Police Body Camera Footage of Trump Assassination Attempt Released

The Butler Township Police Department released body camera footage on Thursday of an officer confronting Thomas Crooks moments before the July 13 assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.

The video shows the officer being hoisted by a colleague onto the roof where Crooks was stationed. As the officer was hanging onto the edge of the building, Crooks pointed his rifle at him, causing the officer to lose his grip and fall to the ground. The officer then ran to his police vehicle and grabbed his rifle.

Scrambling: “Dude, he turned around on me,” the officer told his colleague. “He’s straight up.”

“Who’s got eyes on him?” he then asked. “He was right where you picked me up, bro. He was on that left side.”

For the next few minutes, police scrambled to get onto the roof where Crooks was. Meanwhile, Crooks fired several shots at President Trump, clipping his ear.

(A link to the full video can be found here, but please be advised of the officers’ use of foul language.)

Warned: Ten minutes after Crooks was shot, another officer told a fellow policeman, “I told them they need to post guys over there … the Secret Service; I told them that [on] Tuesday.”

Another officer replied, “I thought you guys were on the roof. … I wasn’t even concerned about it because I thought someone was on the roof.”

“I talked to the Secret Service guys. They were like, ‘Yeah, no problem, we’re going to post guys over here,’” the first officer said.

(A link to this officer’s body cam footage can be found here, but again, be advised of the officers’ use of foul language.)

Incompetence? “The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was a U.S. Secret Service failure,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi admitted after the videos were released.

But this is not mere incompetence. The Secret Service is hiding something.

Learn more: Read “The Assassination Cover-up.”