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I do not have a twitter or X or Truth or Facebook accounts so I am leaving it to the rest of you to bring the juicy tidbits and funny memes to this thread. -GC

TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT PART #3

My prompting for this article is a comment by, Wolfie, a couple of Dr Chris Martenson videos and the Clay Higgins report.

I am first going to start with a quote from Lame Cherry (H/T Tonawanda) since she says what I am thinking. (And I can not type 🙄)


…The major first red flag in this is that the Secret Service NEVER deploys counter sniper teams to former Presidents or events they are involved in. Considering the Trump Campaign was screaming for protection and denied.
We now have a reality that although denied protection, or the first time in history counter sniper teams were deployed to Butler.

We might as well get the CIA conspiracy charge focused on this, 👉because the logic is, SS knew a patsy was going to be in Butler and they wanted this person dead, or persons dead.

So what was the excuse for the deployment of counter sniper teams?

Iranian Plot to Assassinate Trump Uncoveredmedium.com›@travscott98

Protection for Donald Trump was heightened several weeks ago after U.S. authorities uncovered an Iranian plot to assassinate him, according to national security officials.

AND:

Trump security boosted weeks ago over Iran plot to kill himyahoo.com

Protection for Donald Trump was boosted several weeks ago after US authorities learned of an Iranian plot to kill him, according to national security officials.

Funny how both of those articles now go to:

Hmmm… the page you’re looking for isn’t here.

However the Intel Community’s mouth piece, CNN now has:

Exclusive: Secret Service ramped up security after intel of Iran plot to assassinate Trump; no known connection to shooting2024/07/16

US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.

There’s no indication that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who attempted to kill the former president on Saturday, was connected to the plot, the sources said.

The existence of the intelligence threat from a hostile foreign intelligence agency — and the enhanced security for Trump — raises new questions about the security lapses at the Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how a 20-year-old man managed to access a nearby rooftop to fire shots that injured the former president….

the official told CNN. “NSC directly contacted USSS at a senior level to be absolutely sure they continued to track the latest reporting. USSS shared this information with the detail lead, and the Trump campaign was made aware of an evolving threat. In response to the increased threat, Secret Service surged resources and assets for the protection of former President Trump. All of this was in advance of Saturday.”

So there is ‘THE EXCUSE’

Iran denies plot against Trump, after US reports unspecified threat

[From Stars & Stripes]

Niha MasihThe Washington Post • July 18, 2024

Iran on Wednesday denied any involvement in the recent assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, while also rejecting allegations that it had any “intention for such an action.”

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the Biden administration had informed the Secret Service of an unspecified threat to Trump from Iran before the July 13 campaign rally. U.S. officials said they believe the attack on the rally, where one attendee was killed and two were critically injured, and where Trump said he was shot in the ear, was unrelated to any Iranian effort.

In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Iran “strongly rejects any involvement in the recent armed attack on Trump or claims about Iran’s intention for such an action, considering such allegations to have malicious political motives and objectives.”….


Seems the Iranians are NOT interested in taking the Rap for the US Intel Community. 😆 I guess they DO NOT want Big Bad Trump mad at them.

However do not forget: May. 27, 2022 UPDATE: New Documents Confirm Former Obama Officials Including John Kerry Were Meeting Secretly with Iranian Officials During Trump Administration — Gateway Pundit

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WHO WAS THE ‘SS’ AGENT IN CHARGE OF THE BUTLER FIASCO?

For this I am going to go to Chris Martensons The Mystery Of The Blood In The Bathroom

There are a ton of good comments. This photo was in one of them:

That rifle does not look like it took a bullet. – GC

KnitKnotKnow

This was the SS walkthrough prep on the venue grounds before the rally.

Bald guy is Tim Burke.

So the women mentioned in the article could be 2 of 3 seen here

Commenter

The woman in the middle with grey shirt is the SS agent on the Trump stage who ducked, and then could not holster her gun – she’s without sunglasses here, but clear from body type, age, hair. I recall reading somewhere that she was the site agent for Butler, but not seeing any evidence.

👉The man on left with green shirt looks like the brick-colored pants/black polo who climbed on the roof at 7:01:36 of Grassley video 3. If Nick Menster was responsible along with Tim Burke, and given they are on the pre-site review, he may be this Nick Menster.

Commenter


A bit out of place, but a new article on ZeroHedge 2 – pretty long – about Trump’s Secret Service detail and July 13 has some good tidbits.

Here is one:

” ** The top supervisors who had to sign off on the security plan for the Butler rally are 

Tim Burke, special agent in charge of the Secret Service’s Pittsburgh Field Office, and 

Nick Menster, assistant special agent in charge of the Trump detail.”

👉“Burke is a friend of Rowe’s from the time they both served on a counter-assault team together early in their careers. Some critics within the Secret Service community question whether their close ties are impacting Rowe’s decision not to fire Burke or anyone else in the Pittsburgh Field Office.”

The article states that the position of site agent rotates, the woman who was site agent at Butler rally had little experience, and is in Ron Rowe’s crosshairs for scapegoating.


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IS THERE A SECOND SHOOTER?

TradeBait2

Another run at it with more video provided to Dr. Martenson. I still see it the same way. The deep state tried to assassinate PDT with the first three shots and missed. Patsy dies as cover for the lame lone wolf explanation.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

 Reply to  TradeBait2

Excellent video. I like the “shooter in the roof” theory – needs to be considered strongly – and it goes well with the purchase history of the company, too.

The following comments are all coming from: The Mystery Of The Blood In The Bathroom by Chris Martenson

There are 190 replies with an estimated read time of 49 minutes.

GN = Greg Nicoll one of the snipers in AGR bldg 6

MacD

I just noticed that apparently we do have a name for the sniper who left early – Jason Woods

(https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/10/politics/snipers-detail-breakdowns-trump-assassination-attempt-invs/index.html 3).

My question remains, however: besides the text message saying he was leaving, what proof do we have that he actually left at that time? And why do we have that text message at all? Why was that available/leaked very early on? Misdirection?

MacD

Maybe the reason that GN was so eager to get back into the building ahead of the other people (as seen on the cop car dash cam) was to “help” lead the room checking operation. “Yes sir, I just checked that room – all clear there …”

AlaskanSqueeze hippysteve

Game of CLUE any one ? This is pure speculation. If there was a second shooter.

It was Greg Nicoll in the second floor window. With the AR15.

Greg, was left alone while his partner (Coke?) went to look for Crooks.

A very calm looking Greg is seen leaving the AGR main entrance (And getting locked out) less than two minutes after the shooting.

Greg’s story is he went down stairs to let his buddy back in after he got locked out.

Greg was VERY keen to be the first one back in the building.

The AR15 which was used for shots 4 thru 8 was snuck out of the main entrance by two team members. [There is much discussion about a Halligan breaching tool vs a rifle. –GC]

Finally… Greg just looks guilty… as my Gran would say… “His eyes are too close together !” LOL

[At this point I am going to give up trying to get the multi-paragraph quotation working correctly. This is very long, and it takes way too much time! -GC]

gfgftt5d0q

In the most critical moment of a critical event you leave your post and get locked out.

Would you:

A. Calmly stand there and calmly walk away or

B. Shout “Oh, *uck!” and put your hands up in frustration, radio you are locked out, pound on the door if someone were inside to get them to open door.

Very suspect

P.S. My father says the same thing (eyes too close together).

VegasPatriot

The story did turn out to be true. You just have to look at it from a slightly different perspective.

The Abandonment Of Posts In The Overwatch Building Is Difficult To Accept Public News & Current Events

The story about the counter-sniper leaving his post to go look for Crooks, then getting locked out, came from this X post by Benny Johnson. Johnson stated that it came from “a first-hand source of highest credentials.” Well, it turns out the story was mostly true, the timing involved was just a little off. Greg did leave the building to look for Crooks, albeit close to 2 minutes after shots were fired. He did get locked out of the building, and it appears someone let him back in along with other…

The Abandonment Of Posts In The Overwatch Building Is Difficult To Accept Public News & Current Events

So why did the source leak the story? Was it the cover story he heard from Greg or the other counter-sniper, and knew it to be misleading because the source was one of the LEOs at the Building 6 entrance and wanted the truth to be known by alerting the public of what to watch for? That’s my point. Why was that misleading story leaked in the first place?

Sgt Raven

As for the keys/card. One of the bodycam videos shows someone getting a big set of keys with a white card and AGR sharpie written on it from the glove box of a PoPo car.

This is the photo he is talking about.

BigTim

Intolerance:

but people come out of that building and so far no one has reported about hearing anything coming from inside the building. there was no reports of smoke or anything. so this supposed 2nd shooter was somehow never seen in or out of the building, never heard, and even perfectly accounted for police bodycams, spectators with smartphones, etc. or maybe it’s like that movie Inside Man, he dug a hole in the wall and he walked out of the building a few days later lol

PhaseFive:

The building and all rooms were sure to be checked at some point by officers. So I do not think the 2nd shooter would rely on a locked door to keep his setup a secret. Thus the above ceiling option.

We don’t have a great inventory of who was in the AGR 6 building during the shooting, but from memory here’s what I can piece together.

  • Videos from the crowd on the west fairly conclusively show nobody entering/exiting the west door.
  • Videos from the car dash cam on the east, show only Greg Nicols coming out 2 minutes after the shooting. It’s an odd location for him to be, and an odd time for him to exit that location. He could have been standing guard

Let’s not forget the huge gap of unaccounted for time (something like 6 minutes from 6:06 to 6:12, where one or both left their post and we are relying on their statements.

I could theorize and speculate that GN and his partner established a secretive spot and snipers nest above the drop ceiling on AGR6 facing South, looking thru a wall vent. GN would stand guard, and it would take perhaps a minute or so for his team-mate to get down from the shooting position after 1-3 shots.

Evidence to support this:

  • Absurd cover stories for both of them.
  • No videos so far of GN searching outside for Crooks as claimed.
  • Blood in bathroom has yet to be convincingly explained, could have been GN’s partner getting injured getting down from false ceiling hiding spot.
  • We have radio witness report of someone seen in a window. While vague it would likely have been a south facing AGR#6 window, and could have been GN or his partner looking out from an interior room to check the status.
  • Some audio analysis and calculations support this location due to sound and calculated distances.
  • We have yet to know GN’s partners name, who was bleeding in the bathroom, any good interior walkthru or pictures of the building, or many other crucial facts.

Extra credit prediction:

I predict AGR6 mysteriously burns down and some of the members of these security teams mysteriously die off in the near future.


Commenter

It may have been a location above a window, but the possibility of officers checking one of those rooms does not disqualify them as good options for a second shooter, if it’s one of the BC ESUs, as hypothesized by some.

It’s a reasonable assumption that the two BC ESUs were the only people in AGR 6. Having set up, the ESU can shoot 1-3 and leave the room with the rifle (assuming a 5.56 round like Crooks’) and put it back in the the 2nd floor over-watch window – there is no physical hiding needed, if the ESU uses the same rifle for over-watch as for shooting at Trump. The “second-shooter rifle” would be hidden in its identity as a legitimate ESU/SWAT rifle at the over-watch window.

This trip up to 2nd floor to put back the rifle would take 20 seconds.

We saw the LEOs entering AGR6 only 6:15:28, about four minutes after the shots.

20 seconds versus 240 seconds – now this is in hindsight, but an ESU as a second shooter in one of those rooms should be pretty confident that it would take much more than 20 seconds for LEOs to notice the shooting, recognize origin, run over, and enter AGR 6. Very low risk. He’d just need a bag or something over his rifle to capture most of the powder smoke and smell in that room.

VegasPatriot

The 3rd shot was fired at 18:11:33. Greg Nicol exited AGR 6 at 18:13:24. So far he is the only one to be confirmed inside the building when shots were fired. The door gets opened back up at 18:15:23. Therefore, if a second shooter fired shots 1-3 from AGR 6, he would have had about 4 minutes to exit his nest.


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This is a discussion among the commenters at Peak Prosperity about a possible second shooter being in the 2nd story AGR 6 Counter sniper nest or in the rafters above. I am not going to try to nest these comments. Each commenter is separated by [….] within that comment are quotes from other commenters that are indented.

This is a photo of the interior of the AGR building showing the dropped ceiling.

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Intolerance

but on the car dash cam we can hear all 8 shots, they’re all the same, just the last 5 are much faster. if someone was inside then we would hear a major difference.

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BigTim

While I agree that the 8 shots sound the same from the car dashcam, the explanation is plainly obvious. Cars are insulated for sound, muffling the outside world to a large degree (engine noise, sirens, road noise, gun shots, etc.). This is the only video to my knowledge that the 8 shots sound similar.

Intolerance

Okay but we hear all 8 shots on multiple sources around the building. And suppressed weapons don’t leave zero trace behind, so if someone was shooting from the inside, they had to have gone above and beyond on their gear and set up inside of wherever they were hiding for there to be no trace of them visually or audibly. if they were near a vent or a window, someone surely would’ve been able to see smoke? cops clearing rooms would’ve reported smell of gun powder left behind.

As a structural builder mentioned on this forum recently the building probably has large steel trusses in the 5 or so feet above the drop ceiling which would theoretically create a cavity. If so, a clever person or team could lay planks across those trusses in which to lay prone and take shots from a concealed wall vent or other surreptitious design. It’s not far fetched, in fact it’s a reasonable scenario. In the real world, the Malvo assassin laid prone in the trunk of a sedan and fired out thru a hole above the trunk license plate.

I have argued that it would be possible for someone outside to see a flash of light but there would be ways to mitigate that, especially if one sits a good distance back from the opening. As far as “smelling or seeing smoke,” we’re talking 3 shots from under the roof where 5 shots were taken. Any unlikely observed or smelled gunpowder residue would be masked by the shots fired just above the location. I don’t think anyone would think twice searching inside, if they smelled gunfire.

See smoke? Lol. Have you ever fired a AR15? Three shots isn’t producing much “smoke.” It’s not like a raging camp fire.

If concealed well enough and a poor search conducted (steered away by the powers that be who orchestrated it) then the snipers nest could be disassembled in the following hours or days without notice especially as they controlled the entire crime scene…

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Commenter

The recordings outside the police I think have shots 1-3 all sound differently than shots 4-8. They are different in the pace, in the echo, in the spectrogram (= qualitatively to our ears), and even in the snick-boom delay.

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Commenter

Intolerance

but people come out of that building and so far no one has reported about hearing anything coming from inside the building.

Yes, people come out, but much after the shooting. And I believe those people entered after the shooting as well.

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Intolerance

BigTim

Cars are insulated for sound, muffling the outside world to a large degree (engine noise, sirens, road noise, gun shots, etc.).

Gunshots from a rifle coming from inside of a building and outside of a building would be vastly different.

Also if this 2nd shooter now shot from the inside of the building, wouldn’t someone have reported that, or noticed the un-suppressed weapon? Wouldn’t all those cops have been more cautious around the windows instead of just running by without a care in the world?

I get you want to shit on me and prove me wrong every time you comment, but you effectively made your own point make no sense at all.

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BigTim

Intolerance

Gunshots from a rifle coming from inside of a building and outside of a building would be vastly different.

I think you’re simply wrong. Cars muffle gunshots and other noises significantly.

To illustrate my point here’s a safe-for-viewing news broadcast. Cop and suspect get into a gunfight on the side of the freeway. Cop has a presumably 9mm handgun, suspect has a AR or AK longgun. These would normally sound radically different but from the dashcam recording they are indecipherable meaning I cannot audibly tell which is which.

[2 min video]

Intolerance

I get you want to shit on me and prove me wrong every time you comment, but you effectively made your own point make no sense at all.

Has zero to do with you. Don’t take it so personal. I have a level of knowledge in some areas and a background that aids in my analysis and just trying to keep this discussion reasonable and factual as best as possible. If and when I agree with you I’ll gladly say so. Thus far I largely have disagreed however.

Intolerance

Also if this 2nd shooter now shot from the inside of the building, wouldn’t someone have reported that, or noticed the un-suppressed weapon? Wouldn’t all those cops have been more cautious around the windows instead of just running by without a care in the world?

Notice several different cops point their guns at windows, duck to go under windows, do not stand in front of the windows, etc. There were reports and uncertainty about a suspicious man in a window. See CMartensons video from today 8/13. I have also posted about it. It caused a large armed team at about 6:15 to storm and clear ARG #6.

It is speculatively but entirely reasonable for a 2-person team to build a snipers nest in the hollow cavity above a S. facing room, and within the 6+ minute period unaccounted for from 6:06pm to 6:13pm, infiltrate a man to the snipers nest whilst another stands guard at the door, aim, fire 3 shots, exfiltrate, hide suppressed weapon or return it to it’s duty position. IF there was nobody else in the building and all eyes outside were on Crooks then people would likely be drawn to and conclude Crooks was the shooter.

I will repeat from what I said above, that GN’s story is a farse and implausible, we still don’t know who his partner was, why they left thier post for 6+ minutes, definitively whose blood is in the bathroom, why GN and partner were not at their post to stop Crooks or there in the aftermath, who shot Crooks and with what weapon, the ballistics and shell case testing of all 8 shots to match with the barrel rifling and extractor and firing pin, etc.

