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A Brief Glance Back at an Epochal Event in Ancient Times
The sacking of Carthage (149 B.C.)? No.
The fall of Constantinople (1453 A.D.)? No.
No, an event in our more modern history, way back in the mists of time: July 13, 2024. We recently marked the one-month anniversary of the date on which the former President of the United States came within 0.39 of an inch of having his brains spattered all over the podium by a bullet fired by a “lone actor”, the result of the now worn and tattered Deep State credo, “Mistakes were made.”
In a sane world, this attempt to assassinate the former President—hopefully the next President—would by now be the subject of exhaustively researched investigative reports by journalists who see such a project as their main chance for a Pulitzer Prize. A few hurriedly-written books would have already hit the shelves; NPR and others would have produced at least one, or more, carefully researched and magnificently produced documentaries on what we would be told by the corporate media, ad nauseam, was an epochal moment in American history. All of these gravely concerned members of the Fourth Branch would have opined that we came within an inch—literally—of civil war and the end of America as we have known it.
Every one of those outcomes would have started immediately after 6:12 pm on July 13, 2024, had the protectee of the arguably criminally negligent Secret Service been the Democrat nominee and quite likely any Republican nominee not named Donald J. Trump.
Every single American with a sentient mind knows, or should know, that this is true and every single American also knows that if you dare say it, you will immediately be branded, by one, if not all, of Hillary’s favorite insults for even wondering whether something more than “mistakes were made” in Butler, PA one month ago. In preparing to comment on these questions, I knew I would have to do my due diligence; go back into the reporting over the past few weeks to try to determine where these reports appeared, under whose auspices they were published, etc., to assure that I did not appear to be just another angry Trump supporter howling helplessly at The Swamp and its creatures. To be clear, I am, indeed, very angry at what has happened (and at what has not happened) and I am as open as I know how to be about being a vociferous and vocal Trump supporter.
As a lifelong lawyer in the trenches, I am deeply dedicated to the rule of law and the rule of equal justice under the law and I am sickened by what I see as the constant violation of that age-old protection. There can be no better demonstration of unequal, biased, prejudicial treatment of an individual and an incident than the almost total vacuum of wide coverage of the attempt on President Trump’s life over a month ago.
So here are a few observations of my own and others about, as one title referred to it, “The Shot Ignored Around the World,” in an attempt to offer as objective an analysis as possible of why this monumentally important moment in history has been consigned to the memory hole. I note, in the interest of accuracy, that the following is based on searches on several different platforms as of late August 17, 2024. I also note, for what it’s worth, that new developments keep occurring every day so that by the time this is published there could easily be several more “bombshells” the very next day. For example, while not directly related to July 13, but definitely bearing on the questions of competence swirling around the agency at this time, it was reported a few days ago by Susan Crabtree of Real Clear Politics that an agent abandoned her post at a Trump rally to breastfeed her baby with no permission or warning to the site agent. And the hits, as they say, just keep on coming.
One of the more obvious facts seen when examining this inexplicable security failure is that there has been a great deal of excellent reporting on July 13, the vast majority of which has been done in the world of new digital journalism, independent investigative reporters in online publications (or their own blogs), not—repeat not—the corporate media. Those outlets seem to be spending their time glowingly promoting the “joy” of the Harris-Walz campaign, while more and more Americans are having trouble making ends meet.
The disparity in the way the press has treated the near-murder of a former President and the murder of an American citizen is amply illustrated in this post, The Shot Ignored Around the World: It’s Been One Month Since Trump Was Shot:
I’m not saying that the deep state sent the human sewage who took a shot at Trump. I will say I find it odd that the shooter trained at the same range as some feds from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). I also find it noteworthy that the shooter appeared in a Black Rock ad.
I’m concerned that we haven’t heard much about the shooter, not to mention those alleged three encrypted accounts that no one is talking about anymore. If he had been wearing a MAGA cap, I suspect we would know his credit score and sperm count by now, but since he was shown to be a “lone wolf” leftist, facts are few.
