Trump Assassination Attempt by Mark R. Elsis

Bullet flying perilously close to Trump’s head,
moments before another grazed his ear.
Photograph by Doug Mills

This page is updated daily with pertinent articles, news, photographs, quotes and videos.

“The Russian president is counting on Trump’s victory.
But I think Putin is in for an unpleasant surprise.”
Victoria Nuland, July 10, 2024

Answering These Questions May Unlock The Trump Crime Scene (27:25)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v5c4nro-answering-these-questions-may-unlock-the-trump-crime-scene.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

9th Shot Shooter Identified! SWAT Operator! (16:49)
This video locates the 9th shooter who was a swat operator. The body camera timing was off by 12 seconds and it’s now synced up as close as possible. This video is regarding the Donald Trump Rally of July 13th, 2024 in Butler Pennsylvania. Thomas Matthew Crooks fired and Donald Trump wounding his ear. 1 individual was killed and two other wounded.
by Gray Hughes Investigates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TOR17hXMZk

Trump Shooter In Two Places At Same Time? (17:03)
Today’s video is regarding the newly released video of Thomas Crooks walking by the concession stands at the the former president, Donald J. Trump Rally on July 13, 2024. He was walking at around 4:26 PM as claimed by the person who filmed it. A text message at 4:27 was sent by a sniper regarding an individual who may have noticed him put hi rifle into his vehicle. this has caused confusion and some questions
by Gray Hughes Investigates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEcWxR-pcgc

Was This A LEO Failure Or Something Worse? (37:57)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v5blqdw-was-this-a-leo-failure-or-something-worse-peak-prosperity.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

The Top Four Inexcusable Investigation ‘Errors’ By The FBI (37:29)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v5b84u2-the-top-four-inexcusable-investigation-errors-by-the-fbi.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Another Bizarre Turn In The Trump Assassination Plot (Episode 2310) (58:28)
by The Dan Bongino Show
https://rumble.com/v5b6f6t-another-bizarre-turn-in-the-trump-assassination-plot-ep.-2310-08162024.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Where Were The Two Local Snipers When Trump Was Shot? (51:31)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v5az5b8-where-were-the-two-local-snipers-when-trump-was-shot-peak-prosperity.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

The Mystery Of The Blood In The Bathroom (37:03)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v5aq3u9-the-mystery-of-the-blood-in-the-bathroom-peak-prosperity.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Now We Have More Questions (Pointing To LIHOP) (39:41)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v5acgpx-now-we-have-more-questions-pointing-to-lihop-peak-prosperity.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

At Best The US Secret Service Is In ‘Damage Control’ Mode (33:39)
The Secret Service’s many lapses before during and after the near-assassination of Trump are gone over in detail. Acting SS Director Ronald Rowe is caught in obvious distortions of the truth that rise to the level of intentional lying.
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v5a7zeb-at-best-the-us-secret-service-is-in-damage-control-mode.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Bombshell Butler, PA Bodycam Footage (6:36)
New footage from Police just released helps fill in timeline moments before assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gR8yVkdzwWo3

The Abandonment Of Posts In The Overwatch Building Is Difficult To Accept (45:59)
To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, once you’ve run out of ways to make excuses based on rank incompetence, you are left with less savory explanations. The timeline of how the precise gap was left that Crooks perfectly exploited repels the mind. It’s unbelievable.
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v5a33ph-peak-prosperity.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

The FBI And Regime Media Work Together To Busy The Investigation (24:10)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v59z043-the-fbi-and-regime-media-work-together-to-busy-the-investigation-peak-prosp.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Audio Analysis Is Most Consistent Two Shooters At Trump Rally (31:00)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v59u219-audio-analysis-is-most-consistent-two-shooters-at-trump-rally-peak-prosperi.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

There’s Something Very Strange About the Secret Service’s “No Fly Zone” (8:05)
There’s something very strange about the Secret Service’s “no-fly zone” before Trump took the stage, and nobody is talking about it. Usually, no-fly zones are in place for days before someone with Trump’s status speaks, but Crooks easily scouted the area with his drone because the no-fly zone was only in effect for less than two hours before Trump took the stage. How does that happen? Former Army officer Brian O’Shea says, “That’s either horrible negligence and ineptitude on the part of whoever’s putting this data in at the FAA, or they just didn’t think of it and hurried to throw it in. Or, you know, the darker answer there is: they didn’t care, and they wanted that airspace to be open.”
https://rumble.com/v59q6ed-theres-something-very-strange-about-the-secret-services-no-fly-zone.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

New Information Proves Trump Assassination Attempt Conspiracy – The FBI Is Lying (11:06)
In this video I prove a government conspiracy and that the FBI is lying.
by Paramount Tactical
https://rumble.com/v59le9f-new-information-proves-trump-assassination-attempt-conspiracy-the-fbi-is-ly.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

The Unbelievable Security Gap That Allowed Crooks To Get In Position (29:22)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v59hcrp-was-it-really-bad-security-or-something-worse.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Episode 82 – Live Interview Of Second Eyewitness – He Was Less Than 30 Feet From Shooter! (1:14:37)
In this interview we’ll be talking with a an eyewitness that was directly behind the AGR building when the shooting started. He was just feet away from the shooter. A lot of questions will be answered.
by Paramount Tactical
https://rumble.com/v59b5wy-ep82-live-interview-of-second-eyewitness-he-was-less-than-30-feet-from-shoo.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Expert Post Mortem Of The Security Failures At The Trump Rally (2:12:12)
Chris Martenson and Gary Melton from Paramount Tactical join forces to analyze the security failures at the Trump Rally assassination attempt.
https://rumble.com/v596rvx-expert-post-mortem-of-the-security-failures-at-the-trump-rally.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Shocking New Sniper Video Changes Everything (Episode 2299) (1:00:29)
A different angle changes everything. In this episode, I dissect the newly emerged video of the Trump assassination attempt and explain how it turns the Secret Service scandal upside down.
by The Dan Bongino Show
https://rumble.com/v59aw51-shocking-new-sniper-video-changes-everything-ep.-2299-08012024.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

James Copenhaver, Who Was Shot And Recently Released From The Hospital, Filmed Crooks Running On Top Of The Roof Three Minutes Before Shooting (0:12)
How did the snipers not pick this up?
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1818701419660427510

Trump Is In Real Danger With This Secret Service Leadership (Episode 2298) (58:48)
Ron Rowe took the stand yesterday before Congress and proceeded to answer almost none of the questions he was asked. The Secret Service is not saving face. In this episode, I cover the disastrous hearing yesterday as well as Kamala’s continued campaign catastrophe.
by The Dan Bongino Show
https://rumble.com/v596gte-trump-is-in-real-danger-with-this-secret-service-leadership-ep.-2298-073120.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Secret Service Leadership Is Deplorable (29:46)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v5984v8-revealing-how-corrupt-the-secret-service-leadership-has-become-peak-prosper.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Trump Assassination: Some Answers Emerging, More Needed (Text and Video)
This afternoon I was catching up on videos and news. I listened to Dan Bongino from yesterday: The Secret Service Scandal Keeps Getting Uglier (Ep. 2296) – 07/29/2024. It’s quite good-after all, Bongino knows this protective detail stuff. Some of the issues he raised were addressed, as he predicted, in the testimony of the waste of space who appeared before the Senate today. I was pleased that a few of my own questions were addressed. If you’ll recall, just a day or two ago I was saying that one of the key issues that needs to be sorted out is: How long has this business of “loose security events” coverage of Trump rallies been going on? It turns out this has been SS standard operating procedure for Trump events for, like, a long time. OK, to be more precise. Trump events that were more than a “drive” from DC-a day’s drive? I dunno-were denied normal resources. Repeatedly denied. Despite Trump’s detail’s persistent requests-over a period of two years. Two years. Think about that. Those denials included the normal counter sniper teams, plus the magnotometer, etc. As Bongino puts it, it was just luck that Trump wasn’t assassinated long ago. The windows of opportunity were created as a matter of policy, but was time running out? As Bongino also points out, Trump had the highest threat profile of anybody who was being “protected” by the SS. What’s with that kind of threat assessment? Where were the resources being assigned if not to Trump? As I predicted, that decision to deny resources to Trump rallies came right from the top of SS. BUT, that doesn’t necessarily mean that SS made that decision all by their lonesome, without input from Mayorkas or FBI or CIA or … whomever.
by Mark Wauck
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/trump-assassination-some-answers

So It’s Back To First Principles (39:24)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v593fh1-so-its-back-to-first-principles-peak-prosperity.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

The Secret Service Scandal Keeps Getting Uglier (Ep. 2296) (58:13)
We got a breaking news tip on Friday during the show that set the internet on fire and made its way to Ron Johnson’s desk. In today’s episode, I’ll cover the nationwide reactions to this, as well as the brittle campaign that Kamala Harris is putting together.
by The Dan Bongino Show
https://rumble.com/v58x5kd-the-secret-service-scandal-keeps-getting-uglier-ep.-2296-07292024.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Stewart Film Blows The Official Narrative Out Of The Water (46:46)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v58y8k5-stewart-film-blows-the-official-narrative-out-of-the-water-peak-prosperity.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

The Local SWAT Team From Butler, PA Said That They Had No Communication With Secret Service Before The Shooting (0:26)
https://x.com/GrahamAllen_1/status/1817619932903018875

Senator Johnson Gives New Details On Trump Assassination Attempt (34:12)
Sen. Ron Johnson joins Del live to discuss the findings of his preliminary report regarding the attempted assassination of former President Trump and breaks down the published timeline of failure from the protection detail that his office put together in their investigation.
by The Highwire with Del Bigtree
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IpKZvlbCj4wh

Thomas Crooks (Trump Shooter) Van Location! (16:52)
This Video Shows the Location of the Van that Thomas Crooks Drove and Parked before the Former President’s Rally In Butler PA.
by Gray Hughes Investigates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfSR43vUs58

Trump Ear Shot Was Impossible To Do On Purpose: Testing The Assassination Attempt Of Donald Trump (16:42)
Today we use ballistic data and high speed imagery to put to be some of the myths and conspiracy theories around the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
by Brandon Herrera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsvJzfXZI18

They [Secret Service Sniper Team Two] Had A Perfect View And 10+ Feet Of Elevation (31:53)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v58mio5-they-had-a-perfect-view-and-10-feet-of-elevation-peak-prosperity.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Stunning New Details In Trump Assassination Plot: Water Tower And Explosives Van | Redacted News (24:13)
We’re learning stunning new details about the secret service response to the assassination attempt on President Trump’s life. FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before congress and really wants you to believe there’s a lone gunman.
https://rumble.com/v58blul-stunning-new-details-in-trump-assassination-plot-water-tower-and-explosives.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Audio Analysis Raises Troubling Questions (42:11)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v58jrwj-audio-analysis-raises-troubling-questions-by-chris-martenson-phd.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

The Official “Lone Gunman” Story Is A Sloppy Lie (Audio 22:46)
by Health Ranger Report
https://www.brighteon.com/8800dd70-41f0-4d2e-9019-8038b9b85d83

A Unique Perspective (Audio 3:10)
The ultimate goal of the assassination of Trump
by Brian Wilson
https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/p/a-unique-perspective

Analysis Of Footage From The Trump Assassination Attempt Shows That Trump And David Dutch Were Hit In Crook’s Initial 3 Shot Volley. Corey Comperatore And James Copenhaver Were Struck By Crook’s Follow-Up Volley A Few Seconds Later. (Text and Videos)
by Oliver Alexander
https://x.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1814300337299165562

Tucker Carlson And Jack Posobiec React To The Trump Shooting And The Coup Against Biden (2:13:07)
The assassination failed, so they took out Biden. Jack Posobiec on how America changed forever in eight days.
https://rumble.com/v5815eq-tucker-carlson-and-jack-posobiec-react-to-the-trump-shooting-and-the-coup-a.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Lori Levi Exposing How The Secret Service Left Trump Vulnerable The Day Before (12:26)
Lori, who has sold merchandise at nearly every Trump rally, was horrified by the glaring security lapses in the event’s setup and layout.
https://rumble.com/v57e0no-july-17-2024.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

New Audio Forensic Analysis Reveals At Least Three Shooters At Trump Campaign Event (44:55)
by Mike Adams
https://rumble.com/v57kutp-new-audio-forensic-analysis-reveals-at-least-three-shooters-at-trump-campai.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Two Shooters Confirmed (32:41)
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://rumble.com/v57lo56-two-shooters-confirmed-by-chris-martenson-phd.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

FBI Says They Cannot Access The Phone Of Shooter. Well Let’s Show Them How (57:55)
Whenever I see this kind of headline I always do wonder what they mean. Is this another disinformation campaign by 3-Letter agencies to tell us they need more access? Well let’s call them on this and let’s go through what we know they can already do. And don’t worry, in a few months, it will be easy pickings for your private data.
by Rob Braxman
https://rumble.com/v57j1pt-fbi-says-cannot-access-phone-of-shooter.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Questions and answers on the Trump assassination attempt, where he missed death by less than an inch:
The patsy assassin has been identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. What were his politics, and who were the demonic, ruthless, psychopaths, that motivated him to do this? There is no way in hell the assassin is allowed to be in the very best location to shoot from, for twenty-six minutes, with a visible rifle in his hands. No fucking way. This young man was on their radar since 4:26pm, a full hour and forty-five minutes before the shooting started. And, the assassin got off eight shots before the Secret Service snipers finally got around to shoot him (15.8 seconds after the first shot). It seems like his job was over, and he was then killed to forever silence him. Who were the Secret Service snipers who finally killed the assassin, and what are their politics and background? By the way, could they have possibly left Trump standing on stage any longer after this assassination attempt? One thing is perfectly clear, the Secret Service were given stand down orders, just like they were for the JFK assassination. In 1992, I worked for Jerry Brown when he ran for the Democratic nomination for President, Jerry knew this and didn’t trust them, so he never used the Secret Service. In many places across the United States, I along with select others acted as his protection. I’ve written an in-depth article about this I will publish in the future, included will be the time I stopped his assassination outside the back entrance of Studio 54 in Manhattan. The Secret Service are now run by DHS. So, this stand down order must have be given from them. This means the DHS were in on this assassination. Jewish Alejandro Mayorkas is the Secretary of Homeland Security. It looks like the Jewish oligarchy really want to start a civil war.
Mark R. Elsis

Evidence Of Multiple Shooters At Trump Assassination Attempt (4:59)
by Greg Reese
https://www.bitchute.com/video/tKvMUjuMJQQa

The Parents Of Thomas Matthew Crooks Called Police Before The Assassination Attempt To Warn Them (1:17)
https://rumble.com/v57em8d-the-parents-of-thomas-matthew-crooks-called-police-before-the-assassination.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Why Wasn’t President Trump Immediately Evacuated? (1:40)
The officer who confronted Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof radioed a “blanket tactical channel” that there was “an individual on the roof with a weapon” before the assassination attempt on President Trump.
Why wasn’t President Trump immediately evacuated? Was the Secret Service listening to this “blanket tactical channel”? Two officers went to the lowest point of the building. One officer boosted the other high enough to reach the roof, where he saw the shooter with a weapon. Crooks turned and pointed his weapon at the officer, who then ducked and fell off the roof. “The boosting officer and the officer that fell were both on the radio indicating that there was an individual on the roof that did, in fact, have a weapon.” “There was a blanket tactical channel being used. Everyone who was on that tactical channel heard it.” How much time was there between that radio communication and the gun being fired at President Trump? It’s bad enough that the Secret Service didn’t put anyone on the most obvious roof 150 yards away. But after two police officers radioed in that there was a guy on the roof with a gun, why wasn’t President Trump immediately evacuated?
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1813633089454911622

26 Minutes (30:42)
by Redacted
https://rumble.com/v57bhak-26-minutes-by-redacted.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Trump Assassination Attempt: Timeline Of Events (4:29)
The footage shows the timeline of events at Pennsylvania rally, where Donald Trump was injured. It appears to show that law enforcement did not react to the shooter being spotted by onlookers for about two minutes, until shots were heard.
by RT
https://rumble.com/v572h3h-trump-assassination-attempt-timeline-of-events.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

The Failed Assassination Attempt On President Trump (4:29)
by Greg Reese
https://rumble.com/v579ied-the-failed-assassination-attempt-on-president-trump-by-greg-reese.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

The Stakes Just Went Up (3:42)
by Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
https://rumble.com/v5719uk-the-stakes-just-went-up.html

