More Musings on the Trump Shooting

So its been a week.   My previous posts on the Trump Shooting is here

Who Was Behind The Trump Assassination Attempt

Updated Look at Trump Shooting + Hypothesis

Writing this at 7/20 EST

Many will focus on a recent NY Post article suggest Trumps request for additional security was denied

Secret Service officials repeatedly rejected Donald Trump’s request for additional security in the two years before last weekend’s assassination attempt, The Post has learned.

The ex-president, 78, asked for more agents and magnetometers at large public events he attended, as well as extra snipers for outdoor venues, four insiders told The Washington Post, which first reported the damning revelation.

Each request was shot down by senior officials who claimed the agency lacked the resources Trump was asking for, the outlet reported.

https://nypost.com/2024/07/20/us-news/secret-service-honchos-denied-trump-additional-security-for-2-years-before-assassination-attempt-damning-report-reveals/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

However, the problem was not a lack of security, the problem was it was not properly deployed

A key question after an assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump a week ago is why the Secret Service excluded from its secured zone a nearby warehouse the gunman used for his assault.

But another possible flaw in the Secret Service’s plans for the campaign rally at the farm show grounds in Butler, Pa., is emerging

The law enforcement presence at the site on the day of the rally — federal, state and local — ending up totaling more than 100 officers, a Secret Service official said.

Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe said he had about six deputies at the rally, whose primary jobs were to secure the perimeter and “make sure people didn’t jump the fence” into the rally.

Keeping watch over the complex of warehouses, Sheriff Slupe said, “wasn’t our role or responsibility.” Instead, his deputies were detailed to the metal detector areas and the command communications posts.

Local agencies had a security briefing on July 8 with Secret Service agents to plan assignments, the sheriff said.

“If people could have prevented that roof issue,” he said, referring to the building from which the gunman had shot, “we’d have no issue, right?”

The State Police said in a statement that its approximately 30 to 40 troopers were there “to assist with securing the inside perimeter.”

The statement said the agency “was not responsible for securing the building or property at AGR International.”

Tactical law enforcement teams compiled from Butler County and neighboring counties provided two counter assault teams and a quick response team. They were placed in the secured zone in case something went wrong.

In between the July 8 walk-through and another to finalize plans on July 11, the Secret Service had another request. It asked for two police sniper teams to supplement the two sniper units that were to be deployed by the agency’s own forces.

The emergency service units, another name for the county tactical teams, provided seven counter snipers. Four of the seven were given duties within the security perimeter, according to a local law enforcement official.

The three others took a position in a warehouse directly behind the one that Mr. Crooks ultimately used. Even those snipers were assigned to use their second-floor window view to survey the crowd inside the secured zone — not to watch over the warren of buildings where they were stationed, a law enforcement official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the continuing investigation.

The Secret Service’s counter snipers were placed on the barn rooftops, directly behind Mr. Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/us/politics/trump-rally-police-secret-service-shooting.html

Now I never had any training in Security, but if I were asked to deploy resources to prevent my wife from being shot at by someone outside the security perimeter I would make sure nobody could have a clear line of site to her stage, and the roof of that building would be one I would assign resources to as well as the inside of the building with windows facing the stage.

You don’t have to be Einstein to see this.

So clearly, somebody wanted someone to have a clear shot. Don’t give me any BS about a mistake or incompetence.

We hear from everybody, police officials, police officers, Director of SS, spokesman of SS, everybody but the guy in charge of the SS field operation at the Rally.  Why not let him explain?

Meanwhile Trump praised the SS, while his company charges them up to $1,100 a night for a room. No wonder he wants more agents

“Donald Trump’s private company arranged for the Secret Service to pay for rooms at his properties in excess of government-approved rates at least 40 times, including two charges for more than $1,100 per room, per night

The Secret Service was charged room rates of more than $800 per night at least 11 times when agents stayed at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., and other properties, the Democratic-led House Oversight Committee said.

https://apnews.com/article/travel-business-donald-trump-carolyn-maloney-137ff64160fa894ac8c0821bb5f0e7f8

So anyways, it turns out that while Crooks was on the roof for an extended period and police and SS were informed, Trump was not removed from the stage until he was cleared. I can imagine Trump would not be too happy about being removed. Perhaps they were afraid to ask him to.

