Shooting Hitler?
Segment # 200
A number of political analysts, including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Eric Bolling, have publicly worried that the rhetoric from the Dems seems to lead to only one final attempt to get rid of Trump... an attempt to end his life. Many of us thought this, but didn’t even want to give such a thought any credibility. The Democrats censored him, slandered him, impeached him, sued him, indicted him four times, tried to jail him, bankrupt him, and humiliated him.
It didn’t work.
And since most of this lawfare was purposeful, one could logically conclude that there were few options left. I don’t trust the CIA, FBI, DOJ, or the leadership of the Secret Service; however, I hope with all possible optimism that we won’t find that this assassination attempt was more than what it appears to be on the surface. There are already some strange elements surfacing, so we shall just have to wait for the facts.
I fully expect DOJ and the FBI to bury anything in their investigation that points away from their agenda.
Below is just some of the documentation of the vile rhetoric that has come from the Dems. I challenge any of my friends on the Left to submit any documentation of the Right engaging in such speech. You won’t find much because Republicans are put in jail as domestic terrorists for such conduct.
At the end is an update of the latest of what we are allowed to know about the assassination attempt. A crazy day with the Secret Service blaming local police, and Trump’s security detail possibly being reduced to cover Jill in Pittsburgh the same day. Director Cheatle was on Jill’s detail earlier when Joe was VP, and Jill backed her candidacy for head of the Secret Service. Jill and her staff were pushing Cheatle and the DEI program. I don’t believe for a minute that Jill wasn’t the Secret Services’ first priority, and her trip to the area just south of the Trump rally was meant to undermine him .
See any Trump hate here that might inspire a whacko to take a shot at “Hitler”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, during a rally to protect abortion access at the US Supreme Court on 3/4/2020.
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Biden and the Democrats didn’t do this. But they laid the GROUNDWORK for it and provided the RATIONALE for it. By incessantly likening Trump to Hitler, they provided disturbed individuals with the idea that in getting rid of Trump, they could save the world from another Hitler……………………Dinesh D’Souza
Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing congressional outcry and calls to resign over security lapses leading to former President Donald Trump’s near-assassination Saturday, landed her role thanks largely to a close relationship with first lady Jill Biden, The Post has learned.
Cheatle, 53, is the first woman to lead the presidential protection agency and secured the non-Senate-confirmed role in August 2022 after a three-year stint as senior director of global security at PepsiCo. Before that, she had served 27 years in the Secret Service, beginning in the Clinton administration.
Four sources close to President Biden’s family, including people who interacted with Cheatle during the Obama-Biden administration, said she was well liked by the future first lady and her most senior aides, including top adviser Anthony Bernal. “Cheatle served on Dr. Biden’s second lady detail and Anthony pushed for her,” a Democratic insider told The Post.
“Anthony has no national security or law enforcement experience. He should have no influence over the selection of the USSS director.”
“I heard at the time she was being considered for director that Anthony had pushed her forward as an option,” another well-placed source told The Post.
Bernal, 51, is widely regarded as rivaling even White House chief of staff Jeff Zients in terms of influence over administration decisions. He has faced allegations of bullying and sexual harassment from colleagues who have likened his sway to that of Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin over the Romanov court.
“Anthony is obsessed with being DEI-compliant,” another insider told The Post, using the acronym for diversity, equity and inclusion — the human resources practice of attempting to ensure diversity in the workforce.
Cheatle is expected to provide a briefing to members of Congress Tuesday on how gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was able to climb onto a roof about 130 yards from Trump’s location at a rally in Butler, Pa., before firing an AR-15-style rifle at the former president, wounding him and two others and killing a rally-goer. The director also is expected to appear next Monday at a public hearing of the House Oversight Committee.
BUTLER, Pa. — The Secret Service blamed local police for failing to secure the rooftop from which gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, insisting it was outside the perimeter the federal agency was tasked with protecting. Instead, securing and patrolling the factory grounds of AGR International Inc. — located about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking Saturday — was the responsibility of local Pennsylvania police, Secret Service representative Anthony Gugliemi said, according to the New York Times.
