As everyone knows, Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States and the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for the 2024 Presidential election, was nearly assassinated yesterday at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania. Many people – including many of my readers – have predicted that something like this would happen for a very long time.
A 20-year-old sniper named Thomas Matthew Crooks fired as many as eight shots in Trump’s direction, nine minutes after he began speaking. Crooks was perched on the roof of a building just north of Trump’s podium, and he succeeded only in wounding the former President in his right ear; two other spectators were critically injured and another was killed. The Secret Service Counter Assault Team brought the attack to an end with a fatal shot to Crooks’s head (here is a graphic image of the aftermath). Trump, meanwhile, ducked to the ground while agents shielded him with their bodies. Half a minute later he stood up, demanded that his protectors allow him to get his shoes, and raised a defiant fist to the audience, shouting “Fight, fight, fight”.
Almost anything I say about these events will be superseded by media reporting within hours, so I’ll limit myself to three points:
1) The failed assassination represents a security failure by United States Secret Service that is so astounding, it will rightly inspire conspiracy theories for years to come. Kevin Rojek, who heads the Pittsburg field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, acknowledged that it was “surprising” that Crooks was able to take so many shots unchallenged. And I can think of no reason why Trump’s detail should’ve drawn their security perimeter to exclude a prominent, elevated firing position a mere 130 metres away from Trump’s podium. Finally, there is the fact that Crooks and his rifle were visible to spectators for minutes before he opened fire; multiple rally attendees tried to alert police, fruitlessly. There is even a screen grab of drone footage circulating on social media, showing Crooks climbing onto the building.
2) Initial media reports included many ridiculous headlines – the worst of them this utter failure by CNN:
But there were others, which reported only on “loud noises”, despite the fact that all journalists had access to footage of unmistakable gunfire and Trump with blood on his face:
That these clumsy attempts to downplay an assassination attempt were no fluke, is confirmed by the terrible aftermath commentary of broadcast news analysts like Samantha Vinograd, who declared that “the biggest threat” following this attempt to shoot a major Presidential candidate in the head is “retaliatory violence” from the Right:
We know that tensions were already high before this incident, and the counter-terrorism officials and homeland security officials that I’ve spoken to… are deeply concerned that this event will be used as a rallying cray to launch attacks against individuals associated with the Biden campaign and lead to broader domestic distress, so right now the goals are to investigate the incident… as well as to try to tamp down any tensions that may arise coming out of it.
‘President Trump nearly killed – Biden campaign and the establishment American Left most affected’.
3) Maybe the emptyheaded Vinograds of the media should direct a few more of their admittedly scarce IQ points not to the tensions arising from this incident, but to the tensions that led up to it. It was not just Joe Biden who was caught telling supporters that it is “Time to put Trump in a bullseye” a few days ago. Insane rhetoric has attended Trump since the very beginnings of his Presidential candidacy in 2015, with legions of purportedly respectable politicians and journalists claiming that he is an agent of foreign powers and an enemy to American democracy. There are hundreds if not thousands of articles and political pleas asking “Why aren’t we talking about Trump’s fascism?”, declaring that “Fascism is everywhere on the march, and it’s Trump who sets the pace”, announcing that “Donald ‘Dictator on Day One’ Trump is an existential threat to our democracy”, shouting that “A second Trump Presidency is an existential national security threat”, and proclaiming that “A Second Trump Term Will Bring an End to the American Century” and that “Donald Trump ‘will destroy’ U.S. democracy if he wins second term as President”. All of these inflammatory and unfounded claims hail precisely from those corners of the discourse that also eagerly blame every last tepid misdeed against their own political tribe on nebulous “extreme Right-wing” forces.
Anybody who is so deluded as to think that this way of speaking about one’s political opponents isn’t dangerous, should consider the case of Sebastian Hotz, the self-proclaimed “shooting star of social media in Germany”, and a writer for the repellent German state-media comedian Jan Böhmermann. After news of the failed assassination broke, Hotz his expressed his regret in since-deleted tweets that the assassin had “unfortunately just missed” the American Presidential candidate, and said that “I find it absolutely fantastic when fascists die”. There are literally millions of people out there who share Hotz’s feelings. They are the product of a very deliberate and malign press campaign to cast Trump as the greatest threat to Western prosperity and democracy since that mythological arch-enemy Adolf Hitler. All of them have blood on their hands.
