Well done Jack. I think the whole thing was staged; here’s what I’m trying to make sense of: could another gunman have both killed the spectator in the stands and be so precise to fire a grazing wound to his ear with a smaller caliber weapon? Were the Secret Service in on the plot? This occurred while Biden was still President. Why didn’t he order an exhaustive JFK-like investigation and ‘process/ballistics autopsy’? Did the martyrdom dialogue and the murder of an innocent spectator override what should have been normal protocol?
Love this comment, Tom...thank you for reading so closely and pushing the hard questions.
Short answers...then my take:
Could a second shooter have killed the spectator and produced a tidy ear graze with a smaller caliber?
It’s not impossible in theory...but there’s no public proof of a second shooter. The “small-caliber graze” idea mostly comes from how limited the ear injury looks for an AR-style round.
A more mundane (but still damning) explanation is fragment/ricochet: a primary shot strikes something near the stage...sends debris or a bullet fragment across the ear... and the fatal round hits the spectator.
That would still demand a full forensic accounting...acoustics...trajectory mapping...casing counts...striation matches...to confirm.
Were the Secret Service “in on it”?
What we can say with confidence is that protocol broke down in ways that are hard to square with training: known rooftop risk...delayed extraction...visible head/torso during egress...and time for an on-camera fist-raise.
Whether that’s catastrophic incompetence or something darker is the open question. I don’t assert intent I can’t prove; I do assert the pattern of failures created the perfect political optic.
Why didn’t Biden order a JFK-level...full-public...forensics-heavy inquiry?
By design...a president isn’t supposed to direct DOJ/Secret Service casework. That said... nothing prevented a truly exhaustive...public-facing review with transparent ballistics... audio triangulation...and comms logs. I
Instead, we got after-action reports and hearings with big gaps. That’s precisely why I’m beating this drum: the process didn’t restore trust.
Did the martyrdom narrative + a murdered spectator override normal protocol?
That’s how it looks. The public storyline moved to “miraculous survival” almost instantly... while the death of an innocent man and the unanswered technicals slid off the front page.
That’s backwards. Honor demands we center the victim’s family and demand the kind of forensic sunlight that either validates the official story...or corrects it.
My bottom line: I’m not married to any single theory; I’m married to evidence. The way to settle this isn’t speculation...it’s a full release of: (1) ballistic reports and recovered fragments...(2) complete audio/video for acoustic triangulation...(3) shell-casing inventory tied to weapon ID...(4) stage/roof trajectory reconstructions...and (5) radio/comms timelines.
Until then...the trust gap stays open...and that serves the myth...not the country.
I’d love to see the ballistics analysis of the murdered spectator. My guess is the entry wound was almost lateral, not downward from a rooftop. And I’ll further suggest trump’s ear was never hit by anything. He smacked a fake blood packet when he heard the shot, just like all his buddies in WWE do it.
You nailed it. That’s the kind of forensic work we should’ve seen by now. A real ballistics autopsy would settle the wound angles and trajectories. But because they’ve never shown the receipts...the door stays wide open for theories like yours to fill the gap. Without question, Tom.
I agree with all that you are saying and I have said from Day 1, it was fake!! I am saddened that a spectator was killed and mad that the shooter was killed so we will never know the truth!!!
Agree Vivian. To me the most sinister facet of this conjecture is that they murdered one and seriously wounded another two people just to put on a dramatic spectacle in support of a failing immoral, sinister, lawless candidate.
We will never see the evidence from Butler or from Epstein. I would bet real money that they have destroyed all of it!! Unless someone has copies beside Russia or Israel. My dad always wanted to live to see the report on JFK. Now I want to live long enough to see this fool gone!
Hope you’re wrong but I doubt it Hawkeye. They’ve had so much time to get rid of incriminating material. I’m hoping for one or two things to occur: 1) a couple of the FBI agents tasked with reviewing the Epstein material grew a conscience and recorded the most salient evidence against trump, or 2) the same thing happens on the ballistics end.
