Cms, for sure, like thickness of skull plus 1cm. Him turning just so was one in a billion. But at the same time, the shooter was apparently the worst shot on earth. Genuinely 70% of Americans who had ever fired a rifle before could have made that shot. Edit: This was wrong, see my reply edit below.
Really? Have you ever been on a police or military range? I have. They miss at that range all the time. That's one reason semi-automatic and automatic weapons were invented in the first place.
Furthermore, this was a 20 year old kid. Sure, he'd been in the high school rifle club, and at least one of his classmates said he wasn't a good shot. He'd probably also hunted, being from western Pennsylvania and all.
That doesn't make him any kind of expert marksman by any means. Plus, he'd just pointed his gun at a cop, he had to be nervous, and he was pressed for time.
And I'll bet my savings 70% of Americans who have ever fired a rifle would have MISSED Trump altogether under those conditions. The kid made a damned good shot, and it was only sheer chance or the gods or the perversity of the universes that made Trump turn his head when he did.
The first place I saw this nonsense about the kid being a crappy shot was on Democratic Underground, within an hour of the assassination attempt. The poster was complaining that he missed.
We'll talk more about this when I know the caliber/make. He was prone and had minutes to line up on a stationary target with windage flags everywhere crystal clear visibility and a bright red hat, and he was confident enough (or dumb enough) to not even bring an optic. Also he had 5 pulls at 400~ feet, and his target was in profile. Unless we're talking 22 long, or a rifle stored in salt water... Come on man. Were the cops at your range the keystone variety?
Trump is lucky to be alive. But I have a lot more questions and doubts than I did before.
But yeah I'm much less married to the idea of this being an "easy" shot having seen more photos and seen more of the terrain. It's also more like a different ratio of shooter skill and trump's luck.
That shot would have been a bullseye on a stationary target, period. The kid wasn't a bad shot, not on July 13. He was dead accurate, pun very much intended.
If I circle back around to that 'at least three different weapons were heard" thingy, maybe the kid did not make that shot. Maybe he was just for show, a decoy. Just throwing stuff up into the air. All of this is speculation; IMO we have very few facts. Perhaps the kid climbing up to the roof was a diversion..
There were plenty of grassy knolls around there for sure. Some of the shots we heard were Secret Service shooting the shooter, but which ones?
These are good questions, and I have a feeling the congressional committee investigating this one isn’t going to be quite as lapdoggish as the Warren Commission.
Trump is in the middle of speaking when someone in the crowd is heard saying, “He’s got a gun.” As the video captures someone in the crowd repeating, “On the roof. He’s got a gun,” three shots ring out. A pause and five more shots in rapid succession are heard, along with a final shot of a different tone. “Stay under here,” an attendee says in the video. Forensic analysis suggests that as many as three weapons were fired at the rally (including, apparently, those fired as part of the response by law enforcement officials). The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final “acoustic impulse” was emitted by a possible weapon C, per audio analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate at the same institution. The FBI said Sunday that the shooter acted alone.
Except the current story is that the shooter was such a bad shot he was dismissed for a rifle shooting team. Maybe that report I heard last night about how the audio indicated three weapons has some merit. IMO, Crooks was just an expendable patsy. Also heard not true that the SS has to wait until a sniper shoots.
Twenty minutes between the time SS became aware of him, a little less than 20 minutes from time they spotted his range scope until they shot him. Cheatle says that was a very short amount of time. Absolute bs. That is an eternity. Trump is lucky to be alive.
That really does not track for me, there's a million better ways to put the fear of death in someone. Ways that don't expose you. I firmly believe this attempt was genuine.
Bullshit. Accidents happen every day. Besides, the shooter HIT THE TARGET. On the range that would have been a perfect shot.
Of course, on the range targets don't turn their heads to look at themselves on the Jumbotron. What you are claiming is impossible. Are you a member of the Democrat Cult, or are you one of those boring people who believe that our stupid ruling class is omnipotent?
