countersniper shot and killed him.
So the local officer ruined the Deep State’s plot by interrupting their chosen Oswald.
When you understand that Ronald Rowe was promoted because of the Trump assassination attempt, and not in spite of it, his performance in front of the Senate today makes perfect sense. https://t.co/sHr8c3QpVR
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 30, 2024
