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mojaveman
07-13-2024, 23:48
Donald Trump narrowly missed being killed during an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania earlier today. A sniper was on a rooftop about 150 yards away and opened fire while Trump was speaking. One person was killed and another severely wounded.

I see a major security failure by the Secret Service in this incident.

Thank God he's ok.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/eyewitness-accounts-following-trump-rally-shooting-just-blood-everywhere

Paslode
07-14-2024, 08:26
From an amateur perspective it’s seems odd that a high vantage point would be left unattended during a visit of a HVT like a former President.

MR2
07-14-2024, 10:02
"If they can fake birth certificates, they fake anything."

I found this substack quite informative (https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/trump-is-lucky-to-be-alive-i-have):

MR2
07-14-2024, 10:20
Leave it to the Bee... (https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/trump-indicted-for-inciting-assassination-attempt)

cbtengr
07-14-2024, 11:07
"If they can fake birth certificates, they fake anything."

I found this substack quite informative (https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/trump-is-lucky-to-be-alive-i-have):

There was a time that I may have felt this was crazy talk, well not to more.

Miles
07-14-2024, 13:33
It's also plausible that the 'Swamp' assigned the D team of the Secret Service to protect Trump in the hopes that something like this would happen.

GratefulCitizen
07-14-2024, 15:42
Shooter was 20 years old.
Has absolutely no social media presence.

What 20 year old lacks any social media presence?

Paslode
07-14-2024, 17:34
Shooter was 20 years old.
Has absolutely no social media presence.

What 20 year old lacks any social media presence?

These days that is an oddity.

WarriorDiplomat
07-14-2024, 17:37
Shooter was 20 years old.
Has absolutely no social media presence.

What 20 year old lacks any social media presence?

I think he had a social media presence that started to disappear rather quickly after the act.....I know several who found out who he is and that the social media had just been suspended or ghosted etc....he was allegedly a registered Republican but supported Biden and donated to leftist causes.

Had he been a true blue Republican his media presence would have been amplified and echoed on every outlet that even the Republicans think Trump is too dangerous to be POTUS ....this is one of the few times the leftist media were not prepared to spin this in their favor in a strategic way...instead many with media influence are being caught with their pants down and making comments such as they wish the shooter had succeeded and the emperor has been stripped naked yet again.

PRB
07-14-2024, 18:05
Supposedly he has some Antifa links.... we'll see how that pans out

Badger52
07-14-2024, 18:49
"If they can fake birth certificates, they fake anything."

I found this substack quite informative (https://andmagazine.substack.com/p/trump-is-lucky-to-be-alive-i-have):Yup. These days the window between "conspiracy theory" and spoiler alert is measured in milliseconds.

MR2
07-14-2024, 19:06
Matt Walsh NAILS it! (https://x.com/mattwalshblog/status/1812591744028135569)

Plus some pointed humor...

GratefulCitizen
07-14-2024, 19:15
There is a video circulating on twitter of (supposedly) the shooter flipping out in front of a Trump booth of some sort.
Appears to be completely unhinged.

A young impressionable mentally unstable loner…
Classmates in school said he was a terrible shot and was rejected from the school gun club.

A ladder was in place to get on the roof.
The roof was unobserved long enough for him to get in position.

Not sure whether to put on a tinfoil hat or just chalk it up to chance.
But, the odds of everything lining up perfectly like this do seem strange.

Awfully well executed for someone with so little competence.

PRB
07-14-2024, 19:47
For every verifiable/real story we will see twenty faux....just do our due diligence before reacting and reposting.

Not directed at any one post...just saying.....

Paslode
07-14-2024, 20:32
There is a video circulating on twitter of (supposedly) the shooter flipping out in front of a Trump booth of some sort.
Appears to be completely unhinged.

A young impressionable mentally unstable loner…
Classmates in school said he was a terrible shot and was rejected from the school gun club.

A ladder was in place to get on the roof.
The roof was unobserved long enough for him to get in position.

Not sure whether to put on a tinfoil hat or just chalk it up to chance.
But, the odds of everything lining up perfectly like this do seem strange.

