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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1100 on: August 30, 2024, 06:11:59 pm »
"I find that hard to believe."

Why do you find it hard to believe?
I find it hard to believe that Crooks ever was off the FBI's (or USSS's) radar, or that his target ever could have been anyone but Trump. The more we hear, the more it appears government agencies had some involvement in the plot.
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« Reply #1101 on: August 30, 2024, 10:49:10 pm »
I find it hard to believe that Crooks ever was off the FBI's (or USSS's) radar, or that his target ever could have been anyone but Trump. The more we hear, the more it appears government agencies has some involvement in the plot.
"The more we hear"

Really? What are your sources?

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« Reply #1102 on: August 31, 2024, 07:54:15 am »
"The more we hear"

Really? What are your sources?
Have you read all 45 pages of this thread?
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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1103 on: August 31, 2024, 11:25:19 am »
Have you read all 45 pages of this thread?

Source after source after source after source.....
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« Reply #1104 on: August 31, 2024, 01:49:26 pm »
Have you read all 45 pages of this thread?

I have - And I remain skeptical of most of it... Now, part of that is my natural state as a skeptic... Which I consider to be a healthy feature.

But part of it too... The sort of thing that happens when you join up disparate sources while scouring - scouring, now - The internet... Patterns evolve where there really are none. That pattern, which seems so evident, is only there if everything is taken at face value, which occurs only in the absence of proof.

But it is proof that is the important- nay, only- part.
I mean that in a benign way, because it is a caution.

A while back QAnon assembled a set of sources to prove that American soldiers were taking over German businesses housing servers that were the proof that international players were jacking with the American election...

Remember all that? I know you do.
Pretty well sourced. Lots of links.
All bullshit.
All of it.

Remember Russia, Russia, Russia?
All bullshit.
It was all on the other side, but same thing.

I don't give a shit for volume or for sources.
I only want proof.

What can be proved?
That will, of itself, limit the field. That purpose winnows the 'evidence'.
I think that is the way to discernment.

It is not found in every flaccid thought ever flatulated on the internet.

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« Reply #1105 on: August 31, 2024, 02:29:05 pm »
That needs a name, it does... That 'syncronicity' found way, way down the rabbit hole...

It is a phenomena that remains ill-defined in any common parlance.


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« Reply #1106 on: August 31, 2024, 03:27:21 pm »
I have - And I remain skeptical of most of it... Now, part of that is my natural state as a skeptic... Which I consider to be a healthy feature.

But part of it too... The sort of thing that happens when you join up disparate sources while scouring - scouring, now - The internet... Patterns evolve where there really are none. That pattern, which seems so evident, is only there if everything is taken at face value, which occurs only in the absence of proof.

But it is proof that is the important- nay, only- part.
I mean that in a benign way, because it is a caution.

A while back QAnon assembled a set of sources to prove that American soldiers were taking over German businesses housing servers that were the proof that international players were jacking with the American election...

Remember all that? I know you do.
Pretty well sourced. Lots of links.
All bullshit.
All of it.

Remember Russia, Russia, Russia?
All bullshit.
It was all on the other side, but same thing.

I don't give a shit for volume or for sources.
I only want proof.

What can be proved?
That will, of itself, limit the field. That purpose winnows the 'evidence'.
I think that is the way to discernment.

It is not found in every flaccid thought ever flatulated on the internet.
Well, let's lay out the facts as we know them.
1: Secret service coverage was inadequate.
Not enough seasoned agents, not properly deployed, not adequate coverage of the site.
Communications with local assets (SWAT, police, Sheriff) were bad or virtually nonexistent.
Agents failed to get their principal (Trump) off the stage when a threat had been identified.

2:Crooks managed to be seen on the property with a rangefinder, and infiltrate with a rifle, get on the roof, and take what shots he did with only being interrupted by a local cop who peeked over the edge of the roof and the hollering of a few locals (civilians). 1 dead, three wounded (counting Trump, not counting Crooks).

Crooks parents (or those in that role) were/are behavioural psychologists.

He apparently had little to no social media presence, but had multiple communication devices.

He allegedly came there on a bicycle, with a backpack, but supposedly had improvised explosive devices in a van, too, with a remote (allegedly to detonate them).

Time signatures (from the crack of the bullet passing to the sound of the gun) come in two flavors, two of the eight shots attributed to crooks were from farther away, or the rounds were significantly faster than the other six. We don't have squat on the ballistics, headstamps on recovered cartridges, brand of ammo, or any bullets that were recovered. Just the time elapsed between the bullet going by and the report of the gun arriving.