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Commenter

I’m gonna make a bold prediction: The so far unknown BC ESU/SWAT sniper will be reported as having committed suicide or had an intoxicated accident.

If this comes to pass, we can surmise he was the second shooter who knew too much and had to be suicided or accidented by TPTB

[I certainly agree with this! We have seen such ‘Clean-up’ after the Wiener laptop, Los Vegas, and Jan-6th. — GC]

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Intolerance

As a structural builder mentioned on this forum recently the building probably has large steel trusses in the 5 or so feet above the drop ceiling which would theoretically create a cavity. If so, a clever person or team could lay planks across those trusses in which to lay prone and take shots from a concealed wall vent or other surreptitious design. It’s not far fetched, in fact it’s a reasonable scenario. In the real world, the Malvo assassin laid prone in the trunk of a sedan and fired out thru a hole above the trunk license plate.

Did the shots come from inside the building or not? First you’re telling me shots are muffled, now this person could have been completely undetectable. Whatever. Either way, 8 shots were fired outside the building, that much is clear to me.

Any unlikely observed or smelled gunpowder residue would be masked by the shots fired just above the location.

How would smell of gunpowder on a rooftop mask the smell inside of the building?

I don’t think anyone would think twice searching inside, if they smelled gunfire.

What makes you say that? Why would officers clearing the building not think twice smelling fresh gunpowder inside of the building??

See smoke? Lol. Have you ever fired a AR15? Three shots isn’t producing much “smoke.” It’s not like a raging camp fire.

Yes I have. I’ve also seen different kinds of suppressors fired though that weapon system.

Some suppressors do get gassy, they expel smoke outwards. You guys are telling me there is a 2nd mystery pro assassin guy, but you can’t wrap your brain around the fact that if this person used a suppressor, we don’t know what kind, we have no idea if they were ballin’ on a budget and got something that would expel smoke, we just don’t know.

If concealed well enough and a poor search conducted (steered away by the powers that be who orchestrated it) then the snipers nest could be disassembled in the following hours or days without notice especially as they controlled the entire crime scene…

They wouldn’t have to go through those lengths if they could fire shots from inside the building and never leave a trace, like you keep implying

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BigTim

Who was IN the building? Nobody as far as I can tell from many hours of watching many videos, except GN and an unknown person (presumably his partner). So who is going to report gunshots from inside? It appears nobody was in there but those two. I speculate they made sure of it. GN kept guard at the doors while his partner climbed into the nest.

GN comes out 2 minutes post-shooting, acting EXTREMELY relaxed and too casual, overacting as it appears to me.

But isn’t his post on the 2nd floor of building 2, facing south, that he abandoned 9 minutes earlier. WHY is he down on the 1st floor. What possible, plausible reason has he left his 2nd floor post that it must be noted is literally the best overwatch position of anyone in the area to see Crooks position to stop him, shoot him, and keep the crime scene secure. What possible reason is he down on the ground floor with 20 other cops?

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Commenter

That’s a good one. To better cover a shot from inside AGR, it would be helpful to have as few people as possible just in front of AGR 6. And indeed we saw two characters shooing people away from there:

  • before the shooting, the pepper-haired, grey shirt/jeans guy at the start of the D Stewart video: “Off! This is no trespassing! Off!”
  • after the shooting, the sergeant with Butler Township, something to the effect “If you’re not law enforcement, GO!”

And if anyone was left there, like D Stewart, it would be helpful to have them distracted just before:

  • such as a woman riding a horse with a massive Trump flag back and forth across the southern side of AGR 6

The multiple audio evidence does have 1-3 more muffled than 4-8 (consistent with 1-3 inside), and 1-3 with a shorter snick-boom delay than 4-8 (consistent with 1-3 ~14 ft closer to Trump than 4-8).

I don’t think we need to await someone to report a shot from inside AGR 6 to consider as a credible hypothesis that 1-3 came from inside AGR 6.

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BigTim

Legit question, this has all been discussed repeatedly so at this point are you trolling us? Just throwing up nonsense now. [I left it out -GC]

Intolerance

Did the shots come from inside the building or not? First you’re telling me shots are muffled, now this person could have been completely undetectable. Whatever. Either way, 8 shots were fired outside the building, that much is clear to me. [It was originally 5 then changed to 8 later -GC]

Nobody can figure it out, that’s what we are discussing through clues and process of elimination. This is a detective type decision tree.

Crooks acted alone, yes or no. If yes, then he got extremely lucky to exploit a obvious and fatal defect in an unsecured rooftop to kill and injure during the worst security deficiency in 62 years under totally implausible circumstances.

IF No, then to what extent did the deep state allow or aid it in happening and if so, it’s more likely than not they’d have installed a professional to ensure the job was done right.

If that’s the case, there are finite locations from which the pro could fire, to maintain similar trajectory as Crooks:

  • Building 7 rooftop, 5 meters taller, about 250 feet behind Crooks. I’ve gone into great detail here as has someone else.
  • A attic vent of AGR#6 above the drop ceiling.
  • A tree.

There are arguments for or against each theory. Discussed in hundreds of posts now.

Intolerance

How would smell of gunpowder on a rooftop mask the smell inside of the building?

Intolerance

What makes you say that? Why would officers clearing the building not think twice smelling fresh gunpowder inside of the building??

Seriously? Extremely reasonable for room clearing pipe hitters to quickly look for suspects (e.g. man in a window), weapons, brass, etc. They aren’t doing sniff tests of rooms. They’re rushing thru with guns pointed ready for action. Easily distracted and summoned elsewhere by someone in authority after “all clear.” “Smelling” gunshots is the movies and what a detective would do, not combat laden door kickers rushing thru clearing rooms. News flash, they also aren’t doing DNA swaps or dusting for fingerprints or shoeprints either. They are there to clear rooms, eliminate threats or detain suspects. IF this theory holds correct, 3 shots taken above a false ceiling, mere feet below the roof where Crooks was believed to have fired 8 shots, would be indiscernible to a door kicker clearing rooms. Any incidental smell of gunpowder would be EASILY explained by their perception that 8 shots were just fired on the roof 10 feet above them.

Intolerance

Some suppressors do get gassy, they expel smoke outwards. You guys are telling me there is a 2nd mystery pro assassin guy, but you can’t wrap your brain around the fact that if this person used a suppressor, we don’t know what kind, we have no idea if they were ballin’ on a budget and got something that would expel smoke, we just don’t know.

I don’t know man, it’s a theory. “Gassy.” “Smokey.” It’s 3 shots. Almost no gas or smoke at all, and almost no smell. Shall we go over every suppressor on the market now? I’m pretty confident a professional sniper could select the best tool to suppress gasses and flash for this task if it played out that way. BTW, yesterday you baulked at the notion that a few thousand dollars would be expensive for Crooks yet a suppressor is “ballin” money for deep state assassin? Say wha??!!

Intolerance

They wouldn’t have to go through those lengths if they could fire shots from inside the building and never leave a trace, like you keep implying.

Oi vey. Did I say they’d never leave a trace at any time? No. So now you’re fabricating or changing information. I said there are ways to muffle sound, flashes, and the gunshot noise and smells would be effectively confused and concealed by the gunpowder on the roof above. I did not ever say “never leave a trace.” What I did say is that they control the crime scene and could alter or dispose of evidence at a later time in this scenario.

I’ll be going non-responsive unless your dialogue starts to get less troll-y and more reasonable and fact based.

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brian60221

Your comment [BigTim] helped bring something into focus for me. What seems to have happened is that GN and his partner missed a kid assembling a gun and crawling around on the roof they had overlook of, OK. But then shots ring out, and the shooter is killed, but neither GN nor his partner happen to glance out the window of their building to see the shooter lying there dead. And then he comes downstairs with his gun drawn like 90s after the shooter has been killed, and then starts running around looking for him. This is what we are supposed to believe.

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Big Tim in reply to Intolerance

Guy, I’ll repeat it for probably the 20th time on this forum. I bought my first AR15 about 25 years ago, and have owned many more since. I’ve fired untold high number of rounds thru many different AR15s. I own them in at least 3 calibers as well 223/556, 308, and 762 Tokarev (custom made). I qualified repeatedly expert and sharpshooter on the M4 many times, and went to war in OIF many times. I’m intimately familar with the platform. I have a similar history with all firearms, handguns, shotguns, rifles. I’ve been to a LOT of indoor and outdoor ranges, more than I can recite. I’ve shot unique guns most gun owners have never shot.

So with that out of the way, I know exactly what gun powder smells like, even the ammonia smell of corrosive ammo. Like what I shot on Sunday out at the range for 4 hours shooting 12 different guns, pistols, rifles, and shotguns.

Assuming the hypothesis that someone fired 3 rounds from a concealed position in the ceiling followed by someone else firing 8 rounds on the metal roof maybe 10 feet above him. There’s very little chance that a team of men clearing the building for threats would have had the presence of mind to smell these few gunshots and even if they did there’s almost zero chance they would have pinpointed that they came from a specific location inside versus just assuming they came from the rooftop where they’d also have assumed 8 rounds had been fired.

Again, these door kickers and room clearing guys, and even the cops afterwards, if they even smelled a faint smell of gunpowder, would almost certainly have assumed it was from the rooftop. These men are primarily there to find threats, not dust for evidence, pinpoint gun powder smells, etc. Notice these men cleared out and didn’t look for any evidence. That doesn’t mean a lack of evidence, it means they weren’t LOOKING for evidence. They were looking for threats.

We know I’m right. I’ll illuminate the behaviors of the rooftop door kickers. They moved Crooks’ rifle away, ziptied his hands, searched his pockets, and then stood guard. They didn’t pull out a market to circle the brass, they didn’t get down prone to check the angle of trajectory, they didn’t put down any tape to secure the area, they didn’t fingerprint him, they didn’t grab the gun serial number, they didn’t gather brass, they didn’t smell the rifle, etc. they literally secured the area and guarded it from threats. Zero detective work. Just door kicker work, of securing the area.

Furthermore, that does not even factor the possibility that a professional would use air fresheners to mask the smell. A few Glad air fresheners or a potent air spray would easily cover it.

You’ve attempted to use an analogy of a indoor gun range. I have bad news for you. Those see HUNDREDS of rounds daily. And the general smell would make it impossible to pinpoint which stall was the origin of a specific gun powder. You can generally smell gunpowder in the lobby of a gun shop from the gun range. Do you assume that a gun was fired in the lobby, or more likely it was fired in the gun range? Obviously you assume the gun range is the origin of the smell. So your analogy is bad on at least 3 levels.

………………….

Starting HERE is a discussion of the timing of the shots 1-3 vs 4-8, types of weapons and such.

I am going to leave this discussion at that. However I am going to add a point that is NOT brought up. AGR was bought by an LLC formed by globalists in January 2023. This was JUST AFTER Trump announced his 2024 presidential bid on November 15th of 2022. 🤔

New management often does renovation to buildings after they buy a corporation. It would be incredibly easy to build the sniper’s nest in the rafters AND ADD VENTILATION in the time after the purchase and before the assassination attempt. A fan could be hard wired or battery operated. Heck I have a ventilation fan in my attic. I run it all summer. So a fan just under that metal roof, above the ceiling tiles, would not be considered uncommon.

The AGR purchase:

…March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Indicor, LLC (“the Company”) today announced that Doug Wright will join its Board of Directors and become the Company’s CEO, effective April 1.…

Agr International Inc., a provider of quality and process control technologies for plastic beverage packaging, is being purchased by

Indicor LLC, for a undisclosed amount.

Indicor is a diversified industrial company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. It was formed in January 2023…

LINK

DOUG WRIGHT

President & CEO at Indicor

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Our #futureshapers have been busy helping cities plan their future. Honeywell and Accelerator for America just launched the Honeywell Smart City Accelerator Program to help cities strategically plan their futures.

Sudha Jebadurai – AGR International Inc | LinkedIn page has been deleted. She is the Chief Operating Officer.

AGR’s management team will continue to lead the business from its Butler, PA, headquarters. AGR’s name, brands, and operational footprint will not change as a result of the transaction. The business will be led by AGR’s President, Sudha Jebadurai. — YAHOO NEWS

Any bets she supports Harris?

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CROOK’S DECOY RUNNING INTERFERENCE

mollypitcher5

OMG…I’m going to try and tamp down my excitement but if this right it proves there was 2 “Crooks” at the assassination venue.

https://nypost.com/2024/07/29/us-news/texts-show-thomas-matthew-crooks-was-on-authorities-radar-90-minutes-before-shooting-

4:26 Beaver County CS text continued …“I’m just letting you know because you see me go out with my rifle and put it in my car so he knows you guys are up there sitting to the direct right on a picnic table about 50 yards from the exit,” he wrote of the suspicious person who turned out to be Crooks.

Around 5:10 p.m., Crooks was below the counter-snipers who were inside the AGR International building warehouse where the 20-year-old eventually climbed onto the roof and from which he fired his AR-15, the Times reported.

The video is at CTH


The following comments are all coming from: The Mystery Of The Blood In The Bathroom by Chris Martenson

nesum-dourma

Was J13th also high school dress-alike day?

Now we have another person in tan knee-high shorts, that might be called “white short”, even has black shoes & Scrawny looking, just like the gunman… And he looks very out of place and nerveous at the enterence to the east side…

Another white-shorts guy was over on the west side by the retaining wall, and he hung out their long enought to interact with officers searching for the suspect…

You can see him in this image but watch his movements in the clip used in the video… Remember, he was calmly sitting at the retaining wall while others were alerting LEO’s, then as one LEO was back stepping, inches away from a spot where he’d be able to see the Gunman’s position, the guy in white shorts draws his attention to the wrong side of the cooridor between the two buildings… This brings the LEO away from a view across building 6’s north roof face… He then moves around the Uni-cop, keeping him looking down the wrong side of the gap between the buildings… This is orchestrated confusion…

On day one of this incident, when i saw that first video or the first people alert to the threat, that guy’s placement and behavior grabbed my attention as verious suspicious…

I backed off on my suspicion until i saw him draw the Unicop away from a line of visibility to the gunman… Plausible deniability and plausible excuseability are in action on either side of the building where the shooter could have been seen…

That is not accidental… In my Opinion…

SCREENSHOT FROM 2:30 clip:


catamaran45

This may be the same gentleman that is seen sitting on the wall that Crooks was photographed at as Crooks is walking around the front of the south side of AGR building, (note Greg Nicols sniper riffle in window)…and i believe much later that he directs an officer towards the north to where Crooks climbed onto building 6 before the shooting occurs…that may not be included in the clip you show…(cant remember where from though)

this is from 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXMkDmV-TfA 12 undefinedundefined:31 into video onwards…

nesum-dourma

Thanks, that adds one more picture to the collage of his white-hat-Double’s activity… The video you reference and this image make differentiating features hard to see. Your image looks to show a white hat, but not his white socks… The person in the video looks to have black socks but the head is not visible in the clip… No time-reference adds an ID challenge… I’m guessing that he’s my guy…

He was sitting on the ground at the time of the first sighting of “Guy On The Roof”…

That was posted to another podcast. I modified my initial impression when the timing of various spotings, from different videos-sources, was sorted out and corrected & discarded… But when i found this video with an apparent Distraction Dance, my suspicion returned and is climbing…

Has any bodycam footage been seen from interactions at the first sighting location, especially LEO’s contact with this guy? If not, why not??

This guys activity/movement needs to be more carefully ploted because image angle can distort relative position and proximity…

Due to my subscription level & technical limitations i may not be able to post a thorough recomstruction…

I may be getting the wrong impression from the camera angle, but him being so close to the retaining wall, and then backing up toward the venue away from the 2 story & away from what would seem to be an ideal viewing spot to the north of the gap and well west of 2-story’s west wall, seems be an intential action that may have had nefarious purpose. Or so it seems…

Your username describes something that i’d like to catch to detach from thi chaos, but escape may not be very helpful to dealing with the problem…

Thanks again.

nesum-dourma

His pants and scrawnyness caught my eye when Chris mentioned him… Put a grey shirt on him and from a distance held look like the white-pants suspect…

I used him as a carrot to draw attention to the pre-shooting west-side activity, which seems far more important than the chaos on the east after any gauntlets were already nevigated by the gunman and his vulnerable west side was successfully guarded, by possibly two people’s presence & interaction with LEO’s…

But this too may be a distraction away from the glaring non-reactiveness of officers on the west side where the gunman made his approach, and was most vulnerable as he got into final position on the north roof…

As everyone can see in the videos from the east, via overly wide angle footage that exaggertes distance, the east side observer’s vision was hindered by the sun angle…

A careful planner would take this into account and put his backdoor blocker team on the west side, right where the long-haired guy was spotted at the retaining wall…

That exaggerated distance detail needs to be strongly highlighted by influencers, because media people are making commentis about distances based on video footage which is distorted by the camera lens… LEO would have had a far better view than their cameras would provide… That disparity needs to be magnified to thwart plausible_excusibility…

Sorry about dangling that carrot…

Commenter

This guy is dressed so similarly to Crooks, he may be a decoy to draw attention away from Crooks and confuse LEOs

nesum-dourma

That’s the word i was looking for, a decoy, its exactly the impression i’m suggesting… Thnx!