Awfully well executed for someone with so little competence.


The odds of those stars aligning without some influence….a million to one at best. On the other hand we have seen LE drop the ball on many occasions in the recent past when it involved mass shooters and Olympic team doctors.

MR2
07-14-2024, 21:21
There is a video circulating on twitter of (supposedly) the shooter flipping out in front of a Trump booth of some sort.
Appears to be completely unhinged.

This is not Thomas Matthew Crooks. This video is from ASU. See: (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7974217/Shocking-moment-ASU-student-yells-Slash-Republican-throats-Trumps-acquittal.html)

GratefulCitizen
07-14-2024, 21:38
This is not Thomas Matthew Crooks. This video is from ASU. See: (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7974217/Shocking-moment-ASU-student-yells-Slash-Republican-throats-Trumps-acquittal.html)

I was suspicious about that one.
Hence the “supposedly” qualifier.

There does seem to be consistency with the elements of the kid being a loner, being rejected from the gun club, and poor marksmanship.
But the gun skill issue was as a freshman, and it’s entirely possible that he improved his skill over the next 5 years.

Poor staffing and communication could explain the incomplete coverage outside the perimeter.
To me, the curious puzzle piece is the ladder in a convenient spot where he could ascend out of view.

JimP
07-15-2024, 04:00
You guys are a bunch of haters, who hatefully hate in a hateful manner...hatefully. None of this matters. it's all about having enough purple-haired trannies as senior supervisory agents, ensuring JaQuantavius (who has thirteen felonies and 78 arrests for violence and drug possession) is enabled to be an Agent, it's about ensuring SS agents have the support and system enabling them to seek transgender surgery to enable their health care decisions free of your bias, ignorance, and hate, to allow the mentally infirm and unstable folks hiding in the shadows of our grossly patriarchal and supremacist culture can dress up and play SS agent and feel good about themselves.

Buncha hateful people all up in here. I think I'm gonna run to Box and file a hurt-feelings report.

milkman
07-15-2024, 05:24
Another lone gunman behind the fence..........
Again ?

Badger52
07-15-2024, 05:38
Buncha hateful people all up in here. I think I'm gonna run to Box and file a hurt-feelings report.Let us know how that goes, lmao. :D

Box
07-15-2024, 07:25
I think I'm gonna run to Box and file a hurt-feelings report.

Standing by to receive - just make sure you follow the format and attach your supporting documents in conjunction with current company policy...

GratefulCitizen
07-15-2024, 08:47
3 baby mommas, a mug shot, 34 felonies, and now he’s been shot.
Trump has more street cred than most new rappers.

https://youtu.be/biBwMi1H3y0?si=QD4BjYQaezHFXmyK

Sdiver
07-15-2024, 09:26
Shooter was 20 years old.
Has absolutely no social media presence.

What 20 year old lacks any social media presence?

I think he had a social media presence that started to disappear rather quickly after the act.....I know several who found out who he is and that the social media had just been suspended or ghosted etc....he was allegedly a registered Republican but supported Biden and donated to leftist causes.

Had he been a true blue Republican his media presence would have been amplified and echoed on every outlet that even the Republicans think Trump is too dangerous to be POTUS ....this is one of the few times the leftist media were not prepared to spin this in their favor in a strategic way...instead many with media influence are being caught with their pants down and making comments such as they wish the shooter had succeeded and the emperor has been stripped naked yet again.

Apparently, he was also shown in a BlackRock video that was filmed at is H.S.

When it was found, was pointed out, BlackRock made that video vanish, very, very fast.

doctom54
07-15-2024, 16:36
Interesting!
20 yo shooter
150 yards from his target

Was this a security failure?

EricV
07-15-2024, 17:05
I'm curious if Crooks was on drugs. Not illegal, but the usual stuff they give for Attention Deficit Disorder and other stuff the pump into people by prescription.

Paslode
07-15-2024, 20:20
Interesting!
20 yo shooter
150 yards from his target

Was this a security failure?

