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Former President Donald Trump was nearly killed in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. The bullet missed, grazing his ear instead. Trump came within millimeters of getting killed yesterday. There are glaring security oversights, which will be addressed in time, but around 1:40 AM EST, the FBI finally confirmed that the shooter was Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel, Pennsylvania.
The New York Post first reported on Trump’s would-be assassin, which was published before a press conference with law enforcement officials around 11:45 PM last night. As Spencer noted, the officials were cagey, refusing initially to release the identity of the would-be assassin. The Secret Service was not represented at the presser.
