Former US Army sniper on Trump assassination attempt: 'One of the easiest shots' (video and transcript from Fox News Jesse Watters' show)

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I have seen a report that the SS sniper requested permission to engage (shoot, kill) Crooks 43 seconds before he fired. If he had, all we would be hearing about today is a trigger-happy SS sniper, with the media blaming MAGA. The SS sniper seemed to have an assistant with his own 0.50 and binoculars. Someone observing with binoculars should have been able to identify Crooks as a threat.

Second guessing is always perfect. Thank God for the result we got. I have not heard whether or not Crooks had a telescopic sight. With it, he probably has a pretty good chance at 100 yards, with iron sights, not so much.

[Afterguard]

Great pic, thanks for that. (I had assumed that these guys were using AR-10s, but these look like bolt guns to me...)

[Labyrinthos]

Uniformed SS officers have “Secret Service” printed on the front of their ballistic vests, and “POLICE” on the back. (Do an internet search for “secret service uniforms.”)

[Mr. K]

That concerns me too. What kind of rifle and did it have a scope? How have we not seen a picture of it

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I heard it was a 0.50 cal. The venerable M-2 most likely, though the experts on this thread will chime in if I am wrong.

[Colt1851Navy]

IPSC pistol competitors could have shot the bad guy in the head three or four times at that distance in .025 seconds.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I’ll take my chances with an M-2 with telescopic sights.

[MNJohnnie]

Divine intervention. Trump turns his head and looks directly at the shooter just as the bullet arrives and clips his ear.

Point at your right ear. Turn you head and notice what your finger is pointing at. Any other direct Trump’s head is facing at that moment and he is dead.

[MNJohnnie]

Let review this farce without all the noise, blame shifting and screaming being generated in the old Media today

Here is the question that must be answered.

You are a supposed highly trained, high paid security professional working for the state of the class US Secret Service. SOP is to lock down any roofs with ladder access within sniper range of a high risk target. You are assigned to guard the highest at risk target in the world.

However, magically, yesterday you total forgot to secure a roof top 150 yards from the opposition party’s political candidate. A roof top that also had line of site to the egress path the candidate would be rushed down in case of an emergency.

Magically this “random nut” penetrated your security zone, while carrying a rifle, decided to crawl up onto that roof and gets off 8 shots at said high value target before you even responded.

If random people out here can see the obvious flaws in the security set up, why did the highly paid, highly trained people running the SS miss all of them?

[RoosterRedux]

You nailed it. And the question is, were the flaws “missed” or was this part of the plan?

[watchin]

“insightful rhetoric” should be “inciteful rhetoric”.

“Insightful” means “full of insight”. IOW wise. MSNBC would say this about Biden’s comment.

“Inciteful” means “stirring up trouble”. We would say this about Biden’s comment.

Not trying to be the grammar police, but it’s a big difference, especially given the context of an attempted assassination.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

"Did shooter screw up, or did Trump move his head at last millisecond, to look at the immigration chart? I’ve heard the latter. Also, Trump had an APPARENT BULLET HOLE in his suit too" This photo is being downplayed with statement that THE "HOLE " in President Trumps jacket did not appear when he was exiting stage???? Maybe, he was not looking for his shoes instead changing jacket??? He does wear a bullet-proof vest https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSaJMUrXUAAMhvO?format=jpg&name=medium

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

“Did shooter screw up, or did Trump move his head at last millisecond, to look at the immigration chart? I’ve heard the latter. Also, Trump had an APPARENT BULLET HOLE in his suit too”

This photo is being downplayed with statement that
THE “HOLE” in President Trumps jacket did not appear in photo when he was exiting stage???? Hmmmm...

Maybe, he was not looking for his shoes instead he was changing jacket??? He does wear a bullet-proof vest

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSaJMUrXUAAMhvO?format=jpg&name=medium

[Hot Tabasco]

Thanks for enlarging the picture, now it’s evident they were SS.....

[Hot Tabasco]

Agreed. At 30 yards, I can shoot 1” groupings with my .22 PCP air rifle.

[elpadre]

“...Any idiot can make that type of shot...”

But not every idiot will hit in the 10 ring - the bullseye. You need a good, steady sight picture and a trigger squeeze that doesn’t push or pull the front sight off the target. Good target shooting takes a lot of time on the range just as any other sport.

[Rurudyne]

According to some folks that is from the glass from the teleprompter.