Tim Schell, what great questions! Do you think President Biden and the official protective people knew T. was putting on an act and that a murder or a double murder was involved? Your questions make me wonder if the shooter was being set up to be murdered, too.
I wonder how involved it all was and who might have known of far reaching threats and consequences.
How closely was this shooting plot staged to the fate of the address of warning to the public by President Biden? Do you know? Of course that warning was needed and was heart felt, but it was still more piercing than the surface indicated even with the impact we knew it carried. I wonder how impacted and limited Joe Biden might have been due to possible threats. Maybe he was not under such pressures, but I still wonder.
I’m convinced that Crooks was hired and manipulated by trump acolytes, then murdered to silence him once his usefulness was over. Just my opinion. Like Jack said, so many unanswered questions requiring a thoughtful deep unbiased investigation. So many coincidences of things that have never happened before: severely bungled Secret Service actions, lightning quick coverup of many actions to prevent any inquiries, especially the medical wounds. ‘Nothing to see here folks.’
Tom, I am sorry to have hit the wrong key in my previous response, while typing your name on my phone.
Yes, I can see that same very possibility about Crooks being used and then killed. In fact, it feels very probable. I am sorry for both people who died and their families. I wish we knew all of the answers, and I wish everybody could and would question, see, and believe the truth when we find it. If they could, we would not be having the current problems.
Why do we know more about Luigi than dude who allegedly tried to assassinate such a prominent(ugh)figure? Where is the scar? Two weeks later there was nothing wrong with his ear,plus ears bleed a lot more than that tiny splash. I don't believe it was real.
I’m with you, Anna. You don’t have to be “into conspiracy theories” to recognize when the story doesn’t add up. We’ve been shown almost nothing about Crooks...his background...his movements, the forensic workup...and that absence speaks louder than any headline.
Add to that the odd healing timeline...the strangely light bleeding...and the way the narrative locked down overnight...and you’re right to feel the scar is on truth...not the ear.
Here’s the line I use: a conspiracy theory is just speculation. But when the official record is incomplete...the evidence is contradictory...and basic transparency is withheld...it’s no longer a conspiracy theory...it’s an unanswered investigation. That’s when citizens have a duty to press harder...not shrug and move on.
Some innocent person DIED. Was the family paid off? They must now have a Swiss bank account somewhere, funded by republican dollars. I wonder if anyone has looked into whether the family is living a new, wealthy lifestyle. The entire episode stinks and makes no sense. Yes, it appears to have been staged.
You’re right to put the focus back on the most tragic piece, Ytram: an innocent man lost his life. That should’ve been the center of the investigation and coverage...not a footnote.
I’ve seen no evidence the family was paid off or suddenly enriched...but your instinct to question what support or silence may have been exchanged is fair.
What we do know is that the narrative shifted quickly to Trump’s “miracle survival” while the victim’s story faded. That’s backwards.
If this were a true search for accountability...the family would be central and the ballistics... financials...and communications would all be transparent.
The fact that they aren’t is exactly why the entire episode still reeks all to hell.
What I found utterly suspicious was the overly exaggerated time that tRumP stood like a statue with arm out pointing. If it were toward a shooter, he never would have stayed that still for that long..
I agree with you, Jack...curated spectacle. I've read a couple other analyses of this "assassination attempt," as well, that reinforce your points and contain other forensic questions. The acoustics and trajectory points were new to me, so thank you. Elsewhere, I read about the physics of gunshot trauma, including the physical damage to the people who were injured.
What I don't understand in all of this is Crooks' role. Would he have intentionally signed on to miss and die through suicide by cop? Would the secret service have been that confident in his bad aim? From what I've read, he had no history of violence or acting out. If that's true, how did he get ... there? I can understand all of the other factors...the branding opportunity, the secret service "permission" and "delay and display," but how do we explain Crooks?
