Hindsight is, as the saying goes, always 20-20. And in that 20-20 hindsight, it seems every day we see a new revelation as to what went wrong on July 13th, 2024, to allow a young, inexperienced man — a boy, really — to come within a literal whisper of killing former President Donald Trump.
On Monday, it came to light that the would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, had caught the attention of local law enforcement more than 90 minutes before Crooks fired the shots that injured Trump and two bystanders and killed local firefighter Corey Comperatore, who died shielding his family.
Would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks landed on authorities’ radar more than 90 minutes before he opened fire at the former president’s Pennsylvania campaign rally — roughly a half-hour more than what officials previously claimed — according to newly released text messages.
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