The Secret Service Agent Who Caught a Bullet for Reagan on the Trump Shooting

Intelligencer ^ | none given | Ben Jacobs

[DallasBiff]

History repeating itself, John Hinckley was sexually fascinated by Jodie Foster, was Thomas Matthew Brooks the same with Taylor Swift.

[moreisee]

I don’t know about Pennsylvania but here in Southern California many of the tilt up commercial buildings have permanent ladders affixed that are easy to lock with a regular padlock.

[Pollard]

They’re supposed to be secured by design to keep kids and scrap thieves off the roof. Every cop knows to visually check them when they’re on patrol and drive around the back of commercial buildings. Why did neither local cops or the SS check those buildings shortly before and during the rally?

I guess it’s up to Trump supporters to check things out now.

Since this is a federal investigation, we’ll likely never hear the truth.

[Texas resident]

I was in DC when Nixon left the White House in August of ‘74. I looked around at all the buildings surrounding the White House. Every corner of every rooftop had a SS sniper on it. Rifleman and spotter. What happened here is a complete failure of DEI and political hatred for a presidential candidate. Biden/Obama worked to make this happen.
This is third world/thug dictator/east African (Kenya) tactics.

[NonValueAdded]

And the bigger question is we’re the counter snipers under a don’t shoot first order?

Or like in Afghanistan, had to ask permission. We need to know the ROE. This was an epic security failure. Barney Fife could have done better.

[piasa]

The event was at a farm show building...was there a farm show or other event held there before this rally, but after it was known Trump would use this venue, that the killer could have attended in order to scout out the location?

Has Trump ever used this location before, such as in 2016 or 2020, where a planner might assume he would in 2024?

[Tom Tetroxide]

Take a look at this Paul Joseph Watson video. He shows video of the ladder.

Strange Questions About the Trump Assassination Attempt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGNRkumDjm0

[Chewbarkah]

Wow. It looks as if an officer coming up that ladder would have been able to engage the sniper from a flanking position, preventing him from concentrating on firing at Trump. Makes no sense for the officer to retreat without firing, which even if he missed would have alerted the SS to surround Trump and the SS’s rooftop sniper crew to go after Crooks.

[Max_850]

Thank you, good video and does show a portable ladder. That raises more questions. Who put it there and when?. How/When did the shooter pick the spot ? Was he good, or lucky? Not to mention all the questions for SS, state and local police…

[Albion Wilde]

I was in DC when Nixon left the White House in August of ‘74. I looked around at all the buildings surrounding the White House. Every corner of every rooftop had a SS sniper on it. Rifleman and spotter.

There is a rooftop restaurent just across 15th St NW from the White House. Been going there since I was a kid in the late 60s. Amazing views of the White House on your right, Washington Monument on your left.

Mature trees obscure the view of the helicopter landing on the south lawn and the president walking in the back door, but you can see the entire top of the White House, perpendicular to the terrace restaurant, east wing near, west wing far. You know that the helicopter is either about to arrive or preparing to leave when you see a phalanx of black-clad, heavily armed swat officers swarm all over the white rooftops.

[Albion Wilde]

Or like in Afghanistan, had to ask permission. We need to know the ROE. This was an epic security failure.

The LEO who climbed the ladder could have offed the shooter between the eyes the instant he started pointing his gun towards the LEO—totally correct protocol.

Enormous fail.