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As I’ve already stated under the Round-Up, what does this event say about Trump’s ability to stay alive even if he gets in the White House if this is the level of security he can expect from his Secret Service team? They were absolutely dire in their performance. The psycho should never have been able to fire off his first shot. The man in the crowd who was killed died protecting his daughter from the bullets fired. This should never have happened in the first place, but it was seemingly *allowed*. The irony is that Trump is painted as the literal ‘Antichrist’ when it’s the Left that are as deranged as they are evil, and they demonstrate this time and time again.
”We all knew this was coming.
Saturday’s assassination attempt on the once and future president Donald Trump, while shocking, came as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to politics over the last eight years. For all that time, the Left has been indefatigable in the demonization of their hated opponent as A Threat to Democracy™ of Hitlerian proportions. The hysterical fear-mongering about the “fascist” Trump from mainstream media talking heads like John McWhorter (who recently suggested it would be a good thing if someone were to assassinate the former President), from race hustlers like Al Sharpton, and from Trump-deranged Democrat leaders like Maxine Waters has been relentless.
Just last month, the left-wing New Republic depicted Trump on its cover with a Hitler mustache and hairstyle. The article’s tag line – “Why waste time debating the extent of Trump’s fascism when we ought to be fighting it instead?” – reflects that the Left has abandoned debate and dialogue, and is urging a sort of “by any means necessary” direct action to stop the Trump juggernaut.
But what does this moment mean for America now? This was a watershed moment that clarifies exactly what is at stake and where the opposing sides stand. How will we – or can we – go forward after this? Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said the attempt on Trump’s life “can turn into a moment of healing and unity” for the country if Americans “realize what is at stake.”
That is a hopeful sentiment but tragically, this won’t be a moment of healing and unity. This is not the America of Ronald Reagan’s time, which largely came together in the wake of the attempt on his life in 1981. As I wrote recently, we now occupy an America irrevocably divided between MAGA patriots who love this country and a political opposition that wants us literally dead and gone. Saturday’s assassination attempt is simply further confirmation that we are already engaged in a hot civil war.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/trump-shooting-clarifies-the-america-we-have-now/
Check out this short video montage illustrating just how lax the security was, considering the level of threat Trump poses for the hateful Leftards. The public watched the guy climb on the roof then lie there for minutes while they warned the security team, just to be ignored. I wonder what Trump himself thinks about this;
https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1812731727053488418
Captioned WTF! Precisely!
Exactly. There is no rational explanation for this is there? This was 100% complicity because the murder attempt was allowed to happen by the security team. Well, the guy obviously did succeed in murder, just not of his intended target, and that’s entirely on the SS. Even if the SS sniper couldn’t get a clear shot straight away there were officers in the nearby vicinity that ignored the warnings of the people pointing the shooter out. Some family’s been devasted due to this unforgivable level of negligence. Interesting there seems to be a media blackout regarding anything to do with the shooter also. No details about him circulating at all. No comments from family, friends or people that knew him. It’ll be on alternative media that we’ll hear anything but so far crickets…Well I guess this is one incident we can’t pin on the Islamists. I’d be highly surprised if he wasn’t on some psych meds or other though.
It’s not even a conspiracy the SS waited until a shooter crawling with a gun in plain sight took several shots at trump before taking him out. Sadly for the liberals the evil inept idiot their hate had geed up missed! This was an assassination and those supposed to be protecting Trump were complicit.
Wouldn’t it get the Democrats out of a massive hole they have created if “retaliatory violence” supposedly from the Retaliatory Right took out Biden AND Harris.
Watch this space?
