Wednesday, July 17, 2024

The expiscatory Question is, Was the Trump assassination fail procedural (i.e., incompetence) or operational (i.e., a sanctioned kill fail)?


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11 comments:

Skip said...

Now you have me besides how did shooter know he could be where he did and want to see graphics of shooter to all 4 victims, 1 dead, 3 wounded and how those shots line up

Pennsylvania native said...

Local law enforcement did not *retreat* according to a Butler County supervisor.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/17/exclusive-butler-township-commissioner-officer-who-encountered-would-be-assassin-did-not-retreat-not-to-blame/

The commissioner said the officer in question was in the process of being hoisted up on the roof by another patrolman and fell off the roof as Crooks pointed a weapon at him. The confrontation may have rushed Crooks into firing.

Anonymous said...

At the time he was shot, Trump was a candidate, not the Presidential nominee, and no VP had been named. This was his last rally before the RNC.
If he had been murdered, the RNC would have been an open convention, and the RINOs and Uniparty types (McConnell, Haley, etc) who, surprisingly, were present on Saturday, could have put a slate of candidates who would do nothing to disturb the plundering of America until the DemonRats could regain power.
John in Indy

Richard said...

Everyone seems to be assuming that the head shot was intentional. Given that 5-8 shots were fired and all the others hit bystanders, the stage or went off into the ether, this seems unlikely. Looks like spray and pray. The shot that nicked Trump could well have killed him but the assassin doesn't seem good enough to make the shot other than by chance.

Anonymous said...

It looks like his first shot was to Trump's ear...pretty accurate given Trump's last second movement. The followup shots may have been spray and pray but the first one, the one that needed to count was "on paper."

Eric said...

What does the word expiscatory mean? Or did you mean explicatory?

Damian Bennett said...

"What does the word expiscatory mean?"

expiscatory (not comparable) = (archaic; from Latin ex- + piscātor “fisherman”, from piscis “fish”) Tending to fish out; searching.

DGB

Anonymous said...

1. The bullet grazed his ear. Occam’s Razor. Much more likely to be an unintentional miss. A deliberate “miss” would be a very high risk shot even at, what 150m? Trump would have had to have been complicit - which would have looked way different on the stage (bet he wouldn’t have moved a hair)! This was a no schitter assassination attempt by an unlucky, unskilled shooter. Thank God he missed!!

Old School said...

Consider another scenario. One I call the “open barn door” scenario. They just gave him an insufficient number of unqualified agents, who didn’t give complete cover, and increased the probability that a lone shooter or a group of shooters would do their job for them.

It’s akin to the plan for the 2020 election. Push mail-in ballots, push ballot harvesting, push ballot drop boxes. Then, they don’t have to actually commit fraud since they’ve made it easy to commit fraud. A fraud their fanatical voters would commit by themselves having been worked up by constant media blaring that “Trump is Hitler”.

The same basic idea cover their plan for Trump’s so-called USSS “security”.

Anonymous said...

Have any other fantasies that you want to believe?

Anonymous said...

If your child brought home a dog that you couldn't stand - not even a little. And then you "accidentally, somehow" left the door to the house and the gate to the yard open and the dog ran away, is that a procedural or operational failure? Your child might not have seen you chase the dog out the door, then out of the yard yet you can cling to it was just an accident. Does that make it an accident?