The day was a hot one and this guy sat in the glaring sun as if he was a cold blooded critter trying to stay warm… Which is entirely possible, until his action drew a disruptive LEO away from a position with a clear view of the gunman while he was occupied assembling his weapon and was vulnerable…

Maybe there is another explanation… That is why raising this, in the shuffle of clues , to a higher priority may draw out the bodycam footage or an explanation about this guys intent… He drew the officer southward rather than west and north where the plane of the roof crosses his eye’s level…

I’m trying to coax John Cullen to put these details into his visual modeling program…

I don’t know how to determine if the LEO was approaching backward to the ideal location, but when i saw a guy come toward him from behind and then vear away when the cop got drawn away, i got to thinking he WAS on the right path to a neutralizer’s position, then he was taken off the scent…

Coincidental??? I think not… This is high stakes poker… A lot is riding on watching the play closely for card tricks… They are dealing off a stacked deck…

But we must not get overly suspicious, that can be used against us and it harms us spiritually…

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CROOKS, YEARICK OR BOTH? NOW WE WILL NEVER KNOW.

BREAKING: Trump Shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ Body is GONE — Body CREMATED 10 Days After Trump’s Assassination Attempt — Gateway Pundit

A preliminary investigation report by Rep. Clay Higgins (LA-R) has revealed the body of Trump rally shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks is gone.

In Rep. Higgins’s report, he wrote that on August 5th, when he requested to view the body of Thomas Matthew Crooks, he was told the body of Crooks was “gone.”

The representative from Louisiana further noted that the FBI released the body to be cremated just ten days after the shooting occurred on July 13…


On top of that the FBI scrubbed down the scene removing any biological material. So there went any possibility of determining just who the shooter shown on the roof actually was. OR determining if the body shown actually had wounds from the rifle being splintered. OR if there was one or more shooters on that roof. -GC

Para59r

Butler Coroners office never did the autopsy, it was shipped to an Allegany County Medical Examiner’s office. Lots of things smell in this latest update. At this point it seems iffy to even say it was Crooks who was cremated.

More Lies and Confusion Concerning Autopsy Thomas Crooks the Would-be Assassin of Former President Trump 

Guest Contributor Aug. 19, 2024 8:00 am 

WIKI says Allegheny county is
“… the state’s second-most populous county, after Philadelphia County. Its county seat and most populous city is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s second most populous city. The county is part of the Greater Pittsburgh region of the state..” So you KNOW it is heavily Demonrat. — GC

H/T Tonawanda

However one regards Lame Cherry, her assessment of J13 is very reasonable and plausible:

https://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2024/08/j-13.html

The “FBI” cremating the body of purported Crooks IMO is by itself sufficient to prove their evil involvement. It is not only destruction of critical evidence, it is a means to spawn confusion and chaos by blatantly proving a murderous conspiracy, the specifc details of which will never be known.

Forcible interrogation of the “FBI” agents who caused the cremation, and the agent who performed the cremation (if there WAS a cremation), should be the starting point in working back to others involved.

I realize this will never happen. At this point we know there is no agency, organization, or persons who will have the ability to conduct an investigation even if there was a genuine intent to do so.

So we are left knowing without knowing, the daily MO of those who control us. And what are we to do, can we do?

IMO making direct accsations, regardless of the level of evidence, is a way to start. For example: “The FBI and SS were engaged in an assassination attempt to murder a political oppponent.” We are entitled to make the accusation (in part) because of the efforts to hide what happened, again regardless of the level of evidence. Under the circumstances there is at least enough to support reasonable suspicion, and that is enough.

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

 Reply to  Tonawanda

Great points! Let me repeat and enhance them.

First, I want to sharpen the accusation. For a reason.

Elements within both the FBI and US Secret Service, including some in leadership positions, were engaged in an assassination attempt to murder a political opponent.

This clarity puts elements WITHIN those organizations ON OUR SIDE. They are in a position to help us obtain evidence.

Next, I want to emphasize what you are saying – that a circumstantial case exists, and that it is STRONG.

And particularly this – that the elements within FBI and USSS are behaving in ways that show classic consciousness of guilt, and are now naturally suspect by any sound perspective of law enforcement.

We need to enhance (in a kind of reversal of classic communist strategy) the perspective of a contradiction – of law enforcement being the suspect of criminal behavior. This allows the internal fight in these organizations to fester, to break into the open, and to then resolve in our favor (whatever that outcome is).

Every call from our mouth that these agencies must be destroyed makes them live longer. That contradiction is used against us, over and over. Likewise, calls that they “only need reform” – also bullshit, but a different kind.

We should not care if the organizations are reformed or destroyed – only that the infection is brought to sunlight and sterilized. Whatever happens, happens. The true fight is to reveal the evil and hypocrisy in the organizations, and to make the guilty parties pay. That is what Trump did in 2016, and it was so effective that the evil elements in DOJ and FBI went all the way with operations like VEGAS.


H/T Tonawanda

Does this remind you of the Intel Community and the Media?


For example…

FOX NEWS: (with video)

FBI fires back at claims it released Crooks’ body for cremation days after Trump assassination attempt : Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., says that the FBI cleaned up biological evidence from the crime scene


…An FBI spokesperson tells Fox News Digital that any suggestion the agency is interfering with congressional efforts to look into the attempted assassination “is inaccurate and unfounded.”

The agency said that Crooks’ body was released to his family after coordination with the coroner’s office as well as state and local law enforcement partners “in keeping with normal procedures.”…

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FINALLY THE BLOOD IN THE BATHROOM

Wolf Moon | Threat to Demonocracy

 Reply to  Gail Combs

 August 17, 2024 10:47

My lead candidate for blood in the bathroom was the officer who tried to get over the edge of the roof and dropped down hastily. He is said to have needed stitches. That even fits the timing of the blood in the bathroom which was discovered later.

You can go to this LINK to follow that discussion.

To me the key is the body cam footage of the officer in question. The evidence from the police body cam shows him going up on the roof. (You even see his hands) then he drops down AND RUNS TO HIS CAR, he is so upset, he has trouble opening the door (Electronic) then grabs his rifle and puts it together. (you can hear him puffing) he then goes back and CLIMBS ON THE ROOF A SECOND TIME AFTER THE SHOOTER IS SHOT. — GC

BREAKING: New Bodycam Footage Shows Police Officer Being Hoisted Onto Roof, Confronting Thomas Crooks Before He Opened Fire on Trump by Cristina Laila Aug. 8, 2024 5:00 pm

New bodycam footage shows a police officer being hoisted onto the roof to confront would-be assassin Thomas Crooks just two minutes before he opened fire on Trump and rallygoers on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania…

the article contains a 6:36 minute video.

~ 2:15 he gets his gun.
~ 3:50 he describes what he saw on the roof
`6:00 Hey Jessie you got me up once…”

So no he did not go and clean up.

Then there is the discussion that actually IDs the probable cop who left the blood. – GC

Aug 12 The Mystery Of The Blood In The Bathroom by Dr Chris Martenson

…One big mystery is whose blood was it in the bathroom that caused a second shooter panic to briefly ensue causing nearly every officer of every flavor to rush into the building in haste?

We can account for every person going into and out of the building through door #9 and none of them appear to be “an operator” whose hand was injured enough to leave blood all over an interior bathroom.

This mystery definitely needs to be tied up.

Another mystery centers on a dodgy-looking handoff of something that might be a gun, or it might be a door-breaching tool. It’s hard to say, but it’s on a sling. On second look, and under higher magnification, I’m going with door-breaching implement. What do you think?

Then from Higgins Report:

 “…Shot nine “hit Crooks’ rifle stock” and fragmented into the shooter’s face, neck, and right shoulder area from the stock breaking up into pieces, the congressman said….”

Aubergine posted this photo of the rifle that was supposedly hit.

Possible second shooter on the roof

Commenter WSB August 3, 2024 04:11

I saw the video by Copenhaver positioned from behind PT yesterday, 

where one can actually see two people on that roof.

The original one is the person who runs across the roof, but to the left is another person deep in shadow. Under what looks like a red boom arm…under an overhang. Fairly easy to see.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-from-trump-assassination-attempt-victims-pov-shows-figure-moving-roof-moments-before-gunfire

I watched the video (18 sec) at the slowest speed and there is something white moving right next to the black under that red boom arm. Also according to earlier reports the leo team on the 2nd floor could not see the shooter AND were not at their post at the time of the shooting. One left to go home, one left to chase the shooter and forgot his key card ( Greg Nicol) and the third had to go down stairs to let him back in. – GC

Ubb

The story about the counter-sniper leaving his post to go look for Crooks, then getting locked out, came from this X post by Benny Johnson. Johnson stated that it came from “a first-hand source of highest credentials.” Well, it turns out the story was mostly true, the timing involved was just a little off. Greg did leave the building to look for Crooks, albeit close to 2 minutes after shots were fired. He did get locked out of the building, and it appears someone let him back in along with other LEOs. The question becomes, why did that first-hand source leak that story” Inquiring minds want to know.

Commenter

Good point, a partial lie to misdirect? So this suggests that Greg Nicol was inside AGR during the shooting, and to cover this the story was planted that one ESU sniper left post to look for Crooks and the another to let him back in AGR?

One very suspicious conversation involving “bathroom” and “AGR” over phone is this is Dropbox video 7. What’s weird is the desire for secrecy:

  • 7:22:21 Cruiser LEO: “Hey, are you still recording on your body camera?”

… silence for a good 3.5 seconds …

  • 7:22:28: “Was.”
  • 7:22:30: Cruiser LEO asks confused: “Hey, um, where, where, where were you at when … I thought you was in the bathroom! … Tom and Evenson were talking and you end up being up here!”
  • 7:22:38: Cruiser LEO exclaims, “Yeah, I thought you went to the bathroom! And you said, what did you say? ‘I’m at the AGR’”!

For some reason, the Cruiser LEO does not want this conversation to be recorded. Then he wonders about why his buddy in the convo was not in the bathroom but supposedly in AGR.

@cmartenson July 29, 2024 FBI press call update of Trump’s assassination attempt at Butler, PA There is also a few questions taken from reporters at the end. Some highlights & excerpts taken from the update: seven local law enforcement officers injured either as a result of the shooting or from their actions during the initial response. identified the model of the rifle the subject used; a DPMS AR-15 style firearm designed to shoot 5.56-millimeter ammunition. the weapon was purchased…

KnitKnotKnow

AdamAus

That lady was next to Corey Comperatore.

She got shot at her wrist/forearm area.

It seems that FBI /SS / media/ authorities doesn’t mentioned her at all. Kinda she was memory-holed.

Another senator’s nephew was grazed by a bullet on his neck.

👉 Afaik there are 4 spectators injured and 1 spectator died that day of the rally.

Lady injured mentioned at about 37 sec in.

Commenter

MacD

And we still do not know who the second ESU sniper assigned to 2nf floor over-watch was – Greg Nicol has been identified, why not the other?

It’s hard to tell if all the people we see leaving AGR later in the video are the same ones who went in. If someone different were exiting, it could well be that second ESU sniper. But if he is not leaving AGR, why stay inside, especially since GN left? Could he be the one who bled?

I find it notable that the plain clothes, who had been on the western grounds of AGR 6 and would have heard and seen people pointing to Crooks with rifle on roof – and seemed so inept then – happen now to converge quickly to the eastern side of AGR 6, to know Greg Nicol and chat with him (D Stewart video), and to be among the first to rush into AGR 6 when the door opens. Why were they apparently so dismissive and inept on the west side, but on the east side so urgent and keen to go in?

Also, Chris points out that GN exits pretty relaxed (and chats relaxed with plain clothes), but then is keen to be the first back in AGR 6, even though he was not the one closest to the door. It’s almost as if he wants to clean up a scene inside before others get to it.

gfgftt5d0q

In one of the bodycam videos with the yellow steel fence there are three or four officers waiting in front of AGR asking to go in to clear the bldg. The doors are locked. No one says anything and they just stand there waiting for what seems like forever. Wasn’t this of enormous importance to get in? To clear the bldg? Also, I just watched 2hrs of cruiser cam footage and no officer comes over with that handful of key cards for the door. Maybe cruiser footage started afterward? If not, is Greg the only one inside?Maybe some reason not to rush in to clear the bldg? Greg casually walks out the door. I wish I had all of the footage stored so I could easily check this out.

catamaran45

BWC2-122117 @19:10.15s
Officers…units inside have fresh blood in one of the bathrooms…fresh blood inside in one of the bathrooms…

@19:10.58 there was an opperator who injured themselves…were not sure…

@19:11.41 Trooper Graham was bleeding in that building…Trooper Graham was bleeding

@19:11.53 there was a trooper that was bleeding inside the building

This is the conversation @RealDJStew724 heard from the transmission of the Patrol officer after he had been moved from the AGR building in and was standing outside of…as seen in body cam video…

carrying on from transcript this is a reply to, from different source video.

M-500 016197

(Patrol Car Audio…that may be a different channel than officer transmissions)

@19:10.06 “13 05 officers officers units inside they have fresh blood in one of the bathrooms…theres fresh blood inside one of the bathrooms…which buildings XXX…the main building…the main big one…the main big one…we need to hold a perimeter around these buildings guys…”

@19:10.55 “the one the operator may have injured himself we are not sure”

@19:11.09 “check in on your operators for any injured and bleeding”

@19:11.20 “13 05 “i know you have probably heard it reported fresh blood in one of the bathrooms in the main AGR building…correction AGR building and then um one of you guys may have been bleeding…were double checking”

@19:11.39 “command Trooper Graham was bleeding in that building…Trooper Graham was bleeding”

@19:11.49. “There was a BSP Trooper that was bleeding inside the building”

the video i am referring to as its on @RealDJStew724 youtube page…title ” (8/9) Trump Rally (07/13/24) Butler, PA. Bodycam Footage “bwc2-1221172”

catamaran45

…(note Greg Nicols sniper riffle in window)…. this is from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXMkDmV-TfA 12 @0:31 into video onwards…

BigTim


This evidence is a good video to add to the dropbox.

I think this 3:44 minute video shows a Trooper in a blue uniform injure his hand climbing the fence around the 0:45 mark. Looks to be the same white trooper, no badge, camera on left breast pocket, radio cord on left side. A FOIA for his camera would be useful if anyone is filing FOIAs to see where he went and got treatment.

It also shows SS red tie guy trapped on the stage side of the fence to show his whereabouts immediately after the shooting (and by default, immediately before/during).

We see where the black tactical collapsing ladder comes from in this clip.

We see a lot of the police officers and LEOs in black tactical gear if we need to identify whereabouts.

We also get to see a clip of the first 4 guys on the roof but nothing before that showing who arrived first and in what order or any activities prior to what we already have, essentially.

Law Enforcement Officers Struggle to Get Through Fences Amid Trump Shooting

SEE HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGP2lneH6o

[You can see one state trooper at the beginning of the video may have cut his hand climbing the fences because he looks at his hand at 0:46 Starting at 2:28 running in from the right is a guy in tan tactical gear carrying a collapsible ladder. At 3:16 you can see two cops, SS? in black and two in tan tactical on the roof. — GC]

Commenter

Reply to: BigTim

Good catch! The two in your video, the PA State policeman who cut his hand on the fence along with the secret service black polo who jumped the fence, also appear in the other video posted by Chris, arriving at 6:15:00 at door 9 of AGR 6. When the PA State trooper goes in, he may soon enough visit the bathroom to address his cut and any blood.

I hope that gives you a lot to chew on for the rest of the day. I also hope it was not too confusing… I STILL HATE WORD PISS! – Gail

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noun

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Speaker Johnson
Pinging you on January 6 Tapes

Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there still hanging. One initial block released with the promise of more…and?

We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)

Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)

Justice Must Be Done.

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

Small Government?

Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.

This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.

No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.

World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.

So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.

Political Science In Summation

It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).

His Truth?

Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.

I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.

But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.

Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.

But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

(Paper) Spot Prices

Kitco “Ask” prices. Last week:

Gold $2,431.70
Silver $27.54
Platinum $933.00
Palladium $926.00
Rhodium $4,975.00

This week, 3PM Mountain Time, markets have closed for the weekend.

Gold $2,508.70
Silver $29.11
Platinum $964.00
Palladium $975.00
Rhodium $5,100.00

Silver up nicely, palladium higher than platinum again (platinum is on effing sale, people), but all that pales in comparison to the big news which is:

GOLD BUSTED $2500 ON FRIDAY. Up $51.40 on Friday alone, yes, we’re over 2500 “ferns” (FEderal Reserve Notes) on gold.

