WASHINGTON – On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released an updated timeline of law enforcement’s awareness of would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, in the hours, minutes, and seconds, leading up to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, PA on July 13, 2024.

Senator Johnson entered an earlier version of this timeline into the hearing record on July 30, 2024 during a joint Senate committee hearing before members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Committee on the Judiciary. 

At that hearing the senator noted, “we will continue to update this timeline as more information becomes public.  This is the way you do an investigation.  We need to find out literally second by second what happened so the American public understands the truth.”

The timeline, featuring information from law enforcement radio communications, publicly released body camera footage from local law enforcement, and media reports, highlights how law enforcement tracked Crooks over the 90 minutes preceding the first shots being fired and their immediate reaction to the shooting.

The new and updated information is highlighted in the timeline that can be viewed here.

Shortly after the assassination attempt on former President Trump, Senator Johnson released preliminary findings regarding the security failures at the July 13 rally.  The July 21, 2024 and July 23, 2024 preliminary findings can be found here and here.

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