Butler Police, District Attorney
Release Shooter Photos, Police Trump Rally Security Preparations
We received four pages of documents
from the district attorney’s office in Butler County, Pennsylvania,
detailing the extensive preparation of local police for the rally at which
former President Trump was shot.
Local Pennsylvania law enforcement has been more transparent about the
Trump assassination attempt than the Biden-Harris administration, which is
in full cover-up mode.
The preparation by local officials included sniper teams, counter-assault
teams, and a quick response force.
On August 9, in response to a separate open records request, we also obtained
bodycam footage of the July 13 assassination events from the Butler
Township Police Department.
We received today’s records in response to July 26, 2024, Pennsylvania
Right To Know Request for:
All records and documents related to President Donald Trump’s
presidential campaign rally that was held in Butler, PA, on July 13, 2024,
including but not limited to:
1) site security plans, risk or threat assessments, designation of security
perimeters, plans for responding to suspicious activity or an active threat
or attack, memoranda of understanding, or other documents establishing
roles and responsibilities of federal agencies and state, local, tribal,
and territorial (SLTT) law enforcement partner agencies, and associated
chains of command.
2) All audio/video/photographic recordings captured on body-worn cameras or
other electronic devices in your possession.
Please provide records from July 1, 2024, to present.
Included with the documents were two
photographs of Matthew Crooks, the shooter, who was killed by law
enforcement snipers.
On July 9th, at 10:17 p.m., Sgt. Edward Lenz, Adams Township Police
Department, Mars, PA, emails
Richard Goldinger, with a “cc” To William Mayhugh, with the subject:
“Butler ESU Deployment” Request/ Presidential Rally 7 /13/24”. The
email states:
Good evening Rich!
I just want to ensure you have the information and details regarding the
request for Butler ESU to assist this Saturday at the presidential
candidate rally:
Butler Twp PD and the US Secret Service have requested our assistance at
the rally. I have had several discussions with the USSS, and as of today
they are requesting assistance from us with providing sniper/ overwatch
support, counterassault teams, and a quick reaction force. Our current plan
is to provide 2 sniper elements, 2 mobile counterassault teams, and a quick
reaction force.
- The sniper elements would provide
overwatch for the rally and would work in conjunction with the secret
service counter-sniper unit
- The counterassault teams would be
dedicated teams that would respond to and address an attack directed at the
presidential candidate inside of the venue, whether it be a coordinated
attack with multiple assailants, or a single
attacker.
- The quick response force would be
dedicated to respond to and address any high-risk incidents occurring
outside of the venue. They would not respond to civil disturbances – this
would be handled by uniformed members of PSP. The QRF would assist PSP at
the request of incident commander, and upon the approval of the ESU
commander.
This will be manpower intensive, and Beaver County ESU
and Washington County SWAT have agreed to supplement with manpower –
Beaver ESU is going to send their armor with 6-8 operators, and Washington
County SWAT is going to send a sniper element along with 3-4 operators. The
request for assistance will be officially made through Region 13.Our
current plan is to rally at 0900 for a briefing, and to be operational by
1100. As long as the timeline doesn’t shift, we should be releasing the
assisting agencies by 1830, but I expect Butler ESU to remain operational
until a majority of the farm snow grounds has been cleared.
We have a law enforcement walkthrough at the farm show Thursday at 1000 ,
and Bill is coming to that as well I believe.
As always, if you have any questions let me know, and I will follow up with
more information should anything in our plan change!
Stay safe!
Ed
On July 9th, 2014, at 1:18 p.m., Lenz sends an email
to Steven Bicehouse, with a “cc” to Kevin Mikulan, with the subject:
“Region 13 Tactical Support Request”. The email
states:
Good evening Sir!
Butler ESU has been requested to assist Butler Township Police and the US
Secret Service at the presidential rally this Saturday, July 13 2024.
Throughout my discussions with the USSS, they have requested we provide
sniper teams and counterassault teams, as well as an additional element
available outside of the venue. This will be manpower intensive, and I
spoke with Pat Young from Beaver County ESU and Guy Kuzak from Washington
County SWAT to ask for some assistance. Both offered to send a squad of
guys with equipment to assist but asked that an official request be
submitted for Region 13 assets.
I have never submitted a request for a pre-scheduled detail, and I’m not
exactly sure what information you would need:
Date: 7/13/2024
Tactical Team Deployment Type: Dignitary Protection w/ counterassault and
sniper deployments Event Details: Presidential Candidate Rally
Event Location : Butler Farm Show Grounds
Staging Location: 121 Sparks Ave, Butler PA 16001, Butler Township FD
Arrival Time: 0900
Expected End Time: 1830 (Region assets will be released as soon as it is
operationally feasible, Butler ESU assets will expect to remain
later)
Beaver County: Butler
County ESU is requesting assistance from Beaver County ESU, specifically
their armor asset, manpower, and tactical equipment as determined by
operational needs.
Washington County: Butler County ESU is requesting assistance from
Washington County SWAT, specifically with manpower and tactical equipment
as determined by operational needs.
If you do need further information just let me know, and I will get
whatever you need! Thank you!
We have more than 25 FOIA and open records currently pending on the
shooting of Trump with the Biden administration and local and state
officials and agencies in Pennsylvania.
Expect several FOIA lawsuits soon (see below!)
FBI Refuses to Release Trump Assassination Records
The FBI withheld
information in our FOIA request about its coordination with the Secret
Service regarding the July 13 Butler, Pennsylvania, rally at which former
President Trump was shot.
