And the timeline of the communist left’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump has moved once again.
Would-be Donald Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks landed on authorities’ radar more than 90 minutes before he opened fire at the former president’s Pennsylvania campaign rally — roughly a half-hour more than what officials previously claimed — according to newly released text messages.
Text messages between members of the Beaver County Emergency Service Unit obtained by the New York Times revealed a more concrete — and earlier — timeline leading up to the shooting that grazed the former president’s ear, injured two rallygoers and killed one.
“Call it in to command and have a uniform check it out,” an officer texted, according to another message provided to the Times by the office of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
The photos were shared with the Secret Service through a series of steps at the command center, according to the newspaper.
Another message in the group texts guessed that Crooks moved toward the back of the complex of AGR buildings “away from the event” at about 6 p.m.
But it was around that time that Crooks was on the roof, just minutes before he opened fire.
The texts show authorities knew about the suspicious person who ended up being Crooks close to 100 minutes before the shooting — not the about 60 minutes before the assassination attempt that has previously been mentioned at a congressional hearing, per the Times.