The Secret Service was only tasked with covering the grounds where Trump’s rally took place, with local police being recruited to assist with those efforts and secure the area outside the rally.
ABOVE: The view from Valerie Fennell’s yard looking out at the rally grounds. She said law enforcement never contacted her. Officers stand over the body of shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., Saturday, July 13, 2024. Obtained by NY Post
But neighbors living near Butler Farm Show Grounds told The Post they were never visited by any law enforcement agencies — local or federal — in the days before or during the rally.
“Nobody contacted me. Nobody. Nobody called me, nobody stopped here,” said Valerie Fennell, whose home backs up on the fair grounds and is just beyond a stand of trees from AGR.
“I kinda was thinking that as close as my house is, that I honestly thought this might be part of a command station at some point,” she said.
And it wasn’t just Fennell who wasn’t contacted by law enforcement — she said her entire neighborhood was bafflingly left alone despite their proximity to the rally grounds.
“I was talking to my neighbors yesterday, and none of them had gotten a call. Or anything,” she said, while her sister, Debra, agreed.
“I guess it’s kind of the same question that everybody has. I guess, as far as like, why that area wasn’t secure.” The lapses also apparently continued into the rally.
Secret Service faces serious questions about security footprint and rooftop access at Trump event
By Whitney Wild, Evan Perez and Tierney Sneed, CNN
Secret Service now giving Trump presidential-level protection after assassination attempt
Social Links forCaitlin McCormack Published July 15, 2024, 4:06 p.m. ET
The Secret Service has granted former President Donald Trump the same level of protection as President Biden following the assassination attempt at a rally, law enforcement sources told The Post.
The upgraded protection gives Trump the same security detail as the serving commander-in-chief, the sources said.
Biden finally grants Secret Service protection to RFK Jr after Trump assassination attempt, months of resistance By Social Links forVictor Nava and Social Links forSteven Nelson
Published July 15, 2024, 12:44 p.m. ET
President Biden has dropped months of resistance and agreed to grant Secret Service protection to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the move at the regular White House press briefing Monday after Trump was grazed with a bullet at a Saturday rally. “In light of this weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr,” Mayorkas said.
In the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, there are widespread concerns and questions about how a sniper was able to obtain rooftop access roughly 150 meters from the former president’s position at the podium at an outdoor rally. Sources have described the shooting as coming from the “three o’clock” position of Trump’s podium location, with shots coming from his right side. Seconds after gunfire rang out, Secret Service counter-assault snipers began shooting the suspect who was found on top of a roof.
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Notably, the shooter’s location was outside the security perimeter, raising questions about both the size of the perimeter and efforts to sweep and secure the American Glass Research building, and how the shooter was able to obtain rooftop access. President Joe Biden said Sunday he has directed US Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle “to review all security measures – all security measures – for the Republican National Convention.”
“I’ve directed an independent review of the national security at yesterday’s rally to assess exactly what happened. And I’ll share the results of that independent review with the American people,” Biden said.
Law enforcement sources say that part of the aftermath will include a review of whether the Secret Service had enough assets to protect Trump days ahead of officially becoming the Republican presidential nominee and whether procedures were followed to conduct security sweeps of the building that offered a vantage point for the alleged shooter.
“Foundationally, one of the most basic elements of site security, especially a site that’s outside and largely uncontrolled, is (to) eliminate sight lines to this space where the protectee will be either speaking or just occupying,” former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning. “When you look at that map, it so clearly points to those buildings that are within it, clearly within shooting range.”
FBI now leading the investigation into attempted assassination (You think they might bury anything that makes the Dems look bad?)
