Chilling leaked messages from Trump counter snipers have surfaced, detailing the moments leading up to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.

On Saturday, July 13th, there was a “colossal failure” of security, according to the former Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle.

The ‘colossal failure’ resulted in an alleged sniper, Thomas M. Crooks, taking shots at President Trump from the rooftop of the AGR Building in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The Gateway Pundit has published exclusive stories indicating the assembled group yelling, which included patriot Greg Smith, could see the sniper team on the second floor. Smith could also see that the second-floor sniper team was watching Crooks for a half hour prior to the shooting, doing nothing.

Recall that Rep. Ron Johnson (R-WI) released his 13-page preliminary findings on the investigation into the attempted assassination of President Trump.

Below is the preliminary timeline on the day of the assassination attempt, based on information uncovered by Senator Johnson’s office:

9:00am

• Butler ESU holds a briefing for local SWAT and Sniper units from Butler County, Beaver County, and Washington County.
  • A 46-page slide deck is provided, outlining:
    • Areas of responsibility for each local unit.
    • Staging locations, including sniper positions for local units and the Secret Service.
  • Attendees note the absence of Secret Service or other federal law enforcement at the briefing.
  • Initially, Secret Service had no plans for sniper units but later changed their decision.

9:27am

• Thomas Matthew Crooks, the alleged shooter, enters a Home Depot in Bethel Park, PA.
  • CCTV footage shows him entering alone.

9:41am

• Crooks purchases a 5.5 FT Aluminum Dual Platform ladder.

9:42am

• Crooks exits Home Depot.
  • CCTV footage captures him leaving the parking lot, though the vehicle make/model is unidentifiable.

10:30am

• Two local law enforcement snipers position themselves on the second floor inside the American Glass Research (AGR) building.

5:10pm

• Crooks is first observed by AGR sniper 1 at the AGR building.

5:14pm

• AGR sniper 1 takes photos of Crooks.

5:28pm

• AGR sniper 1 takes a photo of a bicycle and two bags near the AGR building.
  • The whereabouts of the bicycle and bags post-event remain unclear.

5:32pm

• AGR sniper 1 spots Crooks using his phone and a rangefinder.

5:38pm

• AGR sniper 1 messages the “Sniper Group” about Crooks.

5:40pm

• AGR sniper 1 is instructed to call command regarding Crooks.

5:41pm

• AGR sniper 1 provides a description of Crooks and the rangefinder to command.

5:49pm

• Photos of Crooks are sent to Butler ESU Command.

5:55pm

• Butler ESU Command confirms receipt and relays the photos.

5:59pm

• Butler ESU Command inquires about Crooks’ direction of travel.
  • Initially, AGR sniper 1 is unsure.

6:05pm

• AGR sniper 1 later reports Crooks moving northeast towards Sheetz with a backpack.

6:06-6:12pm

• AGR sniper 1 moves to the ground floor to meet local law enforcement to alert them about Crooks.

Approx. 6:11pm

• Crooks begins shooting.
  • Secret Service reportedly returns fire, killing Crooks.

6:23pm

• Beaver County SWAT confirms Crooks’ death on the roof.
  • Local law enforcement and a Secret Service agent are present.

6:46pm

• Crooks is patted down, revealing a transmitter device, phone, and rangefinder.

7:45pm-7:46pm

• At Allegheny Bomb Squad’s request, local law enforcement texts pictures of Crooks and nearby items to an ATF agent’s phone for facial recognition analysis.

Now, chilling texts, which were obtained by the New York Times from local law enforcement, detail the frantic communications of countersnipers who were tasked with protecting Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

One of the countersnipers sent a message to his colleagues indicating that his shift was ending. At approximately 4:26 PM, he observed a suspicious individual—later identified as the assailant, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks—sitting on a picnic table just 50 yards from the exit.

“Guys I am out. Be safe,” the sniper wrote. “Someone followed our lead and snuck in and parked by our cars just so you know. I’m just letting you know because you see me go out with my rifle and put it in my car so he knows you guys are up there.”

