IMPORTANT SECRET SERVICE DEVELOPMENT: I just talked to a well-positioned source in the Secret Service community who confirmed reports of agency intelligence gathering that supports a theory that rally shooter Thomas Crooks was likely planning to take out people in the crowd in a mass Vegas-style shooting and wasn't initially planning to attempt to assassinate Trump.
He changed his mind after he was scrambling to escape police and climbed onto the roof.
When he saw that nobody was on the roof and he had a clean shot at Trump, he went for it. No one can completely get inside teh shooter's head because he's dead. But high-level sources within the Secret Service are convinced that he was planning to shoot at the crowd because he used his range-finder on the ground first and was trying to escape police when he scrambled onto the roof.
Also, I'm hearing there was no ladder -- and that he assembled the gun from parts in his backpack once on ton he roof.
>IMPORTANT SECRET SERVICE DEVELOPMENT: I just talked to a well-positioned source in the Secret Service community who confirmed reports of agency intelligence gathering that supports a theory that rally shooter Thomas Crooks was likely planning to take out people in the crowd in a mass Vegas-style shooting and wasn't initially planning to attempt to assassinate Trump.
>He changed his mind after he was scrambling to escape police and climbed onto the roof.
>When he saw that nobody was on the roof and he had a clean shot at Trump, he went for it. No one can completely get inside teh shooter's head because he's dead. But high-level sources within the Secret Service are convinced that he was planning to shoot at the crowd because he used his range-finder on the ground first and was trying to escape police when he scrambled onto the roof.
>Also, I'm hearing there was no ladder -- and that he assembled the gun from parts in his backpack once on ton he roof.
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