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incoming update…Pinned FBI Director Christopher Wray to testify about Trump rally shooting responseFBI Director Christopher Wray is set to testify this morning on Capitol Hill as lawmakers continue to hold hearings on the Trump rally shooting security response.
Wray will appear in front of the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing it says “will examine the FBIs investigation into the assassination attempt against President Trump and the ongoing politicization of the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency under the direction of FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland.”
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned from her position on Tuesday, a day after she testified in front of the House Oversight Committee. Lawmakers had criticized her responses to the Secret Service’s handling of the Trump assassination attempt.Posted by Greg Norman ShareTop Dem who visited Butler says local officials told him ‘we need to talk’ more about Secret ServiceA top House Democrat who took part in a bipartisan walk-through of the Butler Farm Show grounds in Pennsylvania, where former President Trump was nearly assassinated, said law enforcement rank-and-file seem apprehensive to speak publicly about “whos in charge.”
Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., said officers who serve are “great people” and that breakdowns that led to the fatal event earlier this month prove interagency clarity in cooperation is badly lacking.
Correa praised Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris for being forthright during Tuesdays House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Trump rally shooting. He added that local officials and law enforcement in the Butler area he met with Monday were equally admirable.
Correa said local agency members approached him during a private congressional walk-through and told him they needed to talk some more about what they saw on the ground.
“A couple of folks there kind of hinted to me that everybody locally is not comfortable going out and giving their opinion,” he said. “But one individual said hes not quite sure who was in charge.
“There was a local supervisor or council member who said that we need to talk some more. You guys (Congress) need to hear more about what happened and what didn’t happen. They weren’t here [in Washington]. We need to get their opinions and thoughts. Those are the people that were where the rubber meets the road, so to speak,” he said.
Correa added that, comparatively speaking, the Secret Service is a small operation of around 3,600 agents, while Paris said the PSP employs about 6,000.
“The local police and state troopers really are force multipliers, and, in this case, there are some things you need to work on to fix the process,” Correa said.
He said after the House hearing with Paris and his trip to Northwest Pennsylvania the best thing to do is go “back to the drawing board and really start kicking the tires in terms of guidance and Secret Service and what they do and how they address and work with local public safety agencies.”
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Charles CreitzPosted by Anders Hagstrom ShareGod ‘stepped in and saved’ Donald Trump from assassination, Jake Paul saysLast month, Jake Paul said that former President Trump will most likely get his vote, and understandably so. He was rather emotional about the assassination attempt on the former president.
A gunman opened fire on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 during a rally, and a bullet clipped his right ear. Paul thinks it was by the grace of God that it was not worse.
“It’s one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen and probably will ever see. I think there would have been a civil war if something would have hit him. But I think that’s like the divine intervention, for sure. I believe that God stepped in and saved him,” Paul said on his brother Logan’s podcast, “Impaulsive,” which Trum
“It’s quite literally what doesnt kill you makes you stronger.’ And I think that’s also probably why God had this exact situation happen – because He saw the path that we were going down with,” the YouTuber-turned-boxer added.
“And I’m not even gonna say, like, it’s Democrat-Republican, what does it matter? It’s the people who are running the government now, the path that they were leading us to was gonna be catastrophic and terrible. And I think God really intervened, like, we need this guy right now. Everyone needs to flip sides. We can’t have a close election – we need a landslide. We need this guy to come back in and make America great again.'”p himself appeared on earlier this year.
“We saw the action of God right in front of our eyes,” Logan responded.
This is an excerpt from an article by Fox News’ Ryan MorikPosted by Anders Hagstrom ShareRep. Gooden reveals what he wants to hear from FBI Director Wray at House hearingRep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, told ‘Fox & Friends First’ that he hopes FBI Director Christopher Wray comes to the House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday with answers and a plan to make us feel better about what the FBI is doing in the wake of the Trump assassination attempt.
