Guest post by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission

Bipartisan Task Force Sidesteps Crucial Evidence: Shooter’s Identity and Motive Ignored

The following is republished with permission from AbleChild.

The House Bipartisan Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump held its first hearing last week. Grossly incompetent are the words that come to mind.

Unfortunately, the House members of the Task Force don’t understand what information is important in a criminal investigation and, therefore, are unable to ask important, pertinent questions that may provide the American people with accurate information about the attempted assassination.

While no one doubts the Task Force’s desire to get to the bottom of the assassination attempt, what the American people must understand is that the goal of the Task Force is to “identify solutions that will prevent security failures from recurring in the future,” NOT to get to the bottom of who committed the crime and why. Knowing the role of the Task force helps the American people to understand why the members seemed so inept during the “preliminary” hearing.

The best way to understand the Task Force’s missed opportunities comes pretty much from the beginning of the hearing when the Allegheny County Medical Examiner, (ME) Dr. Ariel Goldschmidt, testified via Zoom. According to Goldschmidt his staff made arrangements “later that night” (July 13^th) “to transport the bodies of Thomas Crooks and victim Corey Comperatore to our office.”

Did any of the Task Force members ask the ME if he knew the identity of the alleged deceased shooter that evening when arrangements were being made? No. Did anyone on the Task Force inquire as to when the ME became aware of the identity of the alleged shooter? No.

Of interest is that in his testimony the ME made a point of explaining that the “required chain of custody” paperwork began after the body arrived at the ME’s office. Of course, it’s difficult to dismiss the unnatural and suspicious situation that occurred at the AGR building with the chain of custody of the body prior to the Butler County Coroner’s identification of the deceased.

Remember that William F. Young III, the Butler County Coroner, went to the AGR building around midnight on July 14^th and was rebuffed and told to come back the next morning. Young and “another deputy” returned to the AGR building around 6:00a.m. on the 14^th to identify the alleged shooter.

Did the Task Force ask the ME why the body of the alleged shooter laid on the AGR roof all night? No. Did the Task Force ask the ME what method was used by the Butler County Coroner to identify the alleged shooter? No. Did the Task Force ask the ME what law enforcement agencies had control of the AGR building throughout the evening of July 13-14? No. Lost opportunities.

The ME then explained in his testimony that “prior to the autopsy, the body was X-rayed, major handprints were obtained by the FBI Major Incident Program Manager, Brian Johnson.” Did the Task Force members ask the ME when and where the FBI conducted the X-rays? No. How about what was found in the X-rays? No. Did the Task Force members ask the ME where the handprints were taken by the FBI? No. Did the Task Force ask the ME if the FBI’s handling of the alleged shooter’s body prior to autopsy compromised the chain of custody? No.

Goldschmidt then testified that he “had no reports from or involvement in the investigation into Mr. Crooks’ motives and actions, crime scene evidence or other outside evidence…” Really? What did the Task Force members have to say about that? Nothing.

Did the Task Force members ask why the Butler County Coroner had not provided the ME with investigative notes and photographs that must have been taken by the coroner while making identification on the roof of the AGR Building at 6:00a.m. July 14^th. No. Did the Task Force members ask the ME why he wasn’t provided any investigative information that may help him in his autopsy? No. Did the Task Force members question the ME as to why standard procedure of receiving investigative information from the coroner wasn’t followed? No.

While all the above unexplored issues are irresponsible, the following is just insulting. According to the ME, “items of evidentiary value collected during the autopsy were transferred to the custody of the FBI.” Did the Task Force members ask the ME exactly what items (plural) of evidentiary value were forwarded to the FBI? Unbelievably no. Couldn’t just be the bullet. The ME said ITEMS. Apparently, the Task Force doesn’t care what ITEMS were recovered from the alleged shooters body.

And the final insult came when Task Force members failed to follow up with the ME about the Toxicology tests that were conducted. Did the Task Force members ask one question about what drugs were tested for? No. It’s hard to imagine a more useless hearing.

So, the question becomes, what information did the American people not receive during the preliminary hearing? First and foremost, Americans still have no idea where, when and by what method was the alleged shooter identified.

