Trump shooter Thomas Crooks wrote ‘July 13th will be my premiere, watch it unfold’ on gaming platform Steam before he shot the former president

Thomas Matthew Crooks, Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, wrote an ominous warning on a gaming platform before shooting the former president.

DailyMail.com confirmed that US senators were told the 20-year-old gunman had posted the following on Steam: ‘July 13th is my premiere, watch it unfold.’

On July 13, he opened fire on the Republican candidate from a rooftop just 400 feet from the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Senators were also informed that investigators found searches for Trump and President Joe Biden during the Democratic National Convention.

He also sought more information about the July 13 meeting where he carried out the horrific attempted assassination of the president.

The FBI also discovered he had two cell phones on him. The second was found at home and contained only 27 contacts.

The senators also learned that Crooks was spotted by the Secret Service 10 minutes before he walked on stage, which is 20 minutes before he was shot.

Sources close to the call told DailyMail.com that more than an hour passed between the time the gunman was spotted and the first shot he fired. Even more disturbing, Secret Service snipers spotted Crooks on the roof 20 minutes before he shot the former president.

At 5:52 p.m., the “suspected” shooter was spotted on the roof by snipers.

Trump walked onto the stage at 6:02 p.m.

Around 6:12 p.m., Crooks’ first shots rang out.

“They let an awful lot of time pass before they shoot,” the source said.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) confirmed this in a tweet Wednesday afternoon.

“They had already identified the shooter as a ‘suspect’ 19 minutes before the shooting,” he posted.

Lee said senators were only allowed to ask four questions during the briefing, which he described as “arbitrarily shortening the conversation.”

To make matters worse, officials at the briefing provided no information about why their response was taking so long.

Senators Marsha Blackburn (Republican of Tennessee) and John Barrasso (Republican of Wyoming) faced off against Cheatle on the third night of the Republican Party Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“This was an assassination attempt. You owe the people answers. You owe President Trump answers,” Blackburn said in a video of the confrontation posted on X.

Barrasso said in a separate video that they were “face-to-face” with the director.

They demanded “specific answers about what happened to President Trump in Pennsylvania and how that shooter was able to get off a clear shot when the FBI and SS knew there was a suspicious person an hour before the shooting.”

Image of shooting suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle did not know how Crooks ended up on the roof, the source said.

During the phone call, Crooks’ possible motive for committing such an atrocity was also brought into question.

Officials could not confirm a motive for the operation, saying its reasoning remains a mystery.

They said they have not yet found any ideological material that could shed light on why Crooks decided to shoot the former president.

However, they did reveal that the scammers controlled multiple accounts on encrypted platforms and are still trying to gain access, the source said.

“He was identified as a character of suspicion because he had a rangefinder and a backpack. And this was over an hour before the actual shooting occurred,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said on Fox News Wednesday afternoon.

‘So you would think that in that hour you should not lose sight of the individual.’

“Someone should be following up on this stuff. There’s no evidence at all that it’s happening.”

The Wyoming Republican later released a statement describing the meeting as a “100 percent ass-covering briefing.”