Debunking My Fake Assassination Hypothesis?
So a recently released video of agents on the roof after Crooks was shot …..
and Wrays House Judiciary Committee testimony today ……
……seems to backup the Lone GunmanTheory, which if true may negate my Fake Assassination Hypothesis, 😢
Wray and the video state 8 shot casings were found on the roof, meaning 8 shots were fired, all by Crooks.
Said when asked if he had a scope said he believed so (we saw no scope)
Complained Encryption prevented access into all of Crooks accounts. Remember Bill Barrs pushing in 2019 for legislation to ban encryption or at least require back doors? Lest we forget, Wray was appointed by Trump
Wray said the scope of FBI investigation does not include questioning Secret Service decision making or the security at the Rally. To orchestrate a Fake or Successful Assassination, would involve this. So the people most likely to be involved in a criminal conspiracy are outside the scope of FBI investigation (2:35:00). pfft
One Congressman got to the heart of the matter. He said The Secret Service Counter Sniper noticed Crooks 20 minutes before the shooting
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-assassination-attempt-investigation-continues-new-details/story?id=112020474
Then went on to say he must have had him within his scopes site for 20 minutes implying , so why did it took so long for the Counter Sniper to take him out?.
Wray explained a local police officer with a boost from fellow officer peeked over the roof and Crooks turned to point the rifle at him. This caused the officer to fall. Seconds later , Crooks (or Crooks and a 2nd shooter) starts shooting
By my calculations the shooting went on for about 10 seconds. 6 seconds after that 8th shot the counter sniper kills Crooks with 1 shot.
This exchange was at about 3:20:00-3:24:00 of the testimony.
Wray would not confirm or deny the Counter Sniper saw the shooter on roof 20 minutes earlier and evaded questions regarding the FBI!interview with the Counter Sniper, and then of course they call a Recess.
To my way of thinking if the Counter Snipers saw Crooks on roof for 20 minutes before the shooting, that makes the Counter Sniper a major suspect (or his boss if he was obeying orders). Of course, it looks like they will try to memory hole the 20 minutes.
Sure enough, The State Police Police Commissioner (Paris)!said on Tuesday he was only on the roof for 3 minutes before the shooting so it looks like they will deny the early report
We will come back to this 3 minute assertion later
BTW, who was the SS boss in the field that day?. He seems to be as much of a Ghost as Crooks. No mention of him.
In any event Wray made clear they wont investigate the possibility of a second shooter unless it falls into his lap, much like he would not investigate the possibility COVID was a bioterrorist attack (and also an inside job.
Back to the video showing shell cases on the roof. Of course, if you were staging this with 3 shots fired by the sharp shooter close to Trump and then 5 shots fired by Crooks into the crowd as per my earlier hypothesis, you would have known you needed to place additional cases on the roof to disguise the presence of a 2nd shooter. That could easily be stage managed.
I explained the hypothesis for the 2nd shooter here
https://pete843.substack.com/p/more-musings-on-the-trump-shooting
In the video they show the gun about 10 ft from Crooks body who looks like he was shot in shooting position.
How did the gun get moved? Its been explained to me that separating the gun from body is standard procedure. Why no picture or mention in its original position? Not very important I guess, just wondering.
When asked if Crooks AR-15 had a scope Wray said he thought so. There does not seem to be many good shots of the rifle but it does not appear to have one. Of course thats not a great picture.
From the video and Google Earth I was able to make some basic calculations. Crooks was about 40 ft from the parking lot side roof edge. The Roofs length is 140 ft. Crooks was about 60 ft from the 2nd floor of the adjacent building where the local counter snipers were.