I have written about this on other sites as as I never believed it was a real assassination attempt. As an RN and other medical people have written the blood was stage blood and the line of the drainage is not consistent with real blood nor was the color. The actions of the secret service was too loose. In a real situation he would not have been allowed to stand up and wave his fist in the air. AK bullets would have affected his response and his hearing would have been of. Plus cartilage does not grow back and he has no sign of injury on other pictures recently taken. And no gathering at the hospital of media to find out how he was, and he was on golf course the next day. It does not meet the smell test....
It also looked like the positioning of the blood streaks on the cheek to the lip had been angled to direct the eye of each viewer to the red substance or blood which had been emptied inside the ear.
He also had no blood on the shirt anywhere and the color was off. Blood darkens as soon as the air hits it. This stayed bright red. And the ear bleeds profusely and this was not actively bleeding!
I remember saying, the first time I saw the film of the (ahem) assassination attempt, why are the Secret Service not shielding his body? Why was he even able to raise his fist? How incompetent are they and why is he not shocked? I think if someone shot at me, I’d be hunkered down immediately. It seemed fishy to me initially. I should always trust my gut.
Yep - wrote into Biden after it happened - that it was fake and right out of the dicktator handbook. And since T is a big WWE fan and friends with the McMahons - access to squibs would have been easy. he goes down - SS squirts a squib, T rises, no scratch, just some Squib blood running across his face. And why wouldn't the current POTUS investigate but just take Trump and his teams word for it - even when everything is screaming fake - I do not know. Standard - we hope it's okay - but what I was looking for - was we're going to open an investigation and/or we're going to questions Secret Service about their dereliction of duty. Crickets.
I did try to make sense of that day and you connected the dots with facts, experts and the no transparency from the Dr visit. What about all the blood on the side of his face to his mouth?Looking back, I’m no expert, SS failed but seems shot the AR15 suspect to stop just in time to stop the trajectory of the bullet, the people behind Trump, a gunman (heard how many shots fired 1? allegedly kill the fireman or was it from the roof top gunman?) and reading about it the policeman saw the gunman on the roof, said he allegedly was afraid to shoot him. Police are trained otherwise. Thank you Jack
From day one I had a gut feeling that something wasn't right. Trump is and has always been a coward. For him to stand up and raise his fist when the danger was still present (they certainly didn't know that quickly if all threats had been stopped) is so out of character for him. But on the other hand, if he knew it was all staged, it makes perfect sense, especially with the perfect picture on the flag behind him and him raising his fist in defiance. And for those saying, but an innocent bystander was killed, do they truly think Trump would care about collateral damage. Sadly we may never know the true extent of what happened. Unless some true patriot comes forward and is willing to go on the record.
That’s the million-dollar question...isn’t it? My read: you don’t need “everyone” in on it. You only need a few well-placed people...those controlling the comms flow...those making the call about what intel gets passed up the chain...those deciding when to move the protectee. The fewer people involved...the better...in terms of secrecy.
The rank-and-file agents on the ground may have thought they were just working a chaotic day. But if leadership filters the warnings...delays the order to extract...and shapes the after-action report...the whole thing can look like a wall-to-wall failure instead of selective manipulation.
That’s the pattern that keeps me pressing here: it’s not about recruiting dozens of complicit agents. It’s about how a handful of gatekeepers...can tilt the entire outcome.
Crazy…. Saw a clip too where someone stage flunky directed the flag be lowered to get “the” picture. If a real shooting they would all be getting the hell out of there as you don’t know that it is safe yet.
I was very skeptical about this idea it was staged at first- I want hard evidence- but the more I learn and watch the clips the more so many things don’t look right….
TV, even though we are discussing a very serious act and possibilities, when I read your comment about the positioning of the flag, I had a good laugh! Does that ever sound staged for the best photograph they could plan! Thanks for mentioning it.
I’ve read most of this elsewhere, but when you agree I am much more inclined to believe it. I certainly believe a young guy could be convinced to take on the gunman role and death by cop. I’m sure his family was well compensated, too.
The issue of why Biden’s DOJ didn’t investigate is one I hadn’t considered. But we already know Garland was not very aggressive in going after donnie’s misdeeds. 👹
I saw some videos a couple of months ago of the trump team... seconds before the shot... moving photographers down in front of the stage and then immediately afterwards ushering them very quickly toward the steps he exited on.