On top of that the shooter had to walk or ride to get to building he climbed upon while carrying a gun and/or something that contained and concealed a gun…….and apparently no one saw or stopped him during his travel.

Odd.

bblhead672
07-16-2024, 08:12
Inquiring minds want to know....how long before Biden talks about that time he was shot in the ear? :D

Eagle5US
07-16-2024, 08:17
Reading a lot on this...since any search of the area failed to find the 12 FOOT LADDER he had hidden in a tree next to the LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMAND POST that he used as his static platform, it is not unreasonable to think that he could have cached his weapon there with the ladder as well.

How the USSS and local LE had eyes on this guy for 26 minutes, took a photo of him on the ground and on the roof (sans firearm), and reported him with a rangefinder in hand with nothing done begs so many questions.

bblhead672
07-16-2024, 09:42
As far as social media presence:
Twitter link to shooter hate trump statement (https://x.com/FFT1776/status/1812479257047679179)

Video determined not to be the shooter.

Eagle5US
07-16-2024, 11:25
Video determined not to be the shooter.
removed...

WarriorDiplomat
07-16-2024, 13:36
Apparently, he was also shown in a BlackRock video that was filmed at is H.S.

When it was found, was pointed out, BlackRock made that video vanish, very, very fast.

Exactly, the media is sheep dipping to protect the left

PRB
07-16-2024, 19:13
A spokesperson for the SS just admitted Trumps normal security detail was not there, given time off for working hard and new and inexperienced agents from the Pittsburgh office replaced them.....

twistedsquid
07-16-2024, 20:28
"Those that design foolproof systems underestimate the genius of fools."

WarriorDiplomat
07-16-2024, 21:12
A spokesperson for the SS just admitted Trumps normal security detail was not there, given time off for working hard and new and inexperienced agents from the Pittsburgh office replaced them.....

I have a hard time accepting this as an excuse if anything it seems an inexperienced team would be hyper vigilant to a fault...also not in a million years do I believe that they were not briefed on each other's locations etc in fact it is confirmed by the top who stated that none of the SS was to be on that particular building because the roof was sloped so ignorance of the layout and a briefing of a plan can be no excuse, the SS shooter knew beforehand that no one was to be there .....this kid walked up to the buildings in view of anyone who cared to
look including the SS, State and local LEO assigned to the duty.....I also understand that LEO was in the building he shot from.

MR2
07-16-2024, 22:23
Fight, Fight, Fight!

GratefulCitizen
07-16-2024, 23:08
Now circulating on twitter is video of bullet impacts which may indicate a trajectory inconsistent with the position of the shooter.
Time will tell.

7624U
07-17-2024, 08:20
Reading a lot on this...since any search of the area failed to find the 12 FOOT LADDER he had hidden in a tree next to the LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMAND POST that he used as his static platform, it is not unreasonable to think that he could have cached his weapon there with the ladder as well.

How the USSS and local LE had eyes on this guy for 26 minutes, took a photo of him on the ground and on the roof (sans firearm), and reported him with a rangefinder in hand with nothing done begs so many questions.

Don't think he needed a ladder the building had one of the metal service ladders attached to the outside, he might have thought he needed it but then just used the unsecured (frailer of security). ladder that was accessible.

Everyone keeps saying how could he miss the shot. I say easy if he was hopped up on adrenalin (just got made by the cop on the ladder) so knew he was going to get caught soon.

Next I don't think he crawled up the the edge and used the peak of the building as support. he was more likely just sitting up and started shooting off hand with no support. (see the reaction from the snipers) He was just seen and they did not believe their eyes that he was so close. Once the shooting started you can also see the spotter start taking cover behind the ridge of the building and not looking though his scope. (caught with pants down and no combat experience is what that tells me.) no conspiracy at all just stupid people, and opportunity.

Sdiver
07-17-2024, 08:33
Inquiring minds want to know....how long before Biden talks about that time he was shot in the ear? :D

Hillary can't. ;)

PRB
07-17-2024, 08:50
Not an excuse but what was the skill set level of the Pittsburgh agents? had they worked as a team etc. The SS does other law enforcement like: counterfeiting/fed Fraud and RICO etc. and not all are continually working as security PP.