According to early reports, Kevin Rojek, the special agent-in-charge (SAIC) for the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office, told reporters just hours after the shooting on Saturday, “we’re trying to run his DNA and get biometric confirmation.” SAIC Rojek also said the bureau was also “looking at photographs” to help ID the shooter. “Trying to run…” Did Rojek or didn’t Rojek run Crooks’ DNA? The Task Force members didn’t ask. The Task Force also apparently wasn’t interested in knowing what photos the FBI has that they would use for identification immediately after the shooting. The public had access to only childhood photos.

Nevertheless, it’s anyone’s guess why the Task Force never bothered to ask the ME how the shooter was identified. Doesn’t the Task Force want to know? How hard can this be? Don’t the Task Force members have similar questions as their fellow Americans? It’s inexplicable that the Task Force would not establish just that one piece of physical evidence.

The American people did not learn whether the bullet(s) pulled from Crooks’ body match which sniper’s gun barrel. The ME stated that Crooks died “as a result of a high velocity gunshot wound to the head, with an entrance wound of the left upper lip.” Great. Did the Task Force members ask what was the caliber of the bullet? No. Further, the Task Force didn’t bother to question the ME as to whether there was an exit wound and, if not, was the entry and trajectory through the body consistent with the which sniper’s position?

This kind of amateur investigating is not what the American people deserve. If the Task Force members are unfamiliar with criminal investigations, there’s little doubt that hiring a competent investigator would wholeheartedly be approved by the taxpayers.

By virtue of the fact that a Presidential candidate and former President was shot at a campaign rally is sufficient evidence that the Secret Service was inept and failed to do the job for which they are paid. The American people, however, would like to know, based on physical evidence, who the shooter was and why he attempted the assassination.

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With Steve Bannon unjustly locked up in a Federal prison, War Room continues today with guest host Kash Patel.

Today, Kash interviewed journalist and author Gordon Chang, who is an expert on the threat the Chinese Communist Party is to the United States. They discussed topics including the less talked about threat at the northern border, and big tech.

“You mentioned the northern border. What are they doing up there? No one’s really talking about that,” Patel commented.

“The Chinese are coming across the northern border. In February, US border patrol caught three Chinese migrants coming in. What was ominous about this was that there were Chinese Nationals on our side of the border who were obviously there by prearrangement, who were there to help those people sneaking in,” Chang said.

“If you want to live in a free society so you decide to come into the US to file an asylum claim, the first thing you do is you surrender to Border Patrol because in addition to everything else, you get a debit card from New York City. Well, these guys wanted to come in undetected which means that their purposes were nefarious,” Chang continued.

They also discussed how big tech was being used by China to exploit the US.

“Are there other companies the CCP is using and can you comment on that and this article that came out with the house intel letter just the other week,” Patel asked.

“Temu is the retailer that brings in goods under $800 to avoid the tariffs and its parent Pinduoduo is under investigation. They’re under investigation because what they’ve been taking is the data that they obtain when people use their site and they are shipping it off to the party, the Communist Party,” Chang said.

“Whether a company is owned by the state, or it’s owned by private investors, it is subject to the will of the Communist Party, which demands complete obedience,” Chang said.

“China’s 2017 national intelligence law requires every Chinese National and every Chinese entity to spy if it receives a demand from the authorities,” Chang continued.

Patel also discussed with Gordon Chang his new book titled “Plan Red, China’s Project to Destroy America.”

“Gordon, can you tell us about the book, and what made you write the book?” Patel asked.

“What I was concerned about is that a lot of people just view China in benign terms. And it’s throughout our political system, Republicans, Democrats, liberals, and conservatives. So, I wanted to lay out just some of the very fundamental points. One of them is that the Communist Party has declared a people’s war on America. They did that in May 2019 when “People’s Daily,” the most authoritative publication in China published a landmark editorial,” Chang said.

“You have an insecure regime in Bejing, is worried about the inspirational impact of America’s values and form of governance on the Chinese people,” Chang continued.

“When people talk about fentanyl, we have to understand that this is a project run by the Communist Party to kill Americans. 75,000 Americans each year die from doses of illegal Chinese fentanyl. Those are murders, and we have to look at it in that context,” Chang continued.

Watch:

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Dirty Democratic tricks are forcing his campaign to downsize events, former President Donald Trump claimed Monday.

Trump’s allegations come in the aftermath of last week’s allegations from Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri that the Secret Service’s lack of cooperation with the Trump campaign was limiting what Trump could do in the battleground state of Wisconsin.