The SteveInCO Federal Reserve Note Suckage Index (FRNSI) stands at 121.357+. [Edit: 120.357+…I forgot to subtract 1]. (This index is the ratio between the price of gold today, versus the value of the dollar defined as dollars per ounce when we had the gold standard, minus 1 (so that an index of 0 means the dollar is at its original value and doesn’t suck at all). I use that clumsy phrasing because the dollar was defined as a certain amount of gold, such that an ounce of gold was $20.672. It’s a subtle distinction. One ounce of gold wasn’t worth $20.672 back then, it was $20.672.)

Dear KMAG: 20240812 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

delaminate

verb

  • to split into layers
  • to cause something assembled by lamination to come apart (or take apart) into the layers that make it up

Shown in a picture


MUSIC!

How about a mountain bluegrass documentary? The REAL McCOY.

Hope a few folks here appreciate this one!


THE STUFF

Enjoy a really nice video about Richard Feynman!

Fascinating!

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


Dear KMAG: 20240805 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

oculiform

adjective

  • shaped like an eye
  • in the form of an eye
  • resembling an eye

Shown in a picture

Used in a sentence

Her oculiform necklace was beautiful, but it gave me bad vibes.


MUSIC!

The weirdness of this old anime theme music goes with the word of the week!

Not feeling like I missed much here!


THE STUFF

Here’s something cool and basic.

Why does the periodic table work?

Why is it a thing at all – no matter what the shape?

Every proton counts. Especially when they get the band together!

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


Dear KMAG: 20240729 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

roband

noun

  • piece of yarn used to fasten a sail to a spar
  • a short piece of spun yarn or other material, used to secure a sail to a yard, gaff, or the like

Shown in pictures


MUSIC!

Here’s an entire morning of bluegrass gospel. Enjoy, and praise the Lord!

WOW.


THE STUFF

This week, we’re going light on the math and science – but this will still tweak your brain.

Frankly, it’s kinda cool to see these people as “real” people.

Because they WERE real!

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT


NOTE ADDED BY WOLF:

Please save all crucial information about the attempted assassination of President Trump HERE. There may be other articles later – we will make sure to link those HERE. Please also add reference links back to this post.

Thank you!

W


I am going to put this up fast. It will be a hodgepodge of data in no particular order… lots OF DATA!

My goal at this point is just to capture the information and not to actually write an article.

We will start with my raw notes THAT ARE ALL FROM SOMEONE ELSE. I am sorry if I ‘Stole’ your work without including your name. I AM NOT GOING TO DO QUOTES. It takes to long!

prognosticatasaurusrex(@prognosticatasaurusrex)

 July 18, 2024 14:43

#1307104

Afternoon Treepers. I have “held my mud” since Saturday to try and sort through all the lies and distortions on the assassination attempt. I think this stinks worse than day old tuna in the Sahara.

Lets state some OBVIOUS.

This is NOT incompetence. This was PLANNED. Meticulously PLANNED.

  1. Hint, it was NOT Crooks who did the planning
  2. Crooks was a set up radicalized PATSY
  3. SS, and some local PSP had to be in on it
  4. the cover up is WELL underway
  5. This will NOT go away or be explained away like 1963. The TRUTH is coming, and it will put the FINAL nails in the DS Cabal.

Guys. Lets be REAL here. NO ONE gets within 500 yards of a former and leading candidate for President in an outdoor setting with an ELEVATED position. NO ONE. There is a REASON that this had not happened since 1963. ALL elevated line of sight positions became the FIRST priority of the SS sight team.

Trump was a sitting duck. The SS and PSP had NO confusion on where to cover, that is complete horse shit. Remember my axiom. When the MSM or DS have to change a narrative more than ONCE, the original narrative, and ALL subsequent narrative to support it are a LIE.

As soon as the SS Director said the reason the roof at AGR was not covered was because of the pitch, I knew it was ALL a lie, and the circle jerk had began.

Too many “”omissions” for this to be mere incompetence.

1)Short perimeter instead of 500 yards it was 200, leaving the nice elevated and deserted AGR building just outside the SS “:perimeter.
2) Convenient “confusion” on what group was responsible for covering AGR )PSP or SS)
3) Supposed lack of comms between local, state, and SS LE running this site. NO WAY they were not ALL monitoring each others comms.
4) a suspect walks around with a range finder for HOURS before the event and NO ONE confronts him. SS and LE tactical units are trained to EXACTLY spot suspects like that. Loner, lurking around, scouting with a range finder…RIGHT.
5) SS supposedly stationed IN AGR building instead of ON the ROOF of AGR. Anyone that has ever been even moderately trained knows about sight lines, interlocking fire, triangulation, and the high ground. The FIRST thing is to scout and eliminate the OBVIOUS vulnerabilities. They did not, they left this OPEN, WIDE open, more on that in a bit.
6)the lack of air support even a drone. NO WAY someone of Trump’s stature politically is NOT given close air support, even infrared. To pretend that Trump was not a former President, not the presumptive Republican nominee, not the odds on favorite to once again be President, and did not have political threats and enemies looking to take him out, especially after Iran issued a threat that DAY is laughable. It is not just Trump, there were expected to be 20-5- THOUSAND people in attendance. Who are they trying to kid here.
7) a kid of 20, with no know military training was able to evade SS, with a range finder, a riffle, and perhaps a ladder, to find THE perfect spot. So close it was almost unbelievable. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Come on.
8) The PERFECT location was left WIDE open. No perimeter or roof presence, the building was likely deserted because it was a Saturday. The building was just far away enough to avoid regular LE detection. Easy road access, EASY roof access with concealment.. The perfect height and distance for line of sight. Hell the SS snipers positioned behind Trump could have just as easily been positioned at AGR for sight coverage. Why was it omitted? .
9) poor comms when the shooter was spotted (by the CROWD) no less than 30 minutes before he took the shots. 30 seconds would have been PLEANTY of time to remove the President AND neutralize the shooter. Which is EXACTLY what should have happened.
10) Trumps regular team was diverted, or over worked so that the pony tail brigade was brought in…furthering the “tragic circumstance” narrative

They did not need to WAIT to remove Trump, OR take out the shooter. See, not ONLY Trump was in DANGER. That is where their narrative FAILS. There were @ 20000 CIVILIANS there as well as Trump. The shooter could have EASILY randomly opened fire into the crowd after his initial volley at Trump. That ALONE was reason enough to terminate the target.

Think about it. person on WHITE roof, with a weapon, outside perimeter, aiming toward protectee AND crowd. 3 seconds to know that he was NOT part of the detail. One outside perimeter, two, NOT in SS or LE attire, three, no comms to suspect. Execute, bang…threat neutralized. Medals for valor conferred later, as well as TV appearances, and hero accolades for acting quickly and SAVING lives. Think I’m off base, try posing on a roof with a weapon outside any open air venue after Las Vegas. You will get properly ventilated expeditiously.

Now, back to the shooter. How did a kid from 1 hr away get the perfect location scouted? How did he KNOW there was not someone stationed on that roof waiting to take out a threat. How did he KNOW there was no close air support or elevated surveillance? How did he carry a ladder and a riffle around undetected?

Answer, he was TOLD where to go, where to set up, that he would be un accosted, and that he would have a free shot, be a “hero” and that he would get away. Bank on it. Hell, I bet the reason the ladder theory of 5 ft does not fit the building is because he did not NEED a ladder. Looks to me like that building has what we call a mechanical “penthouse” I bet the reason he was not seen at first is because he was either let in the building, or told where an unlocked door was and how to get to the roof position from INSIDE. Then he was seen by the CROWD as he crawled into position. Curious how that could happen.

Remember folks. It did not have to be a detailed comm message. Simply “possible shooter on the roof” would have sufficed.

Trump would have (should have) been immediately covered and rushed away. The shooter would have been targeted by the SS snipers and eliminated. Hell they were watching him purportedly for THREE minutes. “awaiting authorization to fire” BULL SCHIFF. Any ONE of the listed items could have been an oversight. The vast amount of “oversights” can only lead to ONE conclusion. .Trump was set up by insiders to be assassinated right before the convention when he had not yet named a VP. They were going to fill the vacuum with their DS choice, who would take the sympathy and be their Manchurian candidate puppet.

Almighty God had other ideas. That slight head turn, milliseconds before the bullet would have struck (it was already on its way) was NOT luck, it was not planned, it was God’s will and his hand. PERIOD.

Now, they are in full coverup mode, but this time, it is not still cameras, BW photos, or even grainy 35mm film that captured it ALL I GUARANTEE someone has some smoking gun video. They should not give it to the FBI so it will be lost or destroyed. They should give it to Trump or James O keefe. So the WORLD will see.

Lastly, LOTS of people KNEW this was supposed to happen. Why was THIS rally out of ALL the others so extensively covered by ALL the major networks…LIVE. Why was the AP photographer able to perfectly capture the bullet in flight in frame (because he was WAITING for the head shot…that is also why he used fast shutter speed, to capture the head explosion in gory detail) Why were politicians like Obama so quick to come out with statements? Answer because they were PRE written, and they only had to change a word from “attempted” to “assassination”

The Cabal left an opening, put in a patsy, and showed him the way to do it to a tee. Trump was supposed to die that day, and leave us all in morning with nowhere to turn. Their plan FAILED and now they are FUBAR. They KNOW IT.

The old adage holds. “If you are going to go after a king, you’d best not MISS”

They MISSED. I expect a LOT of mea culpa’s, fleeing the country, and yes even suicides soon. This was STUPID. They thought this was their way out, and it was 1963 all over again where they could take out the countries leader, line up a patsy and a BS story, and insert their puppet in our blind emotion.

EPIC FAIL

litenmaus(@litenmaus)

Online

Wolverine

 Reply to  prognosticatasaurusrex

 July 18, 2024 15:57

#1307156

No apologies rex, there’s a whole lot to this assassination attempt and it takes time and length to put the pieces together….I hope you don’t mind if I add the following as a consideration to be taken in regard to to your comment 6)the lack of air support even a drone.

I picked this up while I was crawling through social media this morning:

Anonymous insider testimony on the Trump shooter incident. This will eventually be submitted to the Congressional tip line. In the meanwhile, it’s your too! The people deserve to know.
My person has access to the PA State Police, Butler County Sheriffs, and Butler Police Department. Now let’s begin.
 
1. The water tower is still very much in play. 

2. The Pennsylvania State Police are usually allocated to events such as the Trump rally.

3. Secret Service told the State Police not to show up.

4. All SERT tech (Strategic Emergency Response Team) would have been leveraged by the State Police that were disinvited.

5. Tech for State SERT services also includes drones, bombs, and snipers.  So State Pol ice was not allocated and local police were only allocated to traffic control.

6. If SERT is the normal unit to provide permitted security and technology, how did the Secret Service intend to augment without them?

7. Only four state police were permitted onsite. They were stationed near to local police who had been restricted to crowd/vehicular traffic.

8. State SERT would normally be the team on the roof. (But the Secret Service told them not to show up.)

9. Sheriffs department is suggesting someone fell off the roof and broke both ankles. This has not yet been confirmed. [Would this be the local police officer that fell after he peeked over the edge and the cop that the Shooter pointed his weapon at?]

10. The Butler County Sheriff is largely corrupt. Many are questioning his messaging on Main Stream Media outlets. [such as this press announcement he gave on July 13, 2024: In a recent development, the Butler Police Department has announced the arrest of the suspect involved in the shooting incident targeting former President Trump. The alleged shooter has been identified as Mark Violets, who is reported to be a member of the Antifa group. Prior to the shooting, Violets posted a video on YouTube in which he ominously declared that “justice is coming.”

It appears to me that the Secret Service was deeply involved in perpetrating an assassination upon a political candidate…and it also appears at this time that the FBI, the DOJ, and the DHS are deeply involved in covering it up.

Cheato doesn’t deserve to be allowed to resign and walk away. She is a traitor who facilitated a murder against three civilians that her “team” put in harms way. I think she deserves to hang, but maybe that’s just me.

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“Eyewitnesses from the ground who saw the shooter on the roof at the Butler Trump rally describe seeing snipers in the second story building of the AGR Building in Butler Township, Pennsylvania.

Speaking yesterday exclusively to the Gateway Pundit, the eyewitnesses said there is a lot more to the story that is not being reported by the mainstream media.

Though they could not get a clear look at them, they describe seeing one sniper in particular with a sleeve tattoo. The building staff had been chasing off Trump supporters earlier that day, people who wanted to walk up on the property to the security fence to get a better shot of America’s President. Later, when the group tried again the security was nowhere to be found so they went onto the field.

While there, they witnessed a man crawling on the roof and for what ABC admits is at least twenty minutes, and witnesses say was at least thirty minutes, trying to warn security as to what was going on, but there were no police and no security on this entire side of the Trump rally.

But they did notice some kind of security team inside the building on the second floor.
The windows for the second story were open so that the team of snipers inside had a clear view of the Trump Rally field.”

There are pictures from a drone showing windows in the article.

https://coldfury.com/WRSA/WRSA-WP/page/1

para59r(@para59r)

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Coyote

 July 16, 2024 03:50

#1305441

Where we left off last night late at the end of our Monday thread was with some tweets from a CBS reporter Olivia Rinaldi and a live blog from CBS.
The way this news is presented is rather disjointed with mish mash of information crammed together. It certainly does not read like a cohesive piece but it is telling a very strange story of what occurred in Butler PA. By all means read it yourself but your going to have to keep plowing through it to get to the salient parts as it is disjointed IMO or maybe I don’t understand modern writing.
For the above reason I’m going to provide the basic out line.
In the building that Crooks fired from were 3 local police department snipers inside the same building Crooks fired from. They had visual contact with Crooks two to three times as Crooks sat outside the building fiddling with a range finder. At one point Crooks left but returned minutes later carrying a bag. Shortly after the police sniper team went outside after being alerted someone had gone up on the roof. When they went out and looked up onto the roof is when the cop looking got faced off by Crooks with Crook’s rifle turning on him. The cop dropped to the ground and before they could get back up on the roof, Crooks was already firing at the President, approximately 8 shots.
Now we switch over to the Snipers we’ve all been seeing with vids and pictures. That sniper team never got off a shot apparently. The ones that shot Crooks were on the roof of the other building next to theirs. They were covering the other side of the venue but readjusted when Crooks started shooting and engaged after the other team failed to engage and it is them that killed Crooks with one shot.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1813021945958449180.html?utm_campaign=topunroll At the end of this thread reader it will link into the story below.

https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-shooting-statement-joe-biden-updates/
There’s a video with this story that should be watched.

Other source showing the other SS Sniper team engaging Crooks

While much attention has been on one of the Secret Service Sniper teams posted closest to the shooter, line of sight analysis indicates a second team, here, was more likely responsible for the return fire that killed President Trump’s would-be assassin.

All unconfirmed. pic.twitter.com/UBaFDBZZES

FUNKER530 (@FunkerActual) 

July 14, 2024

In the above video you see Trump is still talking before the shooting. You also see the SS sniper team is already deployed from their primary sector of fire to their secondary sector of fire which means two things. Both sniper teams on both roofs knew about the threat before Crooks fired. For what ever reason the closest SS sniper team did not take a shot so the other team took it for them.

Here’s some conversation from the tweet in case you can’t read it. Some disambiguation on if it was this team or one much farther away then these two teams. These two are 120m and about 180m away and they are talking about another team about 400 plus meters away. Which is still close for well trained snipers given their gear.

Nikolai

@MisterGref

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Jul 14

If there were line of sight issues with that specific roof top and building, the fact that it wasn’t secured or constantly monitored is a major lapse in security and seems negligent.

Countergrind

@Countergrind

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Jul 14

Next question, how does one have knowledge of the threat, location of target, eyes on target, and yet security detail doesn’t move in to protect their man. Now, does that sound routine?

Denver Software Dev Guy

@WhoshotyaCo

·

Jul 14

The video of the other team looked like they were taking cover from shots. Never looked like they were shooting. These guys look far more likely. Good post.

Mrgunsngear

@Mrgunsngear

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Jul 14

Agreed

John of Liberty

@JohnLibertador

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18h

Erik Prince said the sniper who took out the shooter was 488 yds away. Likely from an angle that had visibility on the shooter who had cover behind the ridge of a roof from these guys.

Seems more plausible. You don’t risk bad shots when your teammate has a lock on a perfect one.

isardinas

@isardinas2

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14h

I know some people are saying its the same shooters but The guys in one shot seem to be wearing boonies hats and the guys in the other shot seem to be wearing baseball caps. Or maybe I’m missing something

J C Adams

@Grampsknos

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5h

If you haven’t already, check this out https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/261d.svghttps://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/261d.svghttps://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f440.svg Attempt on Pres Trump and response.

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Antihero podcast had info that sniper from 400+ meters away shot him, aiming between bleacher seats…it’s a must listen.

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And that makes sense depending on what side of the roof slant the shooter was on. People keep pointing out sniper team one wasn’t firing but they were probably trying to get comms confirmation shooter wasn’t another sniper team.

So they were totally disorganized.

WolfM00n

….this point.