He added that Crooks was “sitting to the direct right on a picnic table about 50 yards from the exit” in a message sent at 4:27 PM, a little over 90 minutes before the gunman fired. The two other countersnipers responded with a thumbs-up emoji and a “Roger that.”

Another screenshot, timed at around 5:38 PM, shows Crooks beneath the countersnipers, who had positioned themselves in a nearby warehouse. One of the remaining snipers photographed Crooks multiple times and texted the pictures to the group chat.

“Kid learning around building we are in,” one wrote. “I did see him with a range finder looking towards stage. FYI. If you wanna notify SS snipers to look out. I lost sight of him.”

Witnesses later reported seeing Crooks crawling onto the roof of the American Glass Research building. At 5:40 PM, one of the countersnipers suggested calling in the report of Crooks. Within the next half hour, the gunman would be dead, and Trump would be photographed with blood coming from the area around his ear.

New York Times reported:

Taken together, the text messages provide the most detailed picture yet of the hours before the assassination attempt. They reveal that the gunman, later identified as Thomas Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pa., aroused police suspicion more than 90 minutes before the shooting, rather than about 60 minutes, as has been previously discussed in congressional hearings.

The messages also add to the evidence that the would-be assassin was often one step ahead of security forces, and in particular the Secret Service.

Mr. Crooks scoped out the rally site a day before the Secret Service did. He used a drone to survey the site while the Secret Service did not seek permission to use one for the rally. He researched how far Lee Harvey Oswald was from John F. Kennedy when he fatally shot the president in 1963 — the answer is about 265 feet — and managed to climb onto a roof that was about 400 feet from Mr. Trump at its closest point. The Secret Service left that roof unmanned.

And while countersnipers were assigned to surveil the rally, Mr. Crooks was also in a position to watch them.

Even after the episode ended, the police seemed confused about what Mr. Crooks had done and how.

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In November 2020 Democrats in Pennsylvania blocked Republican election observers, including Corey Lewandowski and former Florida AG Pam Bondi, from observing the ballot counting room in Philadelphia after the November 3rd election.

Republican observers were barred from entering the Philadelphia vote counting center even after receiving the appellate court order.

BREAKING: Republican observers barred from entering Philly vote counting center even after receiving court order pic.twitter.com/9b6WIr7h4M

— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) November 5, 2020

The Philadelphia Sheriff did not enforce the appellate court order, according to Corey Lewandowski, who was on the ground in Philly. Pam Bondi said the counting machines were moved far away from observers, defying the court order allowing GOP observers to be no more than 6 feet away from officials counting ballots.

This is what you would expect in a banana republic.

President Trump was ahead on election night by nearly 800,000 votes over Joe Biden in Pennsylvania. Four days later the vote went to Joe Biden. Trump was ahead in the state by nearly 800,000 votes on Election night! It only took four days of secret counting to flip the state to Joe Biden!

On November 3, 2020, in Michigan, President Trump was ahead of Joe Biden by over 100,000 votes. This appeared to be another solid win for President Trump in the battleground state with a greater margin than his 2016 victory. Democrats then locked doors on Republican election workers the next day and put cardboard over the windows to prevent the GOP observers from seeing in. The state continued to count until Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the state.

Similar events took place in several other states. It was a miraculous win for Joe Biden.

This tactic worked so well for US Democrats that Communist tyrant Nicolás Maduro this past weekend ordered his police force to prevent election observers from monitoring the ballot counting process at voting centers nationwide.

BREAKING: Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s dictator, has ordered his police force to prevent election observers from monitoring the ballot counting process at voting centers nationwide.

pic.twitter.com/iewnqxEuSC

— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) July 29, 2024

Gateway Hispanic is covering this story for our Spanish-speaking audience.

Is Maduro afraid of losing the elections in today? It certainly seems so since he prevented the arrival of international electoral observers and deported international delegations from Venezuela. @gatewaypundit pic.twitter.com/69dtZ7ZTlK

— Gateway Hispanic (@GatewayHispanic) July 28, 2024

https://gatewayhispanic.com/2024/07/maduro-evita-entrada-de-observadores-internacionales/

We will be posting updates as the story develops.

