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My conspiracy theory is that Thomas Crooks was being surveilled by the CIA/FBI and possibly even being radicalized and put up to this idea by an undercover agent. If that is that case then the CIA and/or FBI could have known ahead of time that Thomas was planning on shooting Trump at that event. And, the CIA/FBI could have potentially conspired with key people within the secret service to enable Thomas to get up on that roof and get a few shots off.

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Same playbook as JFK's assassination. Why change a successful scenario?

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There are similarities with Crooks playing the role of the patsy, but was there a second shooter? The best way to know would be to recover the bullet and see if they match the claimed Crooks gun. Problem being that even if they did find the bullets, who would trust the FBI to tell us the truth?

The location of the man killed is also weird being way off line from the shots at Trump. Was he that bad a shot? And if so, how did he get so close on the ear shot? Reports are that he was kicked off his high school shooting team because he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!

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It doesn’t require skill to hit your target (head-chest area) with that kind of gun at that close a distance. If Trump had not turned his head at the precise moment that he did, he would have ended up like the man who was fatally shot.

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Yeah well you know they poli ced heir brass.the kid—not a chance.

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Celia Farber has this about whodunnit-assassin-patsy loose-ends:

A Cursory Review Of What Makes No Sense Around Would Be Trump Assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/a-cursory-review-of-what-makes-no

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With JFK - who was trying to change the monetary system - you NEEDED him dead. This however, benefits so many parties (Trump, Republican,etc.). That’s the ultimate prize here and why this wasn’t like JFK: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-trump-assassination-attempt

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Jul 16·edited Jul 16

Actually, there is a huge, worldwide move by the globalists and bankers to move to a central bank digital currency. IIRC, Trump and some Republican governors have said they won't allow it to happen. But that's only one of things the powers that be hate about Trump. Another is that he says he would end the Ukraine war prior to inauguration day. Think the defense contractors, Blackrock, or the Biden Crime Family want that? One of the impeachment charges against Trump was that he was asking questions about Biden's bribes from Ukraine. So many parties want Trump elected? No way. He's at odds with the whole New World Order establishment--WEF, CIA (he talked about releasing the JFK documents!), EU, NATO, State Department, most U.S. billionaires (Zuckerberg, etc.), Democrats, Never-Trump neocon Republicans (most party officials, including his former VP), Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand. And the most likely outcome of the failed assassination is that they'll try again, whether by gunfire, airplane accident, poison, or truck bomb. And if all else fails and he gets elected, then more "Summer of Floyd"-style rioting by Antifa, BLM, and maybe military-age invaders between election day and and the inauguration while the benevolent Biden or his replacement remains in charge.

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I have seen pics online of the shooter-> Crooks in an Ad for "Blackrock"

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we are officially a banana republic now - the Secret Service can't be that incompetent

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Are you forgetting DEI hires and the unqualified director?

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doubt that marksmen would be DEI so looking more like an inside job- something the CIA would do

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Agreed on the “inside job” theory. I was thinking more about the “fumbling fumbelinas” getting Trump from the podium into the Suburban.

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The ultimate prize is to get Donald re-elected. I agree. With the response as is, unless the vax gets a say, he is almost guaranteed to be POTUS again. Netanyahu was in trouble until Oct7 after which even the opposition came over to his side. So strings were pulled as per playbook. Patsies get eliminated. The usual stuff. I think the tech is good enough to intercept/morph real-time news feeds. With Pegasus(Pegasus is a sophisticated spyware tool that can infect Android and iOS devices without user action and monitor phone calls, location, messages, and more.), even all the videos in all the handphones may have already been doctored along with their metadata.

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Yup “lone nutjob incompetent gunman who cldnt hit the braise of a barn with abUziv3 feet away🤣🤣🤣

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ABSOLUTELY. ITCWAS AN INSIDE JOB.

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Clearly that, but one inside-faction may be in a power-struggle with another inside-faction, serving competing elite factions.

