Trump Does It Again!

I know I have written a lot answering questions about this assignation attempt. I fear I was incorrect! My deepest apologies to Stephanie and Brent!!!

Trump has done it, again. This time he sacrificed the lives of a 20 year old, and a firefighter. Plus, he caused serious injury to two others. All this for the sake of:

1. Collecting more money from his cultist.

2. Gaining the advantage over Biden before the RNC Convention.

3. So he could gain the advantage with the ‘sympathy vote’.

Let me do this, best I can, through ‘step by step’ analysis:

I had a young lady chat with me on here after the shooting, and I replied to her queries. She had her thoughts, and I was trying to curb the ‘Conspiracy Theories’ from getting started. I don’t think this young woman will mind my sharing our conversation, especially after I give her a sincere apology for acting quickly in trying to show her the error of her thoughts.

Actually, I sincerely feel that this young woman was very correct with her initial analysis. I have had a lot more time to study the tapes, view the images, and discuss this with a very close friend of mine whom I worked with conducting investigations. Together, we came up with what we feel is how, and why, Trump pulled this ‘stunt’ off, or almost pulled it off.

This young woman’s name is Stephanie. And I deeply apologize to her now, publicly, for being incorrect in my synopsis.

Here are her queries and my initial responses. My new thoughts will be in BOLD after each question.

“You seem to state that he was grazed by a bullet to his ear or cheek, is that correct?”

I’m reporting what I’m seeing on my tv, which is a 55” tv. The image shown on MSNBC was a close-up of the right side of Trump’s head as they were taking him off stage. It was clearly visible the damage to the top of his right ear. And, it ‘appeared’ to be a streak on his right cheek to his mouth where the bullet ‘may have’ grazed him. I cannot say for sure, because I’m looking at images of photographs on a television.

This remains as I stated. More images actually show the bullet that went by his head. You could clearly see it by the ‘air disturbance’. I want to say Kudos to the photographer that captured that shot with his high speed, high resolution, lens camera!

“The shooter was not at the event site, but on a higher ground, right?”

Correct. This shooter (Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20 yoa living in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. A registered Republican, but in the past made a $15 donation to a Democratic campaign several years ago) was on a roof, approximately 148 yards away from the stage where Trump was standing at the podium. He had not entered the secured area of the event. He was outside the event area, firing over the heads of the event goers.

All of this is correct, except the last sentence I placed in italics.

The building which the shooter was on was to the right of the stage area of the event, and it was outside the event perimeter.

“How did the shooter get killed so quickly?”

At each and every one of these events, Secret Service has sharpshooter snipers at a high location where they have a clear 360 degree view of the event and area around the event. Usually, if at all possible, these two agents are together where they can coordinate between themselves covering the area in the most sufficient manner.

In this case, when the first shot rang out, the snipers immediately engaged the subject, neutralizing him. By the images I viewed on the roof, he was lying on his side, with a bullet hole in his head, deceased.

I would like to intersect one thing here. These agents, both on the Secret Service as well as the response teams from the local law enforcement agencies, are not trained to shoot to wound. Their training is shoot to kill. They do what needs to be done, and necessary, to make sure another round is not fired by the perpetrator.

In this case, it had been reported on the news, by goers being interviewed, that they had been trying to tell the police that there was someone in that roof, ‘bear crawling’. The person being interviewed said that he kept yelling to the police officer and pointing to the roof that someone was up there, with a rifle.

I truly don’t know his to take this. At every event, I don’t care if it’s a football game, you have people on roofs trying to watch what they can see if the event. The sniper agents can’t shoot every person on a roof. Most of the time, they are onlookers that didn’t want to enter the crowded area for increasing or another.

I would like to correct, intersect, something here. The Secret Service is responsible for the safety of the protectee. They have the lead at every event and are responsible for the coordinating who is where. This includes the officers from local departments and state officers. They have the responsibility to make sure every building is searched, manholes sealed, everything that the team has to get done prior to the event, and during the event.

Timeline of events as they took place:

6:08 Trump began speaking.

6:11 First shots rang out, agents stormed stage and covered Trump.

6:12 Agents got Trump up after being notified threat neutralized.

6:13 Trump is sticking his head above the agents, pumping his fist, yelling “fight, fight, fight” as they try to get him moved off stage.

“Isn’t this a person that agents and law enforcement rather keep alive to get more information from?”

