Posted on 07/14/2024 9:08:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Preliminarily, let me say what I wrote yesterday: Trump’s near miss seems to have an element of Divine Providence to it, reminiscent of how George Washington invariably emerged from the heat of battle unscathed. Just sayin’. Now, to the topic at hand, which is the Secret Service’s performance before, during, and after the assassination attempt. It wasn’t good.
Ironically, just yesterday, I finished reading Lee Child’s Without Fail, which was published in 2008. In it, Jack Reacher works with the female head of the Vice President’s Secret Service detail to help foil an assassination attempt. Unlike most Reacher novels, this one had no fistfights. Instead, it focuses tightly on what the Secret Service does to protect politicians.
I don’t know what kind of research Child did, but the point he makes repeatedly—and it’s an obvious and intuitive one—is that the Secret Service must control the high ground. Every rooftop or high floor within range of a politician is a potential platform for an assassin.
In Butler, Pennsylvania, however, not only did the Secret Service seemingly make no effort to control a rooftop within relatively easy shooting distance of a former president and current presidential candidate, but Secret Service agents also seemed disinterested in repeated warnings that a man with a gun had crawled on top of a building that gave him a clear shot at President Trump. This video shows the first eyewitness we heard from, but reports are that several other people saw the same thing and had the same response from Trump’s security detail—that is, no response:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It’s kind of hard to establish a real guilty party that orchestrated this. Trump has a lot of people that wouldn’t walk around his grave. He caused a lot of problems and money for people around the world in his first term because he wanted America to be the first in his considertion. And now that the liberals have overplayed their hand, and most of the other conservative listed rino, puppet people that could be president over the vegetable the libs have that have hidden behind themselves, are all on the payroll of someone running Biden. So the only way to end the threat is to end the Trump. And that’s what we saw yesterday. Blaming the liberals, who no one will ever be able to prove did it, is a no win. And a lot of people will fall on their swords for something this big. So who do you get? You don’t unless you set someone up. And that guy was Crooks. Remember Oswald?
Before this is over, a story will leak about Crooks being an addict, or some other noteworthy degradation, when in real life he was a pawn. And I’m willing to bet they offered him gold with the intent to give him lead. And they let him fire before they did.
According to Dan Bongino, a 12 year vet with the CIA, the area locked down for these type of events is 1000 yards. Crooks was 132 yards away, seen going on the roof, standing on the roof with a weapon, .22 auto, and allowed to be there without interruption. Huh? Some of people blamed for incompetence will get serverence, but that, probably, was the lesser of the evils they were offered. So, who do you get? China, Cuba, Columbia, the cartels, the Biden family, the libs, the conservatives, even the media itself that has become its own little power hungry third world nation? No need looking. Everything and anyone that could be considered is accounted for or dead (Crooks). And the others outside the country are scott free as there’s nothing that the current administration is going to do to them even if they look at them...which I doubt. This inning is over.
wy69
Except one.
Sounds legit.
Local Police and Feds with control...
“Security” could never be this bad, right! The SS are not buffoons! Or, are they really this incompetent?
A white man with an “assault” rifle getting uppity on a roof: you’d think the fully CRT and DEI trained SS would have taken him down immediately.
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Well, not QUITE immediately!
#6 ... Remember when anyone dare say anything out of line about 0blama ... they’d get a knock on their door?
Your above post #14 is right on, and all 6 items will continue.
The lawfare didn’t work so this seems like “Plan B”.
It’s kind of hard to establish a real guilty party that orchestrated this. Trump has a lot of people that wouldn’t walk around his grave. He caused a lot of problems and money for people around the world in his first term because he wanted America to be the first in his considertion.
So says wy69 ...
Bookmarking.
Has there been an official and truthful explanation by the SS?
For their own safety, I hope they whistleblow before they are exterminated.
Donald Trump needs to learn skydiving what with his plane being used to ferry him around. He needs to be wary of explosives (and run people through a TSA-like screening from now on). He needs to have a bullet-resistant barrier erected at his rallies. He needs to have a food taster and a person with a Geiger counter checking for radiologicals. He needs to get a professional team that is skilled in downing drones.
He needs to do these things TODAY.
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Excellent advice! Let’s hope he does so immediately.
The Secret Service had ONE thing to do - protect the President.
Even after being made aware of a possible threat they did nothing to take him to safety while it was investigated.
The lawfare didn’t work so this seems like “Plan B”.
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Any discussion of the assassination attempt should include a discussion of the lawfare attempts to imprison Biden’s leading political opponent and his media persons. They are totally interrelated.
The article claimed there are 3 sources who all say the snipers on the roof behind Trump held their fire at the shooter because they were denied permission to shoot.
If that is true, whoever denied the permission needs to be charged with attempted murder of Trump and murder of the man who was killed. If he/she was under orders from somebody else, an investigation needs to follow the trail backwards all the way to Obama if necessary and then charge HIM with the murder.
How is that a lie? 911 is almost down the memory hole, even though lives have been permanently affected, e.g. airport security measures.
When we go bow hunting for deer, we have better coverage and line of site than these buffoons...
I think it was a masterful piece of pre-rehearsed political theater, culminating in that picture of Trump with his fist in the air.
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