Trump’s attempted assassin sent mysterious texts about 3D printer leading up to Butler, Pa. shooting

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who opened fire at President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024, exchanged a string of cryptic text messages in the months before the attack, including a discussion of 3D-printed parts, newly released FBI records show.

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