“The Democrats are interfering with my Campaign by not giving us the proper number of people within Secret Service that are necessary for Security,” Trump posted Monday on Truth Social.

“They’re using them for themselves, even though they don’t need them – they draw “flies” – because they have no crowds, and for people like the President of Iran, who is doing everything possible to kill me,” Trump, who has survived two assassination attempts this campaign season, wrote.

“We need more Secret Service, and we need them NOW. It is ELECTION INTERFERENCE that we have to turn away thousands of people from arenas and venues because it is not being provided to us,” he wrote.

“Congress just authorized Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in money and help, and with the weak crowd participation that the Democrats get, there should be plenty ‘left over’ for the Republican Party. Hopefully the people of Wisconsin, and other areas where thousands are turned away, will realize that this is just another Democrat ploy!

Trump offered one instance of how limits on what he could do are impacting his campaign.

“Kamala and Sleepy Joe are going out of their way to make it difficult for me to Campaign. We had one of the biggest crowds I’ve ever seen on Saturday, in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where a terrible migrant crime was recently committed, and we ended up having to use a 750 seat theater, having to send away more than 50,000 people,” Trump posted Monday on Truth Social.

“They were unable to give us Secret Service protection commensurate with the crowd, because they had to protect the President of Iran, who is doing everything possible to kill me, at the United Nations event. We complained ‘like hell,’ but there was nothing we could do,” he added, referring to the active threats against his life.

“I only hope all of those people that were turned away will blame the Creeps from the Harris-Biden Administration, namely, the Opposing Party, that did this to them. IT WAS A DISGRACE!” Trump wrote in a follow-up post.

“The 750 people had a great time, but I’m going to make it back up to those in Wisconsin that were forced by Harris to waste their time. We will get back up to Wisconsin very soon, and we’ll get to a venue that can handle all of them, probably an outside area. If it weren’t for politics, they would have had no problem supplying us with Secret Service Security,” Trump continued.

Last week, Hawley wrote to Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe saying whistleblower information indicated to him that on the same day Trump had to cancel a planned Wisconsin rally, Vice President Kamala Harris was able to secure enough protection to hold one of hers in the state.

Hawley said the information he is receiving “suggests that the Secret Service’s inability to fully protect former President Trump may be affecting the conduct of the presidential campaign,” Hawley wrote on X.

“According to a whistleblower with direct knowledge of the exchange, Secret Service recently told the Trump campaign that it did not have sufficient assets to secure a potential campaign rally in Wisconsin for the former president,” Hawley wrote.

“Other whistleblowers with direct knowledge of secret service planning protocols allege that failure to provide protection for a major public event is highly unusual and that a sitting president would never be denied resources in this way,” he wrote.

Hawley later expanded upon the post.

“What he said to me is, ‘Well, he is going to be able to do a Wisconsin event. It’s just not going to be a big event,’” Hawley said, according to the Washington Times.

 “I said, ‘Well, so you’re not denying it. You’re quibbling with it and you’re saying, well, kinda,’” Hawley explained.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, in a September 10 phone call with the Democratic Arizona Governor and Secretary of State, admitted that the 18 defendants she is currently prosecuting for questioning the election did nothing wrong. 

In April, 18 individuals, including Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, RNC attorney Christina Bobb, conservative attorney John Eastman, and Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, were indicted by Kris Mayes’ grand jury for challenging the stolen 2020 election and casting an alternative slate of electors for President Trump.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, the case is already in jeopardy after a judge allowed the defendants to argue the charges are politically motivated last month. Now, there’s even more proof the charges are totally fraudulent and politically motivated.

The charges include nine counts of conspiracy, fraudulent schemes and artifices, fraudulent schemes and practices, and forgery. “Defendants and unindicted coconspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Coconspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona’s voters,” Mayes’s indictment alleges. President Trump was named “Unindicted Coconspirator 1.”

The indictment further alleges, “Defendants deceived the citizens of Arizona by falsely claiming that those votes were contingent only on a legal challenge that would change the outcome of the election. In reality, Defendants intended that their false votes for Trump-Pence would encourage Pence to reject the Biden-Harris votes on January 6, 2021, regardless of the outcome of the legal challenge. When combined with the six other States where Republican electors sent in uncertified votes for Trump-Pence, Defendants wanted Pence to either declare Unindicted Coconspirator 1 the winner of the election, delay the proceeding and have individual state legislatures determine their electors, or have Congress resolve any claimed uncertainty about the validity of election results in Arizona and six other states in Unindicted Coconspirator 1’s favor.”