Crooks wasn’t stupid, to go up on the building where cops were operating from. That is extremely devious and smart. Note that he was not only boldly claiming the best vantage point – he was forcing the countersnipers to FIRE BACK ON THEIR OWN.

Think about that. He used a contradiction to suppress USSS fire. It was not incompetence. It was a brilliant strategy, programmed into him with MK technology.

We are up against some brutal adversaries, who know the USSS playbook, and have overcome it by a combination of agency weakening and strong MK tech.

PAVACA


Here’s what happened in PA.
MK-seduced “wanna-be assassin”, possibly “overshadowed” with “professional assassin(s), use BlackRock-owned facility as backdrop/stationing area to try and kill President Trump. Stationing area on roof of building hidden by “sudden” appearance of tall, thick trees (in contrast to the rest of the greenery around the building.) Possible “professional assassins” are stationed on water tower of facility.
“President Biden’s” handlers create “Jill Biden speech at local Italian-American League dinner” TO BE GIVEN ON THE SAME DAY as the assassination attempt on President Trump.
DHS and DEI-led USSS “possibly collaborate” to “divert” USSS protection for President Trump over to “Jill Biden speech at Italian-American League dinner.”
“Substitute” USSS team for President Trump includes some real USSS + untrained / unqualified / DEI hires from other departments.
Local LEO ** possibly ** told to “stand down” if “persons with ill intent” are noticed at President Trump’s rally.
USSS snipers at President Trumps’ rally literally wait until “wanna-be assassin” and/or “professional assassin” make their first shots BEFORE engaging. “Wanna-be assassin” becomes room temperature.
USSS “substitute team” at President Trump’s rally remove him from the scene. Removal clumsily and unsafely done — President Trump was exposed to more potential gunfire during the removal. At least two female “substitute USSS” ringers, too short and/or overweight, either panic or act unprofessionally.
Any questions?

 Google Maps street view of that location. It is from November 2023, the date is shown. This even shows the “new” looking mulch under the trees:

https://i.imgflip.com/8x876x.jpg

another theory
SeekerOfTruth
July 15, 2024 9:49 am

Rule #1 – Follow the money. Possible theory below.
BlackRock reveals link to failed Trump assassin The shooter appeared in a commercial for the investment behemoth   
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspect in Saturday’s attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump, featured in a 2022 ad for BlackRock, the investment giant has revealed. 
There you have it! Let’s do the math. Black Rock bought the best assets in Ukraine for 10 cents on a dollar. Practically a theft. It enrolled the neo-Nazi regime. Unleashed NATO and ISIS. All to protect its investments. There comes Trump saying he will stop the war in 24 hours, forcing Ukraine to settle the conflict. Black Rock will lose billions if that were to happen. They dust off their shooter who appeared on their commercial and was not paid on the books – but off the books. Wait… there is more.
Black Rock calls its CIA assets to direct the Secret Service to ‘loosen up’ the security around Trump. This is why there were security mishaps, designed to allow the shooter to fire his shots. So, to stop the shooter from talking and revealing his Black Rock connection, he was shot dead. All scripted by Black Rock, but there was poor execution.
Black Rock is the one behind Ukraine war, there are others too. Last, do not count on an investigation or punishing the masterminds. They are the government within the government! Major conspiration similar to the one that killed JFK. his brother, MLK, Malcom X and John Lennon. 
Trillions of dollars are at risk. Blackrock has long wanted to steal the Rich mineral and Agriculture assets of Ukraine. and there you have the motive and setup. Large corporations control the government and other military and intelligence entities needed to make easy money for themselves (CEO and executives).
PS. The secret service is now a diversity DEI hiring group. Enough said about their performance. Bunch of bumbling keystone cops.

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 July 16, 2024 13:37

#1305704

DEI head of the Secret Service — IMO, complicit in the assassination attempt on President Trump, perhaps?

Prison, NOW. Biden’s Secret Service director admitted the decision to leave the roof unguarded was deliberate. And her rationale is insane. Absolutely insane. You cannot come to any other conclusion than this: Biden’s Secret Service and DHS deliberately created every single condition that led to Trump nearly being assassinated. They did it on purpose. They’re admitting they did it on purpose. And they’re fine with the results, which is why no one has been fired. How long until we discover the shooter was in communication with fed informants or assets prior to the event? Pretty wild how he just happened to pick the one event with the one spot that Biden’s Secret Service deliberately kept unguarded. https://t.co/jCZdlYqQDn

Sean Davis (@seanmdav) 

July 16, 2024

Secret Service director says the decision to leave the roof unguarded was deliberate, because it was unsafe to have snipers on a sloped roof. “That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,” Cheatle said. The director of the U.S. Secret Service deliberately allowed the former and future president of the United States to be shot in the face because she didn’t want a Secret Service agent to be on a roof with a minimal slope.https://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13639613/amp/Secret-Service-director-wasnt-roof-gunman.html

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The other issue is whether the roof has enough of a slope to be dangerous to anyone who was on it. Someone posted this pic, which is basically a flat roof.

https://media.scored.co/post/wvfZc5RuJDhy.png

Everyone needs to see this photo to appreciate the tactical negligence that occurred during the assassination attempt on DJT. This photo was taken just minutes before the first shots were fired. DJT is oriented towards the shooter at this point.

Look in the upper left of this photo. That is the building. Look how fucking close it was. Direct line of sight to DJT.

You can see my wife & I to the right of the SS agent in the front row.

There is no excuse to not have someone on that roof. None.

It amounts to the most stunning incompetence & negligence in a tactical situation that I have ever been a part of. Ever.

It’s simply incomprehensible to me how this happens.

The only thing that is more incomprehensible to me is how the Director of the Secret Service still has a job. — https://x.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1813240829919539633

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSns7HDWYAAUtSX?format=jpg&name=small

Here’s rightscoop’s story on same. Says she’s not quitting… says some other things as well. Odd things. This also substantiates the CBS reporting.

https://therightscoop.com/breaking-secret-service-chief-reveals-bizarre-reason-why-agent-wasnt-on-the-roof-of-shooters-building-at-trump-rally

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes

WOAH Listen To This: Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle “She has close ties to the Cheneys, the Bidens and is responsible for the J6 deleted texts scandal”

She “evacuated vice president Dick Cheney on 9/11”

You can not tell me this wasn’t an inside job 🚨

“She would know. The 28 year veteran was on the team that evacuated vice president Dick Cheney on 911, and she served on then then vice president Biden’s protective detail. He named her director in mid 2022.

New election. Amid a swirl of controversy agency deleting nearly all of its text messages from January 6th.

The agency says that was due to a data migration. System migrations happen. But I think for a lot of Americans, it just doesn’t pass the smell test given the timing and the volume of messages deleted.

Well, it’s unfortunate that that would be the assumption that people would make. Our integrity is everything, and there was nothing nefarious attached to that.“

Keystone cops.

Some of this we have already heard. According to this report, the SS says it was not responsible for the rooftop where the shooter was because it was outside their perimeter. I call complete 🐂💩on that. There should be no outside perimeter for the SS. They should be overseeing everything.

The Butler police also say they were not responsible for that rooftop but that another local law enforcement agency was. The reporter does not know which agency that was. She says there were four cops. One of them got hoisted to the roof, looked the shooter in the eye, had a gun pointed at him, and dropped 8 feet to the ground. Because he was hanging on to the side of the building, he was not able to pull a weapon to engage the shooter and could not notify anyone.

So when the officers heard reports of a person on the roof from the rally attendees, instead of standing with the attendees and letting them show them where the guy was, they decided to peek over the side of the roof with no ladder, no ability to engage the shooter, and apparently no plan. It’s unbelievable.

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NEW: Dan Bongino says an “unimpeachable source” tells him that someone was supposed to be on the roof where Thomas Crooks shot from but “didn’t show up.”

Bongino also claimed that the Biden admin is telling the USSS director to keep her mouth shut if she wants to keep her job.

According to my source, that roof was supposed to be a police post… [there] was so supposed to be someone there.”

They’re now making up excuses saying the pitch of the roof. My source says to me that no one knows why the post didn’t show up.”

I was also told that the USSS director has been given instructions from the administration and the DHS secretary: ‘If you wanna keep your job, you’ll keep your mouth shut about this.’”

Video: @ColumbiaBugle

Why they didn’t put people on the roof of the building where Crooks shot from.

That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof,’ she told ABC News in an interview Tuesday.

And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.’

Meanwhile I’m wondering how long we can keep it a secret from her that the other two locations where snipers were deployed had a march higher and sharper roof.

Or the fact that the same building complex had other roofs, one of which was flat and higher than the one chosen by Crooks and would have been a great vantage point in all directions to include the roof below them where Crooks set up.

Heck they could of tossed rocks at the guy and accomplished the mission of keeping the president safe. “plink! plink! plink! Hey you laying down there with the gun! Don’t make us come down there! . Plink! Go on get!”.

Trump rally shooting could have been MUCH worse
Police and Secret Service locked themselves inside the security fence and were not able to get to Thomas Crooks. If counter-snipers had not already taken him out, he’d have time to use all his ammo on crowd

Scattered through the short article.

Shooter.

  • Bought a ladder.
  • Carried a very tall ladder past SS, to get on the roof.
  • Picture of the ladder against the building in the article.
  • Ladder barely reaches roofline.
  • Dope drove a Hyundai Sonata an hour to the rally site.
  • Article says ladder purchased was five foot ladder. <<< ???
  • “It’s not clear whether Crooks used the ammunition or the ladder that he bought on Saturday during his attack later that day.” However, a ladder was prominently propped up against the building where Crooks would shoot from.

Purchased 50 rounds of ammo from gun store. No mention of caliber…

Failed Trump Assassin Purchased Ladder and 50 Rounds of Ammo on the Morning of the Rally, According to New Report
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/failed-trump-assassin-purchased-ladder-50-rounds-ammo/

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Looks very slopey …

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Just a picture of a Secret Service agent standing on the roof of the White House.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GSoYypJakAA2kzt?format=png&name=small

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Trump assassin

another theory
SeekerOfTruth
July 15, 2024 9:49 am

Rule #1 – Follow the money. Possible theory below.
BlackRock reveals link to failed Trump assassin The shooter appeared in a commercial for the investment behemoth   
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspect in Saturday’s attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump, featured in a 2022 ad for BlackRock, the investment giant has revealed. 
There you have it! Let’s do the math. Black Rock bought the best assets in Ukraine for 10 cents on a dollar. Practically a theft. It enrolled the neo-Nazi regime. Unleashed NATO and ISIS. All to protect its investments. There comes Trump saying he will stop the war in 24 hours, forcing Ukraine to settle the conflict. Black Rock will lose billions if that were to happen. They dust off their shooter who appeared on their commercial and was not paid on the books – but off the books. Wait… there is more.
Black Rock calls its CIA assets to direct the Secret Service to ‘loosen up’ the security around Trump. This is why there were security mishaps, designed to allow the shooter to fire his shots. So, to stop the shooter from talking and revealing his Black Rock connection, he was shot dead. All scripted by Black Rock, but there was poor execution.
Black Rock is the one behind Ukraine war, there are others too. Last, do not count on an investigation or punishing the masterminds. They are the government within the government! Major conspiration similar to the one that killed JFK. his brother, MLK, Malcom X and John Lennon. 
Trillions of dollars are at risk. Blackrock has long wanted to steal the Rich mineral and Agriculture assets of Ukraine. and there you have the motive and setup. Large corporations control the government and other military and intelligence entities needed to make easy money for themselves (CEO and executives).
PS. The secret service is now a diversity DEI hiring group. Enough said about their performance. Bunch of bumbling keystone cops.

Here is the BlackRock commercial!

Notice that it’s connected to TEACHERS’ PENSIONS.

Laura Loomer

@LauraLoomer

EXCLUSIVE:

🚨🚨🚨 NEW REPORT🚨🚨🚨

ALARMING NEW DETAILS AROUND THE BUILDING USED BY THE SHOOTER TO ALMOST ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT TRUMP!

WHY IS THE COMPANY THAT OWNS THE BUILDING NOT TALKING? AND WHY HAVE THEY NOT RELEASED A STATEMENT?

AGR International, the building Thomas Matthew Crooks shot from, was just sold in March to a Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (CD&R)

@CDRBuilds

subsidiary called INDICOR.

It is worth noting that Joseph L. Rice III is the Founder of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. Rice is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and he is also a member of the Brookings Institution, the same Brookings institute

@BrookingsInst

that has perpetuated lawfare campaigns against President Trump in an effort to keep him off the ballot for the 2024 Presidential election.

It’s important for people to understand how the DEEP STATE has a history of using proprietary companies as cutouts.

According to filings and their own press releases, Indicor was officially formed in Jan 2023 by CD&R, who just partnered Jon Selib

@Jselib

.

Prior to joining CD&R, Jon Selib was the Senior Vice President of Global policy and public affairs and Pfizer, a position he remained in until 2022.

As the Senior VP of Global policy and public affairs for

@Pfizer

, Selib was a MAX DONOR to Joe Biden’s campaign when he ran against President Trump.

The current CEO of Indicor is Doug Wright, who was previously deployed with defense contractor Raytheon Technologies. Doug Wright, CEO of Indicor, confirmed that “law enforcement was on the premises of the building before the shooting took place”, since it was deemed to be a high security risk location by the Secret Service. Wright also said the office was closed on the day of the attempted assassination of President Trump.

Roberto Quarta is the Chairman of the Private Equity group (CD&R) that owns Indicor/AGR. His photo is listed on the World Economic Forum (WEF)

@wef

website.

Oddly enough, John Stroup the Indicor Chairman and CD&R partner, recently announced his resignation from the board of directors of Crane Company on June 5th, 2024, effective July 22nd, 2024.

On March 18, 2024, the change of registered office by entity for the building the shooter shot from was changed to “Corporation Service Company”. Corporation Service Company is registered as a foreign business corporation in Delaware.

In December 2023, CD&R made Jon Selib a partner, after he joined CD&R in 2022. Selib was the former chief of Staff to Democrat Montana Senator Max Baucus

@MaxBaucus

(D), the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. In 2013, Barack Obama chose Senator Baucus to be the US ambassador to CHINA.

Selib spent 12 years working in the US Senate and became Chief of Staff to Senator Baucus after Baucus’ former chief of staff Jim Messina left to fill the same position for Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

In 2020, Ambassador Baucus went on CNN and said President Trump’s rhetorical attacks on China make him “a little bit like Hitler” when President Trump was blaming China for the COVID outbreak.

Ambassador Baucus currently lives in Bozeman, Montana, where he and his wife, Melodee Hanes, formed a consulting firm called Baucus Group LLC. Ambassador Baucus provides consulting services to American and Chinese businesses and he serves on the Board of Directors of Ingram Micro, and the Board of Advisors to the Chinese Communist Party owned Alibaba Group. https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1813962283673903535/photo/3

Screenshot: https://i.postimg.cc/cH4W3mMh/Re-the-bldg-in-Butler-PA-where-assassin-whot-at-Trump-13-July-2024.jpg


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 July 18, 2024 14:20

#1307089

And through the tangle of it all one word jumps out “Pfizer”

According to filings and their own press releases, Indicor was officially formed in Jan 2023 by CD&R who just partnered with Jon Selib.

Prior to joining CD&R, Jon Selib was the Senior Vice President of Global policy and public affairs at PFIZER, a position he remained in until 2022. As the Senior VP of Global policy and public affairs for Pfizer, Selib was a MAX DONOR to Joe Biden’s campaign when he ran against President Trump.


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 Reply to  pat frederick

 July 15, 2024 10:53

Excellent. All speculation, but it’s speculation in the right direction.

CUI BONO.

Reader’s Digest version from the article.

Malice Or Massive Incompetence”: Erik Prince Gives Detailed Assessment Of Secret Service Failure
Former Navy Seal and Blackwater founder Erik Prince gave a detailed assessment of yesterday’s Secret Service debacle in the wake of a failed assassination attempt on former President Trump.

DJT was not saved by USSS brilliance. The fact that USSS allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence.

The law enforcement sniper (unclear if USSS) in newsreels was clearly overwhelmed as his face came off his rifle instead of doing his job to kill the shooter. 

Clearly USSS failed at the basics of a secure perimeter and once shots were fired their extraction was clumsy and left DJT highly exposed to follow on attacks

Merit and execution must be the only deciding factors in hiring and leadership, not the social engineering priority of the day

When looking at the circumstances in favor of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the identified alleged suspect in the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, PA, it’s hard to see how the guy failed.  

The rooftop used by Crooks was a mere 140 yards away from the event with a clear line of sight to the right of Trump

The Secret Service is supposed to secure all obvious “sniper perches” well before the arrival of a protectee –

The idea of Crooks being able to get that close with an elevated position on the stage is unthinkable

Finally, there’s the dismal lack of response time.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/massive-secret-service-failure-led-nearly-successful-assassination-donald-trump

Stuck on this…

WHY did the sniper hesitate to take out the threat?

  • Today we are to believe protocols NOT followed. (Under the bus)
  • Permission to fire NOT required. (Bullshit. Show me the Rules of Engagement.)

