Wake up and smell the coffee America, what happened in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 was a hasty and reckless plan by the DEEP STATE to whack Donald J. Trump. As I have stated to my wife for years, Barack Hussein Obama is overplaying his hand, both in deeds and pride:
It's now being reported that law enforcement reported the shooter 1 hour before the shots were fired. Shooter was seen with backpack and hand-held range finder and reported by local police. How do you not keep a close eye on that individual? Or was a close eye actually kept on that individual and allowed to bring ladder to site, climb and shoot, and this is why shooter was killed by SS sniper some 3 seconds after raining lead on Trump and crowd? So many questions and too many flimsy excuses (sloped roof, Iran, etc.)
Pacificus: As stated above, I have told my wife for years Barack Hussein Obama is overplaying his hand. Not only in his deeds, but also in his pride. Accordingly, methinks Barack Hussein Obama had to greenlight this failed CIA assassination of Donald J. Trump and here is the reason for my theory of BHO's involvement:
Do you remember that time in 2016 when Attorney General Loretta Lynch decided she would take a private meeting with Bill Clinton on her plane as it was parked on the tarmac in Phoenix – while Bill’s wife, Hillary Clinton (when she was Obama’s Secretary of State), was under federal investigation for using a secret and unlawful private email server at her New York home, to receive thousands of top secret and classified government emails?
With the obvious corruption of the Phoenix tarmac meeting in mind; it is my humble opinion that our Constitutional Republic permanently fell during the 2016 presidential election cycle on July 5 when FBI Director James Comey ignored the rule of law and “exonerated” Hillary Clinton for the illegal server and the thousands of her classified emails. At that point in American history, the “rule of law” in the USA began its demise and because the constitutional provisions for remedy to the ensuing felonious acts and omissions (think FISA Court - “Crossfire Hurricane”) of James Comey, (et al) were never pursued; our Constitutional Republic has fallen and is irreparable…... and the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago along with the four unconstitutional indictments of Donald J. Trump and the “Bragg show trial in New York”, is my proof We the People now live in a banana republic.
[However, with Saturday's (7/13/2024) failed CIA assassination of DJT, the term "banana republic" is no longer accurate. Fascist/CIA/JUNTA/Stasi is closer to the DEEP STATE than "banana republic".]
Please be cognizant: The Comey/Hillary Clinton exoneration was three weeks prior to a July 2016 Oval Office meeting orchestrated by President Barack Hussein Obama and Valerie Jarrett and attended by Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan.
According to CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes, Brennan informed attendees of “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton" on July 26, 2016, of “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” [In other words, a scandal about collusion with Russia.] According to a CIA memo, the intent of this plan was “distracting the public from Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.”
Later it was shown that the plan was enacted via the Steele dossier, which Robby Mook, Clinton’s former campaign director, acknowledged under oath in 2022 to have procured. So explosive were Brennan’s notes that U.S. senators needed a federal court order, issued four years after Obama’s Oval Office meeting, to wrest a copy of it from the Department of Justice. Released along with Brennan’s notes was a copy of a CIA memo sent to FBI Director James Comey and Peter Strzok, (the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and manager of FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane”), delineating the Barack Hussein Obama’s Oval Office meeting’s discussions and Obama's directives to the intelligence agencies.
That is why I posit; Barack Hussein Obama greenlighted the 7/13/2024 failed CIA assassination of Donald J. Trump.
I don’t know MajorSensible. The shooter regularly practiced on a 200 yard range. He was about 140 yards away and still photos of .223 slug whizzing by Trump’s head + the improbable ear clip because Trump turned his head to reader board. It’s being reported there were local cop sniper teams inside the very building that shooter used roof of. And they have photos of shooter using range finder some 30 min before the shooting event. All kinds of Swiss cheese holes in this story and independent investigation is warranted.
Anyone see any discharged casings? # of casing in proximity to the shooter. Size of casings? It’s ridiculously hard to believe this kid did this alone and that secret service and law enforcement is that incompetent. And Kim Cheatle’s lame comments about the slope of the roof, Iranian threat and that they had increased security. This is some crazy unbelievable 💩.
It’s hard to even imagine that DEI has diminished the secret service, and the deep state to this level of incompetence.