Clearly someone who have never fired a gun before. I am done even responding to people on this subject who have no idea about what actually sighting in and shooting a gun and compensating for wind, etc is actually like.
The mafia sends messages. This is one way. Christ. We all became fucking goobers and child-men. 1) the shooter is dead 2) secret service knew he was there. 3) finally, watch soon Trump siding with the neocons.
Trump will side with the neocons, eh? You ARE one of those boring people who think our ruling class is omnipotent. Maybe you should leave Washington and spend some time with smarter people.
They killed Kennedy to threaten future presidents to not fuck with the anti-russia Nazi’s (the future neocons). Special Agent In Charge Emory P. Roberts orders Special Agent Paul Landis and Special Agent William Mclntyre to remove themselves from the back of JFK's limo.
Finally someone who has actually fired a gun and knows that he got damn close considering he was a football field length away, had a non magnified red dot, and that a human head is the size of a paper plate. Can you hit a moving paper plate a football field's length away consistently without magnified optics? I have shot guns for 46 years and I am confident I cannot. The fact this kid got as close as he did was a crack shot.
I just heard an opinion that MSNBC pulled Morning Joe because they were afraid he would spill some beans, not because they were afraid he would be his usual obnoxious self.
A fictional theory - bumbling coup attempt carried out by folks who are so corrupt and inept that they are setting the world on fire. Remember how many times the CIA tried to assassinate Fidel Castro?
Every ten minutes, it seems, this story gets worse and worse. Looks like the initial reaction is to blame everything on DEI and/or local police.
If it was a larger plot, then maybe Joe was part of the scripted media response team and they were worried he'd fail to properly adapt to the fluke miss. Personally I don't put it past anything but the gaff avoidance thing. There's no way he was gonna be able to please both the moment and his rabid TDS fans at the same time.
Thanks for the theory, but I'm with Innomen on this one. Nobody, not even the incompetents who ran this LIHOP operation, would trust Joe Scarborough not to say something like "It's a tragedy for America that the shooter missed," with Mika nodding along in agreement.
The attempt on his life is the only evidence I had yet seen that he was anything more than an employee. Had it genuinely been some random person getting lucky with TDS, I'd have maybe bought that, but, this is so different.
Speaking of the alternate universe, would we not have imploded over the obvious state sponsored murder of an ex president? This moron got close enough to kill him without a scope. (Did he seriously think he was getting away?) Dead or not that's obviously a put up.
You're wise to ask the obvious question. But I think it's important to think about that a bit too. Ok Ukraine, but did they seriously not care that it would be obviously a put up job? Would anyone ever have seriously believed this guy just teleported past the SS?
What was the plan here? Because I do believe him living was not part of it, so it's smart to try and work out the intent.
My brain just can't process this fully, it's so surreal. I think it might help to bracket potential sizes of the operation and work out some way of telling where inside the spectrum this sits. Like, could this be one or two high ranked inside people?
What's the minimum required? How likely is that minimum? Etc.
I don't know what they were planning. They probably had a full court press propaganda blitz all ready to go. To accomplish what? President Nikki Haley? An excuse to declare martial law and cancel the elections because some Trumpers rioted somewhere?
I don't know. I do know that these people are pinnacles of arrogance, stupidity, and incompetence all in the same package, a common symptom of ruling classes before successful revolutions.
I keep trying to fit this into the coming debt collapse, and rise of AI labor, and I just have lost the ability to track the moving parts. I totally get what you're saying and it makes sense on its face, it's just, incompetence from the crowd that runs the world seems hard to swallow.
Or did you mean further down the chain? I guess I should again ask, but you specifically, how big do you think this plot was? Are we talking 10 people or 100? Like in-the-know string pullers.
I have no idea. But the globalists who run the world ARE arrogant, and they're not all that smart. They're clever, but they believe a their own propaganda about their own superiority because they swim in a sea of people who always say Yes to them.
Some are very bright, like Fink of Blackrock who stays behind the scenes, but Bill Gates? Jeff Bezos? Nerdo Zuckerberg? They're not that smart. They're just LUCKY and can bribe a lot of people. Corrupt power structures never last. This one won't either.
