Columbus, OH

Pittsburgh, PA

Butler, PA

Would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks’ father was spotted this week leaving a Pittsburgh office building. Asked about his son’s attempt to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Crooks’ father ignored multiple questions before telling reporters, “I gotta pee.”

Video: Trump shooter’s father gives new statement

Pennsylvania State

Fox News

Thomas Crooks' father was spotted at a store on Monday, more than a week after the 20-year-old tried to assassinate former President Trump.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump shooter's father returns to public life, says ‘we just want to try to take care of ourselves’

Mediaite

Former federal prosecutor and NBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said that if Donald Trump loses the 2024 election, he will “spend the rest of his miserable life in court” or in prison. During a conversation on SiriusXM’s The Dean Obeidallah Show, host Dean Obeidallah asked about how and...

Former Federal Prosecutor: If Trump Loses Election He Spends ‘Rest of His Miserable Life’ in Court or Prison

Donald Trump kissed his wife on stage at the end of the Republican convention, before balloons dropped down from the ceiling. After Mr Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, he made a speech talking about the recent attempt on his life. He was then joined on stage by his wife...

Watch Trump and Melania kiss as balloons drop

Snopes

An online article read, "Questions Surround Simone Biles As Investigation Dives Into Her 'Performance Enhancers.'"

Fact Check: Simone Biles Investigated by Olympic Commission for Performance-Enhancing Drugs?

Manhattan, NY

Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer predicted that Judge Juan Merchan will sentence Donald Trump to prison if he does not throw out his guilty ruling. 
The post Fox’s Ari Fleischer Predicts Judge Merchan Will Sentence Trump to Prison If He Doesn’t Throw Out Guilty Ruling: ‘It Will Backfire’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Fox’s Ari Fleischer Predicts Judge Merchan Will Sentence Trump to Prison If He Doesn’t Throw Out Guilty Ruling: ‘It Will Backfire’

Jacksonville, FL

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Jacksonville Today

A former Jacksonville police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to enticement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Josue Garriga III, 34, faces a mandatory penalty of 10 years to life in federal prison and must register as a sex offender. A sentencing date has not been set.

Former cop pleads guilty to enticing 17-year-old girl

Police say more than 44,000 untaxed cigarettes were found during raids on eight shops.

Illegal cigarettes found behind fake walls

Jupiter, FL

The Mirror US

Michael W. Wiseman was arrested in Jupiter, Florida, - 20 miles north of Trump's luxury Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach. Wiseman is accused of threatening to kill the Republican politicians after Trump was subject to an assassination attempt on Saturday

Man arrested for ‘threatening to kill Trump and JD Vance’ days after rally assassination attempt

The New Republic

At Donald Trump’s Thursday’s press conference at Mar-a-Lago, the former president compared himself favorably to Martin Luther King Jr. After incorrectly claiming that “no one was killed on January 6th,” Trump went on to gloat that the crowd at his insurrection rally was larger than the March On Washington, which Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic speech at the Lincoln Memorial. “Nobody’s spoken to crowds bigger than me,” said the former president. “If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech and you look at ours...we had more.” Trump on his January 6 speech: "Nobody has spoken to...

Donald Trump’s Obsession With Crowd Size Reaches a New Low

A court hears Paul and Dean Mathews made £136,000 through their illegal refunds scheme.

Father and son jailed for steam iron returns scam

West Virginia State

A 9/11 terrorist has asked a judge to send him back home to France to avoid the prospect of having Donald Trump order his execution if he is re-elected as president. Zacarias Moussaoui, who is being held at the Supermax prison ADX Florence in Colorado, wrote to Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia that “your honor might concur that there is a possibility of, not a probability, that if the ex-U.S. President Donald Trump was to be reelected, he will sentence me to death by presidential executive order.”

9/11 terrorist begs judge to send him back to France because he is fearful of execution if Trump is president

Polk County, FL

Fort Meade, FL

Uncovering Florida

The Polk County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest after conducting an investigation into a case of credit card fraud involving 28-year-old Burger King employee, Kellyn Miley. The incident was discussed in detail during this morning's briefing with Sheriff Grady Judd.

Burger King Employee Caught Using Customer's Credit Card for Food at Former Job

New video obtained by CNN shows police scaling a wall to reach former president Donald Trump’s would-be assassin at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

‘Don’t pull up your head, he is right there’: Bodycam shows police response to Trump shooter

TheDailyBeast

The father of Donald Trump’s would-be assassin spoke publicly for the first time since his son’s attack, speaking tersely with reporters who appeared to ambush him outside a grocery store.The Fox News reporters approached Matthew Crooks, 51, and shouted questions about his son, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, as he pushed a grocery cart full of bagged items, Crush soda, and water to his vehicle Monday.“Matthew, why would your son want to kill the president?” a reporter during the interaction, which was recorded. Fox News Digital Releases First Video Of Trump Shooter Thomas Crooks Father Matthew CrooksWATCH: pic.twitter.com/5dLJG4ibJ0— Anthony Scott (@AnthonyScottTGP) July...

Trump Gunman Thomas Crooks’ Dad Speaks Out for the First Time

Two men are arrested on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug following the discovery.

Drugs arrests after woman found dead

Business Insider

The former president said in a Truth Social post that Kamala Harris had "terrible pole numbers against a fine and brilliant young man," referring to himself.

Trump, 78, just called himself a 'fine and brilliant young man'

Donald Trump returned to X (formerly Twitter) ahead of a one-on-one interview with Elon Musk Monday. But rather than elevate that, or attack his current opponent’s policies, one of Trump’s first ads directed at his 88.1 million followers on the platform appeared to narrowly focus on President Joe Biden.The roughly two-minute video—captioned “TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!”—attempted to frame Trump as a candidate primed for election since 1987, when he was still a major New York City developer. “In the ads, he says there’s nothing wrong with American foreign policy that a little backbone won’t cure,” a dated broadcaster can...

Trump Appears to Have Forgotten Who He’s Running Against in New Ad

Nadeem Hussain, from Wakefield, abused two girls over a lengthy period of time, police say.

Rapist who groomed teenagers jailed for 21 years

A historic marker could be erected to honor the victims of the racist mass shooting at the Dollar General store in Jacksonville’s New Town neighborhood nearly a year ago. If approved by the Jacksonville City Council, a marker would be installed at Kings Road and Canal Street on Aug. 25, a day before the first anniversary of the shooting, when a white gunman took the lives of three Black people.

Memorial considered to honor Dollar General victims

NewsBreak

Sniper shot Trump gunman's weapon and delayed him - report

A police sniper potentially saved lives by shooting the rifle of the would-be assassin, a congressional report...

Sniper shot Trump gunman's weapon and delayed him - report

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