ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FORMER PRESIDENT (AND CURRENT COP NOMINEE) DONALD TRUMP IN BUTLER, PA 7/13/2024

 

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF FORMER PRESIDENT (AND CURRENT COP NOMINEE) DONALD TRUMP IN BUTLER, PA 7/13/2024

-          The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was acting suspiciously by the magnetometers at the entrance to the rally in Butler, PA before the rally even began and, because of this, was on law enforcement radar at that time. Crooks used an AR-15 style rifle and had explosives in both his car and in his home. Like Lee Harvey Oswald, associates claimed that Crooks was a bad shot (he was rejected from his high school rifle team).

-          Crooks, a registered Republican who voted in the 2022 midterms, was from my hometown of Bethel Park, PA, a suburb about 35 minutes from Pittsburgh, PA (which was north of the rally held in Butler, PA).

-          ROOFTOPS: the Secret Service, already aware of Crooks from his earlier behavior at the magnetometers, allowed the sniper with an AR-15 style weapon on a rooftop with a ladder within 140 or so yards from where Trump was speaking. This rooftop was glaring in its presence in front of Trump.

-          Why didn’t the counter sniper team, the other agents, as well as state and local police fail to see the sniper when, as videos demonstrate, the civilians in the crowd were noticing him and yelling for law enforcement attention?

-          While it is obviously admirable that the Secret Service counter sniper team took out the sniper, based on the time sequence of videos at the scene, it appears that the counter snipers spotted the sniper within 40 seconds of the sniper firing shots at Trump and the crowd.

-          With the scopes the 2 counter assault officers had, they could have counted the freckles on Crooks face.

-          Why didn’t the advance team of agents, along with law enforcement, recognize the obvious danger that this adjacent rooftop posed as they planned security measures weeks in advance? Why wasn’t a drone or drones used? EVERY rooftop should have been secured within 48 hours of the rally at a bare minimum. There should have been agents and/or officers stationed ON that rooftop.

-          Why wasn’t clear bulletproof glass used? This has often been used in the past and is best exemplified by the November 2008 Chicago video when the Obamas stood before the crowd on election night and on that infamous day on January 6^th, 2001 when Trump spoke to the large crowd?

-          STATIONARY TARGET: Why did the agents (conspicuous by not seeming to wear earpieces) let Trump, after just being shot and injured, stay upright and a stationary target for several crucial moments after the shooting (there could have been a conspiracy of multiple shooters)? They allowed him to stand there and pump his first in defiance toward the crowd and seemed more concerned with creating an iconic photo op and following the orders of the protectee to let him get his shoes than doing their jobs. Compare this scene to the Reagan assassination attempt on 3/30/81.

-          NOT STAGED: A spectator was killed and two others were critically wounded.

-          QANON’S FAKE JFK JR, VINCENT FUSCO, was there standing right behind Trump!

-          A serious investigation of the Secret Service is warranted, not some whitewash “blue ribbon commission”, must be held over this matter. Trump came within an inch or less of being assassinated. Political violence is unacceptable.