The gunman who nearly assassinated former President Donald Trump used encrypted messaging accounts on platforms in multiple foreign countries, according to a GOP representative appointed to a congressional task force investigating the assassination attempt.Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) — a member of the Bipartisan House Task Force on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump — revealed the three countries linked to encrypted messaging accounts used by would-be Trump assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks.'They need to be releasing information as they come across it, because this wasn’t an isolated incident.'Last month, Waltz said, "Now, what we know, and this was on the briefing we just received, he had three encrypted overseas accounts the FBI is trying to get into.""Well, we know that they were based in servers overseas," he added. "And so you've got to work over there with the FBI liaisons overseas to start getting into them through their authorities."On Wednesday, Waltz informed reporters in Chicago: "We still haven’t learned a lot. We haven’t learned that much about those overseas accounts. We do know that they were in, if I get this correctly, Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany."The House lawmaker asked, "Why does a 19-year-old kid, who is a health care aide, need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad, where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into? That’s a question I’ve had since day one."The FBI, Secret Service, and Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General are conducting their own investigations into the Trump assassination attempt.Waltz — who is retired from the U.S. Army Special Forces and is a former White House and Pentagon adviser — slammed the FBI and Secret Service for apparently withholding information regarding their investigations into last month's Trump assassination attempt at the campaign rally held in Butler, Pennsylvania. "They need to be releasing information as they come across it, because this wasn’t an isolated incident," Waltz declared. "The threats are continually Iran’s threats."Waltz — who serves on the Intelligence, Armed Services, and Oversight Committees — referenced the alleged murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Trump and other U.S. officials involving a Pakistani national with suspected ties to the Iranian government. Before the shooting, the National Security Council had reportedly warned the Secret Service and the Trump campaign that there were intelligence reports that Iran was actively plotting an assassination attempt on the former president. Iran rejected accusations that it had ambitions to assassinate Trump.Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Iran "strongly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack on Trump or claims about Iran’s intention for such an action."Kanaani continued, "The Islamic Republic of Iran is determined to pursue legal action against Trump for his direct role in the crime of assassinating Martyr General Qassem Soleimani."Soleimani was the commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and killed in a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad in January 2020.The FBI reportedly was scheduled to brief the 13 members of the House task force on Wednesday. Waltz said he hopes the FBI will provide insight into the "ridiculously flawed" security detail at the Trump rally on July 13, 2024.Crooks accessed a roof just 130 yards from the stage where Trump delivered his campaign speech. The shooter was able to fire eight shots — including one that struck Trump in his right ear — before being neutralized. Crooks shot and killed 50-year-old Trump supporter and firefighter Corey Comperatore. Two other rallygoers — 54-year-old James Copenhaver and 57-year-old David Dutch — were injured during the shooting. Blaze News reached out to the FBI and Secret Service for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was mocked and ridiculed over her response to a blistering jobs report on Wednesday. Raimondo was being interviewed on ABC News from the Democratic National Convention when she was questioned about a revision showing that the number of jobs in the U.S. had been overestimated by nearly a million over the last year. Instead, she accused former President Donald Trump of being a liar. 'We’re in the best of hands.'“I don’t believe it because I’ve never heard Trump say anything truthful,” responded Raimondo. "It is from the Bureau of Labor," replied the reporter. "I'm not familiar with that," Raimondo said. Democrats have been trying to argue that the economy is stronger under President Joe Biden than it was under Trump, but a revision to the jobs report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics erased 818,000 jobs from the official count. Critics lambasted Raimondo, the former governor of Rhode Island, for the bizarre response to the question. "This is simply incredible… And Sec Raimondo knows nothing about it?!? How do they expect to be credible ??" responded Republican Rep. Bill Huizenga of Michigan. "There’s only so much you can fake or hide before things come crashing down. Biden’s decline, cooking the books on the economy, redefining 'recession,' etc," replied commentator Katie Pavlich. "The US Secretary of Commerce is unaware of major jobs reports by the Bureau of Labor," read another tweet. "We’re in the best of hands," joked commentator Mary Katharine Ham. The video was widely circulated on X, where it garnered millions of views. Trump responded to the revision to the jobs report by accusing the Biden-Harris administration of intentionally fudging the numbers in order to make the economy appear stronger than it was. "The real Numbers are much worse than that and, if Comrade Kamala gets another four years, millions more Jobs will VANISH overnight, and Inflation will completely destroy our Country," he wrote. Prior to Biden dropping out of his re-election campaign, polls showed that Americans were far more likely to trust Republicans with the economy than with Democrats. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

There are quite a few interesting new shooters on the horizon, but one that I’m really eager to get my hands on is FragPunk. This slick tactical FPS looks very much like Valorant on the surface, but it adds a new layer of strategy with a card system that will test your deck-building skills just as much as your aim. FragPunk just got a fresh trailer with some new snippets of gameplay, which is well worth a watch, but what’s even more exciting is that it’s just announced a closed beta is coming to Steam and Xbox very soon. Continue reading Deck-building FPS FragPunk is getting a closed beta very soon MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best FPS games, Best roguelike games, Best multiplayer games

The Knight has never been the most popular killer in Dead by Daylight. Recently, however, a series of changes looked to make this Hungarian swordsman more viable, encouraging longer hunts for his summoned minions. Unfortunately, this all backfired somewhat, with Knight fans being increasingly unhappy with how the killer plays, especially with all minions on a shared cooldown meaning they were useless for large amounts of time. Continue reading Next DBD update will fix some big problems with one unloved killer MORE FROM PCGAMESN: DBD killer tier list, Best horror games, DBD codes

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