Republican Representative Mike Waltz informed the Daily Mail that there are doubts about whether Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old charged with attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump, acted alone.
A Congressional task force investigation has uncovered concerns about potential foreign interference in the attack.
Rep. Waltz stressed that it is still unclear what motivated Crooks’ actions, leaving open the possibility of involvement by a foreign entity or other third party.
“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 told 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,” he added.
“I don’t know of many 19-year-old kids who could make multiple IEDs with a remote detonator on their own,” Waltz added. “Why didn’t that get picked up if he’s searching that online or buying literature on how to do that?”
After a Secret Service sniper fatally shot Thomas Matthew Crooks on a rooftop outside of Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally, police discovered a cell phone and a bomb detonator next to him.
“Channel 11′s Nicole Ford also obtained exclusive photos showing the cell phone and transmitter device found next to Crooks moments after a Secret Service sniper shot and killed him.” WPXI reported.

Nevertheless, CNN reported that investigators did not discover any online search history of Crooks looking into how to build homemade explosives.
“It’s unclear how Crooks assembled the explosive devices found in his car. Investigators parsing through his online search history haven’t found any indication of him researching how to make home-made explosives, law enforcement officials said.” – CNN reported.
Rep. Waltz also echoed this statement during his interview with Benny Johnson.
WATCH:
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Army Special Forces veteran Congressman Mike Waltz, on Congressional task force investigating Trump assassination attempt, reveals evidence leads him to conclude killer Thomas Crooks did not act alone… pic.twitter.com/dChqYVlum1
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A bit strange how the FBI cleaned up the body and the blood spatter and bone fragments from the 308 round before anyone could get a good look at it… And then the FBI cremated the body. WTF
The Secret Service was complicit in the assassination attempt. F JB!
https://thebeltwayreport.com/2024/07/video-former-army-sniper-blows-the-whistle-on-secret-service/?utm_source=Beltway%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:93228124&utm_campaign=VIDEO:%20Former%20Army%20SNIPER%20BLOWS%20THE%20WHISTLE%20On%20Secret%20Service!
Secret Service Reportedly Ignored Warning About Man With Rifle on Roof
https://dailypresser.com/doug-g/report-secret-service-reportedly-ignored-warning-about-man-with-rifle-on-roof/
BREAKING UPDATE:
Someone Frequently Visited Thomas Matthew Crooks at Home and Work Before His Attempted Assassination of Trump – Hunter Fielding July 22, 2024
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https://newsaddicts.com/breaking-update-someone-frequently-visited-thomas-matthew-crooks-at-home-and-work-before-his-attempted-assassination-of-trump/
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According to the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project: “We found the assassin’s connections through our in-depth analysis of mobile ad data to track movements of Crooks and his associates.”“To do this, we tracked devices that regularly visited both Crooks’s home and place of work and followed them,” the Oversight Project said.
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A regular visitor to Crooks’ home and workplace was also tracked to a building in Washington, D.C., located in Gallery Place.“This is in the same vicinity of an FBI office on June 26, 2023,” the Oversight Project claimed.
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Who’s device is this?
New audio forensic analysis reveals at least THREE SHOOTERS at Trump campaign event
https://rumble.com/v57ke59-new-audio-forensic-analysis-reveals-at-least-three-shooters-at-trump-campai.html
…………….. and more
Audio analysis raises troubling questions.
youtube.com/watch?v=TF4RFPXcTlI
BREAKING: Eyewitness tells BBC that he informed police, Secret Service about a suspicious man on a roof with a rifle. He was ignored.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1812273630702952543