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In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Trump, federal law enforcement can’t figure out a motive for the shooter, and they can’t get into all the details of his phone, but they’re 100% sure that he acted alone. What does not make sense is how a 20-year-old nursing home food attendant managed to find one spot with a direct line of sight to President Trump and how Thomas Crooks managed to know of all the ongoing security lapses and failures that day, including the reassignment of the Secret Service to Jill Biden, who had a function in Pittsburgh...

David “Jake” Dutch walked out of the Trump rally on Saturday, in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt against President Trump, with a T-shirt bunched up to stop the flow of blood received from two gunshot wounds, according to friends. Dutch, a 57-year-old Marine Corps veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm, is in critical condition after being struck twice, once in the stomach and once in the liver. He is one of two people critically injured at the rally. Tragically, former fire chief for Buffalo Township, Corey Comperatore was killed as he shielded and protected his family. Fox...

Channel 11 News exclusively confirmed Tuesday that Thomas Crooks was spotted by police hanging around the American Glass Research complex more than an hour before the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. Multiple law enforcement sources described the security operation in detail Tuesday, directly contradicting public statements from the U.S. Secret Service Director. According to law enforcement sources in multiple counties in western Pennsylvania, there were two sniper teams set up near the building where Thomas Crooks fired from Saturday evening. However, in direct contrast to comments made by Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle, there were no local police...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally Saturday left Americans around the nation shocked. But he’s not the only president to face this kind of violence. Throughout U.S. history, there have been countless plots and attempts to assassinate U.S. presidents, including President Gerald R. Ford, who grew up in Grand Rapids. Ford survived not one, but two assassination attempts. “Ford mentioned that he didn’t want to be captive in the White House, he wanted to continue to move about the country, connect with the American people,” said Dr. Mirelle Luecke, supervisory curator. And that’s...

Both CNN and the Washington Post reported yesterday that the Iranian regime is plotting to kill President Trump. Jewish World Review has posted the Washington Post story in accessible form here. Intelligence concerning the plot derives from a human source and is apparently unrelated to the attempted assassination of Trump over the weekend.NRO’s Jimmy Quinn quotes Rich Goldberg’s tweet on the rationale for such an operation: “Donald Trump is an existential threat to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The regime knows maximum pressure will return.”The incompetence of the Secret Service presents something of a national security crisis. The Post drily...

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On July 13, Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. It led to an iconic image of the former president, who had just escaped death from a would-be assassin, perched less than 200 yards from the stage, raising his fist in defiance, face bloody, telling his supporters to “fight.” It’s become a viral sensation. It’s also made some media photographers and editors queasy because—get this—it could hurt Biden and give “free PR” to Trump. You can’t make this up. They’re afraid to do their jobs because it could hurt the Democrats. This is precisely what’s wrong with the...

An inch. One inch, and President Donald J. Trump would be dead. One slight turn of the head. One slight turn of the head saved Donald J. Trump's life. The fact that Donald J. Trump is alive today is a miracle. There is no other way to see it. His assassin had a clear line of sight. He was 135 meters from Trump. He got off multiple rounds. And Trump was wounded. Barely grazed in the ear, bleeding profusely, Trump rose from the ground, pumped his fist, and shouted, "Fight!" Whatever the reason -- and who knows the reasons of...

VIDEOBarbara From Baltimore who was sitting on the first row of the bleachers directly behind President Donald Trump at his Butler, PA rally was recording video on her cell phone just seconds before and during the attempted assassination as you can see. She called in to the Steve Kane Radio show on Wednesday morning and talked to co-host Brian Craig who urged her to make her video more available because of its historical value and because it could reveal new information due to the position and angle from which the video was recorded. One thing of note as revealed in...

COLUMBIA, Ky. (WBKO) - Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was watching Donald Trump’s speech at the Pennsylvania rally on television with his wife Saturday, when the shots were fired at the former president, shocking the nation. “As this unfolded, we were horrified by it. We still are,” Paul said. “Violence, of course, has no place in our in our country.” After addressing the crowd at an appearance in Columbia on Monday, Paul spoke with the media about the attempted assassination, echoing the comments of many government officials, urging political leaders to “calm down the rhetoric.” “I’m sure there’s rhetoric on the...

"See something, say something." After the 9/11 disaster, that phrase served as a terse marching order for alert American citizens willing to help stop terror attacks on U.S. soil. "See something, say something" is superb national security advice. 9/11 demonstrated America is under attack. Every citizen can contribute to the defense effort. On Saturday, July 13, several alert citizens attending a presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, saw a young man lurking near a building adjacent to the fairground where presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump intended to deliver a speech. The young man was later seen on the...

In the wake of the attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have issued a joint intelligence bulletin. .... Snip.... The bulletin was first shared by Catherine Herridge on X. She wrote: NEW: Sources confirm “JOINT FBI/DHS INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN” TITLE: “Assassination Attempt on Former US President Donald J. Trump” TOP LINE: Bulletin says attempted assassination “reinforces our assessment that election-related targets are under a heightened threat of attack or other types of disruptive incidents.” CONTEXT: But near catastrophic lapses suggest the security posture did not reflect this...

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Just days after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, theories are flying from all directions. Many who ridiculed the “conspiracy theories” of conservatives are now suggesting the whole event was a set-up to boost Trump in the polls ahead of the election. Others suggest it was the “deep state” or even foreign actors who organized it.Former US Navy Seal and founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, claims that “The fact that [the Secret Service] allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150 yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence.” He went on to observe that, “unaccountable...

A computer simulation shows just how close Trump was to losing his life on Saturday. The computer model shows three bullets taking the exact same path which is unlikely – and Trump shot in the ear twice (only one bullet grazed his ear). Depiction of the first bullet grazing Trump’s ear shows just how close he was to being struck in his skull. WATCH:

For most of the first 24 hours after Donald Trump was shot on Saturday, we hear little to nothing in the way of official statements from the Secret Service, particularly Director Kimberly Cheatle. That was perhaps understandable given that it had been a chaotic situation and it would clearly take some time to sort out what went wrong. Meanwhile, there was plenty of finger-pointing going on. Finally, on Monday, Cheatle broke cover and spoke to ABC News. She seemed to start out strong, declaring, "The buck stops with me." She went on to describe her unit's response to the attack...

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An apology is a good start, but it might portend a bad finish ... for Democrats. Over the weekend, Jack Black and Kyle Gass drew a deluge of condemnation over Gass' quip on stage. Just hours after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, their Tenacious D act took the stage in Sydney, Australia. The show included a birthday celebration for Gass, during which he wished, "Don't miss Trump next time." After Australian politicians began demanding their deportation, Black announced that the entire world tour would be canceled, and that his partnership with Gass would be suspended indefinitely. But that has...

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @AdamKinzinger The Trump campaign and surrogates will try to intimidate Biden supporters from going after the former President politically. Do not let up. Trump is a threat to democracy and he must be stopped.

No one knows why the post didn’t show up Just broke the news on Donald Trump Jrs Rumble live show with Tucker Carlson He said he was going to break the news on his show with Tucker coming up here soon but did it just now .. I linked the upcoming live Bongino/Tucker show starting at 7:15pm