Billionaire Bill Ackman tweeted a wild claim on X about an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, which he then deleted less than 10 minutes later.
The investor shared a video in which he argues that the narrative that Thomas Matthew Crooks is a “lone gunman” is “100 percent demonstrably false.”
The clip, created by Dr. Chris Martenson, claimed that audio signatures captured at the demonstration suggested there was a second shooter who fired his weapon from about 100 feet away from Crook’s rooftop location.
The evidence, according to the analysis, reportedly showed that forensic experts identified three weapons during the event and at least two shots had audio signatures inconsistent with the other six.
Bill Ackman, who spoke out and supported Trump after the shooting, reposted the claim that the shooter might not have acted alone. He then quickly deleted the tweet.
Billionaire Bill Ackman tweeted a wild claim on X about an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, which he then deleted less than 10 minutes later.
The clip claimed that audio signatures captured at the rally suggested there was a second shooter who fired from about 100 feet away from Crook’s rooftop location.
DailyMail.com has not verified the evidence Ackman reposted.
Ackman retweeted the clip, saying it “makes a highly credible case that there were at least two shooters/assassins who attempted to kill” Donald Trump.
The billionaire covered up his wild theory with the comment: “I have no experience in this field. None. I would appreciate further analysis and rebuttals.”
He deleted the post and moments later quickly shared another one that included “an extremely impressive rebuttal to the multiple shooter theory.”
Despite quickly deleting the conspiracy tweet from his X account, many of Ackman’s followers saw it and commented on it.
One person wrote: ‘Bill Ackman deleted the tweet about the multiple shooter theory. Who contacted you, Ackman?’
While another said: ‘In the least surprising way Bill Ackman, having discovered politics two months ago, has gone from firing a Harvard president over DEI panic to pushing a Trump “second shooter” theory based on a video posted by Benny Johnson.’
Martenson, who created the video Ackman reposted, has a PhD and defended his theory of a second shooter in X, saying: “I’m a gun nerd.
“I’ve spent a lot of hours at the range, I’ve had a lot of training with weapons and I’ve fired over 250,000 rounds from pistols and rifles of various calibers over the last 40 years. And I have common sense, which is the key.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement authorities have not named a second shooter since the attempted murder on Saturday, July 13.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement authorities have not named a second shooter since the attempted murder on Saturday, July 13.
But a CNN An article published on July 15 reported that as many as three guns were fired at the demonstration in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The report was included as compelling evidence in a lengthy 32-minute video shared by Chris Maternson, an economist with a PhD from Duke University who is “100 percent” certain that Crook did not act alone.
‘(CNN) said the first three shots were consistent with gun A and the next three were consistent with gun A.“I’m in agreement with the alleged weapon B and the final acoustic pulse emitted by a third possible weapon. I believe that to be true, and weapon C is the sniper who takes out Crooks,” Maternson said in the video.
‘This was confirmed by an audio analysis conducted by Cataline Gregor, ddirector of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado at Denver and Cole Whitecotton, senior professional research associate at Media Forensic.
He deleted the post and moments later quickly shared another one that included “an extremely impressive rebuttal to the multiple shooter theory.”
The evidence, according to an economist, was that forensic experts identified three weapons during the event and at least two shots had audio signatures inconsistent with the other six.
To make his case, Maternson extracted audio signatures from two videos captured as eight bullets flew toward Trump and the crowd sitting behind the former president.
He lined up the explosion of the bullets leaving the gun and his arrival.
Analysis showed the first shot echoed across the stage, coinciding with the bullet hitting Trump in the ear.
“Two identical images were shot, they line up perfectly, they echo,” Maternson said.
But the third shot took 0.03 seconds longer to reach the podium where Trump was standing, he said.
‘That 0.03 seconds implies that shots one and two were fired by Crooks, but someone about 78 to 100 feet further away fired shot three.
The video claimed that shots one, two, four and five were definitely from Thomas Matthew Crooks (pictured), but shots three and six came from an unknown shooter.
‘So shots four and five line up perfectly, but shot six is again off by the same amount.
‘Shots four and five line up perfectly, but six is off by the same mark.’
Maternson argued that takes one, two, four and five were definitely taken by Crooks, because they feature the same “snapshots” captured by the microphone closest to the podium.
“The lone gunman theory is 100 percent false,” he continued.
“This tells us that it was a full-fledged operation.”
Donald Trump was shot in Pennsylvania on Saturday night by Thomas Matthew Crooks, a registered Republican who had also previously donated to Joe Biden.
The Republican candidate was shot in the ear as he turned to address the crowd. Chaos broke out after the shooting and one person in the crowd was killed.
The ordeal has shaken the political landscape, where tensions were already high ahead of the presidential election in November.
Just days after he was nearly assassinated, Trump was formally nominated by the Republican Party at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin to run as the party’s candidate in the election later this year.
As Trump recovers from a gunshot wound to the ear, fears have risen within the Democratic Party, with many calling for Joe Biden to resign amid his failing health. This week, as he struggles to prove he is fit enough to run for a second term, it was announced that the president has tested positive for Covid.