The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump Saturday was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, sources told The Post.
Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pa., squeezed off shots — one of which grazed Trump in the ear — at an outdoor rally in Butler, just outside Pittsburgh.
Sources said Crooks was planted on a roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage at Butler Farm Show grounds.
He was killed by Secret Service snipers. An AR-style rifle was later recovered.
Bethel Park is a village 40 miles south of where the Butler rally was held.
Why Crooks fired on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is unclear.
Baltimore, MD – July 13, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Yaakov & Aviva Gluck on the birth of Reva Miriam.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Howard & Gitty Gluck and Gregg & Rena Trestman
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
Baltimore, MD – July 13, 2024 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Chaim Baruch and Ayala Lefkowitz on the birth of a daughter.
Mazel Tov to grandparents Rabbi and Mrs Yoseph Lefkowitz
יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן!
The White House said President Biden spoke with former President Donald Trump on Saturday evening.
No further details were provided on the call.
Biden will convene a briefing with homeland security and law enforcement officials at the White House on Sunday morning.
Former President Donald Trump says he was shot in the ear during an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday evening.
The bloodied former president was whisked away by Secret Service after shots were heard in the crowd of his Butler, Pa. political event. The shooter and a rally attendee are both dead as a result of the incident, the Associated Press reports.
Trump posted on Truth Social Saturday evening to thank law enforcement, offer his condolences to the family of the deceased eventgoer and to confirm he was hit by a bullet.
"I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound," Trump wrote.
Meta (META.O), opens new tab said on Friday it was rolling back some restrictions that had applied to former U.S. President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts.
The social media company indefinitely suspended Trump's accounts following his praise of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The company then reinstated his accounts in early 2023, saying it would monitor Trump's posts for further violations that could result in another suspension of between one month and two years.
Trump, who is running against U.S. President Joe Biden, will no longer be subject to the additional monitoring, Meta said.
"In assessing our responsibility to allow political expression, we believe that the American people should be able to hear fro...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Saturday, 13 July 2024), at his press conference in Tel Aviv [translated from Hebrew]:"Dear citizens of Israel, good evening.The State of Israel, via the IDF and the ISA, attacked a target in Gaza today in order to eliminate Muhammad Deif and his deputy Rafa'a Salameh. While there is no absolute certainty yet that they were eliminated, I would like to assure you that one way or another, we will reach the entire Hamas leadership.Muhammad Deif is an arch-murderer, the Hamas Chief-of-Staff, the #2 in the chain of command. It was Deif who planned and led the October 7 massacre and many additional terrorist attacks. His hands are soaked in the blood of many Israelis.At midnight last night, when the ISA Director presented me with the details ...
The IDF on Saturday afternoon confirmed that Israeli security forces attempted to eliminate Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas' military wing and considered one of the terror group's leaders, and the commander of Hamas' Khan Yunis Brigade.
"In a joint IDF and ISA activity based on precise intelligence, the IDF's Southern Command and the IAF carried out a strike in an area where two senior Hamas terrorists and additional terrorists hid among civilians," the IDF confirmed.
"The location of the strike was an open area surrounded by trees, several buildings, and sheds."
Earlier, the IDF had said that the strike was in a "defined terrorist area" and that it was "waiting for the results of the attack." The IDF does not believe that there were hostages in the area around Deif.
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Trump says he was shot in the ear during rally; one attendee and shooter are dead
A shooting at Donald Trump‘s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the former president and presumptive Republican nominee, law enforcement officials say.
A shooter is dead and an attendee was killed. Two attendees are critically injured. Trump’s campaign says he is “fine” after being whisked off the stage and is being checked out at a local medical facility.
Former President Trump issued a statement on the shooting incident at his rally in Pennsylvania on Truth Social.
"I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsyl...
Baltimore, MD – July 12, 2024 - The following announcement was sent today for the myriads associated with Mercaz Torah U’Tefillah.
