“My hypothesis is that the Secret Service wanted to let Trump get killed & it was just dumb luck (or, as I prefer to believe, God’s blessing) that Trump didn’t get his brains splattered all over the podium.
“Everything about that day indicates that they were just letting it happen.”
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By using (apparent third party) Crooks, it looks as if they were they looking for plausible deniability.
Now, with Crooks having failed and been blown to smithereens, they’re wringing their hands and moaning about how: If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
It's so hard to hire good help these days.