Elites are shooting elites. That's a desperation-escalation.

;-(

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Look at the video. That photographer was running back and forth during the shooting trying to get the photo of the century. By how freely he was going back and forth, he must have been on Trump's campaign trail for months, with a thousand or more hours under his belt with probably 10,000 or more photos under his belt. photos, rally after rally, event after event. Proof that he got the perfect photo the same way war correspondents who actually go into battle zones do is right there in the video.

As for the no blood on the hands after touching his ear, anyone who's used a sharp knife knows that blood takes a second to show up after a cut, unless you hit an artery. And there's no arteries in that part of the ear, only capillaries.

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"If your photos aren't good enough, you're not close enough.

-- Robert Capa, war photographer, journalist.

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He has a valid security press pass to be that close.

There are other press as well that were running for cover.

Heck with getting killed over a picture of the event, when shots like that are flying over.

You know quickly it's not fire crackers going off.

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The ear is mostly cartilage, and with that amount of blood loss, I would expect a missing chunk of ear. Is there? Or just a graze as everyone is stating?

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It was not “just a graze” as those who wish to minimize the wound and how close the shot came to being fatal. The bullet actually pierced his ear.

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I am not minimizing, I am just confused because this is what ALL the outlets state- a graze. I have seen less blood in a MMA fight, so either a chunk is missing or there is a very large gaping hole.

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Not all that large, really. The rounds from “AR Type” rifles can be AR-15 standards like .223” or 5.56mm (1/4”), up to at least AR-10 standard of .308” or 7.62mm (5/16”). Even at 900fps (“slow”), it’s making a small hole, (or a smaller “chunk”, if a graze). It won’t give even a hollow-point time to expand.

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I think if I had a 1/4 inch hole in my ear you would be able to see it. And I am sure the shooter (or those that hired him) were going for maximum damage?

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It was a through and through gunshot wound. So there would have been a hole before surgery to repair the wound.

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How do you repair a big open hole, with a skin graft?

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Not quite sure, Mark. A skin graft may not be enough since the upper ear is mostly cartilage. I'd guess an implant similar to cartilage may be used to fill in and approximate the original appearance of the ear.

I also think the hole may be smaller than expected.

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The hole can't be small from a rifle bullet. I just can't make sense from the pictures, his ear looks intact, I don't see a graze either considering the ear and how it folds in. Even the one pic with bullet whizzing by looks like it came from a lower trajectory.

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Missing chunk

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Yours is a reasonable theory of a conspiracy. I'm in.

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Now your gettin’ an idea. Like Why were the secret service agents ordered to get off / not be ON President JFK’s vehicle. Nuts! … but “just following orders.”

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Same here. Or get the same treatment as SEAL Team Six or Boeing whistleblowers.

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Jul 16·edited Jul 16

Your theory has the advantage of matching the FBI's modus operandi going back many decades, most recently exemplified by the ridiculous Whitmer "kidnapping" plot and the Fedsurrection of 1/6/2021 run by the same agent in charge who was promoted to DC after running Whitmer. Even the NY Times and Washington Post have done articles on how most of the Islamic "terror" events in the U.S. after 9/11 were FBI entrapment operations. That the shots fired at Trump and others were real is backed by audio analysis, where the gap between the bullet impacts (bullet moving at approximately 2500+ ft/sec) and the sound of the shot (moving at 1100 ft/sec) corresponds to the distance (140 yards) from which the shots were fired:

https://www.brighteon.com/167e4a39-f20b-4d48-ac11-ea49f0e81f75

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Gee ya THINK???!

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The shooter was NOT 'Crooks'.

STOP PUSHING THE FBLie!

Those of us who do the SLIGHTEST BIT of research, are now 99% sure that the shooter was FascTifa TERRORIST, Maxwell Yearick (aged 37-38)!

