That’s how long the police and the Secret Service had to find the gunman after a police officer reported “a suspicious man on a roof near the rally”:
“Channel 11’s Nicole Ford confirmed that Beaver County’s ESU team had eight members at the rally, including snipers and spotters. According to Ford’s sources, one of them noticed a suspicious man on a roof near the rally at 5:45 p.m., called it in and took a picture of the person,” states the report.
The station later confirmed the image to be that of the would-be assassin.
Another law enforcement officer saw Crooks on the ground and called in the report with a picture prior to 5:45pm, according to the report.
The grounds were checked for the suspect but he could not be found.
Around 26 minutes after the second picture was taken, Crooks fired at Trump from the roof of the American Glass Research building.
They certainly weren’t looking very hard, were they…
UPDATE: Wait, what? The calls are coming from inside the house!
A local police counter-sniper team was stationed inside the building where attempted assassin Thomas Crooks climbed on the roof and fired on Donald Trump, law enforcement sources told The Post. The building — the AGR International Inc. factory in Butler, Pennsylvania — was being used by local police as a “watch post” for snipers to scan for threats as the former president spoke onstage only 130 yards away, according to sources. Cops were inside, but not on the roof during the shooting, sources said.