My viewing may be selective, but I’ve yet to hear of anyone from the right even suggesting that taking out Democrats is a good idea. Therein lies the asymmetry: it is the left who want their fascist opponents dead by any means, whereas the “fascists” only want to remove them from power. That, of course, tells you who the actual fascists are.
Very Plausible !
“retaliatory violence”
Which was what I posted yesterday.
This new having to log in thingy before one can even like/comment following closely on the heels of having to do the same before one can read the remainder of some articles seems to be doing wonders for the DS – at least as the up/down ticks are concerned.
Maybe more clickbait needed – get the resident Ukraine expert to say how and why it is essential to world peace for Ukraine to win and stop the dastardly Russians.
Yes I thought it was me , I can make a comment move to another article & have to log in again & in the last few days my first attempt is rejected so I have to do it a second time to get in .
Just go back to the top of the page and click on the DS title and you carry on logged
This new ‘log in thingy’ is wildly regressive, not to mention a PITA. I’m surmising it’s as welcome as herpes.
It’s rather less a PITA than the Spectator’s comments section, now they’ve thrown it open to those using the app…
You now have to click on comments to go to them, and then click on comments again to read them; it’s impossible to ever find one’s comment again as there’s no link from the disqus platform; nor is it possible to know if anyone has responded to, or even ‘liked’ a comment…
The whole thing has been rendered pretty pointless really!
Never had herpes
Yep it’s really annoying!
There is only one thing more predictable than conspiracy theories after an assassination attempt on a president and that is that normie majority will swallow the first explanation of the event hook, line and sinker.
The deep state took a shot at Trump and missed.
Then they put their media into overdrive to pretend it hadn’t happened.
When that didn’t work, they release the name of their patsy and for good measure give him the tell tale three word name that they know will help cement the story in everyone’s mind. Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Why not just Mstthew Crooks?
Eugyppius seems to assume that the events took place exactly as reported. I’ve not really looked into it enough to have an opinion – perhaps he has.
I think he’s well aware of how these things can change tof, it’s why he he limits himself to three main points…
Sort of, though it’s not really clear exactly what he thinks, but he does assume that it was a cockup and not staged.
In my opinion it wasn’t staged but the SS are corrupt AF. For instance, do you think for one minute that if it’d been Joe Biden up there speaking and the Secret Service had spotted a gunman poised with a rifle pointing at the stage ( pure fantasy, I know. Because we know these nutcases never go after the Leftards to assassinate ) that the sniper would’ve not just hesitated, but allowed the gunman to fire off several shots? He would’ve been taken care of and eliminated before he’d had a chance to fire a single shot. The security would’ve been so on point that the guy probably wouldn’t have even been able to climb a roof and take a few minutes to set up in the first place.
This was enabled to go ahead because it was Trump, not Biden, who was the target and in the crosshairs. It was a last resort because nothing else has worked to get rid of the formidable ( and very popular with the public ) threat that is Trump, and that farcical attempt at a debate recently was just further proof, highlighting the dire situation the Biden administration are in. Had Trump been successfully dispatched the Left would’ve felt like all their Christmases had come at once. So now what happens?
I find it hard to know what to think. What does puzzle me is that Trump doesn’t seem to have his own private security. Perhaps the Secret Service were asked and said they would not allow it.
Surely he will after this. It can’t be underestimated just how badly the Left want him out of the picture and, personally, I think they’ll just keep trying until they succeed. You can throw any amount of shit on Biden and the Leftards and nothing sticks.
Plus, Biden’s FBI, CIA and evidently SS are just about as corrupt and rotten to the core as it’s possible to be. I think we can all agree that they’ve got significant form.
It would be astonishing if he didn’t take out extra protection directly controlled by him now.
I’m not sure it makes any difference in that in my view, the forces that bring about these assassination attempts are always acting outside of standard procedure. So the average employee of the Secret Service will be doing his best and won’t be acting illegally (though as we know too many can get pushed along in Milligram experiment style).
