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Excerpt from www.thegatewaypundit.com

Speaker Mike Johnson Sparks Uproar After Revealing the Seven Republicans Who Will Serve on Task Force Investigating Trump Assassination Attempt

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Excerpt from townhall.com

Testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning, FBI Director Christopher Wray again stressed the dangers an overwhelmed, open southern border and chaotic illegal immigration system poses to the United States — especially in the aftermath of a the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“I have been saying for sometime now that we’re living in an elevated threat environment. And tragically, Butler County’s assassination attempt is another example, a particularly heinous and very public one, of what I’ve been talking about,” Wray said. “I have warned for sometime now about the threat that foreign terrorists may seek to exploit our southwest border, or some other port of entry, to advance a plot against Americans.”

“The physical security of the border is of course not in the FBI’s lane but as the threat has escalated we’re working with out partners in law enforcement to find and stop foreign terrorists who would harm Americans and our interests,” he continued. “As concerning as the known or suspected terrorists encountered at the border are, perhaps even more concerning are those we do not yet know about because they provided fake documents or because we didn’t have information connecting them to terrorism at the time they arrived in the United States.”

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Excerpt from thepostmillennial.com

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced on Monday that he is filing a lawsuit against the Biden administration for documents related to the flying of illegal immigrants into the state.

“I am filing suit against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for REFUSING to turn over documents about the flying of illegal immigrants into Missouri,” Bailey wrote. “We have reason to believe they are deliberately flying illegal aliens from the border into our cities. Not on my watch.

In May, Rep Mark Alford led a group of GOP Missouri lawmakers in the US House in sending a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, demanding answers on the flying of illegal immigrants into the US.

The lawmakers raised concerns over the Biden administration’s Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) parole program, stating that since the program was launched in January 2023, over 400,000 illegal immigrants have been flown into the US.

The letter noted that two people were flown into Missouri in 2023, adding “we have grave concerns about bringing unvetted, and otherwise inadmissible illegal aliens into the United States.” The lawmakers demanded to know what procedures are in place to track illegal immigrants brought in through the program, and how many other people, if any, were flown into Missouri.

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

Mike Benz, founder and president of the Foundation for Freedom Online, appeared on The War Room with Dave Brat on Tuesday.

In their engaging discussion, Mike Benz revealed explosive details about the FBI’s actions on January 6, 2021. He uncovered that the FBI had concealed crucial information regarding the January 6 pipe bomber.

Benz revealed that the FBI had deliberately cut the video footage showing the pipe bomber pulling out the bomb from a bag and placing it under a sidewalk bench.

Benz also reported that the cellphone data of the pipe bomber from that day was corrupted and damaged. This individual remains the only person the FBI has struggled to identify.

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Excerpt from www.washingtonexaminer.com

America First Legal is suing CrowdStrike over alleged racial and sexual discrimination in its diversity, equity, and inclusion practices.

The group filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for “allegedly limiting, segregating, and classifying white and male employees for trainings and promotions in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.”

A press release from the group pointed out nine employee resource groups with the company solely based on racial, sexual, and sexual orientation categories.

“CrowdStrike’s DEI leader specifically referenced efforts to use race as a basis for advancement in employment,” America First Legal Vice President Dan Epstein said in a statement. “Such a statement, in combination with CrowdStrike’s demonstrated intent to use racial balancing in hiring as well as its own public financial disclosures emphasizing its values in favor of racial discrimination over the true diversity of thought and opinion, creates a substantial likelihood of unlawful activity.”

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Excerpt from amgreatness.com

A recent audit by the United States Treasury Department’s inspector general (IG) found that multiple employees of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collectively owe around $50 million in back taxes.

According to the Daily Wire, the amount is owed by a total of over 3,800 individual employees, 2,000 of which have not yet established payment plans. At least 50 of these employees have worked for the IRS for five years or more.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration conducted the audit by reviewing 1,068 different cases where the IRS had taken disciplinary action against employees for tax-related offenses. The IG found that in most cases, the agency would hardly punish its own employees.

“76 employees were suspended. Most of these cases involved willful … cases resulting in the employee being suspended for less than 14 days,” the IG report reveals.

Out of 70 different cases where an IRS employee was found to have  “willfully” engaged in tax misconduct between October of 2021 and April of 2023, only 20 were actually fired. This was in direct contradiction with the law which states that all IRS employees who are found guilty of such offenses must be fired; the only thing that can prevent such terminations is direct intervention by the IRS commissioner himself.

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Excerpt from thepostmillennial.com

 Reports emerged on X on Monday indicating that Mark Zucerkberg’s Facebook had been censoring photos of Donald Trump, fist raised, face bloodied, after the assassination attempt against him. The photos were censored by third-party fact checkers who claimed that the photo had been altered. Facebook since admitted to censoring the photos in error.

The iconic photo, snapped by a photographer for the Associated Press, had been viral on social media before a copy of the photo was edited and circulated, which showed, erroneously, that Secret Service agents were “smiling as they surround[ed] him after the shooting.” While that photo was censored, in the aftermath, the original was censored as well.

