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The Butler Probabilities Were the Secret Service’s series of errors intentional?
https://spectator.org ^ | July 22, 2025, 10:00 PM | George Parry July 22, 2025, 10:00 PM

Posted on 07/23/2025 8:27:27 AM PDT by bitt

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”

— Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

“…probabilities cannot be bribed to deceive, and … they cannot be convicted of bearing false witness.”

— Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, Chapter 15

On July 13, 2024, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, before witnesses and unimpeded by law enforcement, climbed onto the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building at the Butler Farm Show. He was 441 feet away from the stage on which candidate Donald Trump was addressing 15,000 enthusiastic supporters.

From that perch, Crooks used a semi-automatic rifle to rapidly fire eight rounds at the candidate. He killed Corey Imperatore and wounded three others who were on the stage.

One of the wounded was Trump, who turned his head a split second before Crooks opened fire. Consequently, instead of a lethal head shot, Crooks hit Trump in the fleshy part of the ear before being neutralized by a counter-sniper. (RELATED: Butler: The Riveting Untold Story of the Shooting of Donald Trump)

Crooks had come within a split second and a fraction of an inch of eliminating the man who was poised to resoundingly defeat President Joe Biden in the upcoming election.

Two weeks earlier, in a televised presidential debate, an incoherent Biden had conclusively and painfully demonstrated to the nation his total mental incapacity and utter unfitness for office. This had reduced the Democrat presidential electoral plan to shambles as Biden’s defeat appeared certain.

Trump had made clear that, once elected, he was going to dismantle the deep state, the federal bureaucracy, and otherwise upend the Washington power structure. He posed an existential threat to those who were profiting from their control of the federal leviathan and all who were feasting at the trough of taxpayer money.

Trillions of dollars were at stake.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; butler; crooks; roof; secretservice; steep; trump; van; watertower
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1 posted on 07/23/2025 8:27:28 AM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 07/23/2025 8:27:41 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=30%>)
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To: bitt

I believe it was a “deep state”, intel agencies attempted hit. One of two that we know about.


3 posted on 07/23/2025 8:39:45 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; Steven W.

heads up


4 posted on 07/23/2025 8:40:33 AM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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To: bitt

I swear....you can feel the hand of God turning his head in that split second...


5 posted on 07/23/2025 8:43:00 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: bitt

Yes, next question.


6 posted on 07/23/2025 8:48:12 AM PDT by JoSixChip
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To: bitt
The core questions from the posted article:

So let’s sum up. Under the leadership of a director appointed by Joe Biden, Secret Service Headquarters withheld intelligence about a specific threat against Trump’s life, denied requested resources for his protection, and allowed a poorly-planned, under-resourced, incompetent, and disorganized protection plan to be implemented at the Butler rally. And this behavior was characteristic of the leadership’s handling of Trump’s security throughout the campaign.

In other words, what are the probabilities or odds that all of these curious and perplexing actions by the Secret Service converged by mere coincidence to afford Thomas Crooks an obvious and readily preventable opportunity to murder Trump?


7 posted on 07/23/2025 8:50:03 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Obama & Biden Inc. really did provide opportunities for Trump to be murdered.)
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To: Avalon Memories

You forgot CNN covered the rally. Someone had to tip them


8 posted on 07/23/2025 8:52:32 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: Sacajaweau
I swear....you can feel the hand of God turning his head in that split second...

The prince of darkness grim, we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure, for lo! his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him. (Martin Luther)

In the nanosecond that Crooks squeezed the trigger, the Word of God spoke: NO!

As Bob Dylan put it, "Of every earthly plan that be known to man, He is unconcerned."

9 posted on 07/23/2025 8:53:06 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

Like they were tipped off to the raid


10 posted on 07/23/2025 8:55:29 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Yeah...I don’t think they get to credibly fob this off as tolerance stacking. NOT covering the roof, NOT finding the rifle, NOT delaying DJT’s entrance when they knew there was something wrong, NOT terminating the threat until he got off eight rounds....to say nothing of all of the hocus-pocus surrounding the identity of the shooter.


11 posted on 07/23/2025 8:57:00 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: bitt

It was either a plethora of massive incompetence, misfeasance and/or nonfeasance by the USSS, federal law enforcement officials and some DeepStaters, or it was intentional, deliberate malfeasance and a coordinated effort by the USSS, federal law enforcement officials and some DeepStaters to assassinate a former president and leading candidate to be elected as president in 2024.

The latter is more probable.


12 posted on 07/23/2025 9:01:43 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again! )
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To: Avalon Memories

And they ignored multiple people telling them “THERE’s SOMEONE IN THEY ROOF”


13 posted on 07/23/2025 9:13:11 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Persevero

On the roof. Sheesh. Why will I not proofread


14 posted on 07/23/2025 9:13:53 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Dalberg-Acton

I still have a problem with the first three shots. They sound nothing like the others. Their echo sound waves look nothing like the others. Its like three came from a room. And the others came from the gunman on the roof. Then the people on the roof just need to drop three bullets of the same caliber on the roof. Which was easy. And nobody looks for the second gunman. Listen to it again. The first three shots sound nothing like the rest.

The snipers think the first three shots were from inside shooting out. At least 4 feet inside the room so no flash would be seen. There is a window to the snipers left. And there is a vent just beneath him. One of those two would suffice as a perch for a second shooter. The second shooter has to be a cop. In fact one of the cops who was on the scene very soon after he shooting.

Another possibility is that the shooter had the first three casings from the beginning. He dropped them first then began shooting after he heard three shots.


15 posted on 07/23/2025 9:16:02 AM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: Avalon Memories

Plenty of effort went into scrubbing Crooks’ house in record time though.


16 posted on 07/23/2025 9:17:00 AM PDT by Pollard (Sick of the weather? Wait a minute.)
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To: AppyPappy

The plan was to have DJT’s head exploding on CNN film ... let that sink in a minute. Can you imagine the reaction? The Left would have been doing a happy dance, MAGA would have been (temporarily) demoralized & then I would bet ‘fighting mad’.

At the beginning of the week, Biden himself made the comment “Trump’s going to have a bad week” followed by that snarky 💩 - eating grin of his.


17 posted on 07/23/2025 9:17:07 AM PDT by Qiviut (Imagine waking up in the morning & only having the things you thanked God for yesterday. (S. Peters))
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To: bitt
It seems like I'd heard shortly after the shooting that one of the snipers saw Crooks and requested to shoot him but his supervisor told him not to shoot until after Crooks shot first.

Does anybody else remember that or was it mentioned in the article?

18 posted on 07/23/2025 9:21:26 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: gundog

“ Yeah...I don’t think they get to credibly fob this off as tolerance stacking. NOT covering the roof, NOT finding the rifle, NOT delaying DJT’s entrance when they knew there was something wrong, NOT terminating the threat until he got off eight rounds....to say nothing of all of the hocus-pocus surrounding the identity of the shooter.”

What I want to know is who told the sniper to stand down until shots were fired?


19 posted on 07/23/2025 9:27:17 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: bitt

Be nice if they spelled Corey’s last name right


20 posted on 07/23/2025 9:31:31 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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