The public is openly debating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump and consequences for the future. The evening of July 13th at around 6:15 p.m. ET in Butler, Pennsylvania, at the Butler Farm Show Fairgrounds a 20 year old man of Bethel Park, Thomas Matthew Crooks, tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump with a headshot from an AR-15 style rifle.
The first aspect of the debate is multiple rally goers to the Trump event spotted the man on the building armed with a long rifle and frantically tried to warn law enforcement onsite. They were frustrated their warnings were seemingly not acted on rapidly enough.
“Man says he saw suspect ‘bear crawling’ on roof with rifle just before shots rang out at Trump rally” – KENS 5
The shooter was somehow able to traverse to a rooftop location of the AGR International buildings adjacent to the fairgrounds where President Trump was speaking. AGR has a global container manufacturing complex of about 6 buildings and Crooks was somehow able to gain access to the southern-most building rooftop nearest the fairground where President Trump had just started speaking at his rally.
Audio seems to suggest Crooks fired 3 rounds and law enforcement returned with 4 with 1 or more killing Crooks with a headshot as only his head was exposed above the roof ridge of the building he was on.
People have questions as to why the word did not spread more rapidly among law enforcement and why Trump wasn’t pulled off stage as soon as rally goers spotted the shooter on the roof.
“Former Secret Service Agent speaks on deadly shooting at Trump rally” – WGN News 9
A second aspect that comes up in the debate is normally Secret Service and law enforcement policy is to “take all the high ground” around a protectee so the obvious question is; Why were these AGR rooftops just 150 yards away not occupied by some variety of law enforcement?
A third aspect that has come up is people who have an interest and love for law enforcement have asked why the Secret Service had not used high technology. People have asked if they scanned the perimeter with some form of thermal imagery devices to detect human beings in hidng. The fact of the matter is thermal imaging is not effective in extreme temperatures, humidity, and other environmental conditions. It was in the 90’s at the Butler Trump Rally Saturday so such imaging devices would not have worked at detecting humans around the perimeter of the fairgrounds.
Another reference to high technology was his rifle absent a scope using an iron sight only. The story goes his father bought the rifle for him with a scope and he removed the scope to use it iron sight only. The reason he did so alleges is he knew that the Secret Service uses technology that can detect scopes up to a mile while an iron sight rifle does not get detected by this system.
A fourth aspect that comes up is that the public wants to know details accurately and truthfully. A question has come up as to whether the Secret Service took the shooter out or local police did. In truth, it really doesn’t matter but the snipers who took shooter Crooks down were wearing bulletproof vests that said “POLICE” on their backs. The reason it doesn’t matter is all local law enforcement is vetted by the Secret Service before the protectee’s arrival and given orders as to what they will be responsible for during the visit. The two men (in the video below) returning fire at shooter Crooks may have been Secret Service or local law enforcement but that is irrelevant. They neutralized the subject as soon as he began shooting. Whoever the two are, they are both heroes.
“SNIPER REACTS during SUSPECTED TRUMP ASSASINATION ttempt WHILE DONALD TRUMP WAS SPEAKING” – Diario AS
People have asked the question, “Why didn’t the police snipers take the shooter out before he began shooting?” Many have speculated they may have thought he was one of theirs and were engaged in radio communications with headquarters trying to determine Crooks status when he began shooting. The last thing any law enforcement personnel want on their watch is to take a brother or sister out in a friendly fire incident.
We want to mention a post going viral on the Internet. This is that post:
“My name is Jonathan Willis, I’m the officer in the famous photo of the two snipers on the roof at Trump’s rally. I came here to inform the public that I had the assassin in my sights for at least 3 minutes, but the head of the secret service refused to give the order to take out the perp. 100% the top brass prevented me from killing the assassin before he took the shots at president Trump.
I didn’t follow the orders though, as soon as the shooter opened on Trump I returned fire despite strict orders to not engage. I had eyes on the shooter for three minutes watching him fiddle with his rifle and adjust the scope, it was obvious he was a shooter yet I wasn’t allowed to engage. After I killed the shooter I was arrested, questioned by the FBI, and just released an hour ago. Already lost my job for not following orders, but I’m glad I took the shots anyway.”
We are unable to confirm or deny the validity of the post but we feel it is highly unlikely the post is true due to the fact snipers are very private and remain anonymous as part of their job for security reasons.
CONCLUSION:
Both Sky News Australia and the BBC have been doing a far better job reporting American news than actual American news sources recently. Below is an example worth viewing from Saturday.
“‘Sad day for America’: Sky News host blasts CNN coverage of attempted Trump assassination” – Sky News Australia
This act of violence could very well be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel’s back in America.
In my opinion the only thing that has kept those on the left from being taken out by those on the right is the fact many of those on the right try to follow God’s words of the Bible and/or the Koran where both offer, “Thou shalt not kill.” Still, that temperament has limits and those limits have now been tested too far.
And if you need more proof the Democrats are the ones to blame here; Biden told donors in a private phone call Monday just last week, “We’re done talking about the (June 27) debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye. He’s gotten away with doing nothing for the last 10 days except ride around in his golf cart, bragging about scores he didn’t score… The fact is, he’s not answering questions.”
In the end, I am left with only two questions:
- Which Secret Service chief running this sh*t show was responsible for securing the perimeter of the Butler fairgrounds including the AGR International building complex?
- Was this a conspiracy bigger than some 20 year old kid serving as a useful idiot to other unseen higher up shot callers (pun intended) in the Secret Service?
By the way, I know something about the Secret Service as I wrote about them a year ago for the Independent Sentinel here:
“The Secret Service Knows Whose Cocaine It Is”
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