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 Reply to  kalbokalbs

 July 15, 2024 09:38

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Why?

Pretty simple, actually.

That building was supposed to be secured by local police. The snipers in the pic were local cops. They knew that. At first, they thought it was one of their guys, doing the same job they were doing.

One of the sniper cops lifted his head from a ready-to-shoot position to get a different look at the rooftop person, probably because he heard people yelling and pointing at the killer’s perch. They didn’t realize he was a threat until the killer took his shots.

They immediately fired on the killer, although the actual neutralizing shot could have come from USSS sniper team at a different location.

Two trillion dollar deficit, massive budget increase for IRS, yet USSS has bread-and-water rations for its budget.

Plus a D E I bitch for a leader. A cherry on top of a shit sundae.

Not to mention, but… President Trump should have been secured at the 1st HINT of an issue.

kalbokalbs

Candidate Trump rally Reno, NV November 2016.

Someone near the stage yelled “gun”.

SS rushed Trump off stage.

Crowd tackled the asshole. SS & LE took him away.

Slow guy in the crowd, ~100′ from excitement. No one ran.

Trump return in, I’m guessing <ten minutes.

i read this, this morning. true? not sure. but it makes sense in a way–kill a guy who’s got a telescope? seems out there, but maybe that IS their policy. I dunno.

Susan Crabtree

@susancrabtree
Here’s my reporting on why the Secret Service did not shoot until AFTER the shooter engaged and some context about the House Republicans’ investigation already underway (months before Trump’s assassination attempt) into whether the agency’s DEI policies are affecting its readiness. The blowback against the Secret Service started within the hour of the assassination attempt and continued even after Trump and other credited the agency with saving Trump’s life by quickly killing a shooter crawling across a nearby rooftop. 
But a source within the Secret Service community tells RealClearPolitics that the agency rules of engagement in this situation are to wait until the president is fired upon to return fire. “You want to take a shot then find out the guy was holding a telescope?” the source suggested. “The Secret Service is by nature reactive…and you better be right when you do react or you’re f—–d.” The Secret Service protocol requires that a counter sniper aware of a potential shooter to radio directly to intelligence division team to respond and investigate. In this case, the investigation may have been cut short by the shooter firing his weapon, so the counter sniper then fired as quickly as possible in return. The source praised the counter sniper who acquired the target and responded within three seconds, calling their performance “incredible.” “The counter snipers are highly trained and extremely accurate,” he said. Others with law enforcement and military backgrounds want to know whether the Secret Service utilized drones, i.e. small unmanned aircraft systems, to provide detailed situational awareness.
If the agency did not use drones, why not, these experts ask. The use of drones has been a controversial issue within the agency since at least 2016. Implementing drones would have provided detailed line-of-site analysis and aerial surveillance that would have easily identified the rooftop as a potential threat area. “The USSS has access to all the best imagery and elevation data,” the military expert told RCP. “I’m not saying they didn’t [use drones], but it’s an open question.” 
The once vaunted Secret Service lost some of its former respect after a string of fence-jumping incidents and other security lapses came to light during the Obama administration. At the beginning of the Trump administration, a senior special agent in the Secret Service came under fire for suggesting in a Facebook post that she wouldn’t “take a bullet” for Trump. Kerry O’Grady, the former agent in question, was placed on administrative leave but was allowed to retire with full benefits, which outraged many in the Secret Service community. 
The agency, more recently, has come under scrutiny for its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, after a female agency attached to Vice President Kamala Harris’s protective detail and identified as Michelle Herczeg, had an apparent mental breakdown and physically attacked her senior officers at Joint Base Andrews before a trip. An agency spokesman called the issue a “medical incident,” but other members of the Secret Service launched a petition over the agency’s diversity, equity and inclusion hiring and vetting policies during the Biden administration, as first reported by RCP. 
In addition, after the attempted assassination of Trump Saturday night, conservatives blasted Rep. Bennie Thompson, the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, for earlier this year introducing a bill co-sponsored by several other Democrats that would have denied Service Service protection to Trump if he were convicted of a felony. The measure never gained traction in the GOP-controlled House. After the attempted assassination, which killed one innocent spectator and injured at least two others, Thompson tweeted that he is “glad that the former president is safe” and is “gratefully for law enforcement’s fast response.”

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 Reply to  pat frederick

 July 15, 2024 12:01

Pat – this is key – this is how the bad side controls evil outcomes through good intentions.

FIRST – remember what Sundance calls them – the INTELLIGENCE BRANCH.

Now look at this quote from what you posted…..

The Secret Service protocol requires that a counter sniper aware of a potential shooter to radio directly to intelligence division team to respond and investigate.

This is how they took over DOJ, too – using the “NSD” – the National Security Division. It’s the same thing. The shadow government uses the “intelligence group” within agencies to control them.

The Intelligence Branch can control outcomes in the Secret Service.

Now keep looking at why Trump survived.

In this case, the investigation may have been cut short by the shooter firing his weapon, so the counter sniper then fired as quickly as possible in return.

This broke the USSS out of the IC control loop!!!

The source praised the counter sniper who acquired the target and responded within three seconds, calling their performance “incredible.” “The counter snipers are highly trained and extremely accurate,” he said.

That 3 seconds CONFIRMS the audio of the shots, and my assessment of the first six bullets.

Crooks fired three shots in the video I watched, at 8.0, 9.0 and 9.9 seconds, with the countersniper getting three shots back at 12.0-13.0 seconds.

The head shot to the assassin happened at 24 seconds.

This is how the wicked Comey IC takes over. SS is under shadow government control, and they use “good things” as cover for bad things.

The same IC has total compartmentalization and deniability on weakening USSS and then sending secret forces against their hobbled Secret Service. Quite evil.

Trump assassination

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jordan_Sather_/status/1096442650687725568?p=v

New #QAnon. I believe Q to be saying “Bigger than 25th amendment attempt to remove”, meaning there have already been major assassination attempts on @realDonaldTrump, and we have evidence for these. Let’s thread down memory lane for the backstory. pic.twitter.com/juNXMT2JK9

Last year on June 12th, Q posted this photo of what looked to be a missile, saying “this is not a game”. This photo was taken June 10th overlooking Whidbey Island in WA by a weather photographer. When this was taken, Trump was on his way to the summit with N Korea in Asia. pic.twitter.com/G8wTSnbp8d

The mainstream media tried playing this off as “just a helicopter” that the photograph was taken of. The cover story Q was mentioning today. That sure looks like a photo of a helicopter to me. (not) pic.twitter.com/nOCHIrlBCY

Back on June 12th, Q then quickly gave us this saying “think hack”, which could infer that rogue actors hacked the sub that launched the missile directed at AF1 en route to Asia. pic.twitter.com/xYi0CxpwzB

Ironically on June 8th, 2 days before the “helicopter” incident, the MSM reported that “China Hacked U.S. Navy Contractor To Obtain Sub Secrets”. Were they setting up the markers for a false flag here? If POTUS was downed, blame on China? Interesting. huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-ha…

https://t.co/8mCRFEZ4tz

China Hacked U.S. Navy Contractor To Obtain Sub Secrets: Report

News comes a day after Trump agrees to drop sanctions against Chinese telecom giant ZTE.

Thankfully, an assassination never happened. A few hours before posting about the missile and sub on June 12th, Q gave us this photograph, which Anons determined was an original photo from Q taken over Alaska. If you zoom in, you can see it looks like the missile was intercepted. pic.twitter.com/uoN1G0u3tH

Q posted today, “Coincidence re: AF1 re: CA route NK?” A flight path from California to the Korea’s would take you over a small portion of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, which has 57 volcanoes. More evidence that our photograph above was the missile interception. pic.twitter.com/JA2B6mYiXR

Then, in another Q post from this morning, they linked a tweet from @SevenFlamingos, who noticed that the US Army tweeted about the THAAD anti-ballistic missile defense system the same day Q brought back the June 12th “helicopter/missile” incident. What a coincidence. pic.twitter.com/TmHCXOVkwM

In a quick search on THAAD, I found this Stars & Stripes article about a successful test over the North Pacific last year. “The target missile… was detected, tracked and intercepted by a THAAD battery at Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak..” stripes.com/news/pacific/a…

Kodiak, that’s right there next to the Aleutian Islands. If there was, in fact, a missile heading for AF1, the THAAD system based in Kodiak is likely what was activated to take it down >> Q’s photograph over Alaska of what looked to be an intercepted missile. pic.twitter.com/r6wPplJqpP

So let’s hypothetically say… A president for freedom, truth, and prosperity that a horribly corrupted Deep State wants to take out is on his way to North Korea. The jet that the president is in is heading from CA to Asia over the North Pacific.

They send a missile his way, hacked from a sub near Whidbey Island, WA. Missile gets taken out by THAAD missile defense systems over Alaskan islands in the North Pacific. We learn of this all through hints told via a backchannel communication line popularly known as #Qanon

Moral of the story, don’t f*ck with the military. The president is very well insulated, and him and his family are putting their lives on the line for us. These corrupted Deep State folks will go to no ends to avoid defeat, but their defeat is inevitable. Hypothetically. /end

Kalbo says: <i>”…. I hope they have proof of that bottom line…and and every detail back to its inception…..”</i>

….

OH, I think they do!

1. PDJT campaign to have Nasty Nan the Pigloser as Speaker of the House.

<a href=”https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/10/president-trump-urges-democrats-to-support-nancy-pelosi/”>President Trump Urges Democrats to Support Nancy Pelosi</a>

2. PDJT shuts down government.

3. Nasty Nan and 100 of her friends and family take a bus to the airport to catch a Government Plane to EU andthen Afghanistan. This included:

Adam Schiff, D-CA

Mark Takano, D-CA

Susan Davis, D-CA

Stephen Lynch, D-MA

Eliot Engel, D-NY

Elaine Luria, D-VA

4. While in route, PDJT orders the plane GROUNDED!

<a href=”https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/01/17/president-trump-cancels-speaker-pelosi-overseas-trip/”>President Trump Cancels Speaker Pelosi Overseas Trip…</a>

<blockquote> Hilarious Trump waited to release the letter while Nancy was en route to the airport and law makers were on a Air Force bus about to depart for the airport.

— The TRUMP PAGE (@MichaelDelauzon) January 17, 2019</blockquote>

5. MEANWHILE the FIB catches a Jihadist in Atlanta GA buying anti-tank weapons, small arms and such for a planned attack on the White House and other parts of DC. (We are not told anything further, but the possibility exist the Jihadist was one of a group.) This attack could have taken out BOTH PDJT AND VP PENCE, leaving Nasty Nan as president…. Who was ‘convienently’ out of DC at the time of the attack.

From INFOWARS…

<i>”…The suspect allegedly <b>planned on using IEDs and an anti-tank rocket to inflict “mass casualties,”</b> reports WSBTV.com.

“His alleged intent was to attack the White House and other targets of opportunity in the Washington, D.C. area,” the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Byung Pak told reporters….

<blockquote>ABC News…

[…]Taheb allegedly told the informant that “jihad was the best deed in Islam and the peak of Islam,” adding that “it was not complicated at all to do jihad today,” according to the complaint.

In a meeting with the informant and an undercover FBI agent on Dec. 2, Taheb allegedly stated that “they could do more damage” in the U.S. because abroad they would be “one of many.” He also allegedly said that he wanted to be a “martyr” and cause as much damage as possible, the complaint states.

[…]<b>“He said the group would fight to the end and make it a big bang,”</b> according to the document.

[…]…He also discussed the need for <b>a “base” where they could regroup</b> and “give a speech to motivate people” and show clips of “oppressed Muslims,” the document states.

https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/US/fbi-arrests-georgia-man-allegedly-plotting-attack-white/story?id=60429215 </blockquote>

6. That this was the plan was hinted at by Nasty Nan’s claims at the time that she was CO-EQUAL to President Trump (preparing for her ascent to the White house maybe?)

https://wqth.files.wordpress.com/2019/01/fall_of_the_house_of_commies.png

<b>And a really wierd tweet indicating she was about to become president.</b> (Sorry I did not save it but it was commented on OT at the time)

………….

This was not the first attempt:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Jordan_Sather_/status/1096442650687725568?p=v

<i>New #QAnon. I believe Q to be saying “Bigger than 25th amendment attempt to remove”, meaning there have already been major assassination attempts on @realDonaldTrump, and we have evidence for these. Let’s thread down memory lane for the backstory. pic.twitter.com/juNXMT2JK9

Last year on June 12th, Q posted this photo of what looked to be a missile, saying “this is not a game”. This photo was taken June 10th overlooking Whidbey Island in WA by a weather photographer. When this was taken, Trump was on his way to the summit with N Korea in Asia. pic.twitter.com/G8wTSnbp8d

The mainstream media tried playing this off as “just a helicopter” that the photograph was taken of. The cover story Q was mentioning today. That sure looks like a photo of a helicopter to me. (not) pic.twitter.com/nOCHIrlBCY </i>

Nor was it the last…

Alison

As a reminder, Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital publicly voiced his support for Trump 6 weeks ago.

Silicon Valley has shifted. https://t.co/MjFT50HPgW

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2024

I know venture capital in CA from 2 decades in that field. I cannot overstate that this quote coming from a Sequoia Capital partner is HUGE.


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 July 16, 2024 19:57

#1305923

Additional information for your considerations:

June 16, 2023

Sequoia Capital is the biggest US Venture Capitalist firm in China & they’ve been caught investing US Pension fund $$ into Chinese Military Tech Industries

Sequoia is largest US tech investor in China, including TikTok. Sequoia has been paying GOP members, *millions* to not investigate & to protect Adam Schiff

The biggest US investor in Chinese businesses is also one of the biggest GOP donors in the House & Senate.
The man in charge of Sequoia is Doug Leone, an agent for the Chinese Communist Party.

We now know why House Intelligence Committee Representative Mike Turner protected Adam Schiff from censure.

Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy’s top donor, has become Doug Leone (and wife) from Sequoia. 

Jeopardizing America’s security while funding China’s rise damages US economic growth and poses grave threat to the nation.

I can only assume that PDJT is adhering to the old adage: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”

This was posted shortly after Trump was shot and is worthy of consideration:

The building that the shooter was on is owned by AGR aka American Glass Research. They specialize in the manufacturing of various glass products.
AGR was bought in March 2020 by Indicor.

Indicor’s website indicates that Indicor is a freestanding, diversified industrial solutions company formed in 2022 by CD&R. It owns and operates a portfolio of industrial businesses that provide specialized, highly-engineered, mission-critical products and solutions for manufacturers. Indicorruns their companies under the ESG Green New Deal ideology.

Indicor’s Certified Equity Professional is Doug Wright, who used to work for Raytheon, Honeywell and Ingersoll Rand.

Honeywell & Raytheon both refused to donate to any persons who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s 81 Million votes on January 6. Both Honeywell & Raytheon are government contractors.

Alex Soro’s infamous “assassination” tweet from January 21, 2024 features a photo of glass with a bullet hole in it and the fact that Trump’s would be assassin fired from the roof of a glass factory seems to be quite a coinky dink.

@VigilantFox

Jul 17

Replying to @KanekoaTheGreat

One or two mistakes is one thing. But when you have 10-plus anomalies on the same day, it certainly begins to look intentional. Here’s a summary, as provided by @McCulloughFund: 1. No local law enforcement was on the rooftop used by the shooter. 2. When law enforcement was notified by citizens of the shooter, there was no prompt action at the rooftop to neutralize the shooter. 3. Local law enforcement failed to initiate active shooter protocol to protect Trump and the crowd. 4. There was no apparent communication from local law enforcement to the USSS to get Trump to a secure location. 5. Police snipers on the roof used binoculars to track the shooter’s position and did not warn the USSS below to get Trump off the stage. 6. Police snipers under scope vision allowed the shooter to get set and shoot six rounds at Trump. 7. A police sniper got off the scope and looked with the naked eye to be sure the shooter had taken his shots and never looked down at Trump. 8. Finally, a police sniper shot Crooks. 9. No local police went up on the roof immediately after Crooks was shot to take away his gun and check on his status. 10. All the while, there was no active shooter protocol, and no warning was given to Trump or the audience.

https://nitter.poast.org/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1813635459861606611#m

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Austin Private Wealth with CONNECTIONS to the Bush family shorted 12M shares of $DJT via a put option on July 12, just ONE DAY before the assassination attempt. Did the Bush’s know something was going to happen to Donald Trump? This massive trade represents 6% of total shares and over 16% of the float, given Trump’s 60% ownership. Their $1B AUM makes this a significant bet. Austin Private Wealth is connected to the Bush family through James A. Baker III, a Senior Policy Director with longstanding ties to the Bushes, having served as Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush and in various roles under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. George W. Bush has strongly shared his support AGAINST Trump despite everything happening in our country. While these connections don’t imply direct involvement, they highlight significant professional relationships.. Sources: @JoshWalkos, @Gene_SD

https://nitter.poast.org/legislationpage/status/1813728208547709270


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 July 18, 2024 07:26

Traffic detail, you say?