What’s The Probability? Thomas Matthew Crooks In A BlackRock Commercial (0:30)
https://rumble.com/v570wh9-whats-the-probability-thomas-matthew-crooks-in-a-blackrock-commercial.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Assassin Crawls On The Roof While Multiple People Point Him Out To Police (0:52)
https://rumble.com/v570efw-assassin-crawls-on-the-roof-while-multiple-people-point-him-out-to-police.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

How The Hell Did Rally Attendees See The Assassin And Rifle Before Secret Service And Police? (0:15)
https://rumble.com/v56wcgy-how-the-hell-did-rally-attendees-see-the-assassin-and-rifle-before-secret-s.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Another Eyewitness Told Police Twice About The Assassin On The Roof And Was Ignored (2:11)
https://rumble.com/v56vscl-another-eyewitness-told-police-twice-about-the-assassin-on-the-roof-and-was.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Man Saw The Shooter With Rifle Minutes Before He Fired And Tried To Warn Police And Secret Service (4:29)
https://rumble.com/v56v8g5-man-saw-the-shooter-with-rifle-minutes-before-he-fired-and-tried-to-warn-po.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

The Trump Assassination Debacle (Audio 1:22:03)
The Sunday afternoon podcast with Greg Reese
by Greg Reese
https://gregreese.substack.com/p/the-trump-assassination-debacle

A Man In The Crowd Did Get Shot – Trump Rally (0:22)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EZrVgoAsGchK

ACH (2386) Mallificus Scott – The Limeys #176 – The Trump Assassination Attempt (Audio 1:00:57)
In today’s show originally recorded and broadcast on July 14 2024, Andy presents “The Limeys” with his co-host Mallificus Scott for a show entitled, “The Trump Assassination Attempt”.
by Andrew Carrington Hitchcock
https://andrewcarringtonhitchcock.com/2024/07/14/ach-2386-mallificus-scott-the-limeys-176-the-trump-assassination-attempt

Prophecy Predicted ‘Trump Would Be Shot In Ear’, Three Months Beforehand (5:32)
The attempt to murder president Donald Trump was prophesied in detail on March 14, 2024, three months before it happened. This is what was spoken by prophetic minister Brandon Biggs:
by StopWorldControl
https://rumble.com/v56zup9-prophecy-predicted-trump-would-be-shot-in-ear-three-months-beforehand.html?mref=wrdkl&mc=7vj9z

Trump Assassination Attempt: Analyzing The Inconsistencies (33:58)
This is an excerpt of ‘The Daily Wrap Up with Ryan Cristian | July 14, 2024’
by The Last American Vagabond
https://www.bitchute.com/video/IC3wCQacjMbb

It Was A Planned And Coordinated Attack (4:02)
https://x.com/SebasWray/status/1812677174794879431

Blood-Covered Eye-Witness Describes Shooter’s Fatal Injuries At Trump Assassination Attempt (0:37)
https://x.com/HarrisonHSmith/status/1812271458724569530

It Was A Planned And Coordinated Attack (4:02)
https://x.com/SebasWray/status/1812677174794879431

“We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
Creepy Joe Biden, July 8, 2024

A Month Later, Questions Linger About Trump’s Attempted Assassination
It’s the one-month anniversary of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, and it’s still not clear what happened at that deadly July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most of the primary evidence about the event—body camera footage, audio recordings, text messages and operations plans—has come from local police and event attendees. On the federal level, whistleblower disclosures have contradicted congressional testimony from top FBI and Secret Service officials. Federal and local authorities have also contradicted each other. Still, the available evidence can provide a guide for investigators to ask the right questions. What We Think We Know: Not Much. Based on text messages from the Butler and Beaver County Emergency Services Units, it looks like local law enforcement first spotted Trump shooter Thomas Crooks by 4:26 p.m. More than 40 minutes later at 5:38 p.m., local counter snipers saw Crooks again, this time right beneath their second-story perch on the AGR building. It was at this point when they photographed Crooks and let the Secret Service know about him. Officers then allegedly “lost track” of Crooks for about 20 minutes, according to reports on their radio communications. At 6:02 p.m., Beaver County sniper Greg Nicol again spotted Crooks on the side of the building facing away from the Trump rally. How Nicol and the other local cops lost Crooks after that isn’t quite clear. But according to their radio comms, Nicol told his fellow officers that Crooks was headed to a Sheetz gas station about a quarter-mile outside the rally site. Nicol, who shot himself in a “freak accident” last December, was wrong. Instead of going all the way around the AGR building to the Sheetz gas station, he instead made his way to an HVAC unit next to the AGR building—using that equipment to gain access to the roof of the building.
by Ken Silva
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/a-month-later-questions-linger-about-trumps-attempted-assassination

The Broken Life Of Matthew Thomas Crooks
Matthew Thomas Crooks, age 20, who attempted to assassinate former president Trump on July 13, resembled–with his shy, mischievous grin, pale skin, braces, and acne–countless young males who have sat in front of me in English classrooms over years–at community colleges, in high schools, and even in middle schools, as Crooks looked very young in his photo, now published all over national and international media. When schools shut down in March 2020, and lockdowns ensued, Crooks was 16, in the spring of his sophomore year of high school. Absent from public discussions of Crooks’ tragedy are despair, losses, and mental health crises Covid-era lockdowns caused, especially young people; cruel, vitriolic, and even violent political rhetoric pervading our culture in the last several years; and effects of video gaming on young people’s brains, and perhaps on Crooks’ brain, effects worsened by the predatory gaming and technology industry, making billions of dollars, especially on young males. Gaming addictions and other addictions skyrocketed during Covid lockdowns. Reports describe Crooks as a computer gamer, and shy student, whom acquaintances have said was bullied and often sat alone at lunch. How might the last four years of cultural collapse and health harms of lockdowns have exacerbated this young man’s challenges? Across U.S. airwaves, commenters on Crooks are silent on covid era devastation to the lives of young people. An epidemic of mental health crises struck those ages 18 to 25, according to the CDC and other sources, with more than 25 percent in this age group saying they seriously considered suicide. Mental health crises persist. Chronic absenteeism persists today with some public schools losing their accreditation due to poor attendance.
by Christine Black
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-broken-life-of-matthew-thomas-crook

Fuming Cop Caught On Video Saying He Told Secret Service Days Before To Secure Roof Where Thomas Crooks Opened Fire At Trump: ‘I F–king Told Them’ (Text and Video)
A police officer assigned to the Pennsylvania rally where former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated fumed to a fellow cop that he told the Secret Service to man the roof where the gunman opened fire, body camera footage shows. A fired-up Butler Township Police Department cop can be heard seething over the Secret Service’s decision to leave the roof unoccupied — just 130 yards from where Trump was speaking on July 13, according to footage published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. “I f–king told them they need to post a guy f–king over here,” one cop is heard saying shortly after a shot rang out. “Who?” another officer asks. “The Secret Service,” the officer responds. “I told them that f–king Tuesday.”
by Natalie O’Neill
https://nypost.com/2024/08/09/us-news/cop-says-he-told-secret-service-to-secure-roof-before-trump-assassination-attempt-bodycam-video

The Trump Assassination Attempt And The Kennedy Connection
It is a conspiracy but it is not a theory.
It is not unreasonable to assume that the organized left operation that runs the federal government from the shadows of Washington, D.C.—which sought to remove Trump from state ballots, drive him into bankruptcy, imprison him, frame him as an asset of Russia, compare him to Hitler, portray him as an existential threat to democracy, and accuse him of an insurrection—would be desperate enough to recruit an Oswald-like patsy to kill him and make sure he had the opportunity to do it. Let’s remember that these are the same reprehensible people who have spent the last eight years telling us that Trump is a unique threat to all Americans and will imprison his rivals and act as a dictator. Are they capable of murder? Of course they are. That is why they are demanding that all discussion of the assassination attempt be stopped and that the serial failures of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) not be explored by anyone. Three sessions before Congress have shown us the game of CYA (cover your ass) going on by the members of the Deep State who have already testified, including disgraced former Unites States Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle, current FBI director Chris Wray, and Cheatle’s replacement, acting USSS Director Ronald Rowe.
by Richard Truesdell and Keith Lehmann
https://amgreatness.com/2024/08/04/the-trump-assassination-attempt-and-the-kennedy-connection

A Secret Service Assassination Coverup? There’s A Lawsuit For That
In 1995 the presidential protectors shredded key JFK files. The Mary Ferrell Foundation is holding them accountable in court in 2024.
Of the six attacks on presidents in the last 75 years, two stand out for egregious lapses in Secret Service security procedures: the assassination of JFK on November 22, 1963, and the near assassination of Donald Trump on July 13, 2024. As I predicted last month, today’s media environment makes it possible for a real investigation and real accountability — neither of which happened in 1963. Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle has resigned after scathing bipartisan criticism in a Capitol Hill hearing. In 1963, director James Rowley inexplicably kept his job for another eight years. The Secret Service has said agents will be disciplined, which seems likely after Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr. said he was “ashamed” of the agency’s actions on July 13 when Trump was nearly killed by a fusillade fired by Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old gunman who was killed by a Secret Service sniper. In 1963, no agents were disciplined, even though some had been out drinking until 5 a.m. on the morning JFK was ambushed in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza. The Warren Commission, created by President Lyndon Johnson to ratify the “lone gunman” theory, did no serious investigation of the agency’s security procedures in 1963. The record of the Secret Service on JFK’s assassination is the essential background to the work of the bipartisan House of Representatives task force, which is now looking into the near assassination of Trump. Absolute transparency and vigilant accountability are essential, lest the sorry history of 1963 repeat itself.
by Jefferson Morley
https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/a-secret-service-assassination-coverup

Parallel Coups 1 Of 2: The Blood Of The King
The Failed Attempt on Trump
A president or presidential contestant is the most valuable assassination target in the world. State level actors might dedicate their best intelligence and special forces team to such a mission if their regime is desperate enough (as indeed some have speculated already happened to a previous president), If a special forces sniper could conceivably make the shot at 2 miles with a bolt action or special made weapon, then the Secret Service we’d expect to be preparing to counter that or prevent those sightlines from presenting themselves. So the idea that a relatively amatuer shooter would get a rifle… Not 2 miles (3200 meters), not 1 mile (1600 meters), not even 1300 meters (a very tricky but achievable shot for a committed and disciplined marksman)… But 130 meters!? 10x less!? Even with my estimate of 400-800 meters, merely getting the rifle that close would take a coup of planning and subterfuge. There are only so many uncontrolled sightlines to a stage outside of the actual controlled audience and security screened area, most potential views are blocked off by crowds, bleachers, banners, displays, ect. At 400-800 meters (5-9 football fields) it’d take a great coup of planning, stealth and tactical espionage action to get in a hidden position with such a sightline without being spotted or having that spot eliminated or closely watched by the counter sniper team, and that’s about the farthest away you can get if you want to be able to hit the target in one shot from the limitation of most semi-automatic rifles, and make a follow on shot if you miss (the advantage of semi-automatic rifles). At 130 meters it’d be nearly impossible to do even against moderately aware rent-a-cops. Indeed the choice of an AR-15 rifle and a red-dot scope reads like crappy fanfiction by some gun controller looking for a propaganda win over gun-owners. That simply isn’t the rifle setup you’d use to assassinate a president if you had any wherewithal whatsoever and expected the Secret Service to actually try to stop you.
by Kulak
https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/parallel-coups-1-of-2-the-blood-of

The Attempted Assassination Of President Trump (Text and Video)
Preliminary Findings And Timeline From US Senator Ron Johnson
Don’t let anyone steal your miracle
How often are we seeing a headline or article referring to the attempted assassination of President Trump? Every day? A few times a week? At all? The degree of censorship and propaganda surrounding the attempted assassination of President Trump is astounding. How often are readers seeing headlines in legacy media referring to the assassination attempt? I’m not seeing them. Neither is Elon Musk. Musk declared that Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump.1 One place where you can find information suppressed by the legacy media is on Substack. Substack2 is a fascinating internet platform with many excellent and enlightening freedom and liberty writers, journalists, physicians, and researchers.3 One substack writer and physician, Dr. Margaret Aranda, writes The Rebel Patient. She recently revealed that President Trump’s former physician, now US Congressman Ronny L. Jackson from Texas, wrote two official Public Memorandums for the “Concerned Citizens of the United States” regarding the health of President Donald J. Trump. This news did not get general media coverage. The first memorandum was written by US Congressman Dr. Ronny Jackson on July 20, 2024, seven days after the assassination attempt against President Trump in Pennsylvania. Congressman Ronny Jackson met with President Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, late on the evening of the assassination attempt “to personally check on him and offer my assistance in any way possible.”
by Dr. Peter and Ginger Breggin
https://gingerbreggin.substack.com/p/the-attempted-assassination-of-president

General Obfuscation Reporting For Duty!
You don’t know what you don’t know
You can easily spot the fraud that is Government from the barge full of incriminating events obvious to the rest of the bowling team, but incomprehensible to the Best and the Brightest on whom your taxpayer dollars are being squandered. Example: the combined FBI, USSS, Senate, Inspector General, Prez Biden, “a bipartisan task force to lead congressional investigations,” and the Sacred Order of the Sisters of Immaculate Skivvies – are all (still) looking into every nook ‘n cranny of the July 13th debacle with all the toxic combination of energy, outrage, embarrassment, indignation and feigned ignorance they can muster. The recent series of televised inquisitions featured the flaring nostrils of fuming Elected Officials” vs. the hokey-pokey answers filled with sincere, patriotic fulminations from the Alphabet Soup folks. Once again, a supremely pissed-off public was treated to so many saying so much and providing so little. Simple questions were answered with word salads of bureaucratize that would freeze a Kamala cackle in mid-cack. Sen. Foghorn: “What is the name of the former president wounded in this assassination attempt?” USSS Honcho: “I can’t provide specifics during an ongoing investigation.” And so it went.
by Brian Wilson
https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/p/general-obfuscation-reporting-for

Secret Service Whistleblower Warns There Will Be More Assassination Attempts
A Secret Service whistleblower warned Monday of another assassination attempt against former President Trump ahead of November’s election.
A Secret Service counter-sniper warned in an email there would be another assassination attempt, citing the agency’s inability to protect leaders after a shooter wounded former President Donald Trump, two of his supporters, and killed another at a rally. “We all SHOULD expect another [assassination] attempt to happen before November,” the counter-sniper wrote in the email obtained by RealClearPolitics and posted to X. “This agency NEEDS to change, if not now, WHEN? The NEXT assassination attempt in 30 days?” The counter-sniper emailed the entire Secret Service Uniformed Division Monday night, saying the operators assigned to Trump’s fatal rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13 did their jobs “with their hands tied” and that Secret Service supervisors “knew better.” “The foot soldiers working, made the best of a BAD situation that resulted in a civilian death and a near miss of the protectee and our Technician shooting and killing the suspect,” the counter-sniper wrote. “Our responsibility, our MISSION, is not about protecting an EMPTY White House located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s about preventing and stopping another JFK style assassination, in whatever city that may be. Sadly, we have fallen short for YEARS.” The whistleblower said he relayed these concerns to training officials and the captain of the Secret Service’s counter-sniper unit, “only to be brushed off as if those with less experience somehow knew more than me.” The counter-sniper said he would not stop speaking out until five “high level supervisors (1 down)”— apparently referencing former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle — are “fired or removed from their current positions.” The Secret Service quickly deleted the email, according to RealClearPolitics.
by Logan Washburn
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/30/secret-service-whistleblower-warns-there-will-be-more-assassination-attempts

Acting Secret Service Chief Played Key Role In Limiting Resources For Trump
Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was directly involved in denying additional security resources and personnel, including counter snipers, to former President Trump’s rallies and events – despite repeated requests by the agents assigned to Trump’s detail in the two years leading up to his July 13 attempted assassination, according to several sources familiar with the decision-making. Rowe succeeded former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who resigned last week after bipartisan calls following her widely panned testimony before the House Oversight Committee. But both Rowe and Cheatle were directly involved in decisions denying requests for more magnetometers, additional agents, and other resources to help screen rallygoers at large, outdoor Trump campaign gatherings. It was Rowe’s decision alone to deny counter sniper teams to any Trump event outside of driving distance from D.C., these sources asserted. Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate are set to appear Tuesday before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees. Senators on both sides of the aisle have vowed to press for answers on the assassination attempt of former President Trump that took the life of rally-goer Corey Comperatore and wounded two others. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chairs the Homeland Security panel, said he plans to grill Rowe and Abbate on the “litany of gaps and failures.”
by Susan Crabtree
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/30/acting_secret_service_chief_played_key_role_in_limiting_resources_for_trump_151352.html