A very thoughtful post on Substack, The Sins of Omission, goes into some depth on the reasons for the “disappearing” of this story and the apparently deliberate avoidance of uncovering any facts detrimental to the narrative:
For us, an attempted assassination of a Presidential candidate was a very big story. It’s an important story that says important things about the divisions in US society, and perhaps too about which side of those divisions is the side prone to violence and irrational behaviour. It might tell us, to some extent, which side are more innately fascistic, if for example a significant number of those people celebrate an assassination attempt or lament its failure. It might tell us which side are prone to delusions, if for example a third of them insist that the event we all saw unfold and can easily research was staged by its intended victim.
For those of us who are aware that the mainstream media apply focus only where it suits them, that assassination attempt raises a whole flurry of questions that require exactly the kind of continuing discussion and assessment that is not happening.
Some of those questions pertain to the media itself. We might note for instance that CNN had enforced a policy on itself of not reporting on Trump rallies, of ignoring these events as if the levels of support for a Presidential nominee from a main party, the things he is saying, and the enthusiasm of his backers do not matter in an election year.
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But interestingly, the rally at which he was almost murdered was a rally CNN broke their reporting embargo for. It was a rally where several anti Trump mainstream outlets sent reporters to, contrary to their usual policy of deliberately ignoring these rallies.
Surely just an odd coincidence, that.
The author then heads into territory that may be (will be) termed conspiracy theories by the Trump haters (99.999% of the corporate media) who are simply terrified at the mere possibility that the public might someday get actual answers to these questions which I feel are entirely reasonable:
It can’t be that these Trump-hating media organisations were expecting something particularly dramatic and interesting at this particular rally, sufficient to break their usual embargo, and sufficient to justify filming it all with….should we say, anticipation?
This of course is the territory of ‘conspiracy theory’. God forbid the idea that media organisations that have lied about everything and tried to encourage Trump’s assassination for years would also have some foreknowledge of a likely attack and a salivating desire to film his head being blown off.
What a ridiculous idea. Can you imagine the level of corruption and hate that would entail? Thank goodness we don’t live in THAT reality, but rather the one where no western liberal democracy would encourage assassinations, conduct them, or adjust security to make them easier. No sirree.
Even more reassuringly, we live in a reality where the media are simply the impartial and objective reporters of established facts, who do not routinely lie, and who do not have insanely vicious hatreds of a specific individual. No, no, honestly, we do (stop snickering at the back there).
Rowing back from these dark conspiratorial waters, we can say this much. An assassination attempt on Donald Trump is a huge story. It’s not a story that should completely disappear in three weeks, not unless it’s followed a week later by a nuclear war.
It’s a YUUGE story.
In an article entitled It’s Becoming Clear That Trump Is The Bait In The Regime’s Crab Trap the author had this to say:
…. simple incompetence cannot explain what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, and what happened there was a lot more sinister than that.
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Cheatle also said that the recordings of the radio chatter from the Secret Service on that day are not available. Apparently those recordings have been destroyed. If you understand the concept of spoliation of evidence, as a legal presumption when you destroy evidence it’s to be taken as though that evidence would have been damaging to your cause. And if the Secret Service destroyed the recordings of that radio chatter we can assume there were things on those recordings which would not be beneficial to the Secret Service. (Emphasis mine)
A government agency—the one charged with keeping our leaders safe—destroyed messages from the day its agents almost allowed a former President to be murdered, and one questioning the legality and morality of that action is called a “conspiracy theorist”? Count me in.
More from that post:
And we know that the Secret Service didn’t show up for an advance run-through meeting with the other members of the security team on the morning of July 13.
Then there is the question of Secret Service agents stationed inside the AGR building while Crooks was on the roof, something which is inexplicable. The building had a metal roof; it would have been impossible not to hear him up there.
Here are a couple of questions from a card-carrying conspiracy theorist: What, exactly, was more important to the Secret Service on the morning of July 13 than attending the critically important meeting with other law enforcement officers for a run-through designed to ensure that the unthinkable would not happen? That’s their purpose, but they couldn’t be bothered to be there! How is it even possible that the Secret Service placed its agents inside the AGR building with the excuse that it was hot — 90 degrees — and the roof was slightly (very slightly) sloped? I see roofing contractors on roofs every day here in the Florida Panhandle in 100+ degree heat on very steep, not sloping, roofs. And they are not protecting the former President of the United States!
