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Trump rally counter-sniper backs GOP lawmakers’ bombshell ‘evidence tampering’ claims

August 27, 2024 | | Print Article

A SWAT counter-sniper has admitted that he too finds it off how so much of the Trump assassination evidence was scrubbed afterward.

Washington Regional SWAT counter-sniper Ben Shaffer, who was reportedly working onsite at the location in Pennsylvania where the assassination attempt occurred last month, made the admission during an appearance Monday at a Heritage Foundation forum.

Put together by Reps. Eli Crane and Cory Mills, the forum was designed to offer an alternative to the official assassination investigation conceived by House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

During the forum, Mills asked Shaffer the following question:

“Do you find it odd that literally only days after the attempted assassination on President Donald J. Trump, while the roof was too sloped to place individuals for counter-sniper operations, that it wasn’t too sloped of a roof for the FBI to go ahead and tamper, in my opinion, with evidence by washing the roof off that may have had significant evidence on it?”

“Yes, I do,” Shaffer replied.

“Do you also find it odd … that the body of Matthew Crooks had not only been released and cremated — but that the coroner who’s responsible for releasing the body had no knowledge of it?” Mills pressed.

“Yes, absolutely,” Shaffer responded.

Also speaking at the forum, Blackwater founder and former U.S. Navy SEAL Erik Prince said, “It sounds like destruction of evidence.”

Exactly.

Newsweek reported earlier this month that when Rep. Clay Higgins, a Republican, tried to inspect Crooks’ body, it was “gone.”

“My effort to examine Crooks’ body on Monday, August 5, caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact … the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13,” Higgins wrote in a report reviewed by Newsweek. “On J23, Crooks was gone. Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc.”

He added that the Butler County Coroner “technically had legal authority over the body, but I spoke with the Coroner, and he would have never released Crooks’ body to the family for cremation or burial without specific permission from the FBI.”

Higgins also wrote that “similar to releasing the crime scene and scrubbing crime scene biological evidence … this action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort.”

During the forum, Shaffer also argued that the sight of Crooks walking around the assassination site with a rangefinder scope should have triggered concerns in the eyes of law enforcement.

“That would warrant some type of either investigatory detention or stop and question,” he said.

Mills also accused the FBI of a lack of transparency surrounding both Crooks’ online research into explosives and his encrypted overseas messaging accounts.

Rep. Chip Roy and conservative commentator Dan Bongino, both of whom were present for the forum, also spoke about this:

Addressing the forum, Bongino said at one point that the Secret Service’s dubious reasoning for previously rejecting former President Donald Trump’s requests for additional security reeks of politics.

“It appears that for the first time in American history, we have a Secret Service that is making decisions that may not be all political, but may have a political tinge to it,” he said.

He also alleged that the Secret Service has become corrupted by diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

Mills meanwhile stressed that Monday’s meet-up was one of many more to come in the upcoming days.

“This is a message to all of Congress that if we are not selecting people based on meritocracy, that independent investigations such as this will continue to move forward, that there are members who are conservatives who will not be silenced,” he said.

As previously reported, Crane and Mills launched this independent investigation because they believe the official congressional investigation has become politicized.

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