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President #Biden will address the nation at 8pm Eastern Time. @AtlasNewsTelegram This came after the #UnitedStates president called for the country to unite in brief remarks before the address tonight. He asked for people not to make assumptions about the #Trump rally shooter's motive and said he directed security measure increases for the RNC in Milwaukee, which will start on Monday. He also said he spoke to the former president and that they had “short but good conversation”, adding that he was grateful Trump was recovering. President Joe Biden said that he and the first lady, Jill Biden, were praying for the audience member killed by the shooter. “He was a father,” Biden said. “He was protecting his family from the bullets were being fired. God love him.”

🇺🇸 UPDATE: A local police officer confronted gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof of the building just moments before he opened fire on the #Trump rally in Butler, #Pennsylvania according to law enforcement officials that spoke to AP. @AtlasNewsTelegram “One local police officer climbed to the roof and encountered Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder, and Crooks quickly took a shot toward Trump,” AP reported. Crooks was the shot and killed by Secret Service counter snipers approximately 10 seconds after he first opened fire. This comes as witnesses previously told BBC and CBS that Crooks was spotted climbing onto the roof of a building outside the rally fairgrounds and attempts were made to warn law enforcement for several minutes before the shooting happened. #UnitedStates

People on X either blame Sam Hyde, some random Reddit chud, or get baited by people like this. Never fails

Despite its current virality on X, this is not the gunman. X user @/jewgazing appears to have made a shit post about being the suspect and it took off. While their account is currently private, tweets I was able to see show they are clearly in on the meme.

FBI identifies Thomas Matthew Crooks as the gunman, verifying the initial report made by NYP

Calling it for the evening unless there is a major update. Goodnight y’all.

TLDR: Nothing new has been shared and any questions raised by the press aren’t being answered

So far they have not answered questions about ID of gunman, attendees warning of the gunman, what the gunman was armed with, if this was a security failure

Essentially any questions being asked by the press are being met with “that will be part of the investigation”