A bombshell congressional report claims would-be Trump assassin Thomas Crooks was incapacitated by a local cop before he was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
Two months after Crooks shot the former president’s ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a preliminary report from Rep. Clay Higgins offered a differing narrative to the official one pushed by the FBI.
While it was initially claimed that Crooks was shot in the head within seconds by a Secret Service sniper, Higgins’ report claimed it was actually a local SWAT operator who stopped the gunman’s hail of bullets.
The congressman said the local cop’s shot ‘hit Crooks’ rifle and fragged his face/ neck/ right shoulder area from the (gun) stock breaking up’, which meant Crooks was unable to keep firing before he was killed.
It comes amid mounting scrutiny on the FBI and Secret Service’s investigations into the shooting, weeks after Higgins also revealed Crooks’ body was mysteriously cremated with approval from the FBI after just 10 days.
The revelations from Higgins’ bombshell report were raised last night by Fox News pundit Jesse Watters, who shared his shock over the response to the assassination attempt with Missouri Senator Josh Hawley.
Watters said the FBI and Secret Service have been offering only a frustrating ‘drip drip, drip’ of information from their investigations, and noted that ‘the real investigative work is being done by Congress.’
He drew parallels between the agencies’ official narrative of the shooting – that Crooks was quickly killed by a Secret Service sniper – and Higgins’ claim that a local SWAT operator actually hit the gunman first.
‘I didn’t know that,’ Watters said, pointing to Congressional testimony from acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe that made ‘no mention’ of the local cop’s heroics.
‘He gave his agency total credit for bringing down Crooks,’ he said.
Newly released images of Crooks’ AR-style rifle show the stock end of the firearm with a large hole where the bullet purportedly struck near the shooter’s shoulder.