It’s been reported – via 4Chan so not a reliable source – that the Secret Service sniper had the shooter in his sights for minutes and was requesting permission to take a shot, only be denied. He has made posts to this affect not wanting to be made the “incompetent” fall-guy. From what I have read, in his community, at the distances involved and the relatively few buildings they had to survey, the failure is seen as so egregious it’s simply not credible.
He then took the shot as soon as he saw the shooter fire (contrary to orders). This matches the video evidence. The instant gunfire is heard the sniper returns fire. This is before he takes his eye away from the scope. So it’s clear there was no major movement or re-adustment. Other snipers have said he took his eye off the scope immediately after making the kill shot, to take in the surrounding vicinity to check for other threats.
Though the source is unreliable/unverifieable, I find this easier to believe the 4Chan story than that they simply didn’t see the shooter until too late.
So my point is these forces act outside of procedure and the channels through which they act can affect private contractors (who are usually in any case very strongly tied to government anyway) just as much as departments within the government. I’m not sure the pressure points through which the deep state can act are any more or less available to them for the public and/or private sector.
Possibly though as a minimum it seems the SS is a bit useless and Trump would be able to vet private staff.
Yes the female DEI agent hires in full keystone-cop mode does support that point!
But only the female ones were ”useless”, of course, the male personnel performed in an exemplary manner. Which is why one person was killed and three injured. Right, got it.
I think it was more to do with ‘useless’ regarding the fact that the security woman was so small as to be of no use as body cover for an extremely tall Trump. All the other security men provided good body cover.
“So now what happens?”
My bets would be on starting Scamdemic ll before the US elections. There is a three day Scamdemic event taking place at the beginning of October in Washington. Secondly a financial collapse. Third, a major military event in the US. The priority will be to put the country under lockdown to ensure the elections cannot take place.
Then again they might try another assassination. A lot of establishment figures are facing long prison sentences if Trump is re-elected.
Either way it was very theatrical.
I guess real life sometimes is, but yes this was very theatrical
Don’t underestimate the impact of opening up the SS on DEI lines. Obviously the president and candidates need to be guarded by men with a top echelon military background, a few things in life that require controlled violence do need to be the preserve of men. Chuck in the ladies this has two effects, the quality of ppl drops and the competent men reduce their own level of competence to fit with the group dynamic. The picture of the incompetent lady SS guard who can’t holster her own weapon is priceless but the best advert for DEI going.
They should’ve flown in some of them IDF ladies to show them what’s what. And remember, if those SS sniper men had acted as they should have and eliminated the gunman from the get-go none of this would’ve happened, and that father who died protecting his daughter would still be alive.
Call me weird but I have this thing where I don’t reduce situations such as this or general bad behaviour by authority figures down to a male vs female issue.
”Chuck in the ladies this has two effects, the quality of ppl drops and the competent men reduce their own level of competence to fit with the group dynamic.” Again, I’m pretty sure the IDF personnel may want to quibble with you there.
It seems to defy logic you’d want to guard a president with women. Leave violence a d killing to men, I am really mystified why a civilised society would want to put women in that role anyway. Just like men shouldn’t be anywhere near looking after young kids under 7 in my view as it attracts a certain sort. My father in law recently nearly died following a suspected heart attack because 2 lady paramedics couldn’t move him. We are living in a fantasy where we pretend physical strength isn’t a thing. I’m not sure my mother in law would have thought the death of her husband was a triumph of gender equality. The west has to deal with reality if it isnt to continue it’s sad decline. I’m not arguing women shouldn’t be drs, lawyers, run companies but roles that require strength should test for strength which will probably mean excluding most women, rather we’ve just lowered standards.
There’s no argument from me that this whole DEI thing is problematic and downright unsafe. As far as paramedics go surely the failure here is that they weren’t paired with men, they were together, so not a reflection on their lack of competence based exclusively on their gender, but much like police should also be of mixed pairs, it boils down to a health and safety issue, both for themselves and the public.
