A veteran whose team holds the world record for longest confirmed sniper kill claims Donald Trump‘s shooter ‘had help’ as he weighed in on the assassination attempt of former president.
Dallas Alexander, who spent 14 years in a sniper team for the Canadian military doing close protection for major world leaders including the Canadian prime minister, suggested in a video that the 20-year-old who opened fire at the former president’s rally Saturday night may have had help from the inside.
WHAT HE THINKS
‘I’m very familiar with the layout of these types of things and what the job should be, and yesterday what happened, I have no doubts in my mind that the shooter had help from somewhere within an agency, an organization or the government,’ he said in a video posted to his Instagram and X account.
INVESTIGATION IS ‘ON’
Authorities are still investigating however at this stage the FBI has said it appears as if the gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, acted alone.
Crooks laid down on the roof of a building just 130 yards from where Trump was speaking – in full view of his supporters as he fired towards the stage.
Alexander says he should not have been able to get that close.
‘The second I saw that aerial photo of what they said happened – it immediately made no sense to me,’ he said.
‘You cannot, in broad daylight, get onto a rooftop within, what looked like a couple hundred yards if that [of the president]. You can’t get in that position with a gun when there’s a president speaking.
‘It cannot be done,’ Alexander insisted.
‘Like, you don’t even have to be a sniper – it’s the most f****** obvious thing, most obvious place in the whole world.
‘You could be like a seventh-grader – like “What do we have to do for security?” Well, let’s look at these rooftops that are almost within zeroing range of a rifle,’ he joked.
‘So something happened, and I’m not pointing fingers at anyone. It’s just too obvious that this guy had help getting there.
ASSAILANT HAD HELPING HANDS
‘So whether it’s someone turned a blind eye or it was strategically planned, it had to be planned to a certain level, because events like that, security like that, it’s not a small thing – and that is an obvious place to be.’
Alexander went on to say that he would find it ‘very weird’ that if ‘someone is good enough to stalk within 200 yards of one of the hardest-to-stalk targets in the whole world,’ they would not miss the shot.
