So a 20 year old kid is going to know where the only unsecured rooftop is, bring a ladder and a rifle, crawl across roof and take aim??? And gets 8 shots off?? And attendees saw him and kept telling police and secret service that there was a gunman on the roof - many witnesses to this fact.... so why was rooftop unsecured? The first rule of securing an outdoor event is to secure all rooftops! ALSO - since they KNEW the gunman was on a roof aiming at Trump for some seconds before the gunfire started, WHY didn't they get Trump off the stage??? Super super shady and suspicious - all of it...
You forgot the part where he was confronted by a police officer standing on the shoulders of another officer, rather than taking his ladder onto the roof for some reason. Their reason for not reporting him to the police sniper?
This story gets weirder and weirder. The kid is allowed to climb onto a roof with a rifle. No one confronts him, even after seeing him. Then he's allowed to take a few free shots before being fired upon. What is going on here?
The local Polis were the fail [even had to ram their own fence and coul'nt be bothered to team up and vault it lol] in reality, BUT, that is STILL Secret Service's fail, because they are responsible for all of the plan and assets deployed [or not].
I disagree. Clearly it was the Secret Services role to aid and abet a red flag event. The dude even organised to swap shifts with a colleague at the Deli he worked so he had the day in question free to attend the rally and told his co-workers he’d catch them Monday. Whatever would go on to unfold after he’d clipped the Potus, one thing he definitely doing is lobbing up for his next shift at work..: so it seems bizarre this kid would have any regard for what work had in store for him next week. Suss af imho. If this candidate was any more ‘Manchurian’ he’d come with a serve of Szechuan dipping sauce.
He may have registered as a republican to vote against Trump in the primaries. That sort of thing is pretty common since it's fast and easy to switch between parties.
Given there's video of him going absolutely crazy in public, ranting about Trump/Republicans and fascists, it's a pretty safe bet that he wasn't a registered Republican for any reasons other than that which you suggest.
@@JohnP538 Trump's ordinary SS guards were recalled and reassigned THE NIGHT BEFORE to protect jILL Biden in Pittsburgh.... The ones with him were untrained women.
It’s very telling how focused they are on the dead man’s motives when the elephant in the room are the motives for the secret service to allow this to happen.
This kid couldn’t make a single friend or get a girl to be nice to him but he could outsmart the secret service and nearly change the course of history. Right.
What an absurd non-sequitur. Like the nerdy & not-so-handsome kids at YOUR high school were the popular ones who the opposite sex flocked to…? Climbing onto an unguarded roof half a mile from your home, which you know is on the street side of the farm showground - how ingenious do you have to be?
Trump was not even the actual nominee yet (I think he still isn’t) so all the SS he officially warrants is the same personal bodyguard that any ex president gets for daily life. Why should the taxpayer foot the bill for four extra years of his perma-campaign security? His campaign literally has over 100 million to spend on campaign security, but they hired an open air field where the stage is overlooked on three sides by a jumbke of buildings within 500 yards. Including dozens of private homes! But still, extra personnel were assigned to him. Not the top rankers, of course, they are reserved for the president. But Trump draws from an even smaller pool: he needs everyone around him to be a fan, to overtly express personal allegiance to him, more than he requires competence.
The roof was left unsecure by the best protection agency in the world? How did he even know to get on the roof? How did he even get near there with a ladder? He was only 135 feet away? He had time to assemble an AR-15? They spotted him for a whole 30 minutes and left the ex-President there? I am suspicious of the role of the Secret Service now.
Me too. Add in the fact that they were aware of other threats to Trump from folks in another country as was announced today, makes the whole thing seem even more lax.
He walked into nd through the parkng lot of the glass company business. He then went from oe rooftop to the next, on hios belly. He was not a total moron. He was 400 feet away from Trump and the Secret Service detail..
@@piggywahwahmy understanding was that within seconds of that Officer falling / dropping back down from the roof encounter.. the shooter began firing. It seems like the encounter was what rushed him to shoot / maybe helped throw off his shots slightly ? But why they waited so long to climb up there is still unknown….
I myself ama dietary aide. We are very complicated people who work in a high stress environment. Making the trays for every single damn resident and doing it quickly? Mechanical soft? Pudding thick water? Full liquid? Put that tray together in 1.82 seconds. It makes a man hard and mean. We can endure shit that you normal folks couldn’t even fathom. We are basically the special forces of nursing homes. We move quick and are decisive. We are as good as any army seal or ranger or special forces. With that said most of us are good people and use our skills to help others. I’m sorey one of the brotherhood steps off the path
As an outsider I've often observed Americans tend to think organisations like the secret service, CIA, special forces, etc, are infallible. I think plain old incompetence, as can be seen in the actions of everyday police, actually explains quite a lot.
Agree😊. And complacency I think also plays a part. Long term custom and practise,= human error. America has severe justice system when people err i believe.
While it is true that DEI hiring policy in the government is not based on meritocracy, Democrat Bennie Thompson, the ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, introduced the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act (HR 8081) on April 19. Democrat Reps. Yvette D. Clarke, Troy A. Carter Sr., Frederica Wilson, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Jasmine Crockett, Joyce Beatty, Barbara Lee, and Steve Cohen co-sposnsored the bill.
what did the parents think was going on with their son? seems they could've helped him with his socialization.Any parent would be worried about an outcast student. where did they counsel ? at the school ? no one is saying.
Sometimes people who get into psychology do so because they are seeking to understand their own childhood/family dynamic/help others similar to them. It can be easier to help others clinically, then change learned family patterns in their 24 hr life. There also may be a genetic link to mental health issue or diagnoses. We have no idea what this young man was thinking or if it was related at all. But, I’ve seen a genetic link in my kids’ behaviors to some of the unhealthy/abusive things I grew up with….. only with one of my kids. From almost infancy. At this point, my daughter is doing so well, but the amount of work put in is so so so so so high, whereas my other daughter just didn’t even struggle with those issues.. as she didn’t have them. Just food for thought 🤷♀️
He might have avoided it on purpose, so to be professional and not to talk about other counselors. But it would have been a good opportunity to mention how difficult it is for anyone to spot such mental issues even in front of your own nose no matter how well trained you are. I know that his parents being counselours sounds ironic, but for people like me, who had been searching for decades for a useful therapist, sound just as logical. Having training and passing the tests and exams necessary to become a therapist does not ensure an individual to be useful for your specific mental issues, o even to be a good professional. I will still reccomemd anyone who struggles with issues to search for a therapist and try. In most situations, it helps a lot. My failure to find the right one for me doesn't mean they would not help you.
A dietary aide in a healthcare setting is probably a tray pusher. They aren't dietitians, they are servers who prepare patient trays and push the food carts down the hall and pass trays to patients. It's hard work, but the job title is just an inflated fancy sounding name for a catering attendant.
When I was in high school, many years ago, one of my first jobs was as a Petroleum Distribution Engineer. Couldn't believe I had such a lofty position at just 17 years old!! 😱
I had that job in a hospital in my young 20’s and we went around doing patients menus too and ensuring food allergies and diabetic concerns were addressed! And yes delivering the trays was part of it to ensure patients got proper food they asked for and needed! There’s brains in that job! We had to oversee the food prep crew too!
Right - we call them cafeteria workers where I come from. But, then again we were called 'Sandwich Artists" during my stint at Subway as a teen. Things really looked good when I went from lowly "Secretary" to "Administrative Assistant". I literally ignore alternative titles for clerical, support staff and food industry workers. A job is a job and in these days is a beautiful thing!
That's exactly what I did as my first job here in the United States from 1981-1986 and I was no cart pusher. I only called the patient's order as described on the cart's card and someone else would push the cart to the patient's station and nurses aides would take care of the rest.
In the early 90's, VP Dan Quayle visited my college and briefly spoke from the steps of an administration building to both fans and protesters that showed up. There were 4 buildings in near by proximity to his position and each of them had protective snipers on the roof. I would have expected the same to be the case last week. I don't get it.
Trump's detail actually asked for more security and it was denied, this just makes everything worse for the old man living in that house in Washington.
@@kimberlyhood4095Trump is a billionaire who flies around in a private 757. He can afford private security details. That said, secret service deployment is performed according to one’s status. Ironically, the day Trump was shot was the last public speech where security officials didn’t have the authority to carry him out immediately, as he wasn’t yet the official Republican candidate, but ‘just’ a former president.
When certain media people keep saying that "Trump is worse than Hitler", and when society generally says that Hitler should have been eliminated before he started WW2, what conclusions will a reactionary young person make?
You're assuming he agrees with the media and is therefore affected by it. He was a registered republican and known to espouse conservative views according to his peers, so if that's true, I certainly don't know too many republicans who remotely agree with the Trump/Hitler comparison. Your theory makes better sense if he were a liberal.
@@Wildflower687No....I can see, that many republicans have strong believes, but Generally good intensiones!Trump is perverting even Republican values.
@@Wildflower687His donation to a progressive cause tells me more than his party registration. It’s also not uncommon for people to change their registration to the other party to influence party primaries-to elect a candidate who is more easily defeated.
@@Wildflower687I am registered as democrat, however I would make Trump look like Al Gore. I registered as democrat so I can vote in their primaries and also because I live in California so my vote is useless.