The questions about one or more shooters will be an interesting eval.

This kid had some kind of help or prior info to execute this imo.

bblhead672
07-17-2024, 09:33
A spokesperson for the SS just admitted Trumps normal security detail was not there, given time off for working hard and new and inexperienced agents from the Pittsburgh office replaced them.....

Somewhere yesterday I read that Trump's normal team was pulled to cover a last minute Jill Biden event. Haven't been able to confirm that though.

MR2
07-17-2024, 11:39
3D MODEL — Second sniper team had the unobstructed view of assassin. (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-17/trump-shooting-3d-model-of-showground-rally-site/104104418)

tom kelly
07-17-2024, 15:10
Now circulating on twitter is video of bullet impacts which may indicate a trajectory inconsistent with the position of the shooter.
Time will tell.

November 22, 1963, President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and The first magic bullet appeared on a gurney at Parkland Hospital. WHY NOT ?

EricV
07-17-2024, 19:52
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle...


"That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside," she said.*


https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1813575130565542036?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5 Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1813575130565542036%7Ctwgr% 5Eb29cd7fc4a0029247511b1a4d287a87d2ebc25a8%7Ctwcon %5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.siliconinvestor.com%2Fre admsg.aspx%3Fmsgid%3D34739857

Badger52
07-17-2024, 20:01
SS Biden-Buddy hire says they didn't run a drone because they felt that counter-sniper assets were sufficient. Then, read in an aggregation of Fox stories on their timeline that a SS spokesperson told Fox that they hadn't had time to put in for a Special Gov't Interest permit. As both a pilot and a drone owner I will say "Horsehockey!"

The Butler Farm Show & Fair Grounds, including the adjacent little private airstrip to the west, are in Uncontrolled Airspace. There was/is no requirement to submit anything. I could fire my little drone up on the grounds, climb to a nice altitude and peruse all I want. So they're full of shit. One thing they COULD have done is get the FAA to put out a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) for Special Use Airspace as being restricted fo 'X' numbers of hours up to 'Y' altitude, and they could've run a drone under their own authority because it becomes literally their air.

I verified this with FAA's own software they provide (free, called B4UFLY) so drone oprs can quickly check a piece of airspace (works slick on a Google map type interface). There would be zero problem (other than keeping sufficient batteries charged) to keeping a drone up for the relatively short time needed. Peruse to your heart's content, including areas obstructed to other teams by foliage, structure etc.

Their stories, even among themselves, continue to vaporize like denture adhesive hit with a giant bottle of Coca-Cola®.

bblhead672
07-18-2024, 08:05
SS Biden-Buddy hire says they didn't run a drone because they felt that counter-sniper assets were sufficient. Then, read in an aggregation of Fox stories on their timeline that a SS spokesperson told Fox that they hadn't had time to put in for a Special Gov't Interest permit. As both a pilot and a drone owner I will say "Horsehockey!"

The Butler Farm Show & Fair Grounds, including the adjacent little private airstrip to the west, are in Uncontrolled Airspace. There was/is no requirement to submit anything. I could fire my little drone up on the grounds, climb to a nice altitude and peruse all I want. So they're full of shit. One thing they COULD have done is get the FAA to put out a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) for Special Use Airspace as being restricted fo 'X' numbers of hours up to 'Y' altitude, and they could've run a drone under their own authority because it becomes literally their air.

I verified this with FAA's own software they provide (free, called B4UFLY) so drone oprs can quickly check a piece of airspace (works slick on a Google map type interface). There would be zero problem (other than keeping sufficient batteries charged) to keeping a drone up for the relatively short time needed. Peruse to your heart's content, including areas obstructed to other teams by foliage, structure etc.

Their stories, even among themselves, continue to vaporize like denture adhesive hit with a giant bottle of Coca-Cola®.

I'm a drone owner too...what SS said is total BS. It would take the SS less than 5 minutes to get the airspace around the event restricted to aircraft other than their own. After the lessons learned in Ukraine with drone warefare, you'd think restricting airspace around an event would be a line on the security checklist routinely filled out in advance.