Allegheny County PD covers the airport & provides motorcycle escort for VIP’s to & from VIP events. ACPD sent 10 motorcycle patrols to the rally.

Two supervisors dispatched were “unauthorized”, & later “transferred” according to local report:

https://www.wpxi.com/news/investigates/11-investigates-exclusive-pittsburgh-motorcycle-officers-transferred-after-working-trump-rally/4V43BKBXYBAN3PPHJTLK4FR4ZM

Superintendent of ACPD is appointed by the Allegheny County Executive. The current AC Executive met Jill Biden at the airport on 7/13 @ 4 PM according to reports.

The current ACPD Superintendent was appointed by Rich Fitzgerald in his final term as AC Executive.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/vice-president-joe-biden-speaks-rich-fitzgerald-reelection-party

In 2021, Allegheny County “Reimagined” Public Safety.
https://www.1hood.org/publicsafety

Shooter lived in Bethel Park, part of the jurisdiction of ACPD.

Where’s that suspicious cat? 😺

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 July 18, 2024 07:34

#1306845

Here’s the Reimagine Public Safety Report for Allegheny County:

https://www.1hood.org/s/CommunityPolicingReport.pdf

Possibly a stretch but could it be? See Pg.7, photo taken at Allegheny County Jail, extreme left of photo, back row, loner in hoodie face obscured by purple gloved fist….

Stephen Gardner video

Bongino POINTS OUT something everyone missed | New Trump Shooting Facts (36 min)

13:25 Columnist Max Boot [weekly column @ The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations] the man who propagated the Trump-Russia collusion story is MARRIED TO A FOREIGN SPY! [From internet: His Wife Sue Mi Terry Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst and wife of Washington Post columnist Max Boot, has been indicted on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Terry worked as an agent for the government of South Korea, receiving luxury gifts and covert payments in exchange for promoting South Korea’s policy positions and disclosing sensitive non-public government information.]

16:20 Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), meeting with whistle-blowers behind closed doors. Potus Trump was purposely given inexperienced, and in adequate coverage on the day of the butler PA rally.

[Here is what was said. -GC]

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-reveals-new-whistleblower-allegations-exposing-loose-security-ahead-of-trump-assassination-attempt

Hawley Reveals New Whistleblower Allegations Exposing ‘Loose’ Security Ahead of Trump Assassination Attempt

Friday, July 19, 2024

Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), wrote a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, demanding answers behind the U.S. Secret Service’s botched security rollout at President Donald Trump’s July 13 rally. The letter comes after multiple whistleblowers contacted Senator Hawley’s office with disturbing new information behind the assassination attempt on the former president.

21:30, Gardner mentions the shorting of Trump stock and ALSO RUMBLE. [Think Game Stop and the attempted destruction of that company]

21:58 is the actual Bongino Clip

“There is a serious dispute right now going on with the SS. The SS knows that there were some lapses on the side of locals.

[Robert Barnes in an earlier Viva Frei video — https://rumble.com/v56wunx-trump-assssination-attempt-rnc-in-milwaukee-baldwin-charges-dismissed-and-m.html — said PA Leo are VERY Corrupt. He is fighting a case there wher a women is going to prison for video taping HER OWN TRIAL! ]

There were — TIMEOUT –IT IS THE SECRET SERVICES FAULT It’s their job to secure the Presidents life, I get that, period.

They do have local partners however. There were some significant lapses. Here’s What I’m hearing. There is an Actual Text Record, so it’s not disputable. there’s text. Phone text, you know what I mean right? That this threat may have been recognized at about 05:01 PM an hour before Donald Trump got on stage. And there are some people telling me that there was a failure in the beginning to properly get that information out. I’m just telling you what I am hearing.

And let me give you the other side. The Locals and some of the Butler County officials are disputing that saying, Hey, we told the secret service about the threat and they didn’t do anything. That is going to come out in the wash, once we get these records FOIA’d and out in the public. [GOOD LUCK WITH THAT DAN. I am sure they are already shredded and wiped, “Like with a cloth”. -GC] You’re going to see via the text record who was notified when and what was done about it. I’m hearing from Secret Service sources that it was roughly a 1/2 an hour. In other words, 5:31 before they got a picture of this potential threat.

Folks again this is coming from the top.

Now, the Secret Service has a political problem right now. The political problem is serious. The Secret Service needs local partners to do protection. Follow me, because this is really important.

They can not do their job without local police departments. NYPD, LAPD…Butler county. It’s not possible. The Secret Service has what 5 to 6000 agents now, or when I was there it was like 3000 or so. It is not physically possible to do presidential protection with out Law Enforcement.

They are not only partners, they are integral partners. You get what I am saying? They are in a real Political Quandary Right Now. And I do not feel bad for anyone… They SCREWED UP PERIOD.

They do not want to throw the locals under the bus after they appeared to throw the locals under the bus. So they are in this bind right now.

Now my advice to them, if you’re listening right now is Ladies and Gentlemen the truth doesn’t have an agenda. The Truth is the Truth. Just tell the Truth.

I get it. Local Partners in the future are probably going to be pissed off and we’re going to have to mitigate a lot of that and do liaison wor But you got to fix this thing.

So I’m hearing again that there was some communications failure, but there is again, Media people are you writing this down? There is a Text Record Documenting this. That there was some failure to notify about the threats.

Stephen Gardner: As I mentioned a few minutes ago, Senator John Barrasso, who has been up dated, as part of a committee member, he said they knew of the shooter one hour before. They had snipers on him 20 minutes before. So there is a record of all of this stuff.

Dan: Second I have it confirmed from a source that there was no or very limited drone surveillance that day. There was no aerial, No effective aerial surveillance plan, basically what so ever. aerial surveillance would have detected this threat on the roof.

I’ve told you over and over again, I’m going to get to this in a second in with a secret service memo that was sent to me that’s going to prove to you that there couldn’t have been an air security personnel there because they changed the plan after we highlighted it. There was no drone.

So we can now confirm that. Which is an Absolutely ABOMINABLE SECURITY PLAN.

Stephen Gardner summarizes:

There were no dogs sniffing around [Explosives, gun powder?]

The additional snipers were in the building near Crooks.

There were no drones. SS and DHS sent no aerial/drones. But you know who had drones? Somebody who was up on the water tower.

Now 10 wittnesses have come forward, not family, not friends, at different times. Coming forward to authorities telling them “We saw somebody on the water tower just as Trump was being shot.”

I could not get the video to load. however if you go to google maps 3D, the water tower perfectly aligns with shooting Donald Trump. The roof and water tower align from different angles…. There is a video of the person on the Water tower appearing and disappearing at the same time you can hear pop pop…pop pop… We are not being told the full truth…but it gets weirder.

According to the FBI crooks has 3 encrypted bank accts overseas. [I thought the first story was encrypted phones -GC] WHY? What is a 20 year old doing with encrypted international bank accts?….. Was he a distraction the entire time so someone from the Water Tower could take shots? I do not know….

Stephen Gardner: Madcow said Poll out today of African Amer. Women showing that there has been a 31% DROP from 2020 to 2024 in terms of plans to vote for Biden.

Second video from Singingsoul1

Barnes first 18 min of 59 min video

~ 2:30 JD Vance fought in Iraq, thought he got lied to. I talked to him for hr & 1/2 before he came out against Ukraine war. I saw Karl Rove, his hands were shaking with rage when he got the news that JD was going to be the pick… US is unique, we are the only country that always has a ‘Lone Assassin’…

Multiple shooters coming out, Red flag Security lapses. A sign of a false flag is unusual and unexpected security lapses. That means someone on the inside is making sure certain events can occur.

Looks to me, multiple shoots, shots were excellent shots from sniper perspective…. When Trump stood and said Fight, Fight Fight he was signaling HE KNEW. Since then he is talking to RFK Jr about incorporating his vaccine policy. Talked to RFK jr about Biden asking why did you turn your head Don… gets leaked. Picks JD and accelerates nomination to Mon instead of Thurs.

I have talked to Don Jr and some other people. So I think Trump, KNOWS who wants Trump out of the way. And I think their attempt is going to backfire on them in Public Policy and a whole bunch of other ways.

I have ZERO doubts that at some level it was an inside job.

8:50 – First, many of Trump’s normal team was given the day off.

The second is the region had some high quality SS but THEY were re-assigned to Dr Jill…

The third is they had STAKED OUT THAT PRECISE LOCATION. There had been SS snipers on that roof and then they decide NOT to secure the roof… lists impossibles. [New] Had SS snipers on the roof THE DAY BEFORE and then the excuse of sloped roof...

Now coming out they IDed Crook 3 hours before because he is walking around with a range finder! … Almost like the profile of a patsy… He was so over the top that randos were screaming this guy is on the roof with a gun, minutes BEFORE he even fired a shot. They have video of him crawling across the roof! They have video of him near the building with the range finder so we KNOW he was on the SS radar.

He is acting so over the top it is being apparent he is playing a game. Can SS adequately protect a president and that president is a Trump president and he made comments on those games days before AND HE WAS GOING TO REALLY WIN THE GAME IN A SURPRISING WAY. So he is behaving like someone who is meant to be a patsy… couldn’t hit right side of barn according to tryout for rifle team.

And this guy is the one who snuck by SS & local LEOS and got off 5 or 6 shots? In THE primo location too?

So we know he was on everyone’s radar. SS was in the bldg, why were they doing nothing because we now know local Leos notified them TEN MINUTES before saying there is a guy with a gun on the roof. They all got that notice.

I do not buy the do not shoot after alerted. But the real question is WHY was Trump still on the stage AFTER THEY WERE ALERTED A MAN ON THE ROOF WITH A GUN 100 YDS AWAY???

THEY even set him UP!!

They get the notice and then say ‘Hey Don time to go up on stage!’

So the probability of incompetence as a likely explanation, when you go thru step by step, diminishes with each step.

And now we have Chris Martensen doing the sounds… [SEE: RAC contribution — https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1814095415127449600/vid/avc1/1280×720/3FjK8z8DFZjvqgvf.mp4?tag=14 ] and people at the scene said they heard shots from multiple locations. Some times that can be tricky.. echoes & all that. BUT Chris and other sound experts have been breaking down the sound and they are saying there are multiple shooters.

There is at least two maybe three. There may have been one on the Water Tower and there may have been someone in the building. The reason they were not taking out the supposed assassin, is because someone may have been shooting from that building. Making it difficult to know how many shots from that area and who.

As Trump said…, there were bullets still going everywhere going over me. That is more like 8 -12 shots instead of the 2 or 3 they guy should have had time to get off at all under their own time line.

Discussion about the photo of bullet path near Trump’s head… Was it flat and not angled down from roof? experts are analyzing.

CNN streaming rally live. Why was photographer taking that photo? My understanding is it was a NY TIMES photographer and had his camera speed at like 800 or what ever which is very rare. very unusual. He apparently is the same guy who caught fellow whispering in GW Bushes ear during 9/11. So this guy has a magical way of showing up during ‘interesting times’

People are curious whether the guy was tipped off. [REMEMBER the CIA has a LOT of Agents in the Fake News. -GC]

You can see how the Deep State would want Trump killed in a public way. The message was: “DO NOT EVER MESS WITH US!”

The message was, not only will we bankrupt you and indict you, we will FLAT OUT MURDER YOU!

After all that is what they did to JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, ALL those assassinations at some level had govt complicity and conspiracy. The only question… is what is the scale and scope…. AND I think Trump knows it. You have seen a different tone from him… Thankful to be alive but he will be more aggressive than he might otherwise have been.

His reach out to RFK jr signaled that. Pick of JD Vance signaled that.

The cases to bankrupt him, to put him in prison did not shake him up very much. These are crap political cases and will get overturned at a higher level. But the attempt to assassinate him DID WAKE HIM UP. And you saw… “We need to do some radical change in America” AND he is much more committed to it…

18:30 Rebel Capitalist : Robert, Can you explain the Patsy roll not just this time but thru out history…

And I quit there.

History of assassinations 18:20 t0 24:28

Rebel Capitalist: Can you explain the Patsy role a little bit better. Not just Sat but thru out history. Because that will be the Push back. If that is the Deep State doing this, why on earth would they use this kid who can not hit the broad side of a barn, 20 years old, some say with an inadequate weapon. Why wouldn’t they have a guy there who could get the job done….

Also motivation for the kid? “what’s in it for him?”

Barnes: So there are already inconsistent stories about the kid. So we will start with the profile of a Patsy…. Every great crime needs a great patsy. Particularly a political crime. You need a convenient narrative script. A design. You need somebody that the event can be blamed on that won’t implicate powerful actors, institutional actors, government actors… Ad preferably THEY DIE. So they can never talk. Lee Harvey Oswald shot before he could meaningfully talk. The Vegas Shooter, we will never know if it was even him because he got shot before he could talk.

In America there is a profile pattern of trying to blame a SINGLE CRAZY ASSASSIN for an event. Or in some cases 2 or 3. But it is always some ‘crazy people’ involved….[gives examples] They usually have mental illness issues.

Rebel Capitalist: Legitimate!

Barnes: Yeah and there is already information. With this kid his parents were both mental health councilors which is a little weird.

You can go back to the Manchurian Candidate film, The Parallax View[1974] which Warren Beatty starred in that hinted at this kind of thing in the early 70s because people were wondering how some crazy person keeps getting in and murdering prominent critics of the Military Industrial Complex.

WHY don’t the Crazy People ever kill the Military Industrial Complex? Right? Why isn’t it THOSE GUYS? Why isn’t it the Federal Reserve???

No one has EVER thought to assassinate anyone in the Federal Reserve?? [LOL from Rebel Capitalist] It is just the CRITICS of the Federal Reserve. I am sure that is just a coincidence.

So, they need someone who is a little bit crazy who is a loner, doesn’t have a lot of friends. doesn’t have a lot of family, Doesn’t have a lot of people who can COUNTER THE NARRATIVE. Who can say “No, No this doesn’t make any sense.” And he fits that pattern.

But you are right, these are people you would RARELY trust to be able to pull something like this off.

I was intrigued by Trump talking last night. Saying when he was on the ground, there were still bullets coming. That means someone who was very very good, kept shooting…. That would suggest that did not come from that kid.

His [The Kid’s] social media was non-existent which is very rare in these times.

Rebel Capitalist: They can’t find ANYTHING on him. you mean you can’t find his cell phone record? You do not have a text to a buddy? Every time you have a crazy you have a Manifesto. If he is not leaving any trail, what is his motivation? I mean he KNOWS he is going to die, so that [a manifesto] would be the only motivation. It was to make yourself look like a hero. You are a nobody but this is how you can be a somebody.

Barnes: EXACTLY. That is the usual profile of your mass school shooters and the like. And now TAKE A GUESS what they ARE going to blame on him in a certain way?

If you are the Deep State what sort of an ENEMY, institutional ENEMY if you will?

Rebel Capitalist: Gun Control or something?

Barnes: CRYPTO!

[NOW the Windows CRASH and INDIA CRYPTO LOSS makes a bit more sense! – GC]

That he has CRYPTO ACCOUNTS. So some how CRYPTO is part of the reason for the assassination. That is his reason for the attempt on Trump.

Rebel Capitalist: Is this the narrative that is coming out? I have not heard of this!

Barnes: Nods yes.

YES! The only thing they have found so far, they could not get thru the encrypted aspects of his phone.🙄

Rebel Capitalist: How could you not? Are you kidding me? How could the SS, CIA, NSA, I do not know who is in charge of that, the kids 20 yrs old! It is not like he is Jason Borne for heaven sakes! How do you NOT get into his phone? [Remember back doors?? – GC]

Barnes: This kid has very little foot print, but according to the new report, he had 3 secured crypto accts. around the world. And so the goal is to say: “SEE this is what happens when people use Crypto! They become assassins!” [Hmm Kinda explains Sam Bankman-Fried getting hung out to dry. -GC]

One minute Bitcoin, the next minute they want to kill the president. It is that kind of logic. I figured they would try to demonize crypto some how. And maybe that is the link to Iran. Some how this guy was paid by Iran. And they did it using crypto because Crypto is ONLY FOR CRIMINALS. Good Honest people only use Central Banks and their money and their banking institutions. Because that is a great way to secure your money [Said snickering] And so that is the next step in the narrative.

And the CIA leaked over the weekend that Iran had been making threats and plans to assassinate Trump…

To round it out do not miss Wolfie’s comment about the Church.

