Posted on 07/20/2024 11:28:54 AM PDT by Marcell
And so it is.
There is no "magic bullet". Crooke got off six shots.
One shot hit President Trump.
One shot hit an audience member in the head, killing him instantly. He was standing at the time.
Two shots hit another audience member, critically injuring him. He was seated at the time.
One shot hit another audience member, critically injuring him. He was standing at the time.
One shot went wild and hit the hydraulic line of a lifter.
Crooke was in turn killed by a single shot from one of the counter-snipers. That shot hit him just under the left eye. It appears that only one shot actually hit Crooke.
The counter-sniper who killed Crooke was on the second team and had an obstructed view of the assassin. The two snipers in the most widely circulated video apparently did not hit Crooke.
Crooke appears to have been partially concealed from the counter-snipers by the trees obstructing their view of the left side of the roof.
The widely circulated close-up picture of dead Crooke was taken after he had been moved, probably rolled on his side to check for weapons and ID. Smear marks in the blood pool make that obvious. If there are other pictures of the undisturbed death site, they have not been released or leaked.
Crooke was carrying no ID. He did have a cell phone and a remote transmitter with a 5km range. This was presumed to be a remote detonator for explosives found in an Arizona-tagged van that was towed away from the scene. The transmitter is missing the antenna that would give it full range.
Crooke did not arrive in that "Arizona" van. He came in his personal vehicle.
Make of it what you will.
The last time I remember seeing a 3-D depiction of a catastrophic event was the government’s public ‘mind shaping’ effort in the Flight 800 shoot down. This was where the exploding gas tank theory was hatched by the notorious FBI cleanup agent James Kallstrom. This was the same agent who discounted all the eye witness accounts of a missile streaming up to the aircraft by stating that eye witness’ accounts are inherently untrustworthy. I suppose this will be the FBI’s story this time around in the Butler case. I also recall the Flight 800 event occurred in the lead up to the Bill Clinton election where a lid had to be put on such an untimely aircraft shoot down. Jack Cashill never bought into the gas tank theory and he wrote several good books on the cover up.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-rally-shooting-07-14-24
The audio analysis is so obvious, it is really impossible to spin this. Sorry.
Forensic analysis suggests that as many as three weapons were fired at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The FBI said Sunday that the shooter acted alone.
The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final “acoustic impulse” was emitted by a possible weapon C, per audio analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate at the same institution.
Audio analysis has also confirmed that the gunman was about 360 to 393 feet from the podium, according to forensics expert Robert Maher.
This conclusion aligns with CNN’s analysis that the gunman was on a rooftop 393 to 492 feet from the podium when shots rang out.
The shots exemplify a “crack-pop” sequence, typical when a supersonic bullet passes a microphone, before the “arrival of the corresponding muzzle blast sound,” Maher, who teaches audio forensics at Montana State University, told CNN.
The time between these markers places the shooter 110 to 120 meters from the microphone, Maher said, assuming the bullet is moving at an average speed of 800 to 1,000 meters per second, the equivalent of 2,600 to 3,280 feet per second.
CNN’s Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, and Ryan Young contributed reporting.
Just so there is no lack of clarity about what the audio forensics evidence means, if the three points: Crooks,Trump, and the injured man in the stands do not form a straight line, Crooks did not shoot the President and he did not fire the first three shots from “Weapon A”.
“..... in case we have a legitimate investigation. ......”
If there is a legitimate investigation by the government, it will be sealed, like the Kennedy assassination report until we and everyone alive is dead, so as to protect those who intended to kill another President.
Perhaps on the first things that Trump should do is release all of the Kennedy assassination information as well as all FBI/DOJ/HLS/and Secret Security emails and electronic voice records from NSA Just prior to and just after the Trump attempted assassination.
The reports to date have said the fireman was protecting his children.
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Not to take anything away from him... but was there actually time after the first shot to do that? I suppose that might depend on which side he was sitting... on the side closest to the assassin or on the side away from him.
