The Official Story On Trump’s Shooting Makes No Sense At All

Seventy-two hours after an assassin shot and nearly killed Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, here’s the official story so far: A random 20-year-old acting completely alone walked within 150 yards of a presidential campaign rally with a rifle, climbed onto a rooftop in full view of Secret Service snipers, set up his shot and fired without anyone intervening and with no help from anyone.

This 20-year-old is also so politically radical as to attempt an assassination and yet not radical enough to have ever posted any political writings or commentary on any social media site ever in his life. He also wrote no manifesto and left behind no indication about why he did it. Even after authorities gained access to his phone, they say they still have no clue about his motivations. All we’re told is that, for some reason, he obviously wanted Donald Trump dead. There’s just a handful of videos of the shooter circulating, including one in which he makes some weird sexual joke, and one in which he appears briefly in a Blackrock video featuring his high school classroom. Other than that, it’s as if he never existed.

As far as we can tell, this man’s last and only political act, before attempting to kill the Republican candidate, was to register as a Republican. Oh and apparently, there were Trump signs outside of his parent’s home, where he was living. Watch:

We have no idea why these signs are outside the shooter’s home. We have no clarity on this point whatsoever because none of this makes sense and no one’s explaining anything. Nevertheless, you must believe the official narrative and ask no questions about it or else you are a conspiracy theorist. And one thing we know about assassination attempts is that there’s never any conspiring involved.

As unbelievable and insulting as it is, this is the version of events you’re being told to accept. But with every hour that goes by, it somehow makes even less sense than it did before. Every new detail is more baffling than the last. 

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Last night, for instance CBS News reported that several Beaver County police snipers were stationed inside the building the shooter eventually climbed on top of. They were supposedly looking for threats in the crowd at the rally. There were no officers or snipers on the roof, for reasons that remain unexplained, even though that’d be the rational spot to place these snipers. But it’s now an uncontested fact that the shooter used the police staging area as a vantage point to shoot Donald Trump. 

According to the local outlet Beaver Countian, which broke the story, 

A security operations plan had placed each of the three counter-snipers inside of the building looking out of windows toward the rally, with none stationed on its roof. Due to a lack of manpower, the men did not have spotters assigned to them, as would be standard operating procedure.

So maybe the excuse is that they couldn’t spare anyone to watch the roof. They just ran out of people. Obviously we need to know exactly who drafted that “security operations plan,” because that person should never be in charge of any security operation ever again. 

Nevertheless, roughly a half hour before the shooting started, these snipers positioned inside the building saw the 20-year-old shooter — without his rifle — “looking up at the roof observing the building” before he disappeared, then came back and sat down. This was so suspicious that one of the snipers inside the building took a photo of the gunman. 

Additionally, according to a separate local news station, “a law enforcement officer had also previously seen Crooks on the ground and called him in as a suspicious person with a picture before 5:45 p.m.” Officers supposedly looked around but couldn’t immediately find him.

Just to review: this man was on the radar of the security forces at the rally 30 minutes before he fired the first shot. And he fired it on top of the very same building where the police were staged. 

Already, 30 minutes before the crime took place, they had enough reason to detain this guy and delay the rally. But it gets even worse. 

At one point, in full view of the snipers inside the command post, the gunman, “took out a range finder,” prompting the police sniper to radio his command post. That meant that he alerted the Secret Service to the threat. But still, no one detained the man, and no one pulled Trump off the stage — even though there’s only one reason a suspicious person would be using a range finder right outside a Trump rally, and everyone knows what it is. There is no conceivable innocent reason for a guy to be lurking around the site of a campaign rally with a range finder. Or if there is an innocent reason, the innocent reason is significantly less plausible than the sinister reason. Yet nothing was done. So the man disappeared again, then came back a third time — this time carrying a backpack. And once again, the snipers called in to their command post, explaining that this suspicious man was now “walking towards the back of the building.” But nobody stopped him. Nobody took any physical action to prevent what they could evidently see coming. 