He had to walk, a long way, from his car to the building holding a big rifle case in one hand and a ladder in the other. Yet no one has come forward to say they saw him before he went up on the roof. What’s wrong with this picture? Everything
You must be a smart american eh? While being therapists might provide the parents with some mental health expertise, it does not make them omniscient about their child's every thought and action. Therapists are trained professionals, but they are not mind-readers, and their professional objectivity does not necessarily extend to their own children, where emotional closeness and personal biases can cloud judgment. Moreover, people planning harmful actions often exhibit highly deceptive behavior, going to great lengths to conceal their intentions even from those closest to them. This is well known, except for you I guess. The parents' therapeutic specializations might not align with the specific issues their child is facing, particularly if their expertise lies in areas such as family therapy or marriage counseling rather than issues of radicalization or violent intentions, but again, I'm sure you knew that right? Additionally, teenagers and young adults often go through phases of secrecy and rebellion, making it challenging for any parent, regardless of profession, to fully understand their child's thoughts or plans. Even if the parents did notice warning signs, they might have been in denial about the severity of the situation due to the stigma and emotional difficulty of accepting that their child could plan such an act. These factors collectively refute the notion that the parents' profession should have prevented them from missing their child's intentions. Read a book, you and the other uninformed bots.
There is a strategy where people in states with closed primaries register as their ideological opposite party to allow them to vote in that party's primary. The strategy is to vote for the primary candidate who is least likely to win in the general election against your preferred party's nominiee. I hope that made some sense.
@nmikloiche -- Exactly!! PA is a closed primary state. I know of **many** people who register in another party so they can vote for the weakest candidate in that party's primary and offset the wing nuts who swamp the PA primaries' turnout. That and to much a lesser extent to get included in the circles of the local leading political political party for community engagement, network / contacts and -- get this -- the better parties!
Why is it that all the reporting is on the one student that said he was picked on and bullied and yet they do not talk to the other students that said they were his friends and that he is smart and well-connected with other people
He did not outwit secret service - local police had the outer perimeter and didn't do their job. They needed someone on the roof and instead were eating donuts and looking at their phones. How many times do I see a street detail staring at his phone?
A man was interviewed, saying that he told the police that he saw a man climbing up a building with a rifle. Also, there is the one officer who did go up a ladder and saw the sniper kid, and then took off.
So, secret service is relying on a local PD with an annual budget equivalent to a box of ammo for the protection of the former president, and this makes sense to you? Riiiiggghhht. I get they are blaming the local PD, but anyone with a lick of sense understands that kind of security is gonna be outside the wheelhouse of most local law departments. So, why? Why was it left to local PD and why were the SS not at least providing guidance if they were relying on them? Too much is not adding up.
Wrong. Secret service is responsible for coordination between all the units and determines the plan. The local police were only to follow the plan supplied by SS.
Ppl who continue to joke about how Trump never accepted the last election results, but I was present at one of the voting locations when issues began to arise earlier that evening. One being that voters were turned away bc the system showed they had already voted. Turns out it was by way of absentee ballots when in fact they had not het even voted. There were also the large number of absentee ballots that were used to vote against Trump that belonged to deceased individuals. Ppl brushed those incidents off as well as many others without explanation, but the fact remains...it happened.
Dr. Grande mentioned not accepting the election but does not mention how many workers came forward and claimed this exact issue. Obvious democrat is obvious
I was an outcast too, and I remember how it felt to grow up beside the world instead of in it. It was confusing and dark, and I get how a person could be tricked into doing crazy things if someone dangled social acceptance in front of him. Perhaps we should stop bullying and marginalizing people at some point? I bet that would end most of these crimes of desperation.
you are correct, but there are a lot of things we would all have to do to stop bullying, even i was bullied by my own grandma. people almost cant believe it
Yes, if kids were nicer in school, then there would be no political assassinations. We should make a law and a new agency to oversee kindness in school. Or, maybe a vaccine??
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. - 6:03 - Police officer gets rifle pointed at him 6:11 - Shooter attempt kill Wth was the police officer doing???
The cop reportedly was climbing onto the roof, saw the guy, called out to him, had the rifle pointed at him, ducked beneath the roofline since he was still climbing, lost his grip and fell. At least that’s what one news report claimed.
Afterwards the cops apparently decided it's just a guy with a rifle and then they realized, in sheer panic, that they hadn't even asked for his pronouns.
No, they didn't. They weren't told he was there until a few seconds before. The guy was active on top of the roof for 140 seconds. They didn't took pictures of him, while going up, nor when he was already up there. They filmed him, and the was already ready to take action. You people are full of conspiracy theories.
Times of India was showing a video of a couple of Secret Service agents crouching down and moving into different positions right before the shots rang out. So I’m sure they got on the radio to somebody. Just not anybody who was going to get Trump down off the stage and out of danger.
@@jamesmaxdavissands In civil idscourse, a person uses words and direct questions. Are you an all knowing guru with all the answers, or just a High school kid, trying to ridiculize those questions you did not think off.
So, the REALLY big elephant in the room that nobody is talking about, in regards to the family of the person that was shot and killed. Do they now sue the Secret Service for not neutralizing this threat? Do they sue the gunman's family for allowing this to happen? Or, do they sue the local police for failure to have a secure scene? 😳
Sadly this is not gonna happen anytime soon. Both sides have gone into full conspiracy mode with liberal saying that it was staged to win Trump the election and republicans saying it was MK Ultra or whatever the fuck. Shits getting wild
Tell that to whitey that who since Obama entered politics, they have displayed violent effigies and artwork. I still remember the PRAY 4 ASSASSIN sign on an Obama mannequin that a Republican voter had placed outside his front door.
Exactly. He was enabled and assisted. Otherwise they are asking us to believe the entire operation was riddled with incompetence from top to bottom, by what is respected as the top security force in the world. Nah...come on man.
We have 200 years of Congressmen objecting to electors:1808,1816, 1820,1836,1856,1872 (refused to count electors from Mississippi because of arguments that the manner by which the election was conducted was not how they said it was conducted),1960, 1968, 1988, 2000, 2004, & 2016. Trump actually followed the legal path. The 12th amendment empowers Congress to object to certifying electors if electors from a state are contested, and if neither candidate has a majority of electoral votes, voting for president by state delegation. Trump’s supporters were there to pressure Congress to suspend the counting of electors for 10 days while an investigation was conducted concerning election irregularities. The protestors accused of crimes related to the Jan 6, were there to pressure Congress into doing their job, not to prevent them from doing their job which is what the riots accomplished.They wanted Congress to exercise their Constitutional authority and obligation to ensure the election was conducted in a Constitutionally correct manner, with serious allegations having been raised, including a case brought before SCOTUS, that they chose not to hear, that was joined by 20 State Attorneys General and over 150 members of Congress.
Your speculation here Doc doesn't seems like it's most likely what happened. Please don't just dismiss any theory as just conspiracy. The incompetence displayed by the secret service is too great to be just incompetence.
Sometimes, you actually know what you see when you're looking at it. It's so obvious this was staged. People not panicking, not climbing over each other to get out? Practically zero information about Corey Comperatore? The whole Secret Service issue? Trump seen later with no bandage on his ear? Not to mention how this gives Trump everything he needs politically. Absolutely everything.
he was profiled and targeted as the ideal candidate to do the job. once it was determined that he had that mentality, the mastermind made a way to communicate with him and eventually urged him to do the job. one evidence for this is that the feds found nothing on his phone, which means he wiped it, which means he wanted to hide communication. so when he went to the rally he was instructed beforehand where and how to get to the roof. which means the man in charge of putting guards in the areas he would need to pass through has to be an accomplice, and the guards in those areas had to be accomplices too and all they had to do was look away when he passed through edit: if he wanted attention and did it alone, he wouldnt have wiped his phone but instead he would have wanted everyone to see everything about him including his phone data that would show how he outwitted everyone.
Excellent analysis. I wondered why he had no social media profile when everyone has one, even a small one. That he wiped his info fr/the internet and his phone makes sense. But of course, if you're going to do something with that kind of notoriety just before an election, I would think you would want the fame even knowing that you will likely be killed. I did also wonder how he knew ahead of time that that was the rooftop that was free of surveillance And that he could scale it relatively undetected. Likely Bc/ he was allowed and guided. He didn't simply outwit the CIA (best&brightest;) PLus I have heard that the police officer who climbed up to see the guy on the roof(Crooks), was told not to shoot, to stand down, in other words. For why? Hmmm... the motive is easily ascertained with the opposing candidate in disarray, his mental acuity in question. Jameortega's comment has got it down in his first sentences, just how it could have come together.
Yeah, the deadpan delivery is gold.. This video doesn’t do him justice, though, because the incident is so dang ridiculous.. I’m angry, I’m scared, and it didn’t have to be this way..
Why did you say he 'outwitted' the Secret Service? Does the definition of 'outwit' include being fully visible on the roof to many attendees and the Secret Service? The Secret Service were negligence or criminal with this incident. He did not outwit anyone. The Secret Service for some curious reason were pathetic. Where is the accountability for this preventable travesty?
Something fishy about this. One of the most obvious locations to protect, a gunman climbs up with a rifle and seen by spectators but not secret service? I wonder what political and personal views his parents had towards Trump.
No one knows specifics yet but it is known that his mother was registered as a Democrat and his father was registered as a Libertarian, if I recall correctly.
