Posted on 08/15/2024 9:50:47 PM PDT by ransomnote
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You mean, he located Crooks, notified central control and was told not to shoot, then after Crooks shoots then he shoots?
That is not in Higgin’s report, but I heard this also.
The “Jonathan Willis” account was originally posted on 4chan and highly suspect.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Congressman Clay Higgins | Subject: Preliminary Investigative Report to Chairman Mike Kelly (assassination attempt investigation), Texas Fossil wrote: I have never read this before, anywhere. • The 9th shot fired on J13 was from a Butler SWAT operator from the ground about 100 yards away from the AGR building. Shot 9 hit Crooks’ rifle stock and fragged his face/neck/right shoulder area from the stock breaking up. The SWAT operator who took this shot was a total badass; when he had sighted the shooter Crooks as a mostly obscured by foliage moving target on the AGR rooftop, he immediately left his assigned post and ran towards the threat, running to a clear shot position directly into the line of fire while Crooks was firing 8 rounds. On his own, this ESU SWAT operator took a very hard shot, one shot. He stopped Crooks and importantly, I believe the shot damaged the buffer tube on Crooks’ AR. I won't be certain of this until I can examine Crooks’ rifle, but I'm 99% sure, based upon reliable eye-witness ESU tactical officers who observed Crooks’ rifle before the FBI harvested it as evidence. This means that if his AR buffer tube was damaged, Crooks’ rifle wouldn't fire after his 8th shot.
• Crooks “went down” from his firing position when shot 9 was fired, and the SWAT officer was certain of his hit. According to the ESU SWAT operator, Crooks recovered after just a few seconds, and “popped back up”.
• The 10th (and, I believe, final) shot was fired from the southern counter-sniper team. I will not be 100% certain of this until further investigation. However, I am quite sure that the USSS southern counter-sniper team fired the killing shot, which, according to my investigation, entered somewhere around the left mouth area and exited the right ear area. Instant over. This entry-exit aligns with USSS southern counter-sniper team position.
I enjoy contemplating the shock of those who planned to kill Crooks once Trump was shot - I imagine their faces when that Butler SWAT shot Crooks before the kid could 'finish the job.' Note that SWAT was intentionally positioned where the kid would be mostly obscured by foliage from his vantage point. So the SWAT 'left his position' when the would-be-assassins who planned this didn't anticipate it. Once he shot the kid 'too soon,' then the other SWAT shot because he wanted optics to 'look right' (can't have the Bulter SWAT shoot twice while standing in the line of fire while other SWAT watches, from the saftey of their 'sloped' rooftops, through their scopes). Obama et. al. to plotters, "You had ONE job...."
Cullen’s latest speculation—and it is just speculation—one more time, speculation is that a shooter was in the trees near the water tower.
His further speculation is that it was a remote controlled weapon...
That is speculation subject to revision, to repeat...
Lol.
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BTTT!
Who announced that and through which device was it heard through that 🎤 if there was no cross communication?
Assassin’s body was released to the family. He was cremated just 10 days after his death. No way to test any other theories on entry wounds.
Open broadcast, from an open radio.
Who had their radio open that close to the 🎤?
Local or State LEO'S would be the only ones...given the current narrative.
I missed that. What did it say or give me the link.
This whole thing doesn’t make sense unless you tie it in to an inside job that involved a carefully organized plot with only a few people.
Pompeo was head of CIA at one point. How the heck did he not see how deep the Trump resentment existed there. Wray? This guy is obviously the most naive person on the planet, or he’s one of cagey, back stabbing liars.
How do "they" (and we) know? The FBI has the recovered forensic evidence and has apparently not given out any information.
Did the eight recovered shell casings match the rifle extractor/firing pin signatures? Were they all the same and were they all from the same rooftop recovered weapon? Were any test shots taken by the rooftop rifle afterwards to determine if cartridge/bullet marking characteristics were similar to any recovered fired bullets? Of the three people shot were any of these expended bullets recovered for evidence and forensic examination? Were any other expended bullets recovered from the scene for examination? Does everything match up? The FBI should have all that evidence unless they carelessly discarded it along with the body they quickly identified as "Crooks" (oops!).
And by the way, is the recovered body actually of Crooks? Does DNA and fingerprint examination match? Surely there was residual evidence in his home of this, at least, and it was searched that night.
Questions, questions,,,?
The question still remains. Who made the statement and how did the agents hear it if locals made the final shot and yet it was heard so quickly on stage while there was, supposedly, no cross communication?
JMO, YMMV
You raise points that should be part of the investigation, but as Clay Higgins said, the crime seen was removed be the FBI
We can only assume that the 8 casings were from the rifle.
