Went back to google maps street view. Copyright is November 2023, so pretty recent. Yes, there is a ladder down the back side of the tower, as expected, and it does go up to the walkway. Also looks like there’s a ladder of some sort from the walkway to that top part of the tower. So it is fairly easily accessible. Well, not for me, but for someone that isn’t askeert of heights.
There are a few homes on the street that might have a view of someone climbing the tower, if someone was to look. The Street is Meridian Drive. Appears that only 3 or 4 homes might have a view. Probably something where people just don’t look at the tower. And someone might have climbed up there at night.
There’s a fence around the base of the tower with barbed wire on top, but that’s only to keep kids out. Or at least slow them down. Opportunities exist to get around/over that and with the trees in full foliage, it might be difficult to spot someone doing so. They’d have to hide their vehicle though or park a little ways down the street (which would blend in if there was a crowd at the rally).
I’m putting on my juvenile delinquent hat now. :)
I originally discounted the water tower because I didn’t think there’d be visibility of the stage over the trees, but I wasn’t thinking that someone might be way up on top. I only considered the walkway around the tank.
Actually, it’s possible that if there was someone up there, it could have been a good guy. Sniper position #3. But if so, he should have engaged the gunman on the roof earlier.
Some have suggested that a sniper on the water tower took out the shooter. Saying that it appeared that a large exit wound was in the shooter’s right ear/ neck area.
I can’t remember where I heard it - maybe Trump’s speech last night, but somebody (Trump?) said the shooter was taken out by a sniper from a much longer distance.
In my mind that says the water tower. But (and now that I think about it - I think it was Trump that said it) - he might have been talking about the snipers from the rooftop to his left (stage left). Although to me that isn’t “much farther away”. But in a speech, and to give the SS some props, I could see Trump saying that.
Re: REP. MICHAEL WALTZ
(Thx, bitt.)
” JUST IN: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Iran is “probably one or two weeks away” from getting their hands on a nuclear weapon. “
” The comment ‘ironically’ came at the same time as Rep. Michael Waltz said Trump’s would-be assas*in Thomas Crooks had “3 encrypted overseas accounts” and then cited the “Iranian plot” to assa*inate Trump.
Draw your own conclusions. “
( *Source of all of the above, and also included with Blinken remark in Live video. Rita ) 👇
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1814354970084553064?t=hxvK8-WgbeDYvdloXU7pDg&s=19