One may also legitimately ask: Where is the Secret Service officer who was in charge of the entire ill-fated debacle? From It’s Been One Month Since Someone Tried to Assassinate the Former President, and We’re Hearing Crickets:
The woman in charge of planning this debacle has been hidden away, the big boss, Kim Cheatle resigned, which means she doesn’t have to cooperate with the Inspector General’s investigation, and a month has gone by. Nada. Zilch.
One of the standard, and to me the most maddening, lines in most official investigations is “We’re still trying to determine the motive of the shooter.” This occurs often, even when the shooter was heard shouting Allahu Akbar as he fires the weapon. Sure enough, just like clockwork, here is the magic mantra in the official FBI report (emphasis mine):
The FBI is investigating the shooting incident at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, which resulted in one victim’s death and injuries to former President Trump and other spectators, as an assassination attempt and potential domestic terrorism.
While the investigation to date indicates the shooter acted alone, the FBI continues to conduct logical investigative activity to determine if there were any co-conspirators associated with this attack. At this time, there are no current public safety concerns.
The FBI has not identified a motive for the shooter’s actions, but we are working to determine the sequence of events and the shooter’s movements prior to the shooting, collecting and reviewing evidence, conducting interviews, and following up on all leads. We have also obtained the shooter’s telephone for examination.
Admittedly, that was published the day after the incident, so it is entirely possible that they have by now “identified a motive,” but if so, they have not bothered to share it with the American people who have an absolute right to know who was behind this 20-year-old. Your guess is as good as mine as to whether we will have that answer, but I’m not holding my breath waiting for it.
As a measure of the quality of the leadership of the Secret Service, here is the Acting Director philosophizing about the state of our world, using\ words that can only be termed (most politely) as sophomoric:
“This was a failure of imagination – a failure to imagine that we actually do live in a very dangerous world where people do actually want to do harm to our protectees,” Rowe said.
This, from the person in charge of the agency tasked with the protection and security of our highest government officials. Incomprehensible.
To close with what hopefully develops into a positive move in the right direction, Speaker Johnson has appointed a task force to investigate the shooting, and his choice of the Chair does give one reason for hope that it will be a well-organized and effective effort. Chairing the task force will be Congressman Mike Kelly, himself a native of Butler and a Member of Congress with a most impressive record. Here is what he and the ranking member, Jason Crow, had to say:
“At the end of this investigation, the American people … cannot be still wondering what happened,” Kelly said. “We’re going to have a clear answer to what happened. And whatever it is that we have to do, we’re going to do, including having some people subpoenaed.”
But the panel will have to move at a much faster pace than typical congressional investigations to produce a thorough final report by a Dec. 13 deadline.
“We only have four months here, so it’s going to be a really quick burn,” Crow said. “We’re going to have to make sure that this is accurate. Accuracy is very important here; we don’t want there to be misunderstanding. We don’t want to fuel any of these alternative theories that are flying around.”
Another very good sign that this may be the energetic investigation the public deserves was the interim report of Task Force Member Cong. Clay Higgins of Louisiana spent 3 days in Butler from August 4th through 6th, 2024. His report can be found here. Congressman Higgins represents Southwest Louisiana and was a highly regarded law enforcement officer before entering politics, reaching the rank of Police Captain. I cannot recommend a complete reading of his report highly enough, as it is like a breath of fresh air after reading the bureaucratic gobbledegook Washington specializes in. The report contains several remarkable items but none more astonishing than this finding about the removal of the assassin’s body by the FBI without the knowledge of the Coroner:
My effort to examine Crooks’ body on Monday, August 5, caused quite a stir and revealed a disturbing fact… the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13. On J23, Crooks was gone. Nobody knew this until Monday, August 5, including the County Coroner, law enforcement, Sheriff, etc. Yes, Butler County Coroner technically had legal authority over the body, but I spoke with the Coroner, and he would have never released Crooks’ body to the family for cremation or burial without specific permission from the FBI.
He also had this to say about the FBI scrubbing the scene of biological evidence, comments which take on additional weight considering his long experience as a law enforcement officer:
The coroner’s report and autopsy report are both “late.” As of Monday, August 5, they were a week late. The problem with me not being able to examine the actual body is that I won’t know 100% if the coroner’s report and the autopsy report are accurate. We will actually never know. Yes, we’ll get the reports and pictures, etc, but I will not ever be able to say with certainty that those reports and pictures are accurate according to my own examination of the body. Again, similar to releasing the crime scene and scrubbing crime scene biological evidence… this action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort. Please note, Mr. Chairman, that on J23, the day that Crooks was cremated, both the Homeland Security Committee and the Oversight Committee had begun House Committee jurisdictional investigation into J13, and Speaker Johnson had already stated that he was forming an Official Congressional investigative body. Why, then, by what measure, would the FBI release his body to the family for cremation? This pattern of investigative scorched earth by the FBI is quite troubling.