If you wanted to know, you’d have to comb through all the bureaucratic decisions for the key changes and the key people. The thing about conspiracies that few seem to realize is just how few people need to be in on it in the sense of understanding the why. For example, the decision to move agents off Trump and over to Jill is easily explained as a staffing issue. It probably came down through the ranks with that explanation and so it was done. I imagine there were one or two key “supervisors” on scene to change some things ‘that roof looks dangerous. Do we need all these snipers? There’s some on the other roofs. Let’s go inside.’ Or ‘there was supposed to be a team on the roof today but they didn’t show up. We need to improvise.’ Confusion and communications can likewise be fairly easily sown. No many people need to know what’s really going on. Everyone in these orgs is used to following stupid and inexplicable orders at times. The whole need-to-know thing from the spy craft world has long since infected other organizations. All I’m saying is that an honest thorough investigation would turn up the anomalies. But that’s the last thing I expect to happen.
You know, I never really thought about ignorance and obedience (blind trust) as conspiracy cover quite that directly. You're right, all you need is plausible bullshit and the evidence starts to vanish like tracks in a storm. And these days the attack on the evidence is on going. Every hour that passes plausible bullshit is added and relevant evidence destroyed. Maybe we should get used to never getting proof. In a world with potentially perfect deep fakes, how do ever know what's real?
The WH is putting out info that Iran was in the midst of an assassination plot against Trump. Who knows?…but it’s a “good” tack to take under a very suspect set of circumstances.
Iran? They must be taking direction from Israel or something. That sounds like something they'd say. At least they didn't say it was Russia. That would be downright dangerous.
Seriously, the Iranians would have to be complete idiots to try something like this, and that just ain't so. That demonstration they did with their missile attack on Israel was one of the best examples "Don't fuck with us or else" messages in history. Plus they already responded to Trump's assassination of their general and said it was over as far as they were concerned.
Naw, this was sloppy, stupid, and incompetent, just like the Biden Administration in general.
Trump’s assassination of Soleimani really pissed off the Iranians (it pissed off me for that matter). That doesn’t mean I am buying the WH’s inartful messaging…but no, Iran is not over the blatant public Trump-ordered assassination of their top general.
I watched the Iranian news media's coverage of this with a Gilbert Doctorow interview - more fair and balanced than anything presented by the US corporations.....
No, it was not Iran, nor was it bungled in my opinion. Trump was just unbelievably lucky. If it had worked , there would have been a certain amount of rebellion in the country, which would have justified drastic measures by the government including the cancellation of the election. My guess are the usual FBI/CIA groups, but I don't know at whose order. The FBI investigation itself leads me to believe it, since they were so involved in the legal battles. As far as I heard Trump was planning to fire a large group
of people under executive control. That was quite a threat to the deep state. Too bad that now too many people have phones to take pictures.
I don't believe that Trump is out of the woods, since Vance does not have a lot of charisma. How about a drone experiment next time?
You are right. It WAS NOT bungled because the shooter hit the target. He'd been practicing on the range the day before, and he fired perfectly. It's just that on the range, targets don't turn to look at themselves on the Jumbotron, or whyever it was Trump turned his head at that moment.
It certainly wasn't Iran. The people who most want us to think it WAS Iran are the Israelis. Besides, the Iranians already took their revenge; they just maintain Soleimani's assassination was a crime, which it was.
The part of the 2025 Project that scares the Deep State the most is the old Jacksonian, and Nixonian for that matter, spoils system. They want to change the law to allow the President to appoint people MUCH further down the chain of command in the federal bureaucracy.
I'm all for that bit. As Gracchus said in the 1960 Spartacus, "Better a little republican corruption than the dictatorship of Crassus."
Fun fact: Crassus was the richest man in the world at the time.
The attempt to assassinate Trump was NO surprise. But the Democrat crime syndicate botched it like it botches everything. Our country should be ashamed.
