{"id":148484,"date":"2025-08-05T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148484"},"modified":"2025-08-05T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:10:26","slug":"mike-benz-trump-shooter-crooks-trained-at-same-facility-as-dhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/mike-benz-trump-shooter-crooks-trained-at-same-facility-as-dhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Benz: Trump shooter Crooks trained at same facility as DHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, August 5, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On at least 40 occasions, would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks trained at the same gun range as the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s investigative unit, Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Online Freedom, said in an interview on One America News.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What\u2019s going on with HSI? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeBenzCyber?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MikeBenzCyber<\/a> explains that the would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks trained at the same gun range as DHS HSI (Homeland Security Investigations). DHS even planned an event there one day after the forty some- times Crooks was reported to that\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wKMOmgriHv\">pic.twitter.com\/wKMOmgriHv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 One America News (@OANN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OANN\/status\/1952538797398450678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2025 Real World News On at least 40 occasions, would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks trained at the same gun range as the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s investigative unit, Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Online Freedom, said in an interview on One America News. What\u2019s going on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":148486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,35,12,5],"tags":[334,6],"class_list":["post-148484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusives","category-rest-of-the-best","category-top-stories","category-u-s","category-world-links","category-world-tribune","tag-mike-benz-trump-shooter-crooks-trained-at-same-facility-as-dhs","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}