Matt Walsh
2024-07-18 02:05:07 UTC
Seventy-two hours after an assassin shot and nearly killed Donald Trump
in Pennsylvania, heres the official story so far: A random 20-year-old
acting completely alone walked within 150 yards of a presidential
campaign rally with a rifle, climbed onto a rooftop in full view of
Secret Service snipers, set up his shot and fired without anyone
intervening and with no help from anyone.
This 20-year-old is also so politically radical as to attempt an
assassination and yet not radical enough to have ever posted any
political writings or commentary on any social media site ever in his
life. He also wrote no manifesto and left behind no indication about
why he did it. Even after authorities gained access to his phone, they
say they still have no clue about his motivations. All were told is
that, for some reason, he obviously wanted Donald Trump dead. Theres
just a handful of videos of the shooter circulating, including one in
which he makes some weird sexual joke, and one in which he appears
briefly in a Blackrock video featuring his high school classroom. Other
than that, its as if he never existed.
As far as we can tell, this mans last and only political act, before
attempting to kill the Republican candidate, was to register as a
Republican. Oh and apparently, there were Trump signs outside of his
parents home, where he was living. Watch:
We have no idea why these signs are outside the shooters home. We have
no clarity on this point whatsoever because none of this makes sense
and no ones explaining anything. Nevertheless, you must believe the
official narrative and ask no questions about it or else you are a
conspiracy theorist. And one thing we know about assassination attempts
is that theres never any conspiring involved.
As unbelievable and insulting as it is, this is the version of events
youre being told to accept. But with every hour that goes by, it
somehow makes even less sense than it did before. Every new detail is
more baffling than the last.
Last night, for instance CBS News reported that several Beaver County
police snipers were stationed _inside_ the building the shooter
eventually climbed on top of. They were supposedly looking for threats
in the crowd at the rally. There were no officers or snipers on the
roof, for reasons that remain unexplained, even though thatd be the
rational spot to place these snipers. But its now an uncontested fact
that the shooter used the police staging area as a vantage point to
shoot Donald Trump.
According to the local outlet Beaver Countian, which broke the story,
A security operations plan had placed each of the three
counter-snipers inside of the building looking out of windows
toward the rally, with none stationed on its roof. Due to a
lack of manpower, the men did not have spotters assigned to
them, as would be standard operating procedure.
So maybe the excuse is that they couldnt spare anyone to watch the
roof. They just ran out of people. Obviously we need to know exactly
who drafted that security operations plan, because that person should
never be in charge of any security operation ever again.
Nevertheless, roughly a half hour before the shooting started, these
snipers positioned inside the building saw the 20-year-old shooter
without his rifle looking up at the roof observing the building
before he disappeared, then came back and sat down. This was so
suspicious that one of the snipers inside the building took a photo of
the gunman.
Additionally, according to a separate local news station, a law
enforcement officer had also previously seen Crooks on the ground and
called him in as a suspicious person with a picture before 5:45 p.m.
Officers supposedly looked around but couldnt immediately find him.
Just to review: this man was on the radar of the security forces at the
rally 30 _minutes_ before he fired the first shot. And he fired it on
top of the very same building where the police were staged.
Already, 30 minutes before the crime took place, they had enough reason
to detain this guy and delay the rally. But it gets even worse.
At one point, in full view of the snipers inside the command post, the
gunman, took out a range finder, prompting the police sniper to radio
his command post. That meant that he alerted the Secret Service to the
threat. But still, no one detained the man, and no one pulled Trump off
the stage even though theres only one reason a suspicious person
would be using a range finder right outside a Trump rally, and everyone
knows what it is. There is no conceivable innocent reason for a guy to
be lurking around the site of a campaign rally with a range finder. Or
if there is an innocent reason, the innocent reason is significantly
less plausible than the sinister reason. Yet nothing was done. So the
man disappeared again, then came back a third time this time carrying
a backpack. And once again, the snipers called in to their command
post, explaining that this suspicious man was now walking towards the
back of the building. But nobody stopped him. Nobody took any physical
action to prevent what they could evidently see coming.
