Not everyone performed well today, but I’d like to first salute some of those who did, such as the photojournalists and this articulate witness who tried to alert the Secret Service and local police that a man with a rifle was crawling up on a roof overlooking Donald Trump’s podium:
It seems like he may have actually saved Trump's life.
This is just speculation on my part but it looks ( https://youtube.com/shorts/nWwmgQI260k?feature=share ) like the Secret Service is ready to shoot the guy - possibly thanks to redhead - and thus the shooter had to shoot before he was ready, which was why he missed.
There is zero reason to think that Crooks shot because the snipers were drawing a bead on him. In fact that would make the SS performance even worse -- why would Crooks be able to get off the first shot if they were already looking at him before he started firing??? Now, the local police said they had a man going up to the roof who fell off when Crooks pointed his rifle at him, so that might have caused Crooks to hurry... but the guy interviewed by the BBC said he was crawling on the roof with his rifle in full sight for "minutes". Note in your video the SS snipers are facing Crooks looking through their scopes for a LONG time. This destroys the excuse that maybe they didn't see Crooks because they had such a large area to scan. The SS performance was inexcusably crappy in any event.
Whatever it was, he knew rhat they were onto him. He probably heard people shouting too.
As for the Secret Service fellow, well, you've got to be *damn sure* before you shoot-to-kill on live TV. the fellow's just human and not on a battlefield. I can't imagine his mind at that moment but if there was an error it was nearly certainly a very human scale error rather than a deliberate plan to get Trump assassinated. This isn't Epstein stuff after all, who the president is does not actually matter. It's all a distraction to keep people invested in nonsense that makes not a dime's worth if difference to everyone who isn't already uber wealthy.
That guy was great. Laid out the entire situation perfectly and completely off the cuff. Impressive. And agreed he may have saved Trump if he brought attention to shooter. He should be honored. Crazy they didn’t have that area cordoned off. The new director of secret service wants to make it 30% female. Now really nobody is going to want to go into politics. Lol. What a mess.
If that is legit it is just awful. Surprised they haven’t floated that maybe he was aiming for the guy he actually got and it was all a distraction like the Beltway sniper?
The utility to the Deep State of a Trump assassination can not be overstated. "People are innocent until proven guilty, unless it is one of the alphabet agencies. They need to prove their innocence"
I agree 100% but I still think this is more a crisis of competence. The amount of sheer "Idiocracy" in modern America is staggering.
PS Having read more about what happened, I realize it's hard to stick to the idea that this was mere incompetence. But I think it was. It is truly IDIOCRACY without the humor.
Maybe the BBC team scooped the Americans because degrees of ludicrous appearance don’t register to Brits, we all look equally gauche to them (or their assistants in the case of this blind journalist).
I was wondering why O'Donohughe kept ignoring the man's gestures toward the roof. I wanted the camera to pan over to where he was pointing, but in retrospect this enabled the witness to give a more coherent and complete verbal account of the incident.
Goes to show that an apparent deficiency can be a strength in some circumstances.
The blind are uniquely effective at discouraging witnesses from relying upon gestures and giving much more useful verbal descriptions of events. They can also be quite effective at restating testimony and thereby eliciting clarifications. I can see why the BBC keeps Mr Donahue on its payroll.
My guesses so far re. the event are that either the interviewee linked to below is correct or, contrarily and following cui bono, the Trump team arranged it and somehow clipped part of his ear off, on the model of one of my favorite Agatha Christie books. The lone gunman theory seems unlikely to me.
Guy might have had better luck if he'd yelled "GUN!" like they do on TV.
It seems like he may have actually saved Trump's life.
This is just speculation on my part but it looks ( https://youtube.com/shorts/nWwmgQI260k?feature=share ) like the Secret Service is ready to shoot the guy - possibly thanks to redhead - and thus the shooter had to shoot before he was ready, which was why he missed.
There is zero reason to think that Crooks shot because the snipers were drawing a bead on him. In fact that would make the SS performance even worse -- why would Crooks be able to get off the first shot if they were already looking at him before he started firing??? Now, the local police said they had a man going up to the roof who fell off when Crooks pointed his rifle at him, so that might have caused Crooks to hurry... but the guy interviewed by the BBC said he was crawling on the roof with his rifle in full sight for "minutes". Note in your video the SS snipers are facing Crooks looking through their scopes for a LONG time. This destroys the excuse that maybe they didn't see Crooks because they had such a large area to scan. The SS performance was inexcusably crappy in any event.
Whatever it was, he knew rhat they were onto him. He probably heard people shouting too.
As for the Secret Service fellow, well, you've got to be *damn sure* before you shoot-to-kill on live TV. the fellow's just human and not on a battlefield. I can't imagine his mind at that moment but if there was an error it was nearly certainly a very human scale error rather than a deliberate plan to get Trump assassinated. This isn't Epstein stuff after all, who the president is does not actually matter. It's all a distraction to keep people invested in nonsense that makes not a dime's worth if difference to everyone who isn't already uber wealthy.
https://youtu.be/BzHYd2Uar6s
https://youtu.be/Wm2h8c2H83E
Interesting facts about the hat and the reporter. I suppose a sighted reporter would be less likely to take that hat seriously.
Perhaps the blind reporter's assistant told him, "There's a witness who sounds credible but he has weird hair. Do you want to interview him or not?"
Literally... only the blind reporter could see what was important..
When iSteve threads collide:
https://x.com/L0m3z/status/1812320131533754859
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That guy was great. Laid out the entire situation perfectly and completely off the cuff. Impressive. And agreed he may have saved Trump if he brought attention to shooter. He should be honored. Crazy they didn’t have that area cordoned off. The new director of secret service wants to make it 30% female. Now really nobody is going to want to go into politics. Lol. What a mess.
If that is legit it is just awful. Surprised they haven’t floated that maybe he was aiming for the guy he actually got and it was all a distraction like the Beltway sniper?
Secret service knew , pleeease , I can still smell Lahaina burning
I thought the hair was real. Glad you cleared that up.
Let's all remember this:
One centimeter.
Otherwise we'd be under martial law right now.
The utility to the Deep State of a Trump assassination can not be overstated. "People are innocent until proven guilty, unless it is one of the alphabet agencies. They need to prove their innocence"
I agree 100% but I still think this is more a crisis of competence. The amount of sheer "Idiocracy" in modern America is staggering.
PS Having read more about what happened, I realize it's hard to stick to the idea that this was mere incompetence. But I think it was. It is truly IDIOCRACY without the humor.
Maybe the BBC team scooped the Americans because degrees of ludicrous appearance don’t register to Brits, we all look equally gauche to them (or their assistants in the case of this blind journalist).
I was wondering why O'Donohughe kept ignoring the man's gestures toward the roof. I wanted the camera to pan over to where he was pointing, but in retrospect this enabled the witness to give a more coherent and complete verbal account of the incident.
Goes to show that an apparent deficiency can be a strength in some circumstances.
The blind are uniquely effective at discouraging witnesses from relying upon gestures and giving much more useful verbal descriptions of events. They can also be quite effective at restating testimony and thereby eliciting clarifications. I can see why the BBC keeps Mr Donahue on its payroll.
My guesses so far re. the event are that either the interviewee linked to below is correct or, contrarily and following cui bono, the Trump team arranged it and somehow clipped part of his ear off, on the model of one of my favorite Agatha Christie books. The lone gunman theory seems unlikely to me.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13634219/Veteran-longest-confirmed-sniper-kill-Trump-assassination-attempt.html