Your argument that this was a state job didn’t convince me - but my non-American husband’s did.
He reminded me to “look at the pattern” - a nobody from nowhere, inadequate security, the nobody with no apparently footprint dead before any questions could be asked, and no records to be found.
So, basically - there is literally nothing I can or will believe about ofishul revelations. Side note - whenever the Dems want to smear someone, they use "pedophile" and/or "pornography". Which explains why finding porn searches on a cell phone is touted as proof of something.
I admit I am looking forward to a Harris-Trump debate.
Oh, so NOW Jon Stewart is angry at the Dems. After kissing Dem ass for all these years. You helped build that, buddy.
I think RFK Jr leaked that phone call because he is pissy that no one is picking him as VP.
we came w/in millimeters of some real chaos breaking out here. it is too much coincidence for me to swallow, either.
Cms, for sure, like thickness of skull plus 1cm. Him turning just so was one in a billion. But at the same time, the shooter was apparently the worst shot on earth. Genuinely 70% of Americans who had ever fired a rifle before could have made that shot. Edit: This was wrong, see my reply edit below.
Really? Have you ever been on a police or military range? I have. They miss at that range all the time. That's one reason semi-automatic and automatic weapons were invented in the first place.
Furthermore, this was a 20 year old kid. Sure, he'd been in the high school rifle club, and at least one of his classmates said he wasn't a good shot. He'd probably also hunted, being from western Pennsylvania and all.
That doesn't make him any kind of expert marksman by any means. Plus, he'd just pointed his gun at a cop, he had to be nervous, and he was pressed for time.
And I'll bet my savings 70% of Americans who have ever fired a rifle would have MISSED Trump altogether under those conditions. The kid made a damned good shot, and it was only sheer chance or the gods or the perversity of the universes that made Trump turn his head when he did.
The first place I saw this nonsense about the kid being a crappy shot was on Democratic Underground, within an hour of the assassination attempt. The poster was complaining that he missed.
We'll talk more about this when I know the caliber/make. He was prone and had minutes to line up on a stationary target with windage flags everywhere crystal clear visibility and a bright red hat, and he was confident enough (or dumb enough) to not even bring an optic. Also he had 5 pulls at 400~ feet, and his target was in profile. Unless we're talking 22 long, or a rifle stored in salt water... Come on man. Were the cops at your range the keystone variety?
Edit: I was over generous with 70% for sure. Though it turns out the guy at least according to some did have an AR with a red dot. https://rickyrants.substack.com/p/mass-casualty-events-are-not-always-c98/comments
Trump is lucky to be alive. But I have a lot more questions and doubts than I did before.
But yeah I'm much less married to the idea of this being an "easy" shot having seen more photos and seen more of the terrain. It's also more like a different ratio of shooter skill and trump's luck.
That shot would have been a bullseye on a stationary target, period. The kid wasn't a bad shot, not on July 13. He was dead accurate, pun very much intended.
If I circle back around to that 'at least three different weapons were heard" thingy, maybe the kid did not make that shot. Maybe he was just for show, a decoy. Just throwing stuff up into the air. All of this is speculation; IMO we have very few facts. Perhaps the kid climbing up to the roof was a diversion..
There were plenty of grassy knolls around there for sure. Some of the shots we heard were Secret Service shooting the shooter, but which ones?
These are good questions, and I have a feeling the congressional committee investigating this one isn’t going to be quite as lapdoggish as the Warren Commission.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/timeline-trump-rally-shooting-dg/index.html
Trump is in the middle of speaking when someone in the crowd is heard saying, “He’s got a gun.” As the video captures someone in the crowd repeating, “On the roof. He’s got a gun,” three shots ring out. A pause and five more shots in rapid succession are heard, along with a final shot of a different tone. “Stay under here,” an attendee says in the video. Forensic analysis suggests that as many as three weapons were fired at the rally (including, apparently, those fired as part of the response by law enforcement officials). The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final “acoustic impulse” was emitted by a possible weapon C, per audio analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate at the same institution. The FBI said Sunday that the shooter acted alone.
checking in on DU after the shooting is either god-tier situational awareness or masochistic indulgence or both 😁
Lol. It IS a cesspool, but my real emotional reason was sheer schadenfreude. Some are actually starting to say that donors control the Party.
