Initial commentary:
Trump's choice of VP really matters now:
Did the Deep State just make a mistake?
The Dark Questions We Don’t Want To Ask, But Have To Ask, About The Secret Service (you’ll never guess what agency they’re under)
Yesterday’s assassination attempt on President Trump has stunned the world. We thank God that President Trump came out OK, knowing that just a few millimeters difference could have resulted in a deadly outcome. While the profoundly unsettling event in Butler, Pennsylvania opens up a whole host of troubling questions which we will of course address here in due course, the most pressing and immediate one is how this could have happened in the first place. How on earth could the Secret Service have screwed up so badly?
To get a sense of how bad the screw-up was (assuming it was indeed a screw-up and not something more sinister) it is helpful to understand some facts. One might at first imagine that in order for a gunman to get within shooting distance of President Trump, he must have employed sophisticated concealment methods of the sort usually reserved for spy films. Except this wasn’t the case at all. The shooter was perched on top of a building 150 yards away from where Trump was speaking. Law-enforcement experts familiar with security protocols are simply baffled that one of the few rooftops near Trump wasn’t secured, much less how a man could get up there with a rifle and have time to take a shot.
Even those with no security experience whatsoever can look at the image and understand that it would be a no brainer to secure the rooftop in question.
Shooter was about 150 yards from Trump on a rooftop with a direct line of sight to the stage.
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) July 14, 2024
It defies every security protocol ever written that this rooftop was not secured, and law enforcement personnel were not standing up there. pic.twitter.com/a1WfwMRZPA
It is simply unfathomable how the Secret Service sniper didn’t see Trump’s would-be assassin–and again, that there wouldn’t have been a Secret Service agent posted where the would-be assassin was. Look at the image again and reflect on whether it makes any sense.
In fact, there is video of the Secret Service sniper engaging the gunman. How could he have not seen the gunman before he fired his first shot? How was the gunman able to get off eight shots before finally being taken out?
As I said, organizations want the Orange Man dead. And the queasy implication is that some of those organizations, perhaps even including the Secret Service, may have known an attempt was going to go down, hence their "negligence" in securing the surrounding rooftops. Jesus, it all just gets worse and worse as the hours roll on.
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UPDATE:
It's not hard to believe that elements on the left are calling this a "staged" assassination attempt to gain more support for Trump. The sad truth is that I can no longer call this either unbelievable or fiction. Those people are truly delusionally brainwashed under their brain addled, puppet president and his puppeteers.
ReplyDeleteI thought of the VP issue after the shooting. Before, I didn't really care who it was, assuming that Trump would choose the one who could best help him get elected. But now I realize that we need someone who can step in and do the job should the deep state succeed next time.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, can the Secret Service really be that incompetent? It is hard to believe a rooftop with a line of sight to the stage was left unguarded unless it was intentional.