In the 1 story building where Crooks was perched on the roof, there are windows with a direct line of site to Trump

Three Local Counter Snipers took a position in a warehouse directly behind the one that Mr. Crooks ultimately used.   This building had 2 stories, with windows on the 2nd story having a direct line of site to Trump.

However, the adjacent building had 2 sections. The section by the parking lot where Crooks was situated was only 1 story. The Counter Snipers were not there.  The section that had 2 stories extended past the building Crooks was on. The Counter Snipers located there would have had a clear line of site to Trump, albeit at a different angle than Crooks had.

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Black mark is about where Trumps stage was

So anyways, there were 3 separate guns used

According to these experts, “The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B and the final ‘acoustic impulse’ was emitted by a possible weapon C.” We know that one of those was the identified shooter and another was a Secret Service sniper.

https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/was-there-a-second-shooter-new-acoustic-evidence/

From my review of the video

Gun A

T=0 -2 sec ,  3 shots, one supposedly hits Trump

Gun B

T= 5 - 8 sec , 5 shots

Gun C (SS sniper)

T=16 sec  , 1 shot-shooter killed

Assuming Crooks didnt get close to Trump, him being such a bad shot and under stress, that means the sharp shooter (counter sniper or other shooter) took the first 3 shots. How can this be? Could Crooks have been part of a team, told to shoot into the stands after the sharp shooter got off his shots to provide a distraction for the sharp shooter to get away? Crooks would provide his own distraction by triggering the bomb in his car by remote control (never got a chance) that reports claim he had set up.

Having the Sharp Shooter go first also simplifies the ability to signal someone near the stage as to when the shots were coming, assuming he had a communication link. Trump would have had to be signaled somehow, for him to grab his ear at the right time (assuming he was not hit and his ear bloodied in ground). Remember, this is a speculative hypothesis.

Originally I was thinking the sharp shooter might have been one of the Local Counter Snipers. Now I wonder if he was someone else who got access to the building Crooks was on. I think this may be more plausible.  He might even have provided the ladder Crooks used to climb onto the roof since Crooks car was reported to be too small.

There were a couple of other developments whose significance I am not sure about. Crooks apparently had a drone operating at some point, and allegedly had some offshore accounts. I am taking the latter with a grain of salt.

If you remember the NY Post originally said the shooter was Chinese. RFK was said to be killed by a Palestinian. Oswald was backed by Russia or Cuba. Originally they tried to link the Anthrax attacks to the Al Qaeda hijackers, and when that failed they pinned it on Saddam whom they said was linked to to Al Qaeda. The killers were all Made in USA

Finally, I want to look closer at Trumps ear. Was he really shot or was making a shot close enough to be photographed the sharp shooters main purpose

Trump certainly acted surprised in grabbing his ear, but he is a professional actor.  Here is his own description of the shooting

As you already know, the assassin’s bullet came within a quarter of an inch of taking my life. So many people have asked me what happened. “Tell us what happened, please.” And therefore, I will tell you exactly what happened, and you’ll never hear it from me a second time, because it’s actually too painful to tell.

It was a warm, beautiful day in the early evening in Butler Township in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Music was loudly playing, and the campaign was doing really well. I went to the stage and the crowd was cheering wildly. Everybody was happy. I began speaking very strongly, powerfully and happily. Because I was discussing the great job my administration did on immigration at the southern border. We were very proud of it.

Behind me, and to the right, was a large screen that was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership. The numbers were absolutely amazing. In order to see the chart, I started to, like this, turn to my right, and was ready to begin a little bit further turn, which I’m very lucky I didn’t do, when I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard. On my right ear. I said to myself, “Wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet.”

And moved my right hand to my ear, brought it down. My hand was covered with blood. Just absolutely blood all over the place. I immediately knew it was very serious. That we were under attack. And in one movement proceeded to drop to the ground. Bullets were continuing to fly as very brave Secret Service agents rushed to the stage. And they really did. They rushed to the stage.

These are great people at great risk, I will tell you, and pounced on top of me so that I would be protected. There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet in a certain way I felt very safe because I had God on my side. I felt that.

