A SWAT counter-sniper who was working the Pennsylvania rally where former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated last month agreed with Republican lawmakers Monday that an “odd” pattern of …
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Washington Regional SWAT counter-sniper Ben Shaffer said it was “absolutely” concerning that the roof of the
AGR International building had been quickly scrubbed and
gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks’ body disposed of before an official autopsy report could be released.
“Do you also find it odd … that
the body of Matthew Crooks had not only been released and cremated — but that the coroner who’s responsible for releasing the body had no knowledge of it? “Yes, absolutely,” Shaffer said. “It sounds like destruction of evidence,” replied Erik Prince, a former US Navy SEAL who founded the private military contractor Blackwater in the late 1990s.
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), another member of the select task force whose members traveled to Butler on Monday to examine the rally scene.
Waltz said last week that FBI briefings had revealed Crooks’ use of messaging accounts on platforms located in Belgium, Germany and New Zealand. “Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aide need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad — where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?” Waltz said at a press conference last week.
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How did he learn to build those IEDs? How did he learn to install remote detonators? How did he conduct those searches and not get popped?” he told
The Post the following day. “I still have a lot of questions.”