With regards to the Trump shooting, the bodyguards don’t even come into the picture until the shots had been fired and Trump ducks behind the podium. Only once the damage had been done do they appear and bundle him off stage. So in this context your point is moot, as far as I’m concerned. The buck stopped with the failure of the snipers to act, and they weren’t female from what I could see. But as I say, I’m not one to gloat at somebody’s incompetence because they’re of the opposite sex and use that as an excuse. People fail because they’re crap at their jobs, not what they’ve got between their legs, as has been demonstrated in Trump’s shooting.
But in the wider context of should women be bodyguards, well I know if I was a walking target for assassination I would want to be surrounded by people who cover the biggest surface area because they’re literally employed to keep me safe by taking a bullet for me, should it come to that. So obviously men fit the bill here. Perhaps the women would be better off on the periphery, checking the crowd for potential threats, because I can see that other attributes for this role would be observation skills and quick reflexes, which aren’t gender dependent.
But my example of the IDF and the many frontline female personnel they have does continue to contradict your original point. Yes many might be there purely because they’re called up and it’s a requirement to do your time over there, they wouldn’t *choose* to go into battle, but regarding competence, I’ve no reason to doubt they’re not just as capable as their male counterparts so can’t be said to ”lower standards”, as you put it.
Woman here…..I’m sorry to say that Wokeman is correct. Women in general simply do not have the skills, attitude or physique for some jobs.
But I’m not disputing the fact that women are clearly not suitable for certain jobs. How many women do you think work on oil rigs or on building sites? I don’t think these industries need to worry about meeting their DEI quotas and are fielding a load of female job applications. The reasons for this are obvious. And as I said above, clearly if you’re going to employ bodyguards then you don’t want them to be over a foot shorter than the person they’re tasked with protecting, which does kind of rule out most women. However, there will be other roles within security or combat that aren’t reliant on physical size and strength, as the IDF ladies evidently prove on a consistent basis. How much strength or body mass do you think it requires to pull a trigger?
Would you, if trapped and injured in a burning building, rather have a strong male to rescue or a female DEI appointment?
I think this is just an American thing. I worked for an American company years ago and they wanted to do a name plate for my desk. All these name plates used a first, middle and last name, and I was no exception. It seemed very strange to me as an English person, but then they put their dates as month/day/year, don’t they, which seems illogical. Just different ways of doing things, I would say.
Nothing like cock-up of epic proportions to fuel a legion of conspiracy theories..
It’s interesting how the official narrative of a the deranged lone shooter never seems to qualify as a conspiracy theory.
But hey, if the FBI says it was John Matthew Crooks, then I’m sure it is. I mean the FBI never lie about anything. It’s not as if they would fabricate, for example, that Trump colluded with the Russian state to get elected or anything like that. Whatever the FBI tells you, you can take to the bank as 100% true.
For a “lone” shooter, it only qualifies as a theory.
Did you know if you say the word “banana” slow enough it sounds like “gullible”?
You do know that JFK was killed by the CIA, amongst others … and is not a conspiracy theory related to security failures to stop Lee Harvey Oswald?
It was, apparently, a simple command and control (C2) failure.
The overwatch had the gunman in their sights for four minutes before he fired.
What were their rules of engagement?
Probably they could not shoot without authorisation unless shots were fired.
At such an event, there would have been a great deal of nugatory chatter clogging the voice net, making swift authorisation difficult to obtain.
Notoriously, security agencies are predisposed against data transmission C2.
Probably time for a rethink….
Nope. Also, from the moment that the gunman was observed by the SS snipers why did they not at the very least ensure Trump was removed from the stage? But no action was taken. None. Plus, we have to remember that this venue and all of the perimeter buildings would’ve been thoroughly assessed days in advance of this event taking place. They’re not going to miss one random building 130 yards away and some ‘random’ armed bloke comes moseying in, climbs onto a roof and is able to get positioned at his leisure.
Now apparently it comes to light that the snipers needed no authorization to shoot, so why the hesitation?;
”NEW: NBC News reports that the roof where the would-be assa*in shot from was a “well known high priority vulnerability.”
The counter sn*per reportedly did *not* need approval to fire.
“That the roof where the [suspect] was located was a well-known high priority vulnerability.”