Yes, if the information is released. A shooter from hundreds pf yards away would need a .308 or 300 win mag at least, so you would find a 30 caliber bullet. It is thought that Crooks used a 5.56 mm as in the usual M16 or Ar 15 ammo, which would be easily identified as different, but is that true even? I have been suspicious of the lack of info on the bullets found - ongoing investigation, no doubt.
Just because it was a "deep state conspiracy" does not mean that the conspiracy went as planned. In this case, in came within a few millimeters of being successful. Thomas Matthew Crooks, of course, did not know he was on a "suicide mission." Fail.
The plan was not necessarily to kill Trump. The most likely outcome would have been for the shooter to be arrested or killed. Somewhat less likely would have been for people in the audience to be injured or killed. Both of these outcomes might have spun the news story into a gun control conversation which might have been a wedge issue for Trump supporters. Hitting Trump would have probably caused violent MAGA protests or even retaliatory terrorist acts which might have justified a crackdown on Trump supporters. Just brainstorming.
Had Trump been killed or seriously wounded I suspect there would have been more anger. Instead there was thankfulness for a dodged bullet. (Of course several in the audience were not so lucky.)
Bob, here's a brainstorm for you. This is the first time that I can recall where a high-profile gun-death didn't result in Democrats loudly calling for 'gun control'. Why do you think that is the case?
I suspect that if the shooter had entirely missed Trump and only hit innocent rally-goers then the news might have been spun into something more like a school shooting which might have made Trump's gun-rights position a political liability. With Trump as one of the victims it was not so easy to paint Trump as a gun-rights ogre who lacked compassion for the shooting victims.
I have worked in security and when I read the details on Sunday morning, I thought, "this can't be true, it is so egregiously and wildly incompetent, I must be missing something". Then there is the drip, drip of even worse, stupider stuff over the last few days. I don't go for conspiracy theories, but damn this is too weird. And I remember the the "lab leak" theory was branded as a conspiracy theory.
Chris, I worked as a consultant with government agencies for years and the levels of federal incompetence I witnessed was staggering (particularly after Obama started degrading government). There is something weird about the shooting, but with the DEI crowd in charge incompetence should always be given a place of precedence. Sometimes incompetence is so great that it rises to the level of malice aforethought, and that is my current assessment of the Butler shooting. Even the "lab leak" theory falls into that category--the sheer incompetence of its release makes it tantamount to an intentional act.
I never understood the "I don't go for conspiracy theories" line. It's common sense: not all conspiracy theories are true, but not all of them are false, either. Myself, I go for conspiracy theories that have motive, means, and evidence attached to them--as is true in this case.
Because you so are so inept, incompetent and stupid you don't believe in conspiracy theories. Let me tell you something. There is a whole world out there you will never understand and better you defy it through disbelief. Go back to the three monkeys.
Let me see if I have this right. On his own and in advance this kid knew the distance for setting up his scope at the shooting range, the color clothes he would need to wear, where the holes would be in the security perimeter, the height of the ladder he would need to reach the roof from atop an AC unit, and the fact the snipers would not fire on him until after he shot Trump. Sorry, but someone in the know had to have briefed him.
...though sometimes I think The President's Analyst might be a better fit in some ways for this clown-show era in which we live (in payment for our sins).
My initial reaction was that this was due to some combination of incompetence and malign neglect. Like many people have pointed out, if this was a Deep State conspiracy you think they would have actually succeeded. But I was discussing this with my daughter, who is more inclined to think this was deliberate, and she said "you just got finished explaining how incompetent the Secret Service was in trying to protect Trump, why would you think they would be any more competent in trying to kill him?" Which is a fair point.
The truth is that the shooter's plan actually worked. He got in position to take a clear shot at Trump and it was only due to sheer luck, fate or divine intervention that Trump survived. The government has shown themselves to be so corrupt and rotten that there is no way you are going to convince a lot of people that they were not involved in trying to kill Trump. The government has lost all benefit of doubt. This is kind of like the Epstein "suicide" where the burden of proof now falls on the Secret Service to prove that they were not involved rather than the other way around.
So far from what I've heard from Cheadle and Mayorkas, they are in full cover-up mode and we are unlikely to ever get a straight answer.