At the very leastest level of malice we have an agency with a stellar reputation for personal protection falling flat on a cow pie, face first, in front of God and everyone.

But this is in an administration that has shown malice toward former president Trump, with many who would do anything to keep him from being elected again.

As I have said many times incompetence is the mask behind which malice operates. It's classic passive-aggressive behaviour, deflecting blame to incompetence, to "errors" or "mistakes", rather than intent to do harm. Better to resign and get some other appointment, than go up on charges for attempted murder and conspiracy. Play along and prosper, or hang.

Motive for a wider plot is obvious: Kill the popular favorite, throw opponents into disarray, even cause an uprising that can be quelled by any means necessary, up to Martial Law. Write it off as a boo-boo, and no one goes down except the patsy. If there was a second shooter, as the different time stamps might imply, they packed up and walked away, perhaps even in LEO livery, because there were nearly a half dozen different uniforms (I'm including suits) on the ground.

Now we can blow this off as just being an artifact of DEI, or we can look at where the competent resources were allocated to less likely targets.

But never in the history of the Secret Service have they blown it this badly, not even when Reagan was shot (because adequate surveillance and overwatch could have prevented this incident, unlike Hinkley).

What raises suspicion to higher levels, aside from the unbridled animosity this administration has shown toward Trump, is the information not forthcoming. Ballistic analysis, communication data, including location references, contacts, social media, and so forth. We're as much in the dark about this as the Las Vegas shooter, and that incident stunk on ice.
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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1107 on: August 31, 2024, 04:42:28 pm »
Well, let's lay out the facts as we know them.
1: Secret service coverage was inadequate.
Not enough seasoned agents, not properly deployed, not adequate coverage of the site.
Communications with local assets (SWAT, police, Sheriff) were bad or virtually nonexistent.
Agents failed to get their principal (Trump) off the stage when a threat had been identified.

Lets break that down a bit:
Secret Service coverage was inadequate.... Accepted, but not all the way. I accept as self evident that Biden's administration was shorting Tumpy... as they did also to RFK. That much is almost certain.

Not enough agents/inadequate coverage: That's a bit weird. I am still not sure how many sniper nests were present. Some say two, some say three. Some sources say the kill shot came from the South team - which would mean three - Because the East and West teams are evident on film.

Three seems right to me, because of triangulation, as the minimum for strategic oversight.

Work sharing is normal seepage. I would expect work sharing between overwatch and various LEOS. I would expect zone control divided between various authorities, because that's how it always works. Siloed comms - again, very common in large venues. I recognize the fault in it - But I mean to say that may not be nefarious as much as a faulty systemic problem that became credibly evident in this case. I would imagine this will be studied and altered going forward.

As an addendum, it still bothers the crap out of me that there was no sniper team on the water tower - The obvious high ground - Though perhaps it was rejected because of too much exposure.

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2:Crooks managed to be seen on the property with a rangefinder, and infiltrate with a rifle, get on the roof, and take what shots he did with only being interrupted by a local cop who peeked over the edge of the roof and the hollering of a few locals (civilians). 1 dead, three wounded (counting Trump, not counting Crooks).


Still don't know how the rifle got there, probably pre-stashed. 'Outer ring', low danger, mostly focused on crowd control and parking. Certainly a fault. But how it works pretty normally. Nothing nefarious in that.

I can't tell you how many times I 'broke in' to the fair here. Because I knew how. Cops are sleepy and overloaded with sensory input... It's easy to be sneaky in big venues, even as a giant, threatening man like me. It don't take much to put one past the LEOS.

This goes right to the assumption of security that all criminals freely exploit.

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Crooks parents (or those in that role) were/are behavioural psychologists.


Which admittedly explains their spawn. But little else.

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He apparently had little to no social media presence, but had multiple communication devices.


Weird, for sure. OR, they have not yet found that presence, which could be obfuscated, like many geek-oriented ppl do, as a matter of course. You'd have a hard time finding me on social media, other than my presence on this site. and erstwhile on FR. Try and find my hacker side.

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He allegedly came there on a bicycle, with a backpack, but supposedly had improvised explosive devices in a van, too, with a remote (allegedly to detonate them).

All weird, and conflicting reports.

