Retired Oklahoma Secret Service Agent Reacts to New Details in Trump Assassination Attempt

 Law enforcement sources have revealed to CBS News that witnesses and local police identified and saw 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks at least two minutes before the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Todd Lamb, former Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma and a retired Secret Service agent, reacted to the new details stated in the case.

"When I was a site supervisor during a presidential campaign as a Secret Service agent, if I saw them with a scope or those who were working with me or for me saw someone with a scope, that person would be intercepted, they would be patted down, they would be interviewed, and they would be escorted from the premises," Lamb said.

He also reacted to reports that the shooter was confronted by a local police officer, who fell from the roof after the shooter aimed their gun at the officer. Law enforcement sources tell CBS News that police were staged inside the building, but not on top of it.

"Tactically, that's not how you do it," Lamb said. "How it was done, and the reports we're learning now, tactically that is an extreme misstep, obviously. What you do to prevent that is secure the building, make sure nobody crawls on the building, and, having counter sniper or any law enforcement inside the structure, that's of no benefit whatsoever."

He credited the Department of Homeland Security and Secret Service for now choosing to give protection to independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is lagging behind in polls.