Posted on 07/14/2024 10:36:19 AM PDT by heartwood
I’m sure better video exists. I suspect the police sniper heard on his radio reports of a gunman but was searching the wrong rooftop when the first shots were fired. The sniper quickly adjusted position and engaged the gunman.
Both of them were not on their optics when they flinched, before we heard the sound of the first shot.
They do not appear to have shot.
Who are they?
Says POLICE on their vests.
Were they alerted by the yelling and pointing of the public and trying to see the shooter, but couldn’t because he was in defilade position, behind the ridgeline of the building, 90° to their position?
Whatever...it was a collossal FU by the SS and all security.
Video Shows U.S Secret Service Spotting and Watching Shooter Prior to Shots – Doing Nothing, Then Flinching.
Wanted the shooter to fire first????????????????????????????
Let’s wait for an official analysis rather than speculating
Sure, we can’t possibly have any ideas of what’s going on without being told!
For those in Rio Linda, and mind numbed robots elsewhere, that’s SARCASM..
Sure Bob.
Right after they release the final JFK assassination files.
They will get right to it in a timely manner.
Liz Cheney and Nikki Haley are currently in the Larry Sabato abandoned losers shelter at the University of Virginia.
Perhaps if we donate some dog food and toys they can get us a report.
;-)
“Did the sharpshooter shoot when his rifle jerked upward or did he not?”
I think he did judging from the recoil, but missed the first shot?
The closer sniper appears to raise his head to spot the shooter. (The chances of the shooter appearing over the ridgeline of the building already in the sniper’s ‘scope are nil.) Spotting the shooter the closer sniper adjusts and goes back to the ‘scope, but BOTH snipers flinch at the 1st 3 shots. The camera pans left so we don’t see the snipers return fire, but we hear other shots begin with a somewhat different sound and a faster rate.
In a different vid taken near the AG building one can hear the shooter’s 3 shots again, then 5 rapid, more powerful shots, a slight delay and a not-as-loud shot, another longer delay, and yet another not-as-loud shot.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/politics/video/shooting-video-gunman-trump-digvid
There is also this vid describing sniper target acquisition:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/video/trump-shooting-security-failure-mills-ldn-digvid
It’s not “instant”.
So... I’m going to take back something I posted earlier — based on the video and especially the acoustics from the 1st link in this post, I don’t think those 5 rapid shots came from the snipers near Trump, and those shots were not the shooter. I would guess a different “asset” nearer the building spotted the shooter popping up, got sights on him, and fired those 5 shots, taking the would be assassin down. The last two shots came from yet another LEO or SS (maybe the shooter twitched?)
In this scenario the snipers on the roof near Trump did not fire the grouping of 5 shots because the shooter had already been hit by the time they recovered and got dialed in / crosshairs on the target.
Why isn't Trump ducking? Are the SS snipers simultaneously telling the team near the podium to force Trump to duck?
Good point. Two are looking in the same direction. How about the other 330 degrees?
I’m hearing it was an iron site ie no scope
In that case, at that point in the video, maybe they had not seen Crooks yet. That would explain why, although the guns were pointed in his direction, Trump was still talking and standing?
bttt
Keep in mind this whole assassination attempt scenario and its confusing responses fueled by the democratically controlled machine has shifted into the theater of the absurd and your question, because I wondered the same thing and after seeing the degree of 'flinching' taking place on the roof during the time the shots are heard, I'm going to offer this explanation.
To be perfectly clear, this opinion is mine and based on my life experiences that were shaped by:
1)A general distrust of most politicians and a dislike of democrats and
2)Learning rifle basics on Parris Island more than six decades ago; I was never a sniper.
Based on the aforementioned distrust and dislike of politicians, Democrats in particular and the unlikelihood of the degree of 'flinching', as seen in the video, happening when the shooter is designated a 'sniper' my conclusion is that the acknowledged lack of high level security onsite does not preclude the use of an actor or actors to provide the necessary sense of security for the occasion.
Think of all the calls for 'crisis' actors over the years, why not backfill necessary but unavailable personnel with actors with blanks in the rifle? Experience not necessary as proven with the 'flinch' caused by a finger on the trigger before he was ready to shoot?
Just another scenario for the theater of the politically absurd in the Land of the Free.
Not beyond the realm of possibility.
The snipers were almost certainly talking into their comms.
The command and control folks who received that communication refused to notify the SS folks on the stage.
The command and the control folks were part of the assassination plot.
Their “oops” defense may confuse the gullible, but it will be a lie.
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