Conrad Black: All US Presidential Assassinations Could Have Easily Been Avoided

Epoch Times ^ | 07/23/2024 | Conrad Black

[Responsibility2nd]

I fear that as America slides from a first world Banana Republic into a second world and even third world Banana Republic where political unrest and assignations are common, America will follow suit.

[nickcarraway]

Probably true. In the U.S., we have always had poor presidential security. Look at history.

[nickcarraway]

McKinley was much better than Roosevelt.

[No name given]

Yes, what happened to JFK was avoidable.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: McKinley was much better than Roosevelt.

Much better as a President ???

[Deo volente]

The Secret Service dropped the ball on March 30, 1981 as they allowed a fairly large group of unvetted people to get up close behind the press line, just a few feet away from where President Reagan was due to emerge from the hotel towards his limousine. Hinckley was right there with his revolver and nobody was aware of it.

[Zhang Fei]

[Then President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1933 in Miami, was the target of anarchist Giuseppe Zangara, who missed Roosevelt but shot five others, including the mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak, who died. ]

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This was rumored to be a hit on Ten Percent Cermak, disguised as a political assassination. The shooter was alleged to be a hitter on Frank Nitti’s payroll. Zangara had this agonizing condition he thought to be terminal, took Nitti’s cash for his folks back in the old country, in exchange for carrying out the hit on Cermak, in retaliation for Cermak’s previous attempt on Nitti’s life. Had to be set up like a political assassination by an anarchist so as to keep the Feds from going after the Chicago hood who ordered it.

[KamperKen]

The Progressive Teddy Roosevelt, among other things, gave us the progressive Woodrow Wilson who set in motion all of the malign forces of the 20th century. Creation of the Federal Reserve, the income tax and dragging the USA into World War 1.

The outcome of World War 1 and the treaty of Versaille set off the series of disasters in the 20th century where one historian looking back said the 20th would be described as the century of mass murder. The USA should have stayed out and the war would have ended in a stalemate.

[EnderWiggin1970]

The bulletproof clear screen seems reasonable, since people are hearing him over speakers anyway and not direct from the podium.

It occurred to me when I first watched the footage of the attempt on Trump that rather than clumsily shielding him with their bodies alone, a better solution might be to have some kind of bulletproof blanket type item they could throw over the intended target. I believe items like that have been developed for EOD teams that could be adapted. Though I admit the imagery of Trump emerging from a blanket to give his fist pump does seem less inspiring.

[Gene Eric]

>> with guns

Didn’t Hillary enjoy watching Gadhafi get assassinated with rebar forced up his behind?

[blitz128]

Much has been speculated about this attempted assassination of Trump. Was there one shooter or more than one, how did this person get on this roof in the first place without being stopped. Was it a conspiracy or incompetence or a combination of both.

All worth investigating. In today’s climate even if I was given the truth I am not sure I would believe it. We have been lied to so much, been told this is the truth only to learn later it was not.

Here is my thought/question

Let’s assume that the single shooter on the roof a 130 yards or so away from the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for president and former President was all there was. No conspiracy within or without the govt. Just one lone gunman with his own reasons for doing this.

He came within mm of succeeding. Here I will add some levity “ my wife left me because she said I wasn’t American enough, I should have seen this from a kilometer away”. Okay back to subject.

Real simple question, if Trump survived this attack only through luck when being attacked by a clumsy amateur, with the “worlds best” security apparatus protecting him how could he possibly survive an attack by trained professionals esp an inside job?

[RummyChick]

You guys need to start focusing on what is getting asked in the hearings

was shooters home wiped clean with no silverware or trash as asked by Eli Crane

Was there Leos there pre shooting.

Watch the Leo getting grilled. He does so much blinking it sure looks like he knows something.

Maybe family had allergies. Maybe someone was allergic to silverware. How did they eat food..with their hands?

[blitz128]

All true, but I will ask of all the hearings and great theater by Jordon, Kennedy, and Cruz what has ever come of it, but that is not my question.

If Trump survived this assassination by a whisper from an amateur, how can Trump survive an attempt by professionals ?

If this was somekind of conspiracy run by DEI folk, imagine if it weren’t

Unlike Hannity, I don’t think the majority are “good people”

[Eleutheria5]

What? No mention of George Wallace’s assassination attemp, or Rabbi Meir Kahane’s murder?

[bennowens]

Hindsight is always 20/20.

[GranTorino]

Sounds like we need to put bullet proof Plexiglas around the SS.
Its bullet proof from both sides.

[BipolarBob]

I fear that as America slides . . . America will follow suit.

Sentence diagramming reveals this paradox.

[bgill]

duh

[cgbg]

In most of the world assassinations are political conspiracies.

In the US the public has been brainwashed to believe it is always “lone nuts”.