I think they've already done that, they say they can't get in the phone. I wonder who his phone service was with, can't we get the info from them, IE Verizon or AT& T do your patriotic duty, release the contacts, text messages & voicemails.
No doubt the security failure leading to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was willful negligence that can be traced straight back to the Biden regime and Obama et al. After exhausting all other means to destroy Trump, it’s now clear they want him dead. Sasha’s theory may not be provable but it is entirely plausible based on what we already know about the security state. If they had succeeded the convention would have been in complete disarray for an alternative candidate, breaking the morale of the Republican base and likely collapsing the entire MAGA movement with little chance of recovery. That, of course was the goal. By the grace of God it failed. And the thing I love about Trump’s quick choice for JD Vance as his VP pick, a clear message has been sent to the Deep State: No matter what they do next and no matter how hard they try, MAGA is going nowhere. It’s here to stay. God Bless America.
Biden just reported coming down with Covid and will go back to his DC basement to recover. Don't expect to see him in any interviews or rallies anytime soon.
IMO the roof slope excuse and similar mind-boggling excuses are the result of midwit panic.
The explanations are so unbelievable that it would have been better to fall back on the time-tested "we can't comment at this time" tactic that pre-DEI political sociopaths had enough sense to follow.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. The Secret Service, like every bloated federal bureaucracy, is riddled with incompetence.
Never attribute to only one option unless you are certain it is mutually exclusive to all other options; malice and incompetence are most definitely not mutually exclusive.
When one considers the long term fact pattern: the Russian Collusion Hoax, the DOJ-directed lawfare, the efforts to bankrupt Trump, etc etc etc --all "malicious" efforts to take Trump down, and all failures--it seems odd to suggest that the logical next step--Trump's assassination--was not also driven by "malice."
That seems "sensible" to me--how about you, Major Sensible?
Why? I can think of situations where malice is the case but it could be explained by incompetence. Do not assume incompetence when it could just as well be malice.
Thanks Sasha. You may or may not have seen CEO/co-founder (Sean Davis) of The Federalist take. This is from the right, but seems questions raised need to be independently investigated and answered or this conspiracy (like JFK) will be w/ us forever.
Matt, I was only in the military from the ages of 18 to 22 and my highest rank was only E-5, and even with that limited experience it is clear to me that 13Jul was FUBAR.
Had this happened in Russia with the target being Navalny and the person at the top of the bureaucracy charged with his protection was Putin what would we conclude about the assassination attempt?
History sometimes pivots on acts of inexplicable incompetence, like the failure of the Secret Service to adequately protect Trump. World War I began when the heir to the Austrian throne was killed on a bridge in Sarajevo in 1914. The Archduke survived a a bomb attack by the Black Hand on his automobile earlier that day. A few hours later he was being driven through town in that same vehicle when his driver took a wrong turn and came to a stop in front of one of the assassins holding a gun. The Archduke was murdered, World War I began, and Europe was thrown into decades of chaos because of an act of indescribable stupidity. On Saturday our country narrowly avoided a similar fate. Trump turned his head and spared us that chaos. It is possible that the current Deep State is the Black Hand of our time, but it is also likely that stupidity played a leading role.
What happened in Sarajevo in 1914 has no relationship whatsoever to what happened in Butler, PA on Saturday, none. Let's stay focused on what we know--and what we don't yet know-- about it, and not on some other far-off event.
This was just a first attempt. Next one likely will not use the same modality. Remember how Prigozhin died in Russia. The Deep State will take Trump out no matter what the cost in innocent human lives. I truly hope God is protecting Donald Trump, because Satan appears to be Joe Biden's pal.
Cheatle, if she had any self-respect, would resign. But she doesn't and her boss sure as hell isn't going to fire her or force her out.
Bongino has discredited the fallacy that the Secret Service can’t shoot unless an assassin shoots first and the and the sloped roof "rule"is just a shabby lie by Cheatle. Look where the anti-snipers were positioned.
DEI hires have no shame as evidenced by taking a job that not only they aren’t qualified for but also taking it from someone who is qualified. So she’s not going to resign because that would be to admit they failed.
They think the people are stupid, because some of them actually are those people would never be in power if people knew who they actually were. I heard somebody talk about Biden running on his record it's so good... I thought well what the heck is so good and I read it on whitehouse.gov it's unbelievable how stupid it is... they're saying they reduced prices for people and created jobs, the opposite is true. I hate these people.