Local police had a lot of guys at the venue too. I bet that exactly because he was so visible, Secret Service thought that he was with the Butler county PD.
As opposed to “Unskilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center…” Did he bring his own ladder? 😧 Where did it come from? Yes, he climbed up a ladder that was propped against the building. Unbelievable.
He bought a ladder at Home Depot. FBI has that receipt. He walked southward through a private parking lot, climbed to one warehouse roof, and belly-cawled to the next roof. He was not twelve years old.
fr, there are some differences but as far as status quo, foreign policy, corporate influence etc both effectively center right. and the differences are largely lip service not action
the internet is a piece of technology. its the way its been misused, abused and consumed thats the problem. psychopathic capitalists sold it to us with malintent to waste our time and manipulate us into changing for their benefit. blame the corruption of those who control the world for using any means necessary to exploit us - not the internet.
It’s very concerning to me how that family has no right to privacy. It’s also so ridiculous to claim it’s an upper middle class town, when that home looks very modest. Americans who have never lived like a rich person in America don’t know what that actually looks like. He did something awful. But his family didn’t. And their address is now out there for everyone to harass them.
It’s America. Digging for dirt is a common activity and standard on both sides of the embarrassing candidates. Even the guy who sold the kids T-shirt was contacted by media who questioned why he sold that T-shirt. That is the ultimate proof of how lost USA are…
This shows that the media cannot even accurately describe what we all see as a modest house. These days they can only read off of a scripted text. No brainwork to be employed for your employer. Just keep fooling the public with fabricated lies.
I think it is beyond concerning and irresponsible Grande gave the address and photo of the house. If some other youtuber does that it's on them. He has a PhD in Counseling Education and Supervision, and he weakly makes a call to bring down the temperature of the country while showing the address. His bias is showing....
You’re not wrong that SOME kids do. And most at least have an account on IG, Snap, etc. However most don’t post anything to it and there is a growing counter culture that wants nothing to do with social media
My impression is they deliberately let it happen. That's not a direct involvement, noone can prove it and at the end of the day it's downplayed as incompetence.
@@mommar4858easier to blame it on some complete incel loser nobody knows than a well known polititian from the inner circle... why do you think they always end up dead before we could ever know???
He was a Manchurian Candidate, the resemblance to Sirhan Sirhan is undeniable… Please note that I’m not diagnosing anyone but merely speculating on what could be happening in a situation like this.
In one of the news videos by the BBC, they show an aerial shot of the buildings where the shooter was. You can see an extension ladder on the corridor between the buildings. There’s conflicting reports from the witnesses on whether he used the ladder to climb to the roof. There’s no mention on how the ladder got there. Did he bring the ladder or it was already in place and being used by workmen doing repairs. The shooter knew the location of the rally and scouted the place earlier probably. What type of vehicle was he driving and where was it parked. If he did bring the extension ladder, no one saw him carrying it along with his AR 15. Lots of details missing as usual. You mention the JFK assassination. 1963 and we still don’t know the whole truths. Hard to trust the government releasing information.
i heard somewhere, trying to remember where, i think it was an ABC News video... that he bought the ladder at Home Depot on July 13th not sure if its the same ladder we see leaning against the roof corridor thingy, but thats what ive been assuming
@@justinstrong9595 The joke was about Trump on "The Apprentice." Maybe the spelling was to indicate that Trump was saying it? Also: autocorrect & typos happen.
Supposedly he didn’t have social media, except maybe a discord. I don’t know if a fresh report has dug up any social media. There’s definitely been incidents like Uvalde where the shooter was assisted financially in order to afford his load out for sure. Probably had some help getting police to protect him from parents while he carried out his atrocity.
if that was the case, you can surveil someone's social media without a warrant if it is otherwise private. it's not likely that it's because they wanted to be his facebook buddy
There's more to the internet than just social media. Things like IRC exist. Chat in video games, and thousands of others. There's a lot of anonymous people out there.
Though the doctor’s analysis seems deep it is in fact infantile. Forget Thomas Crooks. The building was checked out and someone was supposed to be guarding it. Two questions: why weren’t they, and how would Thomas know beforehand that exact spot with a CLEAR shot would be available? Are we trying to suggest this KID just walked up to a Trump rally cordoned off by the Secret Service and local Law Enforcement with a scoped AR-15 HOPING to find a good spot to shoot from??? Come on guys keep it real even if it seems crazy
You forget the part where an officer allegedly confronted him on the roof, but withdrew because of being threatened by the long arm without notifying anyone over radio... One can't make this up-
Yes, it appears that is exactly what he did. The time to believe something is after it's been demonstrated to be true, not before. Just because you find it hard to believe, doesn't make your febrile conspiracy theory true.
Your location photos are way better than every news station I've seen!! Plus you have several. The news are all showing that flat, vague, aerial shot. Great reporting!!!!
Yes when I saw that house I thought he was poor..sad looking little place then when I heard parents occupation I thought wow salaries must be abnormally low there...no, property values are ridiculous.
@@latinaalma1947It's funny how times change. I grew up in a tiny track house in a massive post WWII neighborhood. It was really normal in the 50s-60s to live in tiny houses. My dad was a WWII vet and had a bachelor's degree so earned above avg salary. We were a family of 6 in that little house. It was maybe 800 sq ft but was on a big lot. So odd.
The police did not have the resources to provide the support that was requested. Like 12 officers in the whole frostbite. They told the SS beforehand. The SS plan B was, "OK. Whatever."
The fall out of this breach in security is going to cost some folks their jobs for sure. It really is inexcusable that this young man accessed the building in the first place. It's sickening that this happened and my heart goes out to the victims of this incident. If you don't like a candidate, make your opinion known by casting your vote. Such a sad sad situation
You're very naive... Do you think that DT was just talking that democrats wanted this event to take place? He was preparing his supporters and undecided for this event. So, now he's proved his point by arranging this fake spectacle to such people. If it was real, he wouldn't be playing golf soon afterwards....
@wicker1234 You think this was a hoax? I mean he was clipped by a bullet and that's kinda hard to fake. I'm interested in your thoughts. I honestly hadn't considered what you're suggesting.
@@marytaylor8482 I have seen many videos about this event. There were witnesses DT supporters who were puzzled by not seeing enough snipers on the roofs as it was before during his rallies. If he really was afraid of this, then he would make sure to get tight security. A woman who visited his previous rally said that security there was very tight.
Judging by the homes and postage-stamp properties, Thomas Crooks' neighborhood is NOT upper-class. Visually, it is more like a middle to lower-class area.
Bethel Park covers an area of almost 12 square miles, 33,000 residents, about 8 miles South of Pittsburgh, with many homes in the 2-5 hundred thousand dollar value. It is at the least, a middle class area. By no means is it a lower class area.
I mean if they owned their own home , that's pretty good and middle class these days , maybe they saved a lot , someone did say they where very private people
His registration as a Republican is likely due to the face that PA is a closed primary state and he voted in 2022 and 2024 primaries in order to spoil those elections. His former classmate Vincent Taormina was recently interviewed and he recalled a discussion he had with Crooks. Vincent said had told Crooks that he was hispanic and supported Trump. Crooks was apparently surprised and responded "Well, you're Hispanic, so shouldn't you hate Trump?" When Vincent said reaffirmed that he supported Trump, Crooks seemed to insinuate that Vincent was stupid for supporting Trump. Vincent also pushed back on previous claims that he was a loner. He had a small group of friends, but they isolated themselves from the rest of their classmates.
Why does a Dad buy a 20 year old young man an Assault Rifle? Isn't he an accessory to the crime? When kids are always to themselves that shows lack of social skills. No psychological problems, but a handful of social. How do you buy a person like this an Assault Rifle?🤔
Wasn't it a matter of fact that in ancient Rome, the assassinations of Caesars would most often ben carried out by none other than the Praetorians or the Royal Guard? Is there an irony, here?
"More likely to be mistaken for Mr. Bean, than as Mr. Bond." Todd has a knack for these witty, wry comments, which I sometimes don't catch until several seconds after hearing them.
@@candyrosepetals it doesn’t mean they will have health kids. After certain age kids don’t listen to their parents. They Will exactly do things that parents are not agree with. I know so many doctors kids who are are having very wrong behaviours but they are not reported to their parents because their parents are doctors. So in this case their parents aren’t aware about their kids behaviours in public (schools etc).
@@ReachTheNext Of course. But my point was he’s probably had to talk about feelings and stuff his whole life. He’s probably sick of it. I don’t expect therapists or doctors childrent to be better-behaved, quite the opposite in fact. I also don’t think there’s anything remarkable about either profession, but you seem to put emphasis on it, for some reason. The real money and true status is in Business. I think the parents being doctors & therapists IS the issue. They think their kids will be better than others. And that’s just not true. Some of the most messed up people I know are therapist & physician’s children. Like a guy I went to school with who has been addicted to meth since HS. His Dr dad or mom never mentions him, lol. If they hadn’t been such overbearing parents, he probably would’ve turned out just fine!