Evidence Indicates Federal Agencies Must Have Been Involved In Trump’s Attempted Assassination
It has been reported that Donald Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was seen carrying a rangefinder (a device employed to measure distances to remote objects, often used by hunters and military) and was deemed a suspect over 90 minutes before shooting. This has been revealed by newly released text messages exchanged between members of the Beaver County Emergency Service Unit. The messages are clear enough: “he know you guys are up there”, “I did see him with a range finder”. Pictures of Crooks were also shared with Secret Service. Forbes has called this a “possible security lapse”, but in the overall context, such sounds almost like a euphemism. It is far from being the only “lapse” in an increasingly strange case. One may remember that, as I wrote, according to the FBI, during the Trump rally the would-be assassin was spotted on the roof, holding a weapon, no less than 20 minutes before the shooting, with civilians in the crowd alerting the authorities – and bizarrely nothing was done. Moreover, CNN reported that “forensic analysis suggests that as many as three weapons were fired at the Trump rally.” Stephen Bryen, security expert and former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, also takes the possibility of there being at least a second shooter seriously and calls for a “solid FBI investigation with Congressional oversight” on the issue. On top of all of that, let us consider the following points hyperlinked below – for the sake of brevity I shall not elaborate too much on each, but shall merely present them.
by Uriel Araujo
https://alethonews.com/2024/07/30/evidence-indicates-federal-agencies-must-have-been-involved-in-trumps-attempted-assassination

Cops Around Building With Weapons Drawn Two Minutes Before Shooting (Text and Video)
New video shows police knew of clear and present danger long before shots fired.
New video footage circulating on Twitter shows police officers running around the low building on top of which Crooks was perched. The officers can be seen looking up at the roof for at least two minutes before the shots were fired at Trump. The video provides clear documentation that Crooks had been spotted on the roof by multiple law officers who clearly express (with drawn weapons) their awareness that the subject on the roof posed a clear and present danger. This raises three urgent questions: Did the local police detail TRY to alert Secret Service on stage to get Trump off stage or at least to hit the deck? If so, were local police not provided access to the radio channel used by Secret Service at the event? If radio communications were not viable, did any officer at least TRY to run four hundred feet to the assembly and try to notify security personnel by mouth? Another notable feature of the video is that its audio recording of the shots is by far the cleanest I have heard. The recording sensor remains in the same place and-though scanning back and forth-remains pointed at the general direction of the building during the entire shooting segment.
by John Leake
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/cops-around-building-with-weapons

Whoa! How Does This Happen Accidentally?
While I was writing the penultimate post about the lack of communication between the locals and Secret Service at the Trump assassination, this story (based on WaPo reporting) came out at Zerohedge: For 25 Minutes, Secret Service In Command Center Never Notified Trump’s Detail. Please notice several things in this article. First, of course, there a was a command center. But understand, Secret Service was in total command. Second, there were state police stationed in the command center. To my way of thinking that pretty much guarantees that there was a communication channel from the locals out on the perimeter back to the command center-and that turns out to have been the case. The locals passed the information about Crooks back to the command center. But action on the information passed back to the command center was all subject to the decisions of the Secret Service. Not the state police. Third, that means that the decision to NOT inform either Trump or his detail-the agents surrounding him, and probably the snipers as well-was made by the top Secret Service person in the command center. The SAC from the Pittsburgh SS office. Fourth, the Secret Service detail certainly had a line of communication back to the command center. We have previously heard that at least one of the counter sniper teams did use that line of communication. Fifth. As I keep saying, the working assumption should be that the security detail on the ground did their jobs. What we need to focus on is the decisions that were made in the command center. Were they made solely by the SAC, or were his decisions-to keep everyone in the dark, to send Trump out on the stage with an identified threat still not accounted for-the result of input from higher up the command chain. Either before the event, or at the time it was all taking place.
by Mark Wauck
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/whoa-how-does-this-happen-accidentally

Second Survivor Of Trump Rally Shooting, James Copenhaver, Released From Hospital But Faces Long Recovery, Family Says
One of the men critically wounded at Trump’s deadly campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania earlier this month has been released from the hospital, but still has a long road to recovery, his family said Sunday. James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, suffered “life-altering injuries” after he was struck by errant bullets fired by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was perched on a nearby rooftop taking aim at former President Trump at the July 13 event. He was one of three rally-goers shot and the last surviving victim to be released from the hospital. The other surviving victim, Marine veteran David Dutch, 57, was released on Wednesday after an 11-day stay at Allegheny General. He was struck twice — once in the chest and once in the liver — when Crooks opened fire on the unsuspecting rally crowd. Corey Comperatore, 50, a former fire chief and a devoted fan of Trump, died shielding his family from a hail of bullets.
by Chris Nesi
https://nypost.com/2024/07/28/us-news/second-survivor-of-trump-rally-shooting-james-copenhaver-released-from-hospital

PA SWAT Team Had No Communication With Secret Service Before Shooting (Text and Video)
U.S. Deep State not even bothering to cover its tracks.
ABC News just conducted an interview with the PA SWAT team assigned to protect Trump on July 13. The team members state they had no communication with the Secret Service prior to the shooting. As I’ve been saying since July 13, the ever-growing fact pattern is NOT consistent with incompetence. Security was deliberately withheld from Trump at the open-air rally. The Deep State is not even trying to cover its tracks with this incident. People suffer cognitive dissonance because they can’t believe that state actors would dare be so obvious about their machinations. This is precisely the cognitive dissonance that Max Frisch dramatized in his 1953 play, Biedermann and the Arsonists. People struggle to comprehend that the devil doesn’t conceal himself, but introduces himself and says he’s pleased to meet you. The Butler, PA incident is a case study of the same cognitive dissonance the public suffers with regard to hastily developed, experimental gene therapy shots, radical “gender dysphoria treatments” for minors, and sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukrainian gangsters. It’s all out in the open.
by John Leake
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/pa-swat-team-had-no-communication

Locals vs. Secret Service
The big story this afternoon has titles like this: Local SWAT Team from Butler, PA Reveals No Communication with Secret Service Prior to Shooting, Scheduled Meet-Up Upon Arrival Never Occurred. And this: Way Beyond Sketchy – Local Butler County SWAT Team Says Trump Secret Service Detail Did Not Communicate with Them Before Shooting.
Obviously the locals feel wronged by Secret Service and are eager to throw SS under the bus—supposing that any bus ever rumbles out of the various investigations/coverups under way in DC. On the other hand, we’re just as obviously not getting the full story. It’s clear that there was communication—of some sort—between the Butler locals and Secret Service. At the same time that the locals are saying there was no communication, they’re also saying that they offered drones to the SS but were repeatedly rebuffed—they were even, for all intents and purposes, told to cease and desist with the drone stuff. A positive injunction against deploying drones. So, at some level there was communication. Of some sort. But obviously not at all satisfactory. The easiest way to parse these new stories is to simply assume that the Butler people are speaking here very specifically about a lack of communication between their SWAT team and the SS counter snipers. It seems that there was an agreement that there would be a meeting between the local SWAT team and the SS counter snipers. It’s just that the meeting never happened. Think about that for a moment. Men with high powered rifles setting up at the same venue and not talking to one another, no de-confliction? Sounds like a catastrophe waiting to happen. So who screwed this one up? I’m guessing the same person who put the kibosh on the drones. As nearly as I can guess, all this must come down to the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Pittsburgh Secret Service Field Office.
by Mark Wauck
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/locals-vs-secret-service

internet memory holes
this issue looks to extend beyond just google
gatopal™ kuppy made quite a startling find. i mean wow, how crazy right? not even a mention of arch duke ferdinand! in all seriousness, this led me to start down a rabbithole. like many, my first instinct was to accuse google of memory holing certain conspicuous events only 2 weeks old. “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” anyone else getting worried that orwell was an optimist? this seemed the obvious take and google has certainly done more than its share of such manipulation in the past, hiding and slanting “the internet” on a great many topics. team “don’t be evil” is at it again seemed like the obvious conclusion to which to jump. case closed. but being a careful gato, i decided to dig a bit anyway. and what i found was both interesting and potentially far more far reaching. i started with google. indeed, these results replicated. nary a mention of trump to be seen. but here’s where the plot thickens: duck duck go: same. luxxle: same. brave: same. this is not just google. it’s one big memory hole. i know some of the people who run these engines. some (like bendan eich) are longtime gatopals™. they are not part of a shadowy cabal to erase the trump shooting. i think this is something deeper and it’s at the media level, not the search engine level. i think the most parsimonious explanation is not coordinated search engine meddling but rather the fact that there is nothing for which to search. you simply do not see these words, “assassination” and “attempt” in the news stories to which things are linked. you can find them in social media, but they are basically absent in media media. they simply refused to call it that.
by el gato malo
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/internet-memory-holes

Trump To Return To Scene Of Shooting
Nobody can “stop free speech or a gathering,” the former president declared, after announcing a new rally in Pennsylvania
Former US President Donald Trump has announced that he will hold a “big and beautiful rally” in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he was wounded in an assassination attempt earlier this month. Trump narrowly avoided death at a rally on July 13, when a would-be assassin’s bullet clipped his ear as it streaked past his head. Firing from a rooftop that the US Secret Service had inexplicably left unsecured, the 20-year-old gunman killed one spectator and wounded two others before he was shot dead by snipers. The rally ended with cheers and chants of “USA” as a bloodied Trump rose from a pile of security agents behind his lectern and pumped his fist in the air, before he was led to safety. “I will be going back to Butler, Pennsylvania for a big and beautiful rally, honoring the soul of our beloved firefighting hero, Corey, and those brave patriots injured two weeks ago,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday. Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-old former firefighter, was fatally shot in the head during the attempted assassination. “What a day it will be – fight, fight, fight!” Trump continued, using the phrase he mouthed to supporters as he climbed to his feet after the shooting. “Stay tuned for details.”
by RT
https://www.rt.com/news/601740-trump-rally-butler-pennsylvania

Detailed Analysis Of Trump Assassination Attempt (1:06:10)
A critical evaluation of video recordings and witness testimony of the incident
The incident on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania is the first time a would-be assassin has shot at a U.S. president or presidential candidate since John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. As such, it is the first assassination attempt in our era in which most citizens are carrying cell phones equipped with video cameras. Instead of one “Zapruder film,” we now have hundreds of videos of the incident, shot from multiple locations and angles. Instead of depending on the mainstream media for reporting, we now have hundreds of citizen documentarians who can capture footage and rapidly upload it to the internet. In this video production of the McCullough Foundation, we analyze multiple video recordings and witness testimonies of the Trump assassination attempt.
by John Leake
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/detailed-analysis-of-trump-assassination

Secret Service Opted Out Of Drone Surveillance Before Trump Assassination Attempt – US Senator
The probe into the attempted assassination of Donald Trump has uncovered new details of the botched security operation at the Pennsylvania rally.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley has submitted a letter to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with shocking details that the Secret Service – responsible for ensuring the safety of the former president’s life – “repeatedly” turned down offers by local police to carry out drone surveillance of the area. “The night before the rally, US Secret Service repeatedly denied offers from a local law enforcement partner to utilize drone technology to secure the rally,” the senator wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, citing information from a whistleblower. The whistleblower also alleged that it was not until after the deadly shootout that the Secret Service went on to use drones to record the area, Hawley noted.
by Sputnik
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240726/secret-service-opted-out-of-drone-surveillance-before-trump-assassination-attempt–us-senator-1119514955.html

The True Job Of The U.S. Secret Service
Identifying threats in advance and neutralizing them is the agency’s true mission, NOT conducting sniper shootouts.
As the U.S. Secret Service describes itself on its website: We are one of America’s oldest federal law enforcement agencies, originally created in 1865 to stamp out rampant counterfeiting in order to stabilize America’s young financial system. By the end of the Civil War, nearly one-third of all currency in circulation was counterfeit. As a result, the country’s financial stability was in jeopardy. To address this concern, the Secret Service was established in 1865 as a bureau in the Treasury Department to suppress widespread counterfeiting. After the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, the Secret Service was tasked with the full-time protection of the President of the United States. Over time, this protective mission has been expanded by statutory changes, Presidential Decision Directives, Homeland Security Presidential Directives, National Security Presidential Directives, and various Executive Orders. The Secret Service currently protects 36 protectees-a reduction from the 42 it protected during Donald Trump’s presidency. The agency employs about 8,000 people; this year it received $3.1 billion in congressional funding.
by John Leake
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-true-job-of-the-us-secret-service

The Trump Assassination: Drones, No Drones; All Hell To Break Loose
Yesterday Sen. Josh Hawley sent a letter to Mayorkas at DHS, the Department in which Secret Service finds itself. It’s fairly self explanatory. The local LE offered to supply drones with which to surveil the venue at Butler, PA-presumably after learning that SS was not going to deploy drones. SS turned the offer down, but there’s more to it than just declining an offer. SS is in total control of protection details. “Declining” the offer amounted to ordering the locals to cease and desist with the drone stuff. Which is exactly how the locals took it, but not without pushing back-according to the whistleblower quoted by Hawley (i.e., according to the locals), the offer was repeatedly denied. Meaning, the locals were totally flummoxed by the Secret Service’s refusal to deploy drones on their own or provided by other LE agencies. It doesn’t take much, if any, reading between the lines to realize that the SS’s refusal made no sense at all to the locals.
by Mark Wauck
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/the-trump-assassination-drones-no

Everything You Need To Know About The Failed Assassination Attempt Of Donald Trump
Amid all the varying accounts and evidence, there is no clear picture of the attempt to kill Donald Trump, and the FBI and Secret Service have been unwilling or unable to supply answers to the questions raised by the failed assassination.
Almost two weeks have passed since the miraculous survival of Donald Trump and still the major questions raised by his attempted assassination are unanswered. The obvious questions – how could this happen? – and why? – have equally obvious answers. The reason there are no answers is because Donald Trump is the mortal enemy of the entire political establishment of the U.S. and its subject nations. We are ruled by a conspiracy against the obvious. The attempt to kill Donald Trump cannot be understood if we do not begin with a statement of the obvious: his political enemies want him dead. This is a report on the official and unofficial investigations into what the FBI called “an incident” on July 13. As we shall see, the official lines of inquiry effectively exclude the obvious. The most obvious fact of all is that everyone except the people supposed to protect him have seen this coming for a long time. The version of events presented by the bare facts is another conspiracy against the obvious. The story says a lone gunman – a 20 year old called Thomas Matthew Crooks – decided to shoot Trump one day, and no one stopped him until he had done so. According to CNN, Crooks scoped the site with a rangefinder three hours before the shooting, and was seen doing so, before returning to carry it out. A rangefinder has one use: to report the distance to a target. Former Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle said a rangefinder “is not a prohibited item” when asked why Crooks was not stopped.
by Frank Wright
https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-failed-assassination-attempt-of-donald-trump

Local Authorities Break Ranks On Trump Assassination Attempt!
The PA State Police are now at odds with the local Butler County authorities and that means there’s a chance this story could break open. So much hinges on exactly who failed to secure that two-story building and how the police could have fumbled Crooks being on the roof with a gun for so long. Hopefully one of them speaks up about the orders they received and who gave them.
Local Authorities Break Ranks on Trump Assassination Attempt! They say it ain’t over until the fat lady sings. When it comes to cover-ups and getting to the truth, you begin to catch wind of the fat lady when various factions of authority break ranks and begin to tell different tales. Well, that just happened, as the local DA for Butler County and the PA State Police began telling wildly different stories about who exactly was in the second story of the second building. You know, the one I have been pointing at with growing interest for more than a week now. The one with near-perfect oversight of, and easy access to, the roof that became Crooks’ final destination. I explore this and then move on to ABC’s ridiculously ham-handed attempt to shape the narrative about a vitally important piece of US history and completely reveal themselves to be unserious people doing unserious work. We now know from Senator Ron Johnson that there was a stupefyingly long 12-minute gap between the final shot and the first PA LEOs to access the roof Crooks was on. But ABC tried to present it as if brave police fought their way through a security tape ‘sealed’ chain link fence, then immediately scaled a ladder and secured the roof. Instead, there was a 12-minute gap during which time ~100 people could have come and gone out of the open window in the second building that offered a neat little hop down and across to the crime scene. 12 long minutes to spread brass around, manipulate the scene and do whatever one would like.
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://peakprosperity.com/local-authorities-break-ranks-on-trump-assassination-attempt

