Was Trump Shooting Worst Secret Service Protection EVER? Or something else?

by Scott Creighton

Last night at about 5 minutes before I was to participate in a Twitter Space chat with DoodleBob and AuntBB, the news broke that someone had taken some shots at former president Donald Trump during a rally in Butler Pennsylvania. 

Out of respect and with the intent to clarify some issues before he started his Space chat, DoodleBob held the stream for about 20 minutes while he tried to figure out what was happening.

Needless too say, the event dominated out 2 hour talk last night.

This article is my attempt to gather what information I can here early in the morning on Sunday July 14th.

I will post what I find as the day goes on. As I have said before I like to give the folks who run such ops at least 24 hours to smooth the rough edges of their psyops before I dive into them. It seems only fair. Today I am getting a little bit of an early start. 

Let it be known I am not a fan-boy of any politician these days, let along any of the two clowns running for the highest office in the land.

With that said, let's get started.

1. 'I don't know... maybe we should keep an eye on ONE OF ONLY TWO ELEVATED POSITIONS FOR MILES AROUND'

 

Yep. The place is a field. Only TWO elevated positions would pose any threat at all to the former president during his rally... and his team managed to let the shooter get on ONE OF THEM. 

At first they said the shooter was 800 yards away. Eight football fields. Kind of a long shot. But many of us said last night it sounded like it was a lot closer than that.

Then they said the shooter was 200 yards away which is considerably closer but still a good distance from the bandstand where Trump was speaking.

Now the story is the guy was less than 400 feet from Trump. Just over 100 yards. From the look of this image, it was less than that.

How could they NOT have a team on that roof in the first place? Only two elevated positions within shooting distance and they not only left it unmanned... they apparently didn't even watch it for a period long enough for the shooter to get on it and get set up.

How is that possible? Answer: it isn't. 

Head of the Secret Service is due in congress today to answer for just how badly his team blew it.

(you mean how they missed?)

2. Multi-purpose ops.

'An AR-15-type semiautomatic rifle was recovered from a deceased white male believed to be the gunman'

A dead suspect so there is no trial. And an Ar-15 'type' weapon. Someone had said the suspect was Chinese last night. Probably Steve Bannon from jail. Turns out it was a white male. So there's that. 

'Hours after hundreds of gun safety advocates rallied at the state capitol, the Pennsylvania House voted down a pair of bills, one that would have banned machine gun conversion devices and another that aimed to curb gun trafficking.' May 2024

As is the case in many of these shooting events, just so happens there are some pending gun laws floating around in the state houses when the shooting takes place. Think that might help get em passed next time around when it was the Republican nominee who was the victim?

3. Hitting the message hard.

'We're all Americans' RFK Jr. (guy who's biggest PAC donor is also a Trump donor)a

'Everybody MUST condemn it' Joe Biden

Yeah it's not hard to spout simpleton platitudes at a time like this, there are currently about 20k social media influencers doing just that right now. 

Sure we are all Americans. Sure we all should condemn someone trying to resolve an election with bullets.

Not what you would call hot takes.

However, not all Americans are created equal folks and for me at least, what I have to condemn, is what actually happened rather than simply what they say happened.

But the messaging and rightthink is being pumped out there. BTW, the NYT article which mentioned the AR-15 rifle ended with a rightthink message of gun control.

 4. Worst Security Detail EVER?!?

Why did the security team let the shooter get on the only roof with a clear shot at the former president? That's a great question. Here's another one: why did they let a potential SECOND SHOOTER have a perfect shot at Trump's orange and blonde head... not once BUT TWICE after the shooting?

I don't blame Trump for wanting to make use of the moment. It's a vanity game, politics is after all. I blame the security detail.

They have one job and they failed miserably at it.

They needed him off stage, head DOWN, no chance of another ear being clipped.

Instead they let him get his OpTor Fist Pump in MULTIPLE TIMES for MULTIPLE MEDIA OUTLETS... one of em just so happened to have the flag waving proudly behind him.

Either they should ALL be working at McDonalds tomorrow (especially the one with her head down so you can get a 'shot' of Trump) or...

... they already knew there was no other shooter. But how would they know that?

5. Special Needs Shooter, WITH NO MOTIVE, Bests the Secret Service?

Yeah, don't try to tell me Thomas Mathew Crooks is a Rhodes Scholar.

 Is it me or does the guy look to be in the deep waters of The Spectrum?

Here is a shot of him on the roof.

How come randos in the crowd could see the guy get up there and ready to shoot the ex-pres but the guys who get paid $200k a year with benis couldn't?

Talk abut being embarrassed by the general public. Trump should hire them for his protection.

Is it the same guy?

I don't know.

6. 'Hey you see that guy with a rifle? Should we shoot him now or wait til after break?'

This one speaks for itself. (H/T Daniel @AnandaPradip)

 You can see from the video Trump's protection snipers, or counter snipers, had the shooter in their sites for quite a bit of time and failed to take him out before the guy got off several rounds.

In fact, you hear three shots fired in the video and all three supposedly came from the suspect. Trump's protection didn't get off a single round until the shooter had multiple chances to blow Trump's head off.

Plus... the one kneeling... flinched... and the other one seems to duck toward the end of the video.

Hell of a security team they gave Trump... right?

7. 'Hey! You think you might want to get that guy up there with a gun?' Said MINUTES before the shooting.

Yeah. Can't make this shit up at this point. 

'Local district attorney Richard Goldringer appeared on CNN and said one aspect of the attack that investigators were “going to have to figure out” was how the shooter managed to get close enough to aim a gun at Trump and fire repeatedly.

The most vivid early account of the shooting came from a Trump supporter who said he was outside the rally site but within hearing distance of the former president’s campaign speech when he saw a man carrying a rifle climb on to the roof of a nearby building.

The man, whom the BBC did not identify, said he and the people he was with started pointing at the man, trying to alert security and police to the “guy on the roof with a rifle”. But no police responded, and within a couple of minutes, the man fired several shots toward Trump.' Guardian

This has got to be the worst Secret Service protection I have seen since... they walked Reagan down the block right to the waiting shooter... or since JFK's driver heard gunshots and then SLOWED DOWN the limo to give em an easier target.

I don't know what this is. Last night I figured it was done to bolster Trump's poll numbers but today...

I don't know. Perhaps they groomed a mentally disabled kid like they did with John Hinckley Jr. back in the day and told him they would leave the roof open for his attack on Trump. I mean that's all I can figure. 

Sure they lumped in gun grabbing agenda items in the mix. But damn. This many 'mistakes' by Trump's security team, kinda like Israel's 38,000 murdered Palestinians... can't be chalked up to 'bad planning' after a while.