However, Arizona has failed for 20 years to accurately verify that only legal votes were counted, and the election was rightfully challenged, according to a stunning admission by Kris Mayes and Governor Katie Hobbs.

The Gateway Pundit reported that a supposed error in the Arizona Motor Vehicle Department’s (MVD) system caused nearly 100,000 voter registrations to be validated without properly verifying the registrants’ citizenship. For 20 years, this issue has existed and allowed individuals who received a driver’s license before 1996 to vote without citizenship verification, according to the officials.

After discovering the issue, the Attorney General, Governor, and Secretary of State held a private meeting via phone to discuss a strategy for breaking the news to the public.

Their final solution was a bogus “friendly lawsuit” filed by so-called Republican hatchetman Stephen Richer in his capacity as Maricopa County Recorder. The officials were worried they would come under fire for removing the voters, who they claim are mostly Republicans, from the rolls or downgrading their ballot to federal races only. Arizona law allows voters who do not provide documentary proof of citizenship to vote only in federal elections, in accordance with federal law. So, they schemed to employ Stephen Richer, a RINO, to file the lawsuit, asking that the court designate the mostly Republican registrants as “federal only” voters and strip their ability to vote a full ballot with state and local races and ballot measures.

As was recently revealed in the leaked phone call, Attorney General Kris Mayes admitted that the last two elections in Arizona “are challengeable” due to the State’s failure to verify the citizenship of voters over the last 20 years. Governor Katie Hobbs also chimed in, admitting that the missing citizenship verification validates “theories about illegal voting in our elections.” They absolutely destroyed their case!

Both candidates reportedly “won” the rigged 2022 election, where 60% of machines failed on election day in the State’s largest county, Maricopa, and hundreds of thousands of phony or illegal mail-in ballots were believed to have been counted. The Gateway Pundit’s reporting exposed Maricopa County’s rigged mail-in ballot system when we reviewed public record ballot envelopes and compared the signatures to corresponding voter registration records.

Notably, Kris Mayes stole her election from Trump-Endorsed former Attorney General Nominee Abe Hamadeh by just 280 votes and is now prosecuting people for questioning the 2020 election. Hamadeh, who is now the Republican Nominee for US Congress in Arizona’s 8th District and still fighting challenges to the 2022 election to ensure election integrity moving forward, reacted to Mayes’s admission, telling The Gateway Pundit:

“This explosive revelation underscores the undeniable truth: Arizona’s elections remain compromised, and our legal system has failed to deliver accountability. As I prepare to enter Congress, my commitment to defending Arizonans’ sacred right to vote remains unwavering, as proven by my ongoing election challenges from the 2022 election. Moreover, the illegitimate attorney general’s admission that these elections are challengeable signals a critical turning point — it’s time she drops her baseless and politically motivated case against the 18 alternate electors. Her frivolous legal attacks only further erode trust in our already fragile system, and the people of Arizona deserve better.”

Additionally, Brad Miller, the attorney representing former Arizona GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward and her husband Michael Ward, in Kris Mayes’ frivolous indictment, told The Gateway Pundit:

“The whole thing is appalling because Kris Mayes is attempting to prosecute people for something that she knows was a legitimate election challenge. The entire case is built upon this strange theory that the Attorney General has that a person is not allowed to challenge an election, even a legitimate lawsuit. In the last hearing that I was a part of, a member of the Attorney General’s Office argued to the judge that if a person files a legitimate election lawsuit, that could be part of a conspiracy to overturn an election and, therefore, could be criminal. And now we see, and we get a little bit of a peek behind the curtain of the motives of Kris Mayes, which is to hide the fact that she’s likely the illegitimate Attorney General of the State of Arizona, and she’s trying to hide the fact that there were many problems in that 2020 election.”

Miller is also the 2024 Republican Nominee for Pinal County Attorney, running unopposed in the General Election.