Dr. Grande Is extremely smart and inquisitive but he definitely doesn't like going into conspiracies .. as if conspiracies don't exist .. I think it holds him back from another level of consciousness.. He doesn't take conspiracies into account as if conspiracies can never happen
As there were police on other nearby rooftops, there was no reason the rooftop Thomas was on was left uncovered other than negligence. I hope it was just negligence. An innocent man lost his life. This is an American tragedy.
since i believe it is stumpys job to hire and pay local police detail, maybe he should have hired a larger team..you do know he routinely stiffs the local police details he hires along the campaign trail...its well known
Why did his van have Arizona plates? How did he go from a Republican supporter in high school to a radical anti Leftis in two years? His online rant can no longer be found. Why? There is more to this than we are being told.
So a 20 year old kid is going to know where the only unsecured rooftop is, bring a ladder and a rifle, crawl across roof and take aim??? And gets 8 shots off?? And attendees saw him and kept telling police and secret service that there was a gunman on the roof - many witnesses to this fact.... so why was rooftop unsecured? The first rule of securing an outdoor event is to secure all rooftops! ALSO - since they KNEW the gunman was on a roof aiming at Trump for some seconds before the gunfire started, WHY didn't they get Trump off the stage??? Super super shady and suspicious - all of it...
You are correct! They’ve tried everything else.
Well the answer my friend is there were no Krispy Kreme Donuts on the ROOF! Cops only respond to fresh Donuts!
Smells like 2020 elections.
You forgot the part where he was confronted by a police officer standing on the shoulders of another officer, rather than taking his ladder onto the roof for some reason. Their reason for not reporting him to the police sniper?
super shady, the terrifying thing is this will probably help him, shiver,..... win the election.
Secret Service is either compromised or incompetent.
I think they can multitask both.
@@KevinVenturePhilippines 🤣🤣🤣
Incompetent
Both
My vote is totally compromised
This story gets weirder and weirder. The kid is allowed to climb onto a roof with a rifle. No one confronts him, even after seeing him. Then he's allowed to take a few free shots before being fired upon. What is going on here?
go buy some shoes.
Incompetence. The Secret Service has been a troubled agency for years.
Trump ?? Trump is going on here 😂
general american incompetence
@elsahoffmann87t19 his aim sucked
The kid didn’t outsmart the Secret Service. It was obvious that the Secret Service failed to do their job.
Or was working for the secret service
The secret service's failure to secure the event was DELIBERATE.
So he outsmarted them
The local Polis were the fail [even had to ram their own fence and coul'nt be bothered to team up and vault it lol] in reality, BUT, that is STILL Secret Service's fail, because they are responsible for all of the plan and assets deployed [or not].
I disagree. Clearly it was the Secret Services role to aid and abet a red flag event.
The dude even organised to swap shifts with a colleague at the Deli he worked so he had the day in question free to attend the rally and told his co-workers he’d catch them Monday.
Whatever would go on to unfold after he’d clipped the Potus, one thing he definitely doing is lobbing up for his next shift at work..: so it seems bizarre this kid would have any regard for what work had in store for him next week.
Suss af imho.
If this candidate was any more ‘Manchurian’ he’d come with a serve of Szechuan dipping sauce.
20 yr old has zero social media, no political statements, no manifesto?
Speaker Johnson has no checking account.
Mk ultra…
it happens... this was an autistic fellow with high masking. Very intelligent. Easily influenced by those he looked up to.
Monarch?
Shut up.
Quit questioning The Narrative.
The fact that the cop saw him on the roof with a rifle and then went back down doesn’t make sense.
For 28 minutes they knew he was on the roof
So bizarre
Better to not see, than see and explain
He chickened out of confrontation.
I didn't even believe the cop on the roof story at first because what decent cop would just allow this to happen?
Regardless of ones political beliefs, we all have to be astounded at how incredibly close Trump came to losing his life that day. Absolutely crazy.
He may have registered as a republican to vote against Trump in the primaries. That sort of thing is pretty common since it's fast and easy to switch between parties.
Given there's video of him going absolutely crazy in public, ranting about Trump/Republicans and fascists, it's a pretty safe bet that he wasn't a registered Republican for any reasons other than that which you suggest.
Except for the fact that he didn't vote in the primary and only voted once - in 2022.
Ridiculous and outrageous failure of security
Planned?
@@dyoung3648 You have a hard time explaining the world around you so you think that there are shadowy evil forces at work?
Willful incompetence, the Trump detail asked for additional agents and were denied.
@@JohnP538 Trump's ordinary SS guards were recalled and reassigned THE NIGHT BEFORE to protect jILL Biden in Pittsburgh.... The ones with him were untrained women.
@@JohnP538 He’s no longer president. If he wanted more security than what he has, he has to pay for it.
It’s very telling how focused they are on the dead man’s motives when the elephant in the room are the motives for the secret service to allow this to happen.
We know what the motives are.
Too many layers of law enforcement
100%
@@ericwalstrand3512 Suuuuuure we do.
Exactly, diverting our attention from secret service to this young man! Very suspect!!😮
This kid couldn’t make a single friend or get a girl to be nice to him but he could outsmart the secret service and nearly change the course of history. Right.
What an absurd non-sequitur. Like the nerdy & not-so-handsome kids at YOUR high school were the popular ones who the opposite sex flocked to…?
Climbing onto an unguarded roof half a mile from your home, which you know is on the street side of the farm showground - how ingenious do you have to be?
Trump was not even the actual nominee yet (I think he still isn’t) so all the SS he officially warrants is the same personal bodyguard that any ex president gets for daily life. Why should the taxpayer foot the bill for four extra years of his perma-campaign security? His campaign literally has over 100 million to spend on campaign security, but they hired an open air field where the stage is overlooked on three sides by a jumbke of buildings within 500 yards. Including dozens of private homes!
But still, extra personnel were assigned to him. Not the top rankers, of course, they are reserved for the president. But Trump draws from an even smaller pool: he needs everyone around him to be a fan, to overtly express personal allegiance to him, more than he requires competence.
There are no equivalencies in your statement.
Weird. 😮
@@eh1702 His workplace was close to him, the location of the rally was about an hour north.
The roof was left unsecure by the best protection agency in the world?
How did he even know to get on the roof?
How did he even get near there with a ladder?
He was only 135 feet away?
He had time to assemble an AR-15?
They spotted him for a whole 30 minutes and left the ex-President there?
I am suspicious of the role of the Secret Service now.
Me too. Add in the fact that they were aware of other threats to Trump from folks in another country as was announced today, makes the whole thing seem even more lax.
The WHSS boss is a DEI hire by the name of Kimberly...
....she previously worked for Pepsi Cola.
(that is 140 yards not feet)
The "Best Protection Agency in the World". HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH! You're hilarious!🤣
135 yards, about 400 feet away
He walked into nd through the parkng lot of the glass company business. He then went from oe rooftop to the next, on hios belly. He was not a total moron.
He was 400 feet away from Trump and the Secret Service detail..
I can’t fathom being a cop and somehow not expecting that the guy on the roof at a rally might have a rifle
what happened to cop? why didnt he engage or at least call for backup?
@@piggywahwahmy understanding was that within seconds of that Officer falling / dropping back down from the roof encounter.. the shooter began firing. It seems like the encounter was what rushed him to shoot / maybe helped throw off his shots slightly ? But why they waited so long to climb up there is still unknown….
I can’t fathom being a vw fan
@@AlekTrev006 That is the story right now, it takes time for people to react.
@@guysumpthin2974you mean a Volkswa genitalia fan 🫡
I know you can't judge a book by the cover, but this kid looks exactly like every bully's victim from when I was in High School.
Yup
ikr lol
To me he looks like the poster child of the political left, just Google "screaming liberals". He/she looks like all of them.
And why do you think bullying exists and seems to be passed on and on generation to the next for 100s of years in schools?
💯 he sure does.. but where he learn omg the photo of him was a school boy w USA flag.
Thomas Crooks appears to be someone who could easily be recruited and manipulated, for most of the reasons stated in the video.
And was in a Blackrock corporate video?
Yeah he went to public school.
Felt very sad for him, he looks so nice. I dont know what they did with him.
Felt very sad for him. He looks so nice. I dont know what they did with him.
I thought so too..he seems like an easy target for anyone who had a reason to take advantage of him.
I myself ama dietary aide. We are very complicated people who work in a high stress environment. Making the trays for every single damn resident and doing it quickly? Mechanical soft? Pudding thick water? Full liquid? Put that tray together in 1.82 seconds. It makes a man hard and mean.
We can endure shit that you normal folks couldn’t even fathom.
We are basically the special forces of nursing homes. We move quick and are decisive. We are as good as any army seal or ranger or special forces.
With that said most of us are good people and use our skills to help others. I’m sorey one of the brotherhood steps off the path
🙄 This is almost funny
@@pootypump7440 ?!??? The hell are you talking about, boy?
Dietary Aids are like the Green Berets of the nursing world.
@@deoglemnaco7025 I was just saying that you almost made a good joke. I forgot to laugh though.
@@pootypump7440 there ain’t no joke, sizzle-chest. Quit looking for attention trying to make fun of others.
"One brave shoe remained on stage."
Dr. Grande, if you think anybody appreciates that kind of snarky sarcasm, you are correct!
ABSOLUTELY! Wasn't that marvelous . . . I thought I was hearing things again. What fantastic humor!
I actually lol'd 🤭
Like something out of South Park
@@shrump87
Me, too.
This is a ridiculous comment.
As an outsider I've often observed Americans tend to think organisations like the secret service, CIA, special forces, etc, are infallible. I think plain old incompetence, as can be seen in the actions of everyday police, actually explains quite a lot.
