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Could Crooks have brought the small ladder and was able to get up there and the big ladder was placed by law enforcement agents before the event? It means law enforcement may have been on the roof with the ladder before or placed it after Crooks was shot dead. In either case, both ladders need extensive fingerprint work.

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Jul 17·edited Jul 17

What if this poor kid was in contact with some "very important people," and thought he was playing with the big boys and would be protected? It probably never entered his mind that as soon as the deed was done, they would kill him. One thing is for sure, this kid wasn't the mastermind of this near-disaster.

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Jul 17·edited Jul 17

Nope, just a pawn in a very dangerous game. I have seen a very good video demonstrating the very real possibility of a second shooter as well. Will track it down and update this post when I find it. It was on Patriot Win.

UPDATE EDIT: https://x.com/I_Am_JohnCullen/status/1813332383262998882

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Wouldn't have been direct contact. I think it would have been an intermediary, school councilor, teacher, pastor, etc., working as a recruiter. As in the Whitmer "kidnapping," etc.--agent turns someone on a petty crime, pays them to work undercover. Just read somewhere the other day that they work on surprisingly young kids looking for prospects.

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It seems pretty clear, at least to me, that Crooks was the Oswald type "patsy." The conspirators just didn't wait a full day to eliminate him. With Crooks dead and out of the way there is little to no pressure to seek further information about an apparently real would-be assassin perhaps in the water tower. Once everyone is convinced that Crooks was the "lone nut" there is no reason to investigate further.

Many have suggested that the Democrats or some element among the Democrats have tried every which way since Sunday to get Trump out of the race and his popularity just kept rising. Could this have been their most recent (but perhaps not final) attempt to eliminate him? Just asking.

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and now I see the parents called the police HOURS before the shooting... https://www.infowars.com/posts/what-trump-shooters-parents-called-police-hours-before-assassination-attempt/

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Hopefully they won't get Epsteined by the gov-mint.

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HE could have just asked the secret service for a ladder... a lot of work for nothing....

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Yep, although to be fair, the SS may have paid for his trip to Home Depot.

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It’s good that the insecurity team on the ground shared the concerns of Director Cheeto regarding the danger of the roof! I assume the new, upgraded, family-sized USS now will ensure an OSHA member of every protective detail. Of republicans, of course.

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That 5 foot ladder location is crazy. Right by the door and parking lot. Are we expected to believe no one saw him unloading, carrying and placing that ladder up there? Much less awkwardly climbing up? I had seen the taller ladder in other pix and it confused me because it clearly is not a 5 foot ladder.

It makes sense that law enforcement might have put that ladder up to access the shooter after the fact or the one policeman who ran away. But in subsequent photos I have seen that short ladder disappeared right after the shooting. Who took it? Only the tall latter remains in the photos when the law enforcement are up on top of that "dangerously slopey" roof with the body.

The biggest question of all is that obviously lots of law enforcement knew there was a risk wandering around out there. Why on earth was Donald Trump allowed on stage? And why weren't the audience especially those behind him removed immediately. I hold all of these corrupt law enforcement responsible for the loss of life And the tragedy and near miss that are entire country is trying to understand.

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What I’d like to know but they will probably never release the info & keep it classified for 50+ years until all who were responsible for this inside job has died, I’d like to know as soon as the local police discovered the assassin on the roof & did nothing, did they contact whomever was in charge of SS at the rally immediately???

Or did they pause & continue to do nothing & for how long???

Imagine if that initial officer who discovered Crooks on the roof had took him out right then, that officer would be celebrated as a hero forever & we wouldn’t have lost a real hero & firefighter & bravest Dad & husband in the world???

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How did this kid know what bring to that building?? Was he given instructions about (among other things) the time to show up and that the building would not be under surveillance?

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Probably. Shame the FBI can't access the info on his phone. Especially odd when you consider that the NSA has every call, every email, every post ever created.

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“Can’t” LOL.

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Yep, weird.

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They wouldn’t want to incriminate themselves after all…..