After backlash, Meta admitted that the warning was incorrectly applied and was meant only to apply to the altered image showing Secret Service agents smiling. The fact checkers, and their AI software, had determined that all images that resembled the AP original photo should be removed.

“This was an error. This fact check was initially applied to a doctored photo showing the secret service agents smiling, and in some cases our systems incorrectly applied that fact check to the real photo. This has been fixed and we apologize for the mistake,” communications director for Facebook Dani Lever said.

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Excerpt from www.westernjournal.com

The CIA denied an ominous internet conspiracy theory involving the shooting of former President Donald Trump via a public statement Monday.

The former president was shot through the ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.

The conspiracy theory in question, which has mainly popped up on obscure internet spaces and social media accounts, posits that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the now-deceased would-be-assassin who shot Trump, may have been a CIA asset…

A Freedom of Information Act request to the CIA claims that MKUltra was an “official U.S. government program” that spanned the ’50s and ’60s.

The document says the project “supposedly used United States citizens as unwitting test subjects” and that the project “involved the surreptitious use of many times of drugs, as well as other methods, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function.”

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Excerpt from thepostmillennial.com

FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed in a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday that investigators currently believe that Trump would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks was live streaming footage taken by a drone of the Butler, Pennsylvania rally site ahead of the shooting.

Wray confirmed to lawmakers that a drone that Crooks was believed to have used was recovered in his vehicle, and said that that around 4 pm on the day of the shooting, “the shooter was flying the drone around the area” of the rally, not over the stage but an estimated 200 yards away.

 

“We think but we do not know so again, this is one of these things that’s qualified because of our ongoing review, that he was live streaming, you know viewing the footage from that again about 11 minutes and around the 3:50, 4 o’clock pm range.”

Wray also spoke on the explosive devices found in Crooks’ car and residence, calling tem “relatively crude devices” that had the ability to be remotely detonated. Wray said that two receivers were found in Crooks’ for the two explosive devices discovered there, and a transmitter was found with Crooks’ body. Because of the on-off position of the receivers, Wray said that it currently appears to investigators like the devices would not have detonated if Crooks had tried, but “that doesn’t mean the explosives weren’t dangerous.”

This is a breaking story. Please refresh the page for updates.

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Excerpt from pjmedia.com

While admitting that Venezuela still faces “challenges,” Harris vowed U.S. backing for “the people of Venezuela who expressed their voice in today’s historic presidential election.” Someone needs to tell the cackling Communist that the election expresses the will of the socialist government in Venezuela, not the people it tyrannizes — unless she is too dumb to realize she was being complimentary, which, of course, is always an option.

Harris did not mention Maduro by name in her statement but did pretend that the election results were true indicators of democratically exercised opinions from Venezuelans. Harris posted on July 28, “The United States stands with the people of Venezuela who expressed their voice in today’s historic presidential election. The will of the Venezuelan people must be respected. Despite the many challenges, we will continue to work toward a more democratic, prosperous, and secure future for the people of Venezuela.”

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

A few days after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump, a professor at Morgan State University in Maryland wrote an op-ed stating that she and other Black Americans are justified in wishing that the attempt to kill the “evil” Trump had been successful.

In her article titled “‘Is He Dead?’ Why Black People Are Not Grieving The Failed Assassination Of Donald Trump,” Dr. Stacey Patton, a professor at Morgan State University, compares the attempt on President Trump’s life to two failed assassination attempts against Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and she pushes the ‘Trump is Hitler’ narrative.

Patton argues that the world would have been better off if the assassination attempt had succeeded.

“Is it immoral to yearn for the death of another human being? Of course, it is, in most cases,” she wrote.

“But when we look back upon the past and see the acrid smoke of crematoriums and mountains of bodies, can you blame people for weighing the value of a single life against the salvation of millions?”

Patton employs this twisted reasoning to suggest that the July 13th attempt on President Trump’s life is comparable to killing Hitler. She argues that, as a result, Black Americans might wish for Trump’s death due to their desire to see ‘the death of evil.’

“Violence is America’s main currency and Donald Trump has served as the spark for the official rebirth of white supremacy,” she wrote.

“Black people are not reveling in violence. We are wishing for the death of evil. We are longing for the prevention of evil. For a moment on Saturday, we held our collective breath. We were suspended in uncertainty, caught between desperation and hope, asking: What if?”

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Kyle Seraphin is a recovering FBI agent and whistleblower — and he has a theory as to what might have really driven Thomas Crooks, Trump’s would-be assassin, to pull the trigger on July 13.

“There is a thing that we refer to as the ‘playbook,’” Seraphin tells Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“The ‘playbook’ essentially is this: ‘I found you online, and you’ve got a lot of really dumb ideas, and some of them are violent. And I’m going to encourage all of those dumb and violent ideas. I am either a CHS, a confidential human informant for the FBI, or what’s called a UCE, I’m an online undercover employee,’” Seraphin explains.

“’We’re going to encourage you to do all your dumbest ideas. And not only that, but we’re also going to help you do it for the amount of money that you have. Oh you need a thermal sight belt fed weapon and you only have $940? Luckily for you my friend, $88.99 today only, my buddy will help you get it. He’s a weapons expert,’” Seraphin says, noting that the gun would likely be a dud.

