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« Reply #900 on: July 30, 2024, 02:37:31 pm »
"Josh Hawley BREAKS disgraced US Secret Service Director after forcing him to admit there has been NO punishment after Trump was shot in the head:  "The Former President was SHOT! FIRE SOMEBODY! I can't believe you would say you are being 'persecuted.' We've got people who are DEAD!"


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« Reply #901 on: July 30, 2024, 02:38:25 pm »
"Senator Ted Cruz just ENDED the career of Disgraced Secret Service Director on LIVE-TV:"


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« Reply #903 on: July 30, 2024, 02:45:39 pm »
I love watching Cruz, Hawley and Kennedy cross examining these Biden administration hacks, tag-team style!
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« Reply #904 on: July 30, 2024, 02:47:15 pm »
@Right_in_Virginia  @mystery-ak    :patriot:   :beer:

Many thanks for posting the Senators Cruz and Hawley questioning of Rowe!
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« Reply #905 on: July 30, 2024, 03:17:29 pm »
@Right_in_Virginia  @mystery-ak    :patriot:   :beer:

Many thanks for posting the Senators Cruz and Hawley questioning of Rowe!

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« Reply #906 on: July 30, 2024, 03:19:00 pm »
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It doesn't matter what this DOUCHE is saying - he keeps putting it all on local cops

YOU WERE IN CHARGE OF PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY

YOU, NOT THEM. YOU.

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« Reply #907 on: July 30, 2024, 03:44:39 pm »
That is the conclusion I have come to. The second shooter walked, the patsy died.

Likewise!
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« Reply #908 on: July 30, 2024, 03:53:28 pm »
I love watching Cruz, Hawley and Kennedy cross examining these Biden administration hacks, tag-team style!

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« Reply #909 on: July 30, 2024, 04:32:51 pm »
Cheatle was smart to get out.  Let the new guy have to answer for her failures.

That's what happens when you chose an agency head based upon the personal recommendation of the boss's wife.

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Yeah, never mind the redundant satellite communication stuff that other D.H.S agencies use.  Let the agents on the ground just use local cell phone coverage.  Yeah, if you could put that into your T.P.S. report, that would be great.
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« Reply #910 on: July 30, 2024, 04:50:39 pm »
Cheatle was smart to get out.  Let the new guy have to answer for her failures.

That's what happens when you chose an agency head based upon the personal recommendation of the boss's wife.

Senators' heads explode because American middle management is infested with useless, competence-blocking bureaucrats like Bill Lumbergh ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJbXPXL-0Mg

Never mind the redundant satellite communication stuff that other D.H.S agencies use.  Let the agents on the ground just use local cell phone coverage.  Yeah, if you could put that into your T.P.S. report, that would be great.

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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #911 on: July 30, 2024, 04:59:55 pm »
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So, you're saying that the brilliant thinker and plotter, Joe Biden, was behind it? And they hired that super duper expert assassin Crooks to do the shooting with his equally brilliant plan to crawl along a roof where numerous average people on the ground saw him? And they got everybody in the SS to go along with the plotting? Really?
Do you realize how preposterous that sounds?
This was just general incompetence by the Biden admin which is the most incompetent admin in American history.


I did not say Biden was behind the assassination.  But you can bet whoever does run this government had a hand in this.  And if you cannot understand how a young person like Crooks could be manipulated to do this, then you have no imagination.  People are psychologically motivated to do things every day.

Again, why you think the ENTIRE SECRET SERVICE had to be in on the execution, I just don't get you.  All it would take for the execution of this assassination would be the control for Crooks, the person coaching him to the point he ended up on that roof.  THAT IS ONE PERSON!  Then someone key on site, that could manipulate the resources there.

There was supposed to be a person on that roof as part of the detail.  No one was there.  What kind of shoddy defense do you call that?  That is not negligence.   Someone that was in charge of that scene did not do his job.  Every person deployed should have regularly checked in confirming their post was guarded.  Clearly, that did not happen.

You really think the Secret Service is Keystone Cops bumbling fools?  These are people highly trained to do what they do, and the job was clearly not done that day.  It was a light year beyond negligence.

You:  "And they got everybody in the SS to go along with the plotting?"

Where do you get this from anything I have been saying?  I have stated clearly it would only take 2-3 folks in the entire Secret Service to make this event unfold as it did.  Do you understand English? 

THIS WAS NOT INCOMPETENCE.  AND WHOEVER RAN THE SITE THAT DAY SHOULD FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES.  AGAIN, UNTIL PEOPLE START GETTING CHARGED FOR CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY, WE WILL NEVER HEAR THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY.

