Attempted assassination of Trump…first info and questions

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It was originally reported that the shooter was 250 yards away on top of a building roof. Then multiple civilians reported that the shooter was 100 – 150 yards away and that appears to be corroborated by some authorities. It is also reported, and audio appears to confirm, that the shooter was able to fire multiple shots, 3 – 6 (updated) 5 – 8, before being killed by a Secret Service sniper. If all of this is true, and it appears to be so:

  • How did a man with a rifle get within 150 yards of Trump without being seen and stopped by the Secret Service or law enforcement?
  • Why was the event security perimeter so limited?
  • Why wasn’t the building previously cleared and secured since it was such an obvious prime sniper position?
  • Why didn’t Secret Service drones spot the assassin while he was getting into position and setting up.

At least two civilians were interviewed by the media at the scene that they reported to law enforcement, apparently not Secret Service, that they saw a man with a rifle climbing onto a building rooftop and pointed out the building to those law enforcement officers. Did those LEOs report this upline? If so, why didn’t the Secret Service immediately remove Trump to a safe location and actions taken to apprehend the assassin?

One angle of video (from stage left looking at stage right) shows a sniper (apparently Secret Service) looking directly at the precise angle/direction of the assassin for at least a full minute prior to the assassin taking his shots. The Secret Service was on an elevated rooftop that appears to be taller than the assassin’s rooftop. Did that Secret Service sniper, or his spotter, see the assassin? If not, why not? If he did see him, why didn’t he engage immediately when the assassin with the rifle was spotted?

I don’t have any kind of experience that Secret Service agents have, not even close. But I have been responsible for, or participated in, event security. I have also served on VIP/Executive security details; some of you would recognize the leadership names. And I can tell you this…the security detail’s actions/reactions after the shots were fired were not those of professional, Tier 1 personnel.

One female agent even stopped tending to protecting Trump to fiddle with her sunglasses…twice. And it appears that the detail leader gives the ‘move’ command to take Trump to his vehicle. He gives the command ‘move’, he moves almost 6’ from Trump and the pile of agents, turns around and sees no one else moved.

The US Secret Service is supposed to be the best protection agency in the world. However, in the last two decades there is report after report after report of agents getting drunk on assignments, consorting with whores, leaving intelligence reports in the presence of foreign females in hotel rooms, getting sent home from foreign countries for all kinds of inappropriate behaviors. Are we seeing the continued degradation of that agency…at least when it comes to Trump’s protection? It appears that his protection detail was at best 3rd string.

Here is my closing statement…1) watch the videos and listen to the audios, 2) ask your own questions, 3) watch how the feds respond to this event and answer questions raised about his protection and the assassin.

Last question, the FBI has been put in charge of the investigation into what happened. Is this the same FBI that planted spies in Trump’s 2016 campaign staff? If this the same FBI that joined with the CIA in the coup against Trump after Trump was elected President? Is this the same FBI that endorsed the Steele Dossier as being true and accurate? Is this the same FBI that stonewalled the Hunter laptop investigation and even denied the laptop existed? Is this the same FBI that investigated the person who revealed Biden’s daughter’s diary alleging molestation of her by Joe Biden…rather than investigating Biden for molesting his daughter? Is this the same FBI investigating Trump, including raiding his personal home, trying to send Trump to prison? If it is…well, you know what question I would be asking next.

It is still early, maybe too early, to be asking questions and relying on information that hasn’t been verified by authorities. So I might be wrong about the info I am relating and I might be out of line asking questions so soon. Then again…

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  6. While everyone in the media and government are, understandably, focusing on the WHO/WHAT/HOW/WHY of the attempted assassination… a series of much larger (and in the long term far more important) questions are going UN-asked.

    That question is, “Was this attempted assassination a single, solitary, unfortunate action attempted by a single person acting alone? Or, is it just the first of a series of Leftist-inspired actions to be be taken by the usual Leftist suspects (antifa, BLM, etc.)???

    Many conservatives have been quietly expecting an extremely violent summer and fall leading up to the election in November. It’s the standard playbook for the action-oriented (meaning, violence-oriented) Leftist groups.

    I know I’ve sent warning emails to many friends and family, advising them to BE PREPARED for mob violence directed against Republicans, Conservatives, Libertarians…and anyone who isn’t a card-carrying, Woke, Leftist radical revolutionary.

    The Left (led very much by Joe Biden’s horrible example) has been fueling the flames of political violence for several years now. That’s what you’re advocating when you state that your political opponents are Fascists, Hitleres, anti-Democracy totalitarians, Racists, Misogynists, War-mongers, tyrants, dictators, and the Greatest Threat to American Democracy in the entire World (well, except for maybe Climate Change, right?), etc.

    I don’t know, of course, what is going to happen next. But here’s some pretty good guess-timates.

    1. I think any plans to violently protest at the RNC Nominating Convention in Milwaukee are now being scrubbed. Violent protests (with attempted or successful arson, assaults on LEOs and Republican supporters, after the assassination attempt would be a HORRIBLE look politically, with wildly counter-productive results. It was always a bad look, now it would be an election-losing look. The Left now is facing The Woken Leviathan (conservatives who are tired of this false narratives and faked accusations), so the Left is going to have to TURN DOWN the temperature. The citizenry will NOT be prone to allowing antifa and BLM to throw their tantrums…when said tantrums include murder, attempted murder, arson, assault, battery and other assorted acts of violence against conservatives/Trump supporters.

    2. There will still be “mostly-peaceful” protests at the Convention…along with perhaps a few violent individuals who stopped taking their meds and didn’t get the memo to stand down.