I have said it from the start... this was staged, Crooks was a patsy and I will die on that hill.
I also read, about a month after Butlergate, that trump's team had a list of registered gun owners in Butler. I don't know if that has been verified or not, but if that IS true... Why would he need that list? To pick his patsy that's why. A poor family with a troubled kid, failed promises made by the trump team to the family and the parents haven't said one word. Silence. Why? Were they even interviewed? I don't remember. All I remember is that they wanted to be left alone and it seems like they got their wish.
You won't get any flack from me on this subject. Unless there is rock solid evidence that it wasn't staged, I will not change my stance. And don't get me started on how he got a ladder there without help or SS not noticing it was there.
Of course it was staged. There is no way the Secret Service would have allowed him to stand up or to be put in the Beast in the line of fire, he would have been brought to the far side of the vehicle. The person in the crowd who was killed was collateral damage of this event.
thanks Jack! this guy has squandered any and all benefit of the doubt. his life, his 'reign', have been so full of bullshit that not even 'an assassination attempt' is going to ring on the meter for me, and, I wonder, if for others as well. he has relied on constant hyperbole on top of the hyperbole that he makes 'the boy who cried wolf' want to cry his sorrows out over a couple of twelve packs. the episode will be, if it hasn't already, squashed into oblivion because it is just one tiny dot in a sea of diseased, malevolent, photo ops. easy to forget. too bad it's not real. and too bad not mission accomplished.
Well done Jack. I think the whole thing was staged; here’s what I’m trying to make sense of: could another gunman have both killed the spectator in the stands and be so precise to fire a grazing wound to his ear with a smaller caliber weapon? Were the Secret Service in on the plot? This occurred while Biden was still President. Why didn’t he order an exhaustive JFK-like investigation and ‘process/ballistics autopsy’? Did the martyrdom dialogue and the murder of an innocent spectator override what should have been normal protocol?
Love this comment, Tom...thank you for reading so closely and pushing the hard questions.
Short answers...then my take:
Could a second shooter have killed the spectator and produced a tidy ear graze with a smaller caliber?
It’s not impossible in theory...but there’s no public proof of a second shooter. The “small-caliber graze” idea mostly comes from how limited the ear injury looks for an AR-style round.
A more mundane (but still damning) explanation is fragment/ricochet: a primary shot strikes something near the stage...sends debris or a bullet fragment across the ear... and the fatal round hits the spectator.
That would still demand a full forensic accounting...acoustics...trajectory mapping...casing counts...striation matches...to confirm.
Were the Secret Service “in on it”?
What we can say with confidence is that protocol broke down in ways that are hard to square with training: known rooftop risk...delayed extraction...visible head/torso during egress...and time for an on-camera fist-raise.
Whether that’s catastrophic incompetence or something darker is the open question. I don’t assert intent I can’t prove; I do assert the pattern of failures created the perfect political optic.
Why didn’t Biden order a JFK-level...full-public...forensics-heavy inquiry?
By design...a president isn’t supposed to direct DOJ/Secret Service casework. That said... nothing prevented a truly exhaustive...public-facing review with transparent ballistics... audio triangulation...and comms logs. I
Instead, we got after-action reports and hearings with big gaps. That’s precisely why I’m beating this drum: the process didn’t restore trust.
Did the martyrdom narrative + a murdered spectator override normal protocol?
That’s how it looks. The public storyline moved to “miraculous survival” almost instantly... while the death of an innocent man and the unanswered technicals slid off the front page.
That’s backwards. Honor demands we center the victim’s family and demand the kind of forensic sunlight that either validates the official story...or corrects it.
My bottom line: I’m not married to any single theory; I’m married to evidence. The way to settle this isn’t speculation...it’s a full release of: (1) ballistic reports and recovered fragments...(2) complete audio/video for acoustic triangulation...(3) shell-casing inventory tied to weapon ID...(4) stage/roof trajectory reconstructions...and (5) radio/comms timelines.