Audio Analysis Raises Troubling Questions
The Investigation by the FBI and Secret Service is a complete clown show. Our on investigation is firming up and has resolved the high likelihood of two shooters, and raises very troubling questions about who was in the building overlooking both the event itself and Crooks’ position.
More extensive audio analysis reveals a clear difference between the weapon firing shots #1 through #3. This needs to be addressed by “official” investigators. I put that in quotes because so far this has been nothing short of infuriatingly conducted. From washing down the roof, to “releasing” helmet cam ‘evidence’ that has been misleadingly edited, to failing to provide even the most basic accounting of the shots taken and the bullet paths, the investigation would be an embarrassment to the Keystone Cops of old. But now many of the mysteries of the audio files have been resolved. Nick and I have debated and reworked and challenged ourselves as thoroughly as anyone could. And then, finally, the clouds have (mostly) parted. By analyzing and cross-comparing multiple audio files, including Trump’s mic feed, can say definitively say that shot #9 must have come from a PA LEO asset of some sort, probably an ESU agent if the statement by the Butler County DA Richard Goldinger is correct. Which raises many questions, some of them troubling. First, that shot came a full 10.1 seconds before the Secret Service sniper’s shot. So what exactly was that ESU agent doing while awaiting that inbound round? Was their shot a “kill shot” as we suspect due to the fact that there wasn’t a second or third (or more) shot?
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://peakprosperity.com/audio-analysis-raises-troubling-questions

Secret Service Gave Jill Biden 4 Times As Many Agents As Trump For ‘post-Standing’: Report
Investigations by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) have reportedly exposed the U.S. Secret Service for providing 12 “post-standing” agents for First Lady Jill Biden while only providing three “post-standing” agents for former President Donald Trump, as well as multiple other security failures. Susan Crabtree, a Real Clear Politics correspondent, reported that the investigations coordinated by Grassley and Johnson have revealed that the Secret Service did not have communication coordinated with local law enforcement officers and that only three “post standing” Secret Service agents were present at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the former president was shot in the ear by would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks. In a report on Grassley’s letter to Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who announced her resignation on Tuesday, Crabtree noted that the Secret Service’s middle perimeter is known as “post standing.” “My office has received legally protected whistleblower disclosures that include records of communications between and among Secret Service personnel,” Grassley wrote in his letter to Cheatle over the weekend. “The records include communications from July 11, 2024, that show First Lady Jill Biden received 12 Secret Service personnel for ‘post standing’ for her event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024.”
by Timothy Frudd
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/07/secret-service-gave-jill-biden-4-times-as-many-agents-as-trump-for-post-standing-report

Double Chubby Checker (Text, Audios and Videos)
A new twist that debunks the official “lone gunman” story, again.
Unless Crooks brought two rifles with him and managed to switch guns in those two seconds between shots three and four(HA!), new audio reveals that two people shot into the MAGA crowd on the evening of July 13. It’s 98% definitive. In my weekend post, I did nearly three hours of audio analysis using what was probably the microphone at the podium where President Trump stood. It still revealed three different firearms being shot that day (maybe four with the last shot heard ten seconds after all the rest), however, I wasn’t able to accurately attribute the correct rounds via audio signature to the different rifles. The audio signatures from the podium microphone included shots and echoes which looked like this… Given those signatures, I concluded the first five shots came from one rifle in a single location. New audio suggests that the first three shots differ greatly from shots 4-8. This indicates that we need a second shooter stationed at or near the same line of sight as Crooks to carry out shots 4-8 to account for bullet trajectories and the distance between shots and echoes that match so closely (4-5) to the first three rounds. This still doesn’t prove Crooks fired any shots. Until video proof emerges of him firing his AR weapon, most skeptics will not be satisfied that he did any shooting that day (nevermind those who think it was all a staged hoax with crisis actors and fake blood), but let’s forget about wild imaginations for now and stick with the simple task of debunking the official narrative using the new audio evidence. What explains the audio discrepancy between the Right Side Broadcasting wide-angle camera (probably connected to Trump’s microphone) and this audio? Location, location, location.
by Good Citizen
https://thegoodcitizen.live/p/double-chubby-checker

MAGA Goes Full WWE, Biden Withdraws
The script gets more confusing
Trump is already floating out potential names for Treasury Secretary. One of them is Jamie Dimon. You can’t get much more swampy than Dimon. His name appeared as much as any other corrupt One Percenter in my Survival of the Richest. His strongest competition is said to be BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. So it will be Trumpenstein Part II. He is not going to deviate from the script he’s been assigned. If he has another administration, it will be stocked with RINOs and Bush-types. Maybe for WWE style laughs, he’ll name Amber Rose Secretary of Ass. Just as before, you won’t see any real outsiders. Not even any half-hearted outsiders. Just establishment toadies and Never Trumpers. J.D. Vance was a Never Trumper not that long ago, by the way. That must have been what made him so attractive to Trumpenstein. The more I look into the events of July 13, 2024, the more suspicious I become. Boy, I guess I’m just naturally suspicious. We are being told so many different things, but all of them, while often contradicting each other, totally discredit the official story. Thomas Matthew Crooks, he of such shooting capability that he failed to make his high school rifle team, is said to have brought his own ladder to the event. Well, who doesn’t? It’s kind of like the old BYOB thing back in America 1.0. So, he was walking around with a tall rung ladder? And a rifle? What did he have to do to get the Secret Service’s attention- have an “I am Trump’s Assassin” shirt on? And now we’re told that he had his own drone there as well.
by Donald Jeffries
https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/maga-goes-full-wwe-biden-withdraws

Oversight Project Assassination Info Drop
We found the assassin’s connections through our in-depth analysis of mobile ad data to track movements of Crooks and his associates. To do this, we tracked devices that regularly visited both Crooks’s home and place of work and followed them.
Someone who regularly visited Crooks home and work also visited a building in Washington, DC located in Gallery Place. This is in the same vicinity of an @FBI office on June 26, 2023. Who’s device is this? Another device linked to Crooks visited Plymouth, MA. We found a device linked to Crooks’s work that traveled to Butler, PA on July 4th and July 8th. This device stopped all activity on July 12th. On August 30, 2023, one device linked Crooks visited Allegheny Arms. Here’s all the relevant locations within Bethel Park, PA that are linked to both Crooks’s home and place of work. For those that are tracking this type of data, we identified devices that were located at Crook’s home and his work within the past year. There were at least 9 devices linked to these AD-IDsWe are willing to cooperate with legitimate investigations and share further information. For the protection of whistleblowers and our investigation, we will not be sharing further information with the congressional task force due to the connective tissue between that entity and FBI, USSS, and other entities. If you have any further information, leads, or tips, please e-mail us directly at tips. oversightproject@heritage.org
by Oversight Project
https://x.com/OversightPR/status/1815446074342953076

The Trump Assassination Attempt And What Comes Next
International Man: On July 13, there was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump. What’s your take on what really happened?
Doug Casey: The official narrative is still crystallizing, as all the government employees and bureaucrats who were supposedly responsible for Trump’s safety scurry about to ensure their careers aren’t adversely affected. Now that Kim Cheatle, the security hen in charge of the Secret Service, has resigned to collect her fat pension as a public mea culpa, the Secret Service and FBI will conduct internal investigations. A few people may be reprimanded and placed on administrative paid leave for a couple of weeks. A question will be asked as to whether it was a lone nut or part of a broader conspiracy. The odds are 99 out of 100 they’ll conclude the former, whether or not it’s true. They definitely won’t dare find there was any conspiracy within the Secret Service to take Trump out… The only thing that I’m really sure of is that the Secret Service was ultra-incompetent in scores of separate and egregious ways. The Biden administration’s DEI policies fatally compromised SS effectiveness, starting with a diversity hire as director and using two short fat chicks as frontline security for Trump. If you have bodyguards, especially for a big, tall man like Trump, you want big, tall, muscular guys.
by Doug Casey
https://internationalman.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-trump-assassination-attempt-and-what-comes-next

“Greg” The Counter-Sniper Apparently Left Post Directly Behind Crooks (Text and Video)
Body-cam footage of roof shows Abbott & Costello (“Who’s on first?”) style confusion. So-called investigation is an absurd charade.
Body-cam footage has been released that shows what appears to be a federal investigator interviewing local law enforcement officers on the rooftop of the building where Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at former president Trump and was then himself shot. The video timestamp indicate the body-cam footage was shot at 19:08—almost an hour after Crooks fired the shots and was himself shot. Some of the law officers being interviewed are wearing paramilitary gear and camouflage fatigues. One is wearing a black uniform labelled with words POLICE and SWAT. An officer being interviewed positively identifies the dead man on the roof as the same man who was photographed by a Beaver County Emergency Services officer before the shooting took place. This officer is said to have photographed Thomas Matthew Crooks and shared the photograph with other security personnel at the event. The law officer being interviewed then directs the investigator to the building immediately behind the rooftop.
by John Leake
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/greg-the-counter-sniper-apparently

Photos Of Thomas Crooks At Butler Rally Prove Snipers Were 40 Feet From Him As Shots Rang Out
The information coming out from the Butler PA Trump Rally Shooting provided by authorities does not make sense. The federal narrative has been unwinding and falling apart the past week since the attempted assassination of President Trump. Very limited information has emerged, usually in the form of selective leaks by the FBI to compliant media outlets. Part of the story that has not made sense is how Thomas Matthew Crooks, aged 20, with no specialized training, was able to identify a very unique security flaw in the rally arrangements, find the one building that would give him a clear line of sight to kill President Trump, evade any engagement by law enforcement, and then end up on top of a building where a counter-sniper team was operating inside, all at the exact right times in order to try and kill President Trump. The lack of clarity about where the counter-sniper team was in the building has contributed to the confusion. Part of the story has been that unnamed police took a photograph of Crooks prior to the shooting. The Gateway Pundit can exclusively reveal that the police who took the photo were those in the second floor of the AGR Building who inexplicably did not engage Crooks while on the roof, did not attempt to stop him from taking shots at President Trump, and whose presence is conspicuously absent from most mainstream media reporting on the rally shooting.
by Benjamin Wetmore
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/photos-thomas-crooks-butler-rally-prove-snipers-were

Congressional Incompetence In Its Trump-Shooting Investigation
Members of Congress are besides themselves over the testimony of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle regarding the near-assassination of former president Trump. They are upset that Cheatle was unable to provide them with adequate explanations as to what appears to be incompetence at best and willful blindness, conscious indifference, or complicity at worst on the part of the Secret Service. But if incompetence is the right explanation, it is matched by the incompetence of Congress in its supposed investigation into the shooting. After all, Cheatle wasn’t even there. Therefore, anything to which she testifies is necessarily based on nothing more than what others have told her. How is that type of testimony supposed to get to the bottom of what actually happened? It’s not. If Congress really wants to determine what happened and why, it should subpoena every single Secret Service agent and every single police officer on duty that day. Take the sworn testimony of all of them. Don’t let any of them sit inside the chamber and listen to what other witnesses are saying. Then put all that sworn testimony together and see if there are any contractions, anomalies, etc. If there are, then follow up on them.
by Jacob G. Hornberger
https://www.fff.org/2024/07/23/congressional-incompetence-in-its-trump-shooting-investigation

Trump Shooter Flew Drone Over Rally Site Just Hours Before Event
In the latest indicator of a glaring lack of security surrounding the Pennsylvania rally where a bullet came within inches or less of killing former President Trump, sources familiar with the investigation say would-be assassin Thomas Crooks flew a drone over the event site just a few hours before he opened fire. As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Crooks used the overflight to record footage of the rally layout on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show. His research of the facility began soon after the Trump campaign announced the event on July 3. He registered to attend on July 7, and soon thereafter, made the roundtrip drive of more than two hours from his Bethel Park home to recon the site in person. According to data from the drone, Crooks — who’s said to have been highly intelligent and tech-savvy — flew it on a pre-programmed path, an official who’d been briefed on the investigation told the New York Times. The Secret Service typically bans drone flights at secured sites; NBC News reports it’s unclear if such a prohibition was imposed at the rally. Conversely, the Secret Service usually requests FAA permission to deploy drones in restricted airspace such as the Trump rally, but did not on this occasion, according to the Times. This new development in the investigation adds a troubling new entry to an already damning timeline on the day of the shooting, which killed spectator Corey Comperatore and wounded two others. Crooks was identified as a suspicious individual more than an hour before he opened fire from a rooftop only about 450 feet from Trump’s podium. At the time, he’d already been observed in possession of a range finder and carrying a duffel bag. Later, he was spotted on a rooftop 20 minutes before all hell broke loose.
by Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-shooter-flew-drone-over-rally-site-just-hours-event

Cheatle Breaks Ice For New Era Of Unaccountablity
Secret Service director admits to Congress she has no exculpating explanation for assassination attempt, insists she need not resign.
Today, (Monday, July 22, 2024) Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle’s testified before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee today in which she called the July 13 assassination attempt the Secret Service’s “most significant operational failure” in decades. She did not try to deny that there is no excuse for allowing a young man with a rifle to climb onto a rooftop 400 feet away from the stage and take shots at the former president and current presidential candidate. Nevertheless, she insisted that this “most significant operational failure” in decades does not warrant her resignation. With her testimony, Director Cheatle breaks the ice for a no era of zero accountability for federal agencies, even when it comes to an incident in which an American citizen (Cory Comperatore) was killed and a campaigning presidential candidate almost killed. I suspect that this is an intentional gambit by whatever malevolent actors are now running this country behind the scenes. We American citizens are being explicitly told that even if our federal agencies fail us in the most stunning conceivable way, we must simply accept that the directors will not be held accountable, even when they admit responsibility.
by John Leake
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/cheatle-breaks-ice-for-new-era-of

Audio Analysis Is 100% Clear: Trump And Crowd Were Shot At By Two Separate People
There’s zero doubt. Two separate weapons were fired toward Trump and the Crowd. One fired 3 rounds, the other(s?) 6 or 7 depending on how many sniper rounds were fired at Crooks. This indicates a conspiracy to assassinate Trump.
by Chris Martenson, PhD
https://peakprosperity.com/audio-analysis-is-100-clear-trump-crowd-were-shot-at-by-two-separate-people

Investigating The Investigators (Text and Videos)
Amateur sleuths, cherry picking anomolies, begging the question, and some rudimentary audio analysis.
The image (video analysis inside that link) shows the trajectory of all shots fired from Crooks’ position, though a shooter from nearby Crooks’ position cannot be discounted. It shows each round’s trajectory, names the victims struck by each round, and shows where they were at the time of the shooting, but doesn’t account for the round that struck the hydraulic line on the crane behind the right grandstand. In this scenario it would have to be the 1st shot that also clips Trump’s ear, and hits the metal railing on the right grandstand, then deflects and takes out the hydraulic line, but the timing doesn’t match. It also doesn’t hold water IF Crooks only fired the first three rounds, meaning a second shooter would be needed to explain shots four and five which are wildly off the trajectory of the first three, yet do match the audio signatures of the first three. This raises another behavioral anomaly—why is there a gap of 2 full seconds between the first three shots and shots four and five, allowing the Secret Service time to cover Trump? Why would Crooks wait 2 seconds and not keep firing through his sights, and then fire two shots way off target hitting the audience members Corey Comperatore and James Copenhaver?
by Good Citizen
https://thegoodcitizen.live/p/investigating-the-investigators

The Young Man Was ‘The Patsy’
Besides not being able to kill the president, the other thing that went very wrong for the killers is that the young man did not climb to the highest point of the roof, as he would have had to do for the official narrative to have a basis. At the spot in which the young man died, he was in fact more than one yard away from the uppermost point of the roof and unable to even see the campaign rally. He would have had to climb to the very top, to the apex of the roof, to be in a position to commit the crime he is accused of. There is a TMZ video that surfaced today (7/19/24). He is looking forward in it and gunfire is heard; the crowd is screaming because of the shots while he is still looking forward. His arms are to his side. The video shows that he had no rifle. Just before the camera breaks away from him, in the last instant he is seen, his face moves rightward in the video. It could be that it is the moment he was killed. Right after it, the second barrage of shots is recorded; the fact that his face turns rightward after the first barrage has begun, shows that he is not the assassin. The TMZ video shows that he was either killed in the last instant we see him in their video, or else in the second barrage of gunfire.
by John Leo Keenan
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/john-leo-keenan/the-young-man-was-the-patsy