We have so many examples of mishandling of investigations, of corruption at the FBI, that my constituents and many of my colleagues as well are very suspect of whatever the FBI comes up with, said Gooden, who is a member of the committee. But it is my hope today that Director Wray will be forthcoming, he will answer the questions that we have for him, that he will slightly put our minds at ease if that is possible.
Its frankly appalling and embarrassing as a nation that we have such terrible security for our former and current presidents. Ive got to believe that we can do better, Gooden also said.
I want to know where we are currently, what information they have, what the plan is, what resignations are taking place, who is going to be held accountable, how this is not going to happen again, Gooden added. I dont want any secrets. The American people are tired of tragedies and incidents taking place where we have questions and conspiracy theories for many years to come unanswered. Posted by Greg Norman ShareDemocrat says officials in Butler told him ‘we need to talk’ more about Secret Service failuresCol. Christopher Paris, commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, left, and Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, center, are greeted by Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., right, as they arrive Tuesday for a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing Examining the Assassination Attempt of July 13. (AP/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
A top House Democrat who took part in a bipartisan walk-through of the Butler Farm Show grounds in Pennsylvania, where former President Trump was nearly assassinated, said law enforcement rank-and-file seem apprehensive to speak publicly about “whos in charge.”
Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., said officers who serve are “great people” and that breakdowns that led to the fatal event earlier this month prove interagency clarity in cooperation is badly lacking.
Correa praised Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris for being forthright during Tuesdays House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Trump rally shooting. He added that local officials and law enforcement in the Butler area he met with Monday were equally admirable.
Correa said local agency members approached him during a private congressional walk-through and told him they needed to talk some more about what they saw on the ground.
“A couple of folks there kind of hinted to me that everybody locally is not comfortable going out and giving their opinion,” he said. “But one individual said hes not quite sure who was in charge.
“There was a local supervisor or council member who said that we need to talk some more. You guys (Congress) need to hear more about what happened and what didn’t happen,” he said.Posted by Charles Creitz ShreTrump shooter’s neighbors shocked by ‘evil’ next doorJust over a week after Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, nearly assassinating former President Trump and killing firefighter Corey Comperatore, the 20-year-old’s neighbors are grappling with the reality of the “evil’ that lurked down the street.
“That’s sheer fear. If [Trump] had his head turned, he would’ve had his brains blown out, and that was manufactured around the corner from my house,” said a neighbor who lives about the same distance from the Crooks home that the shooter was from the president when Crooks opened fire.
“There was such evil around the corner,” she said Tuesday. “We’re always going to have a scar from what happened and how close to us [it was].”
Another woman who regularly runs through the neighborhood said she passed Crooks in their quiet neighborhood several times over the summer. Despite her attempts to “look over and smile and say hello,” he would “look up as though nobody had been passing him.”
That woman said she was shocked when she heard the news of the shooting just 40 minutes away from her house. Things got even more “surreal” when she realized the perpetrator lived far closer to home than she thought.
“When I first thought about the shooter being in Butler, I thought, ‘Wow, that’s in my backyard.’ It ended up being closer. All of a sudden, it’s a neighbor,” she said.Posted by Christina Coulter ShareNew video shows Trump assassination attempt at Pennsylvania rallyNew video footage captured by a rally goer shows the assassination attempt on former President Trump before a sniper took out the shooter after he opened fire.
Jon Malis took the footage as he and his family watched the campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, next to the American Glass Research (AGR) building, which Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to scale to a clear line of sight to Trump, who suffered injuries to his ear from the shooting. One spectator was killed and several others were injured in the incident.
Crooks, 20, appeared to fire eight shots before he was killed by sniper fire.
“I noticed about two minutes before the shooting started, the people were starting to say, ‘hey, he’s climbing up here, he’s crawling around, he’s doing this, he’s doing that,” Malis told Fox News. “We just kind of ignored it because we thought it was some person trying to get a better view.”
“I want to say three, then maybe five [rounds were heard],” he added. “And then I heard the two counter sniper rounds.”
Fox News’ Landon Mion and Bryan Llenas contributed to this report.Posted by Louis Casiano Share
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