Do people ACTUALLY THINK (THINKING: Using ones BRAIN), that the LibTards/Deep State are going to implicate ONE OF THEIR OWN......a FascTifa TERRORIST???? NO! They're going to FIND A PATSY. A Patsy (Crooks) for a Patsy (Yearick)!

Meanwhile.....if there IS an actual 'Thomas Crooks', now HE and HIS FAMILY are being implicated in something that they were NOT INVOLVED IN! SHAME on people, for PARROTING the FBLie!! 'WE' SHOULD KNOW BETTER!! 'Are their lips moving?......then they're LYING!'.

(I have another comment on this Substack posting)

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The shooter was NOT 'Crooks'.

STOP PUSHING THE FBLie!

Those of us who do the SLIGHTEST BIT of research, are now 99% sure that the shooter was FascTifa TERRORIST, Maxwell Yearick (aged 37-38)!

Do people ACTUALLY THINK (THINKING: Using ones BRAIN), that the LibTards/Deep State are going to implicate ONE OF THEIR OWN......a FascTifa TERRORIST???? NO! They're going to FIND A PATSY. A Patsy (Crooks) for a Patsy (Yearick)!

Meanwhile.....if there IS an actual 'Thomas Crooks', now HE and HIS FAMILY are being implicated in something that they were NOT INVOLVED IN! SHAME on people, for PARROTING the FBLie!! 'WE' SHOULD KNOW BETTER!! 'Are their lips moving?......then they're LYING!'.

(I have another comment on this Substack posting)

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Please note that I considered the possibility of Maxwell Yearick being the shooter, and came to the conclusion that the photo of the dead shooter does NOT match Maxwell, but does in fact seem to match Thomas Crooks. The main feature that is able to be matched is Crooks's ear, which has a distinctive pattern, and matches the ear of the photo of the dead shooter. Some people speculated that the little red line at the bottom of the ear was were Maxwell had his gauge earing hole sewn up, but considering that the ear matches Crooks, I think it is more likely that little red line on his ear is some blood splatter. Also, while the chin and beard of the dead shooter do appear to be similar to the old 2016 mugshot picture of Maxwell, if you look at more recent pictures of Maxwell, his beard is considerably thicker in more recent photos, and does not look like the chin/beard in the photo of the dead shooter, which looks more like the beard of a younger guy Crooks's age.

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Why are you saying this? The photos of the dead shooter (Yearick) and 'Crooks' are out there for ALL to SEE. And there is ZERO MATCH. And MANY people are showing side-by-side photos of the two (ears)......NOT even CLOSE. 'Crooks' ear lobes have much more 'meat' (are 'big'). And Crooks' ears are LONG & SLENDER. I wish that photos could be posted in these comments. And don't DISTRACT with 'beard thickness'; it's THE EARS......the EARS do NOT LIE. So, one has to ask, WHY are you lying?? Again, the 'EAR' photos are out there, for all to SEE.

I will say one more time.......NOT Crooks......IRREFUTABLE!

(Do people know what 'IRREFUTABLE' means?)

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Please note that I used a screenshot from the Blackrock video with Thomas Crooks in it to compare his ear with the ear of the of the dead shooter photo, and they are in fact in a match. And, the beard thickness of Maxwell Yearick completely debunks the idea that it was Maxwell. Maxwell's beard is WAY thicker than the beard of dead shooter in the photo. Please do yourself a favor and look at some more recent images of Maxwell and look how thick his beard is. Yes, in his 2016 photo when Maxwell was a lot younger his beard was about as thick as that of the dead shooter, but in more recent photos it is WAY thicker and fuller.

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Spot on John

The staged assassination theory is to me an example of hatred bias. Those holding this view don’t want any narrative that is favorable or sympathetic towards Trump to have even a half life. They despise him so much that they can only tolerate around the clock smearing of the man and can’t stand it when he is the object of sympathy, admiration or any narrative that would hold him in a positive light. This is a form of mental illness.

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Someone once said that Liberalism is a mental disorder. Well these folks are far to the left of liberalism and suffering far beyond a disorder.

