12 Observations
Question everything. Come to your own conclusions.
On Saturday July 13, 2024, a guy alleged to be Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed on to metal building adjacent to a Trump rally and opened fire with a rifle. Several rally goers noticed the threat and yelled for secret service (“ss” or “the service”) to intervene to no avail. “He’s got a gun!” was heard for several minutes before shots rang out. A bullet grazed Trump’s ear. Another bullet struck a bystander in the head killing him/her instantly. A second bystander was “badly injured.” Neither victim has been identified as of July 14.
Trump crumpled to the ground behind the podium and was quickly covered by the service. An ss sniper shot and killed the shooter. “He’s down” was heard from the podium’s hot mic. The service brought Trump to his feet. Trump had a trail of blood from the top of his right ear running across his cheek.
Trump asked the service to pause while he got his shoes and raised a defiant fist to the crowd. Trump was escorted off the stage with an arm over an ss. He raised another blood free fist as he got in the car and left for a local hospital. Trump had no reported injuries. A helicopter retrieved the bystander’s body, and the rally area was cleared by law enforcement. Witnesses immediately spoke to reporters about the chaos.
That’s more or less the official narrative. But I take issue with some of the details:
1. No one reacted as though there was a shooting. No one ran. No one hit the deck. They just crouched and looked confused. Even when they saw blood, no one ran.
2. He was blown out of his shoes, but he didn’t even really fall, much less get blown right out of his shoes. Shoes are a common masonic ritual symbol.
3. The service would never allow Trump to stage a photo op moment either by the car or by the podium. It was an active shooter situation. He should have been thrown into the car in seconds. Instead, there was a lot of bumbling and stumbling as Trump left the area.
4. Watch this video. The first three shots are from the ss sniper on the roof, not the shooter! And yet Trump touches his ear and falls. Then you can hear more shots presumably from the shooter. But Trump was already down. In other words, the gunfire pattern doesn’t match the narrative. (You can pretty much stop reading.)
5. Eye witnesses demonstrate “duper delight” which is a subconscious smiling when tricking someone. This guy smiles so much they had to cut away from him. This girl smiles and suppresses laughter. And none of the witnesses seam particularly traumatized.
6. News outlets were reporting the shooting before it happened. Search engines captured the story on Friday. (I’ve captured about six such instances.)
7. This witness was right next to the deceased bystander, but he doesn’t have a drop of blood on him. Plus he lies about carrying the deceased bystander; he was in the area, but he didn’t carry anyone. The truth is easy to remember. Lies aren’t. Law enforcement lifted the dead bystander partially by his clothing and dragged him out of the stands. No crime scene analysis and no paramedics. There should have been one or both.
8. Multiple witnesses, especially this guy, saw the shooter on the roof and secret service ignored them. Even if witnesses didn’t see the shooter, the area wasn’t that large. There was plenty of security in that 400 foot radius to have spotted a threat. This is a good video showing the area and the shooter.
9. Fake shooters always look like pathetic loner losers. And they frequently have three names. Thomas Matthew Crooks. “Crooks” – really?
10. The witnesses always report hearing firecrackers. They also describe being TOLD to get down. They don’t instinctively understand the danger and duck. This incident was described as “pretty chaotic” but few, if any details are given. There’s no real terror or trauma. Notice no one in the stands is screaming even though supposedly someone got their head blown up. The lone scream is from away from the target.
Plus many people in the stands kept filming with their phones. And yet I’ve not found any of that footage. Typically the Feds control and contain all footage, especially from crisis actors.
11. It’s convenient that Trump is looking to the right when the shots were fired. His body position completely obscured his right ear. And then when Trump stands up, you see the bloody but not disfigured ear. If you’d been camera blocking for a magic trick, that’s exactly how you’d script it. This guy covers it well along with other details better explained visually. Of note, even though he was struck in the right ear, his raised right hand as well as his white shirt are completely blood free.
I’m sure it’s just luck.
Where were all the rally goers? These Trump rallies draw 10-30,000 people easily. It didn’t appear there was more than 1,000 at this one.