Posted on 07/18/2024 6:02:26 AM PDT by Sam77
Some Secret Service snipers put in place to protect former President Donald Trump during Saturday’s rally were positioned so that a tree may have screened Thomas Crooks from them as he rained bullets on Trump’s rally, according to a new report.
CBS said that based on lines of sight at the Butler, Pennsylvania, venue where the rally was held, a tree near the building where Crooks positioned himself may have screened him from one of two sniper teams who were positioned to respond to threats such as the one Crooks represented.
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Attempted damage control. Not buying it!
There is one simple response that I do not see anyone addressing. With all the back and forth about line of sight, slope of roof, should we take him out?, I have no orders, blah, blah, blah, how about this simple response? “We have a credible sighting of a possible shooter. Get the president out of there!”
To me, this seems like the proper response to all the civilian sightings. I mean what could it hurt if you pull the president out of there, and it turned out to be a false alarm? A lot better than what actually happened or what could have horribly happened.
That settles it. Not only did they have to deal with the perils of a roof sloped at about 18 degrees, they also had trees in the way! Clearly an impossible task for the Secret Service!
They keep calling it a blind spot, since when does security identify the best sniper position and then simply say, yep, that is ideal place for a sniper to shoot from but it is hard to see from where I’m standing right now, so just ignore that position.
Fight in the shade, living in the shade, wake up
Amerika, it is all shade, get the democrats out.
CBS said that based on lines of sight at the Butler, Pennsylvania, venue where the rally was held, a tree near the building where Crooks positioned himself may have screened him from one of two sniper teams
If that is true, an advance was done on that venue, knowing where the sniper/counter sniper teams would be posted. Meaning that Crooks was not alone.
Part of that job, especially with the Secret Service and protection details, employs experience snipers that inspect the venues. Their job is look for the proverbial “if I was a sniper, that’s where I would shoot from”. Then they figure out where the counter sniper team is positioned or advice that static security is posted before the event and stays until principal, in this case Pres Trump, is in an armored vehicle and driving away.
Could be planned in attempt to kill him.
Or just abject incompetence, laziness and indifference to do their job properly.
“We’re in the Pennsylvania country. Nothing going on here. Don’t worry about it”.
Pres Trump would be much safer surrounded by old school street cops and some legit SOF fellas, ie Delta types that are used to doing stuff low pro
As soon as i turned the rally on i saw the perfect position for the SS to view almost the entire venue. A child could see it and would have positioned two SS agents there. That water tower loomed over almost the entire site. My first thought upon seeing that water tower was two poor guys had to haul all their equipment up there to observe. Nobody was up there. It is now a case of negligence and that is a crime!
SOF for sure! Navy Seals and Green Beret as well. And I’d bet that a lot of these guys would do it gratis.
And why is Cheatle being blocked from testifying to Congress, but goes on TV almost daily?
Failure? Or meticulously planned for the assassin to have cover while completing his task? No obstruction to field of fire, no bullet proof glass around President, no SS anywhere near roof, ladder conveniently placed, no communication to President, and the kid is able to lug around an AR-15 unnoticed…
I can assure you that SEALs, overall, are somewhat overrated.
When the GWOT kicked off, the Marine Corps hired retired LAPD SIS men to teach the infantry how to look for bad guys in crowds.
SF guys, the ones that were in CIF companies, a job similar to Delta missions, all day.
Contrary belief, movies, tv shows, some cops know what’s up, as good or better than anyone wearing multicam or digital cammies
One of the first things I learned as a Second Lieutenant is that when you are defending, get out and walk the terrain.
Look at the terrain from your potential adversary’s point of view.
Adjust your defense to what you find.
Do they not teach this to the Secret Service?
I’ll bet they do, and that’s why this incident really stinks.
The bosses let it happen.
The mechanics of being a sniper, and stopping a sniper, may be new to many readers. It is to me. However, the community has this down to a science. Assassination was encouraged by the press and other Democrats. The assassination was planned and enabled by people far more capable than the Thomas Crook.
Since they have already said there was supposed to be a local LEO team or at least officer on the roof (that did not show up for work), this tree thing is just more unintended consequence to poor management already demonstrated.
There were two sniper teams behind Trump. The team to Trump’s right is what we’ve all seen. The was another team to Trump’s left. That’s the team that took the punk out, not the team with a potential blocked line of sight. There are photos of the placement of the second team here:
https://x.com/paulhook_em/status/1813784250032005376?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA
They couldn’t even get out of the area because they were BLOCKED IN!
From my Infantry days, “take the high ground”.
That’s the wrong link. What you posted is a picture of the shooter being androgynous. Is that confirmed to be him?
Any way can you post the where the other sniper team was? Thanks.
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