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UNDERSTATEMENT!

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Michael Savage said it, has a book published in 2006 with the same title.

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These are the TDS affected people

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Agreed.

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How does that conversation go exactly…?

“Ok kid, I’ll turn my head to the right and as I do, you graze my ear from 175 yards away. NOT TOO CLOSE!”

“This is really going to up me in the polls. Oh by the way kid, as soon as you pull the trigger your head will explode like a watermelon off Trump Tower from secret service headshot. But you’ll die a true patriot!”

“Don’t let the final few seconds of your life give you the jitters. Just graze the ear. After I win I’ll name a bridge after you. Or a cocktail at Mar a Lago. It will be the best bridge. The biggest best bridge. Now go shoot me.”

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So funny! I said same thing hey shoot at me then die too! Like yeah who is going for that

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He didn't know he was going to be killed. Candid camera? Trump pooping in his pants might appeal to him.

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You should testify before Congress. No one else has yet fessed up to knowing the guy's mind.

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What would a 20-year old know about life/propaganda/deception? The Democratic Party is no longer what it was. Neither the Republicans. Neither the Vatican. I dare say Congress is not the same as in the days of "Mr Smith Goes To Washington". I was 20 once.

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Jul 16·edited Jul 16

I don't believe there is a shooter alive, or even a supercomputer controlled machine for that matter, who or which could have made that head shot on a live and moving target to just graze the top of an ear intentionally.

Just not possible. Period. And as for blanks? Doesn't even warrant addressing, but to humor that lunacy for kicks and giggles, hired crisis actors paid to take bullets? And in Corey's case die to win sympathy for Trump? I don't think so. Or "stagers" willing to sacrifice innocents to help Trump? Well I know evil exists that would sacrifice innocents. But to help Trump get elected? He didn't need the help for one and two, even if he did would conspirators be so incredibly thorough as to shoot out a hydraulic line on that piece of equipment that expelled fluid into the air downrange of the stage? Come on man.

Update: amending "just not possible" ... A MASER-like Directed Energy Weapon, projecting at the speed of light could conceivably have caused the damage done. Still, I'm just not buying. Occam's.

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I was wondering what that spray of water was from. Thanks.

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"supercomputer controlled machine for that matter, who or which could have made that head shot on a live and moving target" What about these? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd3zy5ReYu0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDYzsSOfbkw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOAKX5oAVMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq-_riKtzsY . In the eyes of a robot, Donald is actually frozen in time and space: https://youtu.be/hqKafI7Amd8?t=891

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Thanks. Hard to fk with speed of light robotics. That said, had these or variants you've not shown been employed he'd be dead so I think we can safely (pun intended) stay at human. Occam's.

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Yeah, scary stuff. I should not be surprised ever since IBM moved individual atoms about but a moving tank balancing beer took my breath away. It did spill some though. The only way Brandon can top this is to get assassinated, die and rise from the dead or walk on water, whichever is most convenient.

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Taking Biden out is a real arguable "next right step" potential in what many see as the progression of the Transnational ruling class's "Covid-19", Psychological Operations and the War for Technocracy. DA Hughes's book by this title really crystallized what has been and is going on right now for me. I am finding it very helpful to come to understand most of the players at the Trump/Biden level are just that, players. puppets and as such are replaceable, interchangeable as necessary. The Transnational Ruling Class is where the real control is and where we will have to go eventually to exercise the remediation required for the rest of us to live in actual Freedom. I downloaded the PDF from Meryl Nass's Substack. I highly recommend it.

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Can you help me out? I can't seem to find that pdf.

"It told me that our leaders are all puppets and traitors."

Yeah. Totally agree.

I have been following scams for decades: Nikola One, Theranos, Sandy Hook, 9/11, Fauci-19, Kursk, Titanic, George Floyd, Jan6, Oct7, Ukraine, TWA800, Uvalde, JFK. Just didn't look right.