Secret Service Whistleblowers Emerge Following Trump Assassination Attempt
US Secret Service whistleblowers have approached the House Judiciary Committee, claiming that there were limited resources to cover former President Donald Trump last weekend due to the North Atlantic Treato Organization (NATO) summit in Washington DC, as well as first lady Jill Biden’s campaign rally in Pittsburgh, PA.
Chairman Jim Jordan has demanded answers FBI Director Christopher Wray, according to the Daily Caller. “Whistleblowers have disclosed to the Committee that the USSS led two briefings regarding the July 13 campaign rally on July 8, 2024, with the Western Pennsylvania Fusion Center (WPFC) and other stakeholders, to discuss the upcoming, unrelated visits by President Trump and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden,” reads a Thursday letter from Jordan to Wray. “The USSS Special Agent in Charge Tim Burke reportedly told law enforcement partners that the USSS had limited resources that week because the agency was covering the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, D.C. FBI personnel were present at those briefings. While the Committee recognizes that the FBI is one of many agencies represented in the WPFC, it is the lead federal investigative arm and a key source of intelligence on potential threats for special events in its area of responsibility,” he continued. “The Committee has several unanswered questions about the failures that led to the attempted assassination of a president—the first in over forty years—as well as the FBI’s ability to conduct a rapid, transparent, and thorough investigation in the wake of its recent scandals. Accordingly, to ensure that the Committee can effectively evaluate these matters during your testimony on July 24, 2024.”
by Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/secret-service-whistleblowers-emerge-following-trump-assassination-attempt

Tying Crooks Into A FBI And Secret Service Conspiracy
How might the pieces fit together?
Okay, so there’s a malicious Secret Service and a 20-year-old attempted assassin. What’s the connection between the two? The Secret Service doesn’t go out and solicit deranged leftist attackers. The likely scenario is that the FBI groomed Crooks from orders-on-high2 and, when certain he would make an attempt, informed the higher-ups who then leaned on the Secret Service to allow the attempt to happen. The motives for this were discussed in the first post on this topic: to create enormous Republican chaos before Trump had announced a Vice President (and there was no clear successor or front-runner to take the helm), as well as possibly to instigate the fabled Redneck Rebellion in order to then brutally crush it to formally usher in a hypercharged surveillance state, which will be discussed in perhaps my next post. By the way, it was difficult to do research for this post because both Bing and Google are heavily censoring search results. If you Bing images “Thomas Crooks” for example, nothing relevant comes up. They’re only getting better and better at censorship as the AI improves; eventually we will hit a point where globohomo will have total information control and we will not be able to find evidence supporting things we know to be true, or past events. Lastly, if one accepts that this was a conspiracy, it looks like they very may well try again as a Plan B, possibly using an explosion by “Iran” as “revenge” for the murder of Soleimani in order to both eliminate Trump, push the U.S. into another Middle Eastern war on behalf of Israel, and use it as an excuse to clamp down on free speech on the internet.3
by Neoliberal Feudalism
https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/tying-crooks-into-a-fbi-and-secret

Trump Would-Be Assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks Had Two Cell Phones And 3 Encrypted Accounts Overseas (Text and Videos)
Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks had two cell phones and used three encrypted accounts overseas to communicate. The FBI found Crooks’ second cell phone at his home with only 27 contacts, The Daily Mail reported. Congressman Mike Waltz told Fox News host Jesse Watters that according to an FBI briefing, Crooks had multiple encrypted accounts and said more will come out Monday. Rep. Waltz said the Trump shooter had the overseas accounts at the same time we heard about the Iranian assassination plot against Trump. Jesse Watters asked if the two are connected (they aren’t). The Intel agencies leaked an Iranian assassination plot story to CNN to throw chaos in the camp and distract from Saturday’s Secret Service failures. Congressman Mike Waltz says according to an FBI briefing, the Trump shooter had three encrypted accounts OVERSEAS, at the same time we’re hearing the Iranians are plotting against Trump. pic.twitter.com/fXMjenRVe0 — Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) July 19, 2024. Crooks did not work alone. Police found a cell phone and a bomb detonator next to Thomas Matthew Crooks after a Secret Service sniper fatally shot him on a rooftop outside of Trump’s Butler, Pennsylvania rally. “Channel 11’s Nicole Ford also obtained exclusive photos showing the cell phone and transmitter device found next to Crooks moments after a Secret Service sniper shot and killed him.” WPXI reported. The media is trying to paint Crooks as a ‘lone wolf’ and ‘domestic terrorist’ but there is no way he acted alone.
by Cristina Laila
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/just-trump-would-be-assassin-thomas-matthew-crooks

FBI Releases Questionable Timeline of Shooting (Text and Videos)
The counter-sniper who ultimately shot Crooks HAD to have seen the shooter when he took aim from the roof’s ridge. The kill shot hit Crooks when his head was positioned 3-5 feet downslope of ridge.
The FBI just released the following timeline of the Trump and Crooks shooting.
5:10 p.m. Crooks first identified as a person of interest.
5:30 p.m. Crooks spotted with a rangefinder.
5:52 p.m. Crooks spotted on the roof by USSS.
6:02 p.m. Trump takes the stage.
6:12 p.m. Crooks fires first shots. Crooks shot 26 seconds later.
Given that the team on the north barn may not have been able to see the entire east side of the ridge, the obvious choice was to assign each of the four riflemen to scope a particular section of the ridge. The two riflemen on the south barn could indeed see the ridge behind which Crooks popped up to take aim. It’s very hard for me to believe that at least one of the riflemen did not see Crooks aiming his rifle in time to shoot him before he fired. According to the FBI, even after Crooks completely gave away his position by firing from it, it still took the counter-sniper 26 seconds to return the fatal shot. Something must have caused the counter-snipers to hesitate.
by John Leake
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/fbi-releases-questionable-timeline

Major News Outlet Urges Media To Bury Iconic Trump Photo Due To “Free PR” Concerns
A major news outlet’s photo editor criticized the widespread publishing of a dramatic photo depicting former President Donald Trump just moments after an assassination attempt, calling it unintentional “free PR” for Trump, and calling for it to not be shown. The editor, whose identity remains confidential, emphasized the potential danger in glorifying such an image, according to an Axios analysis of media trends. The photo shows Trump right after a bullet narrowly missed him at a rally in Pennsylvania. Captured by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci, the image went viral, showing Trump, bloodied but unbowed, raising a fist to his supporters as he was hurried off stage, flanked by the Secret Service, with the American flag in the background. Despite its acclaim as a symbol of defiance and resilience, the photo editor and a photographer from the same outlet have advised against its frequent use in the media, warning that it could inadvertently serve to enhance Trump’s public image positively. Trump himself commented on the photo’s impact in an interview with the New York Post, proudly noting the iconic status of the image and the unusual circumstance of surviving such an ordeal, saying, “A lot of people say it’s the most iconic photo they’ve ever seen. They’re right and I didn’t die. Usually, you have to die to have an iconic picture.”
by Cindy Harper
https://reclaimthenet.org/major-news-outlet-urges-media-to-bury-iconic-trump-photo-due-to-free-pr-concerns

My Questions Regarding The Trump Shooting
Okay. Okay. Every talking head from every medium in the world has already given their analysis of the Trump shooting in Pennsylvania. I almost decided to NOT write on this because, after all, virtually everything that can be said about it has been said—everyone from the conventional, mockingbird media to the most fanciful conspiracy theorist and everyone in between. But, alas, here I am writing about the Trump shooting. At this point, I have mostly observations and questions regarding those observations—quite a few questions. My biggest questions concern the Secret Service (SS) itself. I’ve heard people say that the SS was ordered to “stand down,” thus giving the shooter a prime position and plenty of time to take his shot. I even saw a video of one guy who claimed to be one of the SS snipers in the now-famous photos who said he had the bad guy in his sights for over 3 minutes and was ordered to not fire. I will not even begin to comment on the legitimacy of that claim. But based on the reasonable takeaways from the footage that we all have seen repeatedly, I have several serious questions, most of which concern the Secret Service as an agency. First, it defies all logic that the professional federal agency tasked with the sole responsibility of protecting America’s presidents, vice presidents, their wives and families as well as the major presidential candidates could be as lax, as unprofessional and as downright inept as what we witnessed last Saturday. What? A twenty-year-old man with a rifle climbs on and then crawls across the roof of a building a mere 130 yards away from Trump? Are you kidding? That’s Keystone Cops-level incompetency. Why did the SS NOT recognize that rooftop as a high-priority area and have agents posted there before people even started arriving? Even amateur security people would have noticed and protected that vulnerable position. To me, that is the single most glaring question in this entire episode. To not have protected that position was imbecilic to a magnitude that was off the charts. Use any word you want: Stupid. Inept. Idiotic. Sophomoric. Moronic. Dumb. Unbelievable. Unfathomable. Nincompoopish. They all fit. I can easily understand why some people are saying that the SS was told to “stand down” or deliberately leave this location unguarded. It’s hard to fathom a professional agency trained to protect America’s presidential personnel showing themselves to be that inept.
by Chuck Baldwin
https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/4603/My-Questions-Regarding-The-Trump-Shooting.aspx

Secret Service Had ‘little Resources’ To Cover Trump Rally After NATO Summit: Whistleblowers
The Secret Service had “little resources” to cover the July 13 campaign rally where former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated in Pennsylvania after the conclusion of a NATO summit in Washington, D.C., according to congressional whistleblowers. The whistleblowers told the House Judiciary Committee that Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Tim Burke revealed the oversight at a July 8 meeting with the FBI, Western Pennsylvania Fusion Center and other law enforcement partners. The meeting was held to talk over security needs for Trump’s fateful event in Butler, Pa., on top of first lady Jill Biden’s separate event on behalf of her husband’s campaign in Pittsburgh the same day. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday to divulge the whistleblowers’ disclosures to his panel. “Law enforcement overlooked a number of vulnerabilities prior to and during the event, allowing an assassin to shoot a President, murder an attendee, and critically wound two others,” Jordan said. “This tragedy demands a full and transparent investigation,” he added, emphasizing that FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate promised a “rapid” investigation with “maximum transparency.”
by Josh Christenson
https://nypost.com/2024/07/18/us-news/secret-service-had-little-resources-to-cover-trump-rally-after-nato-summit-whistleblower

4 Revelations Raising Heat On Secret Service After Trump Shooting
In one of the most explosive discoveries this week, law enforcement had identified Crooks as a person of interest at the Butler, Pa., rally 62 minutes before the gunman fired several shots at Trump. Crooks, 20, of the Pittsburgh suburb of Bethel Park, drove roughly 35 miles north to the Trump rally with an AR-style weapon, climbed a building just outside of the event’s perimeter, and fired several shots at Trump. One bullet grazed Trump’s ear, one spectator was shot and two others were injured. It’s now known that Crooks visited the rally site on July 7 to scout out the location and also visited it the morning of the rally, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and FBI Director Christopher Wray, told senators in a half-hour conference call Wednesday. Crooks later returned and was eyed by authorities around 5:10 p.m. before law enforcement spotted him with a rangefinder at 5:30 p.m., sending a radio alert to a command post. Local law enforcement and Secret Service agents then tried to locate Crooks but he was not spotted again until roughly 5:52 p.m., when the shooter was seen on the roof by an agency countersniper positioned on rooftops immediately in the vicinity of the stage.
by Ellen Mitchell
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/4781005-secret-service-fbi-trump-shooting

The Bullets Of An Assassin
The bullets of an assassin shook the world on Saturday, July 13. Dark forces are at play that want the war against Russia to continue, and they are willing to be ruthless, to murder even their own leaders if it means they can get their way, and if they can do that, what will they not do? We have entered a very dangerous time. The bullets of an assassin shook the world on Saturday, July 13. Shot by a sniper at a campaign rally in a small town in Pennsylvania, Presidential candidate and former President Trump survived by a hair’s breadth as the assassin’s bullets just missed the centre of his head, which he moved as he spoke, and hit his ear as it whistled by. Photos of the bullet can be seen in many posts online. Trump went to the ground of his own accord and it seemed to be seconds before any security people began to surround him, and then after assuring themselves the sniper was “neutralised” brought him to his feet, at which Trump, to assure the world he was still alive, raised his fist in salute and shouted in defiance at those who tried to murder him, “fight, fight, fight.” Who Is Responsible? Those who are behind this assassination, for no one can believe that this sniper acted alone, are exposed by the news coverage and political statements made after the shooting. CNN stands for most of the US media, attempting to downplay the crime as an “incident,” running headlines the he suffered a “fall”, without stating the cause, even interviewing talking heads who called for “unity” in the face of an attempt on the life of the main opposition candidate, one of whom accused Trump’s defiant raised fist as more proof of how dangerous a man he is to “American democracy.” Similar treatment was given to the crime by other US mass media. To watch the news coverage immediately after the shooting was an journey into a parallel world where the BBC, which had reporters there covering the events, interviewed multiple witness stating that they saw the sniper go towards the building and climb onto the roof, that they alerted the police and Secret Service near them, but that the security services did not react at all until after the shooting took place, and all of them stated they were sure the police and Secret Service had to be involved. But if you went back to CNN, the only thing they were showing was some “expert in security” talking about proper security protocols as if the identity and motives of the assassin were of no importance nor how he could get so close to Trump without being stopped.
by Christopher Black
https://journal-neo.su/2024/07/17/the-bullets-of-an-assassin

Cops Radioed “Blanket Tactical Channel” About Shooter After Rooftop Confrontation, Yet Nothing Was Done
Evidence continues to mount that Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump by shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was allowed to happen, despite ample warning from bystanders, local PD, and even the shooter’s parents. [She says they called to say he was missing even though we know he told his dad he was going to the gun range with the AR-15 he borrowed. Context: That doesn’t warrant the description of ‘missing’. Instead, it indicates that his parents feared he left with a purpose and there’s no way they didn’t relay that to the police.]
To review: Three hours before the shooting, security for the rally caught Crooks with a rangefinder and let him go. 40 minutes before the shooting, law enforcement circulated a picture of Crooks crawling around on the ground. Local PD notified the Secret Service that they had inadequate resources to monitor the building used by Crooks. The parents of Thomas Matthew Crooks called law enforcement before the assassination attempt to warn them that their son was “missing” and they were “worried” about him. Local law enforcement observed Crooks leave the area and return three times, during which they took two pictures of him and reported the suspicious activity. A Secret Service agent in charge of security for the event was on the phone with local and state police about the threat while the shooting took place. Crowds were shouting at the police to do something about the guy on the roof with a rifle for several minutes. And now for the kicker: After Crooks was positioned on the roof, one cop boosted another cop up to the roofline – only for Crooks to point his weapon at him. At that point, the boosted cop fell.
by Tyler Durden
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cops-radioed-blanket-tactical-channel-about-shooter-after-rooftop-confrontation-yet

What Comes After “Assassination Attempt” On The Globalist Itinerary?
(Hint: It sounds a lot like another assassination attempt.)
While the world continues to reel from the epic failure of the Secret Service to protect President Trump from some loud popping noises a blatant assassination attempt that scores of people saw coming and tried to prevent, life on the third rock goes on. VP candidates get picked, bikini clad trophy wives frolic in Mykonos, the climate change PR campaign remains stuck in screaming overdrive. It’s a lot to keep up with, especially when you keep getting sucked into stories like “Secret Service boss blames ‘sloped roof’ for not putting sniper team on building used by would-be Trump assassin.” I wish I were making that up. There are plenty of folks on this perplexed planet who’d prefer an expired version of DJT to the fist-pumping, fight-fight-fight, MAGA-loving one, including the countless disgusting humans openly lamenting “he missed” after the assault. I wonder if any of the haters ever stop to imagine what this country/world would (will?) look like in the wake of a successful Trump takedown. Spoiler: It won’t be pretty. The internet is teeming with grim predictions about what the next several months are going to look like, especially if the lone shooters of the world are successful at unaliving either candidate (TL; DW: false flags, cyber attacks, civil unrest, food shortages, martial law, mass hysteria). If I were a billionaire running for office with a target the size of Texas on my back, I think I’d be spending some hefty coin on private security protection and not leaving that task to the folks who desperately want me dead.
by Jenna McCarthy
https://jennasside.rocks/p/what-comes-after-assassination-attempt

Trump Assassination: Crooks’ Impossible Path To The Roof At Butler, PA Rally (Analysis)
In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of President Trump, federal law enforcement can’t figure out a motive for the shooter, and they can’t get into all the details of his phone, but they’re 100% sure that he acted alone. What does not make sense is how a 20-year-old nursing home food attendant managed to find one spot with a direct line of sight to President Trump and how Thomas Crooks managed to know of all the ongoing security lapses and failures that day, including the reassignment of the Secret Service to Jill Biden, who had a function in Pittsburgh the same day.
Thomas Crooks, accused by the FBI of being the Trump sniper Another part of the story that makes no sense is that 20-year-old Thomas Crooks, who lived an hour away before he went to the rally, knew that he would need a ladder in order to scale the walls and take a shot at President Trump. According to federal authorities, Crooks stopped at Home Depot on his way to the rally in his hometown of Bethel Park and bought a 5-foot ladder. Initially, the pictures leaking out from the rally’s aftermath showed a ladder that was in place near where Crooks’ body was found, on top of the American Glass Research manufacturing company warehouse near the Butler Farm Show Airport.
by Benjamin Wetmore
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/trump-assassination-crooks-impossible-path-roof-butler-pa