“It was identified just the day before during a security walkthrough.”
“We’ve also just learned that there were two counter sn*per teams on site, and that the counter sn*per did not need approval to shoot one source telling NBC news that prior protocols were not followed.”
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1812668835818045826
A police officer was, apparently, climbing onto the roof to talk to the gunman. The gunman pointed his gun at the policeman who backed off. The gunman then hurriedly engaged Trump, missing. The overwatch team would not have engaged while the police officer was endeavouring to speak to the shooter
While all that was going on the voice radio net would have been clogged and, over a period of, at most, five minutes, a great deal of excited shouting over the net would have prevented coherent command and control (C2).
This always happens in a contact situation: ‘No plan survives first contact’
That is why most militaries are moving to data transmission C2. Youngsters of the iphone generation are extremely adept at sending and receiving data.
Data transmission sniper C2 systems are readily available off the shelf but I very much doubt they had any such thing at the Trump rally.
Not needing approval does not remove the responsibility of the commander and, particularly, does not necessarily give a sniper team the confidence to engage a threat unless and until shots are fired.
Quite a few law enforcement officers are in jail for making the wrong call.
They were going to try and talk down a probably fanatical assassin, with rifle already trained, in the hope that Trump’s address could continue uninterrupted? Offer him an anger management course perhaps? And meanwhile all the professionals were shouting over the airwaves so hard that the boss couldn’t give orders?
Well I don’t think that kind of incompetence would have happened with my signals platoon on a cadet force exercise, but it does sound awfully like the line management “confusion” that the Capitol police reported on January 6th.
I’ve not seen any footage or anyone describing a police officer talking to the gunman so if you’d be so good as to provide a link to that source, that’d be great.
Also, it makes no sense whatsoever to have a sniper hold his fire, giving the gunman the advantage, until the assassin shoots first, given that it could only take the one shot from the latter to kill someone. All it would’ve taken is a few officers to draw their weapons and tell the assassin to put his hands up or they’ll shoot, but nobody seemed to want to employ that proven effective tactic used by police on a daily basis. The guy was a deadly threat but they deliberately sat on their hands.
‘The gunman had his father’s AR-style rifle and was perched atop a nearby roof when some rallygoers pointed him out to local law enforcement, said two law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal probe.
A local law enforcement officer climbed to the roof and found Crooks, who pointed the rifle at the officer. The officer then retreated down the ladder, and the gunman quickly fired toward Trump, the officials said. That’s when U.S. Secret Service gunmen shot him, the officials said.’
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/gunman-pointed-rifle-at-local-officer-before-firing-at-trump-during-rally-sources-tell-ap
‘The bad guys usually get the first round off. That’s typically how it works in law enforcement……’
WATCH: Secret Service Agent who survived Reagan assassination attempt evaluates Trump rally shooting
https://apnews.com/live/election-biden-trump-campaign-updates-07-13-2024
Thanks, Monro. This was news to me.
The Guardian are reporting like this:
“Nothing to do with me Gov, honest. It was them wot done it.”
We’re not only dealing with far-left morons, we’re dealing with far-left moronic cowards.
And according to the Beeb propaganda channel, the semi-automatic rifle used was legally purchased by him.
Ahhh, I see. A not particularly subtle “you reap what you sow”. Nice little socialist psychopaths. Personally, I’ve done a full 180 on gun ownership. The US is one of the only countries in the world that are genuinely capable of stopping the socialist agenda that’s sweeping through the West, and it is precisely because they have a right to bear arms. Only physical force can now stop what’s coming. A civil war is not as unbelievable as it once sounded.
Totally agree, though the American willingly submitted to the Rona fascism, nary a protest or even guffaw from the 180 million guns in the US….I doubt they will rise up against the Deep State. For whatever reason, most Americans believe the idiot box.
Shame that the Labour government has just committed to keeping the TV tax that funds the BBC aka the media arm of the UK political left.
My personal opinion: an administration that is committed to the destruction of its political opponents aided this assassination attempt either by omission or commission.