I am not spinning anything, and I am not sorry for my assessment.
One assassin, shooting from a single position. Killed by counter-sniper after an inexplicable delay.
That is the call here.
I do not for a moment believe Crooke was acting alone in this. It was a "Deep State" operation from start to finish. Things just did not work according to their plan. The assassin missed.
It is so hard to find competent help these days.
The "multiple shooters" idea is a red herring, intended to be debunked in order to discredit all other conspiracy theories. It is a standard feature of intelligence operations to have a fallback plan with false leads and dead ends to cover their tracks.
The audio analysis is simply wrong. But people want to believe it. The search for the "other shooters" will lead nowhere and that is intentional.
Bystanders got a complete video of Crooke doing his thing on that roof. If there had been any other shooters, somebody would have gotten a video of them too. You cannot make a single move in any public event these days without somebody getting a picture of it. Where are those photos or videos?
I will take a video record over audio analysis every time. Though I must point out that the TMX video records gunshot sounds as well.
The key question is "Why was there no security presence on that roof?". Find the key person who looked the other way on that decision, and you have your Deep State link to the assassination conspiracy. There might be two such people who were assigned to this detail.
The rest of the security detail were patsies, selected because they were unfamiliar with everything and everybody. It was a pickup team because of deliberate short staffing and diversion of known Trump supporters to another detail.
Team incompetence was used as a mask to hide this project. In fact, it was necessary for any chance of it to work. This was probably not the first time a major gap in security was permitted. It was the first time the "partners" were able to get an assassin into firing position.
From the other side, check every single contact made by Crooke in the last year. Look for "new friends" in the last year and check all of their affiliations. Somewhere you are going to find a "Non-Government-Organization" with some obvious and unsavory ties. To ANTIFA? To Blackrock? To a foreign government? There will be somebody, and that is where you will find the recruiters and the handlers.
The basic plan was to short staff the security detail, leave gaps in the coverage, and wait for the partner organization(s) to provide a suitable assassin. The weakness in that plan is that the assassin must be told where the intentional gaps are in the coverage, and the security staff must be shooed away from those same gaps.
That communication will leave tracks.
It is the job of the FBI to cover all the tracks.
The counter-sniper who killed Crooke was on the second team and had an obstructed view of the assassin.
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I’ve been viewing other pictures about this same issue... if Crooks had of tucked himself behind the tree a bit more (moved more to his left), he would have still had a clear view of PDJT but been obstructed by the tree from both sniper teams.
There was less than a second, and he was standing when he was hit. It was not the same shot that hit Trump. No "magic bullet" here, only paced, aimed shots.
The fireman was on the bleacher side closest to the assassin.
If that animation is correct, it certainly doesn’t appear that PDJT did himself as much good as one would hope by hitting the deck since the latter bullets were at a much lower elevation at about his height in the prone position, albeit wide to the left. The doggone podium should have been built to tuck himself completely behind it when he was down.
The on-stage security team responded correctly and covered Trump with their bodies as soon as he ducked down. He did not get up until the call came in that the shooter was down. And the stage team still covered him as he left the stage. That is the one group for which I have no suspicions about their loyalty and dedication.
Trump was taking a risk. Had there been another shooter, Trump would have been nailed when he got up and shouted "Fight, Fight, Fight!". I believe Trump was too pissed to care at that point. They missed, didn't they? F*** 'em.
But "shooter down" was an accurate report, and if there were any other shooters, they were gone by then. BTW, I don't believe there were any other shooters.
Others have different assessments on that point, which certainly deserve thorough consideration. If they turn out to be correct, then we are in much bigger trouble than I thought.
Maybe I am not paranoid enough.
“Not to take anything away from him..”
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I am not taking anything away from him either, I am commenting on the many news stories that he was shot protecting his children. He can’t do that as the animation portrays. Again, there are so many questions.
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