Badger52
07-18-2024, 08:44
I'm a drone owner too...what SS said is total BS. It would take the SS less than 5 minutes to get the airspace around the event restricted to aircraft other than their own. After the lessons learned in Ukraine with drone warefare, you'd think restricting airspace around an event would be a line on the security checklist routinely filled out in advance.That last; Bingo. And that's a bureaukratic thing. No need to get anywhere near 1200' AGL. How about treetops just checking roofs and fencelines? Kripes.

Last hard class
07-18-2024, 10:46
I love a good political conspiracy. I hope there is one here that turns out to be true. So far it looks like the shooter was just a social loser. A lazy, incompetent opportunist who got lucky. My guess is he would have taken a shot at Biden if he had come to town.


On another note:

After the lessons learned in Ukraine with drone warfare,

Maybe sometime on another thread, I would be really interested in what we have learned in drone warfare. I suspect there are lots of papers being written at the war college as we speak.


LHC

Badger52
07-18-2024, 11:56
I love a good political conspiracy. I hope there is one here that turns out to be true. So far it looks like the shooter was just a social loser. A lazy, incompetent opportunist who got lucky. My guess is he would have taken a shot at Biden if he had come to town.
Concur. 2 things can be true at the same time. "Wants notoriety" collides with some poor performance.

Box
07-18-2024, 12:33
I love a good political conspiracy.
So far it looks like the shooter was just a social loser.
A lazy, incompetent opportunist who got lucky...

I agree 100%
...but how can Oliver Stone make a movie with that kind of subject matter.

There is no choice but to stay with the ever unfolding string of twist, turns, and surprises that come with a complex deep state conspiracy theory.

Think about it – we could bring familiar faces like Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, and Tommy Lee Jones to cover some of the films big roles. We get Laurie Metcalf to play the role of Jill Biden and then we get Gary Oldman onthe cast as Thomas Matthew Crooks,

Maybe even get Christopher Lloyd/Jim Ignatowski to play Joe Biden…

Obviously we bring in Melissa McCarthy to play one of the Secret Service Agents.

Then…

….stay with me on this one


…to play Kamala Harris



…we bring in





…Joe Pesci

Thats right
JOE MOTHER FUCKING PESCI as Kamala Harris.
You jokers ALL know that I am right. Joe Pesci can play any role that you throw at him.

Raging Bull, Lethal Weapon 2, Easy Money, My Cousin Vinny, Lethal Weapon III, 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, Lethal Weapon More - everything Joe touches turns into box office gold.
Can you imagine Joe laying down a line like "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you”

Read that last line again - but this time - in your head - read it with Joe Pesci's voice - then try to tell me that he couldn't nail the role of Kamala Harris.


Fuhgetaboutit

Badger52
07-18-2024, 16:08
Fuhgetaboutit
"Oh, yeah? Funny how?"

Eagle5US
07-18-2024, 16:13
Don't think he needed a ladder the building had one of the metal service ladders attached to the outside, he might have thought he needed it but then just used the unsecured (frailer of security). ladder that was accessible.


Prime reason I don't post here anymore....Early information being what it was, posted for part of the conversation.

Damn tiresome.....

GratefulCitizen
07-18-2024, 22:55
I usually entertain conspiracy theories involving the government.
Do I believe most of them? No.

But they are always worth exploring because the government should always answer to the people and should never be allowed to shut down any discussion.
They work for the people.

When it comes to INDIVIDUALS who may work for the government, they always enjoy the presumption of innocence.
When it comes to COLLECTIVE government entities, they bear a presumption of guilt.

Government entities should always satisfy the questions of the public and demonstrate a level of transparency which avoids even the slightest appearance of impropriety.
Such a standard protects the integrity of the good public servants from being corrupted by the inevitable bad apples.

When trillions of dollars and the power over life and death are at stake, it is reasonable to have a presumption of guilt upon collective government entities.

bblhead672
07-19-2024, 20:36
And just like that…..another security failure revealed.