Apparently, all of these reports prompted some police officers to call
for backup and try to scale the roof to stop the shooter. But they
obviously failed to do so. The gunman climbed on top of the building
using an air conditioning unit not a ladder as previously reported
and fired several shots at Trump before he was taken out.
So what explains why Donald Trump wasnt taken off the stage at any
point in this process, until a gunman shot him in the head? Why didnt
Secret Service snipers on the roof behind Trump take out this shooter
before he was able to open fire? If you look at some of the videos from
the rally, youll notice that initially, the snipers behind Trump
appear to be relaxed at first. Theyre standing up. Theyre not in the
prone position, looking through their rifle scopes. But then, some
people in the bleachers see something. They start pointing. And
eventually the Secret Service snipers go prone, clearly responding to a
threat. Here are the two clips:
This is a much more serious failure than we were told it was. This is
not a case of the Secret Service somehow failing to notice the shooter.
They clearly knew he was there, or that some potentially imminent
threat was very close to the stage. We know that from the video. We
know it from the reporting. At a minimum, they had reason to think that
Trump was in imminent danger. But they essentially did nothing in
response. They let Trump take a bullet to the head before they
addressed the threat in any way.
According to the Biden administration, we shouldnt be outraged or
concerned about any of this. Yesterday, the head of the DHS, Alejandro
Mayorkas, explained that he has 100% confidence in the director of
the Secret Service (whom he oversees). Watch:
This is the same Alejandro Mayorkas who claims the border is completely
secure. Now hes saying he has 100% confidence in the director of the
Secret Service, three days after the Secret Service allowed the leading
presidential candidate to take a head-shot from a rifle while he
delivered a speech on stage. The only conceivable way youd have 100 %
confidence in this agency, and the people who lead it, is if youre
absolutely fine with that outcome. At this point its not really a
conspiracy theory to say that the Biden administration apparently
thinks Saturdays assassination attempt was acceptable. Theyre coming
right out and saying it to our faces. If it was unacceptable, they
would fire the people who allowed it to happen. But they arent.
Saying you have 100% confidence in the Secret Service after an incident
like this is like looking out over the wreckage of a collapsed bridge
and declaring that you have a 100% confidence in the engineering team
that designed it. 100% confidence. Not even, like, 90% confidence, or
73% confidence. Their utter and total and catastrophic failure has not
lost them even one percentage point of confidence, in your book.
And its not just the DHS secretary saying this. Last night, Joe Biden
was asked by Lester Holt about the Director of the Secret Service. He
made it clear he has no problems with the directors performance. He
also made it clear he has no idea who the director is, because he said
Ive heard from him, even though the director of the Secret Service
is a woman. Watch:
So Biden may not be sure who the Director of the Secret Service is. But
hes sure that he, or she, or whoever, is doing a great job as
evidenced by the fact that her agents nearly got his chief political
rival killed. And of course, because no one in the Biden administration
has any shame whatsoever, the Secret Service director has said she has
no intention of stepping aside. Its just like the pullout from
Afghanistan, which directly resulted in the deaths of several U.S.
servicemembers. No one resigned after that debacle. No one was fired.
No one in the government seemed to care, frankly. And were seeing that
repeat after the single most significant security failure by the Secret
Service since the attempt on Ronald Reagans life. Actually its worse
than that. Based on everything we know now, we can say with a high
degree of confidence that this is the worst security failure by the
Secret Service in its history. But no one in any position of authority
in the agency or outside of it will be held accountable in any way
whatsoever.