I’m sure they’ll be banned soon.
Or me.Things like this don’t just happen.
The neocons who threatened and took over the Democratic Party in 2016 did it to threaten Trump to comply. The shot was a deliberate miss.
Except the current story is that the shooter was such a bad shot he was dismissed for a rifle shooting team. Maybe that report I heard last night about how the audio indicated three weapons has some merit. IMO, Crooks was just an expendable patsy. Also heard not true that the SS has to wait until a sniper shoots.
Maybe they’ll find his passport in the rubble.
Awesome.
They don't have to wait. Why they DID wait will no doubt be asked at upcoming congressional hearings on the subject.
Twenty minutes between the time SS became aware of him, a little less than 20 minutes from time they spotted his range scope until they shot him. Cheatle says that was a very short amount of time. Absolute bs. That is an eternity. Trump is lucky to be alive.
That really does not track for me, there's a million better ways to put the fear of death in someone. Ways that don't expose you. I firmly believe this attempt was genuine.
Watch the power of nightmares and see how the Neocon mafia works.
The shot did NOT miss. It hit Trump in the head. The shooter's aim was straight and true. Now please get out of here with that bullshit.
There are no accidents anymore.
Bullshit. Accidents happen every day. Besides, the shooter HIT THE TARGET. On the range that would have been a perfect shot.
Of course, on the range targets don't turn their heads to look at themselves on the Jumbotron. What you are claiming is impossible. Are you a member of the Democrat Cult, or are you one of those boring people who believe that our stupid ruling class is omnipotent?
Clearly someone who have never fired a gun before. I am done even responding to people on this subject who have no idea about what actually sighting in and shooting a gun and compensating for wind, etc is actually like.
The mafia sends messages. This is one way. Christ. We all became fucking goobers and child-men. 1) the shooter is dead 2) secret service knew he was there. 3) finally, watch soon Trump siding with the neocons.
Trump will side with the neocons, eh? You ARE one of those boring people who think our ruling class is omnipotent. Maybe you should leave Washington and spend some time with smarter people.
I recommend Kentucky.
If he does, we will know why.
They killed Kennedy to threaten future presidents to not fuck with the anti-russia Nazi’s (the future neocons). Special Agent In Charge Emory P. Roberts orders Special Agent Paul Landis and Special Agent William Mclntyre to remove themselves from the back of JFK's limo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY41bScT-Qc
Finally someone who has actually fired a gun and knows that he got damn close considering he was a football field length away, had a non magnified red dot, and that a human head is the size of a paper plate. Can you hit a moving paper plate a football field's length away consistently without magnified optics? I have shot guns for 46 years and I am confident I cannot. The fact this kid got as close as he did was a crack shot.
Or another possibility is a trained second shooter on the water tower or something, but that will always be speculation at best.
Looking more likely. Plus the guy's high school refutes pretty much all of what the FBI "discovered" about him. LOTS of hinky loose ends.
Maybe they’ll find Crooks passport in the rubble.
Old joke, I think I head that on Alex Jones. :-)
I just heard an opinion that MSNBC pulled Morning Joe because they were afraid he would spill some beans, not because they were afraid he would be his usual obnoxious self.
A fictional theory - bumbling coup attempt carried out by folks who are so corrupt and inept that they are setting the world on fire. Remember how many times the CIA tried to assassinate Fidel Castro?
Every ten minutes, it seems, this story gets worse and worse. Looks like the initial reaction is to blame everything on DEI and/or local police.
If it was a larger plot, then maybe Joe was part of the scripted media response team and they were worried he'd fail to properly adapt to the fluke miss. Personally I don't put it past anything but the gaff avoidance thing. There's no way he was gonna be able to please both the moment and his rabid TDS fans at the same time.