In denying our FOIA request, the FBI cites FOIA exemption
7(A), which applies to information that “could reasonably be expected
to interfere with enforcement proceedings”
Our request on July 26 asked for:
All records of the FBI, including emails, email chains, email attachments,
text messages, video or audio recordings, photographs, drawings, outlook
calendars, meeting minutes, finished intelligence products, bulletins, raw
intelligence, threat products, correspondence, statements, letters,
memoranda, reports, briefings, presentations, notes, summaries, or other
form of record, regarding preparation and coordination with the USSS for
former President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign rally that was held
in Butler, PA, on July 13, 2024. Please provide records from June 15,
2024, to present.
We are pursuing the next steps in preparation for litigation.
Were there others involved in the assassination attempt on Trump? If not,
then why would the FBI use the excuse of protecting someone’s right to a
fair trial to hide records on the FBI’s and Secret Service’s
inexcusable failures to protect Trump from being nearly assassinated. The
Biden-Harris administration is running a major league cover-up on the near
assassination of former President Trump.
The Secret Service also recently refused
to honor FOIA requests for information on the shooting.
(In July we filed a FOIA lawsuit
against the Department of Homeland Security for records relating to an
incident at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland in which a Secret Service agent
assigned to protect Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly got into a
scuffle with colleagues.
In June we received 116
pages of Secret Service records from the Department of Homeland
Security that reveal the details about several incidents in which Secret
Service personnel were bitten by President Biden’s dog Commander,
sometimes requiring medical attention.
In October 2022 we sued
the Department of Homeland Security for all communications of the U.S.
Secret Service internally and with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
regarding the raid on President Trump’s home and for any video or audio
recordings made during the raid on August 8, 2022.)
Soros Spends $117 Million to Elect, Control Leftist County
Prosecutors
One reason our streets aren’t safe is the soft-on-crime prosecutors
supported by George Soros. Our Corruption Chronicles blog reports.
In a scheme to promote a radical leftwing overhaul of the U.S. justice
system, billionaire George Soros has spent about $117 million in the last
few years to elect then control dozens of liberal county prosecutors
throughout the nation, a new report
reveals. Once elected the prosecutors, typically known as district
attorneys who represent the government in criminal cases, meet regularly
with representatives from Soros-funded nonprofits that coordinate and
manage the chief officials responsible for upholding and enforcing the law
in their respective districts. The Soros machine orders prosecutors to
practice leftist policies that are soft on crime, target police and
political opponents. The district attorneys are also directed not to
enforce certain laws such as those protecting children from chemical
castration and genital mutilation, procedures justified by the left as
“life-saving gender-affirming” for transgender individuals.
The extraordinary details of the robust
Soros effort to overhaul the nation’s justice system by embedding leftist
prosecutors throughout the country were uncovered during a year-long
investigation by the Media Research Center (MRS). Dedicated to documenting
and combating the falsehoods and censorship of the news media, the
Washington D.C.-based group examined thousands of pages of documents that
show a “shocking level” of control by the Soros-funded nonprofits over
many county prosecutors. “The Soros machine sets their policies and
priorities, staffs their offices with hand-picked leftists, dictates media
narratives, lobbies government officials and perverts the American justice
system,” the MRC probe found. The investigation determined that the Soros
enterprise dedicated at least $40 million to help elect 126 prosecutors and
an additional $77,663,316 to the leftist nonprofits that issue their
marching orders once they are in office.
MRC used public records requests to obtain
7,785 pages of internal communications from dozens of Soros-backed
prosecutors and examined official files as well as electronic mail, text
messages, chats, and other communications. The documents expose how the
Hungarian billionaire’s groups directed the liberal prosecutors to
manipulate laws involving drugs, abortion, illegal immigration, election
integrity, capital punishment and even childhood sex changes. One of the
key groups directing the local prosecutors is Fair and Justice Prosecution (FJP), a nonprofit committed to promoting a
justice system grounded in fairness, equity and compassion. “Great
strides have been made in promoting justice reforms that recognize that
prior ‘tough on crime’ and incarceration-driven practices have not
always resulted in safer or healthier communities,” according to FJP. The
group is a sponsored project of the Tides Center,
another Soros-funded conglomerate dedicated to advancing social justice.
“FJP held at least 51 private meetings and published 33 formal statements
and pledges that contained signatures from prosecutors within its network
between 2021 and 2022 alone,” the MRC report states.
Examples include 508
communications—emails, virtual meetings, in-person
conversations—between San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s
office and FJP during an 18-month period, averaging at least one
communication a day. Five county prosecutors in Texas worked so closely
that they created a shared group chat to strategize on refusing to enforce
statutes that ran afoul of their leftist political views. Combined, the
elected officials represent over seven million Texans and the documents
reviewed by MRC show they strategized to undermine political opponents,
including the state’s Republican attorney general. “At least 30 percent
of the U.S. population currently lives under the boot of the Soros
prosecutors who were pressured to sign pledges vowing to adhere to various
Soros priorities,” the report says, adding that the “Soros machine”
arranged dozens of joint statements and pledges signed by 123 of the 126
prosecutors vowing to adhere to the leftist billionaire’s
priorities.
Besides embedding like-minded county
prosecutors nationwide, the records obtained by MRC show that Soros also
spent at least $35 million to support anti-police groups and causes in one
year alone after George Floyd’s death. His beloved FJP defended the
violence and racial unrest triggered by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and
Antifa movements, accusing the American criminal justice system of being
systematically racist. Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) also
dedicated $220 million for racial justice and black
empowerment in the aftermath of
Floyd’s death.
Until next week,
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