Unpossible that a competent SS missed this. To those saying "they couldn't see him" - where are the drones? A 12 year old kid has the technology, why doesn't the SS?
Posted on 07/14/2024 9:21:51 AM PDT by DallasBiff
It was the first attempted assassination of a current or former American president in the era of social media, and the conspiracy theories, finger-pointing and campaign gamesmanship moved at the speed of the internet, far faster than the actual facts of what transpired at former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 left the nation in bewildered grief. Conspiracy theories would proliferate, of course, and Abraham Zapruder’s film of Kennedy’s last moments would be studied for decades. But first, there was mourning. The assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 would rock the public consciousness again, leaving Americans wondering what would become of their country.
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Prayers for the 1 dead and 2 critically wounded.
You gotta love the Times burying the major point - that this was about Trump being the current GOP presidential nominee, not an ex-president.
Exactly!
They are lowest of the low.
Well, stuns half the country at least.
The other half is kicking rocks, going back to the drawing board.
They likely had a lot of these stories already written.
I hope nobody takes my comments wrong, if Trump had moved his an inch it would have been a kill shot, and that’s what I mean he was protected by God.
This definitely was divine intervention no doubt about it!!
Sputnik
@SputnikInt
‘Trump’s life was saved by a miracle, not by his security’ — Russian Spetsnaz veteran
It appears that the people responsible for Trump’s safety dropped the ball judging by the circumstances of the recent assassination attempt, Alexey Filatov, retired lieutenant colonel of the Russian Federal Security Service and veteran counterterrorism specialist, told Sputnik.
While Trump’s security at the rally was provided by three groups – his bodyguards, local police and the Secret Service – it appears that there was no proper communication between them, Filatov, who previously interacted US security services personnel, notes.
Meanwhile, the perpetrator managed to somehow get on a rooftop only about 150 yards (137 meters) away from Trump, a distance where it is “fairly easy” to hit a target the size of a human head using “not even a sniper rifle but a usual automatic rifle with good sights,” Filatov remarks.
“It would be safe to say that the security performed extremely poorly,” he says, noting that for some reason, law enforcement and security personnel did not bother to secure all nearby rooftops in the vicinity.
“You could say that this terrorist act or, shall we say, assassination attempt, it was successful. Donald Trump’s life was saved by a miracle rather than by his security,” Filatov adds.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1812455924843389306
Headline should have read “we were the inspiration of a failed assassination attempt”. Of course it failed everything the left does ends in failure.
Actual facts are being discussed on Socail Media, knowing lies are published in the 1st paragraph of this so called “News” story.
FACT: Trump’s team has been asking for higher Secret Service protection. The Biden Regime has denied every request
Fact: The is a Bill in Congress being pushed by the Demcorat party to strip Trump of his security detail
Fact: Every single security professional looking at this see an obvious gross incompetence boarding on the criminal allowing roof access in line of sight of a high value target to be left unguarded and uncovered.
So the hate based media lead can spew all the lies they want but the fact is social media is the ONLY real journalism being done here.
Deep state be like “and what if our DEI hire at SS leak Trump ourselves directly, what you all gona do about it?! Uh?,”
The New York Time has always been infatuated with Communism. They call it socialism, but its the same thing: Dictatorship by the elite.
Sputnik
@SputnikInt
‘Trump’s life was saved by a miracle, not by his security’ — Russian Spetsnaz veteran
It appears that the people responsible for Trump’s safety dropped the ball judging by the circumstances of the recent assassination attempt, Alexey Filatov, retired lieutenant colonel of the Russian Federal Security Service and veteran counter terrorism specialist, told Sputnik.
While Trump’s security at the rally was provided by three groups – his bodyguards, local police and the Secret Service – it appears that there was no proper communication between them, Filatov, who previously interacted US security services personnel, notes.
Meanwhile, the perpetrator managed to somehow get on a rooftop only about 150 yards (137 meters) away from Trump, a distance where it is “fairly easy” to hit a target the size of a human head using “not even a sniper rifle but a usual automatic rifle with good sights,” Filatov remarks.
“It would be safe to say that the security performed extremely poorly,” he says, noting that for some reason, law enforcement and security personnel did not bother to secure all nearby rooftops in the vicinity.
“You could say that this terrorist act or, shall we say, assassination attempt, it was successful. Donald Trump’s life was saved by a miracle rather than by his security,” Filatov adds.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1812455924843389306
Unpossible that a competent SS missed this. To those saying "they couldn't see him" - where are the drones? A 12 year old kid has the technology, why doesn't the SS?
Speak for yourself, headline writer.
I’m not “stunned”. Or “stuned”. Or “stoned”.
Trump’s team has been asking for higher Secret Service protection. The Obama Regime denied every request.
Obama is good friends with the current DEI hire head of the Secret Service. The SS has been politicized just like all the other federal agencies. The agents that surrounded President Trump were probably not in on the coup and their training kicked in. This “failure” started at the top of the agency with the blessing of someone other than Biden.
The Deep State was scared. Now they should be terrified.
The left don’t seem to realize either, they were 1 inch from a civil war against them.
I hope nobody takes my comments wrong, if Trump had moved his an inch it would have been a kill shot, and that’s what I mean he was protected by God.>>> yes touch you right ear with you head turned to the right. Leave your finger there. Then turn your head straight.
No offense to the Secret Service, the rank and file anyway and law enforcement personnel, they have a tough job and a dangerous one.
But I have to say, interacting with some cops in my hospitals ER, some cops are among some of the dumbest people on Earth.
Don’’t really know how to explain it but some of them are really dumb.
not possible that a competent SS missed this. To those saying “they couldn’t see him” - where are the drones? A 12 year old kid has the technology, why doesn’t the SS?>>> Yes and the shooter had a clear line of fire for the entire egress area. The road next to the stage is where the egress was. The SS are a bunch of fools. No they were in on it. They had the guy lines up prior to the perp shooting and took him out 3 seconds after shooting trump. No covering fire on a guy with a rifle? No covering fire? 130 yards away.
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