Agree😊. And complacency I think also plays a part. Long term custom and practise,= human error. America has severe justice system when people err i believe.
The perceptions of Americans towards three letter agencies have done a 180 degree turn the last twelve years.
Wow thats the first rational comment ive found and ive been scrolling for a while... I keep forgetting how dumb most people are lol.
Never assume the security is great, it makes an ASS of U and ME. 😂
While it is true that DEI hiring policy in the government is not based on meritocracy, Democrat Bennie Thompson, the ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, introduced the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act (HR 8081) on April 19. Democrat Reps. Yvette D. Clarke, Troy A. Carter Sr., Frederica Wilson, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Jasmine Crockett, Joyce Beatty, Barbara Lee, and Steve Cohen co-sposnsored the bill.
What is missing from this analysis is him having licensed psychologists as parents.
it's typical of parents to be blind to their own child's problems no matter how well qualified
Exactly. So ironic!
what did the parents think was going on with their son? seems they could've helped him with his socialization.Any parent would be worried about an outcast student. where did they counsel ? at the school ? no one is saying.
Sometimes people who get into psychology do so because they are seeking to understand their own childhood/family dynamic/help others similar to them.
It can be easier to help others clinically, then change learned family patterns in their 24 hr life. There also may be a genetic link to mental health issue or diagnoses.
We have no idea what this young man was thinking or if it was related at all. But, I’ve seen a genetic link in my kids’ behaviors to some of the unhealthy/abusive things I grew up with….. only with one of my kids. From almost infancy. At this point, my daughter is doing so well, but the amount of work put in is so so so so so high, whereas my other daughter just didn’t even struggle with those issues.. as she didn’t have them. Just food for thought 🤷♀️
He might have avoided it on purpose, so to be professional and not to talk about other counselors. But it would have been a good opportunity to mention how difficult it is for anyone to spot such mental issues even in front of your own nose no matter how well trained you are. I know that his parents being counselours sounds ironic, but for people like me, who had been searching for decades for a useful therapist, sound just as logical. Having training and passing the tests and exams necessary to become a therapist does not ensure an individual to be useful for your specific mental issues, o even to be a good professional. I will still reccomemd anyone who struggles with issues to search for a therapist and try. In most situations, it helps a lot. My failure to find the right one for me doesn't mean they would not help you.
A dietary aide in a healthcare setting is probably a tray pusher. They aren't dietitians, they are servers who prepare patient trays and push the food carts down the hall and pass trays to patients. It's hard work, but the job title is just an inflated fancy sounding name for a catering attendant.
When I was in high school, many years ago, one of my first jobs was as a Petroleum Distribution Engineer. Couldn't believe I had such a lofty position at just 17 years old!! 😱
I had that job in a hospital in my young 20’s and we went around doing patients menus too and ensuring food allergies and diabetic concerns were addressed! And yes delivering the trays was part of it to ensure patients got proper food they asked for and needed! There’s brains in that job! We had to oversee the food prep crew too!
Right - we call them cafeteria workers where I come from. But, then again we were called 'Sandwich Artists" during my stint at Subway as a teen. Things really looked good when I went from lowly "Secretary" to "Administrative Assistant". I literally ignore alternative titles for clerical, support staff and food industry workers. A job is a job and in these days is a beautiful thing!
That's exactly what I did as my first job here in the United States from 1981-1986 and I was no cart pusher. I only called the patient's order as described on the cart's card and someone else would push the cart to the patient's station and nurses aides would take care of the rest.
Never thought 'dietary aide' (in a nursing home, no less) was a fancy sounding name.
In the early 90's, VP Dan Quayle visited my college and briefly spoke from the steps of an administration building to both fans and protesters that showed up. There were 4 buildings in near by proximity to his position and each of them had protective snipers on the roof. I would have expected the same to be the case last week. I don't get it.
I remember JFK, I knew much about JFK, JFK was a friend of mine, Dan Quail was NO JFK!
@WeedMan-o8b Dan Quayle did several speaking tours, of course its true.
Trump's detail actually asked for more security and it was denied, this just makes everything worse for the old man living in that house in Washington.
@@mrtechie6810 So was JFK
@@kimberlyhood4095Trump is a billionaire who flies around in a private 757. He can afford private security details. That said, secret service deployment is performed according to one’s status. Ironically, the day Trump was shot was the last public speech where security officials didn’t have the authority to carry him out immediately, as he wasn’t yet the official Republican candidate, but ‘just’ a former president.
When certain media people keep saying that "Trump is worse than Hitler", and when society generally says that Hitler should have been eliminated before he started WW2, what conclusions will a reactionary young person make?
Found a thinker!
You're assuming he agrees with the media and is therefore affected by it. He was a registered republican and known to espouse conservative views according to his peers, so if that's true, I certainly don't know too many republicans who remotely agree with the Trump/Hitler comparison. Your theory makes better sense if he were a liberal.
@@Wildflower687No....I can see, that many republicans have strong believes, but Generally good intensiones!Trump is perverting even Republican values.
@@Wildflower687His donation to a progressive cause tells me more than his party registration. It’s also not uncommon for people to change their registration to the other party to influence party primaries-to elect a candidate who is more easily defeated.
@@Wildflower687I am registered as democrat, however I would make Trump look like Al Gore. I registered as democrat so I can vote in their primaries and also because I live in California so my vote is useless.
Does everyone else feel as stupid as I do, I mean trusting our government?😢😢😢
I quit believing anything they said around 1967. Remember JFK?
@@neilreynolds3858 I remember JFK. I was in the 6th grade. I only trust in the Lord. NEVER EVER trust the government.
has nothing to do with distrust, it's called incompetence
nope, just mad because I lost trust long ago
@@InMyBrz You might be a sociopath.
He lived with his parents, who were both licensed professional counselors? Ouch
He had to walk, a long way, from his car to the building holding a big rifle case in one hand and a ladder in the other. Yet no one has come forward to say they saw him before he went up on the roof. What’s wrong with this picture? Everything
check out the cedar trees at corner of building....
I wonder if he told the cop that confronted him "I'm working here."
PA is an open carry state.
@@MrJibaro Funny! 👍
open carry is legal in PA
Secret Service was incompetent. Shameful. How could his parents miss this? My God, they are therapists.
Same way so many teachers are brilliant inspiration and help for their students, while their own children's problems go unseen.
DEI Secret Service
Thank you Miss Perfect
You must be a smart american eh? While being therapists might provide the parents with some mental health expertise, it does not make them omniscient about their child's every thought and action. Therapists are trained professionals, but they are not mind-readers, and their professional objectivity does not necessarily extend to their own children, where emotional closeness and personal biases can cloud judgment. Moreover, people planning harmful actions often exhibit highly deceptive behavior, going to great lengths to conceal their intentions even from those closest to them. This is well known, except for you I guess. The parents' therapeutic specializations might not align with the specific issues their child is facing, particularly if their expertise lies in areas such as family therapy or marriage counseling rather than issues of radicalization or violent intentions, but again, I'm sure you knew that right? Additionally, teenagers and young adults often go through phases of secrecy and rebellion, making it challenging for any parent, regardless of profession, to fully understand their child's thoughts or plans. Even if the parents did notice warning signs, they might have been in denial about the severity of the situation due to the stigma and emotional difficulty of accepting that their child could plan such an act. These factors collectively refute the notion that the parents' profession should have prevented them from missing their child's intentions. Read a book, you and the other uninformed bots.
Mk ultra + psyop
There is a strategy where people in states with closed primaries register as their ideological opposite party to allow them to vote in that party's primary. The strategy is to vote for the primary candidate who is least likely to win in the general election against your preferred party's nominiee. I hope that made some sense.
@nmikloiche -- Exactly!! PA is a closed primary state. I know of **many** people who register in another party so they can vote for the weakest candidate in that party's primary and offset the wing nuts who swamp the PA primaries' turnout. That and to much a lesser extent to get included in the circles of the local leading political political party for community engagement, network / contacts and -- get this -- the better parties!
Now you’re talking.
He did not vote in the primary.
My dad registered opposite party just to get their literature. It always convinced him not to vote for them.
Why is it that all the reporting is on the one student that said he was picked on and bullied and yet they do not talk to the other students that said they were his friends and that he is smart and well-connected with other people
I agree. That's an unfair portrayal of kids in general. Kindness doesn't correlate to anything.
8 minutes passed from the time a police officer saw the kid with a rifle and the time the first shot was fired? WTH?!
2 min
@@mumbai3899STILL TOO LONG FFS 🤯😲 FIX WAS IN BUT FAILED.TRUMP 24 ✊✊✊🇺🇸🌎
@@user-hg1sh5hk5f There is absolutely no excuse why Trump wasn't removed quickly from the stage when the attacker was first identified.
@@user-hg1sh5hk5ffix was in?
It was a bit of 2 minutes
“Outside the Secure area?” Within 150 yards of the stage has never been and will never be outside the secure area.
A 5 degree roof will never be steeper than a 30 degree roof...
Why not?
As more and more details emerge, it looks less and less like mere incompetence on the part of the Secret Service
a police officer saw the gunman on the roof and didnt confront him how does that make any sense?
police are cowards who hate actually having to do their jobs and prefer running away to save their own fat asses
He did not outwit secret service - local police had the outer perimeter and didn't do their job. They needed someone on the roof and instead were eating donuts and looking at their phones. How many times do I see a street detail staring at his phone?
