JUST IN: Congressman Reveals CHILLING New Theory About Trump Shooting

Republican Congressman Mike Waltz (R-FL), who has been briefed on the investigation into the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, said he has reason to believe that 20-year-old Thomas Crooks may not have been the only threat present that day.

Probes by the FBI, Secret Service, and a bipartisan U.S. House committee have delved into the past of Crooks, a recent high school graduate whose friends and former classmates say was deeply skeptical about the American political system. Though he was a registered Republican, Crooks most recently made a small donation to a progressive group supporting President Joe Biden’s then-campaign for reelection. Rep. Waltz is among 12 lawmakers on the House committee receiving classified briefings as the search for a motive continues, and he said he has reason to believe that Crooks didn’t act alone.

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“I don’t understand, and I don’t have any answers yet to help me understand how the [Secret] Service and DHS came out so quickly and said – and I think the FBI as well, but I’ll have to check that – and said, he operated alone,” Waltz said when speaking with the Daily Mail at Trump Tower in Chicago on Wednesday. “How do you know that mere days into your investigation? You can’t tell us his motive, but you could tell us he operated alone? You can’t get into these encrypted overseas accounts, but you can tell us he acted alone? So, I don’t buy that yet.”

Crooks was shot and killed by a counter-sniper after opening fire at the July 13th rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, narrowly missing a kill shot fired from his high-powered AR-15 scoped rifle. Investigators located an explosives-laced vehicle near the site of the rally and a remote detonator on Crooks’s body, leading authorities to believe he planned to detonate his vehicle as part of a distraction attempt. Further developments have led them to believe that a last-second encounter with a local officer led Crooks to rush his plan for a perfect shot.

“I don’t know of many 19-year-old kids who could make multiple IEDs with a remote detonator on their own,” Waltz continued. “Why didn’t that get picked up if he’s searching that online or buying literature on how to do that? The more we get into it, the more questions I have.”

The Florida lawmaker said he would soon partake in another classified briefing with the FBI. However, he expressed skepticism that it would lead to further answers about how Crooks was able to supposedly act alone. Shortly after the attack, reports surfaced that Iran was plotting an assassination attempt against President Trump, a fact that may not be unrelated to Crooks. “It’s really what’s coming out around it that is so disturbing,” Waltz said. “And for me, the thing that’s most disturbing is that we have ongoing plots from Iran to take out a former president, leading candidate, and that a Pakistani national was just arrested after making a down payment for hitmen, and it’s barely even being covered in the news.”

Multiple failures by the Secret Service that day have been chronicled, leading to an onslaught of revelations about the deteriorating circumstances in the former president’s protection detail. At various times over the past several months, the Secret Service rebuffed requests to enhance Trump’s security measures, and officers were found to be posting compromising social media pictures or walking away from posts unannounced. Other agents have been furious with their colleagues’ lackadaisical attitude to their jobs and predicted another attempt on Trump’s life is “imminent.

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