Hello, it's Miranda with a new mini episode to start off your week. This new feature is a little

more topical and more to do with my day-to-day job as a columnist for The New York Post when I

zoom in on topics I think will interest you. Today, it's more of a news story than usual, and it appears on today's

cover of the New York Post, with the headline, Trump Shooter Secrets Exposed, Why didn't FBI

stop Thomas Crooks earlier? It all began when I received a call from a contact in the legal

field who I know and trust. He wanted to introduce

me to someone with crucial information about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump

at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last July. This is what he told me.

We are all owed a better explanation from the FBI and the Secret Service about the attempted

assassination of Donald Trump 16 months ago at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The president himself remains unsatisfied with the answers he's been given about the circumstances

leading to 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, climbing on a rooftop with an

AR-15-style rifle and firing eight times at Trump, narrowly missing his head but hitting his ear.

Crooks were shot dead by a Secret Service sniper that day, but not before he killed Rallygoa

Cori Comparatore 50 and seriously

wounded David Dutch, 58, and James Copenhagenha, 75, who were sitting in the bleachers behind Trump.

There is something very wrong with the official story, and that invites conspiracy theories.

The president demanded answers months ago. A man was murdered. What is going on? Then FBI director Chris Ray told Congress after the July 13,

24 Butler attack, that the Bureau had found nothing in Crook's online history that pointed to a motive

or political ideology.

A week later, Ray's deputy, Paula Bait, told Congress that comments posted on one of Crook's social

media accounts, quote, appear to reflect anti-Semitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse

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