When all the videos of the Pentagon attack are confiscated and all that is released are two stills, huh? I even compared the debris fields of United_Airlines_Flight_93 with China_Eastern_Airlines_Flight_5735. Different. Wingtips survived embedding into the Chinese ground.

It gets lonely when you're the only one awake. So when the factory whistle blows, both Joe and Donald change in the locker room before going out to have beers together and reminiscence about the shenanigans/bloopers their Secret Service escorts get up to.

No point cutting off these heads when the real puppet masters are still in the shadows. In Malaysian politics I see unexplained events take place - as if these jokers pulled the short straw and are forced to do/say silly things - almost as if their sex video is held by someone else.

So maybe Dave Chapelle is right - BOTH

sides are in cahoots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N4UFl9G00A&t=376s

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Trump was standing on the spot. And why not a second shooter . . . someone better trained. Hitler survived 44 attempts so the odds of surviving are pretty good.

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Jul 16·edited Jul 16

Wrong. He was not still. Standing yes, but not still. Ever. That shot located literally within a 10th of the diameter of the round. One diameter closer to the skull would almost certainly have been fatal. No second shooter because, did Scottie beam him up? Where'd he go? Where'd he shoot from? Thousands of witnesses civilian and LEO's. Tons of video (and audio).

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The second shooter fired first. This is the cue for him to shoot. A professional sniper would be concealed. probably a military grade metamaterial invisibility cloak. Pre-fired test rounds would be used to substitute for the first round. I really dislike the idea of human eyewitnesses. Everything we sense is actually an artifact of brain processing. Our brain actually encases us in a virtual reality. It is so comfortably good we aren't aware of it until put to specific tests that point these out: The checker shadow illusion is an optical illusion

published in 1995 by Edward Adelson, an American

professor of vision science at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RFffta35MY Incredible Shade Illusion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeGSKsqM4oc Checker shadow illusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TU_DSjuEoU 2 Optical Illusions to Test Your Brain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hRdtHVUOxw 6 Optical Illusions That Will Make You Question Everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lN8vWm3m0 Try this bizarre audio illusion! 👁️👂😮 - BBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7pPMm0S4zM Mercer Demonstrates That We See and Hear What We Want to See and Hear | The Irrational | NBC

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I am withdrawing ruling out a "second shooter".

That said, I'm not buying it but in any event, it's a God thing DJT wasn't killed.

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All well and good, but what would a laser trajectory show? I suspect that would either confirm or refute most of these speculations. Until that’s done, I’m not looking for a second gunman.

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That the assassination attempt was a staged event is not a serious argument. Those who make it are either morons, as another commenter suggested, attention seeking social media narcissists, or part of an organized Security State disinformation campaign.

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Agreed. Might even be AI trolls.

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Yep, the staged thing is ridiculous, for all of the reasons that you John and others here are covering. That said, I very much believe that the kid was a patsy, set up (encouraged) to do this 'for the sake of Democracy', on behalf of bigger players who don't have the guts to do their own dirty work. Because lets face it, a 20 yr old geek, living with Mom and Dad doesn't have the skills to pull this whole thing off, without help and the turning of a blind eye (or two).

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You don't need a sly Intel agent to incite the kid when half of the country and many in Congress wanted Trump dead. Not to mention the incessant MSM spewage.

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This 20 yo kid has heard nothing but trash about Trump since he was 12 years old. Think about it; for most of his life, he’s been fed the narrative that Trump is evil. He likely registered as a Republican to try to skew primary results, as many Dems did. He’s just a vulnerable messed up kid, bullied and looking for fame.

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He, reportedly, won some awards in science and math. He had explosives and IEDs in his van, according to reports.

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Then how do you explain this video? https://www.bitchute.com/video/AVkZbQMrZ5iK/

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The more plausible scenario was that there was a coordinated effort to assassinate the former and future president. There is no reason why there shouldn't (wouldn't) have been law enforcement on that roof. There's a reason there wasn't.......