As the agents continue to groom the subject, the subject begins to solidify his plan.

“That person says, ‘You know what, I’ve been told to do a terrorism, and I’ve been told to do a terrorism, I’m going to do the terrorism. But I’m not going to wait for my new friend who’s going to give me a thing, I’m just going to steal my dad’s rifle ‘cause it’s right there,’” he says.

“‘So, I didn’t wait for the neutered gun that the government safed and sent me with no firing pin or a shaved-down firing pin,’” Seraphin says. “Now you got a live gun in the situation that should have otherwise been a smooth takedown. I’ve seen these takedowns. I’ve seen a lot of them.”

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Excerpt from conservativeroof.com

New video released over the weekend by a man who was near the AGR building during the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, shows police responding to what they believed was a threat on the roof of the building several minutes before the would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, opened fire at President Trump.

Two minutes before Crooks fired his first shot, an officer was seen with his handgun drawn, monitoring the roof from the opposite side of where Crooks was ultimately located.

The man who posted the videos, self-identified as Dave, Dayve Stewart or realDJStew724, posted them to X Twitter and YouTube after getting his phone back from the FBI, he said.

A short video posted Saturday to X has the moment when Crooks opened fire, through the sniper kill shot and the police reaction afterward.

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Excerpt from legalinsurrection.com

Again, more questions instead of answers.

Texts reveal a local countersniper saw Thomas Michael Crooks 90 minutes before he shot former President Donald Trump, killed Corey Comperatore, and injured James Copenhaver and David Dutch.

The New York Times first published the text messages from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).

• • 4:19 PM: Countersniper told colleagues his shift ended, leaving the warehouse. He “noticed a young man with long stringy hair” at a picnic table near the warehuse.
  • 4:26 PM: Texted colleagues, alerting them to the man. He said the man knows he left the warehouse with a rifle and “knows you guys are up there.”

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Excerpt from slaynews.com

The FBI has finally confirmed that President Donald Trump was “struck” by a “bullet” during the failed assassination attempt at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The confirmation comes after FBI Director Christopher Wray downplayed the attempt on Trump’s life.

Wray and the rest of the bureaucratic state, in alignment with Democrats, attempted to cast doubt on the fact that Trump was nearly killed by a would-be assassin.

Democrats are desperate to regain the “moral” high ground and suggesting that Trump was hit by shrapnel and not a bullet.

Wray told lawmakers that, “With respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.”

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Excerpt from www.thegatewaypundit.com

FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks looked up the JFK assassination on the day he registered to attend Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Wray, while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, stated, “Analysis of a laptop that the investigation ties to the shooter reveals that on July 6th, he did a Google search for, quote, ‘how far away was Oswald from Kennedy?”

Wray continued, “And so that’s a search that obviously is significant in terms of his state of mind.”

“That is the same day that it appears that he registered for the Butler rally,” added Wray.

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FBI Director Christopher Wray says that Matthew Crooks did a google search “How far away was Oswald from Kennedy” on July 6th before the attempt on Trump’s life pic.twitter.com/LP5EaE10Vo

— HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) July 24, 2024

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Excerpt from www.westernjournal.com

Gnawing away at the official version of events as told by former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said the rooftop used by Thomas Matthew Crooks to shoot former President Donald Trump was left unguarded despite plans to have officers stationed there.

“Whistleblowers tell me law enforcement personnel were in fact STATIONED to the roof the day of the Trump rally, but abandoned it, citing the heat,” Hawley posted on X.

In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Hawley said a whistleblower has come to him with a tale of neglect of duty concerning the roof of the American Glass Research building.

“Contrary to Director Cheatle’s public statements about the ‘safety’ of the sloped roof of American Glass Research Building 6, one whistleblower with direct knowledge of Secret Service planning for the event alleges that there was supposed to be a law enforcement presence on the roof that day,” Hawley wrote.

NEW – Whistleblowers tell me law enforcement personnel were in fact STATIONED to the roof the day of the Trump rally, but abandoned it, citing the heat. They also say law enforcement were supposed to be patrolling the building, but opted to stay inside instead pic.twitter.com/aIVNSPHUF6

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 22, 2024

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Excerpt from www.thegatewaypundit.com

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona, during Tuesday’s U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security hearing, asked Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris questions regarding Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’s home.

The former Navy Seal, representing Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, asked Col. Paris, “Did your team make entry and conduct any investigation of the suspect’s home?”…

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“I was a Sniper in the Seal Teams, Colonel, and this is just obvious…”

“Are you surprised that a lot of Americans think there might be more to this story?” pic.twitter.com/q1aCOjI2JL

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) July 23, 2024

Here’s the full video:

A 20-year-old kid with no camouflage:
➡️Crawled up a white roof with an AR-15
➡️Fired shots at Trump from within 150 yards
➡️Flew a drone to conduct site surveillance
➡️Was spotted with a rangefinder

Meanwhile, USSS missed the most obvious spot for counter sniper operations… pic.twitter.com/QSOPzY8WIK

— Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) July 24, 2024