The standard of living is the standard, and the standard of living has gone down. Why would lower unemployment be good unless it raises the standard of living? Well, it wouldn't. The argument these idiots make is absolutely infuriating.
I agree with your scenario - sort a. I suspect he was recruited at the gun club. He was from Pittsburgh, not rural PA, but he liked guns. Pittsburgh is on the edge of Appalachia. Guess where government agencies go to get their snipers. It wasn't CIA, they're not the agency with Trump-haters. The fox is in the hen house. We're never going to know what happened unless Trump is elected and cleans house.
Even then, it's going to be a long battle bc the media is going to scream holy hell when governments cut in half then in half again and some agencies completely demolished as they should be.
Wake up and smell the coffee America, what happened in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024 was a hasty and reckless plan by the DEEP STATE to whack Donald J. Trump. As I have stated to my wife for years, Barack Hussein Obama is overplaying his hand, both in deeds and pride:
https://arngrimr.substack.com/p/trump-assassination-attempt-separating
Yeah. This operation has Obama's fingerprints all over it.
It's now being reported that law enforcement reported the shooter 1 hour before the shots were fired. Shooter was seen with backpack and hand-held range finder and reported by local police. How do you not keep a close eye on that individual? Or was a close eye actually kept on that individual and allowed to bring ladder to site, climb and shoot, and this is why shooter was killed by SS sniper some 3 seconds after raining lead on Trump and crowd? So many questions and too many flimsy excuses (sloped roof, Iran, etc.)
Pacificus: As stated above, I have told my wife for years Barack Hussein Obama is overplaying his hand. Not only in his deeds, but also in his pride. Accordingly, methinks Barack Hussein Obama had to greenlight this failed CIA assassination of Donald J. Trump and here is the reason for my theory of BHO's involvement:
Do you remember that time in 2016 when Attorney General Loretta Lynch decided she would take a private meeting with Bill Clinton on her plane as it was parked on the tarmac in Phoenix – while Bill’s wife, Hillary Clinton (when she was Obama’s Secretary of State), was under federal investigation for using a secret and unlawful private email server at her New York home, to receive thousands of top secret and classified government emails?
With the obvious corruption of the Phoenix tarmac meeting in mind; it is my humble opinion that our Constitutional Republic permanently fell during the 2016 presidential election cycle on July 5 when FBI Director James Comey ignored the rule of law and “exonerated” Hillary Clinton for the illegal server and the thousands of her classified emails. At that point in American history, the “rule of law” in the USA began its demise and because the constitutional provisions for remedy to the ensuing felonious acts and omissions (think FISA Court - “Crossfire Hurricane”) of James Comey, (et al) were never pursued; our Constitutional Republic has fallen and is irreparable…... and the 2022 FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago along with the four unconstitutional indictments of Donald J. Trump and the “Bragg show trial in New York”, is my proof We the People now live in a banana republic.
[However, with Saturday's (7/13/2024) failed CIA assassination of DJT, the term "banana republic" is no longer accurate. Fascist/CIA/JUNTA/Stasi is closer to the DEEP STATE than "banana republic".]
Please be cognizant: The Comey/Hillary Clinton exoneration was three weeks prior to a July 2016 Oval Office meeting orchestrated by President Barack Hussein Obama and Valerie Jarrett and attended by Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, national security adviser Susan Rice and CIA Director John Brennan.
According to CIA Director John Brennan’s handwritten notes, Brennan informed attendees of “alleged approval by Hillary Clinton" on July 26, 2016, of “a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.” [In other words, a scandal about collusion with Russia.] According to a CIA memo, the intent of this plan was “distracting the public from Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.”
Later it was shown that the plan was enacted via the Steele dossier, which Robby Mook, Clinton’s former campaign director, acknowledged under oath in 2022 to have procured. So explosive were Brennan’s notes that U.S. senators needed a federal court order, issued four years after Obama’s Oval Office meeting, to wrest a copy of it from the Department of Justice. Released along with Brennan’s notes was a copy of a CIA memo sent to FBI Director James Comey and Peter Strzok, (the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and manager of FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane”), delineating the Barack Hussein Obama’s Oval Office meeting’s discussions and Obama's directives to the intelligence agencies.