Of concern, however, is the statement of one of the members indicating they will have to rely to a certain extent on the Secret Service, an inexplicable reliance at this point:
Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), a member of the task force, said the tight turnaround leaves the task force in a position of having to “trust but verify” that the Secret Service is already taking needed steps to rectify known issues.
“These candidates were out last weekend campaigning, so this stuff is happening in real time. That’s my frustration, is we don’t have time,” Correa said. “We have time to do the check, the verify, but the Secret Service has to be on it yesterday.”
One month later, we still have very few answers to questions the public is entitled to, like the following puzzle:
And then there is the fact Thomas Crooks, known by his classmates as a computer geek, had no social media. Which is a lie; he encrypted his socials. And apparently had offshore bank accounts? A 20-year-old who emptied bedpans and served pudding cups at a nursing home?
At a time when faith in our institutions like the DHS, FBI, DOJ, and now the Secret Service has hit rock bottom, it seems we must place all our hope on this task force to finally provide some answers. Without casting any aspersions on Rep. Kelly and his task force, who may well do a superlative job, the best that can be said is that, at this point, there is scant reason for optimism.
Finally, I want to point out how deeply and sadly I dislike having to express that pessimistic outlook, but it is the one logic inexorably leads me to. Would that it were not true.
God Help us.
And may God Bless America.
Published in Election 2024
Or, as the Dems will say, “what about J6?”
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How dare Clay Higgins of Louisiana assume that his years of experience serving as LEO and his analysis of the July 13th event should allow him to offer up a lame theory. His theory is totally opposed to CNN’s initial announcement that something happened at said event.
As America’s most esteemed news outlet, the public should consider that CNN might not be through with this story yet. Instead of dealing in a 3 day investigation, without doubt CNN is most likely bringing about a full report in which many things will be revealed.
Among those items will be the revelation that a vehicle backfired at the exact moment that Trump was signaled to turn his head so that a digitally created image of a tracer of a bullet could lure the few still remaining Trump supporters into believing that the Deep State is now after Trump.
As most thinking Americans know, Biden/Harris has already eliminated the Deep State. The alt media’s attempt to use such a conspiracy theory to distract from the now overly apparent threat that the monkey pox pandemic is posing to the nation is lamentable on the one hand and hilarious on the other.
The fact that Trump has refused to apologize for his participating in this alt media, disinformation scandal once again shows us the desperation of this convicted felon.
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That was a Democrat set-up, as well, and the confirming evidence is the now non-event of the J6 Pipe Bombs at the DNC and RNC HQs building.
J6 Pipe Bombs? Never heard of it.
Sadly I predict this excellent post will never be elevated to public levels, because “conspiracy” or some such rot. I hope to be proven wrong.
Thank you. I just hope this kind of material gets out to citizens who can think for themselves! Jim
What is the simplest explanation, the one that makes the fewest assumptions? Did dozens of people conspire to kill Mr Trump and manage to keep this a secret? Or is the USSS so massively incompetent as to be unable to stop a single murderous teenager until after he had killed one citizen and wounded three others? The destruction of evidence is compatible with both scenarios.
Figure out which explanation is the simplest and you will likely know the truth.
William of Occam, c.1287-1347.
One of these explanations is a deep state operation designed to distract people into speculating on deeper, darker motives and away from instituting reforms in the administrative state based on evidence that everyone can see. It was a close call, but it seems to be working. The administrative state is saved again!
Yes, that’s a conspiracy theory.
Well, it’s a good one!
It’s not exactly which is simplest. It’s which explanation requires the fewest uncertain priors.
