What Are We Missing? Trump Assassination Attempt
Over the last 10 days or so we have a clearer picture of what transpired but we have not heard or read transcripts of interviews with the 2 local Counter Snipers, the Secret Service Counter Snipers, the Secret Service Agent in Charge, or the Officer who saw Crooks with gun on roof after being boosted by a fellow officer.
Before I get on with What Are We Missing, I will go over the Acting Director Rowe’s Press Conference today. The Press Conference was recommended in the Senate Committee Hearing a few days ago. We didn’t learn too much new, except for this.
There were two separate command posts. A Secret Service Security Room with representative from PA State Police and a State Police Unified Command Post with local police that had no Secret Service presence. Why didn’t State Police in their Command Post notify the Representative in the Secret Service Command post when they heard Crooks was on roof ?
I think we need to interview these guys to find out what information was relayed
We also learned this was the 1st event in the campaign that Trump was assigned a Secret Service Counter Sniper Team (before they relied on local). If not for them, its very likely Crooks could have been captured alive.
In which case they would have had to hire a Jack Ruby to keep him quiet.
Can you imagine the circus if Crooks was still alive?
It was also the first event televised live with reporters from all over the world, including BBC.
One of the reporters also asked about what resources the Secret Service needs to do their job better. This will be an opportunity to expand their budget and there will be a push to solve any problems with Technology
Don’t be fooled. Technology is not a cure for Stupidity or Evil
There were 155 agents and officers (70’s ss) at the Rally. They just needed 1 on the roof with a gun. Give him an umbrella , lounge chair and sunscreen and an ice chest w/ drinks and a bottle to piss in. Don’t need any tech but a communication device
The Secret Service turned down offers to use a surveillance drone at the Butler Farm Show rally site. The agency also did not bring a system to boost the agents’ device signals in an area with poor cellular service. And some of the equipment the agency did bring, including a system to detect drone use by others, did not work when it was most needed.
We are living in 2024,” said Mike Matranga, a former Secret Service officer who now runs his own security firm that helps protect many schools and businesses with policing tools. “Why is the government the last one to be able to develop and deliver technology to their advantage?”
Mr. Rowe admitted during the Senate hearing that the agency failed to successfully deploy counterdrone technology at a time when Mr. Crooks launched a drone there. These systems, now widely employed at major public events like the Super Bowl, generally use radio frequency sensors, cameras and radar to track unauthorized drones in the air. More advanced systems can even jam radio signals and effectively disable them.
The Secret Service had planned to use a counterdrone system starting early in the afternoon on July 13, Mr. Rowe said. But as thousands of people gathered at the site in a rural area, the communications network that the device relied on was overwhelmed. Thus, the system was offline when Mr. Crooks flew his own small drone over the site for 11 minutes undetected, about two hours before Mr. Trump went onstage.
Compounding the error, the agency had not set up a mobile communications system, or installed satellite internet service units, to overcome the bandwidth problem.
If the system had been operational, it is likely the Secret Service could have immediately detected Mr. Crooks, as these systems can pinpoint the location of a person flying an unauthorized drone.
“We could have maybe stopped him, maybe, on that particular day,” Mr. Rowe testified. “He would have decided: ‘This isn’t the day to do it because law enforcement just found me flying my drone.’”
The Secret Service did not have its own surveillance drone at the rally and it turned down an offer from local law enforcement officials to use one of their systems, Mr. Rowe said in the hearing. The device might have spied Mr. Crooks as he first climbed on the roof, before he was in position to fire any shots.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/us/politics/secret-service-technology-trump.html
Anyways, three weeks after the shooting we know very little about Crooks, and some of what we have been told is contradictory. Its almost like journalists have been told to stand down. Neither MSM nor the Pay Pal Mafia (Thiel and Musk) Counter Narrative Alternative Media on Rumble, Twitter, Substack have done their jobs well.
From everything I have gathered I will give up the idea of a 2nd shooter. The simple fact is that a 2nd shooter (sharp shooting pro) would only have been needed to ensure a kill shot. A kill shot was not made, ergo, there was no sharp shooter.
If something new comes up I might return to it but until then its closed.
