Republished with permission from JoeHoft and AbleChild.
Forty-five days after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released investigative information.
While any nibble goes a long way, the information provided is flawed because the FBI is still not specific about the important physical evidence.
Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office, Kevin Rojek, made comments during a media call that only added to the question.
For example, Rojek explained that “the FBI now has the subject’s autopsy and toxicology report from the coroner’s office.”
Great When did the FBI get the autopsy and toxicology reports from the coroner? Is Rojek referring to the Butler County Coroner or the Allegheny County Medical Examiner? People often confuse these two entities. Specificity would be helpful. It is important.
Rojek also said that “the autopsy report indicated that the subject was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m. on July 13, 2024, as a result of a gunshot wound to the head.”
It reads like a Butler County Coroner’s death certificate, not an ME autopsy.
If this is from the coronary and not ME, then there is a serious problem. The coroner’s report read, “an inquest held at 615 Whitestown Road on July 13th…” Nope.
The coroner went to the crime scene at midnight on the 13th and was turned away and told to come back later. The coroner returned at 6am on the 14th to complete the death investigation.
The FBI told the coroner to come back later, then the death investigation report was inaccurate and needed to be corrected, and Agent Rojek was supposed to explain why the coroner was kicked out in the middle of the night.
Next. Agent Rojek explained that “all visible evidence collected from the roof of the AGR and from the Subject’s body was consistent with the rounds fired by the Secret Service Sniper.” It’s interesting that the FBI would use the word “consistent.”
What the public needs to know is whether a projectile was recovered from the subject’s body and whether there was a rifling match between the projectile and the barrel of the sniper’s weapon?
Providing a ballistics report would be helpful. Further, viewing the autopsy will also provide important information about the direction of the projectile thrown from the subject. Specificity.
Rojek explained that the FBI made “the scene secure and in accordance with established evidence collection procedures, the FBI contacted the Butler County Coroner’s office.” “Gathering evidence?”
What evidence is collected before the coroner determines the time and cause of death? What evidence was touched, moved or removed by the FBI before the coroner arrived at the scene twelve hours after the shooting?
Again, knowing why the FBI turned down a coroner in the middle of the night would be helpful. Agent Rojek further explained that “the coroner removed the body from the scene and conducted a death investigation.”
The coroner removed the body before the inquest? That seems strange. Isn’t your body important for writing crime scene notes? How about a photo of the deceased on the roof?
Agent Rojek also reported that “toxicology showed negative results for alcohol and drug abuse.” indeed? What about other medications, such as prescription psychiatric medications?
Does the ME conduct toxicology tests to determine if the subject has used one or more prescribed drugs? Often these tests are not performed by the ME.
For example, note that in the case of Nashville mass shooter Audrey Hale, ME reported that “Hale’s blood showed no positive findings of toxicological significance.”
It was later reported that Hale had taken some prescribed psychiatric drugs at the time of the shooting. A full toxicology report is essential.
Agent Rojek explained that the FBI “followed all appropriate evidence-gathering procedures and completed the final release of the scene seven days after the attack … including cleaning biological material from the AGR roof …”
This is a point of contention among law enforcement experts who argue it is not standard procedure for investigative agencies to clean up crime scenes.
However, while it is helpful that the FBI has finally released some information about the investigation, much of the information released only adds to the list of questions.
But, more than that, one must wonder why the full autopsy has not been released for public review, why the ballistics report has not been released for public review and why no mention of the fingerprint and DNA tests completed by the FBI on the alleged shooter?
It’s also interesting, that no one mentions “white van”. yes, sing the white van that police found using the police K9 unit. according to The Daily Mail reported about the white van, “officers searched for a dilapidated white vehicle that had been stripped of explosives after being led across a field to its location by a K9 unit.”
Fox News reports that law enforcement is combing the white van believed to have been used by Thomas Matthew Crooks after he nearly killed former President Trump.
Fox further reported that “officers found explosives, including an improvised explosive device, inside the van … confirming that more than one was found.” The label on the white van is reportedly from Arizona.
Become. Why didn’t the FBI mention this white van? More than one explosive device was found inside the van and there was video of the police combing the van.
Why is this van not mentioned by the FBI, even if they just say that the van has nothing to do with Crooks. Of course, that would be a problem. Dogs sniffed out the van based on the scent of Crooks.
Another car with explosives? It must sound like more than one subject or at least more than one car.
So, no autopsy, no full toxicology, no fingerprints or DNA data, and no ballistics report. Oh, and an extra car with explosives.
No one wants to be Johnny Rain Cloud, but the FBI’s “updated” information only raises more questions that need to be answered…questions that the FBI should have already answered. What is the problem?
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