Maduro learned this from US Democrats.

It will be interesting to see if the Biden regime condemns this cheating in Venezuela or if they celebrate tyrant Maduro’s expected surprise win the communist hellhole.

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Leading investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed inside details of how the Obama-run Deep State forced the acting “President of the United States” Joseph R. Biden to step down on Sunday, July 21 after threatening to invoke the 25^th Amendment, which allows the VP and cabinet Majority to oust a President who is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

Joe Biden spoke at to the NAACP in Las Vegas July 16, saying that “Kamala Harris is not only a great VP, she could be President” in a speech that was so gaffe-filled the White House had to issue nine corrections to the offical transcript, as Cassandra MacDonald reported on TGP.

The day after the train-wreck NAACP speech, Mr. Biden was scheduled to speak at the Unidos US Convention July 17, but was instead whisked away to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware with an alleged COVID diagnosis. “Air Force One was flying so fast that I was shaking in my seat,” Emily Goodin reported in the Daily Mail, who was onboard Air Force One.

“Tray tables shook. Reporters held up their water glasses so they wouldn’t spill. Most concerning, though, was that we had no idea what was going on.  or security reasons, there is no Wi-Fi on Air Force One, so we were cut off from the outside world”, Goodin  wrote. Reporters asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for an update on Biden’s condition twice, but were denied.

It was not clear who made this decision to start the coup and remove Mr. Biden from public view. Citing intel sources, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh compared the events of July 17 to 21 to the movie “Seven Days in May” about a coup in the USA.

According to Hersh, the pressure to remove Biden came from big-bucks Democrat donors, who the New York Times reported July 12 were withholding around $90 million in pledged donations. Several wealthy donors publicly called on Biden to step aside, Forbes reported, “including billionaire Mark Pincus, Christy Walton, Michael Novogratz and Reed Hastings, while Mark Cuban has said Democrats should weigh replacements.”

It’s time for us all to unite around Kamala Harris and beat Donald Trump. She is the best and most qualified candidate we have. Long live the American Dream! #Harris2024 pic.twitter.com/KG09YnWHZK

— Alex Soros (@AlexanderSoros) July 21, 2024

“After Biden’s return to Delaware, the White House told the public that Biden had contracted a COVID infection and would be in isolation. He was said to have upper respiratory symptoms, a runny nose, a cough, and was fatigued”, Hersh writes.

“By Saturday, July 20, former President Barack Obama was deeply involved, and there was talk that he would place a call to Biden”, according to Hersh’s intel source. “It was not clear whether Biden had been examined or just what happened to him in Las Vegas. “The Big Three,” the official said, referring to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, continued to be directly involved.“

“On Sunday morning,” the official told Hersh, with the approval of Pelosi and Schumer, “Obama called Biden after breakfast and said, ‘Here’s the deal. We have Kamala’s approval to invoke the 25th Amendment.”

“It was clear at this point,” Hersh’s source official said, “that (Harris) would get the nod”—that is, the support to run for the presidency in the November election. “But Obama also made it clear,” the official said, “that he was not going to immediately endorse her. But the group had decided that her work as a prosecutor would help her deal with Trump in a debate.”

On Friday, the New York Post reported that Biden’s quick endorsement of Kamala Harris was “revenge on Barack Obama” for pressuring him to step down, according to a source in the White House.

“It was Joe’s big f–k you,” the source said. “Joe said, ‘If I’m out, then I am endorsing her.’”

Biden’s endorsement of Harris was “Joe truly knifing Obama and Pelosi in the back for making him stand down,” a Democratic Party source told the New York Post.

Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama did not endorse Harris until Friday, July 26, which was reenacted for social media in a cheesy staged phone call.