I’ve heard a couple of good solid evidence of the ballistic audio, and they all say that the first 3 shots, followed by 5 shots had the same frequency, consistent with one gun. The you hear the 9th shot... and a few seconds later the 10th shot. Both from from different guns. So we have three guns.
Many unanswered questions.
The big tell is that the SS had NEVER assigned a counter snipper before this day to Trump. (They needed some one. To kill the shooter once he did the deed)
And the FBI released the body to be cremated so soon
I am not speculating these events until the Congressional Committee has finished their investigation.
Their examination of the assassination attempt will more likely be based upon fact. Because they know that the DOJ, FBI, DHS and CIA will all Lie, Lie, Lie, Lie.
They know the Truth does not lie.
But still, the kid had to know the air conditioner was the right height for him to reach that ideal firing location and that no one would be on the roof or would stop him.
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I suspect that the kid had visited the AGR building complex previously and had already tested getting on the roof from the air conditioner…. likely weeks before or at least after the rally was announced. This may then raise the question about the ladder that Crooks had a receipt for (don’t think if it was reported if the actual ladder was found anywhere). I suspect that the ladder was part of a backup plan to access the roof…. Either by placing it on the top of the gray storage shed beside the Receiving door or by placing it behind the trees that are to the left of the storage area where there is the lower elevation passageway between the buildings (and where later pictures show that a ladder had been placed after the shooting was over and SS used to access the roof). Both locations are shown in this view…. https://www.google.ca/maps/@40.8584853,-79.9702323,3a,51.1y,242.57h,104.45t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sQQF9jQocqCS9A86Jy71uQQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-14.45259082473946%26panoid%3DQQF9jQocqCS9A86Jy71uQQ%26yaw%3D242.57278717735943!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu
I suspect that when Crooks was doing his walkarounds on the day of the rally, he realized that the air conditioning unit was left ‘uncovered’ whereas the front of the buildings around the receiving area had tons of personnel milling about there almost continuously… so he skipped on the ladder backup plan but if he had of found that the front of the buildings by the Receiving area was clear, he would have accessed the roof from there. Also I suspect that he noticed that at the air conditioning unit, any personnel that there might have been in the general vicinity were all looking in another direction i.e. toward where PDJT was.
Yes. And if the story is that snipers could’t see him, then why did they set up with massive blind spots in the most critical areas?
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That’s a mystery but the simple explanation may just be the sloppiness and incompetence of the communication and higher level command of who was doing what between the locals and the SS…. as the saying goes, the lefthand dost not know what the right hand is doing. It all sounds like one massive clusterfu*** where assumptions were being made of things being looked after that simply had no basis in fact. As we learned this past week, an SS agent left her post at the NC rally to breastfeed her baby…. How on earth was that allowed to happen, and particularly after what happened in Butler?
Parking lot surveillance should show if he’s driving the van or his Hyundai Sonata.
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Good point….. if both vehicles were there, who drove them there? And which vehicle was his bicycle pulled out of and which had the ladder that he purchased in it? Also, he had a remote and explosives in a vehicle…. Were the explosives in one or both vehicles? Was the remote actually operable and what was the plan…. Was that a diversion to let him escape but he got shot before able to activate it?
So many questions arise from this part of Higgins report….
- “Shot 9 hit Crooks’ rifle stock and fragged his face/neck/right shoulder area from the stock breaking up.”
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Is there a clear picture of the gun? The only ones I’ve seen were quite fuzzy ones that show the gun quite a distance away from Crooks body…. For that matter, it doesn’t seem that there has been an explanation of how the gun got that far away from his body so one assumes that Crooks left it there and moved to the right of his original position before the shot that killed him…. or the gun was moved after Crooks was shot and when SS first got to his position (perhaps moving it as a matter of protocol to get it a safe distance away from the shooter).
- “Crooks recovered after just a few seconds, and “popped back up”.”
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When Crooks popped back up, did he move from his original shooting position? I’m still trying to figure out how the gun was so far away from his body. If Crooks left it there and was moving to his right after shot 9, was he trying to activate the remote to create the explosion diversion as part of an escape plan? Where was the remote found?
- “The 10th (and, I believe, final) shot was fired from the southern counter-sniper team.”
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PDJT said in his discussion with Elon Musk that he was shot from ‘about 400 yards away’. The actual position of the 2nd sniper team is so at odds with an estimate of 400 yards that one wonders where that number comes from. PDJT makes the 400 yard estimate at 1:02:15 on this recording of the Musk-PDJT interview…. https://rumble.com/v5aq8xp-donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-live.html
One last point with this... I’m fairly sure that I saw pictures of bullet damage to Crooks leg. How did that happen given the explanation for the other two shots?
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