That is why I posit; Barack Hussein Obama greenlighted the 7/13/2024 failed CIA assassination of Donald J. Trump.
An interesting hypothesis, Carl. I think all of is need to continue to try to connect the dots.
Excellent comment
Sorry, but if this was some deep state conspiracy, then the shooter a) wouldn't have missed and b) wouldn't have been on a suicide mission.
He didn't miss. Trump would be dead or in a coma if he hadn't turned his head just as he fired.
I don’t know MajorSensible. The shooter regularly practiced on a 200 yard range. He was about 140 yards away and still photos of .223 slug whizzing by Trump’s head + the improbable ear clip because Trump turned his head to reader board. It’s being reported there were local cop sniper teams inside the very building that shooter used roof of. And they have photos of shooter using range finder some 30 min before the shooting event. All kinds of Swiss cheese holes in this story and independent investigation is warranted.
Anyone see any discharged casings? # of casing in proximity to the shooter. Size of casings? It’s ridiculously hard to believe this kid did this alone and that secret service and law enforcement is that incompetent. And Kim Cheatle’s lame comments about the slope of the roof, Iranian threat and that they had increased security. This is some crazy unbelievable 💩.
It’s hard to even imagine that DEI has diminished the secret service, and the deep state to this level of incompetence.
Jim, they are still searching the grass for those casings. You know, 'sloped roof' and all !
The ground is very sloped around that building, which makes finding casings very dangerous. Just sayin'
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Unless he was the patsy and the real shooter was hundreds of yards away.
Ballistics would rule out the second shooter,
Pretty sure they'll match the bullets in the dead/wounded people to his gun.
Yes, if the information is released. A shooter from hundreds pf yards away would need a .308 or 300 win mag at least, so you would find a 30 caliber bullet. It is thought that Crooks used a 5.56 mm as in the usual M16 or Ar 15 ammo, which would be easily identified as different, but is that true even? I have been suspicious of the lack of info on the bullets found - ongoing investigation, no doubt.
According to NYT: Audio shows 3 guns being shot.
Just because it was a "deep state conspiracy" does not mean that the conspiracy went as planned. In this case, in came within a few millimeters of being successful. Thomas Matthew Crooks, of course, did not know he was on a "suicide mission." Fail.
Major Sensible: First take the time to peruse this evidence:
https://arngrimr.substack.com/p/trump-assassination-attempt-separating
As I have stated to my wife for years, Barack Hussein Obama is overplaying his hand, both in deeds and pride.
Nice hat, Harry.
The plan was not necessarily to kill Trump. The most likely outcome would have been for the shooter to be arrested or killed. Somewhat less likely would have been for people in the audience to be injured or killed. Both of these outcomes might have spun the news story into a gun control conversation which might have been a wedge issue for Trump supporters. Hitting Trump would have probably caused violent MAGA protests or even retaliatory terrorist acts which might have justified a crackdown on Trump supporters. Just brainstorming.
Yo Bob; Trump was hit and MAGA didn’t riot.
Had Trump been killed or seriously wounded I suspect there would have been more anger. Instead there was thankfulness for a dodged bullet. (Of course several in the audience were not so lucky.)
Bob, here's a brainstorm for you. This is the first time that I can recall where a high-profile gun-death didn't result in Democrats loudly calling for 'gun control'. Why do you think that is the case?
Great point!
I suspect that if the shooter had entirely missed Trump and only hit innocent rally-goers then the news might have been spun into something more like a school shooting which might have made Trump's gun-rights position a political liability. With Trump as one of the victims it was not so easy to paint Trump as a gun-rights ogre who lacked compassion for the shooting victims.
I have worked in security and when I read the details on Sunday morning, I thought, "this can't be true, it is so egregiously and wildly incompetent, I must be missing something". Then there is the drip, drip of even worse, stupider stuff over the last few days. I don't go for conspiracy theories, but damn this is too weird. And I remember the the "lab leak" theory was branded as a conspiracy theory.