Thanks for the theory, but I'm with Innomen on this one. Nobody, not even the incompetents who ran this LIHOP operation, would trust Joe Scarborough not to say something like "It's a tragedy for America that the shooter missed," with Mika nodding along in agreement.
The attempt on his life is the only evidence I had yet seen that he was anything more than an employee. Had it genuinely been some random person getting lucky with TDS, I'd have maybe bought that, but, this is so different.
Speaking of the alternate universe, would we not have imploded over the obvious state sponsored murder of an ex president? This moron got close enough to kill him without a scope. (Did he seriously think he was getting away?) Dead or not that's obviously a put up.
You're wise to ask the obvious question. But I think it's important to think about that a bit too. Ok Ukraine, but did they seriously not care that it would be obviously a put up job? Would anyone ever have seriously believed this guy just teleported past the SS?
What was the plan here? Because I do believe him living was not part of it, so it's smart to try and work out the intent.
My brain just can't process this fully, it's so surreal. I think it might help to bracket potential sizes of the operation and work out some way of telling where inside the spectrum this sits. Like, could this be one or two high ranked inside people?
What's the minimum required? How likely is that minimum? Etc.
I don't know what they were planning. They probably had a full court press propaganda blitz all ready to go. To accomplish what? President Nikki Haley? An excuse to declare martial law and cancel the elections because some Trumpers rioted somewhere?
I don't know. I do know that these people are pinnacles of arrogance, stupidity, and incompetence all in the same package, a common symptom of ruling classes before successful revolutions.
I keep trying to fit this into the coming debt collapse, and rise of AI labor, and I just have lost the ability to track the moving parts. I totally get what you're saying and it makes sense on its face, it's just, incompetence from the crowd that runs the world seems hard to swallow.
Or did you mean further down the chain? I guess I should again ask, but you specifically, how big do you think this plot was? Are we talking 10 people or 100? Like in-the-know string pullers.
I have no idea. But the globalists who run the world ARE arrogant, and they're not all that smart. They're clever, but they believe a their own propaganda about their own superiority because they swim in a sea of people who always say Yes to them.
Some are very bright, like Fink of Blackrock who stays behind the scenes, but Bill Gates? Jeff Bezos? Nerdo Zuckerberg? They're not that smart. They're just LUCKY and can bribe a lot of people. Corrupt power structures never last. This one won't either.
That's a fair take, and I hope you're right.
IMO, Ukraine would have openly bragged about it. They do have a kill list, helpfully maintained by the CIA.
If you wanted to know, you’d have to comb through all the bureaucratic decisions for the key changes and the key people. The thing about conspiracies that few seem to realize is just how few people need to be in on it in the sense of understanding the why. For example, the decision to move agents off Trump and over to Jill is easily explained as a staffing issue. It probably came down through the ranks with that explanation and so it was done. I imagine there were one or two key “supervisors” on scene to change some things ‘that roof looks dangerous. Do we need all these snipers? There’s some on the other roofs. Let’s go inside.’ Or ‘there was supposed to be a team on the roof today but they didn’t show up. We need to improvise.’ Confusion and communications can likewise be fairly easily sown. No many people need to know what’s really going on. Everyone in these orgs is used to following stupid and inexplicable orders at times. The whole need-to-know thing from the spy craft world has long since infected other organizations. All I’m saying is that an honest thorough investigation would turn up the anomalies. But that’s the last thing I expect to happen.
You know, I never really thought about ignorance and obedience (blind trust) as conspiracy cover quite that directly. You're right, all you need is plausible bullshit and the evidence starts to vanish like tracks in a storm. And these days the attack on the evidence is on going. Every hour that passes plausible bullshit is added and relevant evidence destroyed. Maybe we should get used to never getting proof. In a world with potentially perfect deep fakes, how do ever know what's real?
The WH is putting out info that Iran was in the midst of an assassination plot against Trump. Who knows?…but it’s a “good” tack to take under a very suspect set of circumstances.
