Text exchanges reveal that Thomas Matthew Crooks was photographed by an officer just before he opened fire on Trump.
Text exchanges disclosed that at least ninety minutes before the former president Trump opened fire, law enforcement officers assigned to oversee the former president’s Pennsylvania rally saw his potential assassin and reported him to colleagues as suspicious.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, provided Fox News Digital with the texts, which he received from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit. The messages revealed that police flagged down 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks when they saw him using a range finder, but they did not approach him.An hour and a half before Trump entered the stage, at about 4:30, a Beaver County sharpshooter was leaving his duty.
The first screenshot shows a group conversation of Beaver ESU officers. The text screenshots were initially revealed by The New York Times.