A man was interviewed, saying that he told the police that he saw a man climbing up a building with a rifle.
Also, there is the one officer who did go up a ladder and saw the sniper kid, and then took off.
Cope and seethe
So, secret service is relying on a local PD with an annual budget equivalent to a box of ammo for the protection of the former president, and this makes sense to you? Riiiiggghhht.
I get they are blaming the local PD, but anyone with a lick of sense understands that kind of security is gonna be outside the wheelhouse of most local law departments.
So, why? Why was it left to local PD and why were the SS not at least providing guidance if they were relying on them?
Too much is not adding up.
@@JaMeshuggahYou're not using that phrase correctly
Wrong. Secret service is responsible for coordination between all the units and determines the plan. The local police were only to follow the plan supplied by SS.
Incompetence or Inside job?
Incompetence.
@lamppost7356 anyone fired?
Inside job of course! Trump was willing to give an ear for a path to the White House!
Inside job. Terrified crowds do NOT react that way.
they got melancholy.
Ppl who continue to joke about how Trump never accepted the last election results, but I was present at one of the voting locations when issues began to arise earlier that evening. One being that voters were turned away bc the system showed they had already voted. Turns out it was by way of absentee ballots when in fact they had not het even voted. There were also the large number of absentee ballots that were used to vote against Trump that belonged to deceased individuals. Ppl brushed those incidents off as well as many others without explanation, but the fact remains...it happened.
All proven to be false. This false narrative continues to be promoted by sore losers.
Fake.
I didn’t see any of those issues in my precinct in Ohio. I think Republicans just couldn’t accept the truth. Trump lost the election in 2020.
Not fake. Happened to me in Leon Valley, TX. I can provide a notarized statement.
Election "deniers" aren't just in the "MAGA" camp.
Dr. Grande mentioned not accepting the election but does not mention how many workers came forward and claimed this exact issue. Obvious democrat is obvious
I was an outcast too, and I remember how it felt to grow up beside the world instead of in it. It was confusing and dark, and I get how a person could be tricked into doing crazy things if someone dangled social acceptance in front of him. Perhaps we should stop bullying and marginalizing people at some point? I bet that would end most of these crimes of desperation.
you are correct, but there are a lot of things we would all have to do to stop bullying, even i was bullied by my own grandma. people almost cant believe it
100% agree, well said.
@@sarahusrey-ld4zu She was jealous of your youth.
I'm still an outcast because people stay immature.
Yes, if kids were nicer in school, then there would be no political assassinations. We should make a law and a new agency to oversee kindness in school. Or, maybe a vaccine??
Hanlon’s Razor:
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
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6:03 - Police officer gets rifle pointed at him
6:11 - Shooter attempt kill
Wth was the police officer doing???
The cop reportedly was climbing onto the roof, saw the guy, called out to him, had the rifle pointed at him, ducked beneath the roofline since he was still climbing, lost his grip and fell. At least that’s what one news report claimed.
I doubt they attempted anything @@LuckyCharms777
Afterwards the cops apparently decided it's just a guy with a rifle and then they realized, in sheer panic, that they hadn't even asked for his pronouns.
crapping his pants….shameful
@@fasthow223rent free 🙄
I have a feeling that Dr. Todd likes Cactus, that is my analysis.
Don't be speculating now.
Cacti?
specifially the Saguaro persuasion
Istg they're multiplying
I concur with your observations.
The Secret Service is looking a lot like Uvalde PD right about now.
And the officer that saw him on the roof and backed down.
They knew he was there. They were told he was there plus they took pictures of him on the roof. Why ? Why do you think?
No, they didn't. They weren't told he was there until a few seconds before. The guy was active on top of the roof for 140 seconds. They didn't took pictures of him, while going up, nor when he was already up there. They filmed him, and the was already ready to take action.
You people are full of conspiracy theories.
nobody is asking why teh police officer did not warn through radio or engage
That's the strangest part of this whole thing IMO.
Times of India was showing a video of a couple of Secret Service agents crouching down and moving into different positions right before the shots rang out. So I’m sure they got on the radio to somebody. Just not anybody who was going to get Trump down off the stage and out of danger.
I heard there was a big sale going on at Walmart so maybe that has something to do with all this
@@jamesmaxdavissands In civil idscourse, a person uses words and direct questions. Are you an all knowing guru with all the answers, or just a High school kid, trying to ridiculize those questions you did not think off.
Everyone also wants all information instantly when things rarely work that way.
How do you feel about the fact that his parents were therapists?
They were both behavior counselors - that's a red flag right there
Further evidence the clinical psychology is psuedo-science.
Counselors make the absolute worst parents. 100% of the time they grow up to hate their manipulative, broken, therapist parents.
@@razorchuckles why?
@@alicia.georgeuhhh bc they are experts on psychological behavior… impossible to believe they wouldn’t see this coming
There is a lot that Secret Service can learn from this. A person would think they already knew it.
They didn't want to learn how to protect him, they did what they were told to do...stand down.
So, the REALLY big elephant in the room that nobody is talking about, in regards to the family of the person that was shot and killed. Do they now sue the Secret Service for not neutralizing this threat? Do they sue the gunman's family for allowing this to happen? Or, do they sue the local police for failure to have a secure scene? 😳
Local police (probably democrat cops in Pennsylvania)
The secret service doesnt owe a duty of care to every person at an open air rally, they're there to protect the president
hope they sue them all
We need to calm the political pressure cooker in media. It is helping no one.
Sadly this is not gonna happen anytime soon. Both sides have gone into full conspiracy mode with liberal saying that it was staged to win Trump the election and republicans saying it was MK Ultra or whatever the fuck. Shits getting wild
It was deep state hit. They had 3 min to get Trump off the stage. This goes beyond incompetence.
Tell that to whitey that who since Obama entered politics, they have displayed violent effigies and artwork. I still remember the PRAY 4 ASSASSIN sign on an Obama mannequin that a Republican voter had placed outside his front door.
We still need to find out the truth of why the Secret Service allowed this to occur.
Kid was recruited, brainwashed, and helped. That they are saying simple incompetence is unbelievable to say the least.😮
B.S.
He looks like he could be Liz Cheney's kid.
Truth
Exactly. He was enabled and assisted. Otherwise they are asking us to believe the entire operation was riddled with incompetence from top to bottom, by what is respected as the top security force in the world. Nah...come on man.
Whatever happened to the Antifa man named Mark Violet?
He didn't "outwit" anyone. He was allowed to make the attempt by the woke, DEI hired, director of the secret service.
We have 200 years of Congressmen objecting to electors:1808,1816, 1820,1836,1856,1872 (refused to count electors from Mississippi because of arguments that the manner by which the election was conducted was not how they said it was conducted),1960, 1968, 1988, 2000, 2004, & 2016.
Trump actually followed the legal path. The 12th amendment empowers Congress to object to certifying electors if electors from a state are contested, and if neither candidate has a majority of electoral votes, voting for president by state delegation. Trump’s supporters were there to pressure Congress to suspend the counting of electors for 10 days while an investigation was conducted concerning election irregularities.
The protestors accused of crimes related to the Jan 6, were there to pressure Congress into doing their job, not to prevent them from doing their job which is what the riots accomplished.They wanted Congress to exercise their Constitutional authority and obligation to ensure the election was conducted in a Constitutionally correct manner, with serious allegations having been raised, including a case brought before SCOTUS, that they chose not to hear, that was joined by 20 State Attorneys General and over 150 members of Congress.
Your speculation here Doc doesn't seems like it's most likely what happened. Please don't just dismiss any theory as just conspiracy. The incompetence displayed by the secret service is too great to be just incompetence.
Sometimes, you actually know what you see when you're looking at it. It's so obvious this was staged. People not panicking, not climbing over each other to get out? Practically zero information about Corey Comperatore? The whole Secret Service issue? Trump seen later with no bandage on his ear? Not to mention how this gives Trump everything he needs politically. Absolutely everything.
he was profiled and targeted as the ideal candidate to do the job. once it was determined that he had that mentality, the mastermind made a way to communicate with him and eventually urged him to do the job. one evidence for this is that the feds found nothing on his phone, which means he wiped it, which means he wanted to hide communication. so when he went to the rally he was instructed beforehand where and how to get to the roof. which means the man in charge of putting guards in the areas he would need to pass through has to be an accomplice, and the guards in those areas had to be accomplices too and all they had to do was look away when he passed through
edit: if he wanted attention and did it alone, he wouldnt have wiped his phone but instead he would have wanted everyone to see everything about him including his phone data that would show how he outwitted everyone.
Ridiculous. You can “wipe” your phone all you like. The information is recoverable by the alphabet agencies.
take your meds
Excellent analysis. I wondered why he had no social media profile when everyone has one, even a small one. That he wiped his info fr/the internet and his phone makes sense. But of course, if you're going to do something with that kind of notoriety just before an election, I would think you would want the fame even knowing that you will likely be killed. I did also wonder how he knew ahead of time that that was the rooftop that was free of surveillance And that he could scale it relatively undetected. Likely Bc/ he was allowed and guided. He didn't simply outwit the CIA (best&brightest;) PLus I have heard that the police officer who climbed up to see the guy on the roof(Crooks), was told not to shoot, to stand down, in other words. For why? Hmmm... the motive is easily ascertained with the opposing candidate in disarray, his mental acuity in question. Jameortega's comment has got it down in his first sentences, just how it could have come together.
