Trump shooter Thomas Crooks wrote 'July 13 will be my premiere, watch as it unfolds' on gaming platform Steam before shooting the former president

Donald Trump's would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks wrote an ominous informing connected a gaming level earlier he changeable nan erstwhile president.

DailyMail.com confirmed U.S. Senators were told nan 20-year-old gunman posted connected Steam: 'July 13 will beryllium my premiere, watch arsenic it unfolds.'

On July 13 he opened occurrence connected nan Republican nominee from a tile conscionable 130 yards distant from nan rally shape successful Butler, Pennsylvania.

Senators were besides briefed that investigators recovered searches for Trump, President Joe Biden, erstwhile is nan Democratic National Convention.

He besides looked up much accusation astir nan July 13 rally wherever he carried retired nan horrifying effort connected nan president's life.

The FBI besides recovered he had 2 compartment phones, nan 2nd of which was recovered astatine location pinch only 27 contacts. 

Senators besides learned that Crooks was spotted by Secret Service 10 minutes earlier he walked retired onstage - a afloat 20 minutes earlier he was shot.

Sources connected nan telephone told DailyMail.com that complete an hr passed from nan shooter being spotted to his first shot. Even much troubling, Secret Service antagonistic snipers saw Crooks connected nan tile 20 minutes earlier he changeable nan erstwhile president.

At 5:52 p.m. nan 'suspicious' shooter was spotted connected nan tile by antagonistic snipers. 

Trump walked retired onto nan shape astatine 6:02 p.m. 

Then astatine astir 6:12 p.m. Crooks' first shots rang out.  

'That is simply a crazy magnitude of clip they fto walk earlier firing,' nan root said. 

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, confirmed this successful a tweet Wednesday afternoon.

'They had identified nan shooter arsenic 'suspicious' a afloat 19 minutes earlier nan shooting,' he posted. 

Lee said that senators were only allowed to inquire 4 questions during nan briefing, which he described arsenic 'arbitrarily trim nan telephone short.' 

Adding reproach to existent injury, nan officials successful nan briefing did not supply immoderate accusation astir why their consequence took truthful long. 

Senators Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and John Barrasso, R-Wyo., confronted Cheatle connected nighttime 3 of nan Republican National Convention successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

'This was an assassination attempt. You beryllium nan group answers. You beryllium President Trump answers,' Blackburn said successful a video of nan confrontation posted connected X.

Barrasso said successful a abstracted video that they went 'face-to-face' pinch nan director. 

They were demanding 'specific answers astir what happened pinch President Trump successful Pennsylvania and really that shooter was capable to get disconnected a clear changeable erstwhile nan FBI and SS knew that location was a suspicious personification an hr successful beforehand of erstwhile nan shooting occurred.'

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle did not cognize really Crooks sewage onto nan roof, nan root added. 

Also coming into mobility connected nan telephone was nan imaginable motive for Crooks to perpetrate specified an atrocity. 

Officials did not corroborate an operating motive and said that his rationale remains a mystery. 

They said that they person yet to find immoderate ideological worldly that could radiance ray connected why Crooks decided to sprout nan erstwhile president.

But, they did uncover that Crooks operated respective accounts connected encrypted platforms that they are still moving to summation entree to, nan root said. 

'He was identified arsenic a characteristic of suspicion because [he had] a rangefinder arsenic good arsenic a backpack. And this was complete an hr earlier nan shooting really occurred,' Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said connected Fox News Wednesday afternoon.

'So, you would deliberation complete nan people of that hour, you shouldn't suffer show of nan individual.'

'Somebody ought to beryllium pursuing up connected those sorts of things. No grounds of that happening astatine all.'

The Wyoming Republican later posted a connection calling nan gathering a '100 percent cover-your-a** briefing.'