This will go down as the most cringe endorsement video EVER. I’m tired of all this Kamala phoniness

ANYONE who supports Kamala Harris is an idiot

GO F*CK YOURSELF OBAMA pic.twitter.com/d5XQ0twmhp

— Marjorie Taylor Greene Press Release (Parody) (@MTGrepp) July 26, 2024

Seymour Hersh’s report seemed to indicate a pivotal role played by the Deep State “blob” in the coup, as Biden’s pick of Harris ran into obstruction from the intel community, due to Harris’ “disdain for the work of the US Intelligence Community.”

Harris is known “not to be especially interested in the President’s Daily Brief, a highly classified summary of current intelligence that is prepared overnight by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and delivered by hand to the most vital offices in Washington, including the vice president’s”, Hersh wrote. “I was told that Harris often showed little interest in reading the document and at some point asked the agency to stop delivering it to her. Now, as a presidential candidate, she is being kept up to date on all significant intelligence matters.”

The decision to oust Biden was made by the shadow behind-the-scenes puppet masters that seem to be running the country due the “ a series of increasingly negative polls on (Mr. Biden’s) standing against Trump”. If Harris did not pull in better polling numbers, “it was agreed that if the polls did not continue to show her gaining traction, other options would be considered, including an open convention.” Hersh was “unable to learn if Harris was aware of such considerations”, he wrote.

Hersh’s source told him that Barack Obama “emerged as the strongman” in the ouster of the man many still consider to be the United States President.  Obama “had an agenda and he wanted to seek it through to the end, and he wanted to have control over who would be elected.”

After Harris seemed able to rally the increasingly desperate legacy media around her,  Michael and Barack Obama “announced their endorsement of Harris and told her, over the phone in a staged TV event, that they would do all they could to campaign for her and to support her”, Hersh wrote.

Hersh indicates Harris may be brought down at any moment if she fails to “perform” against President Donald Trump.

This is amazing
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 26, 2024

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Frequent flyers critical of Southwest Airlines’s seating policies may be in for a bit of a pleasant surprise this week.

Many who opt to fly with Southwest do so despite the company’s open seating policy but, according to the airline, open seating may soon be a thing of the past.

On Thursday, Southwest Airlines announced it would be introducing assigned seating according to CBS News.

The reason for the change?

Apparently, the airline claims 80 percent of customers and 86 percent of potential customers prefer assigned seating to the airline’s previous open seating policy.

Those willing to spend more on their seating will also be given luxury options.

The airline’s new “premium” seating gives flyers the chance to snag a seat with additional leg room.

Aviation expert Henry Harteveldt told CBS News that the moves would improve the customer experience.

According to Harteveldt, the move will make flights “more orderly and comfortable” and will “improve the airline’s bottom line as well.”

Southwest will also start selling tickets for late-night “redeye” flights.

Southwest Airlines customers responded to the move on social media platform X shortly after the Thursday announcement.

i fly southwest because of the open seating policy — this is so dumb!!! we like to get on and off FAST… please don’t optimize for revenue, optimize for speed! pic.twitter.com/Xc88orEms5

— @jason (@Jason) July 25, 2024

“i fly southwest because of the open seating policy — this is so dumb!!! we like to get on and off FAST… please don’t optimize for revenue, optimize for speed!” one wrote.

This is the best Southwest Airlines change in history.

I might actually fly with them now if price still makes sense comparatively.

Why continue to let people getting priority seating cause one of the six people in their party has a broken leg when people would gladly pay for…

— doitbigchicago (@doitbigchicago) July 25, 2024

“This is the best Southwest Airlines change in history. I might actually fly with them now if price still makes sense comparatively. Why continue to let people getting priority seating cause one of the six people in their party has a broken leg when people would gladly pay for those bulkhead or exit row seats,” another wrote.

last place I want open seating is on a plane. when you want order and efficiency in a process it’s better to treat it like a kindergarten class and show ppl their spot on the carpet

— mpcap_j (@itrade258) July 25, 2024

“last place I want open seating is on a plane. when you want order and efficiency in a process it’s better to treat it like a kindergarten class and show ppl their spot on the carpet,” another posted.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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