Trump gunman researched previous mass shooter Ethan Crumbley and his family

The Trump rally shooter searched online for information on the arrest of a Michigan mass shooter and his parents, who were prosecuted in a 2021 high school shooting. He visited websites for how to build explosives. And in the minutes before he fired shots in an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, he screenshotted a picture from a livestream of the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally. #CNN #news

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[SamadPathan_.]

So you take a picture of a guy using a range finder and you still let Trump go on stage WOW!!!

[nottoday]

I believe the shooter expected to be arrested instead of headshoted

[Morgaine]

This sounds as if he hoped to get his parents in trouble, too.

[MushramboMu]

Since journalists are allowed to talk about the content of the phone, why can't they show the phone and the content that got released?

[dbadagna]

Why not properly credit the hosts and guests in this video by adding their names to the video description above?

[wendymartin]

Thoughts and prayers and move on, right?

[haricodeverse]

Am I the only person thinking about future election results??

[larswallin]

Why was FBI woman in audience photo the shooting???

[_Cetarial]

Is YouTube seriously removing my comments because I’m calling out the people who failed to protect trump?

There was nothing offensive in them.

[kindredwolves]

You remember that time Don Jr posted a pic of a hammer and underwear calling it his Paul Pelosi costume? Someone who was actually in critical condition and not an ear wound. Yeah I feel the same way about this.

[F-BOTH-SIDES]

1st there was NO internet or email trail what so ever but now there are things that popped up that he searched right before committing the crime. MAN PLEASE!!!
Not to mention that lady hasn't seen a field office in decades, how the hell does she know anything thats not already on the net? Where is she researching?

[blazayblazay]

HE DIDN’T WANT HIS PARENTS TO BE CONNECTED

[DTRIPLESOWKOW]

Of course the guy looks like he’s from the hills have eyes

[Deziraye]

They are way oversimplifying this! This was not a security failure, this was an inside job. The 20 year old kid was used as a scapegoat. They either bribed him, brainwashed him, threatened him or coerced him. And more than likely if he was looking that kind of stuff up it wasn't because he was admiring them he was seeing what the outcome was. What happened to Ethan Crumley and then what would happen to his parents after something like that takes place. Sounds like he was more concerned for his parents and what would happen to them after the fact. But that's just my opinion. Take it or leave it.

[BrianKliewer]

The question is, is Trump protected by an angel or a demon?🤔 Legitimate question, especially in light of 2 Corinthians 11:14 "And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light."

[Robert...Schrey]

what do you make of his shirt (the Mt. Rushmore motive) ?

[mkay]

So wait, he was trying to get his parents charged?

[abefam]

Guess that rules out left wing radicals Don Jr!

[John-sd]

Update (1015ET): Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said on X that according to new whistleblowers, "MOST of Trump's security detail working the event last Saturday were not even Secret Service, " and were instead "drawn from the department's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

[SmashKing]

Joy Reid from NBC needs to do her research.