The FBI is writing off the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump as the work of a lone gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks. This indeed may turn out to be the case, but certain things bother me, and it turns out that I am not alone.
First is the picture of “the ladder” which was pulled from Jeff Childers’ Coffee and Covid.
The picture shows a ladder leaning against the building from which the shots were fired. Is this a valid photo? When was it taken? If this is a valid photo, could it imply that Thomas Matthew Crooks had an accomplice?
Second:
There is now of plethora of reports indicating that the gunman was seen up on that roof minutes before the shots rang out.
From the New York Post:
“More than 120 excruciating seconds pass between rallygoers first spotting Crooks on the roof and the moment he fires his rifle. Perhaps most disturbingly, the people who saw the would-be assassin repeatedly tried to alert law enforcement patrolling nearby.”
If all of these individuals saw the gunman on the roof, how did the Secret Service not see him?
Also the FBI’s quick proclamation that the gunman acted alone is now being questioned by experts who should know.
From BlazeMedia:
Dallas Alexander is a veteran Canadian special forces sniper who’s worked VIP protection at the highest levels and who happens to hold the world record for the longest-range confirmed sniper kill. According to him, Trump’s would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, had help from the inside.
“This isn’t me pointing a finger at anyone in particular or a party or an agency, but someone within the ‘inside’ had to have helped with this,” he says. “You can’t walk through layers of security like that and then climb up a ladder to the most obvious shooting position and then take a shot at the former president.”
“There had to be someone that helped with that,” Dallas reiterated.
Similarly from the NY Post:
“Matthew Murphy, a retired Green Beret and a sniper trained to the most elite level, also dismissed the suggestion that ‘some 20-year-old kid that looks like he played Dungeons and Dragons in his mom’s basement’ was able to put Trump in his sights.
‘You’re gonna tell me that that kid went through all those levels of security, somehow got into the closest building to the president and accessed the rooftop, then had the time to unpack his rifle, lay down and then take five to eight well-aimed shots at the president before he was decisively engaged?” There’s absolutely no way possible that kid was able to get up there and take those shots at the president without a lot of internal help,’ he said.”
And then more doubt to the lone gunman postulate as on Monday, 7/17/24, CNN briefly ran a shocking shooter story, then quickly deleted it:
“Audio forensics suggest that shots from at least three weapons were fired at ex-US President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania, CNN reports, citing experts.
According to Catalin Grigoras and Cole Whitecotton from the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, “the first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final ‘acoustic impulse’ was emitted by a
possible weapon C,” the media outlet notes.”
Hmmm!
7/17/24
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