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You obviously put some effort into this article and you are to be commended but I say don’t waste any more time trying persuade morons like these. They are likely to be flat earthers too.

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Right, you may poo-poo the flat earther BUT I bet you my last dollar that when you do homestead/property works, all your equations are not spherical coordinates but Euclidean geometry and Pythagorean theory.

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Hey, I love looking at and understanding the mega-evidences proving the Earth is a Created Flat planer surface containing all the world’s oceans patented by God. - - used to be a nieve, unquestioning, indoctrinated Globe believer. But after I watched Mr. Dubay’s “ 200 Proofs Earth is Not a Spinning Ball,” I was convinced the perspective and perceptions can be and too often is fooled.

Like Mark Twain is attributed to have professed :

“It’s easier to fool a person (or child),

Than it is to convince them they have been fooled.”

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Yeah. I unsubscribed from the few substacks that ran with this fake narrative. They were questionable fake stacks anyways.

I also blocked a lot of people commenting and pushing it. I learned the govt is everywhere spreading misinformation!!!!

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I got booted from one for objecting to a guy for writing there was one "alleged" fatality. Admitting I wasn't nice about it.

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Without naming names, I'll admit that the substack writers coming out with some of the most bizarre off-the-wall theories are among those I felt confident in from their previous writings. Bizarre to see.

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Asking myself this ...

Q. Would I let somebody shoot at me in order to nick my ear from 130m for a publicity stunt?

A. No-F**king-Way!

Not even if Vasily Zaitsev or Simo Häyhä, The White Death himself, was squeezing the trigger.

A headshot at 130m (150 yds) is easy, even with open sights and I guess the shooter made the perfect shot. But It takes a finite amount of time for a round to traverse that distance. It also takes a finite amount of time to turn ones head. The Donald just got lucky. The conspiracy theorists are barking up the wrong tree.

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Surely the people advancing this nonsense are simply working the Substack room for fun. Right? I mean, nobody is really that credulous. Not really. Right?

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You are right on.

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When I was 13, I was standing in my garage watching my father pull up on his touring motorcycle as he returned home from his USMC posting in Louisiana like he did every weekend. He was excited as he was just promoted to Master Sergeant and he was going to surprise us and take us out for a celebratory dinner. He pulled in much more quickly than normal and the touring peg scraped the outside of my thigh as he stopped. We walked into the house and I suddenly got dizzy. I said, "Daddy, I don't feel so well," as I sank onto a kitchen chair. My thigh didn't hurt but something about it drew my attention and when I looked down, I realized I had a half inch long by one inch deep chunk of my thigh missing. As soon as my dad and I looked at it, it started pouring blood everywhere and the pain was suddenly unbearable. It took a dozen stitches inside and out to repair and I still carry a scar nearly 45 years later.

Shock is a funny thing no one can predict and those Substack authors should speak to professionals and physicians before they start spewing wild conspiracy theories. There's a woman and two young people in Pennsylvania tonight who are trying to find a way to live with the horror of a dead husband, fireman, family man, provider and father who's life was taken in a way that was entirely avoidable. There's no faking that and perhaps they should save their theories for wondering whether Crooks was the smartest 20 year old in history, who out maneuvered the Secret Service, three local police agencies and now the FBI or if he had help from inside the government ranks.

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What a load of CRAP ! First I am a 5 time US NRA National Rifle Champion . I have shot with Secret Service agents and have know many of their shooters for over 30 years , they are professional and top notch . As for the head of the SS unit and over all who is an appointee of Biden I will withhold my thoughts . And as a student of the CIA and the JFK assassination on 11-22-1963 this has by all appearances to be a lone shooter event . The failure was the green light by the head of the SS unit to get the green light to shoot or to cover Trump before the shot , that is clearly the issue here . The SS shooter was on the target when the assailant fired his first shot , so don't miss that critical point !