I have yet to hear one expert on security for high profile people say the execution of protection that day was anywhere near norms for the industry.  It clearly appeared Trump had compromised security from my view.  There was a known threat 90 minutes before Trump headed to the stage, and no one gave the order to delay his approach until the threat was contained?  How many people were involved in making that decision?  1, 2 people, and they did not do their job. 

Everyone on that detail, that day who was a decision maker should have been terminated.  They were as useless as a pimple on my posterior.

You:  "Do you realize how preposterous that sounds?"

Do you realize how low IQ you appear to be, by saying things I never said!

There are 8,000 folks working for the Secret Service.  I am saying 2-3 were involved in this assassination.  That is all it would take.  If there were 20 Secret Service agents in Butler, PA that day, it would only take 1 or 2 to coordinate the assassination, if they were involved.

Again, the Secret Service is NOT that sloppy in the performance of their job, or we would have several successful assassinations each year on people they are protecting.  They are superior at their job.  The only way that day comes off is if someone on the inside was in on the effort.  If the Secret Service was doing their job that day, the moment Crooks pulled that rifle out of his backpack, eyes would have been on him.  The SS is not that shoddy unless it is choreographed that way.

And they did have eyes on him, and then he disappeared.  Really?  And then he had the couple minutes to climb that building, a rifle on his shoulder, and then to slither to the peak of the roof, and no one challenged him.  Trump was not secure that day, decision makers were not making the decisions to keep him secure.  The Secret Service is passing the buck to the locals when in fact they should have been in charge of every aspect that day in Butler, PA, not the locals.

This is not incompetence.  This is planned, intentional execution that opened a small door for Crooks to crawl through and do his deed.

Nothing at all has emerged from the parents, them saying he was suffering from X, Y, or Z in defense of their son.  Just crickets.  Crooks was a pawn, nothing more.

I would like to know who was behind this if in fact it was a conspiracy, but it is clear the Secret Service and FBI are covering this whole event up and nothing will come from their investigations.  NOTHING!!!




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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #913 on: July 30, 2024, 05:05:38 pm »
This Secret Service epic fail is a perfect reason to rake Mayorkas over the coals again.  DHS is his agency, and Secret Service falls within DHS.

The more stammering Biden Admin officials before Congress on live TV, the better for GOP chances in November, including down-ballot.

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« Reply #914 on: July 30, 2024, 05:07:59 pm »
Listening to the acting head of the Secret Service, Rowe?, he is a flaming idiot.  Lot of perhaps this, perhaps that.  This is not the mindset of someone who heads people with the intent of providing solid protection from threats.

He is as big a clown as the bimbo Cheatle that just left.  Pathetic.

If I were Trump, I would never trust these people.

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« Reply #915 on: July 30, 2024, 05:22:12 pm »
Listening to the acting head of the Secret Service, Rowe?, he is a flaming idiot.  Lot of perhaps this, perhaps that.  This is not the mindset of someone who heads people with the intent of providing solid protection from threats.

He is as big a clown as the bimbo Cheatle that just left.  Pathetic.



If I were Trump, I would never trust these people.


But Rowe has a 'cool' flatop haircut.

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« Reply #916 on: July 30, 2024, 05:23:28 pm »
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Me thinks the Butler, PA, preparation went something like this ...

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« Reply #917 on: July 30, 2024, 10:43:40 pm »
Folks, it's government. Why anybody expects anything else but failure is mind boggling

Someone a while ago posted here that Trump should hire his own security and I agree

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« Reply #918 on: July 30, 2024, 10:50:32 pm »
Folks, it's government. Why anybody expects anything else but failure is mind boggling

Someone a while ago posted here that Trump should hire his own security and I agree

it's another example of why not to trust government with your safety or well being

If he was going to hire his own protection detail, where would he look?

His favorable numbers are astronomical with military, so the first place I would search would be ex-Special Forces...Navy Seals, Green Berets who are thoroughly vetted.

Of course the Democratic media machine would start screaming "Brown Shirt, SS NAZIS, or American KGB.

Since "Image is Reality" in Washington, it would be a very hard perception to crack.
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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #919 on: July 31, 2024, 07:01:40 am »
Trump shooter used fake name to make purchases from gun stores: Report

American Military News by Timothy Frudd   July 30, 2024

A new report claims that would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks made over 25 “firearms-related purchases” over the past year under a fake name before shooting former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month.

Law enforcement sources told The New York Post that 20-year-old Crooks made over 25 separate purchases from online gun stores under a fake name since last spring and attempted to hide his purchase activity online. The sources claimed that Crooks put significant effort into hiding his activity online, indicating that he was planning something way before the former president’s campaign rally in Butler.

According to The New York Post, law enforcement sources did not confirm whether the individual purchases from gun supply stores were firearms; however, the outlet noted that federal law requires individuals to complete background and identification checks prior to the purchase of most guns.

