It’s been three weeks since 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks allegedly took several shots at former president Donald Trump from atop an American Glass Research building roughly 150 meters away from Trumps podium at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Grazing Trump’s right ear, killing one bystander, and wounding two others before being neutralized by the Secret Service. In that time since the dust has begun to settle, an official narrative has started to take shape, the head of the secret service has resigned in disgrace, and yet for the most part still no one really knows what happened.
How was a 20 year old just barely out of high school able to outsmart the most sophisticated security team on the planet and come within mere inches of ending the life of a former president as he campaigns for reelection?
As we dig further into this story and new evidence comes to light it only serves to further complicate an already complex web of contradiction.
While we don’t purport to have all the answers, the purpose of this article is to outline information and events as we know them in order to best discern the truth.
Hellbound and Down 