This is a hard question to answer. This man just shot the ex-president of the United States, and a presumptive nominee for president of the United States. The Secret Service snipers are not trained to ‘shoot to wound’, especially in these situations. They are trained to ‘neutralize the immediate threat’. If that means killing the perpetrator(s), so be it. The investigation will hopefully give the answers needed as to why this person did this.

In this case, this is a 20 year old with a semi-automatic rifle, firing into thousands of people at the ex-president. He was able to squeeze off several rounds before the snipers located scoped and fired on him, killing him. These snipers don’t take the time to think about wounding, vs killing. They fire to ‘neutralize’. If it kills the perpetrator, so be it.

“I don’t know where the audience members who were injured and killed in relation to trump and the dais. Was the shooter a skilled sniper?”

They were on the right side of the bleachers here (as was reported) and they were hit from behind, which means the bullet that struck Trump travelled over their heads. I know they were hit from behind because a gynecologist was sitting a few feet from the man which was killed.

This is incorrect. The shooter was to the right of the stage slightly front if the stage. He had positioned himself on the rooftop of a building which was outside the perimeter of the event, approximately 148 yards away from the stage.

When he fired, the first shot apparently struck Trumps right ear. He was facing the right side of the stage as he was speaking. As he turned his head to the right, and slightly cocked it to the side as he always does when speaking, the shot was fired, grazing his upper right ear. This is when he reached up to his ear, looked at his hand and dropped to the flooring of the stage.

He reported on the news when he was interviewed that he saw the man struck and instantly killed by the bullet to the back of his head. He assisted in carrying the body from the bleachers and was interviewed by the Secret Service. I’m positive he’ll be interviewed by the FBI and the local law enforcement. The FBI has assumed the head of this investigation.

“How many shots were made?”

This I cannot affirmatively confirm. On the tape, you hear 3 or 4 shots in rapid succession. My guess is that the perpetrator made 3 shots, sniper made 1 killing the perpetrator.

The injured were:

A. 1 attendee killed (shot to back of head).

B. 2 attendees severely wounded (as if this moment of writing still reported in critical condition in the hospital.

C. Trump injured on his upper right ear. Also reported by an attendee, if Trump had not turned his head at the instant he did, this outcome would have been a lot different. It would have been a grave outcome. I’m going to note that the film they kept showing over and over at the time Trump was speaking when the shots were fired, what the attendee says is very true. Trump turned his head and slightly crooked it to the side as he always does when he’s speaking. This move saved his life!

“I understand what you said about the role of the agents in keeping a protectee down and covered, so whoever allowed trump to stand up in his warrior pump pose wasn’t following protocol or else screwed up in letting him up, am I interpreting you correctly?”

In one sense, you are correct. In another sense, you are not.

No agent has TOTAL control over the actions of the one they are trying to protect. As you watch this film, over and over again, observe the agents. You have 6 or more doing all they can to protect every inch of Trump. They get him up, wanting to get him off stage and in the protection of the armored vehicle. Trump gets up, immediately starts telling them to get his shoe. He needs his shoe! I hate saying this, but the tape would’ve picked me up telling him to “screw your shoe, we have to move”! Then Trump dies exactly what he has been instructed time and time again not to do. He exposed his head by climbing above the agents sticking his head and upper torso open to the public so he could do the “fight, fight, fight” fist pumps and yell. Trust me, the Secret Service will ‘review’ this with him again.

“I cannot believe that the guy who hid in the White House bunker in May, 2020 during the Lafayette Park George Floyd protests would be so eager to stand up to display defiance had he not known it was all arranged. This is a guy who shrank, after all, next to a tethered bald eagle.

I will bet that the photograph of the bloodied cheek and the fist-pump pose with his head emerging above the protective agents will be on all-new swag for followers to spend money on.

I noticed at his Heritage Foundation speech in 2022, trump spoke about the need for a mandate in the election. Using the word “mandate” echoes Reagan to me, who spoke often of being given a mandate. This shooting incident also echoes Reagan: surviving a gunshot.”

I don’t believe this was staged.

Here, I was wrong. I’m pretty positive about my thinking on this now. This, I feel, was a staged event. And Trump sacrificed those killed and injured to achieve his goal. I’m not sure if he was supposed to be injured or not, but his actions after the shooting are what led me, and several other trained investigators to this conclusion/train of thought.

Trump was slightly injured. But a firefighter gutter was killed in the bleachers along with two others critically wounded.