It is not yet clear how the shooter was able to obtain rooftop access in relatively close proximity, or why that building was left outside the “hard” security perimeter. The FBI is now the lead agency investigating the attempted assassination. But the security lapse issue will be for the Department of Homeland Security and USSS, as well as Congress, to look into.
According to CNN affiliate KDKA, a witness says he told officers that he saw a gunman moving “from roof to roof,” moments before the assassination attempt.
Ben Macer was along a fence line when he saw “the guy move from roof to roof. (I) told an officer (the alleged shooter) was on the roof,” KDKA reported. “When I turned around to go back to where I was, it was when the gunshots started, and then it was just chaos, and we all came running away, and that was that.”
Witnesses have also told reporters that they saw a person fitting the description of the alleged shooter carrying a rifle outside the security cordon of the rally before the shooting.
Hero firefighter Corey Comperatore’s widow reveals his final words as he shielded family at Trump rally By Social Links for Steven Vago and Social Links forJorge Fitz-Gibbon
Published July 15, 2024, 4:44 p.m. ET
SARVER, PA — “Get down!” Those were the final words of volunteer firefighter and father-of-two Corey Comperatore as he shielded his family from a sniper who opened fire on former President Donald Trump, his grieving widow told The Post. “He’s my hero,” Helen Comperatore said from her Sarver, Pennsylvania home on Monday. “He just said, ‘get down!’ That was the last thing he said.”
11 Helen Comperatore told The Post her late husband Corey shouted “Get down!” before shielding his family from gunfire during the assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania Trump rally. Comperatore was struck and killed by a bullet intended for former President Donald Trump at the Butler rally on July 13, 2024.
The shooter was spotted by local law enforcement who thought he might’ve been acting suspiciously near the event magnetometers on Saturday, according to a senior law enforcement official. They put it out over their radio to keep an eye on him – and that information was passed to Secret Service as well, according to the source.
Multiple law enforcement sources told CNN that the shooter had explosive material in his car and residence. The Secret Service does not allow any weapons inside the cordoned off areas of any event. AGR has not responded to questions from CNN about the incident or security.
Authorities have identified the gunman involved in the attack as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was killed by Secret Service agents at the scene after the shooting. Multiple law enforcement sources with in-depth knowledge of Secret Service operations have told CNN counter-sniper teams have wide discretion when shooting down a threat. The Secret Service says there were four counter-sniper teams – two from USSS and two from local law enforcement. The agency says that, at the time of the shooting, Cheatle was in Milwaukee, where this week’s Republican National Convention is being held.
Cheatle, according to The New York Times, sent a memo on Sunday, praising the agents who were with Trump at the rally Saturday for moving quickly and neutralizing the threat. “The attempted assassination of former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, is a moment that forever will be remembered in history,” she wrote in the memo, which was reviewed by the Times.
CNN has reached out to the Secret Service about the reported memo. Calls from Congress for probes into security ‘failure’ . Republican and Democratic lawmakers are already demanding answers from the agency on the security posture and hearings on the incident.
House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed a “full investigation” of the shooting, featuring testimony from USSS, DHS and the FBI, and two Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security Committee have also called for an investigation. House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner, on CNN’s “State of the Union,” likewise said that Congress had “oversight scrutiny and responsibility,” and said there was a “failure of the overall broader net.”
Sheriff defends officer who failed to stop Trump shooter moments before assassination attempt: ‘I would have done the same thing’ By Social Links for Ronny Reyes
Published July 15, 2024, 1:13 p.m. ET
The local Pennsylvania sheriff defended the armed officer who encountered former President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks on the rooftop moments before the shooting — claiming it was the right call to retreat after the gunman pointed the weapon at him.
Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe confirmed Monday that a local officer made contact with Crooks after being hoisted up to the roof by another officer — but fled when the sniper pointed his AR-style assault rifle at the officer. “I would have done the same thing, absolutely,” the sheriff said.
Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe defended his officer’s decision to flee when the Trump shooter pointed an assault rifle at him…..He said the officer “smartly” let go of the roof.