Chris, I worked as a consultant with government agencies for years and the levels of federal incompetence I witnessed was staggering (particularly after Obama started degrading government). There is something weird about the shooting, but with the DEI crowd in charge incompetence should always be given a place of precedence. Sometimes incompetence is so great that it rises to the level of malice aforethought, and that is my current assessment of the Butler shooting. Even the "lab leak" theory falls into that category--the sheer incompetence of its release makes it tantamount to an intentional act.
I never understood the "I don't go for conspiracy theories" line. It's common sense: not all conspiracy theories are true, but not all of them are false, either. Myself, I go for conspiracy theories that have motive, means, and evidence attached to them--as is true in this case.
agree
But then, if you don’t think that powerful will conspire with each other for their own benefit you’re a little slow.
Because you so are so inept, incompetent and stupid you don't believe in conspiracy theories. Let me tell you something. There is a whole world out there you will never understand and better you defy it through disbelief. Go back to the three monkeys.
Let me see if I have this right. On his own and in advance this kid knew the distance for setting up his scope at the shooting range, the color clothes he would need to wear, where the holes would be in the security perimeter, the height of the ladder he would need to reach the roof from atop an AC unit, and the fact the snipers would not fire on him until after he shot Trump. Sorry, but someone in the know had to have briefed him.
Well he also did that Black Rock commercial, so the kid was a real go-getter for someones.
*chuckles in The Parallax View*
...though sometimes I think The President's Analyst might be a better fit in some ways for this clown-show era in which we live (in payment for our sins).
My initial reaction was that this was due to some combination of incompetence and malign neglect. Like many people have pointed out, if this was a Deep State conspiracy you think they would have actually succeeded. But I was discussing this with my daughter, who is more inclined to think this was deliberate, and she said "you just got finished explaining how incompetent the Secret Service was in trying to protect Trump, why would you think they would be any more competent in trying to kill him?" Which is a fair point.
The truth is that the shooter's plan actually worked. He got in position to take a clear shot at Trump and it was only due to sheer luck, fate or divine intervention that Trump survived. The government has shown themselves to be so corrupt and rotten that there is no way you are going to convince a lot of people that they were not involved in trying to kill Trump. The government has lost all benefit of doubt. This is kind of like the Epstein "suicide" where the burden of proof now falls on the Secret Service to prove that they were not involved rather than the other way around.
So far from what I've heard from Cheadle and Mayorkas, they are in full cover-up mode and we are unlikely to ever get a straight answer.
"Malign neglect" = conspiracy.
Any bets that the shooter’s phone and laptop data will be “inexplicably corrupted” and unrecoverable?
I think they've already done that, they say they can't get in the phone. I wonder who his phone service was with, can't we get the info from them, IE Verizon or AT& T do your patriotic duty, release the contacts, text messages & voicemails.
FBI reported he had absolutely no social media footprint, didn't find anything on his phone.
20 yr old w/ no footprint-sure Jan.
No doubt the security failure leading to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was willful negligence that can be traced straight back to the Biden regime and Obama et al. After exhausting all other means to destroy Trump, it’s now clear they want him dead. Sasha’s theory may not be provable but it is entirely plausible based on what we already know about the security state. If they had succeeded the convention would have been in complete disarray for an alternative candidate, breaking the morale of the Republican base and likely collapsing the entire MAGA movement with little chance of recovery. That, of course was the goal. By the grace of God it failed. And the thing I love about Trump’s quick choice for JD Vance as his VP pick, a clear message has been sent to the Deep State: No matter what they do next and no matter how hard they try, MAGA is going nowhere. It’s here to stay. God Bless America.
This also served to get Bidens health off the front page
Biden just reported coming down with Covid and will go back to his DC basement to recover. Don't expect to see him in any interviews or rallies anytime soon.
AMEN.
IMO the roof slope excuse and similar mind-boggling excuses are the result of midwit panic.
The explanations are so unbelievable that it would have been better to fall back on the time-tested "we can't comment at this time" tactic that pre-DEI political sociopaths had enough sense to follow.
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Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. The Secret Service, like every bloated federal bureaucracy, is riddled with incompetence.
Never attribute to only one option unless you are certain it is mutually exclusive to all other options; malice and incompetence are most definitely not mutually exclusive.
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When one considers the long term fact pattern: the Russian Collusion Hoax, the DOJ-directed lawfare, the efforts to bankrupt Trump, etc etc etc --all "malicious" efforts to take Trump down, and all failures--it seems odd to suggest that the logical next step--Trump's assassination--was not also driven by "malice."