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Time signatures (from the crack of the bullet passing to the sound of the gun) come in two flavors, two of the eight shots attributed to crooks were from farther away, or the rounds were significantly faster than the other six. We don't have squat on the ballistics, headstamps on recovered cartridges, brand of ammo, or any bullets that were recovered. Just the time elapsed between the bullet going by and the report of the gun arriving.

Actually, three flavors.

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At the very leastest level of malice we have an agency with a stellar reputation for personal protection falling flat on a cow pie, face first, in front of God and everyone.


That's right. But not necessarily malice, where ineptitude and laziness suffice. Add to that a replacement crew... And a familiar routine interrupted... Both the familiarity (breeding ho-hum) and the replacement (breeding ineptitude) suffice to explain much...

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But this is in an administration that has shown malice toward former president Trump, with many who would do anything to keep him from being elected again.

Already accepted (along with RFK as proof)


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As I have said many times incompetence is the mask behind which malice operates. It's classic passive-aggressive behaviour, deflecting blame to incompetence, to "errors" or "mistakes", rather than intent to do harm. Better to resign and get some other appointment, than go up on charges for attempted murder and conspiracy. Play along and prosper, or hang.

A reasonable argument, but Hanlon's razor still applies... And I would stand there, in the light of what evidence we actually have.

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Motive for a wider plot is obvious: Kill the popular favorite, throw opponents into disarray, even cause an uprising that can be quelled by any means necessary, up to Martial Law. Write it off as a boo-boo, and no one goes down except the patsy. If there was a second shooter, as the different time stamps might imply, they packed up and walked away, perhaps even in LEO livery, because there were nearly a half dozen different uniforms (I'm including suits) on the ground.

Motive abounds, but proof does not.

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Now we can blow this off as just being an artifact of DEI, or we can look at where the competent resources were allocated to less likely targets.

But never in the history of the Secret Service have they blown it this badly, not even when Reagan was shot (because adequate surveillance and overwatch could have prevented this incident, unlike Hinkley).


You mistake my intention. By no means 'Blow this off'. My counsel is to wait and identify actual proof, rather than going down every damn rabbit hole the interwebs provide. Endless bullshit.

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What raises suspicion to higher levels, aside from the unbridled animosity this administration has shown toward Trump, is the information not forthcoming. Ballistic analysis, communication data, including location references, contacts, social media, and so forth. We're as much in the dark about this as the Las Vegas shooter, and that incident stunk on ice.

Suspicion is fine. but proof is still required.

It is again, normal seepage for LEOs to be reluctant to release evidence to the press. Court cases require cards held close. That too is enough... It does not have to be a coverup. Not saying it ain't, by the way. I am saying it requires actual proof.

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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1108 on: August 31, 2024, 05:07:21 pm »
Have you read all 45 pages of this thread?
Of course not. Why should I? You made a claim that the current admin was involved in plotting the shooting.
Please provide proof instead of unsubstantiated allegations.  I don't mean Dan Bonzino or other "conservative" cranks on the radio or internet.
Too much of allegations of sneaky behavior on the part of the opposition involves wanting it to be true.
It's been more than sixty years since JFK was assassinated, and in that time there has been a whole industry of people alleging nefarious plots by Castro, the Mafia, evil corporations, etc. to have JFK shot.
Instead, it was most likely one lone Marxist nut, Lee Harvey Oswald, who did it by himself.
I believe some guy named Posner has written a book (which I haven't read) called "Case Closed" where he rebuts all the allegations of a sinister plot. Nobody has arisen to refute his book.
In the case of Crooks attempt on Trump's life, why would the admin hire someone like Crooks who was actually seen by many people and almost stopped by a local gendarme before he got his shots off against Trump? Crooks attempt would be laughable if someone hadn't gotten killed and Trump narrowly avoiding have his head blown off.
Just put this down to the ineptitude of the SS. That is what is the cause of many botched security missions.
And the fact that no candidate is totally safe from a determined assassin. I'm sure George Wallace had good security, but that didn't prevent Arthur Bremer from shooting him. Bremer didn't necessarily want to shoot only Wallace. Supposedly, he would have shot any candidate in the area. It sounds like that was true for Crooks. He researched the itinerary of both Trump and Biden.
Gerald Ford was almost killed twice by untrained female assassins. Luckily, Squeaky Fromme didn't know how to operate a semi-automatic gun, and Sarah Jane Moore had a bystander knock her gun out of her line of sight on Ford.
And you would have to believe that the admin managed to convince all the SS agents to get in the plot without any of them revealing it to the public. Utterly unbelievable.