When Trump reached up and felt his ear, then saw blood on his hand, he went down. Immediately after the shooter was ‘neutralized’ the agents hit him up. Trump refused to stay below the agents, at one point trying to break away from them to get in front of them. His entire body was exposed for a matter of a few seconds.

Watching the film of this over and over, it became very clear he knew there was no other threat. His actions after the shooting made that very clear.

I believe this was as real as it gets. You have 2 critical and one deceased. Yes, Trump was slightly injured, but I attribute this to his luck. If he hadn’t turned his head and cocked it slightly to the side as he did, the instant he did it, he would have been a casualty. It was that close. Less than an inch over the bullet would have struck the base of his skull instead of his ear.

“And all this right before the republican convention. So there’s a lot of priming of the pump going on here. (And after that 15-day disappearance from public view, I am noticing that trump looks different, so yeah, I’m considering that he had either plastic surgery — maybe on his neck or lower face — or intensive rejuvenating spa sessions.)”

Now here I agree with you, but it would take a miracle for him to ‘look younger’ through spa treatments! My guess is he may have had some firm of ‘Botox’ or something to tighten up his skin and make him appear younger. You also have to realize he’s an active. He had so much makeup piled on him before events it’s pathetic!

Remember, this is Trump we are talking about. This is all about Trump and his ability to get people to send him money. He doesn’t need their votes now. He say so himself a while back. He just wants their money!

“I’m not at all a conspiracy theorist, and yet with trump and his cohorts, here I am. I don’t trust them at all.”

You are not a ‘conspiracy theorist’. You have every right to feel as you do. I have spent my life doing what these agents do, including the snipers. I look at these things with an entirely different perspective than a normal person. I trained agents to do each of these jobs years ago. And I’ll be the first to admit. I’ve been out of that career since 1995.

A hell of a lot has changed since then. Every shooting is different. Every shooting incident brings about extensive investigation looking into what each agent, officer, was doing, and changes are made in the training to make things better, to correct any deficiencies. But the one thing that you have as an anomaly. Trump can’t be controlled. Trump will be Trump. He is not going to do what he’s told to do. If he would’ve done what he was told to do.

First, he’d not open his mouth when those agents stood him up to move.

Second, he stay crouched over and not stood up.

Third, he’d never climb above the agents sticking his torso and head out.

There were 6 agents in suits, 2 in camouflage and 2 in black jumpsuits fully armed trying to protect and get him off stage. He still climbed above the 6 in suits trying to fully cover him and move him.

Trump is an idiot! As the retired FBI agent said on the news when they interviewed. Two inches over, Trump would be a fatality. Not a slight injury. Trump better take a breath and think about that. His rhetoric he has spread has come home to roost!

“Ok… now I’ve read that he was saying “Fight, fight, fight” while he was doing the fist pump. This from an extremely unfit 78 year-old bully who has been showing signs of progressively worsening signs of dementia since before 2020.

trump is doing what he’s alwaysbeen doing: stoking fear in order to roil anger to incite violence.

As I said above. He should’ve never been allowed to do that. But, if one if those agents would have ‘pushed him back down underneath them’ can you imagine the MSM going crazy on ‘police brutality’ to an ex-president or future nominee? It situs gave been horrendous!

But yes, he should’ve been covered better. And he should’ve been made to do as he was instructed to do, no matter what. You can always go with the fallout afterwards as long as your protected is still alive. If he dies on your watch, that’s bad!

Yeah, after finding out that he said that, I really believe that this was staged. “I’m just standing in their way” is really that his followers and anyone who votes for him is standing in the way of him going to prison.

Remember what he said in Las Vegas: “I don’t care about you.”

Has this man ever talked about or described the U.S. in terms of appreciation or admiration? Trump only denigrates this country, nothing’s good, everything is a disgrace, a disaster, the White House is “a dump,” Camp David is “a dump.” After trump’s inauguration speech, George W. Bush said, “That was some weird shit.”

Trump doesn’t care at all about this country. Not at all. Not one little bit.”

These last few paragraphs, I have no argument there. I fully concur. Trump could care any less about this country. All he cares about is getting reelected and doing away with the judicial system, law enforcement, the Constitution, and elections. There will be no more elections and he will have fulfilled his promise to Putin, Orban, Xi, and others in communist regimes. He will have turned the United States into a dictatorship and turn the power over to them.