That seems "sensible" to me--how about you, Major Sensible?
Why? I can think of situations where malice is the case but it could be explained by incompetence. Do not assume incompetence when it could just as well be malice.
Thanks Sasha. You may or may not have seen CEO/co-founder (Sean Davis) of The Federalist take. This is from the right, but seems questions raised need to be independently investigated and answered or this conspiracy (like JFK) will be w/ us forever.
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/16/bidens-team-deliberately-kneecapped-trumps-security-to-allow-an-assassination-attempt/
Matt, I was only in the military from the ages of 18 to 22 and my highest rank was only E-5, and even with that limited experience it is clear to me that 13Jul was FUBAR.
Sean has been fearless in his commentary on this, especially on X!
You’re doing amazingly well covering so much so quickly both here and your other venues. Thanks so much!
Had this happened in Russia with the target being Navalny and the person at the top of the bureaucracy charged with his protection was Putin what would we conclude about the assassination attempt?
Great analogy
No end of rabbit holes here.
History sometimes pivots on acts of inexplicable incompetence, like the failure of the Secret Service to adequately protect Trump. World War I began when the heir to the Austrian throne was killed on a bridge in Sarajevo in 1914. The Archduke survived a a bomb attack by the Black Hand on his automobile earlier that day. A few hours later he was being driven through town in that same vehicle when his driver took a wrong turn and came to a stop in front of one of the assassins holding a gun. The Archduke was murdered, World War I began, and Europe was thrown into decades of chaos because of an act of indescribable stupidity. On Saturday our country narrowly avoided a similar fate. Trump turned his head and spared us that chaos. It is possible that the current Deep State is the Black Hand of our time, but it is also likely that stupidity played a leading role.
Stupidly and Deep State are not mutually exclusive.
What happened in Sarajevo in 1914 has no relationship whatsoever to what happened in Butler, PA on Saturday, none. Let's stay focused on what we know--and what we don't yet know-- about it, and not on some other far-off event.
Stupidity and luck are never far off. They are the engines of history. We are living through an historic week, so let's not be too modest about it.
This was just a first attempt. Next one likely will not use the same modality. Remember how Prigozhin died in Russia. The Deep State will take Trump out no matter what the cost in innocent human lives. I truly hope God is protecting Donald Trump, because Satan appears to be Joe Biden's pal.
Cheatle, if she had any self-respect, would resign. But she doesn't and her boss sure as hell isn't going to fire her or force her out.
Bongino has discredited the fallacy that the Secret Service can’t shoot unless an assassin shoots first and the and the sloped roof "rule"is just a shabby lie by Cheatle. Look where the anti-snipers were positioned.
DEI hires have no shame as evidenced by taking a job that not only they aren’t qualified for but also taking it from someone who is qualified. So she’s not going to resign because that would be to admit they failed.
Nobody seems to get fired in the Biden administration. Trump pointed this out on the debate stage, and they were devasting words
True. But who in Biden's admin has any self-respect?
Seems to me that all have far more respect for themselves than they could possibly deserve.
And that says it all.
I think after Saturday, whole new groups of folks are getting their blinders off. Hopefully.
They think the people are stupid, because some of them actually are those people would never be in power if people knew who they actually were. I heard somebody talk about Biden running on his record it's so good... I thought well what the heck is so good and I read it on whitehouse.gov it's unbelievable how stupid it is... they're saying they reduced prices for people and created jobs, the opposite is true. I hate these people.
The standard of living is the standard, and the standard of living has gone down. Why would lower unemployment be good unless it raises the standard of living? Well, it wouldn't. The argument these idiots make is absolutely infuriating.
I agree with your scenario - sort a. I suspect he was recruited at the gun club. He was from Pittsburgh, not rural PA, but he liked guns. Pittsburgh is on the edge of Appalachia. Guess where government agencies go to get their snipers. It wasn't CIA, they're not the agency with Trump-haters. The fox is in the hen house. We're never going to know what happened unless Trump is elected and cleans house.
Even then, it's going to be a long battle bc the media is going to scream holy hell when governments cut in half then in half again and some agencies completely demolished as they should be.