Texts Show Shooter ID'd Early at Trump Rally

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "The messages also showed that the officers said 25 minutes before Trump took the stage and 33 minutes before the shooting that they should inform the Secret Service that a "kid learning around building we are in. ...
51% : For example, Crooks scoped out the rally site a day before the Secret Service did and used a drone to survey the site the day of the rally while the Secret Service didn't seek permission to use one.Crooks also researched how far Lee Harvey Oswald was from John F. Kennedy when he fatally shot the president in 1963 (265 feet) and managed to climb onto a roof that was 400 feet from Trump at its closest point.
47% : In one message 97 minutes before Trump took the stage, a local countersniper who was ending his shift, texted his colleagues about a man outside the fenced area of the rally, saying the person would have seen him come out with his rifle and "knows you guys are up there.
47% : Crooks started searching online for information on famous people, including FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden and Trump, as well as looking up "major depressive disorder.

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