Sources also told The New York Post that Crooks purchased six “chemical precursors” during the first half of the year, which he ultimately used to make the explosive devices that law enforcement officials found in his car and his home. The chemical precursor purchases were also made under a fake name.

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« Reply #920 on: July 31, 2024, 07:59:19 am »
BREAKING – Newly unearthed video from Trump shooting appears to show suppressed rifle fire from FIRST floor window underneath Crooks rooftop, fired toward Trump podium (UPDATE)
07/28/2024 // Mike Adams // 16.4K Views
 

UPDATE: I don't know why I didn't recognize this before, but the iron sights mounted on the rifle used by Crooks were, indeed, mounted 90-degree off axis so that the rifle could be laid on its left side and fired comfortably from a prone position, without the rifle magazine getting in the way. I should have seen this, as I have a set of 45-degree iron sights that achieve a similar thing, but for the record, it is highly unusual to see anyone mounting a rear iron sight in a 90-degree configuration. I'm not even sure what hardware would be necessary to achieve that, and my first concern would be that such hardware might interfere with brass ejection. If only the FBI would show us photos of the rifle, we would know more...

Credit goes to the MrGunsGear channel on YT for pointing this out, and to Raven Geostrategic for including this in their most recently analysis report. Now that this has been pointed out, I completely agree with this assessment, and I'm showing here an AI-enhanced high resolution image of the rifle (rotated 180' from the body cam freeze frame) which now clearly makes perfect sense. This now strongly supports the "single shooter" theory, and I explain the details in the new article at this link.

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https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-07-28-breaking-new-video-from-trump-shooting-first-floor-window.html
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« Reply #921 on: July 31, 2024, 08:00:18 am »
I love watching Cruz, Hawley and Kennedy cross examining these Biden administration hacks, tag-team style!
This should be required viewing by everyone that is registered to vote.
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« Reply #922 on: July 31, 2024, 08:13:06 am »

Secret Service’s New Director Played ‘Key Role’ In Pulling Security From Trump

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July 30, 2024

Before the recently departed Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle made the fateful decision to direct agents away from former President Donald Trump on the day of an assassination attempt, her predecessor played a “key role” in many decisions over the prior years to deny Trump’s team additional security personnel despite repeated requests after he received multiple death threats.

RealClearPolitics uncovered that Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was “directly involved” in denying Trump’s team a full array of Secret Service resources, including additional counter-snipers who may have been able to shoot and kill a gunman before he opened fire at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13th. Several sources familiar with agency machinations say Rowe worked closely with Cheatle to turn down requests by the Trump campaign for “magnetometers, additional agents, and other resources to help screen rallygoers at large, outdoor Trump campaign gatherings.” Specifically, Rowe ordered that Secret Service snipers not attend Trump rallies that were outside the driving distance of the agency’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. The drive time from the nation’s capital to Butler is approximately four and a half hours northwest, conceivably putting the rally location far outside Rowe’s radar.

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« Reply #923 on: July 31, 2024, 08:20:30 am »
Excuses so far:
it was the fault of local police
a sloped roof is too dangerous
communications failures
[and now]
it was too far to drive

The Secret Service isn't even tying to be rational or cogent. Does anyone in the SS seriously believe that this will fool anyone? The Secret Service is lying to us to our face, and they don't care. This security breach was so obviously done intentionally and with prejudice. There is simply far too much stupidity on display to call this a mistake.
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« Reply #924 on: July 31, 2024, 08:22:23 am »
REPORT: Acting Secret Service Director Denied Requests to Increase Trump’s Security.

Acting United States Secret Service (USSS) Director Ronald Rowe is alleged to be one of the officials who blocked requests from former President Donald J. Trump‘s campaign to increase the Republican nominee’s security detail prior to the assassination attempt on July 13. According to investigative journalist Susan Crabtree, Rowe and former USSS director Kimberly Cheatle had a direct role in determining the allocation of agency resources and were responsible for denying the Trump campaign’s requests.Additionally, Crabtree—citing sources familiar with USSS decision-making—states that Rowe was the official with the final authority in denying counter-sniper teams for Trump events outside reasonable driving distance from Washington, D.C. Rowe became acting director of the agency following Cheatle’s resignation last week following bipartisan calls by Members of Congress that she step down.
 
During a rare joint-committee hearing before the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, Rowe repeatedly denied the claim that he was responsible for denying the Trump campaign requests for additional security resources over the past two years. When asked by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) if he had denied sniper coverage outside driving distance from Washington, D.C., Rowe responded: “That is a false statement, sir.”

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/07/31/report-acting-secret-service-director-was-official-who-denied-requests-to-increase-trumps-security/
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