Until then...the trust gap stays open...and that serves the myth...not the country.
-Jack
I wondered, as well, why the Secret Service let him pause and go back for his damn shoe! Really, guys?
Jack, what an excellent reply, and what wise cautions you suggest. Thank you.
I’d love to see the ballistics analysis of the murdered spectator. My guess is the entry wound was almost lateral, not downward from a rooftop. And I’ll further suggest trump’s ear was never hit by anything. He smacked a fake blood packet when he heard the shot, just like all his buddies in WWE do it.
You nailed it. That’s the kind of forensic work we should’ve seen by now. A real ballistics autopsy would settle the wound angles and trajectories. But because they’ve never shown the receipts...the door stays wide open for theories like yours to fill the gap. Without question, Tom.
-Jack
Jack- you’re incredibly active here. Do you ever sleep ?
All of the above
I hope your continued push and focus on this bears fruit and we see actual evidence the people can believe. Let real sunlight disinfect this shit.
I agree with all that you are saying and I have said from Day 1, it was fake!! I am saddened that a spectator was killed and mad that the shooter was killed so we will never know the truth!!!
Agree Vivian. To me the most sinister facet of this conjecture is that they murdered one and seriously wounded another two people just to put on a dramatic spectacle in support of a failing immoral, sinister, lawless candidate.
I so agree!
We will never see the evidence from Butler or from Epstein. I would bet real money that they have destroyed all of it!! Unless someone has copies beside Russia or Israel. My dad always wanted to live to see the report on JFK. Now I want to live long enough to see this fool gone!
Hope you’re wrong but I doubt it Hawkeye. They’ve had so much time to get rid of incriminating material. I’m hoping for one or two things to occur: 1) a couple of the FBI agents tasked with reviewing the Epstein material grew a conscience and recorded the most salient evidence against trump, or 2) the same thing happens on the ballistics end.
Tim Schell, what great questions! Do you think President Biden and the official protective people knew T. was putting on an act and that a murder or a double murder was involved? Your questions make me wonder if the shooter was being set up to be murdered, too.
I wonder how involved it all was and who might have known of far reaching threats and consequences.
How closely was this shooting plot staged to the fate of the address of warning to the public by President Biden? Do you know? Of course that warning was needed and was heart felt, but it was still more piercing than the surface indicated even with the impact we knew it carried. I wonder how impacted and limited Joe Biden might have been due to possible threats. Maybe he was not under such pressures, but I still wonder.
I’m convinced that Crooks was hired and manipulated by trump acolytes, then murdered to silence him once his usefulness was over. Just my opinion. Like Jack said, so many unanswered questions requiring a thoughtful deep unbiased investigation. So many coincidences of things that have never happened before: severely bungled Secret Service actions, lightning quick coverup of many actions to prevent any inquiries, especially the medical wounds. ‘Nothing to see here folks.’
Tom, I am sorry to have hit the wrong key in my previous response, while typing your name on my phone.
Yes, I can see that same very possibility about Crooks being used and then killed. In fact, it feels very probable. I am sorry for both people who died and their families. I wish we knew all of the answers, and I wish everybody could and would question, see, and believe the truth when we find it. If they could, we would not be having the current problems.
No apology needed. I make typos everyday. But I have learned that I can edit after I send so that helps! Have a great day! Tom
I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but.
Why do we know more about Luigi than dude who allegedly tried to assassinate such a prominent(ugh)figure? Where is the scar? Two weeks later there was nothing wrong with his ear,plus ears bleed a lot more than that tiny splash. I don't believe it was real.
I’m with you, Anna. You don’t have to be “into conspiracy theories” to recognize when the story doesn’t add up. We’ve been shown almost nothing about Crooks...his background...his movements, the forensic workup...and that absence speaks louder than any headline.
Add to that the odd healing timeline...the strangely light bleeding...and the way the narrative locked down overnight...and you’re right to feel the scar is on truth...not the ear.