Trump shooter flew drone over venue hours before attempted assassination, source says (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-shooter-flew-drone-venue-hours-attempted-assassination-source-sa-rcna162817)

Badger52
07-20-2024, 04:22
And just like that….Proves the point that the SS Dir is full of it when she says they couldn't get a "permit" to fly a drone. The DJI software is very good and has all the FAA restrictions incorporated based on lat/lon. It literally won't take off. This is a distractor from the issue that they didn't have their own drone up.

milkman
07-20-2024, 05:22
It doesn't seem like the shooter had an exit plan.

Did he have the AK ? or an AR ?

He used a drone ? and a range finder ?

He entered the area on a bike ?

Paslode
07-22-2024, 13:29
One thing they COULD have done is get the FAA to put out a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) for Special Use Airspace as being restricted fo 'X' numbers of hours up to 'Y' altitude, and they could've run a drone under their own authority because it becomes literally their air.

From a laymen's perspective this would seem SOP when a VIP of Trumps status is in AO. Iran allegedly had a hit out of Trump so one would think the various agencies would magnify their vigilance and precautions.

On July 16th, the propagandist CNN posted:

Secret Service learned of the increased threat from this threat stream,” the official told CNN. “NSC directly contacted USSS at a senior level to be absolutely sure they continued to track the latest reporting. USSS shared this information with the detail lead, and the Trump campaign was made aware of an evolving threat. In response to the increased threat, Secret Service surged resources and assets for the protection of former President Trump. All of this was in advance of Saturday.


Other propaganda centers such as AP, WaPo, VOA, NPR and NBC made similar claims to CNN's.

GratefulCitizen
08-02-2024, 13:32
Affidavit from secret service whistleblower claims they were supposed to be there, but were ordered to stand down.
Pretty vague with context missing, but definitely worth investigating.

https://x.com/realamvoice/status/1819449818982273388?s=61

GratefulCitizen
08-12-2024, 11:28
Recently released body cam footage.

https://youtu.be/vhjrC1wzJG4?si=CsL4Op5kEYuQ7Hk-

GratefulCitizen
08-16-2024, 19:01
Preliminary report from congressman Clay Higgins.
Higgins is former LEO and went to the site personally.

https://clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Preliminary-Investigative-Report-8.12.24.pdf

doctom54
08-17-2024, 14:19
Preliminary report from congressman Clay Higgins.
Higgins is former LEO and went to the site personally.

https://clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Preliminary-Investigative-Report-8.12.24.pdf

Interesting response. Thanks for posting!!!

sg1987
08-22-2024, 12:35
Hmmm……

"Why does a 19-year-old kid who is a health care aide need encrypted platforms not even based in the United States, but based abroad, where most terrorist organizations know it is harder for our law enforcement to get into?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-shooter-multiple-encrypted-accounts-overseas-germany-rep-waltz

Paslode
08-22-2024, 16:19
Hmmm……



https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-shooter-multiple-encrypted-accounts-overseas-germany-rep-waltz

Lots of everyday people across the US use Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Proton Mail and various VPNs to protect their privacy while on the net. Belgium, New Zealand and Germany are all considered friendly nations.

Plus..


US Taxpayers paid for a monstrous NSA data center in Nevada or Utah which vacuums and stores everything that everyone does on their phone or the connected world. I seem to recall Former CIA Director David Petraeus stating that they can spy on persons through house hold appliances and anything plugged into to a wall outlets. US Taxpayers paid for street lights throughout the US which can listen on in its citizens and traffic cameras that can do all kinds stuff. Many, if not most municipalities across the US have license plate readers that can run a zillion plates in seconds across a database.

All these high tech spying gizmos across the US, an un-told number of people are employed to spy on their fellow citizens and they are just 'stumped' by some zit faced kid........the bullshit is deep.

GratefulCitizen
09-15-2024, 15:34
Someone somehow managed to find a gap in the line again.
What are the odds?

https://nypost.com/2024/09/15/us-news/shooting-reported-at-donald-trumps-golf-club-while-ex-president-was-on-grounds/

SF_BHT
09-15-2024, 19:07
There are a lot of crazy’s out there. More on the left it is looking like.