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I fail to understand why nobody heaved water bottles to distract the assassin or why the SS are not equipped with those pesky green lasers to blind the suspect. If they can distract helicopter pilots and landing aircraft, this guy has no chance . . . unless you don't want a live suspect after all.

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Given your background what would you say are the odds that a 20 year old lone gunman could evade security for nearly 30 minutes with multitudes of witnesses pointing out his presence to the authorities and successfully squeezing 8 rounds without any help?

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Zero and you answered your own question . He was seen by other people and we now know that a policeman climbed the same ladder and looked at him while he pointed the rifle at him ! Back to question #1 why was the green light not given minutes before ? What were they waiting for ? This is not an issue of him not being seen , its an issue of why the SS didn't react !

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It reminds me of the Texas shooting when all those LEOs were in the hall, one even using hand sanitizer, while the shooter was summarily executing children, because no one was giving them the “permission” to charge the room. It is so bizarre.

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At best this was a massive failure but I fear the worst and knowing how smart and calculating the deep state aka democrats this was a desperate attempt to keep their puppet in office. So now that they failed to get rid of Trump and Biden be prepared for war. Remember all those military aged men streaming into our country? They all owe the Dems a favor…..

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And they didn't pull Trump off stage in prevention. Very fishy.

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And on top of the roof where the local police were staging? (I'm sure they were all deployed by then, but still)

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Ahh come on , them doughnuts were fantastic ! They were bated , right off the Simpsons .

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Good points. However, these were not top-of-the-line agents. Those agents had been reassigned to protect Jill Biden, who was, coincidentally, speaking at a nearby event. Furthermore, the SS is now a DEI experiment.

I don't mean to challenge your position, but this statement, "And as a student of the CIA and the JFK assassination on 11-22-1963 this has by all appearances to be a lone shooter event," is patently absurd. If I understood correctly, you actually believe the JFK assassination was a "lone shooter event?"

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The JFK assassination was not a lone shooter event. At a minimum there were 2 shooters , aka the Franck Church Assassinations committee 1975-76 . JFK was shot from the front not the back , items the attending physician at Parkland indicated they were going to put a tracheotomy in and found an entrance hole . Second shot , White House Press secretary was asked after the announcement where was JFK shot , he lifted his hair on his forehead and pointed to the entrance hole below the hairline . Body mass , largely, exits exit wounds , This is why Jacqui was on the back of the limo picking body fragments off the rear limo hood , which she handed to the head of the ER who kindly took them before disposing of them after she was taken away . The 6.5 entering the throat and exiting the back was the bullet that was recovered when the body was removed from the limo by the SS then dropped on John's Connally's gurney in the hall way of the ER by the same SS agent . The second shot to the head which was the lethal shot , fragmented and could not have been done by the low velocity FMJ bullet from the Carcano . Point there were 6 sets of x-rays at Bethesda trying to find all of the fragments. Other fragments were in John Connally which could NOT have come from the 98% intact projectile of the 6.5 FMJ . Connally had in his will that the government nor his Dr's were permitted to remove any bullet fragments after his death ! At this point we now have 2 different bullets being used and that can NOT BE DISPUTED ! One point that needs to be stressed JFK was shot from the front Connally was shot from the back ! Arlin Spector was mentioned in the Friday phone call from LBJ to J Edger Hoover for his selection on the Warren commission that HE was picking the names for who was going to be on it , including Gerald Ford and Allen Dulles ! Part of operation Mockingbird was to hire media personal as Dan Rather , who after seeing the Zapruder film stated JFK's head lurch forward when he was shot from behind, when in FACT it moved rearwards ! The public did not see the Zapruder film for 9 years until Geraldo Rivera showed it publicly and only then did the public see the head when hit move rearwards ! Lee Harvy Oswald was not a shooter in that event , simply because he could not have gone from the 6th floor to the 2ed when the motorcycle police officer went into the break room ! I've been in that building twice and I get so disgusted in the lies the government is still spewing out !