And there is Hanlon’s Razor- ‘Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect.’ I tried hard in the early days of this grotesquerie to try to apply that to this horror but it has become impossible. I saw it phrased somewhere as “seek first to understand” and I have spent a lot of time trying to understand how there could be so many different layers of incompetence at one time but it just asking too much to believe the old bureaucrats’ slogan “Mistakes Were Made” this time. Too many oviously deliberate obfuscations – cremating the body? 3 offsore accounts for this loser? visible for an HOUR before they let Trump get on the stage? line of fire perch and no one on the roof because it had a 1 degree slope? no comms between local law enforcement and the SS (curious that they go by that prticular acronym, of all they could chooses from?)?, FBI hoses down the crime scene the day after the shooting, which a veteran law enforcement officer says “is never done”?, SS sends second and third string people and only 4 of their own people while sending 12 to Jill’s hastily arranged indoor function?, Cheatle resigns immediately after disastrous appearance before Congress thus making it harder to get her to testify further? Biden assigns her SS protection after her resignation for the first time in the history of the SS?, SS couldn’t be bothered to attend the planning meeting the morning of the rally?, reports of Crooks actually walking around the scene in plain sight a good while before Trump took the stage openly carrying a long gun?, the AGR building was deliberately cut out of the SS perimeter?- just for a few examples among many and we’re supposed to believe that this was just a minor little slip up and we, the SS, really, honestly, promise honest-Injun it will never happen again? Of all the insults which have been heaped on Americans over the past decade this one might well be the most brazen of all, or at the very least in the very top rank. So much “neglect” in the words of Hanlon’s Razor it is hard, if not impossible, to think it did not reach the level of actual “malice”!
Jim, a masterful post.
Of course it’s going to happen again if we go off looking for conspiracy theories instead of demanding reforms based on what we see and know. I suspect malicious neglect, but the neglect is enough to demand that changes be made, never mind if we can prove malice. Thanks for nothing, conspiracy theorists, if you let this happen again.
Pretty much the same as the voting issues of 2020. Maybe malice can’t be proven (we all know there were issues) but steps can be made to make it harder to do again.
It wouldn’t take dozens of people conspiring. One supervisor or director misallocating resources could do it.
There were in that post three positive steps that someone had to take that can’t be described as neglect, destroying the recordings , scrubbing the crime scene and cremating the body. Any one of them looks like a cover up, but all three were accidents?
“Conspiracy” may be too specific a word for what is going on. We don’t have a term for a general culture of casual complicity, of deliberate indifference, of a shared commitment to half-a**ed execution of one’s duties.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if a miasma of contempt wafts through our institutions where Trump is concerned, and if that in turn prompts individuals who might be competent under other circumstances to phone it in, perhaps not quite admitting to themselves and each other that, shoot, how bad would it really be if something happened?
That doesn’t require the same kind of secrecy and complicity as does what we normally consider to be a “conspiracy.” It just means a bunch of people repeatedly making less-good choices — choices that, taken individually, could be defended as perhaps not ideal but certainly not clear-cut evidence of bad intent.
Given the track record of the alphabet agencies vis-à-vis Trump, that seems entirely plausible.
True, but just indifference etc existed before Trump. I don’t think they would need to be MORE indifferent because of Trump, for something like this to happen. Even more than once, which could have happened considering the later example of the agent who left her post to breast-feed her baby. Why was the baby – or her, for that matter – even there?!?!? Not because they were indifferent to Trump.
And if you apply this as a context (which I think it is clear we had) it only takes a single act of communicating information regarding security in the Butler location and the setup is accomplished. No band of conspirators required.
I’m not describing mere indifference, KE. I’m describing a kind of situational indifference, a tendency to underperform when he-who-must-not-be-named is the subject.
I have no idea how competent the Secret Service is on a daily basis. What I’m suggesting is that, whatever that benchmark, it may be reduced, subtly but systemically and therefore significantly, where the orange man is concerned.
And were that the case, then yes, it’s entirely possible that a nursing mother was part of this particular detail precisely because the staffing officer decided that, since the lady had to be put somewhere, why not let her tag along on the Trump thing? I mean, it’s not like the guy deserved the very best, right?
A single “leaker?” Well I suppose that’s true. Nothing about “a bunch of people repeatedly making less-good choices” precludes some of those choices actually being calculated to encourage a nefarious end.
Technically true, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are nursing mothers on the details for FJB and Kamala and anyone else. In fact I would be more surprised if there AREN’T.
