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Was it Vladimir or Jill?
Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy –Niccolo Machiavelli
Sorry, Niccolo. I have a Twitter account so I know the Trump assassination attempt was a conspiracy. It could not be more obvious. The shooting was a setup. But by whom?
The tipoff for me was the moment when Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told us that the roof was unguarded because of the steep slope. That answer was not just preposterous, it was embarrassing. Nobody at that level is actually that mentally challenged. She wanted us to think that she and her underlings were simply incompetent. Yeah, right. Nobody is that clueless. But why the misdirection?
Cui Bono? Let’s explore the possibilities.
- Putin interfering again for Trump. To make Trump a victim, the bullet was supposed to be close and wound up being too close. Trump’s act of defiance instead of ducking proves he knew. And a news photographer with a high-speed camera to catch the bullet’s path just happened to know when to click? A plan with this many moving parts had to be the Russians. Our Deep State is not that good. Or are they?
- Deep State. The old trademark shooter ID double switch—a shooter who was a Republican, apparently switches allegiance. (Lee Harvey Oswald appeared to be a committed commie but really a tool of the CIA.) The shooter was a failed gun club dropout no doubt secretly retrained. And dumb enough not to know he would be instantly taken out afterward. This loser checked all the boxes.
- The Bidens. The incredibly clear path for a guy in camo with a sniper rifle carrying a new 12-foot ladder walking straight from Home Depot to climb up to the perfect ambush spot? A security breach that wide required orders from above from Jill’s handpicked SS director. Is the Big Guy capable of forming that complete thought? Be serious. I am looking at you, Dr. Biden.
Feel free to weigh in with new evidence or other theories.
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Obviously number one because of all the great things that Trump did for Putin when he was in office.
Keep Showing Me The Money!!!
Note at the bottom where it says that Grok makes mistakes…
It seems that this comes from one report in an outlet called the Atlanta Daily World, a Black newspaper founded in 1928. That report (with no mention of sources other than “law enforcement”).
That link is to a Xeet from Saturday at 6:44PM
So, Grok appears to have taken a Xeet from shortly after the event…one that is a report that others have not verified and which almost every news outlet has not reported and is making that their main info on the topic.
I’m going with the DeepState Globalists faction assisted by CIA/State Department led 4th branch of government. It’s the BlackRock advertisement involving the shooter and the need to groom him and the Secret Service in preparing for the event.
If it’s posted on X it must be true therefore all 3 choices are true and hundreds of people to include the Secret Service, local law enforcement, Democrats, Republicans, the FSB, neo-Nazis, and Antifa had a secret meeting and found a shooter to attend the Trump event and managed to keep it a secret.
It would be of interest to get background regarding who was involved in the planning and scheduling of the Butler, Pa rally.
I tend to assume incompetence and laziness, but did the team assigned to the roof notify the shooter that there would be no team there? Now that . . . a government agency has the shooter’s phone, will we find out that the shooter had received a call?
EDIT: I do not know whether the reports are accurate, but I’ve heard and read that the shooter bought fifty rounds of ammo and a ladder that morning after borrowing his dad’s rifle.
I have no idea specifically who would have planned it as a conspiracy. My problem is that I find it incomprehensible at the federal level of our government, that the incompetence would be so egregious. So many people would have made so many mistakes. Except for Trump turning his head, we’d be having a different discussion.
I will start including DHS as an integral part of the 4th branch of government.
When Trump takes office after the election there must be great care exercised in the removal of all in significant management positions who have not served the best interests of the American people. There must be full awareness that the ranks of career senior executives have very likely be populated by politically active individuals. After review of their history as federal employees, if it is confirmed that they entered service as political appointees and were converted to career, they should be removed. If in doubt, they can be transferred to field positions and/or stripped of responsibilities. This is just a start. All of the initial people brought in to do this work must have access to all facts necessary to accomplish these tasks. We cannot afford to have people like the current Secret Service Director.
Hello? These are the same people who protect our borders (don’t laugh), saved us from COVID-19 with brilliant, cost-effective purely science-based policies, order our schools to pretend guys in dresses are girls, made John Kerry a climate guru…
Viva Frei uses the phrase “LIHOP” Let It Happen On Purpose. The idea is that the people in charge set up circumstances where a bad thing can happen. It applies to Jul13 and Jan6.
How about all the planning required to do all the things to thwart the Trump Administration, transform the Jan 6 demonstration into a riot, and the lawfare actions afterward? These are not incidental events. And they may be getting better at it.
The incompetence is clearer this time.
Okay, okay. Point taken…
Yeah, this is hilarious. Look at the video of SS huddled around Trump before he is led off the stage. The teleprompters are pristine and completely intact. But being hit by glass shards from a bullet is supposed to somehow minimize what happened…uh…sure…okay. These people are such frauds.
Think of it another way: what aspect of federal government activity, with which you have direct experience, works consistently, predictably, efficiently, pleasantly and well. Like our dry cleaners: shirts, half on hangers half folded and boxed, no starch, day after tomorrow. The rug will take 2 weeks. Thank you for your business. Do you need help with that? How many government functions (that you pay for) ask you what how you want the function delivered or performed?
He can also direct that it be hived off from Homeland Security. No more hiding under those skirts and taking direction from DHS.
SS Director Cheatle seems intent on proving her incompetence.
When I was directing the development and implementation of electronic Direct Deposit of Social Security payments in the late 1970’s, we did not mandate anything and the option to get a check remains today, as far as I am aware. I’m sure the check option is not promoted today and may be obscured but it is still there. But not for long if we go digital.
Bro here absolutely stunting on the SS. This needs to be a new training film.
It was the John Birch Society.
She is your standard DEI hire with tunnel vision. Her goal was to increase female representation in the SS by 30% by 2030 and she is on record as saying that. Like all of her ilk she depends on the existing infrastructure to maintain itself while she goes full speed ahead on her personal agenda. She has no other function. The only question for America is “how long will we tolerate these [redacted]s?” Answer: Too long already.
You left out possibility #4: Killary.
As long as most of the people in an organization are competent and dedicated, it can still function quite well with a DEI maven at the top and a few DEI picks sprinkled throughout. But there quickly comes a tipping point when the DEI hacks gain enough influence that they start working together to subvert the mission of the organization and promote their own mission of “diversity.” Then the organization goes downhill quickly, and that is what became publicly visible on 13 July at the USSS.
Incompetence and institutional “Don’t give a ****” goes a long, long way to explaining how the assassination attempt happened, IMHO.
That is so funny. :) :) :)
That is publicly visible for the USA.
They order Us to pretend guys in government wearing dresses are women.
Remarkably ugly women, too.