Gun shots at Trump rally

[MechAg94]

I work with operators.  They work 12 hour shifts running the plant where I work.  Well paid if you don't mind shift work. 

[MechAg94]

New video out. Wow they screwed up that day.

https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1818702426683457818

I just saw that.  That is incredible.  Walking around on the roof in full view.  They had to have seen the rifle. 

IMO, that means someone was telling the snipers to hold their fire.  I don't think they would mistake him for a police officer.  I don't know why the snipers would not fire when they saw the rifle pointed at Trump.

And someone in charge there didn't get Trump off the stage.  Could be incompetence, but it is very easy to move to intentional.

[cordex]

I always found "operator" to be a pretty pretentious title.  Maybe not everyone agrees.  IMO, they want to downplay their job.  If their business card said "sniper", I can only imagine the questions and comments they would get in life outside of work.  Technician sounds more mundane.

Operator is pretentious now, but at the time they started using it most people assumed they answered telephones.

[Pb]

Did they ever figure out a motive for the assassin? 

[Bogie]

They're still wondering, since they've denied that the photos are trans zhim, and will ignore his financial donations...

[AZRedhawk44]

I just saw that.  That is incredible.  Walking around on the roof in full view.  They had to have seen the rifle. 

IMO, that means someone was telling the snipers to hold their fire.  I don't think they would mistake him for a police officer.  I don't know why the snipers would not fire when they saw the rifle pointed at Trump.

And someone in charge there didn't get Trump off the stage.  Could be incompetence, but it is very easy to move to intentional.

I remain astounded by the rules of engagement that people are claiming are in effect.  I am incredulous that the Secret Service is hampered by a "do not fire until fired upon" mandate.

They have a reputation of being willing to trample/maim/kill anyone in the process of protecting their Principle, quadruple-plus-so if that Principle is a Head of State and to the Nth degree if it's POTUS.  Law doesn't matter, and the entire world is an active battlefront.  It just needs to be subtle until the lead is actually moving, then subtlety is for losers. 

[K Frame]

Well this is an interesting headline from CNBC...

Amazon says distraction of Olympics, Trump assassination attempt contributed to weak forecast

I'm sure that Trump felt that someone shooting at him was a distraction.

Cory Comperatore was unavailable for comment.

[WLJ]

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
🚨 BREAKING: Trump says Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called him after the assassination attempt, said he isn’t going to support a Democrat and apologized for Facebook and Instagram censoring the iconic photos of him with his fist raised.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1819374411054547262

[RocketMan]

Zuckerberg did apologize to Trump, but I seriously doubt he is not voting Democrat.

[Perd Hapley]

Zuckerberg did apologize to Trump, but I seriously doubt he is not voting Democrat.

He may vote Democrat, but that's not the same thing as "supporting" or endorsing.

[WLJ]

Meanwhile at Politico

POLITICO
@politico
Opinion: An authoritarianism scholar explains how Mussolini used assassination attempts on his life to gain power — and how Donald Trump could do the same

https://x.com/politico/status/1819732062783328525

The article
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/03/assassination-attempts-mussolini-trump-00171825

Is Politico Serious Running This Story About the Trump Assassination Attempt?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/08/04/is-politico-serious-running-this-story-about-the-trump-assassination-attempt-n2642936

Yeah they went there

[Hawkmoon]

Delusional and hysterical.

The Supreme Court, meanwhile, has conferred sweeping immunity powers to the president, ensuring Trump would see few guardrails.

The Supreme  Court does not, did not, and cannot "confer" any powers to anyone. The Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of laws.

[WLJ]

[Perd Hapley]

Who is Mr. Ross?

Delusional and hysterical.

The Supreme  Court does not, did not, and cannot "confer" any powers to anyone. The Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of laws.

And who said that?

[Hawkmoon]

Who is Mr. Ross?


And who said that?

The article linked by WLJ.

[Hawkmoon]

I wonder of Trump has a driver's license. I wonder if Trump even knows how to drive.

[dogmush]

I wonder of Trump has a driver's license. I wonder if Trump even knows how to drive.

Is a Tesla.  It drives itself.

[Perd Hapley]

I wonder of Trump has a driver's license. I wonder if Trump even knows how to drive.

Regardless, it's a good prop for the rallies. He'll probably pay somebody to drive it around the swing states for the next few months. Or maybe the drivers will pay him.

[Ben]

I don't know how accurate this is, but it could be a sticky wicket investigation-wise from the political correctness perspective. The story suggests that the SAIC for the team was an unqualified female. From the toxic male perspective, I wonder if those inept women in all the clips were friends of hers from whatever Homeland office she pulled them from?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-hawley-reveals-new-whistleblower-claims-secret-service-failures-trump-rally-scared-death

[Bogie]

I'm guessing that the one who hit the front of the dogpile was a real SS agent... And the one ducking at the back wasn't...

[MechAg94]

I don't know how accurate this is, but it could be a sticky wicket investigation-wise from the political correctness perspective. The story suggests that the SAIC for the team was an unqualified female. From the toxic male perspective, I wonder if those inept women in all the clips were friends of hers from whatever Homeland office she pulled them from?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-hawley-reveals-new-whistleblower-claims-secret-service-failures-trump-rally-scared-death

Mrgunsngear posted yesterday that whistleblower comments indicated that event was the first time counter snipers were present at a Trump rally.  His comment was that it raises a whole new set of questions/theories as to why that was the case.  Also mentioned only the locals had radios at all. 

[bedlamite]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/06/politics/iran-trump-assassination-charges/index.html

Just another one of those undocumented immigrants?

[Angel Eyes]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/06/politics/iran-trump-assassination-charges/index.html

Just another one of those undocumented immigrants?

"Diversity is our strength."

[bedlamite]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ztRxkjEzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRgF9Fanc-c

[MechAg94]

FBI let suspect in plot to kill Trump into U.S. on parole despite terror ties, Iran trip, memos show
https://justthenews.com/government/security/fbi-let-suspect-plot-kill-trump-us-parole-despite-terror-ties-iran-trip-memos

he FBI allowed Asif Raza Merchant, the Pakistani man charged with plotting with Tehran to assassinate Donald Trump and others, to enter the U.S. in April with special permission known as “significant public benefit parole” even though he was flagged on a terrorism watchlist and recently traveled to Iran, according to government documents reviewed by Just the News.

Sounds like the 911 terrorists who were let in.

Law enforcement officials who alerted Just the News to the FBI's role in April compared the parole decision to an earlier law enforcement controversy known as the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which federal agents allowed U.S. guns to flow to Mexican cartels in hopes of tracking crimes.

The parole in Merchant's case, the officials said, would allow agents to try to flip Merchant as a cooperator or try to determine why he was coming to the United States and who he might be working with. But such tactics also carried a risk that agents might lose track of him, the officials said.

The records show that Merchant was allowed to stay in the country beyond the May 11 expiration date for his parole.