A Huge Financial Bet Against Donald Trump’s Company Was Made Before The Assassination Attempt
Must be a coincidence, right?
Donald Trump is a significant owner of Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT) shares. That publicly traded entity operates Truth Social, a pro-Trump social network in which Mr. Trump owns 78.8 million shares. The network’s business plan is to be the hangout for like-minded Trump fans who want to be the first to read their favorite politician’s announcements and socialize. Like other stocks, many people buy and sell shares of DJT for various reasons. However, an interesting financial bet stands out. A little-known private financial firm reported initiating an unusually large short position by buying put options for the nominal amount of 12,000,000 shares. So, on July 12th, a day before the assassination attempt, Austin Private Wealth reported a short position nominally equivalent to 12 million shares. It is huge: it represents approximately one-seventh of Trump’s ownership in the same company, or 16% of all available stock float not held by major insiders. A sudden demise of Truth Social’s central figure, Donald Trump, would make the DJT 0.00%? stock worthless, making Austin Private Wealth a beneficiary of a gigantic payoff. Depending on the strike price, it could be a couple hundred million dollars.
by Igor Chudov
https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/a-huge-financial-bet-against-donald

Puzzling Features of Crooks Crime Scene
Did Crooks toss his rifle aside? If so, was he hoping that counter-snipers would refrain from shooting him to preserve him as a witness?
The following still images from aerial video footage of the dead would-be assassin on the rooftop strike me as puzzling. Note the large flow of blood downslope of his body in the following closeup. The position of his body marks the position at which he was shot in the head. I initially wondered if if the photo was taken after law officers checked Crooks’s body to make sure he was dead, then separated the weapon from his body, and then left the scene. Perhaps initial responders were told to leave the roof to minimize contamination of the crime scene, and to wait in the parking lot below for the coroner and crime scene investigators to arrive. However, I still believe it is worth trying to ascertain if it was Crooks who tossed the weapon far to his left after he finished shooting. It appears that the weapon’s magazine is still seated in the weapon. Did the responders check to make sure the chamber and magazine were empty, and then reinsert the magazine? The position of Crooks’s body—a few feet below the roof’s ridge—suggest that he was trying to crawl in reverse, back down the roof, but was unable to keep his head low enough to avoid getting shot by a counter-sniper. I wonder if he believed—or was led to believe—that if he made a show of tossing his rifle far to the side, the counter-snipers would refrain from shooting him to preserve him as a witness. Obviously, the time to shoot Crooks was the second he aimed his weapon from the roof’s ridge, not after he’d finished shooting and was crawling in retreat back down the roof’s slope.
by John Leake
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/puzzling-features-of-crooks-crime

Total Must Read: Everyone Knew The Assassination Attempt Was Imminent (Text and Videos)
Am I exaggerating? If so, not by so much that it makes much difference. Here’s the must read article: Cops Radioed “Blanket Tactical Channel” About Shooter After Rooftop Confrontation, Yet Nothing Was Done
Evidence continues to mount that Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump by shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks was allowed to happen, despite ample warning from bystanders, local PD, and even the shooter’s parents. This article answers so many questions. Like … What did the cop who poked up onto the roof do after the shooter pointed his rifle at him? What was going on between the counter snipers and the SS command center at the time the shooting started? How long before the shooting was the shooter caught and released? How many times was the shooter observed and reported for suspicious activity? The officer who confronted Thomas Matthew Crooks on the roof radioed a “blanket tactical channel” that there was “an individual on the roof with a weapon” before the assassination attempt on President Trump. Why wasn’t President Trump immediately evacuated?
by Mark Wauck
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/total-must-read-everyone-knew-the

“Lady MacBiden”
Trump Assassination Attempt: Does Dr Jill Biden Need to be Questioned?
I am careful about my words. I don’t throw around accusations, and, for the legal record, I am not here making an accusation. This essay is deliberately written so as to not be an act of defamation or of libel. Here is my immediate response on Saturday July 13, to the assassination attempt. As I warned you all in my recent essay “What Time It is”, about the incarceration of Stephen K Bannon, the attempt on President Trump’s life on Saturday July 13 was sadly predictable, as we are in the period, foreseeable per the historical record in a declining democracy, of the “physical mopping-up of the opposition.” Subsequent to the assassination attempt against President Trump last Saturday in Butler, PA, I need to talk about Dr Jill Biden and her office. I believe Dr Jill Biden and Hunter Biden and Dr Jill Biden’s staff need to be investigated subsequent to (my awkward grammar is to avoid the legal repercussions of saying, “in relation to”) the assassination attempt against President Trump. There has been historic reluctance to challenge any First Lady. But someone made the decision to surround President Trump with tiny female Secret Service agents, at least one of whom cowered behind him while he was being shot at, and who appeared later not to know how to manage her holster. All this happened when who knows how many tall, strong, experienced Secret Service agents were just 54 minutes away. Someone made sure to arrange to be short of a third counter-sniper team; someone made sure to fail to secure a building 130 meters away from the speaker. Someone is directing SS director Cheatle to give nonsensical answers (this is itself a message, about impunity). Most chillingly, to me, is that someone directed a guard in military uniform to point his rifle directly at the van with a wounded Pres. Trump in it, before raising it again.
by Dr. Naomi Wolf
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/lady-macbiden

Catalyst Events And The Trump Assassination Attempt
A Theory for How Trump Dodged the Assassin’s Bullet
Note: this article is very different from the content typically publish, but I felt it should be written due to a few questions I was repeatedly receiving.
Both I and my spiritual teachers believe we live in a very unique era, where due to cyclical cosmic forces that are at a play, longstanding paradigms can change in a blink of an eye and previously inconceivable events will occur one after another. On one hand, this cyclical period where “time is cut in half and cut in half again” is often thought of as “the age of darkness” because humans often cannot adapt to the rapid changes it brings forth, but on the flip side these periods offer immense opportunities for both individuals and societies at large to evolve and discard dysfunctional paradigms which caused immense damage to everyone for generations. For example, imagine for a moment how slowly human society changed over the centuries, and then compare it to how profoundly different our society has been in each successive decade, or that the pace of change has only continued to accelerate-especially with the advent of the internet. Because society becomes so mutable in these eras, events will frequently emerge that have the potential to radically shift the direction of the society for decades if not generations to come. More importantly, those events are often inflection points that offer two very different paths depending on which way the society bifurcates, and hence the way individuals in the society respond to the event carries truly profound consequences.
by A Midwestern Doctor
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/catalyst-events-and-the-trump-assassination

AP Photos: Shooting At Trump Rally In Pennsylvania
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rally-shooting-photo-gallery-561478b3f90c950c741eeaa24c6dc159

Two Different Counter-Sniper Views Of Crooks
North and south teams were on their scopes up to two minutes before Crooks fired.
At approximately the same time that people on the ground next to the building on which Crooks was perched started frantically yelling and gesturing at the roof, two counter sniper teams — one on the north barn and one on the south barn behind the stage—aimed their rifles at the roof about which the alarm was raised. The fact that the man crawling on the roof was armed with a rifle was noted by eyewitnesses up to five minutes prior to Crooks firing on the stage. Two eyewitnesses have stated they explicitly alerted police officers on the ground—and pointed to Crooks on the roof—minutes prior to the shooting. Why didn’t law enforcement on the ground immediately notify Secret Service on stage and on the two barn roofs that a man with a rifle was crawling up the roof on the building to their north? Why was no police interdiction immediately launched from the ground next to the building? Even a police officer with a sidearm on the ground could have fired on Crooks—perhaps not hitting him, but at least suppressing him from advancing up the roof. The view of this photo taken from the ground might as well have been the view looking down gun sights.
by John Leake
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/two-different-counter-sniper-views

Alex Soros Is A Nut Job – Implies Assassinating Trump
Anyone who does not know had better open their eyes. Alex Soros is far worse than his father – far worse than you can ever imagine. He lacks the school of hard knocks and is spoiled with money that has made him think he is Superman and above the law. This image of $47 and a bullet hole implying to assassinate the 47th President, Trump, is his answer to his and his father’s attempt to rule the world. They are not satisfied tearing down borders, pushing for authoritarian insanity, funding the prosecutions against Trump, funding the case in Colorado to remove Trump from the ballot all in the name of democracy? They ignore culture, religion, and even family, force their view upon the world, and assume only what they know is best. Both he and his father think their Open Society promotes a better world when he himself makes veiled threats to assassinate Donald Trump. Bidenomics is a complete failure, and George knows that as a hedge fund manager. He shorted the pound because of fiscal mismanagement. Yet George and Alex still advocate destroying the very foundation of the United States to further their one-world government headed by the United Nations.
by Martin Armstrong
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/alex-soros-is-a-nut-job-implies-assassinating-trump

Biden’s Team Deliberately Kneecapped Trump’s Security To Allow An Assassination Attempt
They kept the rooftop open, watched the shooter, kept Trump on the stage, and didn’t do a damn thing until after he had been shot. And we’re supposed to believe it was an innocent oopsie?
Nobody wants to hear this because of the implications, but oh well, because it needs to be said: Joe Biden’s security regime deliberately and with malice and forethought created the conditions that led to an attempted assassin shooting Donald Trump in the head. It is by the grace of God that he lived and our nation is not currently in the midst of a violent civil war. They deliberately starved Trump’s security team of the resources it needed. And they did it repeatedly, over many weeks and months. With Trump’s security detail understaffed, under-resourced, and stretched to its limits, Biden’s security regime reportedly diverted even more resources to a hastily planned Jill Biden event that just happened to be in the area. Biden’s security regime then ordered the most obvious assassination perch in the entire area to remain outside the main security perimeter. Furthermore, Biden’s Secret Service director ordered law enforcement and counter-snipers OFF the roof the assassin used. If that weren’t enough, Biden’s security regime also refused to block the line of sight from the assassin’s perch to Trump’s location. When law enforcement radioed in a suspicious person using a laser range finder at the building and even took photos of him, nothing was done to detain the assassin. The assassin was so obviously a threat that bystanders at the event begged law enforcement to stop him, but nothing happened. And even as snipers on the roof near Trump saw a gunman on the other roof, Biden’s security regime refused to have agents immediately surround Trump or remove him from the stage to protect him from being shot.
by Sean Davis
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/16/bidens-team-deliberately-kneecapped-trumps-security-to-allow-an-assassination-attempt

“If Trump becomes President again in 2024 it will be the final death blow to the Global Order.”
Yuval Noah Harari

The Deep State Mentality
US received intel of a new Iranian plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, CNN reports. They’re already blaming Iran…
For those with short memories, the Raisi they’re referring to is Ebrahim Raisi. He was the president of Iran who was killed in a helicopter crash just back in May. The accident occurred right next to the Azerbaijan border—which is literally crawling with Mossad, CIA, and MI6. You might have thought that Iran would have rushed to blame some combination of the Great, Medium, and Little Satans for this event. You would have been wrong. Iran went almost out of its way to immediately place the blame on the weather and a possible mechanical malfunction. What a contrast to the United States, and how much this tells us about the Ruling Class! The Deep State/Neocon/Zionist cabal thinks you’re really stupid. Thus they rushed to gaslight you about Iranian plots to assassinate Trump. The NYPD even suggested the assassination was tied to anti-genocide demonstrators—based on zero evidence. The whole thing was so outlandish that this gaslighting has received almost no publicity at all. It’s almost as if the MSM is too ashamed of their own role to get involved in that BS. The reality is that America has for decades been in the grips of a massive, coordinated disinformation campaign directed at its own citizens by its Ruling Class. Trump represents the citizenry attempting to break out of the gaslighting and to acquire a true picture of their own country and its place in the world.
Mark Wauck
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/the-deep-state-mentality

Assassination Revelation (Of The Method)
The Cryptocracy is laughing at us
I write these words less than 48 hours after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in the village of Butler in western Pennsylvania. Not wanting to be guilty of what the illustrious Mark Lane once termed a “Rush to Judgement,” this is a preliminary analysis subject to revision as more information becomes available. Most noticeable is the diabolic nose-thumbing at the public which the events of July 13 symbolize. I. The shooter was visible on the roof of a building some 120 yards from Mr. Trump. In news accounts we learn of repeated demands by witnesses for the police to access the roof. The New York Post reported that “the would-be assassin was spotted by police twice, 26 minutes before he shot Trump.” This has been followed by alternating tales of a policeman going to the roof either via a ladder or, in account no. 2, there was no ladder and the officer somehow crawled up, and while hanging on to the edge of the roof with both hands, spotted the would-be assassin but could do nothing, since both his hands were supporting him precariously on the roof edge. (In account no. 1 the ladder indicates that the officer likely had one hand free and after seeing the armed man could have reached for his weapon, but did not). In both accounts the policeman did not engage the shooter and it is allegedly at that point that the shooter turned toward Trump and fired eight bullets from the rifle liberals detest more than all others, the infamous “AR-15.”
by Michael Hoffman
https://michaelhoffman.substack.com/p/assassination-revelation-of-the-method

On Grounding Mechanisms
Avoid untethered schizophrenia.
This is a post which investigates how people process information, whether it is by their intuition, their reliance on official expertise or otherwise. It argues that that no one can decide what you should believe for you, that you must rely on your own judgment and expertise – but if you don’t have a feedback mechanism to provide more objective feedback to your approach then it is very easy to become divorced from reality. In 2008 highly influential arch-liberal Cass Sunstein articulated a strategy called cognitive infiltration in an article titled “Conspiracy Theories” for the Journal of Political Philosophy. In it he made a radical proposal: “Our main policy claim here is that government should engage in cognitive infiltration of the groups that produce conspiracy theories.” He defined “cognitive infiltration” as a program “whereby government agents or their allies (acting either virtually or in real space, and either openly or anonymously) will undermine the crippled epistemology of believers by planting doubts about the theories and stylized facts that circulate within such groups.” See here and here if you want the details on this. Globohomo picked it up and ran with it, and its effects can be seen everywhere today. Cognitive infiltration on social media is heavily boosted via paid agents, “influencers” and bots who push arguments about, for example, the glass dome and the firmament (flat earth arguments) to distract people and lead them into harmless political dead ends.
by Neoliberal Feudalism
https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/on-grounding-mechanisms

The Popping Noises Heard ‘Round The World
Or, as I like to call it, the day journalism officially died
Exactly one minute after some popping noises scared some people at a Trump rally the attempted assassination of a former Commander in Chief and current presidential candidate, I got a text from a friend in a group string. I couldn’t open X fast enough. I knew that the diligent and dedicated citizen journalists of the world would be on it. Trump had been shot in the head. He went down—briefly—but had already gotten back up. He was alive. The entire situation could be assessed in three seconds and a single scroll. Because I love to hate lamestream news—no seriously, if it were a paying job I’d be typing this from the aft deck of my superyacht—I couldn’t wait to see how the mockingbird media were presenting this broad-daylight, murderous attack on 45 to the zombified masses still ridin’-for-Biden. Oh, CNN. Certainly no one can ever accuse you of using clickbait just to get page views. This is actually clickrepellant. Seeing that headline, this is the scenario that unfolds in my head: Trump was on stage talking about some yugely great things believe him when suddenly, Special Agent Andrews began singing “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things” at the top of her lungs, stealing the spotlight for a few cringy seconds before the Donald regained control and resumed his speech. What? Is that not what happened?
by Jenna McCarthy
https://jennasside.rocks/p/the-popping-noises-heard-round-the

Shooter Allegedly Brought His Own Ladder To Event
Assailant apparently parked near event and carried ladder from vehicle to building, was apparently trying to crawl backwards to the ladder when he was shot in the head.
In the 48 hours before he opened fire on former President Donald Trump, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks made a series of stops in and around his suburban Pittsburgh hometown. On Friday, he went to a shooting range where he was a member, and practiced firing, a law enforcement official told CNN. The next morning, Crooks went to a Home Depot, where he bought a five-foot ladder, and a gun store, where he purchased 50 rounds of ammunition, the official said. Then, Crooks drove his Hyundai Sonata about an hour north, joining thousands of people from around the region who flocked to Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He parked the car outside the rally, with an improvised explosive device hidden in the trunk that was wired to a transmitter he carried, the official said. Then, investigators believe, he used his newly-bought ladder to scale a nearby building, and opened fire on the former president. If this is true, it is yet another glaring indication that security was simply pulled from the building located about 130 yards north of where Trump was scheduled to speak. Naturally the notion of Crooks toting a ladder up to the building without being observed and stopped seems beyond belief. The CNN report mentions nothing about a roof rack on his car, and even a telescoping ladder probably wouldn’t fit in a Hyundai Sonata.
by John Leake
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/shooter-allegedly-brought-his-own

