Posted on 07/16/2024 1:46:42 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano
I heard a Radio Report out from a PA Affiliate.
Incredibly, they said the following came directly from sources inside the Investigation.
There were 3 Secret Service Snipers positioned inside the Bldg that Crooks scaled and used as a platform.
Secret Service Snipers inside the building first saw Crooks looking up at the roof and acting suspiciously.
Crooks then left.
Crooks returned and was looking at his phone. One Sniper (inside the Building) was observing Crooks looking at his phone and then he saw Crooks using a rangefinder. The Sniper took a picture of him at this point, and forwarded it to the Secret Service Command Post as well as radioing them and telling them of his suspicious behavior.
Crooks then disappeared and later returned with a backpack.
The Secret Service snipers (inside the building) again radioed their command post and alerted them that Crooks' was back, acting suspiciously, and now had a backpack.
Some time elapsed and people in the crowd started yelling to PA Officers that there was someone on the roof with a gun.
I dont know if wounded and widow have legal cause to sue but I hope they are finding out.
Leo’s clearly knew anout this guy and let this guy take the shots
And none of them thought it their responsibility to leave the air conditioning, go out and ask him what he was doing?
At 150 yds the drop of a 223 centered at 100 or 200 is negligible. I have not heard if there was a scope? Probably not because even the worse shooter at that range is going to hit. Consider that Oswald with a bolt action was able to get off rounds at Kennedy in a moving car and hit (supposedly). God was definitely with Trump, and us, here.
BTW, he seems to have been sufficiently aware to not aim for center mass as Trump wears body armor, not that it would be 100% effective without a ballistic shield for a rifle.
Snipers in a gound level floor of a building looking out the windows. Now I have heard everything. “hey Gomer, there looks like a guy over there with a rifle” Bo responds, “is he wearing Camo?” “No”, “then don’t worry about it, he does not fit the profile”. But call it in and have another donut.
Understand that, what I am seeing reported shows a lot contradictory and confusing claims
Shooter was challenged by police officer and police officer fled?? If so was this reported?
People pointing out shooter climbing into roof, perhaps at least investigate it to find out if he is security….
Like most things we will never know.
Incompetence, collusion neither is good.
One thing I do believe is that this was not designed to be a photo op for Trump as it has become.
This was an assassination attempt that was thwarted not by security, but by what I can only see as Devine intervention and quick thinking by Trump
This is the sort of thing beta males would do. You can dress up a beta male as an alpha, but you can’t make him perform like he’s an aggressive alpha. This is what you get when the philosophy of “toxic masculinity” is taught in schools for twenty years.
Looked like he was wearing a tan / grey type of camo
Also if the SS were in the building, they would have clearly surveyed the entire perimeter of the building and found that ladder. More and more it’s looking like they staged that ladder there for the shooter
“Given that it is a kid with a reddot 223 that screams deranged idiot”
It’s not the weapon that screams deranged idiot, it’s the act. A .233 is more than enough at 150 yards even using iron sights.
Not according to its speed, but gravity.
A bullet will hit the ground at the same time whether it’s fired from a gun or dropped from your fingers.
Not to be too technical, but using a scope with zero set at 50 yards, you would have to aim a quarter of an inch low at 130 yards. It would be zero again at 200 yds.
Inside 200 yards a headshot doesn’t take any calculation. So what, you miss by half an inch high or low.
This was not a difficult shot regardless of skill level.
EC
Range finders are also used for golf.
“Staging area”
Coffee, donuts, air-conditioning, crappers.
Break-area mentality at work.
“what I am seeing reported shows a lot contradictory and confusing claims”
Definitely. The thing I’ll remember most about the happening is that the bullet grazed Trump’s ear!
It gets worse and worse. Were they exchanging pronouns or helping the shooter?
See something, say something. Then be ignored or arrested.
Oh, please.
Incorrect eye-positioning using a scope (which presumably has been custom-zeroed for a particular user), incorrect trigger pull (with or without flinch), unintentional sideways pressure on the stock or rotation on the forearm (to negate the natural point of aim)—all of these and other amateur mistakes make your statement (tennis balls at twice that distance first try every try point and click) ABSURD. At least you tried to waffle and make it a little more believable by throwing in “off the bipod.”
Why is the sniper team taking a break?
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