by R. Cort Kirkwood, The New American:

Police body-camera video taken during the minutes following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, confirms that local police photographed would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks and sent the photos to the Secret Service (USSS).

The footage, provided by GOP Iowa Senator Charles Grassley in a news release and on X, also confirms that Crooks disappeared only to reemerge firing an AR-15 at Trump from a rooftop less than 150 yards from the stage where Trump spoke.

Grassley has demanded answers from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the acting director of the Secret Service, Ronald Rowe.