GratefulCitizen
09-15-2024, 20:50
Can’t tell what type of rifle it is from the released photo.
Media said it was “ak-47 style” and it had optics.

The shooter’s (don’t know yet if he actually got off any shots) social media had been getting picked apart and screenshotted on twitter before getting shut down.

He apparently supported Trump in 2016, then changed later.
He’s been donating to democrats.
His twitter is completely empty from early June 2020 until November 2021, but was busy both before and after.
Most of his posts look like bot posts.
His twitter appears to be down now.
His Facebook was taken down quickly.
Hardcore supporter of Ukraine.
He traveled to Ukraine, posted some documents regarding someone who served in their foreign legion or whatever it’s called, implying it was him.
He tried to assist displaced Afghans who wanted to fight in Ukraine in getting there.

Convicted of possession of a weapon of mass destruction (machine gun) in Guilford county, NC in 2002, along with carrying a concealed weapon, hit and run, resisting arrest, and others.
Barricaded himself in some sort of standoff with law enforcement.
Sentenced to probation.

Strange background.
Looks like a complete nut job.

Oh yeah, one other thing…his first follow (who also followed him back) on twitter was a former CIA employee named Soo Kim.

This is going to be entertaining.

Badger52
09-16-2024, 05:46
Can’t tell what type of rifle it is from the released photo.
Media said it was “ak-47 style” and it had optics.
IIRC NY Post pegged it as an SKS. Looked like short red dot on top. Funny with the quality of even basic phone pics nowadays the photo of the rifle with the backpacks by the fence is so grainy.

Last hard class
09-16-2024, 16:05
Predictable patterns must drive the protection units crazy.



LHC

Badger52
09-16-2024, 18:44
Predictable patterns must drive the protection units crazy.

LHCIndeed sir. Oddly a retired SS agent commented tonight on that very thing you mention; the predictability of Trump. Humans are incredibly easy to pattern. And, also oddly, this particular round of golf was apparently a last minute thing. Go figure.

GratefulCitizen
09-16-2024, 23:02
Mike Benz spends 15 minutes going down the rabbit hole.

https://x.com/mikebenzcyber/status/1835842473635049485?s=61

The Reaper
09-18-2024, 18:52
IIRC NY Post pegged it as an SKS. Looked like short red dot on top. Funny with the quality of even basic phone pics nowadays the photo of the rifle with the backpacks by the fence is so grainy.

Concur. Looks like an SKS to me, or some variant thereof. Tough shot on a Par 1, even with optics.

There is a great meme out there that showed six rifles. The first five were AKs, but were labeled as AR-15s. The last was an AR, labeled as an AK.

TR

Badger52
09-19-2024, 05:16
Concur. Looks like an SKS to me, or some variant thereof. Tough shot on a Par 1, even with optics.

There is a great meme out there that showed six rifles. The first five were AKs, but were labeled as AR-15s. The last was an AR, labeled as an AK.

TRLOL sir. FWIW, I don't think the game was to attempt a 300yd shot through trees that talking heads (who've never shot) call easy with an evil scope on an evil SKS-AR thingy.
Trump would keep playing through on #6 and come to the shooter until he was standing over a putt on the 6th green 30 yds away.

MR2
09-19-2024, 17:42
Matt Gaetz — There are three foreign assassination teams trying to kill Trump. (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/19/exclusive-rep-matt-gaetz-claims-there-are-5-known-assassination-teams-in-u-s/)

Three foreign, two domestic.

Stobey
09-19-2024, 17:54
Thought you might enjoy this song dedicated to President Trump. Written by Jon Kahn and Chris Wallin, it is contained in this Gateway Pundit article. Enjoy.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/must-see-singer-songwriter-jon-david-kahn-releases/

GratefulCitizen
09-24-2024, 21:41
For those who are into this sort of thing, an SKS enthusiast goes into great detail about the rifle possessed by the would-be shooter.

https://youtu.be/4wqCCDNlU2Q?si=f_77aaZUnE3382ru