Here’s the line I use: a conspiracy theory is just speculation. But when the official record is incomplete...the evidence is contradictory...and basic transparency is withheld...it’s no longer a conspiracy theory...it’s an unanswered investigation. That’s when citizens have a duty to press harder...not shrug and move on.
-Jack
Some innocent person DIED. Was the family paid off? They must now have a Swiss bank account somewhere, funded by republican dollars. I wonder if anyone has looked into whether the family is living a new, wealthy lifestyle. The entire episode stinks and makes no sense. Yes, it appears to have been staged.
You’re right to put the focus back on the most tragic piece, Ytram: an innocent man lost his life. That should’ve been the center of the investigation and coverage...not a footnote.
I’ve seen no evidence the family was paid off or suddenly enriched...but your instinct to question what support or silence may have been exchanged is fair.
What we do know is that the narrative shifted quickly to Trump’s “miracle survival” while the victim’s story faded. That’s backwards.
If this were a true search for accountability...the family would be central and the ballistics... financials...and communications would all be transparent.
The fact that they aren’t is exactly why the entire episode still reeks all to hell.
Jack
What I found utterly suspicious was the overly exaggerated time that tRumP stood like a statue with arm out pointing. If it were toward a shooter, he never would have stayed that still for that long..
The 3 seconds for Reagan vs the 2 minutes for trump says it all
Yeah, he wouldn’t have been allowed to be uncovered that long.
I agree with you, Jack...curated spectacle. I've read a couple other analyses of this "assassination attempt," as well, that reinforce your points and contain other forensic questions. The acoustics and trajectory points were new to me, so thank you. Elsewhere, I read about the physics of gunshot trauma, including the physical damage to the people who were injured.
What I don't understand in all of this is Crooks' role. Would he have intentionally signed on to miss and die through suicide by cop? Would the secret service have been that confident in his bad aim? From what I've read, he had no history of violence or acting out. If that's true, how did he get ... there? I can understand all of the other factors...the branding opportunity, the secret service "permission" and "delay and display," but how do we explain Crooks?
What happened to the “innocent”man who was killed family? Never another word, that is very odd as well.
I have written about this on other sites as as I never believed it was a real assassination attempt. As an RN and other medical people have written the blood was stage blood and the line of the drainage is not consistent with real blood nor was the color. The actions of the secret service was too loose. In a real situation he would not have been allowed to stand up and wave his fist in the air. AK bullets would have affected his response and his hearing would have been of. Plus cartilage does not grow back and he has no sign of injury on other pictures recently taken. And no gathering at the hospital of media to find out how he was, and he was on golf course the next day. It does not meet the smell test....
It also looked like the positioning of the blood streaks on the cheek to the lip had been angled to direct the eye of each viewer to the red substance or blood which had been emptied inside the ear.
He also had no blood on the shirt anywhere and the color was off. Blood darkens as soon as the air hits it. This stayed bright red. And the ear bleeds profusely and this was not actively bleeding!
I remember saying, the first time I saw the film of the (ahem) assassination attempt, why are the Secret Service not shielding his body? Why was he even able to raise his fist? How incompetent are they and why is he not shocked? I think if someone shot at me, I’d be hunkered down immediately. It seemed fishy to me initially. I should always trust my gut.
Yep - wrote into Biden after it happened - that it was fake and right out of the dicktator handbook. And since T is a big WWE fan and friends with the McMahons - access to squibs would have been easy. he goes down - SS squirts a squib, T rises, no scratch, just some Squib blood running across his face. And why wouldn't the current POTUS investigate but just take Trump and his teams word for it - even when everything is screaming fake - I do not know. Standard - we hope it's okay - but what I was looking for - was we're going to open an investigation and/or we're going to questions Secret Service about their dereliction of duty. Crickets.
I did try to make sense of that day and you connected the dots with facts, experts and the no transparency from the Dr visit. What about all the blood on the side of his face to his mouth?Looking back, I’m no expert, SS failed but seems shot the AR15 suspect to stop just in time to stop the trajectory of the bullet, the people behind Trump, a gunman (heard how many shots fired 1? allegedly kill the fireman or was it from the roof top gunman?) and reading about it the policeman saw the gunman on the roof, said he allegedly was afraid to shoot him. Police are trained otherwise. Thank you Jack
He was a Republican on the roof. Fl Golf course gunman allegedly wanted to shoot him.