Can someone please find his obit published on the web the day before this incident???
There was a lady behind trump that was filming everything and not ducking
'Scared away a police officer', what kind of officer is THAT!?!?
This guy is the funniest guy on the internet. His hilarious comments, combined with a total lack of expression, has me in stitches every time.
My surgeon always has me in stitches.
@@donwayne1357 Makes one wonder why you're always at the surgeon...
Yeah, that whole deadpan delivery is just hilarious.
Yeah, the deadpan delivery is gold.. This video doesn’t do him justice, though, because the incident is so dang ridiculous.. I’m angry, I’m scared, and it didn’t have to be this way..
It's his witt. He is very witty
"One brave shoe . . . " is one of the most poetic observations in the history of CZcams vlogs.
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The caption should read "Missed me by that - much." With a picture of Maxwell Smart.
I don't get the reference.
@@kamelhaj6850 Did you ever watch get smart? He had a shoe phone, he would say the above line. Are you an American?
An Italian slip on I'd venture, and possibly handmade??
Why did you say he 'outwitted' the Secret Service? Does the definition of 'outwit' include being fully visible on the roof to many attendees and the Secret Service? The Secret Service were negligence or criminal with this incident. He did not outwit anyone. The Secret Service for some curious reason were pathetic. Where is the accountability for this preventable travesty?
Conspiracies are going to fly _because none of it makes sense!_
The stench is particularly strong in this instance.
-and here it is, The video we have all been waiting for over the last 24 hours. Thank you Dr. Grande.
Something fishy about this. One of the most obvious locations to protect, a gunman climbs up with a rifle and seen by spectators but not secret service? I wonder what political and personal views his parents had towards Trump.
No one knows specifics yet but it is known that his mother was registered as a Democrat and his father was registered as a Libertarian, if I recall correctly.
I'm not normally one to fall into conspiracy theories, but something is way off here.
I also find it interesting that both parents are counselors. The children of those that give advice for a living can be quite jarring.
Nothing fishy about it at all, get a grip on reality
Local police had a lot of guys at the venue too. I bet that exactly because he was so visible, Secret Service thought that he was with the Butler county PD.
As opposed to “Unskilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center…”
Did he bring his own ladder? 😧 Where did it come from?
Yes, he climbed up a ladder that was propped against the building. Unbelievable.
He bought a ladder at Home Depot. FBI has that receipt. He walked southward through a private parking lot, climbed to one warehouse roof, and belly-cawled to the next roof.
He was not twelve years old.
Same ladder that was used to kidnap the Lindberg baby. Where was that one located again? 🤔
I am 61 & I don’t understand the differences between our 2 political parties either.
Are you serious?
@@johnwilburn8319 Yep!!! I am totally serious. Both parties have deteriorated into a joke.
fr, there are some differences but as far as status quo, foreign policy, corporate influence etc both effectively center right. and the differences are largely lip service not action
the internet has changed us for the worse.
the internet is a piece of technology. its the way its been misused, abused and consumed thats the problem. psychopathic capitalists sold it to us with malintent to waste our time and manipulate us into changing for their benefit.
blame the corruption of those who control the world for using any means necessary to exploit us - not the internet.
Im better
No ur not @erikdexter3100
@@rob1996ization i think i know more then you
@@erikdexter3100 *than
It’s very concerning to me how that family has no right to privacy. It’s also so ridiculous to claim it’s an upper middle class town, when that home looks very modest. Americans who have never lived like a rich person in America don’t know what that actually looks like. He did something awful. But his family didn’t. And their address is now out there for everyone to harass them.
It’s America. Digging for dirt is a common activity and standard on both sides of the embarrassing candidates. Even the guy who sold the kids T-shirt was contacted by media who questioned why he sold that T-shirt. That is the ultimate proof of how lost USA are…
This shows that the media cannot even accurately describe what we all see as a modest house. These days they can only read off of a scripted text. No brainwork to be employed for your employer. Just keep fooling the public with fabricated lies.
It sounds like a small house in a fairly affluent town for the area.
Yes, why give the address out?
I think it is beyond concerning and irresponsible Grande gave the address and photo of the house. If some other youtuber does that it's on them. He has a PhD in Counseling Education and Supervision, and he weakly makes a call to bring down the temperature of the country while showing the address. His bias is showing....
It is hard for me to believe that a 20-year-old today has no social media presence. Kids today fart and have to tell all their friends how it smelled.
Not all kids are finding it more clever to be introvert
You’re not wrong that SOME kids do. And most at least have an account on IG, Snap, etc.
However most don’t post anything to it and there is a growing counter culture that wants nothing to do with social media
@@copout510 I thought we were in agreement
@@chucksolutions4579 I’m sorry we are …we are
@@chucksolutions4579 it sounds like I am disagree but I was speaking in general - I removed texting sounds so different than conversation
With all the blunders the Secret Service made, a ten year old kid could have outwitted them!!!
My impression is they deliberately let it happen. That's not a direct involvement, noone can prove it and at the end of the day it's downplayed as incompetence.
If that's true, would that put him in more danger if he's back in the white house?
@@mommar4858easier to blame it on some complete incel loser nobody knows than a well known polititian from the inner circle...
why do you think they always end up dead before we could ever know???
@@mommar4858If trump wins, I can imagine those responsible will be handled the same way they tried to handle him
@@mommar4858 He would have the most protection there. In private life, not so much.
He was a Manchurian Candidate, the resemblance to Sirhan Sirhan is undeniable… Please note that I’m not diagnosing anyone but merely speculating on what could be happening in a situation like this.
Sirhan Sirhan was Arab..they look nothing alike.🙄🙄
Lol
I agree, thinking the same thing.
The similarity to Sirhan Sirhan is the speculation his mind was controlled.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
In one of the news videos by the BBC, they show an aerial shot of the buildings where the shooter was. You can see an extension ladder on the corridor between the buildings. There’s conflicting reports from the witnesses on whether he used the ladder to climb to the roof. There’s no mention on how the ladder got there. Did he bring the ladder or it was already in place and being used by workmen doing repairs. The shooter knew the location of the rally and scouted the place earlier probably. What type of vehicle was he driving and where was it parked. If he did bring the extension ladder, no one saw him carrying it along with his AR 15. Lots of details missing as usual. You mention the JFK assassination. 1963 and we still don’t know the whole truths. Hard to trust the government releasing information.
i heard somewhere, trying to remember where, i think it was an ABC News video... that he bought the ladder at Home Depot on July 13th
not sure if its the same ladder we see leaning against the roof corridor thingy, but thats what ive been assuming
The incompetence is beyond comprehension. Why is the secret service head still employed
DEI = Doing Everything Incompetently
Theres drone footage of everything immaginable, but not this. Hmm...
...that we know of!
I was at the Trump rally in Chesapeake, Virginia on June 28th and there were drones...
I'm imagineing the conversation behind the scenes. "You're fired... and your fired, and your fired..."
With this being three letter agencies, more like: "You're all getting raises!"
You're* misspelled twice. Also it's imagining. Not imagineing. That's like 3rd grade grammar.
They don't work for Trump.
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@@justinstrong9595 The joke was about Trump on "The Apprentice." Maybe the spelling was to indicate that Trump was saying it? Also: autocorrect & typos happen.
Where were his parents when he was playing video games, had no friends, was an outcast, had a obsession with guns along with access to them?
They were busy, convincing some poor kid that he or she was transsexual.
i work in security.
Idk how secret service does things, but people get complacent and eff up. Pretty much what I think happened.
He was likely working alone except for the 20 FBI agents that friended him on social media.
Supposedly he didn’t have social media, except maybe a discord. I don’t know if a fresh report has dug up any social media. There’s definitely been incidents like Uvalde where the shooter was assisted financially in order to afford his load out for sure. Probably had some help getting police to protect him from parents while he carried out his atrocity.
Just like that Buffalo grocery store "shopper."
if that was the case, you can surveil someone's social media without a warrant if it is otherwise private. it's not likely that it's because they wanted to be his facebook buddy
There's more to the internet than just social media. Things like IRC exist. Chat in video games, and thousands of others. There's a lot of anonymous people out there.
That sounds like a bs thing you probably read on Twitter
Though the doctor’s analysis seems deep it is in fact infantile. Forget Thomas Crooks. The building was checked out and someone was supposed to be guarding it. Two questions: why weren’t they, and how would Thomas know beforehand that exact spot with a CLEAR shot would be available? Are we trying to suggest this KID just walked up to a Trump rally cordoned off by the Secret Service and local Law Enforcement with a scoped AR-15 HOPING to find a good spot to shoot from??? Come on guys keep it real even if it seems crazy
Shhh stop noticing
Well . . . actually this scenario happened with Reagan as well mysteriously, just walked right on up. The Secret Service is nothing if not friendly
You forget the part where an officer allegedly confronted him on the roof, but withdrew because of being threatened by the long arm without notifying anyone over radio...
One can't make this up-
Yes, it appears that is exactly what he did. The time to believe something is after it's been demonstrated to be true, not before.
Just because you find it hard to believe, doesn't make your febrile conspiracy theory true.
