At 4:26 p.m., a local law enforcement countersniper ended his shift and spotted Crooks around the southernmost warehouse of a complex owned by AGR International, in which police countersnipers were positioned. The countersniper text-messaged his colleagues about Crooks, noting that he may have known about the police presence inside the building. The New York Times retrospectively described the text messages as suggesting that Crooks aroused police suspicion more than 90 minutes before the shooting.[57] At 5:14 p.m., one of the countersnipers still in the building saw Crooks directly underneath the warehouse and photographed him. The countersniper saw him “scoping out” the rooftop of the building and carrying a golf rangefinder, which particularly alarmed officers. The countersniper text-messaged images of Crooks to other members of law enforcement before heading outside to find him and keep visual contact while backup arrived. Crooks ran from his position and evaded a search joined by four other local police officers.[58][59][45][60] Law enforcement officers spotted Crooks between 20 minutes and 30 minutes before the shooting.[61][62] Multiple local law enforcement officers identified Crooks and believed that he might have been acting suspiciously near the event’s magnetometer weapon detectors;[63] they expressed their suspicions over radio, and the Secret Service was informed of this at some point.[41]
Trump arrived onstage at about 6:03 p.m.[64] At 6:05 p.m., he began speaking.[65]
At 6:06 p.m., Crooks scaled an air-conditioning unit between the northernmost AGR International buildings to reach the roof of the complex, rather than using his ladder.[66] He walked across a series of interconnected roofs to reach his eventual firing position on the southernmost roof,[45][66] between 400 feet (120 meters) and 450 feet (140 meters) north of the venue stage.[2][11][12][67] The building housed three police snipers tasked with covering the rally, but none of them were on the roof due to a shortage of personnel.[68][69] Several bystanders witnessed Crooks on the roof and alerted the police about him minutes before shots were fired at Trump.[70][71][65]
It then goes on to tell how one of the local cops, not Secret Service, went up there to see what was going on, and spooked Crooks who then opened fire.
That is conspiracy theory bullshit with no grounding in reality. Nice story, with zero supporting facts.
Then explain how a geriatric’s ear heals from a gunshot wound overnight.
Or how a man who believes exercise shortens your life was able to overpower secret service agents to put himself back into the line of fire.
Or how no one in security noticed a dude with a high powered rifle climbing over the fence.
With the ridiculous lengths the secret service goes to protect the president, there should have been no possible way the attempt could have occurred.
This one, at least, I can explain.
They did see him! Secret Service just elected to ignore it, apparently.
Snippet taken from the relevant Wikipedia page :
It then goes on to tell how one of the local cops, not Secret Service, went up there to see what was going on, and spooked Crooks who then opened fire.