The adjacent building behind it is 100 ft long with only 40 ft overlooking the front buildings roof. The other 60 ft of the building had nothing but grass in front of it and a clear line of site to Trumps stage. The local police counter snipers were likely in this section, meaning at least 100 ft from Crooks and probably could only see him if they stuck their head out of the window to look
Wray didn’t mention how long Crooks was on the roof. The State Police Police Commissioner said on Tuesday he was only on the roof for 3 minutes before shooting. Earlier reports had the Secret Service Snipers spotting him on the roof 20 minutes before the shooting, while another report had him going onto roof as Trump went on stage (link below). I think this inconsistent reporting is by design to keep us confused.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/18/us-news/trump-gunman-thomas-crooks-used-bike-to-scout-
It was also said Crooks was probably able to get on roof without a ladder. I agree with this. While the roof at its Apex is quite high (>15 ft) it looks only about 10 ft or so at its lower downslope edge, and there looks to be a shorter structure besides it. Someone in good shape could handle that.
A few other things came out of the House Judiciary Committee hearing
On July 6, Thomas Crooks, searched “how far away was Oswald from Kennedy,". Wray didnt tell us the answer. Its about 240 ft, shorter than Crooks 400 ft attempt, although JFK was a moving target and its unlikely Oswald was the Lone Gunman
Wray also said Crooks gun had a collapsible stock. The collapsible stock, Wray said, would explain why witnesses did not see Crooks walking around with a weapon beforehand and why the firearm was not spotted until Crooks was already on the roof.
Some gun experts say this could affect accuracy, unfortunate for a guy who was a bad shot, at least he was in High School.
Crook also flew a drone about 200 yards away from the campaign rally’s main stage area in Butler,about two hours before it began on July 13, Wray said. What was the point of that?
Maybe he wanted to make sure the roofs were clear? That makes some sense but a lot can change in 2 hours.
There was also Hearing involving Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/23/politics/pennsylvania-state-police-commissioner-reveals-stunning-info-about-trump-shooting/index.html
Based on this hearing
Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris told members of Congress that “several Secret Service agents” told the state police area commander during a walkthrough of the area before the rally that the Butler County Emergency Services Unit was responsible for securing the building where Crooks fired the shots.
Just a reminder, the building the Butler Counter Snipers were in was not the building where Crooks fired his shots from.
This leads to the question, if they were in the adjacent building, who was securing the inside of the building of the roof Crooks was on?
You know, the one with windows facing the Trump Stage one of which would allow a Sniper the same clear line of sire as Crooks and in line with Crooks shots
According to Paris, “there was a text thread going” with members of the Butler County Emergency Services Unit, some of whom initially spotted Crooks and reported him as a suspicious individual.
“At some point when he utilized the range finder, the suspicion was heightened,” Paris said of Crooks.
State Police then received a call and a text from the ESU about Crooks’ activity that they immediately relayed to Secret Service. Local, state and federal law enforcement were in a unified command post at the rally.
State Police “verbally turned right around and gave it to the Secret Service,” Paris said.
This is very interesting because while the different officers and agents didn’t seem to be able to communicate directly with others groups there was a unified command post which facilitated communications between groups
So for example if the Secret Service Counter Sniper communicated his citing of Crooks on the roof 20 minutes earlier, he could have and would have communicated with the Command Post where the Butler folks would be told and they could have communicated this to their people in charge of the building Crooks was on and the Counter Snipers.
That 20 minute report has to go or it all falls apart for the Conspirators. Going, going , GONE. Now its 3 minutes. Much easier to explain
They still have one problem. How to explain the Counter Sniper not seeing Crooks and not firing until 16 seconds after Crooks began shooting, even after the altercation with the local cops which they may have seen, although its possible that tree obstructed their view.
And this begs the question, which of the two Counter Sniper Teams made the kill shot. If the North Sniper Team was obstructed, maybe the South Team made it?
Butler County DA Goldinger said in a statement after the hearing. “One of the officers observed Crooks sitting on a picnic table at the front of the building from his location on the second floor of the building. Crooks then ran off, carrying a backpack.”
https://www.wtae.com/article/trump-rally-shooting-butler-da-state-police-testimony/61691230
Here is another view only this one lacks the picnic table
Now this may not be the picnic table he is referring to, but the 1 story building that the picnic table is in front of is arguably the front of the building as its connected to the 2 story building that seemingly has no other entrance.