    3. Once the RNC Convention is past, there likely will be a string of attempts to intimidate Trump voters and supporters in key battleground states. The mainstream media likely won’t cover these events, or cover them dismissively. These will be focused on any swing states where the Left figures they can intimidate Trump voters from turning out. But, there’s not going to be anywhere near the level of violence that we would have otherwise seen.

    4. The Left/Dems will soon launch a new, concerted and coordinated all-out assault on the Second Amendment…the first salvos will probably come during this week’s Republican Convention, but by Friday July 19 it will be a MASSIVE, well-funded and repetitive campaign. Their goals? 1. Mainly to deflect blame from the Left for its violence-inducing rhetoric; 2. Try to cornering Trump and/or other leading Republicans into a corner of blaming the gun, not the criminal; and 3) Maybe they get lucky, and get an AWB (now including not just AR15s, but essentially all semi-automatic weapons, both rifles and handguns) this fall. Who would vote for such an AWB? Every Democrat and nearly all RINOs. It would be close vote in the House and Senate…at best. At worst, it gets passed by a resounding margin, because what politician would be willing to vote against it, after an attempted assassination against a former President and current political candidate?? What a perfect excuse to “clarify” the Second Amendment, right?

    5. We’ll never get to discuss the nasty rhetoric that helped lead up to the attempt on Trump’s life, not to mention the fairly widespread intimidation (at least in Blue States and Cities) and often outright violence against conservatives in general and Trump/MAGA supporters in particular. If you even start to raise the subject, all public figures and individual citizens will be out-shouted by the Left’s reps (Media and political) that we MUST “do something” about this horrible gun violence thing, RIGHT NOW!!! The Mainstream (read: Left-controlled) Media will harp on gun control ad infinitum.

    I could go on…but I think these points cover the near- to mid-term events reasonably well.

    WHAT TO DO NOW:

    1. PREPARE YOURSELF for potential mob violence…even if you/we don’t think it is as likely now. Upgrade security at your home. Install some security window film on your windows — ballistic grade if possible, shatter-resistant at the least. Get some security hinge pins and install them on all doors. Take some firearms training refreshers, both pistols and handguns. Yes, maybe even buy some body armor (yes, it WILL get that bad, eventually). Oh, and take some First Aid courses…to including training how to deal with major trauma wounds (e.g., gunshots or knife wounds).

    2. UNDERSTAND THE LEFT’S LONG-TERM GAME PLAN: The Left’s Long-Term goal is to completely silence, and then eliminate, any political opposition, establishing a Leftist/Socialist government, and get rid of the US Constitution in its current form. Their game plan has always included violence…eventually, it will be akin to Hitler’s BrownShirts/Storm Troopers literally running amok in the streets to (literally) eliminate any political support for opposing parties. That day is coming…it just isn’t as likely to happen this year as it was prior to the assassination attempt and resulting voters swinging toward Trump.

    3. GET YOUR FOOD STORAGE AND EMERGENCY PREPS DONE. If you’re on this website, you already know this…but perhaps you need to be more urgent in getting it all done. However, don’t broadcast your actions too widely, nor among folks who don’t think similarly. Discretion is vital here. (I’ve lost my own plausibility due to over a decade in Emergency Preparedness Callings within my Church unit — folks definitely know that the wife and I are preppers…there’s simply no hiding “the fact of.” However, few folks know the exact extent of our preparations…and I’ll keep it that way. Certainly, I’m not wasting time preaching preparedness to idiot relatives or acquaintances that aren’t going to take the advice, anyway. and will accuse us of being all sorts of tin-foil-hat conspiracists, domestic terrorists, etc. KNOW HOW/WHEN TO BE AT LEAST PARTIALLY A “GRAY MAN or WOMAN.”

    4. ORDER SOME AMMUNITION: Along with the anti-Second Amendment anti-gun hysteria the Left will soon create, there will be renewed and expanded efforts to prohibit the sale of a LOT of “military-grade” ammunition…which will turn out to be, in the Legislation, pretty much everything except 22 Long Rifle. Short of that, they will enact measures to make ammunition more expensive, harder to purchase, and even harder to find. The buying rushes have already started, and ammo prices are already up 5-12% since the assassination. Multiple ammo sellers have jacked up prices…and it is all selling like hot cakes. I anticipate we’re going to have an “ammunition desert” from here through to next spring. IF YOU ARE IN ANY WAY NEEDFUL OF AMMUNITION, YOU’D BEST GET IT NOW!!

    5. EXPECT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO USE THIS SITUATION TO REJECT RECENT SCOTUS RULINGS LIMITING THE ATF’S POWER TO ARBITRARILY CHANGE OR CREATE GUN CONTROL REGULATIONS & RULES. They’ll lose the gambit in SCOTUS, eventually, but it will take 3-4 years to go through the courts. My advice is to STAY LEGAL, NO MATTER WHAT, because the ATF would love to jack you up with an O’Dark Thirty SWAT raid on you and your family in your PJs, scare your kids to death and then send you away to jail for years to months for daring to own one of those dreaded “assassination devices” otherwise known as firearms. The Left HAS to do this, to distract away from the environment they’ve created.

    6. DO NOT DO NOT DO NOT go mercurial on the internet & social media sites…no threats against persons on the Left, at any level. Stay calm, measured and dial back the indignant rhetoric. BE LIKE A DUCK: Calm and placid on the surface, but below the surface, churning away like crazy.

    BTW, I’ve already just ordered my own “just in case” stuff I consider would be useful if things truly “go south” over the next few months or years. I beat the price increases…barely. Your Mileage May Vary, so get whatever it is that YOU need to be prepared.

    Best wishes

    Jim

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