SEAN DAVIS ALSO HAS QUESTIONS:

Sean Davis @seanmdav
Here’s an abbreviated list of extremely basic factual questions about the Trump assassination attempt that for some reason haven’t been definitively answered (anonymous leaks don’t count): 
 1) What make, model, and caliber of firearm was used, and when/where/by whom was it purchased? 
 2) What make and model of ammo was used (including the weight of the bullet used)? 
 3) Did the rifle used have any type of magnified optic or red dot sight on it, and if so, what make/model, and what exact setting was the optic on when the shooter used it? 
 4) Have authorities put identical rounds through the rifle with the identical optics settings and confirmed both the zero and the result of shots fired at the range at which they were fired on Saturday? 
 5) How many shell casings were recovered from the crime scene? How many remaining rounds were in the magazine that was found in the rifle? 
 6) How many rounds were fired by the shooter on the warehouse rooftop? Has each round been accounted for (i.e., do investigators know where each round landed, and does the number of bullets found or accounted for match the number of shell casings found? 
 7) Have investigators confirmed, via the recovered bullets and the known trajectory of the bullets, that the shooter on the rooftop fired each one? 
 8) Have investigators reconstructed the shooter’s precise movements over the past days, weeks, and months? If so, have they put together a list of every person with whom he interacted over that time period, but in person and virtually or online? 
 9) Have investigators reviewed video surveillance of the shooter at all various locations he recently visited (e.g., gun range, gun dealer, restaurants, traffic cameras, etc.)? If so, have they canvassed and interviewed each person seen with the shooter? 
 
These aren’t difficult questions to answer. These are usually the types of details promptly provided by authorities in the days following shocking, violent events of national importance. 
Yet we do not have a single one of these questions definitely answered on the record by an official authority. Not one. 
Why the heck not?

Attempted Assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks Flew Drone Over Trump Rally Site on Day of Shooting – 2 Cell Phones, Laptop and USB Drives Being Reviewed – https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/19/attempted-assassin-thomas-matthew-crooks-flew-drone-over-trump-rally-site-on-day-of-shooting-2-cell-phones-laptop-and-usb-drives-being-reviewed/

SUMMARY – In addition to bringing explosives, a detonator, a ladder, a range finder, a backpack and an AR15 rifle to the rally, while finding a way to sit atop the counter-sniper position, the 20-year-old without a social media footprint apparently had air superiority.

(Via Wall St Journal)
 […] 
The gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump was able to fly a drone and get aerial footage of the western Pennsylvania fairgrounds shortly before the former president was set to speak there, law-enforcement officials briefed on the matter said, further underscoring the stunning security lapses ahead of Trump’s near assassination.
Thomas Matthew Crooks flew the drone on a programmed flight path earlier in the day on July 13 to scour the Butler Farm Show grounds ahead of Trump’s ill-fated rally, the officials said. The predetermined path, the officials added, suggests Crooks flew the drone more than once as he researched and scoped out the event site.
[…]  
The use of the drone was just one way in which authorities have said Crooks planned his attack. Crooks, described by friends as very smart yet withdrawn, began researching the site shortly after the Trump campaign announced the rally on July 3, and registered for the event on July 7, officials said. He visited the farm show grounds a few days later to scope it out.

On July 13, officials said, he returned with a pair of homemade bombs that appeared to be designed to be set off by remote control, as they were fitted with a receiver like the kind used to set off fireworks remotely. Investigators found the rudimentary explosives in Crooks’ car parked close to the grounds, along with a ballistic carrier, or vest, with three, 30-round magazines in it, an indication that he might have wanted to cause greater carnage. (read more) – https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-gunman-flew-drone-over-rally-site-hours-before-attempted-assassination-2d0e2e1a

Who was on that WATER TOWER?” 10 Witnesses Come Forward | Redacted with Clayton Morris (14 minutes)

at 5:20:

Senators got private meeting. Marsha Blackburn: SS KNEW about a threat PRIOR to POTUS Trump walking out on stage.

Harrison H. Smith ✞@HarrisonHSmith https://twitter.com/HarrisonHSmith/status/1814863467901223360


So let me see if I have this Crowdstrike story straight…. When Hillary Clinton was Sec. of State, she was illegally funneling sophisticated weapons through Libya to terrorists in the MidEast in an effort to take out Assad in Syria for Israel.

When the weapons transfer went sideways and the US Ambassador was killed in Benghazi, it was discovered she was using an illegal private server for secret communications.

She destroyed the server, but not before its contents were leaked by Wikileaks, including communications about bizarre occult rituals and inexplicable code words involving children and pizza. Instead of investigating the leak themselves, the FBI relied on a Crowdstrike investigation that falsely claimed the server was hacked by Russia.

The FBI cleared HC despite admitting she broke the law, and launched the Russiagate investigation, using more fake Clinton campaign disinfo to tie Trump to Russia to get a FISA warrant and spy on Trump while leaking dirt to the press to undermine first his campaign, then his presidency.

When Trump had a call with Zelenskyy and asked about Crowdstrike, a “whistleblower” falsely claimed quid-pro-quo and launched the first impeachment to stop Trump’s inquiries. (It was in the midst of this impeachment trial, btw, when Event 201 took place.

But that’s another story.) Fast forward to 2024 and Trump is dominating Biden when he miraculously survives a deep state orchestrated assassination attempt two days before the RNC. Two days later Crowdstrike causes the biggest computer network crash in all of history, knocking millions of corporate and government systems offline for hours.

Other than the fact that Blackrock owns Crowdstrike and a Blackrock affiliated investment firm placed millions of dollars betting against DJT in the hours before the assassination attempt by a shooter who was featured in a Blackrock promo, did I miss anything?

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OK that was the data dump of my notes.

NEXT IS BOOKMARKS.

Again this is FAST, I am not going to check if I have already included the bookmark in the above notes. I am not going to put them in any order.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1812320872713089071.html

I was the Sniper Employment Officer for my battalion and led hundreds of combat missions. There were major security lapses in the security plan that allowed a shooter to engage President Trump from ~130 meters – an easy shot. A 🧵…..

WHAT?! Trump Shooter Appears to Be Featured in 2023 BlackRock Ad (VIDEO) (GatewayPundit)

DEEP STATE DECLARED WAR YESTERDAY Burning Platform

SPECIAL BULLETIN: America Teeters on the Abyss

Trump shot in assassination attempt in Butler, PA

Who is Thomas Matthew Crooks? Not much is known at this time but a disturbing picture is starting to emerge American Thinker

Rep. Bennie Thompson staffer loses job after posting that gunman needed shooting lessons NBCNews

CBS NEWS: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1812544625145458688/pu/vid/avc1/1280×720/7hniic2pHRBC0DHM.mp4?tag=12

“Malice Or Massive Incompetence”: Erik Prince Gives Detailed Assessment Of Secret Service Failure Zero Hedge

They Tried to Kill Trump – Now We’re Going to Fight Twice As Hard –Townhall Kurt Schlichter | Jul 14, 2024


GOP Was Investigating Secret Service Before Assassination Attempt Real Clear Politics

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1812547400596435424.html

Susan Crabtree @susancrabtree

Jul 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read •  Read on X My latest compilation of reporting: GOP Was Investigating Secret Service Before Assassination Attempt | RealClearPolitics

REPORT: Secret Service Resources Were Diverted to Jill Biden’s Saturday Campaign Event in Pittsburgh and Away from Trump’s – Many Agents Assigned to Trump were Temporary Replacements GatewayPundit

Trump superfan describes the terrifying moment he watched horrific assassination attempt from the front row of the rally Daily Mail

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I have a LOT more info to upload and I think this is getting way too long so I am going to stop here for now. This is the data dump up until Jul 14, 2024. The next is a Daily Mail article with a lot of photos dated July 15th.

Dear KMAG: 20240722 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

kenotism

noun

doctrine that Christ rid himself of divinity in becoming human

Explained more fully, and contrasted with kenosis

https://thecontentauthority.com/blog/kenotism-vs-kenosis

Related concept of kentoicism

https://www.gotquestions.org/kenoticism-kenotic-theology.html

Used in a sentence

Many theologians believe that kenotism is a crucial aspect of understanding the nature of Christ.


MUSIC!

Haven’t had a healing dose of Gregorian chants in a while.

AMEN.


THE STUFF

This video is designed to leave you not fully understanding it. That’s OK. It’s a “different take” on the second derivative. It’s something for you to think about long after you finish the video.

Deep.

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


Dear KMAG: 20240715 Joe Biden Didn’t Win ❀ Open Topic


Joe Biden didn’t win. This is our Real President:

AND our beautiful REALFLOTUS.


This Stormwatch Monday Open Thread remains open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA/KAG/KMAG world (with KMAG being a bit of both).

And yes, it’s Monday…again.

But we WILL get through it!

We will always remember Wheatie,

Pray for Trump,

Yet have fun,

and HOLD ON when things get crazy!


We will follow the RULES of civility that Wheatie left for us:

Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.

And while we engage in vigorous free speech, we will remember Wheatie’s advice on civility, non-violence, and site unity:

“We’re on the same side here so let’s not engage in friendly fire.”

“Let’s not give the odious Internet Censors a reason to shut down this precious haven that Wolf has created for us.”

If this site gets shut down, please remember various ways to get back in touch with the rest of the gang:

Our beloved country is under Occupation by hostile forces.

Daily outrage and epic phuckery abound.

We can give in to despair…or we can be defiant and fight back in any way that we can.

Joe Biden didn’t win.

And we will keep saying Joe Biden didn’t win until we get His Fraudulency out of our White House.


Wolfie’s Wheatie’s Word of the Week:

caesious

adjective / noun

  • bluish or greyish green
  • having a blue color very low in chroma
  • of the color of lavender
  • pale blue with a slight mixture of gray

Shown in a picture

Shown in a different picture


MUSIC!

Some more pale blue(s).

FAR OUT, MAN!


THE STUFF

Have you noticed refrigerator magnets getting stronger?

There’s more where that came from!!! [COUGH!]

Powerful!

Just sayin’!

And remember…….

Until victory, have faith!

And trust the big plan, too!

And as always….

ENJOY THE SHOW

W


2024·07·13 Joe Biden Didn’t Win Daily Thread

What is it that feeds our battle, yet starves our victory?

Speaker Johnson
Pinging you on January 6 Tapes

Just a friendly reminder Speaker Johnson. You’re doing some good things–or at least trying in the case of the budget–but this is the most important thing out there still hanging. One initial block released with the promise of more…and?

We have American patriots being held without bail and without trial, and the tapes almost certainly contain exculpatory evidence. (And if they don’t, and we’re all just yelling in an echo chamber over here, we need to know that too. And there’s only one way to know.)

Either we have a weaponized, corrupt government or we have a lot of internet charlatans. Let’s expose whatever it is. (I’m betting it’s the corrupt weaponized government, but if I am wrong, I’d like to see proof.)

Justice Must Be Done.

The prior election must be acknowledged as fraudulent, and steps must be taken to prosecute the fraudsters and restore integrity to the system.

Nothing else matters at this point. Talking about trying again in 2022 or 2024 is hopeless otherwise. Which is not to say one must never talk about this, but rather that one must account for this in ones planning; if fixing the fraud is not part of the plan, you have no plan.

Small Government?

Many times conservatives (real and fake) speak of “small government” being the goal.

This sounds good, and mostly is good, but it misses the essential point. The important thing here isn’t the size, but rather the purpose, of government. We could have a cheap, small tyranny. After all our government spends most of its revenue on payments to individuals and foreign aid, neither of which is part of the tyrannical apparatus trying to keep us locked down and censored. What parts of the government would be necessary for a tyranny? It’d be a lot smaller than what we have now. We could shrink the government and nevertheless find it more tyrannical than it is today.

No, what we want is a limited government, limited not in size, but rather in scope. Limited, that is, in what it’s allowed to do. Under current circumstances, such a government would also be much smaller, but that’s a side effect. If we were in a World War II sort of war, an existential fight against nasty dictatorships on the brink of world conquest, that would be very expensive and would require a gargantuan government, but that would be what the government should be doing. That would be a large, but still limited government, since it’d be working to protect our rights.

World War II would have been the wrong time to squawk about “small government,” but it wasn’t (and never is) a bad time to demand limited government. Today would be a better time to ask for a small government–at least the job it should be doing is small today–but it misses the essential point; we want government to not do certain things. Many of those things we don’t want it doing are expensive but many of them are quite eminently doable by a smaller government than the one we have today. Small, but still exceeding proper limits.

So be careful what you ask for. You might get it and find you asked for the wrong thing.

Political Science In Summation

It’s really just a matter of people who can’t be happy unless they control others…versus those who want to be left alone. The oldest conflict within mankind. Government is necessary, but government attracts the assholes (a highly technical term for the control freaks).

His Truth?

Again we saw an instance of “It might be true for Billy, but it’s not true for Bob” logic this week.

I hear this often, and it’s usually harmless. As when it’s describing differing circumstances, not different facts. “Housing is unaffordable” can be true for one person, but not for another who makes ten times as much.

But sometimes the speaker means it literally. Something like 2+2=4 is asserted to be true for Billy but not for Bob. (And when it’s literal, it’s usually Bob saying it.) And in that sense, it’s nonsense, dangerous nonsense. There is ONE reality, and it exists independent of our desires and our perceptions. It would go on existing if we weren’t here. We exist in it. It does not exist in our heads. It’s not a personal construct, and it isn’t a social construct. If there were no society, reality would continue to be what it is, it wouldn’t vanish…which it would have to do, if it were a social construct.

Now what can change from person to person is the perception of reality. We see that all the time. And people will, of course, act on those perceptions. They will vote for Trump (or try to) if their perception is close to mine, and vote against Trump (and certainly succeed at doing so) if their perception is distant from mine (and therefore, if I do say so, wrong). I have heard people say “perception is reality” and usually, that’s what they’re trying to say–your perception of reality is, as far as you know, an accurate representation of reality, or you’d change it.

But I really wish they’d say it differently. And sometimes, to get back to Billy and Bob, the person who says they have different truths is really saying they have different perceptions of reality–different worldviews. I can’t argue with the latter. But I sure wish they’d say it better. That way I’d know that someone who blabbers about two different truths is delusional and not worth my time, at least not until he passes kindergarten-level metaphysics on his umpteenth attempt.

Lawyer Appeasement Section

OK now for the fine print.

This is the WQTH Daily Thread. You know the drill. There’s no Poltical correctness, but civility is a requirement. There are Important Guidelines,  here, with an addendum on 20191110.

We have a new board – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

And remember Wheatie’s Rules:

1. No food fights
2. No running with scissors.
3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
4. Zeroth rule of gun safety: Don’t let the government get your guns.
5. Rule one of gun safety: The gun is always loaded.
5a. If you actually want the gun to be loaded, like because you’re checking out a bump in the night, then it’s empty.
6. Rule two of gun safety: Never point the gun at anything you’re not willing to destroy.
7. Rule three: Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
8. Rule the fourth: Be sure of your target and what is behind it.

(Hmm a few extras seem to have crept in.)

(Paper) Spot Prices

Kitco “Ask” prices. Last week:

Gold $2,389.60
Silver $31.16
Platinum $1,038.00
Palladium $1,064.00
Rhodium $5,025.00

This week, 3PM Mountain Time, markets have closed for the weekend.

Gold $2,411.60
Silver $30.84
Platinum $1011.00
Palladium $992.00
Rhodium $4,950.00

Gold was over 2,420 on Thursday, and drew back a bit on Friday, still up for the week. Silver a bit down. Palladium took a beating Friday and is now lower than platinum. Both are down for the week any way you cut it.

I need to make a technical comment. The modern run of bullion coins, things like the Canadian Maple Leaf and American Eagle (and many others) are indeed coins because they have denominations on them. The denominations are absurd; the one ounce eagle has a $50 face value. (If anyone ever spends one of these things at face value, I hope I am the one who reaps the benefit of his/her ignorance.) But they will also state their gold content in either grams or troy ounces (a troy ounce is 31.1035 grams or 480 reloading-bench grains).

What can cause some confusion (and did last weekend) is that the coins are often stated as having that much “pure gold” in them, but that doesn’t mean they are made of pure gold. The Canadian Maple Leaf tries for ridiculous purity, less than 1 part per 10000 is something other than gold. Our gold eagle is 91.67 percent pure (22 kt) (with the balance made up of 3 percentage points silver and 5.13 of copper), so it isn’t made of pure gold, but it still contains an ounce of gold; if you removed the other stuff, you would indeed have an ounce of pure gold. They do this, of course, by making the coin weigh more than an ounce.

(Frankly going to eyestraining purity strikes me as a stunt. No one really cares if the coin is absolutely pure; they’re interested in the net weight of precious metal. In fact high purity can have negative consequences as a pure gold coin is soft enough that it might get a ding in it if you give it a harsh look.)

When it’s not absolutely pure, of course, you have to be sure how much gold (or whatever precious metal) is in the coin. There is a big catalog of coins from around the world (the size of a very thick telephone book, and that’s just one century’s worth), generally called Krause after the publisher, and for coins with silver, gold, or other precious content they will give the weight of the coin in grams, then the purity as a decimal fraction, then “ASW” or “AGW” or “APW” for “actual silver weight”, etc. That last number is the actual content of precious metal. Collectors typically just follow that custom when labeling their foreign coins; coin shops will do so to entice people to buy the coin for the metal content if nothing else.

Anyhow the bullion coins, regardless of whether they are pure, will have some nice round number of either troy ounces (over here) or grams (over there in Europe/Asia) of precious metal in them. (Sometimes “over there” will do something in troy ounces, too.)