Look, everyone talks national politics. I am always cognizant about adding more grist to the media mill, so I tend to let the national commentators comment on national politics. They are so much better at it than I am. I have also stated that this website is a repository of information for me to reference later – a lot of what I write are merely notes for myself. So here are some notes surrounding the assassination attempt on President Trump. For myself. And maybe you, too.
- No radio recordings from the secret service exist in and around the assassination attempt of Donald Trump on July 13, 2024. None. I chair the 911 Authority here in Weld County and can request and receive a recording of any given 911 dispatch call. Any one. Yet these recordings don’t exist when the secret service interacts with state and local agencies in the protection of a former U.S. President?
- The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was able to fly a drone over secure airspace on the day of the shooting when drone flying is usually shut down over large events. The drone was flown on a programmed flight path to survey the Butler Farm Show grounds where the incident took place. More sources: AP News. Fox News.
- Crooks was seen climbing on the roof with a rifle. More sources: Fox News. CNN. New York Post.
- Crooks was able to negotiate a slopped roof deemed too dangerous for law enforcement. Crooks managed to evade cops and Secret Service three times, even though he had been deemed ‘suspicious’ and could have been on the roof for up to 30 minutes before he pulled the trigger.
- Former Navy Seal Sniper and current U.S. House of Representatives member Eli Crane produced a video that showed how easy the shot taken by Crooks was and how there is no excuse it was ever permitted.
- The acting director of the secret service showed the senate the vantage point the security had of Crooks and points out there is no excuse for how he was able to get there and how he wasn’t neutralized beforehand.
Bottom line, the Secret Service is shrugging it’s shoulders and saying, “My bad.” View an absolute litany of sources HERE. And the United States Secret Service, once one of our nation’s most respected institutions, is now doubted because of their failure.
Do you believe in the concept of Occam’s Razor? When you apply said razor to the above detailed facts, what result do you conclude? We’re over three week’s removed from the assassination attempt and we seem to know little about the method or motivations of the deceased shooter. Interesting that, as a member of Gen Z, the most online, social media driven generation in history, this guy had a very, very small social media foot print. I get it, not everyone wants to live their life online and I admire those people – was Crooks simply one of them?
A former president – yes, he is likely the most divisive president in history, regardless – a former president of the United States of America nearly took a bullet in the face – he did take one to the head – and the United States Secret Service is essentially saying, “My bad. Now let’s move on, America.” Huh? Am I the only one that wants answers?
Why is the House in recess? And would you trust any investigation cranked out by either house of congress anyway?
If shadowy, deep state figures were trying to get a crazed, lone gunman to assassinate a president, how would it be behaving any differently than it already is? When you do the math, how does this equation add up? Utter complete, combined, and perfectly timed incompetence or something more nefarious? And will we ever know?
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