I think I’d be surprised if there were; neither of us knows. But, just for the sake of discussion: Can we wonder how many of those other, hypothetical nursing mothers might be inclined to excuse themselves without notifying a superior? One could imagine that “Sally,” the woman who allegedly neglected her martial duties to attend to her maternal ones, might have a reputation for unreliability in that regard, so that even amongst the nursing mothers she tends to be a low performer (in terms of her security function, not lactation).
Anyway, we’re in the weeds. The point of my comment should be pretty clear.
[ And once I decided that this was too weedy and needn’t be pursued further, I guess I could have deleted the “Sally,” since a pseudonym saved me no additional typing. ]
Henry, considering that this comes from the Master himself, I’m going to go ahead and allow myself to just be very proud of your remark. The problem I had with this post, as I remarked in the text, was finding a place where I thought it would be comfortable to stop without worrying about some cataclysmic development coming up minutes after I published. Thanks again, Jim
Bongino discussed this on his show on Friday. The investigation into Crooks recent activities indicates a likelihood that Crooks could have had contact with someone who knew about the security arrangements at the site since Crooks had been at the firing range where FBI agents go. But everything has been wiped clean just as in the J6 Pipe Bomb case.
I think you just nailed exactly what happened; 4 SS assets for Trump for an outdoor rally with an anticipated attendance of many thousands and 12 for Jill for an inside reception, much smaller anticipated crowd. Surely it’s not being a conspiracy nut to just take note of the fact that Cheadle resigned hours after her appearance before Congress. Also, does it take a far-far-right terrorist, or whatever they’re calling us this week, to wonder why no one — 35 days later– has named the actual agent in charge or sent a subpoena after her for an appearance before Congress? Where in the [ ] is she and why has she been sent to the famous secret, secure, unnamed location? Anyone? Anyone?
Thank you; a perfect and succcinct summary of the entire scenario.
Let’s see. “Why would the news media start to ramp up coverage of Trump that weekend?” Must be that the FBI tipped them off he was going to be assassinated! It couldn’t possibly be that it was the last weekend before the Republican National Convention, could it? Nobody would have wanted to cover the campaign as the nominee made his way to Milwaukee. Nobody would want any of their reporters sniffing around a campaign ready to pick a running mate. Never. Ever.
“But his offshore bank account!” Which, so far, seems to be something out of someone’s imagination. The charge has been made on a lot of right wing sites and on social media without any proof.
This is how it gets started: Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida says to Fox News, “Now, what we know, and this was on the briefing we just received, he had three encrypted overseas accounts the FBI is trying to get into.”
When pressed for details he adds, “Well, we know that they were based in servers overseas.”
Did Mike Waltz expand on his remarks since? Anything in his RNC speech? No?
We know Crooks was big into online gaming. (He certainly wasn’t blowing his money on girlfriends.) Waltz didn’t say they were bank accounts. He doesn’t say what they were. But they’re accounts! They’re overseas!
And he encrypted his social media! What? He had WhatsApp!?! Yeah, him and 5 Billion other people. At least we have that narrowed down. He could have communicated with anyone of 5/8th of the world’s population! Round up the usual suspects!
But he was in a Black Rock commercial! And other people used the same shooting range as he did! Whoa. He was an extra and he used a commercial shooting range? I thought mysterious, shady deep state snipers always trained at the Davos range. Wasn’t that established in a James Bond movie?
But it’s been a month! It took two months for the FBI to issue a preliminary report on the Reagan assassination attempt and it was expedited because they had a prosecution to assist. The Warren Commission on JFK took 10 months. But this whole thing is unprecedented, I say! My God, it took two weeks to establish a bipartisan committee of the House to investigate. Obviously a deep state coverup!
And they released the body! And what’s the objection? Was there an autopsy? Yes.
And then this: “…the FBI released the body for cremation 10 days after J13. …but I spoke with the Coroner, and he would have never released Crooks’ body to the family for cremation or burial without specific permission from the FBI.”
So the coroner would release the body with the permission of the FBI? And who released the body? The FBI! Scandalous. Absolutely scandalous. And I was sure they’d find a tattoo of Christopher Wray on his backside.
By the way, John F. Kennedy was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963. Oswald was murdered by Jack Ruby on November 24th. Oswald was buried on November 25th.
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Well, Cheatle as head of the SS was known to be prioritizing “diversity” over quality. Nursing mothers on protective duties would seem like something she would emphasize and encourage.