It has been revealed that the gunman who attempted to assassinate Trump at a Pennsylvania rally last week flew a drone over the site just hours before the shooting.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was able to navigate the drone over the western Pennsylvania fairgrounds and obtain aerial footage on July 13 – the same day as Trump’s Butler rally.
Crooks allegedly flew the drone on a programmed flight path earlier in the day, and officials say that the predetermined path suggests Crooks had flown the small aircraft more than once in order to scope out the site of the rally.
The shocking revelation was made on Friday – almost a week after the ill-fated campaign event – by law-enforcement officials, according to the Wall Street Journal.
It was yet another example of how the Secret Service failed to do an adequate job of securing the area, leaving the MAGA crowd and the former president exposed to the subsequent dangerous situation.
据透露，上周在宾夕法尼亚州集会上企图暗杀特朗普的枪手在枪击案发生前几个小时使用无人机飞过现场。
20 岁的托马斯·马修·克鲁克斯于 7 月 13 日（特朗普在巴特勒举行集会的同一天）使用无人机飞过宾夕法尼亚州西部的集市场地并获得了航拍镜头。
据称，克鲁克斯当天早些时候使用无人机沿着预定的飞行路线飞行，官员们表示，预定的路线表明克鲁克斯曾多次使用这架小型飞机来侦察集会地点。
据《华尔街日报》报道，这一令人震惊的披露是执法官员在周五（即这场不幸的竞选活动发生近一周后）披露的。
这是特勤局未能充分保护该场地的又一个例子，导致 MAGA 人群和前总统处于随后的危险境地。
