The Secret Service only got five calls and three texts about the would-be assassin.

Secret Service only got five calls and three texts about the would-be assassin Thomas Crooks

No event time was recorded for this claim — the text gave nothing to anchor it to, and a guessed date would be worse than none.

Standing

lens: Evidence-weighted Structural

4.7% belief under Evidence-weighted · -3.00 log-odds · derived, never stored

Every contribution to this claim's belief under **Evidence-weighted**. Starting point: the floor (-3 log-odds — an unsupported claim starts near zero, not at "maybe"). Contributions sum to +0.00; the result is -3.00 log-odds = 4.7%.
Direction	What it rests on	Base	Leg	CQ factor	Contribution
Nothing has been counted for or against this claim. It sits at the floor — untested, which is not the same as refuted.

0 evidentiary legs 1 source 0 challenges asserted

Bears on as evidence:

3 branches · 1 source

67% unknown — none of the above

Nothing supports or challenges this claim yet — untested, which is not the same as refuted.

Voices are counted, never weighed. How many people say a thing is structure worth seeing; it is not, by itself, a reason to believe it.

The verbatim text each extraction read before resolving it into this canonical claim. Quoted, never republished.

Origin: extracted from Widow of man killed in Butler Trump assassination attempt claims it was an 'inside job' · 2026-07-18 09:58