The entire Mercaz Torah U’Tefillah Kehilla joins the Rav in sorrow as he begins the year of aveilus for his father, the Zidichover Rebbe of Chicago who was recently niftar. The Rebbe, Zt”l’s, warmth and love for every Yid were legendary, leaving Klal Yisroel and the Chicago community with a profound void. Following the Rebbe’s petirah, the instructions were revealed that his sons will carry on the important mantle of Rebbe in his stead. As announced this past Shabbos, we are excited to inform you that our Rav should now be referred to as the Zidichover Rebbe of Baltimore. We wish the Rebbe much bracha and hatzlac...
Baltimore, MD - July 12, 2024 — With temperatures again rising in the Baltimore region and the heat index forecasted to reach over 100 degrees Fahrenheit Sunday through Wednesday of next week, the Baltimore City Commissioner of Health Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga has declared a Code Red Extreme Heat Alert for Sunday, July 14th through Wednesday, July 17th. The heat index is a measure of air temperature and relative humidity and indicates how hot it feels to the human body.
“With temperatures expected to rise and the heat index expected to surpass 105 degrees, a Code Red Extreme Heat Alert will be in place to let residents know of the resources available to help in the heat and serve as a reminder of the health risks of extreme heat,” said Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga, Baltimore City H...
Baltimore, MD - July 12, 2024 - Read the Current Issue of Baltimore Jewish Home. Click on the graphic below:
Washington, D.C. - July 12, 2024 - On Wednesday morning, July 10, Baltimore's Ariel Golfeyz, was assaulted in Washington, D.C.'s Foggy Bottom neighborhood in what police are investigating as a hate crime and Felony Assault. The attack took place near the Foggy Bottom metro station on George Washington University (GW) property. Golfeyz noticed a man behind him walking strangely for 8:30 in the morning and as he was about to make a turn to enter the train station he was “sucker punched” and driven into bushes. The assailant did not relent, delivering intense blows to Golfeyz's face and body, forcing him to fight back by grabbing the assailant's neck and then biting him on the leg. The assailant continued to beat him until a Special Police offi...
The IDF, following on Shin Bet and intelligence information, eliminated the deputy head of the Hamas Shejaiya Battalion in Gaza, Ayman Shuvaydah.
Shuvaydah served in the past as a senior official in the operations headquarters of the Hamas terrorist organization and was involved in leading the massacre on October 7th.
During the war, he participated in the fighting in the Shejaiya Battalion and directed many terrorist attacks against IDF forces.
Along with Shuvaydah, a company commander in the Shuja'iyya Battalion, terrorist, Abada Abu Hain, a veteran terrorist in the battalion who played a significant role in the fighting, was also eliminated.
Additionally, as part of Division 98's operation in the Shejaiya area, over 150 additional terrorists were eliminated.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Friday, 12 July 2024), paid a condolence visit with the family of Rabbi Yehuda Deri, of blessed memory, the brother of MK Aryeh Deri, in Be'er Sheva.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [translated from Hebrew]:"Rabbi Yehuda was great in Torah and in practice. He was a charitable man of loving-kindness who was greatly loved and esteemed by all who knew him.Indeed, what I have heard here certainly reflects his strength of spirit, Jewish wisdom, humanity and leadership. This genuinely attests to the magnitude of the loss. May his memory be blessed."
On the campaign trail Thursday afternoon, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan was asked what he makes of what’s happening surrounding President Joe Biden and his reelection campaign.
The Republican candidate for the Senate said the ball is in the president’s court, but that it isn’t anything new.
“It’s for Joe Biden to decide. It’s for his family,” Hogan said. “I think they should have a serious conversation with him. And it’s for the Democratic Party.”
Maryland’s former Gov. made the comments during a press conference about public safety in Hyattsville in Prince George’s County.
“He’s not the same Joe Biden that I worked with while he was vice president and I was governor during the Obama administration,&...
The call and text message records of "nearly all" AT&T cellphone customers from mid-to-late 2022 have been exposed in a massive data breach, the company said Friday.
AT&T said the breach was discovered in April when customer data was illegally downloaded from a third-party cloud platform.
"The compromised data includes files containing AT&T records of calls and texts of nearly all of AT&T’s cellular customers, customers of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) using AT&T’s wireless network, as well as AT&T’s landline customers who interacted with those cellular numbers between May 1, 2022 - October 31, 2022," according to a news release. "The compromised data also includes records from January 2, 2023, for a very small number of cust...