The Surrender
In the wake of a fatal shooting and attempted assassination of Donald Trump, a series of reversals may mark the beginning of a new political era
The decision was announced at a White House briefing Monday morning. “In light of this weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr.,” was the quote from Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas. It’s difficult to read the line “in light of this weekend’s events” and not see an admission on the part of the White House that Secret Service protection was previously being denied to Kennedy, Jr. for political reasons, or out of spite, if those are even two different things in this era. Whatever the original prerogative was for pushing the envelope with that denial, it seems to have been removed by series of paradigm-shattering news events, leading to a flurry of real and symbolic surrenders. MSNBC likewise made an extraordinary decision Sunday night to pull Morning Joe, with CNN saying the network wanted to “to avoid a scenario in which one of the show’s stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television.” As with the Secret Service decision, MSNBC was making a major admission, essentially telling audiences its lead morning news show is either not really a news show, or that its format only holds up under something less than maximum scrutiny. I can’t recall a similar act of self-sabotage in media.
by Matt Taibbi
https://www.racket.news/p/the-surrender

Making Sense Of The Information Chaos Surrounding The Failed Assassination Attempt Of Trump
Helpful context and organization for assessing the assassination attempt and the aftermath
A friend from across the pond asked me to how to assess the failed assassination attempt of President Trump, and thought the response worthy of a substack post. Since almost half of my subs are from outside the US, and even for people inside the US the information firehose is very chaotic, I figured it worthwhile to reproduce here. The point of this article is not to delve into the details of the actual event, nor to highlight the insidious, Orwellian and frankly evil nature of how the media and many politicians/pundits attempted to spin this. There are an endless array of other sources one can easily access especially through Twitter/X and adding another article to the burgeoning cavalcade of what is now mostly repetitive pieces regurgitating the same series of observations adds no value to anyone. That there was a shocking and profound failure of security for the rally is anyways an unimpeachably established fact at this point, something that has been already widely covered in the public domain from every conceivable angle. (The rest of the explanation of the objectives of this article is at the end of the article.)
by Ashmedai
https://ashmedai.substack.com/p/making-sense-of-the-information-chaos

Wanted: Secret Service Agents With Roofing Experience
Throughout suburban America each day teams of roofers are replacing old shingles with new on house roofs. Carrying tools and building materials, they move and work with sure footedness approaching that of mountain goats, and typically without the use of safety ropes to prevent falls. These workers came to mind when I read the excuse Kimberly A. Cheatle, the director of the United States Secret Service, gave in an ABC News interview for why no Secret Service agents or other police were stationed on the roof Saturday from which an individual with a rifle attempted to assassinate Donald Trump while Trump presented a scheduled presidential campaign speech outdoors to a large group of supporters. Here is how she explained why this one roof among a small number of reasonably close places an assassin likely would see as optimal for taking a fatal shot was left unguarded: That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.
by Adam Dick
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/wanted-secret-service-agents-with-roofing-experience

Report: ‘Three Counter-Snipers’ Were In Building Trump Shooter Used, Took Photos Of Him
Three law enforcement officers were stationed inside the building where a gunman shot former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday. Two days after the failed assassination attempt, BeaverCountian.com reported that an officer confirmed “there were three counter-snipers” stationed underneath the same roof where the assailant blew off part of President Trump’s right ear. Officers notified the “command center” about the threat before the gunman fatally shot a rallygoer and injured three others, including the Republican presidential nominee. “A Beaver County police officer warned a command center of seeing a man with a rangefinder before former President Donald Trump was shot on Saturday,” reported the website. “The officer had also warned the man was scoping out the roof of the building he was stationed in as a counter-sniper, and that the man returned with a backpack before ultimately scaling the building.” According to CBS, law enforcement even took a picture of him before the gunfire. “Contrary to reports in national news outlets, officers say the building just outside the security perimeter established by Secret Service was in fact occupied by law enforcement,” added BeaverCountian.com. Federalist CEO Sean Davis summed up the situation on X: “Who gave the order to do nothing until after the assassin shot Trump, killed an innocent man on that stage, and fired round after round after round after round?” But the security failures even go deeper. According to NBC News, the Secret Service was made aware of the unique threat presented by the building “days” before the Pennsylvania rally. Yet the building wasn’t included in the official security perimeter.
by Tristan Justice
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/16/report-three-counter-snipers-were-in-building-trump-shooter-used-took-photos-of-him

“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism
that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.”
Creepy Joe Biden

Law Enforcement Spotted Trump Shooter Nearly 30 Minutes Before Shots Fired, NBC Affiliate Reports
WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) – The man who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Saturday was spotted by law enforcement nearly 30 minutes before shots were fired, a local NBC affiliate reported on Monday. WPXI reported that a member of Beaver County, Pennsylvania’s emergency services unit noticed a suspicious man on a roof near the rally at 5:45 p.m., called it in and took a picture of the person.
Shots were fired at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, after 6 p.m.
by Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/law-enforcement-spotted-trump-shooter-nearly-30-minutes-before-shots-fired-nbc-2024-07-15

The Man Killed At A Trump Rally Died Shielding His Family. Neighbors Share Stories Of 2 Others Hurt
Loved ones of the man killed when a sniper opened fire at a rally for former President Donald Trump describe him as a beloved family man and girl dad who served his community with “quiet resilience.”
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — The bystander killed when a sniper opened fire at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania was a beloved family man and girl dad who served his community with “quiet resilience,” his loved ones said Monday. Corey D. Comperatore, 50, of Sarver, raised two daughters with his high school sweetheart while working as a project and tooling engineer. He also spent a decade as an Army reservist and many years as a volunteer firefighter, where he also served for a time as chief, according to his obituary. “His courage was not the loud and boisterous kind; it was the courage of quiet resilience,” the tribute said. “Corey’s legacy is not just in the major milestones he achieved but in the small acts of kindness that marked his everyday life.” Two other bystanders injured in the attack remained hospitalized Monday in critical but stable condition, according to an Allegheny General Hospital spokesperson. David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, is an ex-Marine who has spent decades working as a machinist with Siemens USA. James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, had retired after managing a Pennsylvania state liquor store.
by Associated Press
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-07-15/funeral-services-planned-for-former-fire-chief-shot-to-death-at-trump-rally-in-pennsylvania

Local Officer Fired Shot At Trump Shooter, Butler DA Confirms
The investigation continues into the shooting at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler County on Saturday. Trump was injured in an assassination attempt shortly after he began speaking. One attendee, a former fire chief, was killed and two others were injured. The gunman, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was also killed. It was the first assassination attempt made on a sitting president or presidential candidate since 1981. Investigators are still working to determine a motive behind the shooting. We continue our coverage of this developing story. Stay with Channel 11 and WPXI.com for the latest updates. A local police sniper fired a shot at Crooks, Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger confirms. Goldinger said that it’s his understanding the shot that killed Crooks was fired by the Secret Service. The local officer is now on administrative leave, which is standard protocol, the DA confirmed.
by WPXI.com News Staff
https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/updates-investigation-continues-into-trump-rally-shooting-butler-county-heres-latest/KYMZGK2PJBFEJGN6SD5DYACMHM

Trump Got A Bloodied Ear. US ‘Political Violence’ Poses A Far Bigger Danger To The Rest Of Us
Biden and Trump are two rotten figureheads of a rotting empire. Ignore the tribal rhetoric: neither poses an existential threat. But the system behind them does
The outpouring of opinions on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump mostly offers little insight or honesty – apart from the all-too-obvious concern that the shooting of the former president is likely to make the United States even more of a tinderbox than it is already. There’s a reason for this. The responses – whether from Trump supporters or Trump opponents – are all embedded in the same ideology of political tribalism that provoked the gunman. Neither side is capable of self-reflection because the US system is designed to avoid such self-reflection. Despite what the political class wants you to believe, “political violence” is as American as apple pie. The US global empire was built on political violence, or the threat of it, most especially after the Second World War. Just ask the people of Vietnam, Serbia, Latin America, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine and Gaza. The difference now is that Washington’s imperial grip is all too clearly weakening. President Joe Biden is not alone in refusing to recognise this fact. He recently told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos: “I’m running the world.” But US elites are rapidly finding that the world is no longer prepared to submit.
by Jonathan Cook
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/trump-got-a-bloodied-ear-us-political

Biden Put A Bullseye On Trump – But It Didn’t Work.
This weekend President Donald Trump was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin. An assassination attempt by itself would be huge news but it pales in comparison to the cover-up that is already under way. As America waits for answers, the same FBI that was reassigned away from investigating terror to spend it’s time investigating MAGA to ensure the answer that come will be… well, most likely exactly what you would expect from a corrupt FBI. Let’s start with what we believe we know at this point. The picture above shows the relevant information related to the shooting. Located on the buildings behind the bleachers were counter-sniper teams. These teams were in place to deal with snipers and we are being told they are Secret Service (“SS”). It’s interesting that the picture above shows individuals wearing gear that literally says police on it. It is likely that the SS used local police and that those police would be under the leadership of the SS. This is important because it means that when the police snipers saw the shooter they would likely need approval from SS leadership before neutralizing the threat.
by Tom Renz
https://tomrenz.substack.com/p/biden-put-a-bullseye-on-trump-but

A Time Of Shame And Sorrow: When It Comes To Political Violence, We All Lose
There’s a subtext to this assassination attempt on former President Trump that must not be ignored, and it is simply this: America is being pushed to the brink of a national nervous breakdown. More than 50 years after John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, America has become a ticking time bomb of political violence in words and deeds. Magnified by an echo chamber of nasty tweets and government-sanctioned brutality, our politically polarizing culture of callousness, cruelty, meanness, ignorance, incivility, hatred, intolerance, indecency and injustice have only served to ratchet up the tension. Consumed with back-biting, partisan politics, sniping, toxic hate, meanness and materialism, a culture of meanness has come to characterize many aspects of the nation’s governmental and social policies. “Meanness today is a state of mind,” writes professor Nicolaus Mills in his book The Triumph of Meanness, “the product of a culture of spite and cruelty that has had an enormous impact on us.” This casual cruelty is made possible by a growing polarization within the populace that emphasizes what divides us—race, religion, economic status, sexuality, ancestry, politics, etc.—rather than what unites us: we are all Americans, and in a larger, more global sense, we are all human.
by John and Nisha Whitehead
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/a_time_of_shame_and_sorrow_when_it_comes_to_political_violence_we_all_lose

We Must Question The Attempted Assassination Of Trump
Regardless of who is behind the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the incident will be used to further bolster support for the corrupted political system and to stoke more division in the American people. On Saturday July 13, around 6:10 p.m. shots were fired at former President Donald Trump while campaigning in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was discussing a chart of border crossing numbers when loud pops were heard and chaos ensued. Trump grabbed for his right ear before crouching to the ground. Screams could be heard from the audience behind Trump. Secret Service agents then rushed to the stage to block the line of sight of the former president. Once the agents received word that the shooter was down they brought Trump to his feet and began escorting him to a vehicle. Trump told the agents to wait several times while he grabbed his shoes, pumped his first in the air, and mouthed the word “fight”. Blood appeared to be coming from Trump’s right ear and streaked across his face.
by Derrick Broze
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/trump-assassination-questions

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the public believes is false.”
William Casey

Top Biden Security Official Apportions Blame For Trump Shooting
Secret Service “failure” played a part in the incident, the Homeland Security head has said
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was nearly killed due to a “failure” of his Secret Service protection detail, US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said. Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday when he narrowly dodged a bullet that took off a part of his ear. One person in the stands was killed, and two others were seriously wounded before the Secret Service neutralized the gunman. ”An incident like this cannot happen,” Mayorkas told CNN on Monday. “When I say that something like this cannot happen, we are speaking of a failure.” “We are going to analyze, through an independent review, how that occurred, why it occurred, and make recommendations and findings to ensure it doesn’t happen again,” he added. Trump’s protection detail has been criticized for its response to the Butler attack, from failing to notice the shooter on a roof about 120 meters away to being too slow to cover their protectee once the shots were fired.
by RT
https://www.rt.com/news/601122-trump-shooting-mayorkas-failure

They Think We Are Stupid, Volume 9
The media bent over backwards to avoid saying that the assassination attempt against former President Trump was an assassination attempt–not just in the moment but the next day when facts were clear.
by Aaron Kheriaty, MD
https://aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p/they-think-we-are-stupid-volume-9-8fd

[Jewish] BBC Presenter Calls For Trump To Be Assassinated
The comment came after the Republican presidential frontrunner was granted immunity by a US Supreme Court ruling
BBC presenter David Aaronovitch has called for the “murder” of former US President Donald Trump in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Aaronovitch later deleted his message following a backlash, claiming it had been “satire.” Aaronovitch, the voice behind the British state broadcaster’s Radio 4 program ‘The Briefing Room’, tweeted on Monday: “If I was Biden I’d hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America’s security.” The post was accompanied by the hashtag #SCOTUS, indicating that the comment had been triggered by Monday’s confirmation from the US Supreme Court that former presidents have “absolute immunity” from prosecution for their official actions. Aaronovitch was forced delete the post after an online backlash, and claimed in a follow-up message that he had been accused of inciting violence by “a far right pile.” The presenter insisted his tweet was “plainly a satire.”
by RT
https://www.rt.com/news/600302-bbc-host-wants-trump-murdered

Things That Don’t Add Up And Many Questions Still Unanswered In Trump Shooting
So let me start with the biggest one first, which is why were there snipers sitting on a rooftop with guns pointed AWAY from Trump and allegedly on the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, BEFORE any shots were heard in the numerous videos online now after this event? Here is one copy of the video, and as you watch it and listen, see if you can determine if the police shoot at the alleged shooter AFTER Trump is shot, based on what you hear from gunshots in the video: Check out this angle. Counter snipers see something and engage? #shooter #snipers pic.twitter.com/lD3J651SkJ ~ Colagram (@coladoggxxx) July 14, 2024. The first question I have is, why did they allegedly shoot the alleged shooter AFTER Trump was shot, as is being reported, and not BEFORE? The video clearly shows them having their sites on something that they then shoot at, and to my ears and eyes, I hear the first shots being fired at the same time that their guns recoil from shooting. But if they already had the alleged shooter in their sites, why did they wait?? Not only have I not seen anyone answer this question, I have not even found anyone else ASKING this question. My second question is, why is the “graphic image” of an alleged dead Thomas Matthew Crooks that was all over the media yesterday, now disappearing? The one I put above (on the left) is the only one I could still find today. But I saw several yesterday, and today they have been removed from Twitter. Could it be this image is being scrubbed from the Internet because most of the blood on his face is very clearly DRIED blood, suggesting he had already been dead for quite some time BEFORE that photo was shot? I haven’t seen anyone claim that it was removed because the photo was not real, or was the wrong person. They are just disappearing… My next questions are also questions that I have not seen anyone else asking. The FBI allegedly identified the shooter as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shortly after the shooting by his DNA. The FBI managed to identify Crooks through his DNA with officials saying he didn’t have any ID on him when he was found. (Source.) Really? So where was the lab that they used to determine this? And if they did run this DNA test in blazing speed (maybe there is a new “rapid fire” field test for DNA, just like the PCR tests? – sarcasm), why was this 20-year-old allegedly in the FBI database of DNA? Nothing has been reported that he had a previous criminal record where his DNA would have been taken and stored.
by Brian Shilhavy
https://healthimpactnews.com/2024/things-that-dont-add-up-and-many-questions-still-unanswered-in-trump-shooting

The Trump Assassination Attempt
1:12AM Eastern Time, Sunday. ONE: The glaring insanity, of course, is how did the shooter get access to the rooftop? 150 yards from the podium. There were multiple ways to cover it. The best: SS shooters THERE on that roof. Otherwise, drones. Helicopters circulating. A total failure. Total. I’m not buying the excuse that the SS was undermanned. They were, but that building should have been an A-1 priority. (And yes, Trump’s people have been turned down in their requests for more SS protection. Is the head of the SS more focused on bringing DEI through the door? (Seems like it.) A convincing rally attendee told the press he and other people saw the shooter climbing up to the roof with a gun and shouted to cops and SS agents nearby, warning them, and got no response. Stunning. The people who want to make a case the assassination was a planned inside job have ammunition from that attendee’s testimony. TWO: SS agents kept Trump down on the floor behind the podium for close to a minute. Why? The podium was made out of thick steel? If the shooter was still active, he could have just pumped a lot of rounds at the lower part of the podium. Makes no sense. The SS agents should have put bodies around Trump on all sides and carried him off the platform and into the secure van right away. Relentlessly. No stop allowed for a fist pump from Trump. Another total failure. And there was only one of those secure vans parked right there at the side of the platform? I would have expected at least 6. With agents. THREE: As of now, I see NO statement from the number one law-enforcement agent in the US. Attorney General Merrick Garland. He’s quiet as a mouse. Not taking the lead.
by Jon Rappoport
https://jonrappoport.substack.com/p/the-trump-assassination-attempt

