Rep. Clay Higgins Reveals Where The “9th Shot” Came From In Trump Assassination Attempt

Republican Representative Clay Higgins of Louisianna has revealed where the 9th shot came from in the Trump assassination attempt.

In Higgins’ investigation report, the lawmaker revealed that a Butler SWAT operator shot Trump Rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’s gun.

In the report, Higgins revealed Crooks shot eight times at President Trump and rallygoers.

The ninth shot at the rally came from a Butler SWAT operator who hit Crook’s rifle stock.

The tenth shot came from the southern counter-sniper team which  took out Crooks.

Clay Higgins — Now we know where the 9th shot came from, in Trump assassination.https://t.co/YdCJljWDee pic.twitter.com/zHFV47a0ii

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) August 17, 2024

Clay Higgins Insights:
9th shot from Butler PD hit his stock+ fragmented in Crooks face?
That's breaking news!

10th kill shot came from "southern team"

I wonder if this is sniper team on barn or reported sniper further back in stables area. I heard reports of father away team https://t.co/MRPcYKeAC1 pic.twitter.com/tYUtOzxADu

— G.H. Oliver (@AquaBlueLounge) August 16, 2024

Check out what Breitbart reported:

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) said in a Monday investigative report that a Butler SWAT operator shot would-be presidential assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ gun “from the ground” before the shooter was killed by a U.S. Secret Service sniper during former President Donald Trump’s July 13 campaign rally.

A total of ten shots were fired during Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Rep. Higgins said in a preliminary investigative report to Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), the Chairman of the “Bipartisan Task Force to Investigate the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump.”

The report stated that eight “shots were fired by Crooks from his firing (and dying) position” on the rooftop, and that all eight bullet casings are now “allegedly in proper possession of the FBI.”

“Thomas Matthew Crooks’ rifle is also allegedly in the proper possession of the FBI,” the congressman noted. “I will need to examine all of the physical evidence that has been harvested by law enforcement and is in the possession of the FBI. All of it.”

Notably, the ninth shot fired at the July 13 rally “was from a Butler SWAT operator from the ground about 100 yards away from the AGR building,” Higgins continued in his report.

Shot nine “hit Crooks’ rifle stock” and fragmented into the shooter’s face, neck, and right shoulder area from the stock breaking up into pieces, the congressman said.

At that point, Crooks “went down” from his firing position, “and the SWAT officer was certain of his hit,” but then the would-be presidential assassin “recovered” a few seconds later and “popped back up,” the report added.

BREAKING NEWS I hadn't heard!

“9th shot fired was from Butler SWAT from the ground about 100 yards away from the AGR building. Shot 9 hit Crooks’ rifle stock & fragged his face/neck/right shoulder area from the stock breaking up."

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— Kirt R. Poovey (@Aegis2013) August 16, 2024

Per Conservative Tree House:

Representative Clay Higgins is a member of the congressional investigative task force looking into the assassination attempt by Thomas Matthew Crooks against President Trump. Rep Higgins was also doing independent research prior to his appointment to the congressional committee, and he released his preliminary report findings today.

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There are some remarkable revelations in the 6-page pdf. One detail outlines how it was a Butler County SWAT officer who fired the initial shot that stopped Matthew Crooks after 8 shots fired. The Feds did not initially stop the assassin, the locals did. Another detail highlights how the Butler County coroner was not aware the FBI quickly released the body of Crooks for immediate cremation.

“The 9th shot fired on J13 was from a Butler SWAT operator from the ground about 100 yards away from the AGR building. Shot 9 hit Crooks’ rifle stock and fragged his face/neck/right shoulder area from the stock breaking up.

The SWAT operator who took this shot was a total badass; when he had sighted the shooter Crooks as a mostly obscured by foliage moving target on the AGR rooftop, he immediately left his assigned post and ran towards the threat, running to a clear shot position directly into the line of fire while Crooks was firing 8 rounds. On his own, this ESU SWAT operator took a very hard shot, one shot. He stopped Crooks and importantly, I believe the shot damaged the buffer tube on Crooks’ AR. I won’t be certain of this until I can examine Crooks’ rifle, but I’m 99% sure based upon reliable eye-witness ESU tactical officers who observed Crooks’ rifle before the FBI harvested it as evidence. This means that if his AR buffer tube was damaged, Crooks’ rifle wouldn’t fire after his 8th shot.”