Apparently, all of these reports prompted some police officers to call for backup and try to scale the roof to stop the shooter. But they obviously failed to do so. The gunman climbed on top of the building using an air conditioning unit — not a ladder as previously reported — and fired several shots at Trump before he was taken out.

So what explains why Donald Trump wasn’t taken off the stage at any point in this process, until a gunman shot him in the head? Why didn’t Secret Service snipers on the roof behind Trump take out this shooter before he was able to open fire? If you look at some of the videos from the rally, you’ll notice that initially, the snipers behind Trump appear to be relaxed at first. They’re standing up. They’re not in the prone position, looking through their rifle scopes. But then, some people in the bleachers see something. They start pointing. And eventually the Secret Service snipers go prone, clearly responding to a threat. Here are the two clips:

This is a much more serious failure than we were told it was. This is not a case of the Secret Service somehow failing to notice the shooter. They clearly knew he was there, or that some potentially imminent threat was very close to the stage. We know that from the video. We know it from the reporting. At a minimum, they had reason to think that Trump was in imminent danger. But they essentially did nothing in response. They let Trump take a bullet to the head before they addressed the threat in any way.

According to the Biden administration, we shouldn’t be outraged or concerned about any of this. Yesterday, the head of the DHS, Alejandro Mayorkas, explained that he has “100% confidence” in the director of the Secret Service (whom he oversees). Watch:

This is the same Alejandro Mayorkas who claims the border is completely secure. Now he’s saying he has 100% confidence in the director of the Secret Service, three days after the Secret Service allowed the leading presidential candidate to take a head-shot from a rifle while he delivered a speech on stage. The only conceivable way you’d have “100 % confidence” in this agency, and the people who lead it, is if you’re absolutely fine with that outcome. At this point it’s not really a conspiracy theory to say that the Biden administration apparently thinks Saturday’s assassination attempt was acceptable. They’re coming right out and saying it to our faces. If it was unacceptable, they would fire the people who allowed it to happen. But they aren’t.

Saying you have 100% confidence in the Secret Service after an incident like this is like looking out over the wreckage of a collapsed bridge and declaring that you have a 100% confidence in the engineering team that designed it. 100% confidence. Not even, like, 90% confidence, or 73% confidence. Their utter and total and catastrophic failure has not lost them even one percentage point of confidence, in your book. 

And it’s not just the DHS secretary saying this. Last night, Joe Biden was asked by Lester Holt about the Director of the Secret Service. He made it clear he has no problems with the director’s performance. He also made it clear he has no idea who the director is, because he said “I’ve heard from him,” even though the director of the Secret Service is a woman. Watch:

So Biden may not be sure who the Director of the Secret Service is. But he’s sure that he, or she, or whoever, is doing a great job — as evidenced by the fact that her agents nearly got his chief political rival killed. And of course, because no one in the Biden administration has any shame whatsoever, the Secret Service director has said she has no intention of stepping aside. It’s just like the pullout from Afghanistan, which directly resulted in the deaths of several U.S. servicemembers. No one resigned after that debacle. No one was fired. No one in the government seemed to care, frankly. And we’re seeing that repeat after the single most significant security failure by the Secret Service since the attempt on Ronald Reagan’s life. Actually it’s worse than that. Based on everything we know now, we can say with a high degree of confidence that this is the worst security failure by the Secret Service in its history. But no one in any position of authority in the agency or outside of it will be held accountable in any way whatsoever.

This is why our system of government has lost all the trust the public may have once had in it. There’s no sense of accountability or responsibility. If anything, these people are embracing their failures — almost as if they wanted them to happen. That means we’ll never be told the truth about what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. We’ll never be given the full story of how it happened. Why this guy was allowed to do this. And who this guy even is. And even if we are someday given all of this information, there will be no reason for any of us to believe any of it.