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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1109 on: August 31, 2024, 05:45:27 pm »
Of course not. Why should I? You made a claim that the current admin was involved in plotting the shooting. Please provide proof instead of unsubstantiated allegations.
I didn't "claim" anything, and I'm not . I said I believed the feds may have had some involvement. Break the pills in half.
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« Reply #1110 on: August 31, 2024, 06:02:18 pm »
Of course not. Why should I? You made a claim that the current admin was involved in plotting the shooting.
Please provide proof instead of unsubstantiated allegations.  I don't mean Dan Bonzino or other "conservative" cranks on the radio or internet.
Too much of allegations of sneaky behavior on the part of the opposition involves wanting it to be true.
It's been more than sixty years since JFK was assassinated, and in that time there has been a whole industry of people alleging nefarious plots by Castro, the Mafia, evil corporations, etc. to have JFK shot.
Well, that was sealed up, and supposedly addressed by the Warren Commission. I have a copy of that summary around here somewhere.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and people will find reasons for things that may be far removed from reality to blame. With Kennedy, there were many, from expat Cubans over The Bay of Pigs (airstrikes were called off which could have led to success, rather than failure) to the Mob, lots of folks had reasons to want to eliminate him, especially the Communists.
Actually, one of my favorite 'plots' pointed to the Federal Reserve banking cartel, where Kennedy was leaning toward directly monetizing the debt (United States Notes) as opposed to Federal Reserve Notes, which put our money supply in the hands of a banking cartel, which makes bank off that.

Incidentally,at the end of Kennedy's elected term (after his death) the mint quit making silver coins (with the exception of 40% silver Kennedy halves through 1970) for general circulation, and the United States Notes and Silver Certificates became collectors' items. The 'cash' we've passed around since has been promissory notes from the Federal Reserve, Silver Certificates being no longer issued after 1964.  Like with the part on the Social Security card that said "For Social Security and Tax purposes--not for identification", which is no longer present, paper currency no longer said "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private and is redeemable in lawful money at the United States Treasury or any Federal Reserve Bank", lawful money being (Constitutionally), gold or silver, but was truncated to "This note is legal tender for all debts, Public and Private". Further freed from ties to intrinsic value during Nixon's watch, gold went on the market again, for investment. Of course, the US Mint has issued bullion coins and proof strikes in gold and silver since, but those command a premium above spot, far beyond their face value ($1 for an ounce of .999 fine silver, $50 for an ounce of Gold, be it a Buffalo or Eagle).
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Instead, it was most likely one lone Marxist nut, Lee Harvey Oswald, who did it by himself.
I believe some guy named Posner has written a book (which I haven't read) called "Case Closed" where he rebuts all the allegations of a sinister plot. Nobody has arisen to refute his book.

As I said, lots of room for speculation when the records have been sealed. Newly revealed information indicates some CIA involvement, but it is truly a cold case, and let the dead bury their dead.
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In the case of Crooks attempt on Trump's life, why would the admin hire someone like Crooks who was actually seen by many people and almost stopped by a local gendarme before he got his shots off against Trump? Crooks attempt would be laughable if someone hadn't gotten killed and Trump narrowly avoiding have his head blown off.
Did the FBI have to hire anyone in the past to get them to do nefarious things, from kidnapping a governor to blowing up the WTC in '93, the FBI found willing dupes to go along with the plan, and either 'stung' them or missed (oops). The trick isn't to hire Crooks, just motivate him and make it possible, while lining him up to be the patsy and having a second, very capable shooter to take the shot. Crooks gets blamed, the pro walks off, and dead Crooks tell no tales. It's an attractive theory, because there are a number of gravy trains that could be derailed in a second Trump administration, from Big Pharmas medicine show to Pentagon procurement, and the suffering in the latter sector should peace be established. Lots of money at stake, and if the $100 Billion in profits over COVID by suppressing cheap, viable, and effective treatments to maintain an EUA and sell untested shots (and rolling out the censorship/propaganda bandwagon) is any indicator, there are those who put profit ahead of our lives in a heartbeat, without regard for the misery, suffering, and death that produced. Look ahead to future earnings potential in one situation versus the other, and you have plenty of motive. 
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Just put this down to the ineptitude of the SS. That is what is the cause of many botched security missions.
And the fact that no candidate is totally safe from a determined assassin. I'm sure George Wallace had good security, but that didn't prevent Arthur Bremer from shooting him. Bremer didn't necessarily want to shoot only Wallace. Supposedly, he would have shot any candidate in the area. It sounds like that was true for Crooks. He researched the itinerary of both Trump and Biden.
Well, that's what we are hearing. From the people suspected of being complicit in any plot. Hmmmmm. It becomes a question of veracity, and the question is one of whether we want to trust the people who have really trashed their reputation with lies to tell us the truth for a change.
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Gerald Ford was almost killed twice by untrained female assassins. Luckily, Squeaky Fromme didn't know how to operate a semi-automatic gun, and Sarah Jane Moore had a bystander knock her gun out of her line of sight on Ford.
I'm not saying nutcases aren't out there, I'm just questioning if nefarious persons haven't in all their years of studying profiling, learned how to steer those toward specific targets and enable them to cause trouble. The GFF (Goat F*** Factor) is always present, and what might have been successful attempts were thwarted.
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And you would have to believe that the admin managed to convince all the SS agents to get in the plot without any of them revealing it to the public. Utterly unbelievable.
Nope. It would not take all of them being in on it. Just the folks at the top. Assemble a novel (never worked together before) team of agents who may not have even done personal security, under man them, give them no direction in interacting with local assets, hell don't even put them on the same channel, and leave an opening by declaring the perimeter to be well inside competent rifle range. Most kids here can hit a dinner plate at 150 yards with a rifle. It doesn't take a sniper, and the shooter didn't even have an effective hide (he was spotted a considerable time before he actually took a shot).