So assuming this is it as you can see, in order to see Crooks and the picnic table the Officers had to be looking out from the windows at the far right of the 2F building, in the opposite direction of Trumps stage. They were not doing their job as Trump was on stage at that point.
“At this point, that officer ran out of the building attempting to keep eyes on Crooks until other law enforcement arrived. The other officer remained in the building, on the second floor,” Goldinger said. “The officer who ran out of the building could not locate Crooks, and he returned to the building. Both officers then heard shots fired.”
This story is such utter horseshit, at least it smells like.
He said something else that was interesting
Goldinger added that “neither officer could see Crooks on the other building due to the visual angle they had from their location to Crooks’ location.”
During the Paris testimony one of the Congressman showed a picture he took during a recent visit to Butler
If the officers were stationed at that window its unlikely they could see Crooks 140 ft away due to the piping along the wall
Another look for reference
And one more
The black dot is about where Crook would be based on the location of the body in the video released today that I linked to. Each groove in roof is about 2 ft width so I estimated distance by counting
Another look
The black smudge is Crooks
So probably cant see from the 2nd window from the left. This window has the cleanest line of site if you want to cover the crowd in the security perimeter. As Paris said in his testimony its not know what priorities the Secret Service assigned to the Butler Counter Snipers
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Unless they had cut that tree and were more focused on Counter Sniping the Crowd than concerned about the roof,, they probably pick the window 2nd from the left, with the 2nd Counter Sniper picking the 3rd or 4th from the left. But since one of them left, the other may have had limited coverage of the roof
Furthermore, as you can see from the pictures, the best place to take a shot at Trump is actually that middle window on the first floor of the building Crooks was on.
In a separate interview Goldinger said they had law enforcement in the building Crooks was on and that the company (ARG) was not working that day. I’d like to hear more details about that. If so, didn’t they hear anyone climbing or walking/crawling on the roof?
One final thought though, why is the District Attorney involved?. Shouldn’t the Butler Police Chief be speaking up? Is he or the Town lawyering up? Because they really did Fook Up , as did the Secret Service, but the Secret Service is being protected by the FBI. Butler will not be similarly protected
Oh wait, Butler has no Police Chief. He left last month.
Former Butler Township Police Department Chief John Hays retired last month, both Hays and a department official who answered the phone told The Intercept. There is no acting chief, but Lt. Matthew Pearson is the current head of the department. The department, which employs around 20 people, did not immediately respond to a request for further information about the absence of a chief.
https://theintercept.com/2024/07/16/trump-shooting-police-chief-butler-pennsylvania/
Requested to testify Tuesday at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing Tuesday are Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe and Lt. Matthew Pearson of the Butler Township Police Department.
Expected to appear are Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Christopher Paris and a trio of federal officials:U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Cheatle also is supposed to testify solo before the House Oversight Committee on Monday.
So Lt. Matthew Pearson was invited to appear before the House Homeland Security Committee this week. No word on that though.
Stay Tuned
PS-sorry, I forgot the important part. Do I consider the Fake Assassination hypothesis Debunked? Hell No!
I am prepared to simplify it though, or at least present it as an alternative hypothesis,l. Occams razor. Msybe Crooks was just a hired gun. A mercenary. Told to fire into the crowd. Not Assassination, just Domestic Terrorism. Given a false assurance he would be ok because he was working for the good guys (government). Doing something bad for a greater good, and if he did did his job well he have a bright future with the CIA. The Dufus believed them
The picture with bullet flying past ear could easily be faked by experts.
Crooks was told to fire on signal. I wont speculate what that signal was. Perhaps a hand signal from Trump himself. Who knows?
Like I said this is just a speculative hypothesis
BTW, we have a Trump Ear Sighting
All is well. Couldn’t find a clearer picture though
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