Posted on 07/15/2024 8:41:28 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
According to a report from CNN citing law enforcement officials, Crooks bought the ladder from Home Depot on the day he tried to assassinate Trump from the roof of a nearby building.
If this report is accurate and to be believed, Crooks may have made it past law enforcement and the Secret Service carrying a very tall ladder and used it to climb the building unnoticed.
CNN reports:
On Friday, he went to a shooting range where he was a member, and practiced firing, a law enforcement official told CNN. The next morning, Crooks went to a Home Depot, where he bought a five-foot ladder, and a gun store, where he purchased 50 rounds of ammunition, the official said.
Then, Crooks drove his Hyundai Sonata about an hour north, joining thousands of people from around the region who flocked to Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He parked the car outside the rally, with an improvised explosive device hidden in the trunk that was wired to a transmitter he carried, the official said. Then, investigators believe, he used his newly-bought ladder to scale a nearby building, and opened fire on the former president.
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Did Crooks say “hands up - don’t shoot” to the snipers before they shot him too?
Blackrock may have something to do with this .
Huh…Well then, I think I’ll go buy a big canvas bag tomorrow, walk into my local bank in the middle of the day, and clean out their vault without anyone noticing. If the fairy tale being told about this kid’s assassination attempt is true, then I figure my “heist” should be a cinch by comparison.
And he was a lone wolf.
Yeah sure.
He had a lot of help from the feds.
Lowe’s has telescoping ladders that only weigh 26 lbs. and extend 14 feet.
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He had a 5 foot ladder, that could not have used to get on that roof.
“...saying breezily to the sunglassed guards “I’m with the painting crew!” as they just wave him through.”
I wonder how many photographers and video people brought things to stand on to get a better view? If it’s not a weapon...
Sounds and smells like bullscat to me! Disinformation to create uncertainty and doubt about everything that comes out.
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The Ladder against the building is a 12 or 15 ft ladder.
It was reported today that the ladder was his.
He also had a ladder suppressor.
They couldn’t see or hear him deploying it.
“...and knew right where to place it on the only building that had no protections”
I wonder, how far in advance was the rally announced, and is it normally open to the public ?
“Act like you belong”
True, that. They say that was how Jack Ruby got into the police station to shoot Oswald. He was known to them, and he just walked in like he should have been there, and nobody said boo.
I live near Boston, and some years back, the USS JFK came into port, and they were giving tours. Since I had served aboard her, my wife encouraged me to get in line and take a tour, so she and I went in with one of my buddies, and got in line. The line was nearly a mile long. Not figuratively. Literally. We stood in it for about an hour and it barely moved, and I got the notion to just get up close to the ship and ask a sailor to take me aboard.
When I was a kid, living on Navy bases, I was a real wharf-rat. I used to hang around near the ships (when you could do that) and would ask sailors if they would take me aboard. Sometimes, they did. I got to go on the USS Kitty Hawk, some attack submarine, and a variety of other ships, so I had some experience there.
I began walking past all the people in line, and I went through two Massachusetts State Police checkpoints. I had a crewcut, and looked like I knew where I was going, and they didn’t give me a look at the first two. On the third one, there was a female trooper arguing with someone, and as I walked by, she said “Wait. Where are you going?”
I told her truthfully that I had served on the ship, and said I was going to ask somone to take me aboard, and she said “No. You cannot go past this point.”
Then she began aruging again with the couple, and I just shrugged my shoulders and kept going, never looking back, walking like I was ship’s company.
Next thing I knew, I was inside the barbed wire enclosure that they would assemble and count off people in the groups of tourists going aboard. I was standing right underneath the overhang of the flight deck, nobody paying any attention to me whatsoever.
I found a crewmember who agreed to take me aboard, so I went ALL the way back to get my wife and friend, and when we came back, now there were three of us standing in the shadow of the big ship!
When the next group assembled, we just walked right over as if we were part of the group, and then...up the gangway we went.
So, yeah. I believe if you are dedicated to it, you can just BS your way past many, though not all things if you play the part.
What time did he arrive? Did he set the ladder up early unnoticed since it was outside the perimeter?
Who's "they"? What do you mean? The ladder in the photo is way more than 5' tall.
LMAO! I damned near fell out of my chair.
I wonder if the SS agents held the ladder while he climbed up so he wouldn’t fall?
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