Give me a handful of farmers or oilfield hands to do security, and they won't be in the break room breastfeeding, but will be alert and watching for any disturbances that might indicate trouble, and will err on the side of caution, not wait for shots to be fired.

Imho, the people at the top of the Secret Service get their marching orders from higher up. This was engineered incompetence, people boxing well above their weight class, and someone sent them there. Look at the bosses, not the minions.
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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1111 on: August 31, 2024, 06:08:37 pm »
At some point, the stack of coincidences required to explain things away topples from its own weight.
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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1112 on: August 31, 2024, 06:12:31 pm »
At some point, the stack of coincidences required to explain things away topples from its own weight.

But that ain't here.

Let me put it this way y'all...
The very hardest thing to plan for and correct in security is complacency.
That will be the first culprit here.

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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1113 on: August 31, 2024, 06:20:26 pm »
But that ain't here.

Let me put it this way y'all...
The very hardest thing to plan for and correct in security is complacency.
That will be the first culprit here.
This isn't some bunch of weekend hires at the County fair sporting T-shirts.
This is an organization with a long record of being top notch.
That record comes from competent protection, from being on top of their game and getting it right purt'near every time.
Sure, failures can just happen, but it's even easier for people in the right position to engineer them.
Why there, then, and with Trump? And just happen to have a "kook" to take the shot when the holes are left in the perimeter? When on countless other occasions there would be no threat?

A lot of holes have to line up in the Swiss Cheese for that to get through, and no small number of them can be lined up on purpose.
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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1114 on: August 31, 2024, 06:23:10 pm »
But that ain't here.


And that is why sane and intelligent people differ on whether or not something nefarious is going on.  Who knows where the threshold is?
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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1115 on: August 31, 2024, 06:37:43 pm »
This isn't some bunch of weekend hires at the County fair sporting T-shirts.

YES, it absolutely IS. The lion's share of the coverage is going to be Sheriff's Posse, or the like.
Same with Stateys in the inner ring.

and that ain't to throw shade at those good folks. That's just to say that's how it's done, everywhere I have ever been... And I have worked my share of big venues. *NONE* of this surprises me, with the exception of the overwatch and SS presence.

So much of what y'all have noted is just part of the furniture... I know it was faulty, and I don't blame you for callin it out.  But these folks have done hundreds of low security easy going hick towns. They KNOW he is loved in rural areas, so it is very easy to attribute their inattentiveness to normal seepage... To complacence. And they got caught with their pants down.

That's 9/10ths of this, right off the bat. I don't need to ascribe it to any nefarious conspiracy, because I have lived it - From both sides. I have both been a guard, and outwitted the guards. I KNOW how easy it is.

They weren't ready.

Now, there is some room for conspiracy... I readily admit that they were shorted, and given b-grade agents. That much is true, for sure. That created a hole in oversight, which is the governing authority in all the rest. That is there. TRUE.

Does that prove the whole '2nd shooter' thing, and 'Crook's a patsy' thing?

