by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
The more we learn about the attempt to kill Donald Trump, the more questions we have. Over the past couple of days, I have been digging very deeply into what just happened. To be honest, what I have discovered is extremely alarming. At this point, there is a growing consensus that either the Secret Service was grossly incompetent or some sort of very insidious plan was being carried out. I am going to share facts that have been documented, and I will allow my readers to come to their own conclusions.
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First of all, we have learned that a very large ladder was propped up against the AGR building. I find it difficult to believe that the Secret Service could have missed someone climbing up this ladder on to a roof that had a direct line of sight to the platform…
Chillingly some images show a ladder, hidden by dense shrubbery, propped against the side of the AGR building, leading directly to the rooftop across which witnesses later told law enforcement they saw Crooks scramble.
The images of the strategically placed ladder have emerged as Secret Service admit they did not sweep the building where the shooter took his position, but instead entrusted that role to local law enforcement officers.
Secondly, ordinary people in the crowd were pointing to the shooter on the roof well in advance, and apparently one police officer even went up there to investigate…
Supporters in the crowd allegedly alerted police to the man, crawling onto a nearby building with a rifle in hand, and were ignored.
And perhaps most shocking of all, one report claims a local police officer confronted the shooter on the roof before climbing down – seconds before Trump was hit.
The moment that it was discovered that there was a man with a gun, Trump should have been whisked off the stage.
Why that didn’t happen is a total mystery.
And why didn’t the police officer that confronted the shooter on the roof take action?
Instead, he reportedly went back down the ladder when the shooter pointed his rifle at him…
Not long before shots rang out, rally-goers noticed a man climbing to the top of a roof of a nearby building and warned local law enforcement, according to two law enforcement officials.
One officer climbed to the roof and encountered Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer.
The officer retreated down the ladder and Crooks quickly took a shot toward former President Donald Trump, just 130 yards away.
I realize that this police officer was not a member of the Secret Service, but this is still extremely shameful behavior.
I am sure that this police officer will regret not taking action for the rest of his life.
If you are in that position, you have to take the bullet. That is your job.
Of course it should have been impossible for a shooter to be on that roof in the first place because Secret Service personnel should have already been stationed there. This is something that former FBI agent Bobby Chacon has commented on…
Bobby Chacon, a former FBI agent, shared his confusion that the rooftop had not been secured considering how close it was to the stage.
He told The Sun: “I am very surprised that the rooftop used by the gunman was not secured and locked down.
“The rooftop was the closest high ground point with direct line of sight to the stage on which Trump was speaking. I think there was an error in planning and it would not have taken much resources or manpower to secure that rooftop.”
According to the Secret Service, securing that particular rooftop was the responsibility of the local police…
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.
That is a bunch of garbage.
Any elevated position that has a direct line of sight to the political figure under their care should be the responsibility of the Secret Service.
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