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Promoting the Perps
SteynonLine ^ | July 13, 2025 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 07/13/2025 6:54:57 AM PDT by Twotone

Today is the first anniversary of the shooting of the Republican presidential candidate while on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania. Once it became clear that the hit had not succeeded, the awful corrupt American media lost all interest in the story, which remains the most under-investigated presidential assassination attempt of the last hundred years. Curious. Here is the column I wrote a year ago with a few annotations twelve months on:

Let's cut to the chase - the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap?

To get that out of the way: At the bare minimum, the Secret Service are guilty of what certain jurisdictions call culpable negligence. Having been informed of both foreign and domestic threats against Donald Trump, they created conditions that greatly assisted anyone wishing to take a shot at the President to do so. As I said, that's the "bare minimum"; I happen to think what was going on high up in the SS bureaucracy was rather more than that.

Well, I've thought the Secret Service were rubbish not just since we learned of the Cartagena hookers but for at least another decade before that. And increasingly, when it comes to American officialdom - from Kabul to Uvalde - to modify Henry Ford, you can get it in any colour as long as it's bloated, lavishly over-funded and entirely dysfunctional.

And yet and yet... it's hard to believe even these guys (plus their bevy of five-foot-two-eyes-of-blue Keystone chorus girls) could be this crap. Assuming for the purposes of argument that the body on the roof is actually that of the perp, a goofball barely out of high school hatched a plan to have Donald Trump's head explode in close-up on live TV...

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: butler; marksteyn; pennsylvania; secretservice
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1 posted on 07/13/2025 6:54:57 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

In my mind, Butler, PA was a total setup.

There is no way so many screw ups in a row were not an active plan.


2 posted on 07/13/2025 7:04:30 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Nitzy, now with 88% plausibly anti-Semitic posts!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Yeah.


3 posted on 07/13/2025 7:07:50 AM PDT by OKSooner (Always carry. Even if all you can handle is a .22, carry it. You might be surprised...)
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To: Twotone

[[’One local police officer climbed to the roof and encountered Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer]]

This fact alone should have prompted an IMMEDIATE call to the ss surrounding the pres, and trump taken off stage, well protected! (Infact, the moment people began shouting, ss should have prot3cted mr Trump!) (Not to mention that crooks should have never been able to climb onto the roof in the first place!)

The FACT that the cop ran and didn’t apparently inform anyone is such gross incompetence, that it implies compliance!

The cop climbed the ladder WITHOUT HIS GUN DRAWN and ready to shoot a suspicious armed person crawling around a rooftop AT A PRESIDENTIAL RALLY? he knew someone was on the roof, armed! He shouldA ordered crooks to drop the weapon, and shot him dead if he didn’t! He shoulda had his pistol or rifle trained on crooks as he peeked over the edge!

That cop could been a hero that day. Instead he chose to run, and our pr3sident nearly lost his life. And the media couldn’t care less.

THANKFULLY God had other plans for president Trump!

What I don’t understand is, why hasn’t the whole thing been investigated to the enth degree once President Trump took office?


4 posted on 07/13/2025 7:27:00 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Twotone

I absolutely believe this was done by deep state democrats. There is NOTHING these evil people are incapable of.


5 posted on 07/13/2025 7:30:47 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Uncle Miltie

✔️


6 posted on 07/13/2025 7:34:48 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Twotone

“Republic of Non-Accountability” indeed.


7 posted on 07/13/2025 8:20:53 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: 13Sisters76

Hmmm...
I wonder why a certain person is silent,as the event as approved even in congress is paraded to the public...


8 posted on 07/13/2025 8:42:51 AM PDT by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: Twotone

bkmk


9 posted on 07/13/2025 10:34:10 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Bob434

You really made up that description of what the officer did, he was being hoisted up to edge of the roof and was holding on with both hands when crooks turned the gun on him.

Here is the video of the cop.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/08/politics/video/bodycam-trump-butler-assassination-attempt-freeman-ac360-digvid


10 posted on 07/13/2025 10:59:59 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Twotone
...no fewer than six SS employees have been suspended without pay! Per Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics (one of the few reporters to take any real interest in the matter), the half-dozen agents deemed to have "under-performed" that day were originally supposed to be suspended without pay for three to six months. That was subsequently "dialled back" to fifty-two days without pay, which was then further dialled back to ten to forty-two days. Compare and contrast with some hapless gran'ma wandering around the Capitol on J6.

Should have sh*t-canned all of them.

11 posted on 07/13/2025 11:33:34 AM PDT by Rummyfan ( In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: ansel12

The quote from “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” is: “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”.
The PO on the ladder claim will last long after the true facts are forgotten.


12 posted on 07/13/2025 12:54:31 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Bob434

You can be ignorant, but there is no excuse for your lying, watch his body camera video, he is boosted up and is holding on to the edge with both hands, he didn’t know what was up there and he couldn’t hold his pistol in his teeth.


14 posted on 07/13/2025 5:57:38 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

it wasn’t a lie- i ASSUMED- I made a mistake! There’s a difference-

-[[he didn’t know what was up there]]

You know thaqT how? People were shouting that someone was on the roof


15 posted on 07/13/2025 6:09:55 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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[[he didn’t know what was up there]]

“We’re pointing at him, the police are down there running around on the ground, we’re like ‘Hey man, there’s a guy on the roof with a rifle’...

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-shooter-gun-police-watched-bbc-witness-1924887


16 posted on 07/13/2025 6:12:30 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Bob434

You made up some stuff first and then after I posted his bodycam to you, you still made up more, you seem to want to keep going after that cop with made up stuff, watch the video and his reaction, he didn’t know there was an armed sniper up there.


17 posted on 07/13/2025 6:13:42 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

[[he didn’t know what was up there]]

“We’re pointing at him, the police are down there running around on the ground, we’re like ‘Hey man, there’s a guy on the roof with a rifle’...

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-shooter-gun-police-watched-bbc-witness-1924887


18 posted on 07/13/2025 6:15:01 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: ansel12

I didn’t make anything up in response to your post- he dropped to the ground and ran- Witnesses state they were telling the cops someone was on roof with gun-


19 posted on 07/13/2025 6:17:39 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Bob434

Which has nothing to do with that guy.

Quit working so hard to create something that wasn’t for that individual.


20 posted on 07/13/2025 6:17:51 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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