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Unlike Dir Cheeto’s crack surveillance team, he probably drove over and looked to see what he needed to accomplish his mission.

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Good reporting, John. Thank you.

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Who is Crooks? What was he doing prior to becoming a murder and a terrorist? Yes, he terrorized thousands of people that day! Have his parents, siblings, old girlfriends come forward to talk about how he is the last person they would have thought could do such a thing? Have any old letters, documents, high school papers been brought out? Is anyone trying to discover who he is, where he lived, who his friends were?

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And now there is video documenting the real possibility there was a second shooter. This was an attempted assassination IMO and done by what appear to be DEI hires. Unbelievable.

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Crooks could *not* have used the smaller ladder. That storage cabinet it's on has no structural ability to hold any weight. Those storage cabinets have warnings in instructions the roof will not hold more than about 20 lbs max and are only to keep rain out of the shed. If Crooks had stepped onto the shed roof to climb that ladder, he'd have ended up inside the cabinet/shed. Police are now speculating he used the air conditioning units to climb up to the roof, but isn't it possible he noticed the law enforcement 10 foot ladder and just used that? It seems most likely to me that's *exactly* what happened. I think he cased the joint, hid the gun and the 5 ft. ladder then and went through security the day of the rally with only the rangefinder in his pocket. Regardless, police had at least one hour and most likely 2+ hours (from the time his parents reported him as a threat to President Trump) to stop Crooks and, failing that, stop the President from ascending the stage and chose instead to do nothing. The whole thing *screams* this kid had help from the inside of one or more law enforcement agencies.

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This photo was taken from a helicopter (put into the air after news broke of the shooting?. I would guess it probably taken AFTER the police had gone up to the roof to inspect the body. JC Nickisch claims that most “likely the rifle was set aside by police … Typical protocol (dead or alive) is to separate the weapon from the criminal.” If so, that would explain both the mystery of the rifle several feet from the body and the 10/12' ladder (placed by police to access the roof). Maybe the police had also placed the shorter ladder to access the other roof?

Of course, it's possible that one or both ladders were already in position for the shooter to go up the ladder. I recall reading a news article saying that the FBI did not find the 5' ladder at the building (sorry, no link)

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That 5-ft ladder is on top of a plastic cabinet. Quite unlikely that it was strong enough to support his weight without the top collapsing. This is a great write-up on this issue: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/trump-assassination-crooks-impossible-path-roof-butler-pa/

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That roof was only 400 feet from the president and was just outside the cordon of the event. Is that the excuse as to why it wasn't covered and Crooks easily got to it? Because it was outside the cordon of the event?

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Dir Cheeto said the roof was too steep, her agents might fall down & get an owie. The ground before the building has a steeper slope than that roof…

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Dan Bongenio said he was told by his SS contacts that the local police were to provide coverage on the roof, but their roof guy never showed up for work.

This would be the very same police force that censured two motor cops and took them off duty for helping Trump and those shot. Wasn't in their job description apparently.

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I know that...what I was saying had nothing to do with the roof...did Crooks easily get to it because it was OUTSIDE THE CORDON OF THE EVENT? Good grief it was only 400-450 feet from the President!

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Jul 17·edited Jul 17

It was outside of the SS directly controlled area, it was in the area of responsibility of the police. https://patriots.win/p/17teJAOGrQ/notice-anything-off-about-the-ss/

It is unclear to me who had responsibility for the water tower nearby that had a full walkway and clear view of all of the area.

EDIT: where a second shooter may have been

https://x.com/I_Am_JohnCullen/status/1813332383262998882

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I agree...there is just too much that is totally unknown and terribly disturbing about this whole thing.

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Dir Cheeto left open all the doors & windows of her house, posted flyers all over town that she’d be gone for a few days, then was “shocked” the place was robbed.

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Director Cheatle said the slope of the roof was hazardous and SS snipers couldn’t be placed on it. Sad but true. FF

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No sir...I'm just here to clean the gutters.

Yes sir...this is my ladder.

Ok Kid.

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