Stealing a corrupted election, media brainwashing, mass immigration allowed to vote, criminal trials, bankruptcy, mass imprisonment, imprisonment of high ranking Trump allies such as Bannon, Navarro.
These all make an arc, with the logical progression murder of a Presidential candidate who can’t be stopped any other way.
This isn’t Russia, or Mozambique, North Korea or Afghanistan, but America.
The guy in this 3min video articulates these points and more. A lot of Stockholm Syndrome in the U.S, evidently. You can’t complain about a system that you keep voting for and demonize the people that aren’t the real threat;
“There is one president in this race that had an assassination attempt taken against him. As a matter of fact, if you think back to the last president that had an assassination attempt to taken on him that has gotten this close, you’re gonna go back aways. And if you actually look at the presidents that were assassinated and you look at what they were doing to the government money, you would realize the reason they’re getting taken out isn’t because some random Joe Schmo down town doesn’t want that president. It’s because the system feels threatened.”
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1812336159441535086
Does anyone notice how quickly these sorts of crimes are resolved and how quickly the official narrative is put out into the media?
It’s absolutely hilarious to me to watch people take the FBI account of who did it at face value, right off the bat. The TV says it was a lone shooter by the name of John Matthew Crooks. Ok, cool. Solved. Probably a looney with a gun. Time to move on, nothing more to see here.
Crooks is related to Lee Harvey Oswald don’t you know…except in Crooks’ case he is a racist-facist-white-insert ad hominems here, angry that Drumpf was too mild. blah blah blah At least Crooks’ bullet went in a straight line…..
I still haven’t seen anyone explain why there was an official database record of Crooks’s DNA, his age and his voting record to compare with the post-mortem sample in a few hours.
As far as I can see the US national database only stores data from criminals, but FBI have not mentioned any criminal record.
Spot on. I read a blog from a former SS sniper. He said what saved Drumpf was the wind and his constant head turning. Crooks might just be a lone lunatic, but I doubt it. Seems like this was setup. I am waiting to hear the Crooks bio – racist, fascist, fanatic Drumpfian, pissed that Drumpf is not fascist or racist enough etc (cue the CIA written manifesto).
No doubt the deep state will try to kill Drumpf. He is against globaloneybswarming (big money); the endless WW3 (bigger money); surveillance, control, open borders…..
I’m waiting for the (almost inevitable) counter conspiracy theory that he deliberately missed and was then shot to cover up his involvement.
Could have been a warning shot….hard to miss the chest and head from 150 yards tbh with the sniper rifle he had, which can almost shoot a bullseye on its own. Seems contrived to say the least.
That theory was fielded on Day 1. It involves the ability to shoot a hole in an ear at 150 years without being a cm to the left… I’m a fair shot, but I think I’d have to be Bisley Queens Prize champion to attempt that.
Hmm … sorry … but vile rethoric doesn’t shoot at people. If Hotz writes “I find it absolutely fantastic when fascists die” and what he’s referring to is an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, this expresses that he’s an imbecile, has exactly no shed of human decency and that he and his ilk use “fascist” as smear term for anyone who disagrees with them on anything (not exactly new). But this doesn’t cause anybody to shoot at anybody else, this takes a conscious decision of the shooter who bears responsibility for it.
In other news, Russia forced to abandon its naval presence in Crimea due to loud noises. Loud noises heard by Ukrainian forces in Kursk Oblast – Russian military activity said to be ‘possible source’. Keir Starmer insists loud noises have ‘no place’ in civilised political discourse. (that’s enough loud noises; Ed)
Why were drones not used for surveillance purposes?
Crooks was rejected by his high school rifle team (these are common in the U.S.) for being such a poor shot according to interviews with former classmates. Since then, he has spent a lot of time at a local shooting range and that is where his father thought he was on Saturday. The range played down his use of it. Since high school he became a remarkably good marksman, getting off an accurate shot under duress. The shot was rushed by the appearance of a local policeman at the top of the ladder Crooks had used to get access to the roof.
Seems to indicate planning.