@@christophmahler He is a fucking coward!!
'The S.S. needs to be accountable', coming from a moderate and also a highly respected professional speaks volumes to me.
"Clearly that didnt happen in this case." You.
"Let me be clear" KJP before she lies...
"Ive been very clear" KJP also when she lies.
Your location photos are way better than every news station I've seen!! Plus you have several. The news are all showing that flat, vague, aerial shot. Great reporting!!!!
This kid definitely did not act alone. He looks incredibly impressionable.
YES !!! Exactly. PLEASE !!! Dan Bongino for head of the secret service.
The kid was a bullied loner. Yet you believe that for just this one occasion, he buddies up and collaborated ....... with who?
He looks like he could be Liz Cheney's kid.
You can tell he didn’t act alone because “he looks impressionable”? Impressive deduction skills there Kathryn.
You definetly dont know anything for definite.
It has since been revealed he did NOT donate to and democratic/liberal party. That was a 60+ year old man with the same name.
The FBI has determined he acted alone… other than what they helped him with…
They knew and just let it play out.
No help from the fbi, but no hindrance either.
@@melanieb2132 So same as the Gretchen Whitmer "kid nap p ers" ????
@@melanieb2132kinda sounds like uvalde
Why show the picture of him years ago. He has long hair and a beard. He wasn't a little kid.
because he had no social media
Dont you dare call that garbage a beard
I've had to same question. I saw a pic of him with the long hair and beard. Why don't they use it?
It's like when Obama showed the smiling picture of Trayvon Martin.
@@kathrynbaker7529 it doesn't help the narrative.
1,000 sq.ft. is considered upper middle class somewhere in America? I didn’t realize Texas skewed my idea of America so badly.
Yes when I saw that house I thought he was poor..sad looking little place then when I heard parents occupation I thought wow salaries must be abnormally low there...no, property values are ridiculous.
I think 1k sq ft is a smaller-than-average size home for a family.
@@JaimeMesChiens yup typical 2 bedrom house is abt 2000 sq ft. 1k is very small. Probably a low income area of an upper middle class area.
Soon, living indoors will be considered upper middle class.
@@latinaalma1947It's funny how times change. I grew up in a tiny track house in a massive post WWII neighborhood. It was really normal in the 50s-60s to live in tiny houses. My dad was a WWII vet and had a bachelor's degree so earned above avg salary. We were a family of 6 in that little house. It was maybe 800 sq ft but was on a big lot. So odd.
It’s so clear that secret service and police were involved
Its clear? How about they are just plain stupid?
The police did not have the resources to provide the support that was requested. Like 12 officers in the whole frostbite. They told the SS beforehand. The SS plan B was, "OK. Whatever."
The fall out of this breach in security is going to cost some folks their jobs for sure. It really is inexcusable that this young man accessed the building in the first place. It's sickening that this happened and my heart goes out to the victims of this incident. If you don't like a candidate, make your opinion known by casting your vote. Such a sad sad situation
You're very naive... Do you think that DT was just talking that democrats wanted this event to take place? He was preparing his supporters and undecided for this event. So, now he's proved his point by arranging this fake spectacle to such people. If it was real, he wouldn't be playing golf soon afterwards....
@wicker1234 You think this was a hoax? I mean he was clipped by a bullet and that's kinda hard to fake. I'm interested in your thoughts. I honestly hadn't considered what you're suggesting.
@@marytaylor8482 I have seen many videos about this event. There were witnesses DT supporters who were puzzled by not seeing enough snipers on the roofs as it was before during his rallies. If he really was afraid of this, then he would make sure to get tight security. A woman who visited his previous rally said that security there was very tight.
@@wicker1234 He wasn't afraid. That's kind of the point.
@@neilreynolds3858 Neither he nor the woman close to him who was filming with her phone because they knew about it.
Judging by the homes and postage-stamp properties, Thomas Crooks' neighborhood is NOT upper-class. Visually, it is more like a middle to lower-class area.
Dr. G said middle not upper.
I think he meant income bracket.
Low class in now the new American middle class. The reich wing elites like trump and vance want us pushed out. They dont care about us.
Bethel Park covers an area of almost 12 square miles, 33,000 residents, about 8 miles South of Pittsburgh, with many homes in the 2-5 hundred thousand dollar value. It is at the least, a middle class area. By no means is it a lower class area.
I mean if they owned their own home , that's pretty good and middle class these days , maybe they saved a lot , someone did say they where very private people
CZcams is deleting comments on this video already... and all I was "saying" is "Thank you, Dr. Grande!"
Deep state
I doubt it.
Yup mine too
@@NJHA913 of mine were deleted so far
Yeah I am surprised mine didn’t get deleted .. yet 😮
Young people like him are lost in today's world
His registration as a Republican is likely due to the face that PA is a closed primary state and he voted in 2022 and 2024 primaries in order to spoil those elections. His former classmate Vincent Taormina was recently interviewed and he recalled a discussion he had with Crooks. Vincent said had told Crooks that he was hispanic and supported Trump. Crooks was apparently surprised and responded "Well, you're Hispanic, so shouldn't you hate Trump?" When Vincent said reaffirmed that he supported Trump, Crooks seemed to insinuate that Vincent was stupid for supporting Trump. Vincent also pushed back on previous claims that he was a loner. He had a small group of friends, but they isolated themselves from the rest of their classmates.
He did not vote in the 2024 primary.
He stood out in the BlackRock ad.
That's supposedly a different guy. Idk tho
@@eileenann1510 It was him, it's been confirmed. Blackrock has even tried memory holing it
I saw one picture of him that was weeks old,he looks nothing like that now.
He had long blond hair hippy style and look solid enough
@@m.t.1616 They pulled the ad, so I'm guessing it must have been him.
@@stoneageart9965 If it's the one with a guy in a blue shirt, that's a fake.
He knew the exact blind spot where to look for, all by himself...
range finders help with that he had one and was wondering with it for awhile not suspicious at all xd
This points to gross incompetence on the secret services' part
Why does a Dad buy a 20 year old young man an Assault Rifle? Isn't he an accessory to the crime? When kids are always to themselves that shows lack of social skills. No psychological problems, but a handful of social. How do you buy a person like this an Assault Rifle?🤔
So how did the officer not engage after he pointed the rifle at him? So the cop was like, oh he pointed at me. Better not go up there?
That's the strangest part of this whole thing IMO.
Officer safety bro. You really expect cops to put themselves in danger to protect the public and politicians in 2024⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️
@@frakismaximus3052so why become a cop for the benefits ?
The Supreme Court ruled that the police are not obligated to protect you or anyone else….
What does he think his job is? Lol
Wasn't it a matter of fact that in ancient Rome, the assassinations of Caesars would most often ben carried out by none other than the Praetorians or the Royal Guard? Is there an irony, here?
No, praetorian were the elite soldiers coming from the noble families of Rome btw
No.
"More likely to be mistaken for Mr. Bean, than as Mr. Bond." Todd has a knack for these witty, wry comments, which I sometimes don't catch until several seconds after hearing them.
"Both Licensed Professional Counselors." Oh, Dr. Grande that is disheartening. Fellow LPC, PhD CE&S here.
unimpressive to be sure.
So his parents are also broke losers lol
Maybe they got their degree from online walmart classes
@@candyrosepetals it doesn’t mean they will have health kids. After certain age kids don’t listen to their parents. They Will exactly do things that parents are not agree with.
I know so many doctors kids who are are having very wrong behaviours but they are not reported to their parents because their parents are doctors. So in this case their parents aren’t aware about their kids behaviours in public (schools etc).
@@ReachTheNext Of course. But my point was he’s probably had to talk about feelings and stuff his whole life. He’s probably sick of it. I don’t expect therapists or doctors childrent to be better-behaved, quite the opposite in fact. I also don’t think there’s anything remarkable about either profession, but you seem to put emphasis on it, for some reason. The real money and true status is in Business.
I think the parents being doctors & therapists IS the issue. They think their kids will be better than others. And that’s just not true. Some of the most messed up people I know are therapist & physician’s children. Like a guy I went to school with who has been addicted to meth since HS. His Dr dad or mom never mentions him, lol. If they hadn’t been such overbearing parents, he probably would’ve turned out just fine!
Dr. Grande Is extremely smart and inquisitive but he definitely doesn't like going into conspiracies .. as if conspiracies don't exist .. I think it holds him back from another level of consciousness.. He doesn't take conspiracies into account as if conspiracies can never happen
He feeding the conspiraxy
As there were police on other nearby rooftops, there was no reason the rooftop Thomas was on was left uncovered other than negligence. I hope it was just negligence. An innocent man lost his life. This is an American tragedy.
since i believe it is stumpys job to hire and pay local police detail, maybe he should have hired a larger team..you do know he routinely stiffs the local police details he hires along the campaign trail...its well known
If the world ended tomorrow, they would blame President Donald Trump. It’s pretty sad thank GOD he’s OK miracles do happen.TRUMP 2024 ❤AMEN
Don't give God credit. If there is a God he wouldn't care about mortal politics.
"...before police paid him another visit in the form of high velocity projectiles." got me 😂😅🤣
Why did his van have Arizona plates? How did he go from a Republican supporter in high school to a radical anti Leftis in two years? His online rant can no longer be found. Why? There is more to this than we are being told.
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