This is why our system of government has lost all the trust the public
may have once had in it. Theres no sense of accountability or
responsibility. If anything, these people are embracing their failures
almost as if they wanted them to happen. That means well never be
told the truth about what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Well never be given the full story of how it happened. Why this guy
was allowed to do this. And who this guy even is. And even if we are
someday given all of this information, there will be no reason for any
of us to believe any of it.
in Pennsylvania, heres the official story so far: A random 20-year-old
acting completely alone walked within 150 yards of a presidential
campaign rally with a rifle, climbed onto a rooftop in full view of
Secret Service snipers, set up his shot and fired without anyone
intervening and with no help from anyone.
This 20-year-old is also so politically radical as to attempt an
assassination and yet not radical enough to have ever posted any
political writings or commentary on any social media site ever in his
life. He also wrote no manifesto and left behind no indication about
why he did it. Even after authorities gained access to his phone, they
say they still have no clue about his motivations. All were told is
that, for some reason, he obviously wanted Donald Trump dead. Theres
just a handful of videos of the shooter circulating, including one in
which he makes some weird sexual joke, and one in which he appears
briefly in a Blackrock video featuring his high school classroom. Other
than that, its as if he never existed.
As far as we can tell, this mans last and only political act, before
attempting to kill the Republican candidate, was to register as a
Republican. Oh and apparently, there were Trump signs outside of his
parents home, where he was living. Watch:
We have no idea why these signs are outside the shooters home. We have
no clarity on this point whatsoever because none of this makes sense
and no ones explaining anything. Nevertheless, you must believe the
official narrative and ask no questions about it or else you are a
conspiracy theorist. And one thing we know about assassination attempts
is that theres never any conspiring involved.
As unbelievable and insulting as it is, this is the version of events
youre being told to accept. But with every hour that goes by, it
somehow makes even less sense than it did before. Every new detail is
more baffling than the last.
Last night, for instance CBS News reported that several Beaver County
police snipers were stationed _inside_ the building the shooter
eventually climbed on top of. They were supposedly looking for threats
in the crowd at the rally. There were no officers or snipers on the
roof, for reasons that remain unexplained, even though thatd be the
rational spot to place these snipers. But its now an uncontested fact
that the shooter used the police staging area as a vantage point to
shoot Donald Trump.
According to the local outlet Beaver Countian, which broke the story,
A security operations plan had placed each of the three
counter-snipers inside of the building looking out of windows
toward the rally, with none stationed on its roof. Due to a
lack of manpower, the men did not have spotters assigned to
them, as would be standard operating procedure.
So maybe the excuse is that they couldnt spare anyone to watch the
roof. They just ran out of people. Obviously we need to know exactly
who drafted that security operations plan, because that person should
never be in charge of any security operation ever again.
Nevertheless, roughly a half hour before the shooting started, these
snipers positioned inside the building saw the 20-year-old shooter
without his rifle looking up at the roof observing the building
before he disappeared, then came back and sat down. This was so
suspicious that one of the snipers inside the building took a photo of
the gunman.
Additionally, according to a separate local news station, a law
enforcement officer had also previously seen Crooks on the ground and
called him in as a suspicious person with a picture before 5:45 p.m.
Officers supposedly looked around but couldnt immediately find him.
Just to review: this man was on the radar of the security forces at the
rally 30 _minutes_ before he fired the first shot. And he fired it on
top of the very same building where the police were staged.
Already, 30 minutes before the crime took place, they had enough reason
to detain this guy and delay the rally. But it gets even worse.
At one point, in full view of the snipers inside the command post, the
gunman, took out a range finder, prompting the police sniper to radio
his command post. That meant that he alerted the Secret Service to the
threat. But still, no one detained the man, and no one pulled Trump off
the stage even though theres only one reason a suspicious person
would be using a range finder right outside a Trump rally, and everyone
knows what it is. There is no conceivable innocent reason for a guy to
be lurking around the site of a campaign rally with a range finder. Or
if there is an innocent reason, the innocent reason is significantly
less plausible than the sinister reason. Yet nothing was done. So the
man disappeared again, then came back a third time this time carrying
a backpack. And once again, the snipers called in to their command
post, explaining that this suspicious man was now walking towards the
back of the building. But nobody stopped him. Nobody took any physical
action to prevent what they could evidently see coming.