The amazing thing is that prior to the shot, if I had not moved my head at that very last instant, the assassin’s bullet would have perfectly hit its mark and I would not be here tonight. We would not be together. The most incredible aspect of what took place on that terrible evening, in the fading sun, was actually seen later. In almost all cases, as you probably know. And when even a single bullet is fired, just a single bullet, and we had many bullets that were being fired, crowds run for the exits or stampede. But not in this case. It was very unusual.

This massive crowd of tens of thousands of people stood by and didn’t move an inch. In fact, many of them bravely but automatically stood up, looking for where the sniper would be. They knew immediately that it was a sniper. And then began pointing at him. You can see that if you look at the group behind me. That was just a small group compared to what was in front.

Nobody ran and, by not stampeding, many lives were saved. But that isn’t the reason that they didn’t move. The reason is that they knew I was in very serious trouble. They saw it. They saw me go down. They saw the blood, and thought, actually most did, that I was dead.

They knew it was a shot to the head. They saw the blood. And there’s an interesting statistic. The ears are the bloodiest part. If something happens with the ears they bleed more than any other part of the body. For whatever reason the doctors told me that.  And I said, “Why is there so much blood?” He said, “It’s the ears, they bleed more.

So we learned something. But they just —They just, this beautiful crowd, they didn’t want to leave me. They knew I was in trouble. They didn’t want to leave me. And you can see that love written all over their faces. True.

Incredible people. They’re incredible people. Bullets were flying over us, yet I felt serene. But now the Secret Service agents were putting themselves in peril. They were in very dangerous territory.

Bullets were flying right over them, missing them by a very small amount of inches. And then it all stopped. Our Secret Service sniper, from a much greater distance and with only one bullet used, took the assassin’s life. Took him out.

I’m not supposed to be here tonight. Not supposed to be here.

[Crowd chants “Yes, you are.”]

Thank you. But I’m not. And I’ll tell you. I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of almighty God.

And watching the reports over the last few days, many people say it was a providential moment.

Probably was. When I rose, surrounded by Secret Service, the crowd was confused because they thought I was dead. And there was great, great sorrow. I could see that on their faces as I looked out. They didn’t know I was looking out; they thought it was over.

But I could see it and I wanted to do something to let them know I was OK. I raised my right arm, looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were breathlessly waiting and started shouting, “Fight, fight, fight.”

Thank you.

Once my clenched fist went up, and it was high into the air, you’ve all seen that, the crowd realized I was OK and roared with pride for our country like no crowd I have ever heard before. Never heard anything like it.

For the rest of my life, I will be grateful for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots that stood bravely on that fateful evening in Pennsylvania

Got to admit, my eyes got misty reading that.

But let me focus on the ear

Trump

“There was blood pouring everywhere”

Trumps Docs

. “Ears, they bleed more than any other part of the body,”

Other Doc

“The ear is an interesting little appendage,” he said. “It’s skin over cartilage and there’s not a lot of blood supply.”

https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/17/trump-ear-injury-gunshot-trauma-experts-weigh-in-2/

Trumps Ear

Trumps Hand after touching Ear

From all accounts it was not a serious injury and required no stitches. Yet 5 days after he still has this big old bandage

And his Cult Members too

But why doesn’t Trump want to show his ear?  Its not like the bandage is on his ass or anything, its just an ear.

Could it be that he knows that those who know guns and hunt with AR-15’s know what a 2000 mph bullet can do, even a grazing shot.  I am not such a person. I cant say if his wound could have been caused by that shot or could not. Beyond my knowledge

Not sure how much more information they will allow. Their Information Deprivation strategy is working well.

It just like COVID. Instead of just Natural Origin and Lab Leak to consider, we have Lone Gunman and Deep State Assassination attempt.

Bioterrorism was not allowed to be considered for COVID, nor is a Deep State Fake Assassination Attempt now.

People on the Right are wrongly informed that the Deep State is  controlled by the Left. This is absurd.

The Deep State includes the Corporate BLOB. The Corporate Blob are the head, or at least an equal partner. They include guys like Jamie Dimon, Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt, They are Globalists and Authoritarians and back both parties. Trump is their pick for the next phase of Americas Demolition

So it was a Deep State Operation, just like COVID originated in the Lab, but thats only 1/2 the truth.

So thats all I got today.