Looks like he kept trying to lure them to a location where they might be persuaded to incriminate themselves, but none of the locations provided them with the targets they were after, so they declined. When he (the ‘agency’) arranged the Mandalay Bay rendezvous, it was perfect. It’s possible the perps suggested it, and the agency fell for it.
You’ve got to remember what that prosecutor in that recent court-case said. He said that the perps had been the victims of a sting by an agent who suggested a concert location where they could shoot lots of people.
I’m bowing out. This reminds me far too much of the ‘my mother came from Kansas’ BS.
Just as SHE wasn’t his mother, Paddock never shot anyone, let alone himself. You need a one-track, closed mind to believe any of that. And there’s no shortage of the gullible. Paddock is now fixated in their minds as a rogue agent who killed 58 and wounded almost 500.
Paddock would have been dead before even Campus was wounded.
Nothing is going to get Paddock as the perpetrator out of their minds, and the people who arranged the sting aren’t going to come forward. The ‘agency’ would call them all collateral damage.
And zero remains the son of a Kenyan goat-herder and a white girl from Kansas.
Actually I think many people are doubting the official story - if you can call it a story - and I see a lot of comments around and about doubting that Paddock was the only shooter, or that he was the shooter at all. “Patsy” is a word I see a lot. Nothing makes any sense, and there are practically no facts at all. Sort of like trying to put together a whole skeleton with 3 unrelated bones.
I think - just gut feeling - that enough people know more of what really happened, and will let things out, like the woman who wrote the story about the Airbnb stuff, and maybe more of the skeleton will come into view, to continue with that stupid metaphor.
“Son of a Kenyan goat-herder .... “Son of a Bank-robber”...
Grandmaster $5million poker player: One who launders money is beholden to three separate parties. First, he’s dependent upon whom he acts for to launder their millions. Secondly, while the casinos are complcit, they record the ‘cash-in—play—cashout’ transactions; therefore they may blow the whistle at any time. Finally, the IRS & federal law enforcement can prosecute him and they regularly indict people for money laundering all the time. It’s a risky business.
Paddock had a great deal of exposure and could easily had been subject to bribery or coercion to participate in some other nefarious plot or activity. If he had been audited and had been caught laundering cash he may have cut a deal with XXX federal agency to play for their team. Obviously he was either set-up from the get-go or double crossed along the way. No one had his back.
Many of the answers lie with the hotel surveillance. Of course if someone other than Paddock hauled the ammo or guns to floor 32, they certainly would not want to share that information. And there was ample time for shooters to slide upstairs to the Four Seasons or slide out afterwards as long as they weren’t waving a long gun.
He came, he played and ultimately- he lost.