No. And there is where the proof goes skinny. Super skinny. It could be... But one would have to suspend disbelief and WANT it to be that way in order to capitulate to that story.

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This is an organization with a long record of being top notch.
That record comes from competent protection, from being on top of their game and getting it right purt'near every time.
Sure, failures can just happen, but it's even easier for people in the right position to engineer them.
Why there, then, and with Trump? And just happen to have a "kook" to take the shot when the holes are left in the perimeter? When on countless other occasions there would be no threat?

A lot of holes have to line up in the Swiss Cheese for that to get through, and no small number of them can be lined up on purpose.

That's right. Pretty shabby.
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« Reply #1116 on: August 31, 2024, 06:41:46 pm »
And that is why sane and intelligent people differ on whether or not something nefarious is going on.  Who knows where the threshold is?

That's right. And fair.
I am just calling for proof.

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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1117 on: August 31, 2024, 06:52:26 pm »
Give those T-shirts competent leadership, and they will perform.
For many of the Local LEOs and Sheriff's guys, this was going to be a notch in their gun, they helped do security for Trump! You know they'd want to get it right, but the SS is in command of the operation, and can pull rank on them, whether they had a better idea or not.

There is a bit of training, etc that goes into being a Secret Service Agent, and even more to be on the personal protection detail.
You can't tell me that doesn't include working with local assets, and at least getting everyone on the same damned radio channel. If the local cops can't communicate with the Sheriff, or the SWAT, and none are tied in to communicate with the Secret Service Agents, that is a Serious Failure.
I thought that lesson was learned at Desert 1 (Operation Eagle Claw) during the Carter years.
Especially with the principal (the person being protected) on stage, everyone should be on their tippy toes with their heads on a swivel and their spidey sense ramped up.

That doesn't prove the second shooter, (even though the time lag difference between bullet crack and report sure points that way, 6 of 8 were the same, two were not, and that isn't counting the final shot that took out Crooks). As far as 5.56/.223 casings a couple could have been added to those on the roof easy, but then, we are back in conspiracy territory. No one counted the rounds left in Crooks mag (if he had 24, he didn't fire all 8). Having fewer does not prove he did either, as many folks will only put 27 in a 30 round mag to help prevent feed jams (I am one, I load all but pistol and 10-22 to 90%).

THere are a lot of holes in the information that we won't see filled in. Autopsy report. Ballistics. Communications log (won't be one, they were not on the same frequency). And some of the Keystone cops actions afterwards are almost comical, were it not for the situation.
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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1118 on: September 02, 2024, 12:13:33 pm »
At about 1:52 of the video, you see a sniper apparently sighting in on Crooks.
I have not watched the entire video.

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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1119 on: September 03, 2024, 09:55:40 pm »
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🚨🚨 NEW Whistleblower tells me most of the agents at the Trump rally the day of the assassination attempt were Homeland Security NOT Secret Service — and the only training they received was a 2-hour online “webinar”! Outrageous


https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1831132426573054452

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« Reply #1120 on: September 03, 2024, 10:20:22 pm »
At about 1:52 of the video, you see a sniper apparently sighting in on Crooks.
I have not watched the entire video.

It's my understanding that this government sniper is NOT the sniper who shot Crooks.  Can someone else confirm that?
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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1121 on: September 04, 2024, 09:13:51 am »
Hawley: Whistleblowers Claim Some Agents Had Only Webinar Training the Day of Attempted Trump Assassination

Tuesday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said new whistleblower claims reveal that some of the Secret Service agents on former President Donald Trump’s detail on the day of the attempted assassination had webinar training only.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/09/03/hawley-whistleblowers-claim-some-agents-had-only-webinar-training-the-day-of-attempted-trump-assassination/
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Re: Thread 2...Assassination Attempt Of Pres. Trump [update]
« Reply #1122 on: September 04, 2024, 09:19:31 am »
It's my understanding that this government sniper is NOT the sniper who shot Crooks.  Can someone else confirm that?

It is my understanding that Crooks was taken out by a member of one of the local SWAT teams. NOT by the Secret Service.
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« Reply #1123 on: September 04, 2024, 02:13:02 pm »
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The FBI works for the DNC.
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« Reply #1124 on: September 04, 2024, 03:55:04 pm »
Hawley: Whistleblowers Claim Some Agents Had Only Webinar Training the Day of Attempted Trump Assassination
Not just a "webinar," but one that was only occasionally accessible.
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