Iran? They must be taking direction from Israel or something. That sounds like something they'd say. At least they didn't say it was Russia. That would be downright dangerous.
Seriously, the Iranians would have to be complete idiots to try something like this, and that just ain't so. That demonstration they did with their missile attack on Israel was one of the best examples "Don't fuck with us or else" messages in history. Plus they already responded to Trump's assassination of their general and said it was over as far as they were concerned.
Naw, this was sloppy, stupid, and incompetent, just like the Biden Administration in general.
Trump’s assassination of Soleimani really pissed off the Iranians (it pissed off me for that matter). That doesn’t mean I am buying the WH’s inartful messaging…but no, Iran is not over the blatant public Trump-ordered assassination of their top general.
I watched the Iranian news media's coverage of this with a Gilbert Doctorow interview - more fair and balanced than anything presented by the US corporations.....
Here's Iranian news media's coverage of the event - featured interview with American academic living in Brussels, Gilbert Doctorow. Press TV - scroll down below the language choices for the TV coverage in English. https://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/130106?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
EXACTLY 💯 💯 💯 💯
No, it was not Iran, nor was it bungled in my opinion. Trump was just unbelievably lucky. If it had worked , there would have been a certain amount of rebellion in the country, which would have justified drastic measures by the government including the cancellation of the election. My guess are the usual FBI/CIA groups, but I don't know at whose order. The FBI investigation itself leads me to believe it, since they were so involved in the legal battles. As far as I heard Trump was planning to fire a large group
of people under executive control. That was quite a threat to the deep state. Too bad that now too many people have phones to take pictures.
I don't believe that Trump is out of the woods, since Vance does not have a lot of charisma. How about a drone experiment next time?
You are right. It WAS NOT bungled because the shooter hit the target. He'd been practicing on the range the day before, and he fired perfectly. It's just that on the range, targets don't turn to look at themselves on the Jumbotron, or whyever it was Trump turned his head at that moment.
It certainly wasn't Iran. The people who most want us to think it WAS Iran are the Israelis. Besides, the Iranians already took their revenge; they just maintain Soleimani's assassination was a crime, which it was.
The part of the 2025 Project that scares the Deep State the most is the old Jacksonian, and Nixonian for that matter, spoils system. They want to change the law to allow the President to appoint people MUCH further down the chain of command in the federal bureaucracy.
I'm all for that bit. As Gracchus said in the 1960 Spartacus, "Better a little republican corruption than the dictatorship of Crassus."
Fun fact: Crassus was the richest man in the world at the time.
As proven during the recent nose cold scare, skepticism is the healthiest option until information is complete.
You never have complete information. In a case like this, by design.
Don’t tell everybody, but there’s actually no such thing as complete information.
Bravo! I can even smell the mildew on the rumpled raincoat!
Butta BING, went the synapse in my brain. THAT connected like a home run, OB.
I remember from the day, Deep Throat using that phrase.. "follow the money." Also-godamned-luttely.
The attempt to assassinate Trump was NO surprise. But the Democrat crime syndicate botched it like it botches everything. Our country should be ashamed.
No they did not botch it. The shots rang out. The failure was a stroke of fate.
Your argument that this was a state job didn’t convince me - but my non-American husband’s did.
He reminded me to “look at the pattern” - a nobody from nowhere, inadequate security, the nobody with no apparently footprint dead before any questions could be asked, and no records to be found.
Crooke was the perfect patsy. Absolutely perfect. Too perfect. They picked him so well it's obvious.
There's a company that shorted the DJT stock the day before. Did greed mean that company or person within the company know something.
So, basically - there is literally nothing I can or will believe about ofishul revelations. Side note - whenever the Dems want to smear someone, they use "pedophile" and/or "pornography". Which explains why finding porn searches on a cell phone is touted as proof of something.
I admit I am looking forward to a Harris-Trump debate.
Oh, so NOW Jon Stewart is angry at the Dems. After kissing Dem ass for all these years. You helped build that, buddy.
I think RFK Jr leaked that phone call because he is pissy that no one is picking him as VP.