The Left are anxious to move on from Donald Trump’s near-assassination.
But many unanswered questions remain.
And one detail about the gunman who nearly murdered Trump will make you absolutely furious.
There has been no good explanation as to how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to get onto a roof 150 yards away from the rally stage in Butler, Pennsylvania with a direct line of sight to Trump.
There were reports that Crooks had been identified carrying a rangefinder, and he used a drone to survey the landscape.
But even more puzzling is that Crooks appeared to be a ghost.
He might have had an account on the social media platform Gab, though that has not yet been 100% confirmed.
However, the account expressed clear leftist and anti-Trump sentiment.
Uncrackable phone
Also, the FBI has reportedly been unable to crack encrypted apps on Crooks’ cell phone.
Fox News reported that “while experts are skeptical of any connection between the 20-year-old would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks and Iran, they haven’t been able to access some of his communications 18 days later. So it remains unclear who he was talking to, if anyone, and what topics would have been discussed.”
Warmongers have been itching for war with Iran, but even they have not been trumpeting the line that Iran was behind the attempted assassination.
For instance, during a Senate hearing with FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who never met a war he didn’t like, asked, “If he were talking to some foreign power, and I don’t think any foreign power would hire this guy, by the way, so I’m not overly worried, but if this was some great plot by the Iranians, how do we solve this?”
Graham has been itching for war with Iran forever, but even he was not ready to fully go there with the Trump assassination attempt.
Later in the hearing, Abbate told Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), “The terrorist regime of Iran has been targeting people, our country, for many, many years now. . . We’ve talked about that here before. We know, publicly, they’ve targeted former President Trump; They’ve called for his assassination. . .But I wanna be clear: We have no evidence of that. We’re not ruling anything out. We’re looking into all possibilities and leaving our minds open to that.”
Privacy issues
The FBI has been trying to get Big Tech companies to provide backdoor decryption for investigation purposes, but that brings up massive privacy concerns.
Of course, many Big Tech companies who swear they respect privacy have been accused of handing over users’ data at request on a regular basis.
That’s almost a guarantee, but the FBI doesn’t even want to have to ask tech companies, let alone a judge.
David Gelman, a former prosecutor turned defense attorney in the Philadelphia area, said that it was a “slippery slope” to allow access to encrypted data.
Gelman told Fox News Digital, “That would erode all confidence in companies like Apple and Signal, etc. . .There is only so much that should be able to be accessed. . .[It’s] too much of an invasion of privacy.”
Whether Crooks was working alone or not, the security failures of the Secret Service were catastrophic.
There was no excuse for Crooks to be on that roof in broad daylight with a rifle and a rangefinder.
Thus far, federal law enforcement is stonewalling Congress.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