So Crooks either
(1)-acted on his own
a. Let It Happen Op (LIHOP). Meaning they had advance warning but let it happen.
b. Caught every by surprise
or
(2)-he was put up to it and helped
If Crooks acted on his own, and there was no conspiracy such as a LIHOP , he probably nicked an ear. This seems unlikely to me in conjunction with the photographer taking a 1 in a million shot and the incredible comedy of errors leading to him getting off shots on an unattended and unobserved roof
If It was a LIHOP then Trump would not have known when the shot was coming and his ear probably got nicked, but the photographer would have known bullets were coming at some point. Still improbable but possible (assuming you can be nicked with a 2000 mph bullet and not lose cartilage)
In order for Trump to have faked his ear shot he would have had to know when the shot was coming and so it would have had to be (2)
How would (2 ) look like?. Crooks being recruited by an undercover agent at the rifle range. Perhaps hired and paid well and promised a career with the CIA. Something like that. Told to make it look like an assassination attempt but shoot into the crowd. Also told he would be protected and allowed to get away. Setting off a car bomb with a RC device would be his distraction. Trump was signaled shots were coming somehow or made the signal himself. His acting ability and the help of SS Agents did the rest
Just a hypothesis.
Of course, under (2 ) Crooks could also have hired to kill Trump and nicked the ear instead (still too improbable IMO)
Why did Crooks shoot off the last 5 shots when Trump was already on the ground and covered? The time taken to make those shots sealed his doom.
So lets get to what else we “Dont Know”
We don’t know Crooks Motive or Accomplice (if any)
We do not know if anyone was stationed within the 1/F of the AGR Building
We dont know who decided not to place anyone on the AGR Roof
We don’t know which local Counter Sniper remained at his post (if any remained) or which window, and we dont know if he knew anyone was on the roof.
We don’t know if the AR-15 was able to be disassembled so as to fit into a backpack. All we know is it an AR-15, made by Panther Arms. A substacker reported it was DPMS AR-15 5.56
We don’t know what Social Media Platforms Crooks used beyond an infrequently use GAB account in 2021
We don’t know details about the car and van . Make, year, owner
Thomas Crooks’s van which he had abandoned on a side road near the Butler, Pennsylvania, fairground on which the former president’s rally was held Saturday.
Soon after Trump’s July 13 rally ended in a burst of gunfire, a mysterious white van with an Arizona license plate was spotted in a neighborhood adjacent to the fairgrounds.
CNN, reported that law enforcement searched Crooks’ Hyundai Sonata that he had driven to the fairgrounds in Butler the day of the shooting.
In his testimony to Congress on Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray did not mention the van, so it isn’t clear if the FBI believes it is connected
This is a Hyundai Sonata. Not a Van
I could not locate a photo of Crooks Hyundai Sonata and don’t know its location
But in Deputy Director Paul Abbate testimony, he said Crooks was seen walking from the parking lot with a backpack at 5:56 and it was presumed he was coming from the parking lot
I am guessing the bottom parking lot
So we got 2 vehicles, but one seems to be about to be disappeared and we don’t know much about either
We don’t know the location of the business whose Camera caught Crooks Climbing onto the roof at 6:06 , according to FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate or the location Crooks first got on the building
A Police cam caught Crooks on roof at 6:08. We have not seen the footage and don’t know Crooks location on roof or if he was standing or crawling
We don’t know how many bullets or fragments were recovered and where they were recovered
We don’t have a complete inventory of Crooks possessions at the scene
We don’t have a complete and detailed timeline
We don’t have a single photo or film taken from any spectator or journalist on the ground within the security perimeter showing the AGR building before or after the shooting (at least I cant find any)
This is view from the Beaver County Swat Team bodycam as they headed out from the stage area. About 130 yards away. Looks pretty far away, unlike in that Fake Video
Fake Video
I guess they will stall as long as possible, offering dribs and drabs expecting people to drop it with the next news cycle and just latch on to their favorite narrative (official or counter).
This is 2024, any common investigation will gather tons of reliable data and evidence that have nothing to do with the mess they are feeding the public with. Meaning, this is nothing but gaslighting, plus they are so overtly playing dumb they probably think it's funny.
Journalist George Webb has some very interesting ideas on the assassination and he visited multiple sights in PA. See his Substack. There are just too many coincidences and multiple failures not to conclude it was a setup. Colonel Fletcher Prouty said all the SS has to do the day of JFK hit was reduce it's security. The patsy does the rest. Also see Tony Schaefer's interview with Judge Napolitano.