Apparently, all of these reports prompted some police officers to call
for backup and try to scale the roof to stop the shooter. But they
obviously failed to do so. The gunman climbed on top of the building
using an air conditioning unit not a ladder as previously reported
and fired several shots at Trump before he was taken out.
So what explains why Donald Trump wasnt taken off the stage at any
point in this process, until a gunman shot him in the head? Why didnt
Secret Service snipers on the roof behind Trump take out this shooter
before he was able to open fire? If you look at some of the videos from
the rally, youll notice that initially, the snipers behind Trump
appear to be relaxed at first. Theyre standing up. Theyre not in the
prone position, looking through their rifle scopes. But then, some
people in the bleachers see something. They start pointing. And
eventually the Secret Service snipers go prone, clearly responding to a
threat. Here are the two clips:
This is a much more serious failure than we were told it was. This is
not a case of the Secret Service somehow failing to notice the shooter.
They clearly knew he was there, or that some potentially imminent
threat was very close to the stage. We know that from the video. We
know it from the reporting. At a minimum, they had reason to think that
Trump was in imminent danger. But they essentially did nothing in
response. They let Trump take a bullet to the head before they
addressed the threat in any way.
According to the Biden administration, we shouldnt be outraged or
concerned about any of this. Yesterday, the head of the DHS, Alejandro
Mayorkas, explained that he has 100% confidence in the director of
the Secret Service (whom he oversees). Watch:
This is the same Alejandro Mayorkas who claims the border is completely
secure. Now hes saying he has 100% confidence in the director of the
Secret Service, three days after the Secret Service allowed the leading
presidential candidate to take a head-shot from a rifle while he
delivered a speech on stage. The only conceivable way youd have 100 %
confidence in this agency, and the people who lead it, is if youre
absolutely fine with that outcome. At this point its not really a
conspiracy theory to say that the Biden administration apparently
thinks Saturdays assassination attempt was acceptable. Theyre coming
right out and saying it to our faces. If it was unacceptable, they
would fire the people who allowed it to happen. But they arent.
Saying you have 100% confidence in the Secret Service after an incident
like this is like looking out over the wreckage of a collapsed bridge
and declaring that you have a 100% confidence in the engineering team
that designed it. 100% confidence. Not even, like, 90% confidence, or
73% confidence. Their utter and total and catastrophic failure has not
lost them even one percentage point of confidence, in your book.
And its not just the DHS secretary saying this. Last night, Joe Biden
was asked by Lester Holt about the Director of the Secret Service. He
made it clear he has no problems with the directors performance. He
also made it clear he has no idea who the director is, because he said
Ive heard from him, even though the director of the Secret Service
is a woman. Watch:
So Biden may not be sure who the Director of the Secret Service is. But
hes sure that he, or she, or whoever, is doing a great job as
evidenced by the fact that her agents nearly got his chief political
rival killed. And of course, because no one in the Biden administration
has any shame whatsoever, the Secret Service director has said she has
no intention of stepping aside. Its just like the pullout from
Afghanistan, which directly resulted in the deaths of several U.S.
servicemembers. No one resigned after that debacle. No one was fired.
No one in the government seemed to care, frankly. And were seeing that
repeat after the single most significant security failure by the Secret
Service since the attempt on Ronald Reagans life. Actually its worse
than that. Based on everything we know now, we can say with a high
degree of confidence that this is the worst security failure by the
Secret Service in its history. But no one in any position of authority
in the agency or outside of it will be held accountable in any way
whatsoever.
This is why our system of government has lost all the trust the public
may have once had in it. Theres no sense of accountability or
responsibility. If anything, these people are embracing their failures
almost as if they wanted them to happen. That means well never be
told the truth about what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
Well never be given the full story of how it happened. Why this guy
was allowed to do this. And who this guy even is. And even if we are
someday given all of this information, there will be no reason for any
of us to believe any of it.