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Geraldo Rivera showed it publicly and only then did the public see the head when hit move rearwards ! Lee Harvy Oswald was not a shooter in that event , simply because he could not have gone from the 6th floor to the 2ed when the motorcycle police officer went into the break room ! I've been in that building twice and I get so disgusted in the lies the government is still spewing out !

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Really, really good points.

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How very convenient that Jill was speaking nearby and pulled the normal agents off, bringing in a new team that likely hadn't worked well together yet. I saw one report today that suggested that one of the two police officers on the roof that had sniper rifles pointed at the shooter was NOT a police officer, and they didn't know who it was. But more will come out.

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The SS have gone soft. NOBODY in their right mind would go after Brandon or Kamala or Nancy. No challenge.

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Ponytail brigade.

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'As for the head of the SS unit and over all who is an appointee of Biden I will withhold my thoughts .'

You sir, are a class act. I stated it a little more explicitly earlier today, but with the caveat that it would be deeply unfair if the promotion was earned on a meritocratic basis. This is the thing people forget- leadership makes a huge difference. The difference between the leadership of the best and the next best can be profound.

One of the truly tragic aspects of the recent push for women on corporate boards and as CEOs was that most of those women were already on course for promotion. They just lacked the additional five to ten years of one-to-one mentoring from the soon-to-retire outgoing boss to make sure they were ready for the role. One of the few metrics for success or failure which did see the light of day was that 30% of the prematurely promoted women were asked to leave within five years of assuming the role.

It a common trick for activists to make a drastic push for change when they know it's already in the pipeline. It's a cheap and easy way to claim credit for something which they had absolutely no role in achieving. It seems an awfully high price to pay for a little activist limelight- doesn't it- sacrificing the careers of talented, capable and hardworking women on the altar of social justice activism?

IF there was a problem with leadership, it's my guess that the woman had the talent and the capability, but was just promoted too early for reasons of stupidly positive 'progressive' political optics.

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But the counter sniper was not SS, he clearly had “POLICE” written on his jacket. Someone claiming to be this man said he was denied permission to shoot the gunman, hence the delay in taking him out, after the counter sniper said he disobeyed orders and shot the sniper after that fatal delay. He said he was fired for disobeying orders. John, are you able to determine the veracity of this claim? I have reposted his posting on social media in other commentary of your Substack. It can be found on GETTR.

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Thank you! I've read some of that and those "it was staged" theorists are beyond the pale. They remind me of drama queens, ginning up excitement, as if actual facts of life these days aren't exciting enough.

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And there really were passports in the 911 rubble

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Much agreed. “Dr Malik” (who I have for some time suspected as controlled opposition) posted a video of someone claiming this. I immediately said what about the people who were injured and killed, plus the video used only a tiny portion of the evidence from the incident. Good to see you have the names of these poor collateral damage individuals.

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The dead and wounded were staged? Really...I haven't taken acid in many years...

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Deadly nightshade berries, meinst Du? "Acid" (diethylamide) is psychedelic; not hallucinatory.

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Unless you have tripped as I have quite frequently in the day I profess I hallucinated often and many things that should not in the physical universe move solid objects did in fact move in my mind especially riding my motorcycle at break neck speeds down Interstate 805…

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I can't really recommend riding a fast motorcycle while in timestop. Bicycle quite enough!

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Lysergic acid (LSD) sure made me "see things" that in reality were NOT there 50+ years ago...

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Staged ? … look into the works of Ole Dammagard.

Ole Dammagard is one of the best observers and REVEALERS of the patterns within false flag attacks. Are you aware of his phenomenal expertise for seeing the unseen/unperceived ?

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Also, certain government agencies seem to know how to take advantage of folks who are on psychiatric medications. It would be interesting to know if he was taking them.

And I find it interesting that another agency declared him to be a lone wolf before they could get into his social media. And even if they had, they didn't have time to check every available bit of evidence in this regard.

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He was. Go to Rense.

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