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BUTLER, Pa. – Republican Rep. Cory Mills of Florida and Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona visited Butler, Pennsylvania, on Thursday and have raised a number of questions concerning the tried assassination of former President Trump.
Mills, an Military fight veteran and tactical safety specialist, and Navy SEAL sniper veteran Crane visited the positioning and climbed onto the rooftop the place Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump with a rifle, wounding the Republican nominee’s proper ear, killing firefighter Corey Comperatore and injuring two different bystanders on the July 13 rally.
The pair of representatives got here to the scene with conservative commentator Benjamin “Benny” Johnson to movie an upcoming podcast episode on “The Benny Present.”
“I need to thank Navy SEAL Sniper Eli Crane and Military fight veteran & tactical safety specialist Cory Mills for bringing my workforce to Butler, Pennsylvania as we speak,” Johnson wrote in a publish on X. “Each are unbelievable Members of Congress who will discover the TRUTH about how a bullet hit Trump within the head.”
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Representatives Cory Mills and Eli Crane tour the Butler fairground in Butler, Pennsylvania, Thursday, July 25, 2024. The fairground was the positioning of the tried assassination of former President, Donald Trump on July 13. (Derek Shook for Fox Information Digital)
Basic view of the water tower by the Butler fairground in Butler, Pennsylvania, Thursday, July 25, 2024. The fairground was the positioning of the tried assassination of former President, Donald Trump on July 13. (Derek Shook for Fox Information Digital)
Mills and Crane’s tour got here after a bunch of 11 bipartisan lawmakers visited the positioning on Monday.
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Crane, who has now visited the positioning twice, beforehand posted a video on X exhibiting how simple it was to climb up onto the rooftop about 150 yards away from the place Trump spoke and took a sniper’s perch with a direct line of sight to the previous president.
“Hello, guys. I am up right here on the constructing the place the supposed sniper took the shot. It isn’t that steep in any respect,” Crane mentioned. “Had the Secret Service or anyone had sniper groups up there, this man would not have made it 5 ft up this roof.”
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A water tower offers a vantage level over the Butler fairground in Butler, Pennsylvania, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (Derek Shook for Fox Information Digital)
Following the assassination try on Trump, the director of the Secret Service on the time, Kimberly Cheatle, confronted requires her resignation.
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Cheatle initially vehemently mentioned that she wouldn’t step down, however she resigned sooner or later following her opening remarks earlier than Congress.
