While the Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who tried to murder former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday evening was shot dead by police snipers, there are a million and one questions we need answered. However, conservative podcast host Glenn Beck has stated there are at least two we need to have answers for right now.
According to TheBlaze, Beck — and the rest of America — want to know how Crooks was able to sneakily gain access to a highly secured area without somehow alerting the Secret Service, all while supporters in the crowd were trying to point him out to law enforcement just moments before the shooting took place.
“How does someone sneak a rifle onto the grounds? How does someone even know that building is there? How is [it] that he was acting so weird and pacing in front of the metal detectors? They tried to follow him, but oops, he got away,” Glenn went on to say on his program.
“How could the kid possibly even think that the highest ground at the venue wouldn’t even be watched?” He then goes on to add, “and a handy ladder just happened to be there.”
“And nobody in the Secret Service, none of the drones, none of the things that we pay millions of dollars for, none of that caught him,” he states, pointing out that it’s not like they didn’t have help from the crowd, who were yelling that a man with a rifle was climbing up a ladder onto a roof before Crooks got his first shot off.
“Why did the sniper have him in his sights for over a minute before he took a shot? Why did a cop climb up the ladder to look around? When the guy pointed a gun at him he then ducked down and came down off the ladder,” Glenn states during the program, adding, “Did he call anyone to warn?”
Not only are the circumstances surrounding the shooter himself interesting, but the Secret Service agents did not look like they were in charge of the situation.
“How is it the secret service has a bodyguard,” Glenn kicks things off, going on to add, “who is a woman that doesn’t even reach Trump’s nipples? How is she going to guard the president’s body with hers? How is it another female secret agent pulled her gun out a good four minutes too late, then looks around not knowing what to do, and then couldn’t get it back into the holster because she’s a Melissa McCarthy body double?”
A good point that Beck brings up is the fact that our nation is $40 trillion in debt and yet, for some reason, we can’t hire additional agents to make sure that presidential candidates are safe while on the campaign trail? Really? Gee, maybe if we weren’t shipping off billions of dollars to Ukraine this wouldn’t be a problem?
“Now, Joe Biden is also saying that we shouldn’t make assumptions about the motive of the shooter. Well, I think we can assume one thing: He wanted to kill the Republican candidate for president. Can we agree on that?” He pontificated.