Aliceinbubbleland said:

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Welcome back to Fox News

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Aliceinbubbleland said:

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Welcome back to Fox News

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Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Shooter at Saturday’s Trump Campaign Rally in Pennsylvania was reportedly seen on the Roof by Local Law Enforcement roughly 30-Minutes before he fired his First Shot, with Officers unable to determine if he was Armed.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) July 15, 2024

In an exclusive interview with Lester Holt, President Biden said it was a mistake to use the word “bullseye” while discussing former President Trump, but said to “focus on what [Trump is] doing”. pic.twitter.com/TufdyiZq8v

— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) July 15, 2024

boognish_bear said:

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Lots of conspiracy theories flying around about the assassination attempt.

Here’s what I’ve learned in the last 24 hours: pic.twitter.com/YVBmU1DWmW

— Rep. Jeff Jackson (@JeffJacksonNC) July 15, 2024

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Fre3dombear said:

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Aliceinbubbleland said:

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Uh. It wasn't just Bill. This man has no backbone whatsoever and is undeserving of office.

This should be interesting… https://t.co/QlBsWNzb3U pic.twitter.com/iBmeXLd7Ie

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 15, 2024

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You realize this is exactly in part why he chose him

An Uber educated never trumper came to be able to see through the filter the left gets their marching orders from to recognize he's not the Hitler they say and want him to be

Trump put his life literally on the line for this country and his vision.

Trump hit the bullseye with this pick

Similarly, Paul murdered and persecuted Christians but some hear the call and see the light

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boognish_bear said:

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BREAKING: Man who tried to kill Donald Trump was spotted on a roof nearly 30 minutes before the shooting.

One officer at the rally took a photo of Crooks at 5:45 p.m. and called it in as a suspicious person, according to WPXI-TV.

— BNO News (@BNONews) July 15, 2024

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boognish_bear said:

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This is the first I've heard about the extent of Trump's injury. Did he require reconstructive surgery?

"Somebody took off half his ear, but I can tell you that my father has never been more determined than he is right now."

— Eric Trump on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/6tftTlJBMK

— The Recount (@therecount) July 15, 2024

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boognish_bear said:

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This is the first I've heard about the extent of Trump's injury. Did he require reconstructive surgery?

"Somebody took off half his ear, but I can tell you that my father has never been more determined than he is right now."

— Eric Trump on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/6tftTlJBMK

— The Recount (@therecount) July 15, 2024

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The whole thing just gets crazier and crazier. Trump turns his head, and avoids taking a bullet to the brain, to look at a massive chart of immigration statistics. God really does have a sense of humour. https://t.co/lUPgWRNg3z

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) July 15, 2024

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Assassin said:

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Jacques Strap said:

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ABC reported earlier that the CIA had it at Langley and had cracked it

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Donald Trump enters the RNC with a bandage on his ear. pic.twitter.com/RP6U92ro7T

— The Recount (@therecount) July 16, 2024

whiterock said:

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whiterock said:

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There is no explanation for why there were no SS teams occupying the roof of the building the shooter used. It's a textbook spot an assassin could have used to execute a shot. It's so obvious. When doing the site survey.....look at a map, look at satellite imagery.....and that leaps out to the eye as the most obvious place to secure. Not just as a theoretical or a potential, not a suitable spot, but a PERFECT spot. CLOSE IN. GOOD ANGLE.

Digging deeper.....

Every terrorist act starts with a casing. The tangos are going to do their own site survey. They'll look at the maps. They'll form to tentative plans. Then they'll do a walk thru. They have to know what obstacles they might face on the way in, while there, on the way out. This kid didn't load up in the car and go sit in traffic until he could wander around and find a place to use. He left his home, armed, knowing exactly where he had to get to to take the shot....how to ingress without being noticed.....how to evade security perimeters, how to evade counter-surveillance, etc.... He did all that without being spotted by SS. He did the casing. He did the ingress. And he got in position to squeeze off a round.

The counter-terror imperative is to spot the planning, the casing, the preparations, the ingress.
Saying the SS failed on this one is a profound understatement. It's inexplicable how they could have not had a counter-sniper team posted at the spot the shooter used.

The agents on scene were heros. But the heroism does not excuse the catastrophic failure of planning, preparation, and execution of sound defense of the protectee. SS must separate leadership from service over this.

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This will be investigated and critical blunders will be exposed. My only comment is that when covering a large open outdoor area like this they don't typically put snipers in every position, only positions that serve as overwatches for all or most potential threat areas. So not having someone on the building isn't the failure from my perspective. Failing to manage ingress, either physical or surveillance, slow decision making, failed coordination with proximity support (the agents closest to Trump) and local law enforcement likely covering the area in question, and the most impactful and potentially scandalous one is, given the size of Trump events, how did the denial of additional resources sufficient to better secure him play into the failings. That last one gets the Director canned and puts culpability on some Congress people.

But I am confounded how the sniper team appeared to have the perpetrator in their LOS yet didn't fire until after he had. ROE is pretty clear on that. The entire exchange was 10 seconds from first shot to downed shooter. That doesn't happen unless there's already active engagement. And I'm assuming it was that team that killed the shooter and not some other team. Absolutely inconceivable.

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They didn't have to put a sniper team on that building. A couple of local cops would have been sufficient.

The point is to spot the most obvious positions which threaten the protectee, then deny possession of those positions to any adversary. Make an adversary shoot his way into position, thereby revealing himself. That gives time to get the protectee covered and exfil'd before the adversary can secure the position and project his threat downrange. There are several reports that a police office climbed a ladder, saw the perp, then scampered down the ladder when the perp pointed his rifle at him. If only that cop had fired off a round.....just ONE......immediate action drills commence and Trump is covered up before the perp can get reconfigured to squeeze off a round.

I'm neither a swat guy nor a sniper by trade, but presidential protection training is typically a CIA mission done with covert action funds in third world countries, so I have managed some "stuff.' The oversight here is so glaring. How on earth could they have left that rooftop unaddressed in their planning.......it's like choosing to build a fire next to the fuel storage tanks. WTH were they thinking?

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— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) July 15, 2024