Read our report on the phone call below:

HUGE: Leaked Conversation Between Arizona’s Democrat Gov, Attorney General, and Secretary of State Reveals Attempt to Cover Up 98,000 Voter Registration Glitch – Officials Worried About Calls for New 2020 and 2022 Elections

It is unclear whether the leak to the far-left Washington Post was another staged operation to make it seem they tried their hardest to ensure election integrity or to discourage Republicans from voting because they don't trust the system. If so, however, the tactic surely backfired!

It was further revealed that the corrupt officials sat on the issue for more than a week until Stephen Richer announced his lawsuit on September 17, less than two months before the election and just weeks before ballots were set to be mailed out.

The Gateway Pundit will continue to provide updates on the Arizona electors case and the attempted shenanigans in the 2024 election.

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Kamala Harris’s stolen valor running mate got slammed for a tone-deaf fundraising tweet amid deadly flooding from Hurricane Helene.

More than 1,000 people are unaccounted for after Hurricane Helene made its way through Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas this weekend.

At least 100 people have perished.

Flooding caused by Hurricane Helene has destroyed Asheville, North Carolina.

WATCH:

“I’ve never seen devastation like this.” Cars and trucks were tossed around like toys in Asheville, North Carolina, after catastrophic flooding from Helene. pic.twitter.com/4wA33g7VLB

— AccuWeather (@accuweather) September 30, 2024

Powerful flooding from Hurricane Helene collapsed the Kisner Bridge in Afton, Tennessee.

WATCH:

Powerful floods from Helene collapsed the Kisner Bridge in Afton, Tennessee, into the roaring Nolichucky River. pic.twitter.com/MkE20hm559

— AccuWeather (@accuweather) September 28, 2024

Tim Walz fired off a tone-deaf tweet as Americans perished.

“All gas, no brakes. We’ll sleep when we’re dead,” Tim Walz said amid loss of life from catastrophic flooding.

“Let’s make the next 37 days count,” he said.

All gas, no brakes. We’ll sleep when we’re dead.

Let’s make the next 37 days count:https://t.co/vQhmUinav7

— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) September 29, 2024

Tim Walz also posted a video of him visiting a pumpkin patch in Michigan on Monday.

“Perfect fall day in Harbor Springs, Michigan,” Tim Walz said.

Perfect fall day in Harbor Springs, Michigan. Thanks to the folks at @Pond_Hill_Farm for having me. pic.twitter.com/sYAQAUrDBA

— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) September 30, 2024

Meanwhile, President Trump is in Valdosta, Georgia helping Hurricane Helene victims.

“We came down with truckloads of different items, from oil to water. We’re here today to stand with complete solidarity with the people of Georgia and all those suffering in the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Helene,” Trump said.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We came down with truckloads of different items, from oil to water. We’re here today to stand with complete solidarity with the people of Georgia and all those suffering in the terrible aftermath of Hurricane Helene.” pic.twitter.com/hJmTkRuEjX

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 30, 2024

President Trump also brought evangelist Franklin Graham, who is from Asheville, North Carolina, to pray for the victims of Hurricane Helene.

WATCH:

WATCH: Trump just brought up Billy Graham’s son, Franklin Graham, to pray for the victims of Hurricane Helene

“Father, we pray that as we come to this election that your will be done. We pray for the President. Strengthen him, protect him.”

“Thank you, Mr. President, for coming… pic.twitter.com/SrpOAQO1L4

— George (@BehizyTweets) September 30, 2024

Voters slammed Tim Walz.

I cannot believe you just posted this when people are literally dying in Western NC, TN, GA & SC. Over 1,000 people are missing and 30+ people are dead and you are saying people can “sleep when we’re dead” WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?

— Kylie Jane Kremer (@KylieJaneKremer) September 29, 2024

So Tim Walz is trying to raise money at the same time the Southeast is devastated by massive flash-floods and de*th?

Shame on Walz. If he had an ounce of morality he’d at least donate to their recovery or actually head down there to show he cares.

What a horrible human being.

— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) September 29, 2024

My God you are absolutely tone deaf/soul less. This is what you have to say when thousands of Americans have just experienced the worst disaster since Katrina?

— Trump Is Still My President (@jsherman376) September 29, 2024

THIS is the message you’re rolling with as our fellow Americans in North Carolina are fighting for their lives — with so many missing and feared dead?

Meanwhile, Kamala is MIA.

Shame on you, Tampon Tim. You’re a disgrace. pic.twitter.com/YNXImm5bK6

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 30, 2024

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