From day one I had a gut feeling that something wasn't right. Trump is and has always been a coward. For him to stand up and raise his fist when the danger was still present (they certainly didn't know that quickly if all threats had been stopped) is so out of character for him. But on the other hand, if he knew it was all staged, it makes perfect sense, especially with the perfect picture on the flag behind him and him raising his fist in defiance. And for those saying, but an innocent bystander was killed, do they truly think Trump would care about collateral damage. Sadly we may never know the true extent of what happened. Unless some true patriot comes forward and is willing to go on the record.
If true, how did they get that many secret service complicit?
That’s the million-dollar question...isn’t it? My read: you don’t need “everyone” in on it. You only need a few well-placed people...those controlling the comms flow...those making the call about what intel gets passed up the chain...those deciding when to move the protectee. The fewer people involved...the better...in terms of secrecy.
The rank-and-file agents on the ground may have thought they were just working a chaotic day. But if leadership filters the warnings...delays the order to extract...and shapes the after-action report...the whole thing can look like a wall-to-wall failure instead of selective manipulation.
That’s the pattern that keeps me pressing here: it’s not about recruiting dozens of complicit agents. It’s about how a handful of gatekeepers...can tilt the entire outcome.
-Jack
Crazy…. Saw a clip too where someone stage flunky directed the flag be lowered to get “the” picture. If a real shooting they would all be getting the hell out of there as you don’t know that it is safe yet.
I was very skeptical about this idea it was staged at first- I want hard evidence- but the more I learn and watch the clips the more so many things don’t look right….
TV, even though we are discussing a very serious act and possibilities, when I read your comment about the positioning of the flag, I had a good laugh! Does that ever sound staged for the best photograph they could plan! Thanks for mentioning it.
I will try to find the clip to share- saw it a few weeks ago…
I’ve read most of this elsewhere, but when you agree I am much more inclined to believe it. I certainly believe a young guy could be convinced to take on the gunman role and death by cop. I’m sure his family was well compensated, too.
The issue of why Biden’s DOJ didn’t investigate is one I hadn’t considered. But we already know Garland was not very aggressive in going after donnie’s misdeeds. 👹
I saw some videos a couple of months ago of the trump team... seconds before the shot... moving photographers down in front of the stage and then immediately afterwards ushering them very quickly toward the steps he exited on.
I have said it from the start... this was staged, Crooks was a patsy and I will die on that hill.
I also read, about a month after Butlergate, that trump's team had a list of registered gun owners in Butler. I don't know if that has been verified or not, but if that IS true... Why would he need that list? To pick his patsy that's why. A poor family with a troubled kid, failed promises made by the trump team to the family and the parents haven't said one word. Silence. Why? Were they even interviewed? I don't remember. All I remember is that they wanted to be left alone and it seems like they got their wish.
You won't get any flack from me on this subject. Unless there is rock solid evidence that it wasn't staged, I will not change my stance. And don't get me started on how he got a ladder there without help or SS not noticing it was there.
Of course it was staged. There is no way the Secret Service would have allowed him to stand up or to be put in the Beast in the line of fire, he would have been brought to the far side of the vehicle. The person in the crowd who was killed was collateral damage of this event.
thanks Jack! this guy has squandered any and all benefit of the doubt. his life, his 'reign', have been so full of bullshit that not even 'an assassination attempt' is going to ring on the meter for me, and, I wonder, if for others as well. he has relied on constant hyperbole on top of the hyperbole that he makes 'the boy who cried wolf' want to cry his sorrows out over a couple of twelve packs. the episode will be, if it hasn't already, squashed into oblivion because it is just one tiny dot in a sea of diseased, malevolent, photo ops. easy to forget. too bad it's not real. and too bad not mission accomplished.