Was Crooks encouraged by others?
JFK assassination expert and author Gerald Posner spoke with The Drill Down crew during a recent podcast episode where he raised the question of whether or not Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks had any help in a kind of “kitchen conspiracy.”
“We don’t know yet if the shooter had anybody else working with him; we’ll find that out. Was he encouraged by others to go ahead and do it? Did he have any assistance? We’ll know. He was the shooter but he could have had some other help in a small kitchen conspiracy,” Posner said, thinking out loud.
Posner also asked if there would be a “Peter Strzok” moment. Strzok, of course, was the FBI Agent who, back in 2017, was caught sending anti-Trump text messages.
“Will we find personal emails or possibly even government emails from Secret Service officials that say ‘I can’t stand that no-good ex-president. I really don’t like him at all.’ That will feed the narrative. Did the Secret Service…were they lax on security? Did they refuse to give Trump extra security for a two-year period — which they’ve now admitted —because they are almost creating a situation where someone could take a shot like Crooks?”
Watch Posner’s analysis above.
Last month following the Trump assassination attempt, multiple media outlets confirmed that the Secret Service had, in the past, denied extra security for Trump events.
“Top officials at the U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied requests for additional resources and personnel sought by Donald Trump’s security detail in the two years leading up to his attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday, according to four people familiar with the requests,” The Washington Post reported.
For the full Drill Down episode with renowned assassination expert Gerald Posner, click here.