Trump Assassination Attempt: Was It Allowed To Happen? (Text and Video)
In a bizarre statement yesterday, Joe Biden said “It’s time to put a bulls-eye on Donald Trump”. That is exactly what an unhinged Biden supporter did at Trump’s rally in Butler Pennsylvania today when a deranged Antifa supporter opened fire about ten minutes into Trump’s speech that left Trump shot in the ear, a Trump supporter seated behind him killed, and reports that two others were hit and are in critical condition. The shooter was shot and killed just 20 seconds after the shooting stopped, remember that. Witnesses said they saw a man, Thomas Matthew Crooks, belly crawling on the roof of a nearby building and said they screamed at police and Secret Service officers pointing at the roof where the gunman was positioning himself but they made no move to stop him. The witness, in an interview right after the shooting said they saw the Secret Service “Blow his head off”. He also said it was suspicious that there were only a few buildings on the premises and there were no secret service agents positioned on the roof where the shooter was positioned. He said it was also suspicious that with Secret Service and police officers everywhere, they allowed a guy to crawl up the side of a building so close to where Trump was speaking without being stopped and questioned. How does he go unnoticed belly crawling across the roof with a rifle, and no one saw him?
by Patrick J. McShay
https://jameshfetzer.org/2024/07/patrick-j-mcshay-trump-assassination-attempt-was-it-allowed-to-happen

‘Eliminate Him’: A Look At The Violent Rhetoric Against Donald Trump
While the attempted assassination of Donald Trump has been roundly condemned by his political opponents, liberal politicians and pundits have – implicitly and explicitly – called for his death before.
Trump narrowly avoided death at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, when an assassin’s bullet apparently clipped his ear as it whizzed past his head. The shooter – named by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks – killed one spectator at the rally and wounded two others before he was shot dead by Secret Service agents. US President Joe Biden decried the attempt on Trump’s life, declaring that “there’s no place for this kind of violence in America.” Ever since Trump won the 2016 election, however, he has faced a steady stream of threats from members of Biden’s party and their allies in the media. Hollywood celebrities reacted with outrage to Trump’s shock defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016. 80s pop icon Madonna spoke of wanting to “blow up the White House;” actor and activist Peter Fonda called for the president’s youngest son, Barron, to be “put in a cage with pedophiles;” and comedienne Kathy Griffin grabbed headlines when she posed for a photoshoot holding a mockup of Trump’s bloodied and severed head. Speaking to MSNBC after Trump formally announced his presidential campaign last year, Representative Dan Goldman declared that his fellow New Yorker cannot be allowed to “see public office again.” “He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be, he has to be eliminated,” Goldman proclaimed.
by RT
https://www.rt.com/news/601061-donald-trump-death-threats

The Trump Shooting: So Many Questions
Assassination Attempt Or False Flag?
If Trump wasn’t the actor Trumpenstein, there logically should have been a conspiracy to assassinate him during his term in office. It would have merely been the logical culmination to all the threats and hatred he endured for more than four years. As was seen by the event yesterday, and certainly in JFK’s assassination, the Secret Service can stand down with the best of them. As in a total 9/11 stand down. And the same FBI that will “investigate” this assassination attempt, would have investigated any successful assassination of President Trump. The FBI has nearly a century’s worth of lies, crimes, and cover-ups to its name. They weren’t going to attempt to find the truth, and they won’t attempt to find the truth about what happened yesterday. The mainstream media certainly won’t be doing any investigating. CNN initially tried to deny that there was an assassination attempt, reporting that Trump had fallen and cut his head. A tweet on Twitter/X claimed that the Secret Service had urged that no one “speculate” or “jump to conclusions.” They noted, “Don’t call it an assassination attempt unless authorities confirm that connection.” New anchors were discouraged from showing a “serious” expression on their faces. Again, I don’t know if this really originated from the Secret Service, and why our “free press” would obey their instructions. I do know that they didn’t notice a guy with a rifle on a nearby roof, even when witnesses pointed it out to them.
by Donald Jeffries
https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/the-trump-shooting-so-many-questions

Shooting At Trump Rally Shows ‘Rising Political Violence As US Divides Further’
China is following the shooting incident at the campaign rally of former US President Donald Trump. President Xi Jinping has expressed his sympathies to former President Trump, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. Jin Canrong, associate dean of the School of International Studies at the Renmin University of China, told the Global Times on Sunday that in recent years, the quality of the partisan system in the US has deteriorated. In the past, the system was able to work, as most members of both parties are still moderates. Their political views are different, but they were not so extreme, and they could cooperate on many issues. “But now we can see that the Congress voting along party lines on almost every issue, and partisan politics is becoming more polarized,” Jin noted. “Americans used to be proud of the idea that they have the wisdom of compromise, which makes them differ from the extremes of the French political atmosphere. But now that they are also extreme and reckless, there is less room for moderates,” Jin said. “In addition, the gap between the rich and the poor in the US is widening, the middle class is shrinking, and social polarization is also very serious. Many specific social conflicts, such as immigration and economic policy, are very confrontational,” Jin said, and he warned that when the capitalists of the US are getting divided, there is a risk of civil war.
by Chen Qingqing, Yang Sheng and Guo Yuandan
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202407/1315977.shtml

7 Things We Know About The Man That Shot Trump
I am still in shock. When I first learned that Donald Trump had been shot, I literally had difficulty processing the information. I watched footage of the shooting over and over, and honestly I am still trying to put the pieces together. The Secret Service is supposed to be far better at protecting our leaders than this. If Trump had not shifted his head at the last moment, he would have almost certainly been killed. Sadly, firefighter Corey Comperatore was not so fortunate. He was killed by one of the bullets that the shooter fired. Trump was hit in the ear, but we are being told that he is doing just fine. But how long will it be before someone else tries again? What we just witnessed is truly, truly horrible. No matter how you plan to vote, we should all be united in denouncing political violence. For years, many of our political leaders and many in the mainstream media have been using extremely inflammatory language to denounce Donald Trump, and this has caused emotions to run extremely high. It was only a matter of time before all of that inflammatory language inspired someone to commit an act of great violence. The following are 7 things that we know about the man that shot Trump…
by Michael Snyder
https://www.activistpost.com/2024/07/7-things-we-know-about-the-man-that-shot-trump.html

Trump’s Courageous Response To Shadow Government’s Attempted Assassination
Should He Consider Private Security?
On Saturday, July 13th, 2024, President Trump was shot at a rally in Butler Pennsylvania by a sniper on a roof top, approximately 150 feet away. The bullet pierced his ear, but apparently did not do any serious or life threatening damage. Trump’s courageous response attempting to go back to the microphone telling people to fight with blood coming from his ear sealed his general election victory in the 2024 Presidential election race. Cheating on the computer vote and mail in vote will be too risky. This unwillingness to back down has been both a strength and a weakness. It is a weakness because he has yet to admit the mRNA nanoparticle injections are biological weapons of mass destruction. After a media created sex scandal in the 2016 presidential election, this quality served him as a strength when he paraded Bill and Hillary Clinton’s alleged rape victims in the audience during a presidential debate. This quality clearly serves him as a strength after the shooting. This footage of Trump exiting Trump Force One indicates that he is physically fine. Biden’s comments to big donors about putting Trump in the bullseye may have been rhetoric.
by Dr. Joseph Sansone
https://josephsansone.substack.com/p/trumps-courageous-response-to-shadow

Assassination Attempt Against Donald Trump Shows The U.S. Is A Failed State
The U.S. is no longer the land of freedom and democracy, but an example of a failed state and close to absolute social collapse.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump was attacked during a rally in Pennsylvania. A sniper shot at Trump, grazing him in the head and injuring other people attending the event. The American secret service quickly neutralized the shooter after the shots were fired, however witnesses on the streets said they reported to the police about the shooter’s position before the attack, with the agents apparently ignoring the reports. Trump is fine, the injuries have not caused him any serious damage. More than that, Trump is politically stronger than ever. His image as a “survivor” and “martyr” gives him a great advantage in the electoral race with rival Joe Biden – who has been the target of criticism even by his supporters, due to his serious condition of mental weakness. Some conspiracy theorists have spread fake news and fantastic narratives on the internet about Trump having orchestrated the attack just to improve his political image. Obviously, this type of speech makes no sense. From a rational point of view, there is no reason for Trump to organize an attempt on his own life just to obtain political gains in a dispute in which he already has every possible advantage.
by Lucas Leiroz
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/07/14/assassination-attempt-against-donald-trump-shows-the-u-s-is-a-failed-state

Was Trump ‘Put In A Bullseye’?
US presidential candidate Donald Trump was hit in the ear when a gunman opened fire at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. One spectator was killed and two were critically injured during this apparent attempt on Trump’s life.
“The constant comparisons of [former] President Trump to Hitler and the repeated calls over the last several years for stabbing, killing, poisoning, decapitating or shooting [former] President Trump serve as dog whistles to provoke and incite violence and very well may have fueled this assassination attempt,” GOP House Representative Paul Gosar told Sputnik. “We do know that in a widely reported call to hundreds of donors last week, Joe Biden boasted, ‘I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump… it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye’,” Gosar recalled. “Let me be perfectly clear: there is absolutely no place for this sort of incendiary rhetoric and calls for violence in politics today and everyone must condemn it,” the congressman stressed. Gosar also pointed out that congressional Democrats, led by liberal Representative Bennie Thompson, even introduced legislation that would have stripped Trump of the Secret Service protection afforded to him by his status as a former president. The multiple reports about Trump’s security detail “asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks” but getting “rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS [Department of Homeland Security],” if true, hint at “criminal” disregard for Trump’s safety, he warned.
by Sputnik
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240714/was-trump-put-in-a-bullseye-1119374231.html

Assassin Murders Bystander
Twenty Year old Thomas Mathew Crooks murdered a bystander and injured others in an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Trump suffered, a bullet injuring his ear. The killer was shot dead by a secret service counter sniper. The crowd cheered, “USA, USA!” once Trump raised his fists in defiance, proof of life. A relief for his supporters. Those shot and close to the dead and wounded struggled with life and death in desperate and confused moments. Though history will now relegate them as props to an event of significance, as human beings they lived a life. In politics they matter nought, just faces in the crowd wearing slogans on their shirts. At this time just another ‘lone gun man’, American political assassinations are enshrined in such a killer tradition. If only, the killer of Arch Duke Frans Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian empire was deemed as such, then the stupidity that led to World War One may not occurred, instead contained between killer and slain. The US is different. At crucial historical moments a deranged man can swipe away the politically important. The bystanders hit, need not matter.
by Kym Robinson
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/assassin-murders-bystander

Mainstream Media Fails Again
Regardless of your politics, the botched assassination attempt of former US president Donald Trump has shone a light on the failing mainstream news media.
If you’ve been off grid, former president Donald Trump narrowly escaped death at his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday July 13, 2024, at approximately 6:15 p.m. Trump’s speech was being live streamed, so video footage of the attempted assassination went viral across social media. Several mainstream media outlets, however, delayed coverage or reported inaccurately on the events, frustrating the public and inflaming criticism of the legacy media. When the first bullet clipped Trump’s right ear, narrowly missing his skull, he ducked down at the podium before secret service jumped to his aid. Onlookers say Trump was calm. The podium microphones picked up his audio. “Get my shoes” he said to one of his secret service agents. Trump then stood up and turned to his supporters with a bloodied face and fist in the air, mouthing the words “fight, fight, fight” before being rushed off the stage. The crowd erupted.
by Maryanne Demasi, PhD
https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/mainstream-media-fails-again

Earesistible Trajectories
Donald, meet Donald.
Ahhh, sheeit. Ear we go again. If all the worlds a stage then the theatre directors are intent on keeping American politics as the only show in every town. There are no other marquees that demand so much attention. Actors may come and go but the drama never ends. The populace, a non-discerning audience surrenders to enflamed passions and is easily moved by the drama, mistaking nearly every script for reality. It often takes months or years for them to deprogram what they saw on their programming devices, and reprocess everything through a more perceptive lens. Most never even bother with the effort. Nobody is permitted into the theatre who doesn’t surrender their mind to the theatrics. If you manage to sneak inside the theatre and question the script in the heat of any drama and refuse to participate in the emoting, you are chastised and given the boot. Crowd psychology demands you adhere to the mob, or take a hike. It is the common burden of the exiled, borne of years of pattern recognition that infused healthy skepticism with cold impartiality. Sometimes the scripts are trickled to the public in advance of the theatrics and the outcasts point and scream and try to warn others before they enter the theatre, but they are only further cast aside.
by Good Citizen
https://thegoodcitizen.live/p/earesistible-trajectories

Secret Services Resources Were Diverted To Jill Biden’s Event And Away From Trump
This is the problem that my Secret Sources have cited: Secret Services resources were diverted to Jill Biden’s event and away from Trump’s because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president, according to two sources within the Secret Service community. There were also many supplemental agents from different field officers (not Trump’s regular detail) providing security at the rally because Trump’s regular detail has been overworked (some working 7 days straight), and only two counter-snipers. But Trump is not just a former president — he is the first in modern history to have run for president again — and he has been the focus of several prosecutions and controversies (understatement intentional). Who made the decision to divert the resources to Jill Biden’s event? Trump was protected by temporary agents on the one day that an assassin tries to kill him. That’s not a coincidence. That’s planning.
Susan Crabtree
https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1812606597753168329

BlueAnon And The ‘Lone Gunman’
The doubts of 2024 are rooted in the bogus story of 1963
Liberal conspiracy theories (“Blue Anon”) about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump concern the Washington Post. The irrationality of the right has bled into the left, says the Post’s experts. The suspicion that slain gunman Thomas Crooks was part of some larger scheme is baseless, the New York Times assures us. Presidents James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F Kennedy were shot to death by lone gunmen who were upset with them for one reason or another, but the killings did not become sources of schism between the Republican and Democratic parties. But the Times omits to mention that JFK’s assassination, while never a partisan issue, has always a source of class schism. The majority of the general public has never believed Oswald acted alone, while an elite minority stick doggedly to the original story of a “lone gunman,” despite the emergence of considerable evidence to the contrary. This class divide transcends partisanship. A poll of 2022 midterm voters voters found majority of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents do not believe that one man alone killed JFK. The evidence that Oswald alone killed JFK, never strong, has grown much weaker over the years. The problem with the “lone gunman” narrative of 2024 is rooted in the factual improbability of the “lone guman” theory of 1963. The BlueAnon crowd has historical grounds for suspicion.
by Jefferson Morley
https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/blueanon-and-the-lone-gunman

I Fear For Our Nation
I hope we gain the wisdom that we need each other, not as enemies but as colleagues, not always in agreement but respectful nonetheless.I fear for our nation, and I am not alone. The echoes of the past are becoming louder, and I recall the decades between 1961 and 1981 with trepidation, for that era was marked by crisis, tumult, discord, civil violence, war, a near miss of nuclear war, extreme polarization and assassinations. Many Americans sense the country never really recovered from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, or from the assassinations of presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. five years later in 1968. An attempt on the life of President Gerald Ford was narrowly thwarted in 1975, and an attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan very nearly succeeded in 1981. A terrible madness swept the land, as dozens of bombings and the bizarre kidnaping of media heiress Patty Hearst by a domestic terror cell pockmarked the 1970s, a decade marked by a failed presidency, revelations of domestic spying by federal security agencies and runaway inflation. I fear our buffers have been thinned, and our ability to make sacrifices for the future has been lost. Our moral foundations are in such tatters that getting rich by whatever means are within reach is now the “solution” to the coming storm, as if greed bled dry of ethics isn’t a proximate cause of the coming storm. My hope is that we gain the wisdom to see there are no easy solutions, no one-size-fits-all fixes, that solutions will be localized, partial, contingent on continual adaptation to changing conditions, and that this continual experimentation and evolution requires an acceptance of continual failures and a keen sense of humility about our limits. I hope we gain the wisdom that we need each other, not as enemies but as colleagues, not always in agreement but respectful nonetheless.
by Charles Hugh Smith
https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/i-fear-for-our-nation

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