July 13-Time to Ask It Out Loud? Was It Just Negligence or Something Far Darker?

“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive”

I am posting this video even though I am sure most everyone has seen it by now but after viewing this graphic display of the aftermath of the gragantuan incompetence of the Secret Service in “allowing” President Trump to be shot and an American citizen to be murdered and two others to be gravely injured one just has to ask the question more and more are asking after becoming more knowledgable about this nightmare. That question, quite simply, is the one which will get you branded a conspiracy theorist but it is one based on one of the few remaining possibilities: Was this an inside job engineered by Mayorkas and Cheatle on orders from the White House? This is an 8 minute bodycam video showing the minutes leading up to and following the shots. It is very painful to watch especially in view of the way the Secret Service “leadership” has tried to smear the local law enforcement services of Butler County, Pennsylvania.

It is worth watching the entire video in order to get the sense of the anguished frustration of these local officers and especially the pain in one of the officer’s voice when he says he told the Secret Service in their meeting “on Tuesday” that they needed to be sure to have that roof covered. He said the Secret Service representative said words to the effect of “no problem, we’ll have someone posted up there.”

Here are extracts from an article from the Wall Street Journal, Videos Show Police at Trump Rally Airing Frustration With Secret Service, outlining the details of the anger and frustration expressed by the local officers:

Local Pennsylvania police complained in the moments after last month’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump that they warned the U.S. Secret Service days in advance that the warehouse where the shooter was positioned needed protection, according to new videos obtained by The Wall Street Journal. 

“I f—ing told them that they needed to post guys f—ing over here…I told them that f—ing Tuesday,” said a Butler Township officer in audio captured on his body-worn camera. “I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here.’ ”

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About 10 minutes after the shooting, another officer, arriving at the warehouse, said to a fellow officer, “I thought you guys were on the roof. I thought it was you. I thought it was you.”

“No,” came the reply, with an explanation that no officers were on the roof.

“What the f—,” the officer replied in frustration. “Why were we not on the roof? Why weren’t we?”

I should note that the volume, at least on my laptop, does not start until about the 3 minute mark.

In addition to all the other blatant failures of the Secret Service it is now clear, no matter how hard they try to spin their way out of this, that there were not only problems with communication but in some areas no communication at all:

Throughout the rally, law enforcement was hampered by communication problems, according to law-enforcement officials. Radio reception was poor, and there wasn’t a uniform communication channel for the event’s entire security force, a coalition that included state, local and federal agencies, according to officials. Instead most officers were only able to communicate by radio with members of their own agency, officials said, but not directly with the Secret Service. 

Secret Service agents also weren’t inside a command post set up by local police ahead of the rally, officials said, meaning critical information couldn’t easily get to the agency protecting the former president. In some cases, information had to be relayed three times before it reached Secret Service agents, the local law-enforcement official said.

What are we, the common folk these Secret Service work for, to believe in the absence of any more hard evidence than we can dig up on our own with the help of the many new citizen journalists and investigators serving us in the absence of the worthless corporate media? Here is my personal opinion which will almost surely strike some as too strident and sounding too much like those dreaded conspiracy theories we are instructed by our betters to never utter. It strains credulity— up to and maybe past the breaking point - to ask us to believe that they knew this lunatic was in the area for a very long time and the Secret Service snipers had him in their sights for a good 20 minutes and they still allowed President Trump to get on that stage in the direct line of fire — and it was just …. a what? A failure of protocol or some similar kind of bureaucratic [ ]? Or, as Sean Davis, one of the founders of The Federalist and highly respected as an objective commentator on the right, put it (Biden’s Team Deliberately Kneecapped Trump’s Security To Allow An Assassination Attempt):

They called him Hitler. They said he was an existential threat. They said he would destroy democracy. They said he was the most dangerous person on Earth. Then they denied him security. They kept the rooftop open. They watched the shooter and did nothing. They kept Trump on that stage. And they didn’t do a damn thing until after he had been shot in the head.

And we’re all supposed to believe it was just an innocent oopsie?

“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” said Sir Walter Scott long ago and nothing more aptly describes what is happening to the once-proud Secret Service as it continues its pattern of stonewalling and obfuscation in its desperate attempts to be sure the public never knows the real reason we almost lost a former President of the United States and did lose an American citizen, a local fireman and dedicated husband and father. And it is my fervent hope that those responsible are, to use that more and more outdated old phrase which has less and less real meaning, “held accountable.”

Here’s one more real tragedy bequeathed to us by Secret Service on July 13: they never will be if the Democrats remain in power after November 5 as it is impossible to get fired if you are a Democrat- Just one more reason we must do everything in our power to send President Trump back to where he should have been for the last four years: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.

God Bless America!